What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library



Liverpool band formed in 1978. They never made it that big in the states, but much chart success across the pond. This is their 5th album and the last before Ian McCulloch jumped ship for a solo try, returning in 1997. Tiffs with the band over his heavy drinking were the reported cause of the split. Drummer Pete de Freitas was killed in an auto accident in 1987. They are still at it with a new album in 2009. This one reached #4 on the U.K. charts and #51 in the U.S. with singles of Lips Like Sugar, The Game and Bedbugs and Ballyhoo. That was their best chart achievement in the U.S. Was thinking while listening how much some of this sounded like the Doors, read some liner notes to see Ray Manzarek appears.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Over You

Best Track - The Game

A sense of duty was my one intention
And an ugly beauty was my own invention
Pride a proud refusal and I refuse
To need your approval
Too many seekers
Too few beacons
But through the fog
We'll keep on beaming

Through the crying hours
Of your glitter years
All the living out
Of your tinsel tears
And the midnight trains
I never made
'cos i'd already
Played...the game

Everybody's got their own good reason
Why their favorite season is their favorite season
Winter winners and those summers sons
Aren't good for everyone
Aren't good for everyone
Spring has sprung
And autumns well done
So well done

And it's a better thing
That we do now
Forgetting everything
The whys and hows
While you reminisce
About the things you miss
You won't be ready
To kiss...goodbye

The earth is a world
The world is a ball
A ball in a game
With no rules at all
And just as i wonder
At the beauty of it all
You go and drop it
And it breaks and falls

I'll never understand
Why you thought i would
Need to be reassured
And be understood
When i always knew
That your bad's my good
And i was ready
Ready...to be loved

Born under mars
With jupiter rising
Fallen from stars
That lit my horizon

I'll never understand
Why you thought i would
Need to be reassured
And be understood
When i always knew
That your bad's my good
And i was ready
Ready...to be

Through the crying hours
Of your glitter years
All the living out
Of your tinsel tears
And the midnight trains
I never made
'cos i'd already played

It's a better thing
That we do now
Forgetting everything
The whys and hows
While you reminisce
About the things you miss
You won't be ready
To kiss...goodbye


1) The Game - *** - video
YouTube - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN THE GAME
2) Over You - *
3) Bedbugs and Ballyhoo - ** - video
YouTube - Echo & the Bunnymen - Bedbugs and Ballyhoo
4) All In Your Mind - **
5) Bombers Bay - ** - audio
YouTube - echo and the bunnymen - bombers bay
6) Lips Like Sugar - ** - live
YouTube - Echo & The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar
7) Lost And Found - ** - audio
YouTube - Echo and the Bunnymen - Lost and found
8) New Direction - ** - audio
YouTube - Echo & The Bunnymen
9) Blue Blue Ocean - *
10) Satellite - *
11) All My Life - *** - audio
YouTube - Echo and The Bunnymen -All My Life -1987

3's - 2
2's - 6
1's - 3

Rating - 1.9