JUST THE COVER OF THE ALBUM alone gives me the chills...i only discovered this CD five years ago and it changed my life....the entire album is a GEM. (and so fucking underated, which is great cause it ads to their legend)
This is as magnificent now as it was in the 80's. Captivating and exacting musicianship on each layer of the music. These guys were too good for the mainstream masses, most of which couldn't comprehend it.
The blue print or red print, of how to use a song to tell us what is mixing in the world, worthy of a PHD, proposal on popular music, U2 some may say, are infringement of copyright,
into creating these songs than the vast majority of stuff on the radio today. even when it comes to the 'proper' bands like coldplay etc, although the music might be well done, the lyrics just dont compare to the likes of eatb and i dont understand why that is. they take all this time to produce an album and then are singing about things being "all yellow"? why cant we have more like eatb. write better songs people!
I think the most noticeable decline in pop music has been in the quality of the lyrics. when was the last time you heard any this good from a modern singer/band?
Musical taste is subjective, so if teenagers like justin beiber rather than the cure who is any body to tell them their wrong. but that doesnt mean that there is no skill to craft to songwriting. these lyrics are original, and are for me more powerful than quite a few poems i've read. the simple fact is that more EFFORT has gone
I followed the Deaf School/Bunnymen/Teardrops/OMD etc I grew up in Liverpool, and Heaven Up Here is still one of my favourite albums. In the late 90s I moved to a small village in Oxfordshire and one of the first people I met was Pete Defreitas's mum. A very charming very elderly woman, who I dont think quite realised how impactful ETBM had been. Not only on the likes of me, but on a generation of post punk music fans, and bands.
@Toffeeboyish You're very lucky to have met Pete De Freitas' mum. He was one of my favorite drummers in the history of rock. And Heaven Up Here is one of the most important albums released in 1981.
I bought this LP as soon as it was in the shops & IT CHANGED MY MUSIC LIFE. I was a Status Quo/Queen kinda guy and when I got this I left all that behind me. I fell in love with The Smiths and all the other 80's new ear stuff and that music influence never really left me. Looking at the picture of the Album just brings me back and I am so happy to have "been there" when this work of art was created.
Love this Song, so atmospheric and I love the simple but so effective change to eight notes on the Bass drum and sixteen on the hi -hats in the drum beat at 1.18, which kicks the song on. Brilliant, you either "get" Echo and the bunny men or you dont. Just over a 1000 views makes this a secret to a minority, I'd like to keep it like that, just look at popular Music these days. I'm going to watch ETBM play in Liverpool where they will perform Crocodiles and Heaven up here in dec this year.
@BertAtkin what you said about the "secret minority", i totally agree with you. but at the same time it makes me mad that they are sooo damn underated. they deserved more status...
@BertAtkin i must be one of the " gets them " people.
i LOVE this album , funny thing is i bought it in 1987 at which time i only sort of " got it " 10 years later i got it back , and it got played a couple time and it went back .. then about 6 months ago i put it on the turntable and had a number, and i swear .. i felt as if i bonded with it ..as little as i've listened to it , it has had a serious impact on my tastes and influence without me even noticing.. it's
Ask yourself where you were when you heard this song .I was taking a cigarette break all night b&w printing session during a heavy squall w/ plentiful lightning strikes,when song was over could not stop singing the chorus trying to pull negatives into focus.when i see the print on the wall flash to the storm & hear the song .impact ? uh ...hell yeah!
@TumbrelJockey You're right... I was into them heavily at 14 years, them and Joy Division. I couldn't hack the Simple Minds / U2 stuff kids my age were into... after these there was Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd. There wasn't really anywhere else to go after all that, except Bach and nursery rhymes.
@seanreillyireland Sean! apologies for not reading this sooner. .Bach ,a nursery rhyme or Syd Barret is where I'd go to escape Bono ,Simple Minds , Sting & his Amazonian Headhunter ( w/ his own press agent ) too LOL.Joy Division & the Furs were great as well .
@TumbrelJockey it'd be at a party us Goths crashed, lay down between two speakers off my head on the music alone...no wonder people thought i was weird...
JUST THE COVER OF THE ALBUM alone gives me the chills...i only discovered this CD five years ago and it changed my life....the entire album is a GEM. (and so fucking underated, which is great cause it ads to their legend)
elsoda 6 days ago
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It's this song man .Crash a party ?Ha ha ,a barrier -broken Then ,to find a "clearing" .Fantastic.
