Taking Sides: The Sound "From The Lion's Mouth" & Echo and The Bunnymen "Heaven Up Here"

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both hugh jones projects from '81.

comparable, no?

i personally think that from the lion's mouth is clearly the better album, but i have a feeling most people are pretty balls deep into that echo and the bunnymen lp. i mean it's good, but...

adrian borland channeled something more realistic way better than ian mccullochs symbolist riffing. i supposed that's a fine argument, i don't know. feel free to post whatever damn ilxor reference you and your roommate have got

― corey c (shock of daylight), Sunday, 1 January 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

I was always a fan of Bunnymen singles, but never embraced any of the albums from their first run other than the self-titled from 1987 (the second run albums from 1997-present have all been rather nice, though).

From the Lion's Mouth wins this one, no contest.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 1 January 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

amen, brother!

― corey c (shock of daylight), Sunday, 1 January 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

From The Lions Mouth for me.

― Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Sunday, 1 January 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Johnny Fever OTM about EATBM making great singles, yet spotty records. I'm a Crocodiles fan, Ocean Rain is half great, yet Heaven Up Here and Porcupine were pretty turgid listens aside from the singles.

From The Lion's Mouth is a gem.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Sunday, 1 January 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

i agree with most everything said here. from the lion's mouth is powerful from beginning to end, crocodiles is probably echo's most solid album, heaven up here has some clunkers, echo was an amazing singles band, ocean rain and porcupine have some awesome album tracks on them, and i can't say anything about echo after ocean rain cuz the last thing i bought by them was the dancing horses 12 inch with the amazingly great original version of bedbugs on it and the just as great over your shoulder b-side. nostalgia-wise, never stop will always hit me harder than anything that the sound did, but i came to the sound party way way late in the game.

so: From The Lion's Mouth

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 1 January 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, they both rule. And with that I say no more. For now. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 January 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

geez....it's like you are asking me to pick my favourite child.

i gotta say what ned said!

― william harris (drone/a/sore), Sunday, 1 January 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I have a soft spot for del Amitri's first album re: Jones productions

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Sunday, 1 January 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

i think both are really *good* but only one rules in my opinion. and i am really glad to see myself agreeing with seward for the first time! right on.

the only thing is this: how in the hell do you get into the solo adrian borland stuff? i mean it seems OK (albeit cheesy), but i've yet to really tap into any of those albums/songs. i don't get them i guess.

― corey c (shock of daylight), Monday, 2 January 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

and second layer has always been a big disappointment, but a good one nonetheless

― corey c (shock of daylight), Monday, 2 January 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

Listening to the crystalline remastered Heaven Up Here on my bitchin' headphones, I finally realized who we had to blame for Interpol.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

Someone had recommended From the Lion's Mouth to me years ago and I listened the hell out of it, but had somehow forgotten about it until yesterday. When I looked at all the titles the melodies instantly came back to me. This is some of the best and most memorable songwriting of any post-punk album IMO.

― the coffee of coffees (corey), Friday, 19 November 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago)

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