Crocodiles.... Heaven up Here... Ocean Rain... Porcupine
i think they're a rad band. ocean rain is full of poppy tunes that i can somehow stand listening to many many times. will sergeant is a coolguitarman.
echo and the bunnymen
2The first couple records were "amazing". NOT CRAP WF: 8
Better yet, eat the placenta!!!
echo and the bunnymen
3Great, great band. The only stuff I really don't like is the stuff without Ian McCulloch. NOT CRAP. Waffle factor: 2, because not all the records are so great.
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matthew wrote:His Life and his Death gives us LIFE.......supernatural life- which is His own life because he is God and Man. This is all straight Catholicism....no nuttiness or mystical crap here.
echo and the bunnymen
4I haven't listened to Echo and the Bunnymen in years, but I have great memories and remember liking them a lot. I also liked acid-washed jeans, though, so memories shouldn't count for much.
NOT CRAP if only because the minute I saw this post, Lips like Sugar started running through my head and displaced Spin Me Round (take THAT, ironyengine).
I think the same thing happened to me in the 80s; I was equally happy about it, then.
NOT CRAP if only because the minute I saw this post, Lips like Sugar started running through my head and displaced Spin Me Round (take THAT, ironyengine).
I think the same thing happened to me in the 80s; I was equally happy about it, then.
echo and the bunnymen
5I gotta admit, I'm not much of a fan of the 80's "alternative" stuff at all. I used to love that stuff as a teenager... The Cure, The Smiths, Siouxsie, Bauhaus, blah blah... Oh, I'm so depressed... Oh, black clothes and cloves. Oh, I'm so much better than the masses... Fucking spare me! That mentality is just as bad as the jock/soc mentality (we used to call popular, yet non-athletic types "socs" (pronounced "so-shes") because they were social, yet anti-social if you weren't some sort of caucasian preppy rich kid)
I still really enjoy Echo and the Bunnymen. A lot! Porcupine is my fave. I think I still have that on vinyl somewheres... Pining for the pork of the porcupine...
That one is really insane. Ocean Rain is too slick for me. The Bunnymen didn't even do the string arrangements on that one, and the strings are 75% of that album. Crocodiles is kind of boring rock. We used to wonder if he was singing "itsu bitsu bitsu bits everywhere" in that song "do it clean"... Anyone know? I guess now with the 'net, I can google the lyrics...
Yeah, that pretty in pink album ruined everything. I still really dig old OMD. A lot. They used to be a wickedly clever and strange band (check out Dazzle Ships or Architecture and Morality, if you don't believe me). Then they just sold out like mo-fos with that moussed hair pop crap. That pretty in pink album marked the end of the 80's alt thing...
Co-optation is sweepin' the nation... what else is new?
So what's good in the indie world these days (besides Cheer-Ax, Ruins, Luttenbachers). I've been listening, but everything sounds so fucking 90's it's pathetic. Or even worse, the 80's retro shit. I've been pretty much sticking to art rock/prog rock these days, because there's so much of the obscure stuff that I missed out on...
Yeah, anyone out there, lemme know who is doing anything meaningful, interesting, and non-80's sounding today. I don't want to hear about Interpoop, Modest Muff, Fluffy Ferdinand, The Spillers, or any of that 80's rehash poop. I had enough of that crap the first time 'round. No more please. In my best Oliver Twist voice, I desperately ask "Can I please have no more, sir?"
Oh, Echo and the Bunnymen are great. Sorry to stray off topic... but I really wonder what great indie stuff has come out in the past 4 years, other than a few bands that are just haninging in there during the new new new dark age... Ah... Polvo... sure do miss 'em... Ah... those were the days... sure do miss 'em...
I still really enjoy Echo and the Bunnymen. A lot! Porcupine is my fave. I think I still have that on vinyl somewheres... Pining for the pork of the porcupine...
That one is really insane. Ocean Rain is too slick for me. The Bunnymen didn't even do the string arrangements on that one, and the strings are 75% of that album. Crocodiles is kind of boring rock. We used to wonder if he was singing "itsu bitsu bitsu bits everywhere" in that song "do it clean"... Anyone know? I guess now with the 'net, I can google the lyrics...
Yeah, that pretty in pink album ruined everything. I still really dig old OMD. A lot. They used to be a wickedly clever and strange band (check out Dazzle Ships or Architecture and Morality, if you don't believe me). Then they just sold out like mo-fos with that moussed hair pop crap. That pretty in pink album marked the end of the 80's alt thing...
Co-optation is sweepin' the nation... what else is new?
So what's good in the indie world these days (besides Cheer-Ax, Ruins, Luttenbachers). I've been listening, but everything sounds so fucking 90's it's pathetic. Or even worse, the 80's retro shit. I've been pretty much sticking to art rock/prog rock these days, because there's so much of the obscure stuff that I missed out on...
Yeah, anyone out there, lemme know who is doing anything meaningful, interesting, and non-80's sounding today. I don't want to hear about Interpoop, Modest Muff, Fluffy Ferdinand, The Spillers, or any of that 80's rehash poop. I had enough of that crap the first time 'round. No more please. In my best Oliver Twist voice, I desperately ask "Can I please have no more, sir?"
Oh, Echo and the Bunnymen are great. Sorry to stray off topic... but I really wonder what great indie stuff has come out in the past 4 years, other than a few bands that are just haninging in there during the new new new dark age... Ah... Polvo... sure do miss 'em... Ah... those were the days... sure do miss 'em...
echo and the bunnymen
6Their first 4 records are great, and still sound so to me in 2005. Not Crap.
echo and the bunnymen
8not crap, but definitely not as good as Ian McCulloch thought they were...it's really funny reading him go on about how they were the greatest band that ever was and such...on the Ocean Rain bonus tracks there's a live song he starts off by saying "here's another new one off the greatest album ever made!"...funny stuff...
echo and the bunnymen
9Echo's back catalogue has held up remarkably well over the years, more so than one might have thought. I saw them twice back in the day (before Ian left and Pete died) and they were nothing short of amazing. It's not an accident that Echo are cited by current indie bands as an influence far more frequently than the Bunnymen's would-be peers.
NOT CRAP. WF of 2 due to Ray Manzarek collaboration on the last proper record. I haven't even bothered with the new Echo...I think it might ruin it for me.
NOT CRAP. WF of 2 due to Ray Manzarek collaboration on the last proper record. I haven't even bothered with the new Echo...I think it might ruin it for me.