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i wish you continued luck and success at the new 9 to 5 chris :)

and i'm thrilled you are starting to explore echo and the bunnymen's back catalogue...they are truly one of the best bands that hit it big in the 80s, and i feel they often get tossed on the back burner as people always refer to the cure and the smiths as the great heroes of the day. they have a lot of strong albums, definitely get "ocean rain" someday but also be on the look out for "heaven up here"..it's a bit harder and darker, but absolutely brilliant in its own right.

Posted by mishie at February 28, 2005 11:26 PM

Chris! you know i can't read your album tags in safari and yet when i go to msie it just says "album cover" oh don't tease me like that

Posted by cat at March 1, 2005 01:23 AM

Heaven Up Here was indeed a fine album, but I think I prefer Porcupine just a little more. As the sleeves suggest, HUH is wet, whereas P is magnificently frosty.

For me, their killer single was The Back Of Love. It's a little more rough and ready than the finely crafted Killing Moon, but it has that same propulsive vibe as Teardrop Explodes' (equally sublime) Reward.

One contemporary review of the single release of The Killing Moon imagined McCulloch holding a skull in the moonlight, Hamlet-like. It's an image that I've never forgotten.

Posted by Hg at March 2, 2005 03:19 AM

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