Echo & the Bunnymen: More Songs to Learn and Sing Poll

Impossible!

i grew up on the original album and wore my copy out. have not heard this in ages but thought a poll for this album would be a lot of fun.

Never Stop. My fav. bunnymen song. great live video too.

WHAT? (from Wikipedia):

The Fountain is the forthcoming eleventh studio album by British band Echo & the Bunnymen. The album is being produced by John McLaughlin, and Coldplay singer Chris Martin has collaborated with the band on one of the album's tracks. The first single from the album, "Think I Need It Too", was due to be released in August 2008, but has yet to be. The album is due to be released in mid-2009.

do not want. A) Mac's voice is complete shit now B) coldplay is involved

Ah yes - grew up on this comp - loved it to bits but never felt that compelled to check out the albums (even less now)

Do you hear Liam Gallagher's backing vocal on Nothing Lasts Forever, btw?

Oh god, but the albums are so... AAAHHHH... There's just too much great stuff on here. The Killing Moon? But I love that whole album, it's gorgeous, but like a jewel out of its setting without the rest of the album.

The Cutter? Never Stop?

Oh, I'm going to drag it out and listen to it now before I can possibly vote.

I got a nice signed version of the original album, back in the day.

Because of working quite close to the VirgMegastore, bands would do in-store signings, or they'd sign massive amounts and have them sent round (which is what E&TB did)

I got one from before Ian got bored/tired of signing "Ian McCullough" and signed the rest "Ian Mac".

Never Stop for me - the first bunnymen song that really soared. runner up: silver.

Do It Clean - old skool garage-Bunnymen.

OK, I'VE DECIDED. IT IS NEVER FUCKING STOP OH GOD YES.

i heard rescue the other day in a chain bagel shop. it seemed like a weird selection to end up on whatever nostalgia muzak service they were buying

not sure what id choose here

Gotta love "Never Stop".

The Cutter. Always.

"The Killing Moon" has been overplayed in recent years, but is still their greatest achievement IMO.

Seeing the Bunnymen 2-3 times this week in Austin... so fucking excited.

Going for "A Promise" today, though I could vote for anything really and be happy.

"The Cutter," only bettered by the live version of "Do It Clean" on the b-side of the blue 12" e.p. (not included here, obviously).

yeah, very true.

17. "Bring On the Dancing Horses"
(vote goes for the least likable song)

"Never Stop" is tempting but the guitar figure in "Rescue" is the best thing in their entire catalog for me. So "Rescue" -- so simple, so perfect, so great.

The Killing Moon kinda spikes this poll, doesn't it? Maybe not.

yeah, "The Killing Moon" is the elephant in the room, part of the reason for not doing an Ocean Rain poll. i felt when you have all their singles listed that the results might be a bit more interesting.

still "The Killing Moon" is one of the best songs ever!

never got into the other albums besides crocodile...

ahhh verse of the "the killing moon" is so spooky and heavy and really classic 10/10 material, BUT the chorus is so anticlimactic and dull to me

voted for "lips like sugar"

ive not heard killing moon in 20 years, i'd really like to do. i do remember it very very vividly tho.

im going with the cutter

the cutter is one of those songs that just impresses me with its composition above all else. it just sounds otherworldly. wouldn't dream of choosing a different song.

I'd vote Killing Moon, but it is overplayed, and Never Stop is such a special song in their catalogue. Does something for me that nothing outside of the Ocean Rain album does. So, Never Stop it is.

I quite like "Back of Love" for that swoonyweird melancholy bit in the middle it drops into suddenly. Also, the choppy guitar that Jaysus the Edge ripped off so obviously.

"Killing Moon". One of the best verses ever, and I happen to love the chorus as well. If it were a minute shorter it would be even more well known than it already is.

^^^^^^
100% reaffirms my vote for this

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shame to see seven seas get no votes

"The Killing Moon" is one of the most perfect songs ever.

shame to see "People Are Strange" get a vote

^

Echo's version of "People Are Strange" is far superior to the Doors version, KROQ played the hell out of that song back in the day.

True, the fact that "Seven Seas" is no one's fave tells you how many good songs are on this thing.

^^ yeah, that that & "Silver" didn't get a single vote is pretty O_o. Had I caught this poll, I probably would have voted for SS, but it would have been a toss-up. Why is it they never include "Ocean Rain" on Bunnymen comps?

I'll also give props to "Rust," which is prime latter-day-Bunnymen. They've aged quite gracefully, IMO.

yeah both rust and nothing lasts forever were v good singles

Echo's version of "People Are Strange" is far superior to the Doors version

Not saying much...

so i wondered if any of the extra nine songs would get a vote, only "People Are Strange" picked up a vote. didn't realize, at the time, that "The Puppet" was not on the MORE songs greatest hits album. i agree it's too bad that "Seven Seas" and "Silver" didn't get a vote but this, like others have said, was an incredibly hard poll to pick just one song...

lol

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I like "The Puppet" from Urgh a Music War, and "All My Life" from their later self-titled album, but I voted for "Dancing Horses" because I discovered it on this comp a few years ago, even though I was there when it was their small American hit, I don't remember hearing it then, and I really don't know if I would have cared for it in the eighties, but I like it in this decade.

I love Seven Seas and Silver, but really I think of Ocean Rain as one long continuous... soundscape with movements. I can't really take the singles out of context.

The two Bunnymen shows I saw last week were pretty short on Ocean Rain stuff, overall.

I understand, Kate. Really I do. Ocean Rain must be had as an entity in its own right.

I'm not happy with these goddamn poll results, btw. Fuck an ILM.

so i just sold my old copy of Ocean Rain, in the NOTES section they wrote: "That sound is on dazzling display on Ocean Rain's nine original tracks. Standout cuts include "The Killing Moon," along with "Silver," "Seven Seas," "Thorn Of Crowns" and the haunting title track."

thought it was ironic that they mentioned "Silver" and "Seven Seas" but they got no love on this poll and the other single won this poll.

why did record companies add those kind of comment to albums when you already bought said album?

i was listening to some mix radio station thru my TV provider and they played Seven Seas" so i decided to play this today.

"Do It Clean" is rocking my boat right now.

"I got a handful of this
What do i do with it?"

this really is "The Cutter" isn't it? (until "Never Stop" plays) i linked youtube for my vote but was lost in this thread and have no idea if at the end was my vote.

fuck Bimble is in this thread. loved that guys passion on ILM.

one of a kind.

yup.

back of love deserved more votes.