Ballyhoo [Import]

Echo & The Bunnymen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 20, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Warner Bros UK
• ASIN: B00000B5FM
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #72,333 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Rescue

2. Do It Clean

3. Villiers Terrace

4. All That Jazz

5. Over The Wall

6. A Promise

7. The Disease

8. The Back Of Love

9. The Cutter

10. Never Stop

11. The Killing Moon

12. Silver

13. Seven Seas

14. Bring On The Dancing Horses

15. People Are Strange

16. The Game

17. Lips Like Sugar

18. Bedbugs & Ballyhoo

Editorial Reviews

Definitive 18 track hits collection of their Korova singles,1981-1987. Includes 'Lips Like Sugar', 'The Cutter', 'Bring On The Dancing Horses', 'Bedbugs And Ballyhoo', 'The KillingMoon', 'Silver', 'Seven Seas', 'Never Stop' and 'Rescue'. 1997 Korova/ Warner Music release.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the best of the 1980s college rock bands, January 20, 2005

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J. Simon (Canton, Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ballyhoo (Audio CD)

Echo and the Bunnymen. Better than the Smiths, the Cure, Depeche Mode, REM, etc. although all of those bands are great too. A great rythm section, one of the most inventive guitarists of the era, and arguably the genre's greatest frontman, perhaps one of rock's greatest. "The Killing Moon" is one of the best songs of the 1980s, up there with "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and "Just Like Honey" in the alternative/indie canon. This is a great collection of songs from the band's first five albums. It fails to include "The Puppet" which is on the "Songs to Learn and Sing" compilation, but it adds "Villiers Terrace, All That Jazz, Over the Wall, The Disease, People Are Strange, The Game, Lips Like Sugar," and "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo," making it the superior collection. Buy it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Even more songs to learn and sing., November 28, 2005

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This review is from: Ballyhoo (Audio CD)

This import collection is far superior to their other "Songs To Learn And Sing" disc. It reminds me of how much better the Police import "Greatest Hits" is than the "Classics" album. "Ballyhoo" is 18 tracks, and includes songs like "Over The Wall", "The Game", and the cover of "People Are Strange" that the other collection missed. Plus it has "Lips Like Sugar", which I think is one of the best alternative songs of the 80's. If you hesitate to get this because of the price, I bought it used through Amazon for less than half that amount, and in perfect condition. A must for fans of The Cure, Smiths, etc.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A giant leap forward in documenting the band's sound, December 7, 2005

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Sirgwyn (Detroit) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ballyhoo (Audio CD)

The Ballyhoo collection was the first major effort to really improve and re-master some the Bunnymen's prior recordings. (Since then, there has been a Box Set and the first five albums have been re-mastered and re-released with bonus tracks.)

As a die hard fan,I would recommend this collecion to the uninitiated as well as the devoted follower. (Also, the Anton Corbin cover shot of the band is worth the increased import price in itself!)