Reviews (page 7 of 8)
De ene dag kijk je uit naar The Who en dat valt tegen en dan luister je met frisse tegenzin naar Echo en dan is dat ineens prima te pruimen.
Best aardig, maar heel warm werd ik er ook niet van!
I don't feel like writing
No está mal. No me enloqueció tampoco.
3.75, good album, terrible beatles cover
‘Take me internally’. This guy is a smooth operator. I get the feeling this album was recorded in the album sequence, with the singer holding back at the start then unleashing a bit toward the end with 10 beers under his belt. Thorn of Crowns a bit more interesting than the bulk of the album More enjoyable after a few listens over the weekend- probably something the Friday albums will benefit from. C-c-c-cucumber C-c-c-cabbage C-c-c-cauliflower Men on Mars April showers
Way better than the other Echo album from a few weeks back. This sounds like A House, but it’s not as good as A House. If you hate new wave, I’m coming to realize this list isn’t for you.
C’est bon et ca s’ecoute bien. 3.25*
Solid calm rock, but it's really worth listening to just to hear the pronunciation of "tortoise" on "Seven Seas"
Sounds a bit like Bowie but otherwise not that memorable
Hatte ich schon in Parallelliste und kann mich nicht dran erinnern, also kanns ned mega geil gewesen sein.
3
I quite liked it. Started picking up at The Killing Moon and Seven Seas. "Kissin the tort-toice yeah!"
Smiths and XTC. Cool stuff
Nocturnal Me is a song I've heard before. Pretty chill. I would listen to it again.
Only listed to first half
Solid, strong album of mid-80s UK slash college rock. 3.5.
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Ok...not my favorite
Heh, I know "The Killing Mood" but I actually thought that was a recent indie band's song. That song aged pretty well, I like it. There are some interesting instrumental ideas across the rest of the songs, but in general the vocals completely ruin it for me, it's all the bad parts of Bono and U2. Still, this whole album is pretty interesting for the time it came out. A bit unconventional 80s. Some of the guitars feel very Pink Floyd inspired. I'd personally prob rate it a 2.5 but I'll round up.
It was pretty good. I don't have strong feelings about this one. Good 80s tunes.
Nothing too standout.
Better than expected.
A little too new wave for me
British rock vibes, not too bad, but not my favorite.
Pretty Okay!
I liked 4/9 songs, rating 2.75/5
Nice, they play donnie darko theme
Nothing much going on here, to be honest. A decent attempt at an early-Bowie-esqe take on post-punk music. I didn't hate it but it sure didn't have much of note to recommend it.
I think I enjoyed it, but not as much as some of their contemporaries.
heard killing moon a hundred times but the rest of the album is pretty good too, kinda slightly gloomy gen x nonsense, like a radio-friendly sisters of mercy. 3/5.
It’s alright, couple of solid songs in the latter half. Sounded like a more etherial version of the smiths. The voice annoys me
Not bad but this sounds like these songs / equivalent ones are heard multiple times. Weirdly I would have placed these notably later than 1984 and this might explain why there are plenty of similarities to later bands. And this brings me to idea whom all the Bynnymens haw had influence on. Apparently plenty.
Third album from this band in this list. Previous 2 have got only 1 star from me. This gets 2. So a bit better in my review, but nothing to remember here still...
#479 / 1089 Heard before? ✅ Revisit? ❌ Grandiose pop music has never been my thing. Let alone 80's post-punk with some goth tendencies. I was only 3 songs in and already reordered so I'll hear at least the hit songs before I quit it. Bump to 2/5 as there are some proper arrangements going on here.
My previous exposure to and experience with Echo And The Bunnymen has been I Want To Be There When You Come, which I like well enough. Well, this album was fine but it came and went without me really noticing anything happening in between. Not boring, but blandly pleasant.
The Killing Moon was OK... otherwise... woof. What a bad album. The one song raises it from a 1 to a 2.
Just meh.
Were the curators of this list, themselves, Bunnymen? Do the Bunnymen have something over them? What the hell?
Just like a fart in the wind, I will forget about this. Favourite Track(s): Thorn of Crowns Least Favourite Track(s): Ocean Rain
Kind of infuriating. I feel like there is definitely some good material here and some interesting and kind of cool presentation. It just feels so inconsistent to me though! Some of it felt a bit bland or even slightly durgey.
