For almost four decades, The Waterboys have burned an emotional, folk-rock trail through the music of these isles. With Mike Scott at their helm, they’ve crafted songs of soaring romance and searing political satire.
Scott was born and raised in Edinburgh, but spent his teenage years living on Scotland’s west coast, in the town of Ayr. Among the seaside hotels, he cut his musical teeth playing Velvet Underground and punk songs to perplexed (and sparse) rock night audiences. “We’d be up there playing Heroin and Waiting for the Man and Sex Pistols numbers. And people would just be looking at us as if we had grown two heads,” he remembers.
In 1983, he formed The Waterboys - and among a rotating cast of members has remained the frontman and songwriting engine of the band. Their most famous song, The Whole of the Moon, counts Bob Dylan and Prince among its many millions of fans.
As their 15th album, All Souls Hill, hits download and streaming services everywhere, frontman Mike Scott joined The Music That Made Me from his home in Dublin to recount the music that got him started and the artists that keep him going.
Featuring spliffs with Dylan and tears to Taylor Swift.
00:00 Mike Scott, The Waterboys: The Music That Made Me
00:50 The Four Tops and emotion in music
01:40 A forgotten psychedelic melody
02:26 The power of Sly and the Family Stone
03:26 Bob Dylan’s lyrical genius… and some reefers
05:29 The Velvet Underground: creative inspiration before technical proficiency
06:24 Mercury Rev remind Mike of the magic of rock
07:31 The best songwriter in the world? Taylor Swift
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