Here We Go Again

All Souls Hill

Blackberry Girl

The Southern Moon

In My Dreams

Glastonbury Fayre

Blackberry Girl (Mashup) [Bonus Track]

In My Dreams (Mashup) [Bonus Track]

Once Were Brothers (Mashup) [Bonus Track]

The Liar (Mashup) [Bonus Track]

Painting America White (Bonus Track)

Jumpin' Jack Flash (Bonus Track)

WOMEN OF IRELAND
(Lyric rewritten by Mike Scott from translations of the 18th century original by Peadar Ó Dornín.
Music composed by Sean O'Riada. Music recorded 2008, vocal recorded April 2010.)

There's a woman in Erin
would give me a jewel and my fill to drink
There's a woman in Erin
for whom my voice is more sweet
than the sound of harps and strings
There's a woman in Erin
would love me more alive,
roguery on my tongue,
than cold and deathless, my body below the ground

There's a woman in Erin
would rage with envy if I stole a kiss
from a woman tinker at the fair in Tubber
and she with warts on her face
And strange it is: this love I bear them
and a hundred more who I'll never win
while a swarthy man with no Irish weds a queen

There's a woman in Erin
says if I walked with her I'd inherit the wind
and a woman in Erin
tall, grave of manner,silent as a stone
And the woman who would deafen Ballymore
and the plain of Tyrone
and I see no cure for my affliction
but to drink no more


Women Of Ireland (Mná na hÉireann)

Peace Of Iona sung in Irish, with lyric translation by Iarla O'Leonard and vocal production by Seamus Begley.

Síocháin Iona (Peace Of Iona in Irish)

This cover version of David Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World is one of the very few recordings by my pre-Waterboys band THE RED AND THE BLACK.  

Vocals and guitars: Mick Puck
Bass and sax: Steve Fraser
Drums: Martin Saunders

Recorded London, January 1982.

The Man Who Sold The World (1982)

Book of Lightning

You in the Sky

Dream Harder

Glastonbury Song

My solo take on this song, a full-band version of which was issued a few years ago with Norwegian group One People.  Lyrics written with my friend David Spangler.  

Slightly amended remix, 5 July 2010 (less compression, a few balance tweaks).

In The Beginning Was Love

Recorded at The Waterboys comeback UK show, Glastonbury Festival, June 2000. Mick Puck (electric guitar, voice, airships), Jeremy Stacey (fireworks), Sir Richard Naiff (waterhorns) and Livingstone Brown (earth resonator). Click the downward-pointing arrow to download.


Savage Earth Heart (Live At Glastonbury, 2000)

Modern Blues

November Tale

Still a Freak

I Can See Elvis

Mick Puck: stuff and voices
Steve Wicked: fuzz fiddle

Produced by Puck

Vigilante

A demo recorded in 2001 with string arrangement (and performances) by Steve Wickham.


Saints & Angels (demo with strings)

Kate Bush's song Why Should I Love You. Recorded by me + band in 1997, with new edits and overdubs June 2010 (lead vocal, marimba, keyboards, sundries).

Drums: Jeremy Stacey
Bass: Mark Smith
Hammond, Backing Vocal: James Hallawell
Electric Guitar: Gavin Ralston
Vocals, Electric Piano, etc: Mike Scott


WHY SHOULD I LOVE YOU?

This chapter says
"Put it out of your mind
and give it time”
The finest purple
The purest gold
The red of the Sacred Heart
The grey of the ghost
The "L" of the lips are open
To the "O" of the Host
The "V" of the velvet

Out of all of the people in the world
Why should I love you?
There's just something about you
There's just something about you
Out of all the people in the world
Why should I love you?

Did you ever see a picture
Of Jesus laughing?
Mmm, don't you think
He’d have a beautiful smile?
A smile that healed?

Out of all the people in the world
Why should I love you?
There's just something about you
There's just something about you
Out of all the people in the world
Why should I love you?

The finest purple
The purest gold
The red of the Sacred Heart
The grey of the ghost
The "L" of the lips are open
To the "O" of the Host
The "V" of the velvet
The "E" of my eye
The eye of wonder
The eye that sees
The "I" that loves you

Out of all the people in the world
Why should I love you?


Why Should I Love You? (2010 version)

Recorded live at the Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone, Ireland, 2004 by the Water-trio of:

Steve Wickham ~ fiddle
Sharon Shannon ~ accordion
Mike Scott ~ guitar, vocals

Midway through the final instrumental I shout "Aris!" - Irish for "again!"