Either lost at sea or down the rabbit hole
"The Killing Moon" is okay, but doesn't get my pulse or my creative juices really going, and the rest of the album is just straight up unexceptional in just about every way. Not a bad album, but merely fine, not truly iconic. This album bored me when it came out, I was hoping that with fresh ears this many years later I might come to a different conclusion. Ultimately The Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees, and Tears for Fears just all of this SO MUCH BETTER. While I do agree that this is probably Echo & The Bunnymen's most complete album, I am still hard pressed to believe that any of the albums they recorded was essential enough that anyone else needs to hear them. I recognize that they are not pop, but I honestly don't hear their influence in the non pop music over the next decade or 2 because of this album. Other deserving 1984 releases not on this list that perhaps deserved this spot on the list: Bryan Adams - RECKLESS The most complete album that Bryan Adams ever recorded, from a guy that was a fixture on North American charts for the next decade. Depeche Mode - SOME GREAT REWARD An arguably a more complete album than MUSIC FOR THE MASSES and nearly equally as strong as VIOLATOR. The Cars - HEARTBEAT CITY The most complete album by The Cars and made at the apex of their creative and popular success. Don Henley - BUILDING THE PERFECT BEAST This Henley album is tied with his THE END OF THE INNOCENCE for the most complete albums he ever recorded. Both were fixtures on the charts on both sides of the pond. Talking Heads - STOP MAKING SENSE The ONLY Talking Heads album that belongs on the list. Iconic in every way imaginable. W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P. The debut album from the self-title metal act with the iconic anthem "I Wanna Be Somebody". Helped create the foundation (with groups like Quiet Riot) for the L.A. hair metal scene that would produce iconic groups like Motley Crue, Guns N' Roses, Poison and Ratt.
Don't particular like this style of music, relies heavily on a catchy bass line, but gets a bit monotonous. Couple of reasonable tracks saving it from a 1.
There’s something about this vocal style and overall thin sound that I just can’t abide.
Another Brit-bias new wave/post punk album from the 80’s that is middling at best? CHECK.
Чуть повеселее, но всё равно мех
Вытащила вторая половина альбома, первая ну такое. Не шарю за постпанк, но если это оно, то немного кринж. Песня из Донни Дарко не зашла как и сам Донни Дарко, хотя казалось бы. Топ-1 - Seven Seas Топ-2 - My Kingdom
A few great songs but I was mostly underwhelmed
the 80s arent for me
I DON'T LIKE THE 80'S CAN WE PLEASE STOP WITH ONLY THESE TYPES OF FUCKING ALBUMS!!! Yes, it was a relevant post-punk/new wave album. Doing this kind of theatrical, swinging performance with an orchestra is interesting from a musical perspective, but I just hate this sound. It's bland, almost every song sounds the same, it doesn't provoke any emotion whatsoever. I don't know what the problem was in this decade, if it was a lack of artistic freedom, or if the changing sound systems just made everything sound so boring. But I'm done with the 80's. Website, are you listening? Give me some good stuff, please!
None of it really stood out to me
There's a reason "The Killing Moon" is the big hit from this album, because everything else feels like a pale imitation of other similar acts from the time, like Simple Minds. It's perfectly fine, if you're not really listening,
No thanks. 2/5.
I enjoyed it, but it's not something I keep coming back to. IMO this is only here because of "The Killing Moon" and how iconic it is.
2.5 rounding down.
Overrated band. Album is average. I keep hoping this band will surprise me one day. Sadly, still hasn’t happened. They’re just not that interesting.
Ah some 80s synth pop. Oh, going for a weird vibe eh? Man this is fairly high on the weird 80s scale. Meh, these bunnymen should've stayed away from the echoes.
Heard it before. Nocturnal Me and The Killing Moon are fantastic songs. But I'm afraid the rest of the album ain't it. Ian's vocals just don't work for me on other songs on the album, they don't fit the music. Echo were always one of those 80s bands I could never get fully into 2/5
Beyond Killing Moon do you really need to listen to this Jim Morrison wannabe?
didn't care too much about it Will I listen to again: 5%
The Killing Moon stands out. Apparently that's all I have to say about this album. My 2nd of Echo and the Bunnymen; this one is a 2. Post-punk? I didn't get any whiffs of punk in this.
It has some decent instrument but lyrically it ain't it 3.4/10
While this album has some good tracks, it ultimately makes you lose interest before the end.
I’ve tried to listen to them a few times and it’s just not my thing
incel Bowie rip offs
Liked the instrumentals but didn’t love the lead singer’s voice. It was kind of creepy. The album sounds like it could have potential but it didn’t grab me
Interesting, this album for sure has it's moments and one outstanding single, but overall it's the musical equivalent of using 100 words when you could manage with 10. Perhaps it's the production (vocal really high in the mix) but really not feeling it, it makes 37mins feel like 2 hours.
Could use a singer.
Enjoyed 1 song, the rest was pretty basic
Something about this album really irks me. The production is weird, it almost sounds like they’re going for a doors-y vibe at some points but it just doesn’t work. Obviously the killing moon is a good song though
I know I'm supposed to like Echo and the Bunnymen but I really am not a fan. So sorry.
