Echo and the Bunnymen: Crap / Not Crap

[belboid]

First four albums are brilliant. The others all have something to recommend them.

 

[mx wcfc]

I was a big Bunnies fan. Saw them c.1979 in a tiny venue in w. London. Teardrop Explodes were the support band. The stage was maybe a foot high. Magic.
For me, the first album, Crocodiles is the best they did.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Side two of Ocean Rain is about as good a run of tracks as anyone has ever put together.

 

[The39thStep]

I was a big Bunnies fan. Saw them c.1979 in a tiny venue in w. London. Teardrop Explodes were the support band. The stage was maybe a foot high. Magic.
For me, the first album, Crocodiles is the best they did.

When I first saw them I think The Sound and The Passions were on the same bill. First albums the best imo

 

[marty21]

I once saw Ian McCullock at Bath Bus station , he was just standing there on his own , wearing all black (A long black leather coat) , probably late 80s or so. I thought he was the coolest dude ever

Never got totally into them tbh , some great individual songs .

 

[andysays]

I used to be a big fan back in the day, had the first four albums, saw them various times, though I haven't felt the inclination to listen to any of their stuff for ages.

And I'm pretty sure it was reading an interview with them in the NME which first tipped me off about the Velvet Underground and some other 'influences', so beginning my exploration of interesting music from the recent and not-so-recent past.

Not crap

 

[planetgeli]

Was not much of a fan back in the day though they had a couple of good songs. Then saw them supporting Primal Scream in 2013 and have to say McCullough’s voice had really stood up well with age, he was excellent.

C-c-c-cabbage.

 

[Saul Goodman]

They were excellent.

 

[Sea Star]

i took a tape of the Bunnymen's Peel session into school in about 80 or 81 and i remember a lad called Philip Rapson had a go at me for liking weird rubbish music. a few months later the Bunnymen got into the lower reaches of charts proper and the same lad was all over school pretending he'd always liked them.

and me - i even like that album they did without Macca, the ones he did without them, and the Electrofixion records too.

 

[Idris2002]

Side two of Ocean Rain is about as good a run of tracks as anyone has ever put together.

I had that on tape years ago. I might actually seek it out again.

Anyway, they were the last truly great/important group to come out of Liverpool. That's got to count for something.

 

[belboid]

Anyway, they were the last truly great/important group to come out of Liverpool. That's got to count for something.

You've clearly forgotten about Atomic Kitten!

 

[Saul Goodman]

Anyway, they were the last truly great/important group to come out of Liverpool. That's got to count for something.

What about Half Man Half Biscuit?
And Black?
Oh, and The Farm.

 

[belboid]

What about Half Man Half Biscuit?

In the words of the song...

You can stuff your cathedral,
And fuck your pierhead,
We're not flaming scousers,
We're from Birkenhead

 

[Saul Goodman]

In the words of the song...

You can stuff your cathedral,
And fuck your pierhead,
We're not flaming scousers,
We're from Birkenhead

My bad. I always thought they were scousers.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Well...
That bump went well

 

[Dr. Furface]

First two albums, certainly. After that I couldn’t say.

 

[Kaka Tim]

they were great back in the day. Like everyone else from the whole punk/new wave/post punk era, they went off the boil as the 80s unfolded. Ocean Rain is magnificent. And this was an awesome debut single -

 

[mx wcfc]

And this was an awesome debut single -

No it wasn’t, this was! March 1979 according to the label. This is my copy. Blimey I’ve had it 40 years.