{"id":89,"date":"2006-02-06T18:58:47","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T00:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2006-02-06T18:58:47","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T00:58:47","slug":"echo-and-the-bunnymen-crocodiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/echo-and-the-bunnymen-crocodiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Echo and The Bunnymen &#8212; Crocodiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/echoandthebunnymencrocodile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-618\" title=\"Echo and The Bunnymen -- Crocodiles\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/echoandthebunnymencrocodile.jpg\" alt=\"Echo and The Bunnymen -- Crocodiles\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Echo And The Bunnymen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Crocodiles<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1980<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 10<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy \/ Mary<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1980 &#8211; No idea where I got my copy but my friend Jeff Arthur turned me on to the band.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1980 was a very good year for music. Echo and The Bunnymen is one of my all-time favorite bands and this was their debut. This album is full of &#8220;hits&#8221; and pretty much every other modern rock bar band in the &#8217;80s did a cover of some song on &#8220;Crocodiles.&#8221; Usually &#8220;Do It Clean&#8221; or &#8220;Rescue.&#8221; Like &#8220;Louie Louie&#8221; or &#8220;Gloria&#8221; those songs are so good, and so simple that it&#8217;s hard to do bad versions of them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost impossible to explain their sound, yet it sounds familiar. They&#8217;re arty and edgy, but they can rock. The lyrics are interesting and intelligent sounding, but not pretentious. I think often times singer\/songwriter Ian McCulloch chooses words for how they <em>sound <\/em>instead of what they mean.<\/p>\n<p>I think they&#8217;re geniuses and by most accounts so do they. More Echo and The Bunnymen records and stories to come as I continue to lap through the alphabet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Echo And The Bunnymen Title: Crocodiles Year: 1980 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 10 Owner: Tracy \/ Mary Acquired: 1980 &#8211; No idea where I got my copy but my friend Jeff Arthur turned me on to the band. Keeper: Yes 1980 was a very good year for music. Echo and The Bunnymen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[467,452,453],"tags":[503,547,663,46,905,1033],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-503","tag-alternative","tag-echo-and-the-bunnymen","tag-music","tag-postpunk","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}