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Following a PR campaign that proclaimed it "the greatest album ever made" according to McCulloch, [25] 1984's Ocean Rain reached No.4, and today is widely regarded as the band's landmark album. [26] Single extracts " Silver" (UK No.30) and " Seven Seas" (UK No.16) consolidated the album's continued commercial success. In the same year, McCulloch had a minor solo hit with his cover version of the Kurt Weill standard " September Song". It sounds so different. I wasn’t thinking chordally or the way I was used to writing songs, but by doing this it reminded me of Talking Heads. It reminded me of our early Bunnymen stuff, that kind of pulse,” he said. In November 1978, Echo & the Bunnymen made their debut at Liverpool's Eric's Club, [12] appearing as the opening act for The Teardrop Explodes. The band played one song, a 20-minute version of "Monkeys" which was entitled "I Bagsy Yours" at the time. [13] Crocodiles is the debut album by the English post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen. It was released on 18 July 1980 in the United Kingdom and on 17 December 1980 in the United States. The album reached number 17 on the UK Albums Chart. " Pictures on My Wall" and " Rescue" had previously been released as singles. So what kind of drugs do you think it was? I only ask because it seems fairly obvious that Echo & The Bunnymen were a band christened during a period of impaired judgment. I can see it sounding funny on a drunk Saturday evening, but to seriously go through with it and start releasing albums under the name The Bunnymen (Echo was their drum machine) is just beyond reason, not only because it's a silly name, but because it's a name that engenders skepticism immediately when you say it. I can't count the number of times I've found myself saying, "No, seriously, they're really quite good once you get past the name," to someone unfamiliar with their work. And the fact is, they really were a good band in their day (and actually still are in their reconstituted form today), but it's hard to find anyone who really takes them all that seriously.

Adams, Chris (2002). Turquoise Days: The Weird World of Echo & the Bunnymen. Soft Skull. ISBN 1-887128-89-1.a b Salewicz, Chris (22 November 1980). "Echo & The Bunnymen: Welcome To The Bunnyhouse". NME. ISSN 0028-6362.

Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 7): W-13 KD KODE 1 B-1 WITH FLOWERS A̶̷̲̅N̶̷̲̅D̶̷̲̅ IN THEIR HAIR "" ARUN Oh, dear. The song itself is a perfect union of East and West, L Shankar’s strings igniting Mac’s pleas to “Spare us the cutter” on a melody that is relentlessly spellbinding. Hugh Jones was promoted from engineer to producer on the Bunnymen’s not-so-difficult second album, which went on to win Best Album and Best Dressed LP accolades at the NME Awards, and has a place in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, despite the band’s modest success Stateside. Echo & the Bunnymen formed in 1978 and originally consisted of Ian McCulloch (lead vocals), Will Sergeant (lead guitar), Les Pattinson (bass) and a drum machine. They released their debut single, "The Pictures on My Wall", in May 1979 on the independent label Zoo Records. The band then signed with WEA subsidiary label Korova and were persuaded to employ a drummer. [4] Pete de Freitas subsequently joined the band, and in early 1980 they recorded their second single, "Rescue". The single was recorded at Eden Studios in London and produced by fellow Liverpudlian and ex-member of Big in Japan Ian Broudie. [5] In a 20 April 2008 interview with the Sunday Mail, Ian McCulloch announced The Fountain as the title of the new Echo & the Bunnymen album with producers John McLaughlin and Simon Perry, [37] which was originally due to be released in 2008 but was finally released on 12 October 2009. [38] " Think I Need It Too", the first single from the album, was released on 28 September 2009.a b Roberts, David, ed. (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). HIT Entertainment. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. Echo & The Bunnymen sign label contract with Korova/Warners". Side-line.com. 22 February 1999 . Retrieved 11 October 2011. Bell, Max (2003). Crocodiles (CD booklet). Echo & the Bunnymen. Warner Strategic Marketing. 2564-61161-2. With the recording of Porcupine completed at the end of 1982, Echo & the Bunnymen played a free show before 20,000 adoring fans in Liverpool’s Sefton Park before flying to Iceland for The Cutter shoot. Schofield, Deborah (29 July 2002). "20 years on, it's still a Womad world". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 15 February 2023.

Re-released on super high material compact disc on October 22, 2013 in Japan (WEA, WPCR-15277) with a bonus single. In 1994, a year after Echo & The Bunnymen disbanded, Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant released Burned under the moniker Electrafixion. “I didn’t want to go headlong into the Bunnymen,” said Mac. McCulloch claimed Porcupine was “a classic autobiographical album, the most honest thing that I’d ever written or sung”.Their fifth studio album, the self-titled Echo & the Bunnymen (1987), was recorded with Palmer, but when de Freitas returned in late 1986, it was largely re-recorded. [28] Released in mid-1987, the record sold well (UK No.4), and was a small American hit, their only LP to have significant sales there. It is also significant as the final album to be recorded with the original lineup. The band’s lighting engineer, Bill Butt, was delegated to direct. He wanted the video to reflect the frigid feel of the album and originally plumped for Scotland as the location, but the paucity of snow meant Reykjavik was the second choice. Meanwhile, McCulloch released his well-received debut solo album Candleland in September 1989, shortly after de Freitas' death. His follow-up solo album was Mysterio in 1992. Caramanzana, Ian (27 July 2017). "Tips like sugar: Things you should know about Echo & The Bunnymen". Las Vegas Weekly . Retrieved 24 April 2020.

The 80 Greatest Albums of 1980 What came out of all this was, arguably, the greatest year for great albums ever". Rolling Stone. 11 November 2020 . Retrieved 12 November 2020.Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 3): W-3KD KODE 1 B-1 WITH FLOWERS A̶N̶D̶ IN THEIR HAIR ARUN After two more unsuccessful singles, which were released independently, the Bunnymen disbanded in 1993. With tour commitments looming, the remaining members hastily recruited former Haircut One Hundred drummer Blair Cunningham as their new drummer, but he did not fit in, and left after their Spring 1986 American tour. Cunningham was replaced by former ABC drummer David Palmer. The group began recording material for the new album with Broudie and producer Clive Langer but they were unhappy with the results and the recordings were shelved.