That performance off the tube is incredible, so powerful!
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Ian McC is definitely amongst my top five Liverpool fans (it's not a list that goes down much further than #5). From the stage at the Royal Court in '98..."I don't want Everton to go down - it would be bad for the city. Of, er, Wolverhampton."
The Mac/Will interviews on the BBC's Rock Family Trees (Liverpool post-punk episode) are absolutely priceless. "Nein Danke."
A few duff records aside, some days I think they're my favourite band ever.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 29 January 2007 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link
I only ever saw them after their famous year off, so I think that means past their prime.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 29 January 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 29 January 2007 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link
The Bunnymen have this strange ability to make me yearn for childhood Merseyside experiences I never actually had; I want to wander along Otterspool Prom with some befringed pals at dusk and talk drunken rubbish until the small hours on the steps of the Palm House in Sefton Park. I didn't do any of this in the '80s, I was playing tennis in New Brighton and then running home for me tea.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link
The grey album is the only remaster I have bothered with. I love that album, but of course I'm nuts. I have the boxset so the extra tracks on the remasters are less of a lure. They should have picked a gig from each era and put out a second live CD with each reissue.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyone else remember them doing fantastic versions of 'The Game' and 'Lips Like Sugar' on some sort of tribute the the OGWT TV programme just before the grey record came out? Bit of a letdown when I heard the actual album though.
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
(I might still have it on VHS in the loft somewhere)
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Bring On The Dancing Horses, which I think of as the best Xmas single of all time, is only available (as far as I can tell) in this reissue programme in two different versions on the grey album. Bah, I'm not buying the bloody grey album.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
S/T record from 1987.
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Not part of this reissue programme, though. It was last year, wasn't it? That might be too much duplication for me ("Killing Moon" in about five places then) but if I see the CD/DVD version going cheap...
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
I think I could "do" you a Dancing Horses replica 12" if you like. The 7" was on the box set, but I sold that (fool!).
Ocean Rain does sound fantastic. Possibly the best use of strings on a rock record ever.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link
i do like the 90s/present-day bunnymen records, though i concede that it's more "for the fans"/already-coverted and they aren't the same w/t de freitas & pattinson et. al. & they haven't come up w/ any as catchy as even "lips like sugar" (much less anything offa the first 4).
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link
i think the newer stuff is OK if you take it for what it is -- competent, polished late 90s sorta-indie rockish stuff -- as opposed to expecting heaven up here, v. 2.0. and of this latter stuff, their LAST record siberia may be the best of the lot -- they play w/ a bit more passion than the other latter-day stuff.
personally, the biggest letdown re the latter-day stuff is that ian's voice is totally shot to SHIT.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link
unfortunately, its true.
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link
That was a mistake, I feel. If only for what I might have cribbed from it.
Perhaps BOTDH should stay where it is - on my picture disc LP and mixed in with the slush and drizzle of the walk along the Breck to school.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Just listening to the box set on CD1 right now. Broke My Neck (long version) - WOW!!
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link
completely different. grind stuff is ambient soundscapes, some quite dark. glide stuff is poppier, lots of samples, reminds me, somehow, of willy wonka's chocolate factory gone bad.
samples here (ipcress track particularly good. do not listen to whilst operating machinery or driving though):
http://www.bunnymen.com/Glide/mp3page.html
last glide lp (curvature of the earth) had instantly recognisable bunnymen style guitar submerged within it in places, was very odd given that i wasn't expecting it and it took me right back.
― Koogy Bloogies (koogs), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000HKDC6C/ref=olp_product_details/026-3945335-0330023?ie=UTF8&seller=
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ECHO-AND-THE-BUNNYMEN-VERY-BEST-OF-PLUS-DVD-NEW_W0QQitemZ280075967382QQihZ018QQcategoryZ2250QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyway - now on Disc 3 of the box. And really, what's not to like about any of the later stuff? Nothing Lasts Forever, Rust - all tremendous. Must dig out the WAYGTDWYL album later.
All the B-sides/outtakes are stellar - e.g. Rollercoaster (Will back on the Fender Jag - yay!, Hurracaine etc)
Angels and Devils is possibly my favourite EATB song. Who else could get that groove, that *sway*? The guitars and drums are fantastic on that - really woody and close-sounding.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
I'd recommend it. Both under his name and as Glide.
The box set does a great job at cherrypicking the early reunion material, and all the B-sides and rarities and live tracks = rockness. It's a well-put-together compilation and one of the few box sets around that's worth relistening to.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
There should be a compilation of that era called "Nein Danke".
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Just listening to the box set on CD1 right now.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Sounded vaguely Doors-ish or even Love-ish or just generally Elektra-ish, at any rate.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 17 March 2007 07:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bimble, Saturday, 17 March 2007 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 17 March 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bimble, Saturday, 17 March 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― souldesqueeze, Saturday, 17 March 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link