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Liverpool, United Kingdom (1978 – 1990, 1997 – present)
Echo & the Bunnymen are a British post-punk band formed in Liverpool in 1978. The original line-up consisted of Ian McCulloch (of The Crucial Three), Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson. There are many stories, probably apocryphal, that the quartet was completed by a drum machine known as “Echo”.
By the time of their debut album, 1980’s Crocodiles - a moderate UK hit - the drum machine had been replaced by Pete de Freitas. Their next, the critically-acclaimed Heaven Up Here, reached the Top Ten in 1981, as did 1983’s Porcupine and ‘84’s Ocean Rain. Singles like “The Killing Moon” (later used in the soundtrack to Donnie Darko, a film whose imagery owed much to the artwork of the band’s early records.), “Silver,” “Bring On The Dancing Horses,” and “The Cutter” helped keep the group in the public eye as they took a brief hiatus in the late 1980s. Their 1987 self-titled LP was a small American hit, their only LP to have significant sales there.
McCulloch quit the band in 1988. De Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident one year later. The others decided to continue, recruiting Noel Burke to replace McCulloch on vocals in Reverberation (1990), which did not generate much excitement among fans or critics. Burke, Sargeant and Pattinson split after that, but the surviving three fourths of the original band reformed in 1997 and released Evergreen (1997), What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (1999), Flowers (2001) , Siberia (2005), and the latest addition, The Fountain (2009).
By the time of their debut album, 1980’s Crocodiles - a moderate UK hit - the drum machine had been replaced by Pete de Freitas. Their next, the critically-acclaimed Heaven Up Here, reached the Top Ten in 1981, as did 1983’s Porcupine and ‘84’s Ocean Rain. Singles like “The Killing Moon” (later used in the soundtrack to Donnie Darko, a film whose imagery owed much to the artwork of the band’s early records.), “Silver,” “
Bring On The Dancing Horses,” and “The Cutter” helped keep the group in the public eye as they took a brief hiatus in the late 1980s. Their 1987 self-titled LP was a small American hit, their only LP to have significant sales there.McCulloch quit the band in 1988. De Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident one year later. The others decided to continue, recruiting Noel Burke to replace McCulloch on vocals in Reverberation (1990), which did not generate much excitement among fans or critics. Burke, Sargeant and Pattinson split after that, but the surviving three fourths of the original band reformed in 1997 and released Evergreen (1997), What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (1999), Flowers (2001) , Siberia (2005), and the latest addition, The Fountain (2009).
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youthhaunts wrote:
Haha, Super Bowl'ed
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Smapizard wrote:
I really like Ocean Rain What would you guys suggest listening to next?
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optimistic_tour wrote:
Over The Wall
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sarumike wrote:
great performance last night in leamington. Playing Killing Moon and The Cutter back to back was just sensational!
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indiegolfer wrote:
most underrated band of all time
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sparklecrunch wrote:
there's something really wonderful about listening to one your fave teenage bands 20 years or so on ...and realising they're still fuckin brilliant ;0 and i still fancy Mac....
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KillYourselff wrote:
отличные
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felipe_mafra wrote:
Amazing concert in Brazil in 1987 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUrzni1i23c
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Menno75 wrote:
Crocodiles and Heaven Up Here, LIVE at the Paradiso in Amsterdam... F*ck me, I'm looking forward to that one.
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Musilov wrote:
Of course, the killing moon can't be compared to anything else, but Echo is more than that... Go see 'em live and get your ears reduced to a heavenly pulp.
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spacemangraig wrote:
killing moon is quite simply one of the most heartbreaking popsongs ever recorded. one of those songs you'll never get tired of. for me at least.
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ikoloboff wrote:
nice band. as grear as the cure
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sunheadbowed wrote:
I don't even like The Killing Moon much.
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Hutsmod wrote:
there's more to Echo than that, girl
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Maripitorri wrote:
The Killing Moon *-*
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kissesneverdie wrote:
The Cutter needs to be number one.
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THeBLaKRaVeN wrote:
Ты не один..[2]
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ChriSThaaRippeR wrote:
Ты не один..
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slonoedov wrote:
прямо с утра их наверно слушать как-то не то. а я вот слушаю
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Bunnymen playing Liverpool
11 Oct 2011 | from www.bunnymen.com/Test
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