Echo and The Bunnymen — The Sound of Echo EP
Author: tracysigler | Posted: May 23rd, 2006 | | Tags: 1983, alternative, Echo And The Bunnymen, music, postpunk, vinyl | 1 Comment »
- Artist: Echo and The Bunnymen
- Title: The Sound of Echo EP
- Year: 1983
- Format: Vinyl 12 in.
- Rating (1-10): 8
- Owner: Mary
- Acquired: She’s not around to tell me right now…
- Keeper: Yes
I am distraught, people. Dih-straught. When I went looking for the third Echo and The Bunnymen album “Porcupine” it was nowhere to be found. How could this happen?! I would usually blame this kinda thing on my little brother, but we’re getting too old for that. So, I have no idea what happened to it. In its place tonight we have an oddball EP. There is no title anywhere on the record, but I have found sites that refer to it as “The Sound of Echo.” The five songs here are from different albums.
“Never Stop” – Songs to Learn and Sing (Which came out later)
“Rescue” – Crocodiles
“The Cutter” – Porcupine
“Back of Love” – Porcupine
“Do It Clean (Live)” – Originally released on Crocodiles
There isn’t even a proper release year on the disk or packaging. I’ve read it was 1984. Maybe it was put out to hype the band, generate buzz, etc. before “Ocean Rain” was released later that year. Anyhow, it’s all good. It seems rare-ish. I’m still crushed that “Porcupine” is missing though.
Pretty hilarious story to this one. U2, The Alarm and Big Country were all getting huge, representing some new movement taking over rock, and the music world was waiting for the greatest of these post-punk bands, the Bunnymen, to pick up their rightful crown.
So the label sent Midas-touch producer Steve Lillywhite over to the studio where our heroes were noodling around. The boys basically said “who the {flip} are you,?” ignored him, and proceed to put out this half-baked EP thing.