★★½
Echo & The Bunnymen again? Kind of overrated at this point. Ocean Rain is their fourth studio album and their third one on this ridiculous list. I wish I could find a replacement list to going the journey. The album was released in 1984 so it had a lot of competition for attention. I might have stated it in the early reviews of their albums, but I find Ian McCulloch bit bland compared to the other English singers during this time period. It was released to mixed reviews. I just remembered who liked them in my life. It was in the 90s, I had a friend named John and he liked them a lot. John turned out to be a bad friend and so was one of his favourite bands. He was extremely deceitful. The best song is the title song, but even that is not going on my list. My opinion on this album is quite simple. It drones on and on. His vocals sound the same on each song. Do yourself a favour and listen to "Bring on the Dancing Horses" or even "Lips Like Sugar". This is what they could have been. This album is pictured in the dictionary under mediocrity. Look it up. 5/10.
Its a rock style that is not related with my liking
Classic 80s nostalgia. Still one or two tracks that I love, sadly the rest of the album feels dated and a bit average.
Just can’t get into that 80s production.
Saved? ✅ Would listen again? 🤔 Would recommend to anyone? 🤔 Would buy on Vinyl? 🤔
not for me
fav songs: silver the killing moon distant, atmospheric, moody 40/100
It started out fine, but lacked range. Besides that one song that I vaguely know, I think this was just rather boring.
I think I need to try and listen again later when I'm chill or stoned or something. Cause my impression of the first listen was that the name was more interesting than the album... I found it a bit boring. Some tracks were kinda interesting, but overall it was just kinda there...
Hmm... Reminds of Morrissey. Pretty boring
Good but won’t revisit
2 sterne
😐
It's rare for a rock album to make the lead vocals the centerpiece as often as this one does. There are some nice instrumentals here - "Crystal Days" has satisfying clattering drums and there are some scratchy guitars I like. But when Ian McCulloch is singing everything goes quiet: the guitars are fainter, the drums are sometimes imperceptible, and a nocturnal ambience prevails. If the lyrics were so impactful as to carry the songs this would make sense. But McCulloch doesn't quite have that presence, despite the frequent Jim Morrison comparisons. "Killing Moon" stands out as a fuller post punk song, but all too often songs stick to jangly acoustic guitar and thumping bass. While the vocals are strong, they don't quite fill the gaps this seems to have.
5/10 - nice background music, something you would hear on Radio 2
It’s not so offensively bad as to deserve 1 star, but I have no idea why someone would want to listen to this album.
I'm only using these words to convey my sentiments on this album because it's a British group, but the fact that they're British doesn't impact my thinking on this. But this is music for pretentious wankers.
Just okay
mid
not that bad
2.0
Not bad, but not for me.
This is aggressively mediocre. It would have gotten an additional star or two if a competent lyricist was involved. It sounds like the lyrics were outsourced to a teen in their "I'm profound and special" stage. Delivery of said lyrics wasn't reprehensible, however. I dig the Lizard King vibes on Thorn of Crowns. Still, better as an instrumental album for me
This was a chore
meh kinda generic
not mi vibe
I know very little of this album beyond The Killing Moon so I was excited to dig in deeper, but in the end this record didn't grab me at all. I was hoping for somber, haunting tracks, but the mood was unpredictable, the guitar was light and felt detached from the rest of the songs, and the vocals seemed worse. Not for me I guess.
Mwa, zaten vage nummers tussen
More enjoyable than I thought, but also totally unmemorable. I only listened to the album about an hour ago and no song or melodies are lingering.
Ganske greit, ikke heeelt min greie. 2/5
Aside from The Killing Moon and maybe Silver I really didn't get a whole lot out of Ocean Rain. The general sound is good but nothing to entice more than your run-of-the-mill Post-Punk record. Most tracks just kind of linger and don't really have anything to them compositionally. The melodies aren't catchy or memorable, each track just kind of feeling like a sparkly shroud of emptiness masquerading as some deep mysterious experience. The only track that effectively uses its gloomy atmosphere is The Killing Moon, which is certainly the track that the majority of people know Echo & The Bunnymen for. Silver is a fun enough song as well, but certainly not revolutionary. The rest is just really hard for me to appreciate; the production isn't bad the lyrics and vocals on some tracks definitely are. McCulloch is not a bad vocalist by any means, but the way he chooses to use his voice on tracks like Thorn of Crowns just doesn't do it for me. If their goal was for certain tracks to make you uncomfortable, then pull a switcheroo into an upbeat Jangle-Pop song, they certainly accomplished it. I think the songs are just too structureless. You can make a gloomy album that doesn't follow traditional Pop compositions, but with the absence of catchy choruses and fun melodies there needs to be something to latch onto. The Killing Moon is alright, but I'll probably skip the rest most days of the week.
