Echo And The Bunnymen/Crocodiles

Oh man. Just that sleeve is enough really isn't it?! The coolest of the cool. I seem to recall that I built up the release of this album in a quite massive way. It could only disappoint. But it didn't. It was even better. I think that fade-in on the opener Going Up and the resulting crash into the first verse was probably what did it. They could have sung bloody nursery rhymes after that and I would have loved it.

I was lucky in that I was over in Liverpool a lot in the early 80's due to my pal going to University there. So all that Mac, Copey, Wylie - Crucial Three malarkey...I was well into it. It was mostly about out-cooling everyone else, but the fact that the records were so good, made you forgive the cliquey...chaps.

Going back to the beginning with the Bunnymen you need to hear the first Peel session. With the drum machine, Echo. They didn't really sound like anyone else back then. Like almost every band they became more and more rockist (remember that term? NME, I think) as they went on. Understandable I guess, but aspiring to become what U2 became is never a good thing is it?

Album of the week.