Shine So Hard EP on Crocodiles.Live tracks from Australia on Heaven Up Here including The Disease - worra knees-up.Nothing on Porcupine.Life at Brian's (albeit minus newly topical miners' strike chit-chat) on Ocean Rain, and the non-12" AKA LP versions of Silver and The Killing Moon.12" version of Bring on the Dancing Horses on the grey one. I quite like Soul Kitchen too.
Also they make the box set look much better than it did before.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 22 March 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link
Very much so.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 March 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEThL6WcgF4
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 28 January 2007 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
FOREVER YOURS, NOCTURNAL ME
TAKE ME INTERNALL FOREVER YOURS, NOCTURNAL ME
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Monday, 29 January 2007 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Best o f british music, folks, this is it.
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Monday, 29 January 2007 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link
CRYSTAL VIEWS
PURIFY OUR MISFIT WAYS AND MAGNIFY OUR CRYSTAL DAYS
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Monday, 29 January 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link
you know heaven and hell collide there are no in betweens
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Monday, 29 January 2007 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link
This is all because Echo & The Bunnymen are...the link at the end of my willly nillly
"I'm the Yo YO Man always up and down /so take me to the end of your tether"
Forget it. Echo & The Bunnymen forever
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Monday, 29 January 2007 03:51 (seventeen years ago) link
CA CA CA CABBAGE
YOU THINK YOURE A VEGETABLE NEVER COME OUT OF THE FRIDGE
YOU SET MY TEETH ON EDGECCAAA CA AULIFLOWER MEMOIRS APRIL SHOWERS
YOU ARE A DYING BREED! ooooooo
cucumber cabBAGE CAULIFLOWER AAAAAAAAAAH@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
wait for me on a new horizon new horIzON FOR EVERYONE
o deCIDED TO WEAR MY THORN OF CROWNS
ALLTHE WAY ROUND....
insideout!
uPSIDE DOWN!
bACK TO FRONT!
aLL THE WAY ROUND!
dOWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Monday, 29 January 2007 03:56 (seventeen years ago) link
fate up againST YOUR WILL THROUGH THE THICK AND THINHE WILL WAIT UNTIL YOU GIVE YOURSELF TO HIM
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Monday, 29 January 2007 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Monday, 29 January 2007 04:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― slackety yax (H2-H4), Monday, 29 January 2007 04:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Monday, 29 January 2007 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link
that tube video had my neck hairs standing up. can't help but think that the 10 minutes after the credits rolled would've been excellent.
― Koogy Bloogies (koogs), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
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
SWUNG FROM A CHANDALIER
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 03:35 (one year ago) link
Couldn't cut the muuuuuustarrrrrd
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 04:02 (one year ago) link
Rolo McGinty remembers Pete de Freitas on the anniversary of his passing.
https://www.facebook.com/rolo.mcginty/posts/pfbid02Lx9ozR8uVgYLX6bAKKzaVvD5vsLTGCwmqqhLrQCr2s8tnpcAknkAfPTuVmay9R7xl
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 23:30 (one year ago) link
Well well. Per Echo's social media:
We have just posted what I think is maybe the greatest live film of Echo and the Bunnymen over on our YouTube channel.Filmed live at Zeche Bochum, Germany, March the 5th 1983 during the Porcupine European Tour. Broadcasted by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in the Rockpalast TV programme. 1 Going Up2 With A Hip 3 Gods Will Be Gods4 Show Of Strength 5 Zimbo (All My Colours)6 The Cutter 7 Rescue 8 My White Devil 9 Porcupine 10 Crocodiles 11 All That Jazz 12 The Back Of Love 13 Heads Will Roll 14 Heaven Up Here 15 Over The Wall 16 Do It Clean 17 Villiers Terrace 18 No Dark Things 19 A Promise
1 Going Up2 With A Hip 3 Gods Will Be Gods4 Show Of Strength 5 Zimbo (All My Colours)6 The Cutter 7 Rescue 8 My White Devil 9 Porcupine 10 Crocodiles 11 All That Jazz 12 The Back Of Love 13 Heads Will Roll 14 Heaven Up Here 15 Over The Wall 16 Do It Clean 17 Villiers Terrace 18 No Dark Things 19 A Promise
And here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5krHYQ6SxkM
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 October 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
first part of will's biography is 99p on amazon uk this month
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:45 (eight months ago) link
ian on sky arts' Great Songwriters this week (last week). very fidgety and rambling but always entertaining.
likes cryptic crosswords, doesn't get Only Connect though.
odd choice of songs though (killing moon, dancing horses, proud to fall, unstoppable force)
― koogs, Saturday, 19 August 2023 20:33 (eight months ago) link
Steinbeck et al, they just wrote novels, they don't have to sing them...
I think the second volume of Will's bio comes out very soon.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 19 August 2023 20:40 (eight months ago) link
The way Will describes the current dynamics of the band makes me feel sad, he comes across as quite enervated by the whole business.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FoIifB2Ylk
― MaresNest, Friday, 1 December 2023 11:45 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1QFubPHyZc
― MaresNest, Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:27 (three months ago) link
i had that (glasto 85) as a bootleg, bought during my first week at university from a guy selling them in the students Union building. they do, iirc, it's all over now baby blue, she cracked, paint it black
(oh, track listing right there...)
― koogs, Thursday, 4 January 2024 19:06 (three months ago) link
the Crystal Days box has versions of those, and more, from Swedish radio. don't know if the glasto versions ever saw an official release.
― koogs, Thursday, 4 January 2024 19:09 (three months ago) link
I can't help it, that Peel Session song "No Hands" is the gothiest thing ever. Beautiful and amen. Listen to the bass. I'll never recover. That is absolutely the most beautifully goth thing I've ever heard. Oh my god, make it stop. That is going to fuck with my head all night.Too much goth. Too much.
― think you're a fookin' bat, eh? (Bimble), Saturday, February 7, 2009 6:25 AM (fifteen years ago)
bimble otm, but it's not too much. i just heard this song for the first time earlier this week, listening to the peel sessions collection from a few years back. when "no hands" came on i immediately tried to figure out which album it was from and how i had missed it before. but it's only on that session, i think, the january 1982 peel session, i think? it rules
― z_tbd, Saturday, 17 February 2024 23:04 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSd36N5rBg8
― z_tbd, Saturday, 17 February 2024 23:05 (two months ago) link
I had that Glasto / Swedish radio bootleg, too -- so good!
― three of the doctor's valuable bats are now dead (broom air), Sunday, 18 February 2024 01:21 (two months ago) link
There's only one, pitifully short and tangential Wild Swans thread on ILM, but I thought it worth mentioning here that I'm halfway through Paul Simpson's memoir and it's pretty enjoyable so far.
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 18 February 2024 01:51 (two months ago) link