Echo And The Bunnymen

jackhammer · 11-02-2008, 01:49 PM

Just listening to the album 'Heaven up Here'. It's funny how you are so desperate to hear new bands that sometimes you forget your old faves. Still sound great a quarter of a century later. 'Turquoise Days' is sublime.

WaspStar · 11-03-2008, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

Just listening to the album 'Heaven up Here'. It's funny how you are so desperate to hear new bands that sometimes you forget your old faves. Still sound great a quarter of a century later. 'Turquoise Days' is sublime.

Have you heard the reissue? The four live tracks are amazing.

jackhammer · 11-03-2008, 05:10 PM

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Have you heard the reissue? The four live tracks are amazing.

Yeah I have. 'Show Of Strength' is especially good.

tdoc210 · 11-07-2008, 08:31 PM

i enjoy this band
i have their first albums up to ocean rain
is it bad after that?

Alfred · 11-07-2008, 08:42 PM

Crocodiles is awesome, Ocean Rain has some good songs.

That's about as far as I go with Echo, but they're a pretty great band.

midnight rain · 08-20-2009, 09:22 PM

Little appreciation in this thread for one of my favorite songs of all time. Anyone who thinks "Silver" isn't a beautiful song has no soul.

A great all around band though. I'll go more in depth when I have the time.

Engine · 08-21-2009, 02:47 PM

^thanks for bumping this thread.
I'll agree with everybody here who says that Heaven Up Here is their best (or at least an excellent album) and just for fun I'll add that Ian McCulloch is a better singer/frontman than Jim Morrison ever could have been.

music_phantom13 · 08-31-2009, 09:35 AM

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^thanks for bumping this thread.
I'll agree with everybody here who says that Heaven Up Here is their best (or at least an excellent album) and just for fun I'll add that Ian McCulloch is a better singer/frontman than Jim Morrison ever could have been.

I feel like seeing Jim Morrison live, at least in the later part of his career, would not have been very fun. I imagine the audience would end up feeling very awkward...

I think Ocean Rain is their best, and yes Silver is a beautiful song! Echo and the Bunnymen are one of my favorite bands from amongst that whole post punk sound; they released so many fantastic albums. Heaven Up Here is great too, but not like Ocean Rain.

Screen13 · 02-01-2010, 01:15 PM

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I think Ocean Rain is their best, and yes Silver is a beautiful song! Echo and the Bunnymen are one of my favorite bands from amongst that whole post punk sound; they released so many fantastic albums. Heaven Up Here is great too, but not like Ocean Rain.

Ocean Rain is possibly their most focused album, and in a way the hardest for them to even match up to half way. Their earlier albums were great, but I was certainly a listener when Porcupine was released. When the 1987 album was out, I was very disappointed, but then again anything that would have followed Ocean Rain, or even the '85 single "Bring On the Dancing Horses," would have been lacking in something. Still, they're a good band (Not counting the year when they were trying to find a replacement for Mac when he left and falling down to cut-out world in the quickest time possible. Sometimes you can replace lead singers, most of the time you can't.).

Schizotypic · 08-23-2009, 07:28 PM

I like Echo And The Bunnymen's song The Killing Moon, and I've been meaning to check them out for a long, long time now... maybe I finally will!

11-02-2008, 01:49 PM	#1 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Just listening to the album 'Heaven up Here'. It's funny how you are so desperate to hear new bands that sometimes you forget your old faves. Still sound great a quarter of a century later. 'Turquoise Days' is sublime. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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tdoc210 ashes against the grain Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: new hampsha Posts: 2,608	i enjoy this band i have their first albums up to ocean rain is it bad after that? __________________ We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that.

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Alfred one big soul Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 5,096	Crocodiles is awesome, Ocean Rain has some good songs. That's about as far as I go with Echo, but they're a pretty great band. __________________ LAST.FM / VINYL COLLECTION / RYM

08-20-2009, 09:22 PM	#6 (permalink)
midnight rain Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,711	Little appreciation in this thread for one of my favorite songs of all time. Anyone who thinks "Silver" isn't a beautiful song has no soul. A great all around band though. I'll go more in depth when I have the time.

08-21-2009, 02:47 PM	#7 (permalink)
Engine air quote Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: pollen & mold Posts: 3,108	^thanks for bumping this thread. I'll agree with everybody here who says that Heaven Up Here is their best (or at least an excellent album) and just for fun I'll add that Ian McCulloch is a better singer/frontman than Jim Morrison ever could have been.

08-23-2009, 07:28 PM	#10 (permalink)
Schizotypic Souls of Sound Sailors Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Mojave Posts: 759	I like Echo And The Bunnymen's song The Killing Moon, and I've been meaning to check them out for a long, long time now... maybe I finally will!