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Biography

Echo & The Bunnymen is one of the (if not the) finest of the British Post-Punk bands of the late \'70s and one of the bright shining lights of \'80s music. They have created a series of records that have ranged from gloomy, muted blasts of dark guitars and haunting vocals to upbeat pop songs with fun orchestral arrangements. This band has woven sullen images of mystery with their cloudy, swirling, psychedelic tapestries.

Lead singer Ian McCullough flaunted his permanently tousled and nicotine-addled self through the English press of the \'80s and his band backed him up with Doors-fueled dramatic dirges that grew into masterpieces that are arguably quite gothic. This queer, angular pop could draw one into the glorious dregs of the underground with its skillful lyrics such as those on their album \"Heaven Up Here.\" Or it could send one sailing across the deep blue orchestral seas like in \"Ocean Rain\".

At the end of the \'80s, Echo & the Bunnymen achieved their greatest successes, filtering their original sound down to some catchy, poetic alt-pop.

After a very poor album 1990 with a different frontman, the band has proved they still have it. Their most successful recent release from 1999 \"What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?\" showed the band is still capable of evoking their beautiful gloomy grandeur without falling victim to the dreaded \"modern update\" that similar surviving bands such as The Cure have suffered.

Bio written by: SyntheticxDreams

Artist Forum


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The Killing Moon... ack.. i didnt know this song was... well, these guys. wow. This was in donnie darko... haha, thats how i found out about joy division too.... jeeze, guess that movie had lotsa stuffs like this in it. haha, i love this band... well, the 5 or so songs i have heard. the cutter and stuffs...	xzar

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Haha oh my, learning music from Donnie Darko? Actually, that looked like a pretty excellent soundtrack for beginers, I just looked it up 3 days ago for some friends that liked it so I could give them more music from the bands. That soundtrack even has The Curch. Its funny though because Love Will Tear Us Apart, The Killing Moon, and Under The Milky Way are the only songs anyone has heard from their corresponding bands. But hey seems like a decent gateway. Killing Moon is a good song, still in my top 3 of theirs several years and 5 CDs later. If you ever feel like checking out more Echo I'd suggest Ocean Rain or Crocadiles...both aussie CDs. (their "Best of" cd is also decent, but can feel a little flaymboyant afte a while)	SyntheticxDreams
I like quite a few songs I have heard by them beyond those already mentioned. I just never knew they did the song from that movie. After that, I started noticing all the stuffs in the soundtrack. Good stuffs. I was actually going to buy an Echo CD a while ago, but decided against it. Saved my money. I know have a shiny new "Fiery Furnaces" CD. I am happy about that.	xzar
Besides the deceased, who won't?	SyntheticxDreams
My mom will be excited to they are touring...I am.	-s-aint347
*to find out	-s-aint347
I love this song and the melody. I can't really describe it, but it has this nice gloomy, classy feeling.	waterblossom
I was on some site and this girl was talking about how she saw them in concert last night...I did not even know they were touring.Gosh,another good band I missed.	-s-aint347