TumbrelJockey 3 weeks ago
penalty shoot-out Vs, AC Milan........
noscalpels 1 month ago
simple, effective & amazing
AlizarineTV 2 months ago
@AlizarineTV Damn straight. One of the most underrated albums ever.
MrJumblerr 2 months ago 3
@MrJumblerr yup, you're right, Sir 8-)
AlizarineTV 2 months ago
I love this song it gets in your blood & stays there always loved them
xtc58100 2 months ago
This is as magnificent now as it was in the 80's. Captivating and exacting musicianship on each layer of the music. These guys were too good for the mainstream masses, most of which couldn't comprehend it.
88DirtClod 2 months ago
Immense song
rimmel65 2 months ago
1:41
grampysimon1 3 months ago
Brilliant, thanks. :)
EYESFORSALE 4 months ago
The blue print or red print, of how to use a song to tell us what is mixing in the world, worthy of a PHD, proposal on popular music, U2 some may say, are infringement of copyright,
ANTIMACHAVELLI 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Echo & the Bunnymen
FUCK U2! they stoled ECHO's sound!
elsoda 4 months ago 2
saw 'em do every song off the 1st 2 albums in san fran...geeee-zus what a band!
LanceHelmut 4 months ago
What a song...The all album is a treasure since 1981 !
MrGux83 5 months ago
Only the Bunnymen can wait for a fast tide to come in
Gombeenie 5 months ago
The tension in this tune is like a penalty shoot-out.
Gombeenie 5 months ago
I first heard this during their Heaven Up Here tour. They played a small club in Houston. I was mesmerised!
Ginobambino100 6 months ago
very true wireless.. very true! better lyrics instead of vocoded crap vocals!!
Danchiba 7 months ago 2
into creating these songs than the vast majority of stuff on the radio today. even when it comes to the 'proper' bands like coldplay etc, although the music might be well done, the lyrics just dont compare to the likes of eatb and i dont understand why that is. they take all this time to produce an album and then are singing about things being "all yellow"? why cant we have more like eatb. write better songs people!
wireless849 8 months ago
I think the most noticeable decline in pop music has been in the quality of the lyrics. when was the last time you heard any this good from a modern singer/band?
Musical taste is subjective, so if teenagers like justin beiber rather than the cure who is any body to tell them their wrong. but that doesnt mean that there is no skill to craft to songwriting. these lyrics are original, and are for me more powerful than quite a few poems i've read. the simple fact is that more EFFORT has gone
wireless849 8 months ago
I followed the Deaf School/Bunnymen/Teardrops/OMD etc I grew up in Liverpool, and Heaven Up Here is still one of my favourite albums. In the late 90s I moved to a small village in Oxfordshire and one of the first people I met was Pete Defreitas's mum. A very charming very elderly woman, who I dont think quite realised how impactful ETBM had been. Not only on the likes of me, but on a generation of post punk music fans, and bands.
Toffeeboyish 9 months ago
@Toffeeboyish You're very lucky to have met Pete De Freitas' mum. He was one of my favorite drummers in the history of rock. And Heaven Up Here is one of the most important albums released in 1981.
lyonslaforet 7 months ago
I bought this LP as soon as it was in the shops & IT CHANGED MY MUSIC LIFE. I was a Status Quo/Queen kinda guy and when I got this I left all that behind me. I fell in love with The Smiths and all the other 80's new ear stuff and that music influence never really left me. Looking at the picture of the Album just brings me back and I am so happy to have "been there" when this work of art was created.
raydots 9 months ago
bad quality, great song.
riff88m 9 months ago
"...it's not for glory- it's not for honour - just something someone said.."
DaDa2Phlux 9 months ago
It's not for glory. It's just the way it is. God I love the Bunneymen and so often forget it. And Every song I listen to makes me cry for Pete.
TheMimifur 9 months ago
Thank you for sharing.
JustCamus 9 months ago
+0p$#!+
mickdimas 1 year ago
oh god this is perfect music `-`
GermanPeoplePerson 1 year ago
brilliant, sargeant's off again - playing in the back of my head!
melinrhug 1 year ago
best album from the 80's ...period
RIP pete
triffle69 1 year ago
@triffle69 Best album of the 80,s along with teardrop exlodes Killimanjero, the whole liverpool scence of the early 80, sublime.
lovecraft36 11 months ago
Stunning! Atonish! soco na barriga!
