Is this a big deal? Here's the press release. I'm not the biggest Echo and the Bunnymen fan, so I'm not sure how epic it would be to hear them perform a 24 year old album?
New York, NY, May 6 – In the year of the band’s 30th anniversary, Echo & The Bunnymen comes to New York City on Wednesday, October 1st for a very special concert at Radio City Music Hall performing their beloved album Ocean Rain in its entirety backed by a 10-piece orchestra. Acclaimed musical director Rupert Christie, who recently helmed the live performances of Lou Reed’s Berlin will conduct the orchestra. Tickets go on sale to the public on Saturday, May 10 and are priced at $59.50, $49.50 and $39.50.Released in 1984, Ocean Rain was Echo & The Bunnymen’s fourth album and is widely considered their masterpiece. It mesmerized Echo’s fans and broke them to a much wider audience on the strength of such towering songs as “Silver,” “Seven Seas” and the unforgettable “The Killing Moon.” Upon the album’s reissue in 2004 it was again praised in the media, with Blender Magazine acknowledging that Ian McCulloch “wasn’t that far off” when he had declared it the greatest album ever made, and admired it as “a portrait of splendid derangement with spectacular orchestrations.”
Echo & The Bunnymen are currently in the studio with producer John McLaughlin working on their tenth studio album entitled The Fountain which is set for release later this year. The first single from the album, “I Think I Need It Too” will be released in August in the UK.
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So they're gonna spare us "The Cutter"? ;-)
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i'd be stoked to see this live! my mate gets a beautiful look on his face every time he hears music from this. says it takes him back to a really special time and place during the year it was first released...
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Your mate obviously was deflowered to that album!
It is a great album. Anyone wondering what the big deal is should just listen to it. I suppose it's a bigger deal if you "came of age" during that era, but it's great music either way.
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no no no, that's not what i meant. though i can see how you came to that conclusion from how i worded it. no - he was like 11 when it came out! and on vacation with his parents and best friend. i too have a special place for the albums i listened to on vacation when i was 11-15 y.o. gawd FnB - such a dirty mind!
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hilarious.
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Didn't everyone lose their virginity on vacation at 11-15 to a particular album? There's got to be about a half dozen movies by John Hughes and others where that happens :)