Meh.
It's not the worst thing I've ever heard, but it was an unexceptional album with a vibe that doesn't work for me. Bummer; I kinda liked the other Echo album on this list. 2.2
NO
*looks at the photographer for the cover art* It... it can't be
2.5
I didnt really get the lyrics Bit messy in the begginujg Mid singing Killing moon and seven seas was good
dreamy playful postpunk. for me too bland and playful, going nowhere
First time listening to this band and a little disappointed I’m not more engaged, despite their reputation. Singer sounds like a combo of a lesser Bono meets Jim Morrison. Some of the guitar work is interesting and atmosphere is unique enough but the songs are pretty boring. Maybe if I was an emo teen in rainy 80’s England I’d feel differently. Or maybe they just have a memorable name. Favorite song: Seven Seas
Quite nondescript. Some doors influences I appreciate but otherwise not too bothered with this
nothing really did it for me.
Boring
Lot of 5 star rating in the reviews. But I'm not a fan. It was okay, but not going on my playlist.
Too boring and too 80s.
Kind of that "awesome idea" you had the other night that turned out to be not so great once you got sober.
Hat mich nicht gekriegt.
Not a huge fan, this must be how people who say they don’t like U2 feel about U2
Killing Moon! I say goddamn, what a tune! Everything else not so much.
Still a great band name
I understand why this worked in 1984 but it did not work for me in 2025
that one familiar song is good but i dunno, not too fond of echo or the bunnymen
I dont get all the 5 stars this is getting. It felt extremely generic to me, the type of music I have heard a dozen times on this list.
I've given this band a chance a number of times back in the day, since on paper they should be something I'd enjoy a fair bit. Never "clicked" for me though but since that HAS happened with some bands in the past, I was excited to see if I'd finally "get" this band this time around. Sadly, it still didn't happen. I don't really know what it is. No melodies that'd give me the chills, no grooves or rhythms that'd get me going, singing and lyrics feeling bland too. I'd almost want to like it more, but that just... didn't happen. Such a shame.
Nope. J'aime pas ce style de rock, mélodie en majeur avec ce rythme entêtant et le timbre over-chanté / drama, + quand il y a eu les violons dans les aigus dès le premier son, le seum un peu. D’autres sons pas loin d’être plus ma came, genre il y a des choses que j’ai trouvé vraiment cool et intéressant dans la composition du Noctural Me, The Yoyo-Man et même un peu My Kingdom (les différentes parties vocales en simultané ou légèrement canon, le piano, la rythmique et la manière dont la guitare répond au chant, ça faisait des layers assez harmonieuses et singulières). Mais ça sonne pas hyper abouti je trouve, avec pas mal de répétitions par ailleurs, et la plupart des sons m'ont bien pris la tête donc je lâche mon 2.
beaucoup d'efforts de variation au sein des morceaux, qui ne se reflète pas entre morceaux ceci dit. je ne suis pas convaincue par le ton larmoyant de certaines paroles (ce qui semble être une caractéristique commune à ce type de rock: une voix un peu traînante et suppliante qui me sort un peu de l'écoute par moments). je comprends pourquoi Killing Moon a eu autant de succès, avec cette guitare qui vient ajouter un peu de groove. mais je dois avouer être restée un peu neutre vis-à-vis du reste des titres. un bon album mais sans plus pour moi. un 2.5 arrondi.
it hangs around for too long and i'm left waiting for more
Echo and the Bunnymen är ett av många band som jag bara läst om men aldrig tagit mig tid till att lyssna på. I grunden tycker jag att här finns flera bra låtar med influenser eller referenser till Nick Cave, the cure och the Smiths. Men oj, vad det låter illa m produktionen. Sången är så högt mixad att inget annat hörs. I hörlurar fungerar det nästanmok, men från högtalarna låter det riktigt illa. Det här hade kanske kunnat sniffat på en fyra men nu landar det på knappt godkänt.
Couple of good songs
The Killing Moon is a great song but the rest of the album I fortunately doesn’t have anywhere near the same impact.
An English new wave/post-punk album on the list? No way. About 1/3 of the way through, this is one of at least 10 such albums I allegedly must listen to. I'm over it. The gimmick is the symphony, and Echo honestly does a decent job with it. The symphony is a nice complementary piece to Echo's music. But Metallica's S&M better be on this list. That's how a band makes a record with a symphony. Equal parts partnership and battle. S&M is the exemplar that deserves inclusion.
65
I'm not sure I love the tinny vocals on a lot of the tracks that are common for that genre in the 80s. The Yo Yo Man is a bop though.
Hopefully this is the last time I ever have to listen to this dull dull band
This was pretty awful except for Killing Moon. Droney and kind of a Smiths clone.
