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10 ½” X 12” – LIMITED EDITION - SUPER DELUXE BOX SET

1985 is a newly curated limited edition deluxe box set compiled by The Waterboys' leader Mike Scott, which tells the story of the making of the band's landmark album This Is The Sea.
Containing 95 tracks over 6 CDs, including a remastered version of the This Is The Sea, 64 previously unreleased recordings of home recordings, early demos, alternate versions, outtakes, live recordings, and tv/radio sessions covering the recording process of the album.
The set features a 220-page hard cover book containing a first-hand account of the creation of the album with recording details, background, cultural context, photographs (many previously unseen), songwriting pages, lyrics and previously unseen writings. The text is by Mike Scott, with additional sections by Anthony Thistlethwaite and Max Edie.

Track Listing:

Disc 1

1 Towers Open Fire: Trumpets (Session)

2 Be My Enemy (Prototype 3)

3 The Ways of Men (Session)

4 The Waves #1

5 Old England (Demo)

6 Towers Open Fire

7 Down Through the Town

8 Ribbon of Steel (Live)

9 Bury My Heart (Live)

10 The Three Day Man (Live)

11 Medicine Bow (Session)

12 This Is the Sea (Live)

13 A Door for My Soul Home (Demo)

14 Son of Rags

15 In My Bed

16 The Pan Within (Inst Demo)

17 Even the Trees Are Dancing (Full Length)

18 Theme

19 Fuzz Guitar Vamp

20 Death Is Not the End

Disc: 2

1 The Black Book: Beverly Penn (Piano Demo)

2 Don't Bang the Drum (Piano Demo)

3 Be My Enemy (Piano Demo)

4 The Day I Ran Out of People

5 Winter Blows

6 The Mercenary and the Samaritan

7 Looking for Dickon

8 Spirit (Piano Demo)

9 All the Bright Horses

10 Custer's Blues (Piano Demo)

11 The Woman in Me

12 Paris in the Rain

13 The Song of Sitting Bull

14 Talk About Wings

15 The Whole of the Moon (Writing of)

16 The Pan Within (Piano Demo)

17 No Sun in the Sky

18 Winter in the Blood

19 We Belong to the World

20 The Whole of the Moon (Piano Demo)

Disc: 3

1 A Sky Full of Crows: Medicine Jack

2 Medicine Jack Boogie-Woogie

3 The Sound of Snow

4 The Pan Within (Inst)

5 It Should Have Been You, Guitar Play

6 Old England (Early Take)

7 Old MacMichael Had a Band

8 Sweet Thing

9 Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town

10 Spirit (Full Length)

11 Then You Hold Me

12 Trumpets (Instr #1)

13 Rain Come Down

14 Son of Dirt

15 This Is the Sea (Drumatix Version)

Disc: 4

1 The Ladder: Medicine Bow (Elemental Rough Mix)

2 Trumpets (Inst #2)

3 Be My Enemy (Rough Mix)

4 Sleek White Schooner

5 Sweetheart Like You

6 This Is the Sea (Fast with Mike Lead Guitar Demo)

7 Adrian and the Piano Storm

8 Beverly Penn (Synth Version)

9 This Is the Sea (Fast with Tom Verlaine Lead Guitar Version)

10 The Waves #2

11 The Ladder (Demo)

12 Beverly Penn

13 Don't Bang the Drum (Livingston Mix)

14 Ribbon of Steel Slide Guitar

15 Paisley Park

Disc: 5

1 Mountaintop: The Whole of the Moon (Livingston Mix)

2 High Far Soon

3 This Is the Sea (Livingston Mix)

4 Medicine Bow (Full Length)

5 The Pan Within (Wickham's First Play)

6 Miracle

7 World Party (Demo)

8 I Am Not Here

9 Born to Be Together (Session)

10 Higher in Time (Session)

11 The Whole of the Moon (Video Version)

12 Meridian West

13 Don't Bang the Drum (Session)

14 Medicine Bow (Session)

15 Behold the Sea

16 Beverly Penn 2023

Disc: 6

1 This Is the Sea (The Album) Don't Bang the Drum

2 The Whole of the Moon

3 Spirit

4 The Pan Within

5 Medicine Bow

6 Old England

7 Be My Enemy

8 Trumpets

9 This Is the Sea