Audio CD review:
Echo & the Bunnymen - Echo & the Bunnymen

Echo & the Bunnymen - Echo & the Bunnymen

Band: Echo & the Bunnymen Title: Echo & the Bunnymen Rating: Release Date: 25 October, 1990 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: The Game 2: Over You 3: Bedbugs & Ballyhoo 4: All In Your Mind 5: Bombers Bay 6: Lips Like Sugar 7: Lost and Found 8: New Direction 9: Blue Blue Ocean 10: Satellite 11: All My Life

Customer Reviews Bunnymen at their best For me, this is the album where Echo & The Bunnymen really hit their stride. If is funny how completely opposite my sentiments are from a few of the other reviewers. Their earlier works, while occasionally brilliant, lacked cohesiveness. For me, this is Ian McCullooch's style really meshes with the rest of the Bunnymen. This is classic E&B at its best. under appreciated Every song is memorable; there is no filler. Despite production that makes every track sound like it's ready to be included in a John Hughes movie, this is still a great album. Lips Like Sugar, Bedbugs and Ballyhoo, and The Game are classic Echo & the Bunnymen singles. This was the first album I owned by the band--I bought the cassette in 1987 at age 11--so my opinion is arguably biased. Will Sergeant is one of the genre's best guitarists, and Ian McCulloch is one of my favorite vocalists. While this release isn't as original as Crocodiles or as ethereal as Ocean Rain, it is good enough to rank as the band's third best. I agree with the disappointment " What has always surprised me is how much they "lost it" in one swoop. I agree that this is the album where "they lost it. The songs don't hold a candle to their earlier work. It's a bland cranking out of verse/chorus unispired material. With this album the band is no longer heroic - they just shuffle off . . . . You can see a complete list of all Echo & the Bunnymen discography, or go back to the Echo & the Bunnymen tabs