Echo and The Bunnymen - Over The Wall

[lyonslaforet]

Pete De Freitas was one of my favorite drummers in the history of rock!

[daheadada]

Saw them at the hollywood palladium in the mid-80's and they..simpty...blew my head off. Great band. What else to say? Listen to "Monkey's", "Turqoise Days", "Show of Strength" as good starters, not the songs you hear on the radio.

[marcio9094]

Hey,man I was teenager on 90'S.I remember the first time I heard This band I thoght My genaration was a shit

[aslongasitlasts]

@marcio9094 Same here.

[brundybros]

We had Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Human League, i was 16 and confused!!!!! Then God gave me The Bunnymen! chilling1

[sdlvoodoo]

Hey, I love this song and the band, and I look cool now! Of course I'm from gen X but I wish I would have born earlier to see Joy Division, Bunnymen, and bauhaus/the like! Thanks for the video!

[NicBunnymen]

One of the greatest band.

[Xplorapro]

oh god what a beast drummer!

[nel5418]

madness.

[Jimjam1212]

Heaven up Here - good album. Great to have a smoke to also. The riffs are just awesome and colourful.

[COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY]

use to get so dam stoned listening to it

[rookiecrew]

pete de freitas...

what a fucking drummer!

he was like a machine... such a power!

[pashley1411]

side 1 is my favorite album side, ever. Eno in an interview said "Heaven Up Here" was his favorite album, I think it was in the Onion.

[rokrkim]

rules!

[clintxoxox]

best drummer......hell yes

[Fashizle20]

Hand in Hand

[whpriol1]

I hear a HUGE Doors influence in this song which is just fine.

[beyondthed]

Ocean Rain is far far better than Heaven Up Here, IMHO. Or maybe it just depends on the drugs. If you're on a ludes bender, "Heaven" would win, sure.

[dibblemansun]

this is what i personally define as proper music . seen them last week and they were superb , not many bands out there now able to cut it , any one out there who cant appreciate bands like the bunnymen do us all a favour and DO ONE !!

[macthedancinghorse]

LOOL refugees from a circus :'D

[patinovideo]

Too bad they got so fucking lazy. They could have taken it over. Just a lame nostalgia act now. Fucking shame. Anybody seen that lame-ass Texas gig? Was everybody's feet nailed to the floor or what? A shame.Bowling For Soup did the same gig and they're as lame as it gets. Echo should have said "fuck you" to that one.

[Hender0305]

Cant wait to see them in Liverpool doing the 1st 2 albums in December..

[cassiopee70]

The Best LP Generals and Majors .....

[Centvinmartin]

Hey ! i confirm ! Heaven up here was their best !!!

[rauxmedia]

@Centvinmartin . Really? C'mon.. Crocodiles and Ocean Rain i think stand out. Heaven Up Here is terrific, but..

[boardy777777]

fuckin love you scouse gits from a manc ,great fuckin music boys

[RayUK1512]

as you grow older .. you here new bands and think " yeah they good " but .. i always after a time come back to youtube and get this Vid up .. canner compare .. fantastic performance .. please someone make a timemachine lol :))

[boardy777777]

@RayUK1512 because they were better pal end of 

[redlaadb]

@RayUK1512 : can I go with you? I wanna wanna wanna wanna...

[clayguy33]

Oh to have been there. The Golden Age.

[Noonanio]

Anyone who knows their drummers knows him...

[NIGATAKAETU]

Echo & the bunny men are the best for 80s.

It was popular very much at one time in those days in Japan.

Is the popularity in USA no use result? There is not evaluation so much now and feels like being precious at all without the popularity unexpectedly now.

[bellinghammond]

@NIGATAKAETU

could you please re-write the Bible? ;)

[babsash1]

i think pete de freitas was such a great drummer. o just saw comment below. i agree he seemed to get no recognition but had such incredible power. rip....

[babsash1]

i think pete de freitas was such a great drummer. o just saw comment below. i agree he seemed to get no recognition but had such incredible power. rip

[braddles2a]

You are cool - I'd heard about this gig from interviews of McCullloch in the 90s and how it was a highlight of his career. I'm jealous but thanks for posting!

[crampsfan]

I remeber climbing on a bus near Hyde Park for the magical mystery tour dressed like most everybody else in combat gear. We gor dropped off near a ministry of defence place in Buxton. Five busloads of stoned bunnymen fans had to be turned away from the local panto as we were convinced that was also part of the joke. And now the lucky Ian McCulloch is with the gorgeous ex singer from Alabama 3. Strange days indeed.

[thudd23]

I have always loved Echo and I always will love echo...the4 greatest band in my eyes that has ever existed

[nikbunnymen]

GREATEST band .

[Joshimitsubishi]

Amazing song... I love how relentless Pattinson's bass lines were- a defining part of the Bunnymen sound.

[futuristfood]

this was my personal fave of theirs...

[SVTSuzie]

Oh Yeah, Oh Yeah....My gosh, what can you say.....? I am sooooo tripping into my past right now w/ this,Richard Hell,SVT, Flipper,XTC, Magazine, Clash, etc., etc...!

