Any Echo & the Bunnymen fans out there?
11-11-05 | 08:15 AM
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Just heard "Siberia". Man, this is a killer album. Probably my favorite of their most recent albums because it's got a bit more muscle. I never expected these guys to be this good after all these years.
11-11-05 | 08:25 AM
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I love these old threads where half the posts are from banned members. 
As the only participant of the MusicTalk Draft Game to include Echo & The Bunnymen on their list of picks...yeah, you could say I'm a fan.
Just got Siberia. Listened to it only once or twice so far. Nothing jumping out at me, but it's a solid effort.
As the only participant of the MusicTalk Draft Game to include Echo & The Bunnymen on their list of picks...yeah, you could say I'm a fan.
Just got Siberia. Listened to it only once or twice so far. Nothing jumping out at me, but it's a solid effort.
11-11-05 | 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Numanoid
I love these old threads where half the posts are from banned members.
11-11-05 | 10:25 AM
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Originally Posted by mllefoo
My love for this band came to me in a dream. Literally.
I used to fall asleep with the radio on when I was in highschool. One night I switched the radio to the new "alternative" radio station. I think it was called "The Quake", later to migrate to another frequency and call themselves Live105. Anyway, I fell asleep with the radio tuned to this new wave station.
Later that night I dreamt someone was singing a beautiful melancholy song to me. All I could recall was "Bring on the dancing horses wherever they may roam...shiver and say the words to all the lies you've known..."
I must have awakened at some point during the song because I remember hearing a voice say "....and the bunnymen with their new song..." I drifted off again.
I woke up the next morning with that song in my head. Went out that afternoon after school and sang the song to a record store employee, who promptly told me what the song was and who sang it.
Of course, the same thing happened with Bauhaus. I fell asleep, only to hear "Bela Lugosi's Dead" in a dream.
I used to fall asleep with the radio on when I was in highschool. One night I switched the radio to the new "alternative" radio station. I think it was called "The Quake", later to migrate to another frequency and call themselves Live105. Anyway, I fell asleep with the radio tuned to this new wave station.
Later that night I dreamt someone was singing a beautiful melancholy song to me. All I could recall was "Bring on the dancing horses wherever they may roam...shiver and say the words to all the lies you've known..."
I must have awakened at some point during the song because I remember hearing a voice say "....and the bunnymen with their new song..." I drifted off again.
I woke up the next morning with that song in my head. Went out that afternoon after school and sang the song to a record store employee, who promptly told me what the song was and who sang it.
Of course, the same thing happened with Bauhaus. I fell asleep, only to hear "Bela Lugosi's Dead" in a dream.
11-11-05 | 09:51 PM
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Never noticed this thread before. They were maybe my favorite band in late '83-early '84. Probably my favorite album of theirs is Heaven Up Here. I'm totally unfamiliar with their output post "Bring on the Dancing Horses".
11-12-05 | 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by wendersfan
I'm totally unfamiliar with their output post "Bring on the Dancing Horses".
Apparently, I'm not alone... here's the AMG review of "Siberia":
"Since their 1997 comeback, Echo & the Bunnymen have made some genuine attempts to keep the momentum going. Evergreen and What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? were eager, bright, and still a little brash. Flowers was nice with its light canvas; however, most fans still preferred their earlier material. That's not to say an older Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant don't make great music together. It's just that the recent material seemed too prosaic. Their sound is so distinctly their own with Sergeant's silvery, tight guitar work and McCulloch's fashionable, sweet-and-sour kind of vocal charm. Siberia, Echo's tenth studio album (including the sans-McCulloch disaster, Reverberation), is the album the two school friends have been trying to make since getting back together to record Evergreen. This 11-song set has every crass beat of Crocodiles and every sparkling thread of Heaven Up Here while the edgy pop moments of the underrated Porcupine are sprinkled throughout. And of course, Ocean Rain will not be forgotten. If anything, Siberia mirrors the passion of that 1984 classic most of all. Sergeant's playing has never sounded better, particularly on the playful self-reflections of "Parthenon Drive" and "Of a Life." McCulloch's lyrics are exactly on par, and vocally, he's sharper than ever. Call it an age thing, but Siberia makes total sense for where Echo & the Bunnymen stands 20 years on as a band. They couldn't have created this album before now. Songs such as the bittersweet musings of "Stormy Weather" and "All Because of You Days" capture Echo & the Bunnymen at their most confident. Album standout "Scissors in the Sand" finds the band's usual cool and cocky demeanor still intact. Really, Siberia is a beautiful album. All those years ago, Echo & the Bunnymen gave the world some "songs to learn and sing." With Siberia, they do it again."
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p...0:5vg9kemtfq7q
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11-12-05 | 11:54 AM
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Originally Posted by wendersfan
Never noticed this thread before. They were maybe my favorite band in late '83-early '84. Probably my favorite album of theirs is Heaven Up Here. I'm totally unfamiliar with their output post "Bring on the Dancing Horses".
11-12-05 | 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Numanoid
I'm just curious, but how does a band go from being your favorite to never listening to another thing they do? You're certainly not the first person I've run across that has expressed such a sentiment, and I'm the kind of guy that remains loyal to bands I like, especially ones I would label as "favorite", so I truly am curious at the thought process involved.
Anyway, around '85 I started playing in several bands quite actively. Usually when I've been busy playing music I end up not listening to a lot of pop/rock music, and mostly listen to jazz, a genre I've rarely played myself. It's just this weird trait I have, where I can't seem to listen to a lot of anything similar to what I'm playing myself.
