A Pagan Place
by The Waterboys
- Type: Album
- Released: July 1984
- Label: Ensign
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:14:47
- Community rating: 3.77/5 from 7 ratings
Artists on this release: Roddy Lorimer, Tim Blanthorn
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The Waterboys fully embraced their sweeping, highly cinematic 'Big Music' aesthetic on this incredibly passionate sophomore release. Mike Scott weaves rich, acoustic folk-rock instrumentation and driving post-punk rhythms beneath deeply poetic, spiritually conscious lyrics.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, conscious, political, expansive, soaring
Tracklist
- Church Not Made with Hands (6:02)
- All the Things She Gave Me (5:32)
- The Thrill Is Gone (5:30)
- Rags (5:20)
- Some of My Best Friends Are Trains (6:01)
- Somebody Might Wave Back (2:43)
- The Big Music (4:46)
- Red Army Blues (8:03)
- A Pagan Place (5:14)
- The Late Train to Heaven - Revised Rockfield Mix (3:30)
- Love That Kills - Instrumental (6:20)
- The Madness Is Here Again (3:59)
- Cathy (2:35)
- Down Through the Dark Streets (9:03)
Credits
- The Waterboys - primary artist
- Kevin Wilkinson - band [waterboys], drums
- Karl Wallinger - band [waterboys], piano, organ, percussion, backing vocals
- Anthony Thistlethwaite - band [waterboys], saxophone, bass, mandolin
- Mike Scott - band [waterboys], vocals, guitar, piano, bass, guitar [bellzouki], producer [produced by], written-by, remix
- Jim Preen - engineer
- John Brand - engineer
- Richard Digby Smith - engineer
- Stephen W. Tayler - engineer
- Ted Sharp - engineer
- Barbara Snow - performer
- Eddi Reader - performer
- Ingrid Schroeder - performer
- Nick Linden - performer
- TV Smith - performer
- Sheila Rock - photography by
- Roddy Lorimer - trumpet
- Tim Blanthorn - violin
- Rupert Hine - remix