{"id":9640,"date":"2013-05-07T13:45:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T20:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9640"},"modified":"2013-05-07T14:07:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T21:07:28","slug":"the-waterboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/the-waterboys\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WATERBOYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9641\" alt=\"THE-WATERBOYS-M-Review-No25\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/THE-WATERBOYS-M-Review-No25.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/THE-WATERBOYS-M-Review-No25.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/THE-WATERBOYS-M-Review-No25-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>THE WATERBOYS<\/h1>\n<p><b><i>An Appointment With Mr. Yeats<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>mikescottwaterboys.com<\/p>\n<p>Had he come along a century later, Ireland\u2019s greatest poet might have been its greatest rock \u2019n\u2019 roll frontman. Such is the idea behind this, the first Waterboys album in five years, a set of 14 songs adapted from poems by W.B. Yeats. Mike Scott, long the singer and driving force behind this Scottish-born band, makes subtle changes to Yeats\u2019 texts, repeating certain lines and trimming the odd word, but by and large, he stays true to the source material, imagining songs of love, sex, God, war and innocence as Celtic rock jams. Because Yeats\u2019 words carry such epic power and beauty, the best songs are the bracing rockers reminiscent of the Waterboys\u2019 \u201cBig Music\u201d \u201980s heyday. With its horns and strings, \u201cThe Hosting of the Shee\u201d has a stomping Pogues-gone-stadium feel, while \u201cPolitics\u201d plays like something Yeats might have co-written with 10,000 Maniacs. The latter finds an old man wondering how he can dwell on weighty world issues when there\u2019s a gorgeous young lass clouding his vision. Lust vs. social consciousness: It\u2019s a classic rock \u2019n\u2019 roll dilemma\u2014and one of the many subjects that justifies Scott\u2019s risky experiment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE WATERBOYS An Appointment With Mr. Yeats mikescottwaterboys.com Had he come along a century later, Ireland\u2019s greatest poet might have been its greatest rock \u2019n\u2019 roll frontman. Such is the idea behind this, the first Waterboys album in five years, a set of 14 songs adapted from poems by W.B. Yeats. Mike Scott, long the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,6423,10159,6164,6424,6422],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9644,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions\/9644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}