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The Waterboys’ Karl Wallinger left that band to explore his own personal Beatlemania with his new group World Party. The 1987 World Party debut, though, is a wide-ranging delight (well, the Beatles were pretty wide-ranging, too, weren’t they?), moving from ’80s synth-pop to Stonesy rock ’n’ roll and country-rock to a fabulous folk-rock Dylan cover ("All I Really Want to Do"). That tune joins "Ship of Fools" (a #27 U.S. pop hit), "All Come True," "Making Love (to the World)," the title song and more. Their biggest stateside hit (a Top 40 LP) returns to vinyl now after years out of print—180-gram vinyl, at that! Seaview.