Song · The Waterboys
“A Life of Sundays” by The Waterboys
From the album Room to Roam (1990)
“A Life of Sundays” by The Waterboys appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1990 on the album Room to Roam. Its best result is #89 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 1990. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #262 alternative song of 1990.
Mike Scott wrote "A Life of Sundays" for Room to Roam, the fifth Waterboys album, and the Scottish-Irish folk-rockers cut it in 1990 at Spiddal House in County Galway, with Barry Beckett producing alongside Scott. It's a six-minute grab bag, and Scott later tallied the ingredients himself in the notes to the 2008 reissue: rock 'n' roll, blues and soul, African music, psychedelia, Irish literature, a streak of punk or glam and plain, no-frills trad.
The Guardian's Bruce Dessau heard it reaching back to Van Morrison, the first of the Celtic pop mystics, and to the lovesick metaphysical poets. In America it climbed to 15 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and stayed on that chart for nine weeks.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 89 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1990 | 91 |
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