Third studio album by the British-Irish folk rock band, featuring the group's best-selling single 'The Whole of the Moon'. Mike Scott, the album's principal songwriter and leader of The Waterboys, describes 'This Is the Sea' as 'the record on which I achieved all my youthful musical ambitions', and 'the final, fully realised expression of the early Waterboys sound'.
1) Don't Bang the Drum (6.46)
2) The Whole of the Moon (5.02)
3) Spirit (1.48)
4) The Pan Within (6.12)
5) Medicine Bow (2.45)
6) Old England (5.31)
7) Be My Enemy (4.17)
8) Trumpets (3.36)
9) This Is the Sea (6.29)