The ravages of time eventually claim everyone, but it's a sad fact that some talents go before others. In light of the recent release of The Fountain, the eleventh album by the long-lived British post-punk group Echo and the Bunnymen, now is an appropriate occasion to ruminate on the premature loss of a great voice in rock music. While still very much alive, head Bunnyman Ian McCulloch's vocal ...
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"Proud To Fall" is one of my favorite Ian McCulloch songs, either in or out of the Bunnymen. Taken from his debut solo 1989 album "Candleland", "Proud" got a fair bit of MTV 120 Minutes spins, but by 1989, this kind of excellent music didn't get played during the day much. MTV had already started its (20?) year descent into crap shows and crap videos. You could see a lot of Bon Jovi, Warrant, a...
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I rediscovered Ian McCulloch's rendition of this classic song. I am so feeling Ian's cover tonight. It's so beautiful. It takes me back to Paris and the time I spent with Michelle in Venice.
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This mix was inspired by Ian McCulloch's cover of Cohen's Hey That's No Way to Say Goodbye. When I was living in New Orleans, I met this girl with whom I worked with at Tower Records. She was from Portland and just moved to N.O. from New York City. We became fast friends and I almost immediately had a crush on her. I proceeded to woo her with my mixes. We would close every Sunday night. She wo...
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We're going camping. I so need to get away from the every day hassles and stresses of billl collecting telemarketing phone calls, internet spam, campaign and financial doom coverage on tv, annoying customers at work and everything else surrounding us in this information superhighway we call our modern age. I made up a mix for our four day adventure in nature. Blue Moon is featured on this mix. ...
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"Proud To Fall" is one of my favorite Ian McCulloch songs, either in or out of the Bunnymen. Taken from his debut solo 1989 album "Candleland", "Proud" got a fair bit of MTV 120 Minutes spins, but by 1989, this kind of excellent music didn't get played during the day much. MTV had already started its (20?) year descent into crap shows and crap videos. You could see a lot of Bon Jovi, Warrant, a...
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Ian McCulloch cover's Leonard Cohen's SuzanneRecorded for the Sounds 07 CD to help raise money for the Anthony Walker Foundation
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| 1 Candleland |
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| 2 The Cape |
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| 3 Proud to Fall |
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| 4 The White Hotel |
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| 5 The Flickering Wall |
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