When Ye Go Away (live with Sharon Shannon)

This is my solo piano demo of Don't Bang The Drum, recorded in March 1985 at Park Gates Studio, England.

The song had a complicated genesis.

I gave the original version of the lyric - written autumn 1984 - to keyboard player Karl Wallinger. Karl set it to music in a sassy 60s retro style, with most of the melodies that would end up in the final version ("Well, here we are..." etc), but with a different groove and some different chords. I built on this, removing some lyrics, adapting the melodies to suit my own voice, and changing/adding some chords. That's what you hear on this demo.

Three months later the album version was recorded, following the blueprint of the demo, but with full sound and a new intro, written by myself, featuring Roddy Lorimer's trumpet.

(I spent two days recording piano /vocal demos like this of most the songs I'd written for the album - around 25 of them, both finished and unfinished. All the demos have the same piano/vocal sound and intensity as this version of Don't Bang The Drum, and include Be My Enemy, Custer's Blues, Medicine Jack, Spirit, Winter Blows, The Waves, Sleek White Schooner, Beverly Penn, The Pan Within, The Whole Of The Moon and others that have never made it to an album in any form. Maybe one day I'll talk to EMI about putting them out as an album.)


Don't Bang The Drum (piano demo)

My edited mash of Ennio Morricone's La Bambola, which I found on a fantastic compilation album titled MONDO MORRICONE some years ago in a record store in Camden, London.  

Morricone Fantasia #1

This is the demo of Strange Arrangement, a song on the Waterboys' 2007 Book Of Lightning album. 

Recorded at home in 2006 with my piano/vocal and a drum loop from Garageband. I then added instrumental sections featuring Steve Wickham's fiddle and Richard Naiff's piano off a live version from our acoustic tour of 2004. 

On the main chord sequence of the verse and instrumentals, the demo has a descending bass line which wasn't used on the later album version. I think it suits the song better to have it.


Strange Arrangement (demo)

My mash of the instrumental sections of Serge Gainsbourg's 1968 Brigitte Bardot tribute "Initials BB".

Initials BB ~ Serge Gainsbourg '68 (Mick Puck's edit)

His Fiddling Lordship lets rip with two fuzz solos on this acoustic version of The Girl In The Swing, live at The Bloomsbury Theatre, London, April 2004.

Song title and concept inspired by Richard Adams' great book of (almost) the same name.  Original version on the first Waterboys album (1983).


The Girl In The Swing (live)

My godson, Casper Hawkins, who lives in Findhorn, Scotland, was fascinated by the local garbage truck when he was 3 years old. For his birthday that year - 2005 - I wrote and recorded four songs for him, and this is one of them, the ode to the Garbage Truck itself. No, it isn't the most vital or groundbreaking piece of music I've ever written, but that didn't matter to Casper who threw himself around the floor to it with great abandon. A hit in his household, then!


Garbage Truck

Excerpt from an interview on Radio London, Aug 2012, where I gave a quick demonstration of how the piano style of The Whole Of The Moon was created.  Interviewer: Simon Lederman.

Whole Of The Moon ~ piano demonstration

When we played in Den Haag last week I met up afterwards with some friends, including Miranda who has followed The Waterboys since 1985. I always enjoy seeing Miranda and getting to hang out a little with her.  We were talking about a concert long ago at The Melkweg in Amsterdam when someone took our picture together, and we both remembered it as a great show. 

So specially for Miranda, here's the version of This Is The Sea from that night, played by the Still Burning band - James Hallawell (keyboards), Ian McNabb (bass), Gavin 'Fingers' Ralston (guitar) & Geoff Dugmore (drums).  I'm on lead guitar and vocals.



This Is The Sea (Amsterdam 1997)

Out of All This Blue

The Whole of the Moon (Chris Evans Breakfast Show – Live) [feat. Blaine Harrison]

Memphis Soul Stew was a 1967 single by the great saxman King Curtis. By introducing the instruments one by one, it famously shows how the classic Memphis sound was built up.

It also happens to be fantastic to dance to. Except for one thing. At 2 minutes and 55 seconds long the single is too short. Every time the fade hits, just when the band is in ecstatic overdrive, I want it to keep going. So one day I put the song into my favourite sonic software and made a few cunning edits that extend it by almost a minute to 3.47, long enough to get some serious rocks off.

Play loud - and mind the furniture.


The Platinum Collection (International)

Memphis Soul Stew ~ King Curtis (Mick Puck's 3.47 extended edit)

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