The Waterboys – A Pagan Place (VG/VG) – LP, AU 1984

A Pagan Place is an LP by The Waterboys from 1984 released on the Ensign, Island Records label.

About this album

A Pagan Place is an ambitious early statement from The Waterboys, sharpening the band’s expanding sound into something both ferocious and searching. Released in 1984, their second album moves between folk-rock, pop-rock and alternative tension, with Mike Scott’s vivid writing steering songs such as Church Not Made With Hands and The Big Music toward a larger, more elemental scale. Recorded before the band’s later breakthroughs, it helped define The Waterboys’ reputation for dramatic contrasts, literary imagery and the idea of “the big music” as an emotional force. The result is one of their most important early releases, and a key album in 1980s British rock.

Genre: Pop & Rock