SIC!
maryaguiar100 1 year ago
The best album cover of the 80's, and a great album.
TheKob1977 1 year ago 2
yes motherfuckers...way before fucking U2....there was ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN!
elsoda 1 year ago 5
@elsoda obviously U2 shouldn't be compared to the almighty Bunnymen, simply glorious.
samuraiinCfede 1 year ago
@samuraiinCfede you darn right! (gives finger to U2)
elsoda 1 year ago
Echo the best band ever
MarcelloEspindola 1 year ago 2
Bought this album when originally released and remember it with affection...
984rtgh 1 year ago 5
Love this Song, so atmospheric and I love the simple but so effective change to eight notes on the Bass drum and sixteen on the hi -hats in the drum beat at 1.18, which kicks the song on. Brilliant, you either "get" Echo and the bunny men or you dont. Just over a 1000 views makes this a secret to a minority, I'd like to keep it like that, just look at popular Music these days. I'm going to watch ETBM play in Liverpool where they will perform Crocodiles and Heaven up here in dec this year.
BertAtkin 1 year ago 21
@BertAtkin Our thing -indeed. Long live Echo & we,the "Cognescenti "
TumbrelJockey 1 year ago 7
@BertAtkin It's not for glory.
MarcelloEspindola 1 year ago 4
@BertAtkin what you said about the "secret minority", i totally agree with you. but at the same time it makes me mad that they are sooo damn underated. they deserved more status...
elsoda 1 year ago
@elsoda Yeah I know what you mean mate.
BertAtkin 1 year ago
@BertAtkin ,,,,ummm it drives me also!
modsheff1 1 year ago
@BertAtkin Will see them in May, Austin TX. two great albums in one night!
F33lingIrie 1 year ago
@BertAtkin Will see them in May, Austin TX. two great albums in one night!
F33lingIrie 1 year ago
@BertAtkin " Just over a 1000 views makes this a secret to a minority, I'd like to keep it like that "
People like you should hurry up and be extinct!
what a loser
charlemagne666 11 months ago
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BertAtkin 11 months ago
@charlemagne666 Ha Ha, why thank you, erm....charlemagne. lol.
BertAtkin 11 months ago
@BertAtkin i must be one of the " gets them " people.
i LOVE this album , funny thing is i bought it in 1987 at which time i only sort of " got it " 10 years later i got it back , and it got played a couple time and it went back .. then about 6 months ago i put it on the turntable and had a number, and i swear .. i felt as if i bonded with it ..as little as i've listened to it , it has had a serious impact on my tastes and influence without me even noticing.. it's
such a good record .
PHAEDRIDER 10 months ago
the DOGSBOLLOCKS of tunage.......this album is soo soo underrated!
modsheff1 1 year ago 5
youth awaken dreamers awaken.
notntusay 1 year ago 3
not a love song
skaskazoo 1 year ago 3
Ask yourself where you were when you heard this song .I was taking a cigarette break all night b&w printing session during a heavy squall w/ plentiful lightning strikes,when song was over could not stop singing the chorus trying to pull negatives into focus.when i see the print on the wall flash to the storm & hear the song .impact ? uh ...hell yeah!
TumbrelJockey 1 year ago 15
@TumbrelJockey You're right... I was into them heavily at 14 years, them and Joy Division. I couldn't hack the Simple Minds / U2 stuff kids my age were into... after these there was Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd. There wasn't really anywhere else to go after all that, except Bach and nursery rhymes.
seanreillyireland 1 year ago 6
@seanreillyireland cant fault ya......Bunnymen....then onto barrett.......great leap.x
modsheff1 1 year ago
@seanreillyireland Sean! apologies for not reading this sooner. .Bach ,a nursery rhyme or Syd Barret is where I'd go to escape Bono ,Simple Minds , Sting & his Amazonian Headhunter ( w/ his own press agent ) too LOL.Joy Division & the Furs were great as well .
TumbrelJockey 1 year ago
@TumbrelJockey it'd be at a party us Goths crashed, lay down between two speakers off my head on the music alone...no wonder people thought i was weird...
2pinklips 3 weeks ago