[Aliguar]

@SVTSuzie me too Suzie! And what a fantastic drummer Pete DeFrietas was indeed.  RIP

[clinpsydoc]

@Aliguar De Freitas was beyond awesome...irreplaceable.

[rockaires]

Great band. They deserved more.

[nooroloyia]

questions ... solutions ...

... what do you say?

I couldn't hear ...

my heart aches, when I remember the expression on Pete's face in NYC in June of 1983 (Roseland), when he broke the drum and the show was delayed ... he kept looking at Ian ... for some reassurance, but got none ...

[haileysvomit]

found this and i remebered that one of our greatest drummers died , i can remember that day, made me so sad as he had inspired me to be a drummer , sadly missed , thanks for the excellent upload.............

[77RamonesCramps]

Heaven Up Here was, without a doubt, their best album.

[sandmiles1]

I agree

[HW121164]

@77RamonesCramps That's right ;-)

[CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

@77RamonesCramps disagree - both Heaven and Up Here and Porcupine together provide the greatest example of the Bunnymen at their creative zenith. They are as important a pair of albums as Low and Heroes are to Bowie followers.

[dobster58]

@CONSIDERABLYMORE1 l couldnt agree more - this clip takes me right back

[1965raj]

Wish I'd seen them then and not when they reformed. Got dragged to shows by The Danse Society, Sex Gang Children, etc. instead. You can take a guess as to to whose music I've always listened to since. Pure punk-spirited music. Way outside U2 and their sickly ilk...

[adjesbr]

In my honest opinion, Pete was powerful and  the king of groove in the 80´s..

[666Bison666]

As good now as it was then...And I agree with the previous posters. Pete DeFritas was the dogs bollox.

[tritonol]

I always loved their raw palpable artistry!

[OzPedro123]

Saw them last night at the Palais St Kilda - absolutely brilliant.

[davidlucasfer]

yeah i like

[Calmond1]

my fave bunnymen song. Heaven up here best album in my opinion, quality!

[sydissyd]

Totally agree made my day u"av

[alan35652009]

I agree de fraitis makes this song come alive with the drumming...well said

[paulsturgulewski]

Pete DeFritas was the fucking man. This band is amazing. Those douchebags known as U2 wish that they made such good music. Even though U2 had more commercial success, they suck on an independent creative level. Fuck Bono, long live the MAC and his talented friends!!!!

[badekargeneral]

"Heaven Up Here" and "Ocean Rain" are two of teh very best albums from the first half of the eighties. "Over the Wall" is a masterpiece, the originally master tape quality sounds great in 2009 !

[alan35652009]

saw em in leeds last night didnt speak couldnt see em and didnt play this...apart from that quality

[DianaDiazSinger]

They were all awesome, together they were magical. The best version is the "Shine So Hard" EP live at the Buxton Pavilion. They were so amazing.

[sydissyd]

@DianaDiazSinger

seeing them wed night sydney aust

last time was 1981

[ChadHesdon]

Mc Culloch is a right big headed coke fiend twat (if you've ever met him after a gig you'd agree!) but he's a genius; up there with the best of 'em. The hat's off for not selling out. Bono are you listening?

[steve040965]

whats with the "dont be scared of mushrooms" quote at the end of the song by Mac?

[DianaDiazSinger]

Seriously, not only should we be scared of shrooms, but everything else. Too many people in bands have ODd before their time--even someone from average White Band (Picking Up the Pieces)

[kenf1ott]

the greatest drummer nobody ever heard of... R.I.P.

[queenoftwilight77]

@kenf1ott Pete DeFrietas was an amazing drummer ... to bad not many people took notice!

[typejunky]

@kenf1ott De Freitas = legendary.

[bonosrefugee]

Masterful. Brings up so many images & feelings of my youth. can't really descibe it. Hypnotic.

[Cashane]

Love this song, but not their best live performance.. Ian seems tired, swallows words and his voice lacks energy. I had a tape of a Live in Tokyo 82 I think which started with an amazing version of this song, I wish I could still find it....

[jackemlyn062]

This was the best -- the Bunnymen, Psychedielic Furs, The Cure, The Jam. The Smiths, those were the days......

[trailgoat]

You WERE cool. The Bunnymen were cool. Greatest band of the 80's and early 90's. Saw 'em live 5 times!!!!!

[ggforeigner]

Love your comment about looking like refugees from the circus!! I can relate

myself!! But Ian was always beautiful!!

[luckystriker888]

Pete de Freitas, miss you man

[locoxoco]

Is it just me or is the Heaven Up Here album about alcoholism?

[luvmydub]

Nearly 30 years.

Still sounds fresh.

Been with me every year.

Thanks.

[nath909]

simple stuff was one of there best b-sides. Overlooked, yes but what a tune. frighteningly violent song.