Tolle töne aber insgesamt zu langweilig
*1984. *37 minutes. *I thought I'd be biased because I like Echo & The Bunnymen... but this was a pretty dull album... *Killing Moon is the only song I knew on here. *It tried to be slow and haunting, but most tracks didn't quite hit. RATING - 6.5/10
This album has moments, particularly The Killing Moon, but it's mostly not my thing.
Huh. "The Killing Moon" is a great song and there were a few other highlights but a lot of this just slid off my brain. I think I could have used a lot more hooks?
Tiresome, tinny, irritating. I guess I just wasn't in the mood.
Na
Not excited by this. Started and ended well but the middle was uninspiring. Also, the cucumber, cauliflower, cabbage thing? What the actual?
I like one song on this album
This album annoyed me. Just irritating nonsense. It’s pretty well reviewed so it must be my issue! Probably the worst album cover I’ve seen for a while?
I usually really like dark post punk brit groups but this album was not to my liking...
dull but inoffensive.
Songwriting is great, everything else felt lackluster. The inconsistent recording quality doesn’t help, but the orchestra often felt underutilized. Vocals your classic 80s toneless britpop. Listened to: walking on the high line. Favorite tracks: Thorn of Crowns, Ocean Rain
Generally I don’t care for post-punk bands out of Britain in the eighties. They just sound too whiney. This is much the same, only slightly less so.
Nothing particularly bad about this album, but I didn't connect with it.
Better than the other album I listen to from them but something about it just didn’t hit with me.
Same. 80's. But not in a good way
Hard work. Killing Moon and Seven Seas aside, juddering tunes and vocals...
Outside of a few standout tracks (namely the classic, "The Killing Moon"), there wasn't much here for me.
Boring
The Killing Moon is certainly an essential song, but outside of that song this is just standard 80's fare that isn't notable.
I found this album to be pretty bland and uninspired. At first, I found the Baroque influence to be intriguing, but it went away pretty quickly as I realized I did not like the vocals on these tracks. I couldn’t take the lyrics seriously and the backing track was just okay.
This is like The Smiths if they didn’t have Morrissey, and I thought that would be a plus, but it’s not really. The voice is slightly less annoying (and of course Morrissey the person isn’t there thankfully) but it feels similarly whiney, dull, and uninspired. “Thorn of Crowns” is the worst song on the album, and “The Killing Moon” and “My Kingdom” are the only moderately tolerable songs. Not excited for the rest of their albums on the list.
só presta killing moon
The Killing Moon does an awful lot of heavy lifting on this album. I found the rest of the tracks quite dull. Not my favourite genre at the best of times, but the music just felt overly soppy and uninteresting and the singer’s voice came across was screachy in too many places. New Wave just isn’t for me.
If learning music by numbers was a thing. This is what I imagine it sounds like.
one good song
i think i would have liked this more if i had not been actively listening to it? except for the one song that made me almost cry? idk?
The Killing Moon is pretty good, the rest is pretty fair. 2.5.
Ok but I found it one paced and a little dull.
This is just not type of my music it's so boring man I hate that I can't like stuff like this
Very 80s synth
Another album that's only available as a shitty expanded edition, which is frustrating. As for the music itself, The Killing Moon is a good song and Seven Seas is decent enoug. However, for the rest of the album, I just wanted it to be over. Even at only just over 40 minutes, the album felt like a bit of a slog.
Sounded like a radio-friendly Bowie knockoff.
I listened through this and it was somewhat ok. It's a 2.5 for me, but I'd turn it off if I heard it again so I'm going with a 2.
I get it, well produced, well performed, but for what? Nothing enthralls me on it, doesn’t stand toe to toe with any of the other creative legends in English rock at the time.
I don't have much to say about this album. It was fine, not super memorable. The only thing that stuck out to me was the vocals being pretty pitchy and/or cracking at times, and they were just not all that great to me.
Lglzinho
This wasn't for me
2.2 What the hell was that. I was wondering why on earth it had been included until the Killing Moon came on.. it was a one hit wonder for a reason. Really really didn't need to have that as one of the top 1,001 albums everyone must here, come on man. Use your brain. I'm rating on the original album, if I was including the cover of all you need is love in there it would nosedive even further. Jesus.
Listened, but cant say I enjoyed.
As is so often the case with this website, this was my first foray into a band and it’s work. Ocean Rain, at points, had me calling out comparisons to The Cure, and even Talking Heads, which helped fuel my further intrigue around this particular cut. However, whilst there were some high points (The Killing Moon), the record, I felt at times, lacked teeth for myself to really get into the album, something I wanted to do. Two stars.
Druid rock.
