The Best Echo and the Bunnymen Record (poll open till 5/3/2007)

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It has to be done -- and this list isn't too long (and no Electrafixion or Ian's solo shit), so vote already!!

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Ocean Rain	13
Crocodiles	10
Heaven Up Here	9
Porcupine	3
Echo and the Bunnymen	2
Reverberation	1
Evergreen	0
What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?	0
Flowers	0
Siberia	0

― Eisbaer, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:32 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.imheavyduty.com/wp/wp-content/images/music/EchoandTheBunnymenSelfTitled.jpg

!!

― Eisbaer, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:33 (eighteen years ago)

and that's NOT the one i voted for ... ;-)

― Eisbaer, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:33 (eighteen years ago)

Will this not be -Ocean Rain- in a landslide?

― Mr. Odd, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for the s/t one!

― Dr.C, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

People are strange...

I voted for Heaven Up Here 'cos it changed guitar rock in Britain and also I was seventeen when it came out and for a while it felt like both the beginning and the end of time to me, so there you have it.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

I have a feeling that What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? will slowly reveal itself as a classic when I get to about sixty.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for the first one. I liked #s 2-4 a lot too, but that's the one I played and felt the most (aside from Songs To Learn And Sing that is).

― Groke, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

Marcello OTM. Flowers is also terrific, but I can take or leave Evergreen.

― Dr.C, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

I'm a bit of a contrarian. (I voted for "Echo and the Bunnymen")

I'n not a lot of a contrarian (I did not vote for "Reverberation")

― Mark G, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

Ha! Noel Burke!

― Dr.C, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

I have it on cassette.

It's nice!

― Mark G, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, I have the vinyl. Probably last played in 1990, but I liked it!

― Dr.C, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

The Cutter is my all-time favourite Bunnymen song, so Porcupine gets the nod (despite that "John Webster was one of the best there was" line).

― underpants of the gods, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

Now I come to think about it, there are plenty of other egregious lines on Porcupine ("there is no comparison between things about to have been"... eh?) Still, I'll put it all down to drugs and call it one of the greatest drug-fucked albums of the eighties.

― underpants of the gods, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

Those are great lines! But Ian Broudie's production could be better.

― Dr.C, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

Vote for the album that's the best showcase for McCullough's lips.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

VOTE DAMMIT!!

― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:12 (eighteen years ago)

I just read a McCullough interview...he came across as ridiculously conceited. But I still agreed with him (esp. with how amazing "The Killing Moon" is)

― Tape Store, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:14 (eighteen years ago)

People here should know by now that I think Ocean Rain is the be-all-end-all.

Although I heard "Bedbugs & Ballyhoo" the other day and it really flipped my lid. Good stuff.

― Bimble, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:24 (eighteen years ago)

Shit this is hard one too, but I'm gonna have to go with Ocean Rain, because I'm boring like that.

I do hope Crocodiles gets some votes, because that's a v. underrated record.

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:28 (eighteen years ago)

I can't resist the new Electrafixion remastered "Burned" CD either - I still to this day have my CD single of "Lowdown" because the B-sides "Land Of The Dying" and "Razor's Edge" were just so good.

― Bimble, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

sorry I meant to say "Land of The Dying Sun".

― Bimble, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

crocodiles is an excellent record -- i think that it suffers (i.e., gets underrated) just b/c it sounds so spare compared to what was to come.

― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:44 (eighteen years ago)

The live Electrafixion b-sides are almost all better than the album versions. Ah, if only we could've heard the tracks Ian did with Johnny Marr.

― Mr. Odd, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:24 (eighteen years ago)

I'd have to go with Ocean Rain, although my heart still belongs to that long, lost blue e.p. which featured the live version of "Do It Clean" (appended with the "you can't just shoot a man in the back" intro).

http://vassifer.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/echothebunnymenechothebunney122543_1.jpg

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

although my heart still belongs to that long, lost blue e.p. which featured the live version of "Do It Clean" (appended with the "you can't just shoot a man in the back" intro).

which i have STILL never found (in CD version, at least). ;__;

(hello, alex!)

― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

although my heart still belongs to that long, lost blue e.p. which featured the live version of "Do It Clean" (appended with the "you can't just shoot a man in the back" intro)

Rob Sheffield's RS review of the new comp cites that same fucking version. Christgau says it's the best thing they ever did. Is it really that great?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

It's just really raw (for lack of a less-cliched term)and the guitars are almost metal! Well, that's a slight exaggeration. There's a comparable version on the box set of a couple of years ago, but it's just not that same one.

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

well, there is indeed a lot of love for crocodiles here. not surprised that ocean rain won, but (as always) sad that porcupine gets so little love compared to the rest of their oeuvre.

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

AND WHO IS THE JOKER WHO VOTED FOR REVERBERATION?!?

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

I do hope Crocodiles gets some votes, because that's a v. underrated record.

proven wrong!

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 3 May 2007 00:35 (eighteen years ago)

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