Too Close to Heaven

Too Close to Heaven
Compilation album by The Waterboys
Released	24 September 2001
Recorded	July 1986–February 2001
Genre	Folk-Rock
Label	BMG International U.K. Razor And Tie Entertainment U.S.
The Waterboys chronology
A Rock in the Weary Land (2000) Too Close to Heaven (2001) Universal Hall (2003)

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Too Close to Heaven is a collection of outtakes, alternative versions, and unreleased tracks from The Waterboys' Fisherman's Blues period, released September 2001. The album was released as Fisherman's Blues, Part 2 in the United States with five additional tracks in July of that year.

The title track of the album refers to the myth of Icarus. Dave Simpson writes in The Guardian, "Quite how Too Close to Heaven – a song that is easily worthy of either John Lennon or Van Morrison - languished in the vaults for 12 years is a matter for Scott's conscience (and his accountants)"^[1]. The song has become a favourite at Waterboys concerts.