Lustig, der einzig erwähnenswerte Titel The Killing Moon beginnt mit einer Sitar. Und die Bridge in der Mitte wird auch von ihr dominiert. Vielleicht sollte ich mir doch noch das Ravi Shankar Album anhören.
Interesting parts but not really for me. 2.5 goin down.
David Bowie sounding. 80s.
I was really disappointed by this. I know their two famous tracks, Killing Moon and The Doors cover, People Are Strange. So I expected something quite different. Not necessarily what I would like, but something more experimental and off the wall. What I got was was an album that was decidedly average for time time it was released. Nothing special at all. And therefore very disappointing. 2.
I enjoyed the singles on here. Their signature sound but with an even more dramatic production. But the rest of the album was just a bit rubbish.
meh
This just didn’t do it for me
So easy to tune this out.
Was looking forward to hearing the Killing Moon for the first time in many a day but the live version included here was disappointingly weak.
I felt absolutely apathetic at everything this album was giving. Not too far off from how I feel about this band in general; they were no doubt pushing boundaries for their time, but I'm just not at all interested in any of the offerings.
Da e litt skuffande. Forvente liksom at alt skal vær på høyde med The Killing Moon
O.K. But they sound a bit too theatrical to me. Overall less remarkable. 2,5
meh
1 extra star for Seven Seas cuz that was a banger
It all sounded almost the same to me. Nothing felt super unique.
80s indie is just not my jam, turns out.
2/5. Not horrible, but garbage to my ears.
OK album, I guess, but nothing even remotely memorable. 2/5
bruh
idk sounds sorta like the smiths
Boring. 2/5
Poor
Nichts Besonderes, sehr unauffällig und hm
Not my thing.
Not the best
Didn't care for this at all, from music to production value, I found it lacking.
Not for me. 2.5 stars
Kinda disappointing.
I really wished I liked this. The production is amazing, the vocal performances are unique, and the melodies have a bittersweet tone that few do well. Unfortunately, not a single song really resonated with me throughout the whole album. It was not an unpleasant listen, but just didn’t connect with me personally.
1980s - meh.
A few good songs, but didn't really like most of it.
Another boring 80s new-wave/post-punk record. Except for the songs 'Nocturnal Me' (a haunting tune with great string arrangements), 'Killing Moon' (classic) and the closer, I didn't care for anything else. There maybe good lyrical content but who cares when the music is so bland.
O álbum "Ocean Rain" do Echo & The Bunnymen não me conquistou. Sinto que o estilo não se encaixa com o que geralmente procuro em música. As faixas mais conhecidas são boas, mas não me impactaram tanto quanto esperava. Além disso, algumas músicas me pareceram um pouco estranhas, no sentido de não serem do meu agrado. Acredito que o álbum pode agradar a outros ouvintes, mas não foi a minha praia.
The better known songs are the better songs, we all know them. I do like the bunnymen but there are a few songs on here I'm really not mad about.
Okay, album. Not one of my favorites.
The Killing Moon was great, the rest is not my thing Not terrible
I just don't think this album is that strong. "The Killing Moon" is the one great track, the rest just didn't work for me.
Good to finally put an album and song (The Killing Moon) to a band that frequently pops up in movies, trivia, other band's songs, pop culture, the kitchen table, you name it. I have heard of these guys for decades and never took a listen but always wondered why they are so referenced. This album was pretty good with orchestral additions to standard 80s new age. Again I didn't like the title track so much which is a theme for the list for me. All in all a good one one but not s great one...2.45.
It okay. Like a boring version of the Smiths.
It was acceptable. I think it is on the list because it was listed in High Fidelity, which Adam pointed out.
The Killing Moon //
Come on. There's no way this band warrants three albums on this list. This was OK, better than Porcupines. But god damn. Where's the humanity?
I saw this band live once and am as unimpressed now as I was back then. The music is dull and sounds like Depeche Mode, or several other bands of the era.
Never really been the biggest fan of the guys singing. Some songs are also just quite weird. The instrumentals are pretty cool in a lot of the songs but get overpowered by his singing. The Killing Moon is a song that I didn't know that I knew.
You can hear other artists throughout this album, from U2 to Arcade Fire, and radio hits such as Don't You Forget About Me and I Melt with You. This album is very 80s post-punk at its core. Having the orchestra is nice, and there are some interesting ideas, but its mixing and production are so 80s pop that you have to listen too hard to get much deeper than the vocals. Overall, I see why it got mixed reviews upon release.
absolutely uninteresting save for the killing moon.
1.5 Really don't like this band. Terrible vocalist. Uninteresting songs. Their sound overall is just not for me
That 80’s bass sound is so distinctive it’s almost funny. It’s very U2 but also reminds me of like the Friends theme song. I appreciate where this line of thinking lead us but it’s not an enjoyable time for me. I don’t hate it BooH-style but I’m pretty sick of the same tempo/key/sound by the end of the record The stuff that sounds like Arcade Fire is still decently vibrant. The stuff that sounds like single-mic U2 demos is laughably uninteresting to me.
