Evergreen

Echo & The Bunnymen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: London
• ASIN: B000005RX9
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,533,650 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Japanese edition of their new reunion album, featuring thesingles 'I Want To Be There (When You Come)' & 'Nothing EverLasts Forever', plus four BBC Session tracks, 'I Want To BeThere When You Come', 'Bedbugs & Ballyhoo', 'Rescue' & 'Lips Like Sugar'. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And I thought the Bunnymen were deciduous!, June 18, 2005

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B. Poelman (Salt Lake City, Utah United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Evergreen (Audio CD)

Having given up on the Bunnymen after (perhaps upon release of) what the band now refers to as the "Grey album," I had only recently become curious as to what the new line of albums might have to offer. I was a bit more than skeptical, having been such a big fan of the music from the "Heaven Up Here"/"Porcupine" era. I picked up a used copy of "What Are You Going To Do..." about a year and a half ago, and listened with an intentionally open mind. It's been many years after all. Wow. I was actually impressed. This is not the Bunnymen of the 80's, no doubt. But, the emotion and quality of simple songwriting was undeniably solid. After a couple of weeks of occasional listening I was surprised by how much this album took hold of me.

I purposefully put off buying another "new era" Bunnymen release in order to "cleanse the palette." I decided to purchase "Evergreen," and again tried to remain open minded about where the Bunnymen might have been coming from in 1997. In all honesty I was expecting to be disappointed (as I was with WAYGTDWYL), but once again I was very much taken with this album. While there should be no doubt that the Bunnymen are a very different band than they were years before, this more reflective, sedate Bunnymen was still entirely capable of producing meaningful, soulful, and yes, rockin' tunes. Like many others, I would like to see a bit more "noise" from Will, and perhaps more "funk" from Les, but on the whole the transformation/maturation of this legendary band makes a lot of sense to me. There is no escaping growing older, and the way in which the Bunnymen reflect their maturity in no way denies the past and at the same time readily embraces the present/future in the form of beautiful composition, deliberate intention, and a general lack of concern for fulfilling others expectations.

I rarely consider an album worthy of 5 stars, but given the pressure of unrealistic expectations these guys must have faced in making this album I feel obligated.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They're still alive!!, December 13, 2002

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jonkxoo (Wuhan,China) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Evergreen (Audio CD)

I am a absolute fan of Echo and the bunnymen,you should know the rotten music atmosphere in asia.so I was difficult to get some non-mainstream works here.but god bless me!By accident I found a music magzine that contain a bunny song called"just a touch away"
it moved me deeply.it is touched with gloomy,psychedelic,heartbr-
eaking aura and a unknown singer's melancholy vocal.From then on,
I began to dip into this band from liverpool.I fought against all the barricades to purchase evergreen.such a great album should i get!from the first song "don't let it get you down" to sullen song"forgiven".I can't carp in it,will's guitar is bewitching and posh.Ian McCulloch's vocal is also Doorish.in myself,I was addicted to all the song in this album,especially beautiful "nothing last forever" ,old-film-liking "just a touch away",a grunge style of "baseball bill".
If you are new to bunnymen,you would choose to get the four old releases(crocodile,heaven up here,porcupine and ocean rain)they four are greatest and most indescribably influential than other 80's bands' works,and definitively better than the cure and U2.If you are a beautiful rhythm nut , get it !trust me!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant in spots, June 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Evergreen (Audio CD)

I'm a long-time Bunnymen fan, so when this comeback CD was released after a ten-year breakup I didn't expect it to knock me out, and it didn't. "I'll Fly Tonight" is fairly lame. However, the title track and "Don't Let It Get You Down" are instant Bunnymen classics and completely worthy of inclusion in their canon of brilliant, romantic pop epics. In an era in which we are continually assaulted with the miserable sounds of cheapened commercial alterna-product, it nearly brought me to tears to hear Will's guitar and Ian's voice together again. These guys are two of the most original and inventive musicians in modern pop. The Bunnymen broke up long before they had run out of ideas. It's nice to have them back and making music again, even if it doesn't quite approach the brilliance of the first four albums.