This record kind of set my aesthetic clock for the nineteen eighties. Within minutes of listening to it I had found a beautiful vintage burberry tweed overcoat and a copy of Rimaud's "A Season In Hell".
I owe EATB of debt of solitude. (I just wrote that cause it sounded kind of McCollochish.
Discuss this record and or "The Bunnymen"
Heaven Up Here
I was in awe of the Bunnymen around the release of this album. I too visited my local Oxfam and procured myself the ubiquitous overcoat in an attempt to but into the whole cool as fuck image.Must've looked such an arse, especially when I tried to re-create the Maculloch Mop. One of my all time fave albums and bands.
Ha, I think I stole elements from that hairstyle-
one of the coolest hairstyles ever. Will Sargeant had pretty cool hair too. Yeah, the first time I heard that was on my walkman and I was killing some time by walking around looking at names on headstones in a dusty old catholic cemetery. I am not morbid, I was just in the nieghborhood and wandered in there and "heaven up here" was just kind of coming across as ghosts talking to me- don't laugh. "With A Hip" is defiinitely a nervous ghost song.
I was a bit disappointed with Heaven Up Here
although I now recognise it as a progression from 'Crocodiles'. It seemed too cold and lifeless to me.
I much preferred Porcupine and Ocean Rain.
I felt like this to begin with when i first heard HUH.
It seemed really deflating after the urgency of 'Crocodiles', but it really crept up on me and its now defo my favourite. As for the look - yep, i had it all; Flannel shirt (white t-shirt beneath), long black overcoat, blue jeans turned up at the bottom and soft suede black shoes...and Will Pattinson's haircut.
yeah I had to abandon the mop and go for the ivy league pattinson look
they and some others really made cool nerd look click with millions- and the music was great too.
this is strange but.....
speaking of ghosts; I always kind of though Ian was a ghost of Jim Morrison.
The Cover
I'm not overly keen on the actual record (apart from A Promise), however, it has the best record cover EVER! Such a beautiful photo.
Down by the cold, cold sea.
yeah, that cover bumped my heaven up hear experience.
Whatch the guitar, watch the guitar!
groovy, groovy people, we're all, groovy, groovy people.
this record kills me
really tough to pick a fav EATB
I can say Crocs is my least favorite tho
"pine, 'here, 'rain
are the 3 greatest albums of the 80s.
*"
they were landmarks in my musical landscape
I definitely set my watch to em
I do love 'Porcupine'
- and to think it was torn to pieces by most of the music press when it was first released. Stupefying!
Porcupine i my fave
I think I like it for being a transitional record, I find Heaven Up Here a bit too cold too. I prefer the textural variety on Porcupine.
'Crocodiles' you numpty
pisss off pork pie
you shame your name
stay off my threads dick
second best E&TB record by a mile
it's not as good as Ocean Rain but what is. Heaven Up Here's how to do a knowing wink while doing misery. to tracks, more refined than Crocodiles and less let's-try-and-be-weird-but-doesn't-quite-work than Procupine. i like it a lot!
without a shadow of a doubt
seeing the bunnymen do ocean rain at the albert hall with a full orchestra will be gig of the year...and yes i did see mbv the other week
I saw them in 1984 in Chicago
It was uplifting, gave me much hope in the middle of the Reagan years. Ian was a pied piper and Will was the holy grail of 80's guitar. A very tight, glorious band.
I saw them in about 1987
at the Royal Albert Hall - one of the best evenings of my life
All My Colours <3
I work in Oxfam music on Wednesday afternoons
and was delighted when this came in the other day. Had it on all day.
Love HUH
Angry album but beautiful. Cold yet supremely passionate. The contrasts make it unforgetable.
Isabella,
alluring description; makes you think.
albums
still, ocean rain remains the best IMO.
Anyone catching them perform it here?
http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/event/echoandthebunnymen_919_20080916_1900
depending on which day you ask me
Ocean Rain will be my favorite too.
Ask me tomorrow and it might be Porcupine.
Only heard the more familiar singles to start with with E&BM..
and was amazed how great "my white devil", "over the wall" etc were, from all three albums.
My White Devil could be my favourite song ever.