For Echo & The Bunnymen to appear so soon in The Completist series seems somewhat of a surprise to me, but then again, this was a band that always surprised me. What I seem to forget- what most fans seem to forget -is how utterly wonderful they were. Perhaps this is because frontman Ian McCulloch tells us the’re the greatest band in the world, a title no band can can live up to, let alone proclaim themselves without repercussions. But for a while there they came pretty close.
Echo & The Bunnymen came to me at the earliest stage of my music listening when they rolled off the tongue as being the usual suspects within the “college rock” genre: The Cure, The Smiths, New Order, R.E.M... Bunnymen fit perfectly among that pack. I started with the singles compilation Songs To Learn & Sing (and though I don’t really cover compilations that is as good as you’re ever going to get for a band, btw.) As my music tastes evolved much of the music I listened to fell down in ranks yet for some reason I kept returning to a cassette tape of Echo songs I had made, continually stunned when I rediscovered how great they were. At the time, the band as I knew it was gone, sidelined by solo careers, new lineups, and even death. But I couldn’t stop listening to it as though it were brand new again.
In the mid-90’s the remaining Echo members reconvened and a new phase began, though not one that ever captured the brilliance of their initial period, both commercially nor creatively. By and large Echo & The Bunnymen will be known as the band that had the four initial members seen above: Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson, and Pete de Freitas. The work was so solid that those five albums, or even just one or two from that period, would be enough to ensure their legacy. This is an incredible band, and in the following I’ll examine why.
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