[Jacob0015]

Crocadiles and Heaven up Here the best albums by far

[adevezar]

One of the best songs ever

But in this times we need a song called OVER THE WALL STREET

Just for the record, Heaven up Here was my very first record (2 euros at the time in Portugal, that i stole and join, eh eh eh)

[kynisis]

the best rythm section of the 80's, one of the most innovative guitarists of that generation, and Ian who imo is what a true poet is all about. all contribute to the most powerful and at the same time beautiful band of that era. RIP pete

[donnybrooklads]

Well said. Heaven Up here was a gem album. Total originality and never playing into the Martin Hannett sound.

[StarTux]

Simply Timeless.

[orenatz]

Best hairdo of the 80's

[filtro6]

Heaven up Here is a truly great album, up there with Unknown Pleasures and Ok Computer.

How I wish I was back in 1981

[smidon]

What an amazing concert ... I missed seeing them years ago and still remember the newspaper review saying basically "if you weren't there, you missed the BEST live concert in decades" Now i can see (and hear) why. Thank god for the wonder that is youtube.

[genevivaa]

Great to see them live, in their prime.

[kenny123jack]

i seen them live at glasgow apollo,i,ll never understand why they werent,t popular in holland....i dont say that very easy but there 1 of my favourite all time bands,heaven up here is a masterpiece

[sydissyd]

scary beautiful

[colibri1]

You think the audience look like "refugees from a circus"? Because you said that, I expected to see mile-high spikes of hair, lots of black eyeliner, black lipstick, the extremely oversized and deliberately worn-looking styles sometimes worn at the time, or other striking 80s fashionista stuff. But this lot look pretty mundane to me. The Bunnymen never really attracted the head-turning trendies.

[weezberger]

These kids look real cool. A lot cooler than kids today, I'll tell ya'...

I was born in '87, so grunge was the big deal when I was growing up. I wish I could've experienced the '80s like these kids!

Epic Bunnymen song, by the way. One of my favorites.

[ljpw93]

i just keep on watching all these......why isn't this on a dvd??? i mean by the band????? good question ian....i asked you.....

[NAIVADA]

love the song this band music must have had some big impact on Jane's Addiction the bassline whole mood here is very similar to "Three Days".

but a natural thing among artists by taking good inspiration it feeds a good evolution guarantees substance each time nowadays all new fake bands seem to know føck about what went down 15 years earlier so be it people.. wait to hear the next ones, new caricatures of Nickelback come down let's rock! yeah i cant wait:'/

[gasgas270]

superb sublime stuff

[sweatysocksarecool]

i wish i was a bunnymen

[joydivision808]

great album heaven up here so dark

[bucinaus]

I never listened to these guys until I heard one of their songs on the radio the other day. They sounded interesting so here I am watching one video after another. They (I think) will be (or are) in Austin for the 2009 SXSW festival. But don't quote me on that.

[jangenk]

ONE of their HIGHLIGHTS

[WilkyMay609]

is it me or does Mac sound at times a little Ian Curtis-ish..just a little...Great song EATB can do no wrong.

[kniphofia]

The album version is better..

[Parliaments100s]

What the fuck, I thought I was going to hear some testament. This sucks.

[katottm]

marvelous! superb!! amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zeldiy]

just want to play it over and over again on mind altering substances

[54spiritedwill54]

This song is great but live is awesome

[telemat]

Legendary document. I would have done so much to be there...Actually, I was 6 back then, so...Anyway, thanks for it.

[teodosiosSOLUN]

Pete ...Respect

[adevezar]

Pete de Freitas is a Genious!

[adevezar]

In the eraly 80's that song was a friend.

Even my mother listen!

And she were so Eurovision!

[Paulosoy]

This song is great to hear it in the dark, with the headphones full volumen. Watch the tribute video I did to dead celebrities, using the Killing Moon.

[toph8989]

Absolutely amazing.

I wish I was alive in the '80s!

:o

[jogger1976]

That was f*****g IMMENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[elsoda]

dont like this version at all....

[spohmail]

why not ? doesn't get much better than this......they were at the top of their game

[up2nil]

awesome. way above expectations. the slug on my neck won't stop chewing.

[mopvsbucket]

best song ever

[debbiegs]

cHILLS! all I can say....this song just sends me in trance and what a drummer Pete was... RIP!

[CameraPrincipis]

Thanks for posting, Doc.

I saw them in early 1988 at the NEC in Birmingham and they opened with this song.

They came on to monastic chanting and sundry sound effects, then you heard the bassline starting up and knew it was OTW.

Incredible show despite playing such a cavernous arena.

[e7ili]

Chills down my spine. This song is great but live is awesome

[Xiroi87]

Well, I think people looked a lot more like refugees in the 70's. At least we spent a lot of time and energy to fix our hair and chose our clothes carefully! I wonder what Mac used, so sweaty and his hair still in place...

Great vid, as usual! :)

[Verlaine1911]

Mac used to use Aero-Tek, it was a hairspray.

[Xiroi87]

Lol. Really? Was it like a known fact? I wish I'd known then! I would have spared my hair a lot of abuse back then.

[LuziEvalla]

Pure jewel, thanks DrCheese. Saw them in the eighties on stage, they put the drummer on the front stage : PETE DE FREITAS had just his own feeling, drums & basslines matched perfectly. Just enjoy it.