In Praise of ... Ocean Rain by Echo and the Bunnymen

Come on, that is fantastic. What a superb story.

Faith up against zero G

can't find pics of goth astronaut ;_;

http://www.headinjurytheater.com/images/ink%20astronaut%202%20jared%20hindman.jpg

Oh my god. Way too cool for school.

OK this is fucking great.

Killing Moon-->Seven Seas, the kind of one-two most bands could only dream of.

Wonderful post from Eisbär (llamasfur) 8 years ago.

Actually the whole 2nd side of this, wow.

"The Killing Moon" – 5:50
"Seven Seas" – 3:20
"My Kingdom" – 4:05
"Ocean Rain" – 5:12

whole thing's amazing! one of my fav records ever ever ever

Actually the whole 2nd side of this, wow.

"The Killing Moon" – 5:50
"Seven Seas" – 3:20
"My Kingdom" – 4:05
"Ocean Rain" – 5:12
--Mark

Silver gets overlooked. A gem of a song.

^^^ this, it is a massively enjoyable wave of loveliness that decides to crash over you at the start of the album with strings and Mac going la-la-la-la-la.

Is it any wonder why it's hard to love anything that came after this majestic album? The eponymous album is better than it's initial impact and Mac's "Candleland" is solid but everything else he's done - meh.

saying that he would snap photos in space with the album and crew of the ISS and give the album back to the band as a souvenir when he returns to Earth.

where is it?
checked 137 photopages of the ISS mission 20.

And my latest for the Quietus...

http://thequietus.com/articles/15779-echo-and-the-bunnymen-ocean-rain-review

i haven’t listened to this album since college and i completely forgot how exquisite “thorn of crowns” is

It's my least favourite thing on there by a million miles.

I love this album, though... every time I see the cover I get 'The Yo Yo Man' stuck in my head.

#heartmusic

I saw they used Nocturnal Me in an episode of Stranger Things recently, gave me chills.

oh also “my kingdom,” jeez, what a song

"Seven Seas" is my jam on this album

I have to listen to this album right now.

It is an extremely thin sounding record for some reason, Thorn of Crowns is so slight and papery sounding.

Some of the CD versions are a bit thin-sounding, but that's more a result of bad mastering.

the sequencing of this record is terrible.

This is my favourite album of all time. Every single second on it is flawless as far as I'm concerned!

The Bunnymen very recently announced that their next album (out May 2018) will be 'The Stars, The Oceans & the Moon' and will contain new songs as well as reworkings of old classics with strings & stuff.
That's... probably a very bad idea in principle; reworkings of old classics are very rarely an improvement and most people agree that Ian McCulloch can't really sing as he used to anymore. But I'm looking forward to it myself. I actually prefer Ian's present-day crooner voice over his eighties voice. Ian did a solo thing where he added strings to a live performance and I thought it worked surprisingly well, it'll probably be something similar.
In any case, he/they can do little wrong in my opinion.

These guys really should have been as big as U2. Musically, they were head and shoulders above them.

Pattinson and De Freitas were an amazing rhythm section, so unique.

the sequencing of this record is terrible.

― campreverb, Saturday, November 25, 2017 12:49 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

weird, the other thing i noticed this time around is how much i love the sequencing

Pattinson and De Freitas were an amazing rhythm section, so unique.

― MaresNest, Saturday, November 25, 2017 8:09 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Indeed, and De Freitas no longer being with us is a huge part of why it wasn't, and couldn't have been the same when they reformed. It feels like a huge part of their sound is missing. Post-reformation Bunnymen feels like a very different thing to me.

I realised years later (after reading a Mojo article) that I had, in the past, worked fairly regularly with De Freitas' wife, wish I'd known at the time.

weird - i woke up this morning with a line from ocean rain in my head ("all hands on deck at dawn/sailing to sadder shores").

Think I would have had 'The Killing Moon' end side A, and had 'Angels and Devils' open side 2. Seems like 'Yo Yo Man' is better executed in other places.

As it is, it's heavily weighted side 2 record, none of which matters into day's digital age, but I think accounts for some of it's mixed reception.

This is one of those rare albums that I have two copies of: the 2003 CD with great bonus tracks and the 2008 reissue with Live At The Royal Albert Hall, a fantastic 1983 gig.

I stand by my Quietus piece.

xxpost:

Mixed reception? It's widely considered to be their best album, even if some days I don't agree.

NME and RS were both pretty down on it at the time. Not saying they're right, but I do think it's been elevated retroactively.

Listened to this a couple times this foggy morning, it's such a gorgeous record. My Kingdom strikes me as a very Julian Cope sort of song, especially the end. Guitar solos in it are stunning, I repeated it three or four times.

Actually the whole 2nd side of this, wow.

"The Killing Moon" – 5:50
"Seven Seas" – 3:20
"My Kingdom" – 4:05
"Ocean Rain" – 5:12

― Mark, Friday, March 18, 2011 7:54 PM (seven years ago)

Was this polled and I'm having trouble finding it via search?

Discovered this copy of the Killing Moon in my tapes. I usually got copies for my own personal collection. This will be a rough mix with the original drums on. Before Pete replaced the kit using brushes. #bunnymen pic.twitter.com/YPfEov2pvt

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