Found this album a bit boring despite liking The Smiths and The Cure Et Al it just wasn’t for me.
2nd album of Echo And The Bunnymen. I'm no fan, but I listened to much worse stuff here.
This was a very 80s album. It wasn't very interesting to me, but I did like a few songs. "My Kingdom" was my favorite. I wouldn't listen to this again, grateful for the short run-time. 4/10
zzz... zzz... Пошел нахуй 5/10
Better than the Cure but that’s not really high praise. On par with Joy Division/New Order but I like those better.
Liked the title track but other than that, nothing remarkable.
Competent, bit not captivating. Like a less interesting Arcade Fire. I wouldn't mind if I never heard this again really. Two yawning stars.
Ok
only good song was the killing moon otherwise soooooo boring
Some of the extended takes sounding quite contemporary. Definitely get the doors comparison here but not as convinced by the lead. Drifted through the album a bit.
The Killing Moon, I bought as 12 inch single when it came out. An excellent track that is so much better than anything else on this album
More meh, Ocean Rain has a good first track and not a lot else, too much 80s, another 2, please save me from this meandering meh.
Very 80s, didn't really stand out from the bulk of the other synthy 80s stuff we've had over the course of the last couple of years. The Killing Moon is great in patches, but drags out too long, the other singles are fine, but not particularly memorable, and there's nothing else to write home about. Another 2/5.
Not sure how I felt while listening to this. 2*, just ok, but didn't invoke anything in me. Maybe proto-other-stuff-I-like, but meh. Highlight: the killing moon
One good song - Killing Moon - and a couple of cool guitar sounds here and there, but otherwise pretentious tosh with lyrics like anguished Sixth Form Poetry - "Thorn of Crowns", indeed.
This album is familiar mostly for Killing Moon which still stands and is pretty nice with its funky Kyoto style guitar. The remainder has not really stood the test of time. When they are singing about cabbages and cucumbers, that's the poorest section of the album.
Very little to like here other than not being offensive.
Not my style. This sounds like the type of music some of my nerdier friends back in high school were listening to in the late 80's/early 90's. I don't hate it, but I won't be listening to this again.
First of all, absolutely terrible band name. Tried to get into the album, which I could not.
After reading what Echo themselves thought of this album I removed a Star. He literally described this as THE greatest album ever.
i know this is foundational, but i find it kinda boring.
A few bops but a lot of goofy overwrought tracks.
One awesome song does not make a good album.
Trying symphonic Rock to Post Punk and failing both. Most well known song might be "The Killing Moon" (movie Donnie Darko").
Yet another 80s/90's British band. Post-Punk / New Wave, blah blah blah. At least I've heard of these guys, though I can't think of anything by them. So why is this a "must listen to album"? Per wikipedia, it was "released to mixed reviews.", the follow-up to "the poor reception" of their previous album. Parke Puterbaugh of Rolling Stone rated the album two out of five stars and described it as "too often a monochromatic dirge of banal existential imagery cloaked around the mere skeleton of a musical idea". So it wasn't critically acclaimed. It hit #4 in UK, but only 87 in USA, not exactly a popular juggernaut. It carries a 3.19 rating here, pretty weak. Anyway, upon listening, I find just what I expected (feared?). 2/5
2.5
Was going to give this a one. The album as a whole is forgettable. But the Killing Moon is so amazing. The song on its own is a 4. Bumped the whole album to a 2.
Мне нравится арт. А музыка, ну, ниче??? Типа ниче такая, ниче... ничего. Грустная только, вокалист просто помирает постоянно. Ну не
Can't help but picture a young William Shatner as their singer for some reason.
Listening carefully, I've noticed that the lyrics are 90% incoherent bullshit. The backing is nice enough jingly guitar stuff. It's devoid of anything interesting, really though.
80s music just doesn't sit well with me. I dread it everytime I see it come up.
Extremely bland. Their hit "The Killing Moon" is bearable.
Not listened yet
Monotonous
It's a fine album but nothing about it speaks to me. With no nostalgic connection to it, the album just feels a bit too dated.
Niet heel bijzonder naar mijn mening. Het is een soort psychrock achtig album, maar niet dat ik denk dat ik al die tijd iets gemist heb. Het is een prima album, maar ik sla niet steil achterover terwijl ik roep WAAR WAS JE AL DIE TIJD!?!?!?
