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| Echo & The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here Band: Echo & The Bunnymen Tracks: - Show of Strength - With a Hip - Over the Wall - It Was a Pleasure - Promise - Heaven up Here - Disease - All My Colours - No Dark Things - Turquoise Days - All I Want The Definitive Post Punk Masterpiece This is the rock album that most Truly embodies the gloomy post punk mood, ala Joy Division, the Cure, and Depeche Mode, within the context of a straight ahead four man guitar rock album. The Bunnymen carried the brooding, melancholic, foreboding torch as as well as any of their post punk contemporaries, but they did so with the swagger and talent found in the classic mold of rock stars. McCullough and DeFreites may have gone about it differently, but they had every bit as much rock star in their blood as a Jagger or a Keith Moon. That said, the Bunnymen were a Truly unique (just look at how they are most often compared to The Doors and U2, 2 bands who couldn't be more different) Band and take their listeners into a world all their own on each of their albums (first four classics). As the Bunnymen are their most unbridled on this record, this album expectedly gets the most mixed reviews among critics (top 60 records of ALL TIME by NME and panned with 2 stars by Rolling Stone), but appears to be the most favorite among Echo's fans. I personally feel this is the greatest of a great, great, amazingly underrated band's great works. The Bunnymen really are a tight, relaxed unit on this record, and it shows. Among McCullough's expressive baritone and literate, though cryptic, lyrics, DeFreites' inspiring, distictive, tribal drumming, and Pattinson's memorable bass lines, the most uni ack>I'll Fly Tonight Buy Echo Amp The Bunnymen Heaven Up Here at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
