46. Echo & The Bunnymen

 

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For a while in the first half of the 1980s this dark indie/alternative Liverpool band threatened to become one of the biggest bands in the world.

 

ALL MUSIC GUIDE BIOGRAPHY

 

Key Studio Album: Ocean Rain (1984)

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Key Compiliations: More Songs To Learn and Sing: The Very Best Of (2006)

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Career Defining Song:

The Killing Moon (1984 UK#9)

Some Other Key Songs:

 

The Back Of Love (1982 UK#19)

 

The Cutter (1983 UK#8)

 

Bring On The Dancing Horses (1985 UK#21)

 

Nothing Lasts Forever (1997 UK#8)

 

Were any of you fans of Ian McCulloch & Will Sergeant's gloomy rock outfit or not?

 

 

wasnt 'big' on them tbh, but its one of those occassions where i fully respect the act even if they arnt personal favs

The Killing Moon is a fantastic song. One of those songs I used to play every day for many weeks after I bought it.

The Killing Moon is one of my favourite songs ever. Right there in my Top 10.

 

The Bunnymen did so many good records and right up there with them is "What are you Gonna Do With Your Life", released in 1999 (I think!) - a truly beautiful record.

 

Even the Electrafixion album which was Mac and Will under a different name was a right corker.

 

And I saw them doing The Killing Moon on TOTP in the studio! As part of the audience. I was so happy that night!

I quite like them in the early '80s, The Cutter being my favourite, but liked the other ones mentioned as well.

One of my favourite bands of all time.

 

I like their debut album "Crocodiles" the best.

 

 

A great band who continue to make good records... "Siberia" from a few years back is an excellent example of latter-day Echo stuff... Of course, the likes of Coldplay have come and basically ripped off every good idea Messrs MacCulloch and Sargeant ever had and turned them into utterly dull-as-ditchwater cack of the lowest common denominator.....

 

Echo and the Bunnymen could easily have been big on the scale of U2 or Simple Minds, they simply rejected the very idea as being the total antithesis of what they felt made their music great. I think that that sort of level of fame probably would've killed them or made them kill each other.....

 

I would say that "Crocodiles", "Ocean Rain" and "Porcupine" are my fave albums.... Although, "Evergreen", "What are You Going to Do With Your Life" and "Siberia" are all good records too..... And not forgetting the sort of "side project" Electrafixion... I was always a bit disappointed that only one album came out of that, I liked that more darker, more Gothic Rock side of Sargeant and Mac.....