brb@philabs.UUCP (Brian Bertan) (08/28/84)
I am very interested in information about Echo and the Bunnymen. I've
been listening to their music for several months on the radio, and last
week I saw them in concert in NYC. I was sufficiently inspired to purchase
two of their albums, Porcupine and Ocean Rain.
Last week on a radio interview, drummer Peter DeFreitus was asked if the
group was breaking up. He said that the group was uncertain about next
years plans.
I'd like to hear some opinions about the group and their music from
other Bunnymen fans. On request I will review the above albums.
Brian Bertan
Philips Labs
Briarcliff Manor, NY
{allegra | decvax | seismo}!philabs!brb (914) 945-6309jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) (08/31/84)
I'm about 85% certain that they have done only four albums. I have the
most recent, "Ocean Rain", and I used to have the first two, "Crocodiles"
and "Heaven Up Here". Of the three I've heard, I like "Ocean Rain"
best, followed by "Heaven Up Here", and I'm not too crazy about
"Crocodiles", which means that they've been improving steadily
in my opinion. They're from Liverpool and they were formed around 1979
or 1980. I believe there have been no personnel changes in the group.
By today's standards, their style is typical new-wave power-rock or
whatever you want to call it, and there are a lot of other groups around
that do the same type of music (U2, Big Country, etc.), but Echo and The
Bunnymen have been doing it for almost five years now, whereas the other
groups are relatively new on the scene. Because the times have caught up
with their original style, Echo & The Bunnymen have been branching out
into different types of music, like the songs "Ocean Rain", a very quiet,
tranquil piece that sounds orchestrated but it may be synthesizers, and
"Nocturnal Me", which is unique and very difficult to describe,
and different variations on their original style, like the haunting
"Killing Moon". (All three are from the album "Ocean Rain".)
This makes them unique and keeps them one step ahead of their imitators.
--
Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073
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