Gear: DCA ÆON 2 Noire Mix: wirklich dünn Musik: fühl ich insgesamt nicht so richtig Wertung: 🌛🌛(🌛)/5 (inkl. +1 für "The Killing Moon")
Ew. Awful
There’s a line in “High Fidelity,” which this band is mentioned in btw, that says “I just want something I can ignore.” That about sums this up. Was it bad? No. Was it deserving of this list? Probably. Would I listen again? If there was nothing else and I needed to ignore something with music playing, then yes I would.
Not hooked
Bit dull
Didn’t we already do this? One album from this group is enough.
Very 80s jangle-pop, which is not even nearly my kind of thing. A bit more interesting than some of their peers, with a slight gothic edge to the sound, but still fairly forgettable. The most memorable track is "The Killing Moon" - which is rightly more famous than all the other songs put together!
Zzzzzzzzzzzz. It's fine.
It was short. That's the best thing about it. It wants to be what the Cure became but it doesn't see what's going to make that work.
Listening to this album feels like playing around with a sensory bottle. At first, you are intrigued and entertained by the colorful waviness. But after a few minutes you are left with only indifference.
Neopsicodelia. Bastante rollo. Un 2.
#107. I bet 90% of the people that like this say things like "You wouldn't have heard of them," "I liked them before they were cool" [they were never cool], and "I haven't listened to the radio since 2009" 2/5: I've already forgot what this album sounded like. Song added to playlist: The Killing Moon I've created a playlist on Spotify that consists of the best and/or my favorite song from each of the albums in this book. This list can be found here if you are interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7MAXDGLWlwLkFLb8veGfkA?si=FqkQQPgZTFWG0jAUJXLFZA&utm_source=copy-link
I was hoping the rest of the album lived up to the one song I knew off of it, the one song everybody knows. Alas, there’s a reason why after all this time it’s the only breakout from the album. The rest is pretty lack-luster compared.
Felt like is was listening to the cure?
Irgendwie nicht wirklich melodisch oder besonders rythmisch
not for me
20/100 Based on this scale: 1 star - 0 to 19 2 stars - 20 to 39 3 stars - 40 to 59 4 stars - 60 to 79 5 stars - 80 to 100 This is not nearly interesting enough, musically speaking, to be as pretentious as it manages to be. Also, the vocals have a Bonoesque quality about them. Ew. It barely made two stars, because I've heard worse.
Okay album. The highlights here are “The Killing Moon” and “Seven Seas” The lowlight here is “Thorn of Crowns”.
I couldnt STAND this album. Because i was in office I listened to it, but this band is not my thing.
Wasn’t super into it and probably wouldn’t have found or listened to the album on my own but I’m glad to listen to new stuff. The second track did give me some crusader vibes on the way to work though.
Pretty mid, didn’t like the voice. Sounds like a band Coldplay was inspired by but ended up doing everything better. Interesting concepts I guess
Don't have a ton to say about this one which is perhaps damning on its own. It was fine, but I struggle to even pick out a standout song. A lot of albums on this list seem ahead of their time in production value and this is not one of them. I was surprised to read this is from 1984 rather than the 60s. Sonically inoffensive but meh earns it a 2. Song going on my "1001 Songs" Playlist: The Killing Moon Songs Going On My "1001 Albums Savelist" Playlist: None
Other than "under a killing moon," there wasn't a song I would go back and listen to again.
I could've sworn I had already gotten this album because the cover looked really familiar so I went through my history and found that I've had not one but two of Echo's albums before. I vaguely remember like one song total from those two combined and won't remember anything about this one either aside from the killing moon, which basically saves this album. It's very similar to the a-ha and soft cell albums in that this had basically nothing going for it aside from the one song that's really good and was super popular. Boring post-punk/new wave trash then like 4 minutes of good shit then trash again. Unlike Take on me, though, killing moon isn't good enough for the entire album to get a 3.
60’s psychedelic meets 80’s synthwave. Not bad
Not my thing.
How many fucking Echo and the Bunnymen records are on this list? At least this one has “Killing Moon”.
Glemte visst å rata detta, men da e litt skuffande. Forvente liksom at alt skal vær på høyde med The Killing Moon
Totally unremarkable. It felt like an 80s album. No need to revisit
Honestly, not really my thing. Came across as pretentious to me.
Vreemd toch, dat als je een bandje begint en wat muziek gaat maken, je al snel gevangene bent van je eigen tijd. Je maakt een beetje wat de anderen ook maken, doet hun manier van zingen na, doet op de zelfde manier interessant. Kortom, hét recept om iets uiterst vergeetbaars te maken.
Decent sounding but nothing special to me
not that interesting
Not bad by any means, it just does nothing for me
Kinda bland, although it has one or two okay tracks. It has a kinda wanky new-wave aesthetic that I'n not a big fan of
Meh, not for me
80s popmuziek, beetje 13 in een dozijn.