Heaven Up Here [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]

Echo & The Bunnymen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 27, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000E2Y8Z
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,447 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Show of Strength

2. With a Hip

3. Over the Wall

4. It Was a Pleasure

5. A Promise

6. Heaven Up Here

7. The Disease

8. All My Colours

9. No Dark Things

10. Turquoise Days

11. All I Want

12. Broke My Neck [Long Version][*]

13. Show of Strength [Live][#][*]

14. The Disease [Live][#][*]

15. All I Want [Live][#][*]

16. Zimbo [Live][#][*]

Editorial Reviews

1. Show Of Strength 4:50 2. With A Hip 3:15 3. Over The Wall 5:59 4. It Was A Pleasure 3:15 5. A Promise 4:07 6. Heaven Up Here 3:44 7. The Disease 2:28 8. All My Colours 4:06 9. No Dark Things 4:27 10. Turquoise Days 3:51 11. All I Wa

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the one for the money / This is the one for the tree, December 3, 2003

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robin (Eire) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heaven Up Here (Audio CD)

Building on the youthful vigour and dynamicism of 'Crocodiles', 'Heaven Up Here' is the Bunnymen's pinnacle of expression. On the cover the band are seen to walk on water, a miracle they achieve musically on each and every song. The record spawned only one single, 'A Promise', which can sound rather overbearing out of context. Here it is a glorious piece of the whole cloth.

Starting with 'Show of Strength', the drums and bass form a solid mesh over which the foghorn guitar swoops and wails. Mac cries out for recognition, his glorious melody confident enough that we can believe his magisterial romanticism. The rhythm guitar magically binds all of this together into a seamless whole, as the song roller-coasters to a jagged coda. 'With a Hip' derives from sounds heard in the industrial wilderness, and ends with a commitment to greatness. In between guitars build a tension that's released through thunderous snare shots. 'Over the Wall' is a midnight trip up and down the hillside, while a fog sweeps in and the doubts gnaw beneath the skin. Drummer de Freitas is a minor deity, here and throughout the album. That's only three parts of the wonder here on display.

The one b-side from this period, 'Broke My Neck', is thankfully included in its full version. Four previously unreleased live tracks are not up to the sound quality of 'Shine So Hard' but still beg for a full concert release, rather than being tacked on here.

This is the one called "Heaven" / And this is the one for me.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE album to get, March 22, 2005

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Brian Maitland (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heaven Up Here (Audio CD)

One review of another Bunny disc described this one as "messy." My question is: What were you listening to--a bad bootleg of Heaven Up Here? This is possibly the greatest album ever made. Of course, I'm prejudiced being a Bunnymen fan and all but it's as close to perfect as any album ever released by any artist period. Here's a tip, turn off all your lights in your home and listen to this album in the dark and then tell me it isn't magical. That voice of Ian McCulloch is in top form and the guitar shards slashed out by Will Sergeant esp. on Heaven Up Here are intense, manic and beautiful all at the same time.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Heavy Contender For Best Album of the 80's, September 18, 2004

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Nik Zero "The Public Image" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heaven Up Here (Audio CD)

After their raw, exuberant debut album "Crocodiles", Echo & the Bunnymen went back to the drawing board. They came back with "Heaven Up Here," and from the very first listen it's clear that this record is chock full of Ideas, man. It sounds a lot like four [possibly] naive young men trying to deconstruct rock as they saw it in the UK in the early 80's: all sleek, chic, and retro-redundant.

Punk arrived in 1975/76 to teach the dinosaurs a lesson, and while it quickly became a parody of itself, the movement galvanized the efforts (and turned the mental/emotional/spiritual wheels) of thousands of would-be musicians.

The Bunnymen, it would seem, took punk's lessons to heart, and although they dispensed of its machinations early in their career, "Heaven Up Here" could arguably be termed the best punk-influenced record ever made. While some of the sounds on the record seem dated and cliched by today's standards, it's important to listen to this music with one's mind attuned to the context of the Times in which it was released.

Guitars shimmer and glisten like raindrops falling into puddles, as the bass churns out hypnotic Nuggets/Krautrock-inspired riffs and the drums pound out cymbal-less, tribal rhythms. And then you notice the Voice: It soars, dives, drives, and fights with the music, sometimes all in the course of a single song. This Voice drips with drama and pathos, delivering cryptic lyrics that draw you into a strange internal logic that actually begins to make a lot of sense after awhile. After thirty listens, one begins to think, "Aha! This song really DOES mean something!"

Yes, you should probably buy this album. And once you do, remember this Tip: "Heaven Up Here" actually sounds even better on an overcast, rainy day.