can't find pics of goth astronaut ;_;
― ultra-generic sub-noize persona (Matt P), Sunday, 17 May 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.headinjurytheater.com/images/ink%20astronaut%202%20jared%20hindman.jpg
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 18 May 2009 06:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh my god. Way too cool for school.
― More Goth Than Your Grandmother (Bimble), Monday, 18 May 2009 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
OK this is fucking great.
― Mark, Saturday, 19 March 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Killing Moon-->Seven Seas, the kind of one-two most bands could only dream of.
― Mark, Saturday, 19 March 2011 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Wonderful post from Eisbär (llamasfur) 8 years ago.
― Mark, Saturday, 19 March 2011 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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, Saturday, 19 March 2011 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
whole thing's amazing! one of my fav records ever ever ever
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Saturday, 19 March 2011 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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
"The Killing Moon" – 5:50"Seven Seas" – 3:20"My Kingdom" – 4:05"Ocean Rain" – 5:12 --Mark
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 19 March 2011 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Silver gets overlooked. A gem of a song.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 19 March 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ 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.
― Richard Stubbs' Tears (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 19 March 2011 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― meisenfek, Sunday, 20 March 2011 10:39 (thirteen years ago) link
And my latest for the Quietus...
http://thequietus.com/articles/15779-echo-and-the-bunnymen-ocean-rain-review
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 July 2014 13:38 (nine years ago) link
i haven’t listened to this album since college and i completely forgot how exquisite “thorn of crowns” is
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 25 November 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
It's my least favourite thing on there by a million miles.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Saturday, 25 November 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
I love this album, though... every time I see the cover I get 'The Yo Yo Man' stuck in my head.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Saturday, 25 November 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
#heartmusic
― calstars, Saturday, 25 November 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
I saw they used Nocturnal Me in an episode of Stranger Things recently, gave me chills.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 25 November 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
oh also “my kingdom,” jeez, what a song
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 25 November 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
"Seven Seas" is my jam on this album
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Saturday, 25 November 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
I have to listen to this album right now.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Saturday, 25 November 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
It is an extremely thin sounding record for some reason, Thorn of Crowns is so slight and papery sounding.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 25 November 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
Some of the CD versions are a bit thin-sounding, but that's more a result of bad mastering.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Saturday, 25 November 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
the sequencing of this record is terrible.
― campreverb, Saturday, 25 November 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
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.
― Valentijn, Saturday, 25 November 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
These guys really should have been as big as U2. Musically, they were head and shoulders above them.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Saturday, 25 November 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
Pattinson and De Freitas were an amazing rhythm section, so unique.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 25 November 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
― 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
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 25 November 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
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
― 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.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Saturday, 25 November 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
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.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 25 November 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
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").
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 25 November 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
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.
― campreverb, Sunday, 26 November 2017 00:15 (six years ago) link
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.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 26 November 2017 01:22 (six years ago) link
I stand by my Quietus piece.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 November 2017 02:10 (six years ago) link
xxpost:
Mixed reception? It's widely considered to be their best album, even if some days I don't agree.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 26 November 2017 09:08 (six years ago) link
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.
― campreverb, Monday, 27 November 2017 00:35 (six years ago) link
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.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
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)
― Mark, Friday, March 18, 2011 7:54 PM (seven years ago)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 17 September 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
Was this polled and I'm having trouble finding it via search?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 18:56 (three years ago) link
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— Will Sergeant (Official) (@Will_Fuzz) December 6, 2022
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 09:38 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ICtWN5hw0
― MaresNest, Friday, 29 December 2023 16:44 (four months ago) link