From: EAldrett@aol.com
Subject: Re: Echoes of Bunnymen (NC)
Date: 2/9/2002 9:12:45 AM
To: night_of_light@yahoo.com
seance@lists.no-fi.com



> In a message dated 2/8/02 7:24:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> night_of_light@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> << If you were going to recommend an Echo and the Bunnymen album to a 
> curious 
> listener (who happens to be a Church fan) as a good place to start to get 
> acquainted with the band's music, what would that album be? >>

I would go with the recent boxset myself, but If I had to personally pick an 
album, I would go with my ever favorite Crocodiles. Of course, that album is 
more dark and caters more to The Chameleons fans. 
This happen to me at work recently...I was playing the "What Does Anything 
Mean, Basically?" album at work and this guy who'd I never peg for being into 
the music that I like, asked me what I was listening to out load. I told him 
who it was and he said that it sounded like early Echo And The Bunnymen and 
that he loved it. Then later I played AENT and some other coworker who 
thought it sounded really good. He loved the vocals and the guitars. Now this 
fellow had great taste in music. He introduced me to The Glands, which I 
recommend if you are a Grandaddy fan and also he happens to be a guitarist 
from Omaha that had his band be opened by The Faint, of course back then they 
were a guitar band and not the retro early 80's punk/new wave keyboard band 
that they are now.

Anyway...I digress and the album I would recommend would be the Box Set, 
followed by Crcodiles, followed by Porcupine. Although I wish they would 
release the Soundtrack to "Shine So Hard" on disc since it's a great live 
album from early EATB.

Ed
Seattle