Ian McCulloch is on card #73 in the 1991 MusiCards set. It's not a very exciting photo and Pro Set probably would have been better off constructing this one as a vertical card rather than horizontal. I gotta admit it took me a moment to place the name-- "Oh yeah: it's the guy from Echo and The Bunnymen!"
After Ian went solo, the band replaced him and kept going for a few years with a new singer. Then in the late 90s, the O.G. Bunnymen regrouped and have been at it since, though they are now down to only Ian and guitarist Will Sergeant left from the original lineup. They just did a short UK tour in September 2023. I think it's fair to say they're considerably bigger in the UK than the US, though this is the only MusiCard that either Ian or his band got (Conspicuously left out of the UK edition).
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Might as well make a card for the neglected Bunnymen.
This photo from 1987 features the classic Echo and the Bunnymen lineup, though if this was an official card from 1991, one would assume it'd feature singer Noel Burke, who filled in while Ian was off doing his solo thing, 1988-1993.
They've got four songs that have endured as staples of the 80s: "Lips Like Sugar", "The Killing Moon", "Bring on the Dancing Horses", and "The Cutter". Those are great songs, though maybe a bit played out at this point. A couple less-remembered bangers are "Seven Seas" and "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo".
But my personal favorite song of theirs is "Rescue".. I remember hearing the song on a mixtape from my cousin when I was young and I've loved it since.
That's all I've got for this time. Let me know in the comments if you're a fan of Ian McCulloch and/or Echo and the Bunnymen with any thoughts to add or favorites to mention.
Never had much feeling positive or negative toward them; their music is nice enough but I never cared to investigate much. Their version of "People Are Strange" on the soundtrack to The Lost Boys (a movie I love) is pretty by-the-numbers.
ReplyDeleteDon't remember their music much, but I always thought that Echo and The Bunnymen was an all-time great band name!
ReplyDeleteI like them quite a bit when I was a kid. These days though, as I much as I hate to admit it, I'm really only interested in "Killing Moon". Despite having heard it a bajillion times, I've never gotten tired of it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I follow a couple of music sites with quite a few UK followers and Echo and the Bunnymen are close to gods over there. As a new wave fan in the '80s I didn't come across them a lot in the U.S. Because of that I didn't get into them much. Music's all right.
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