From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-moderated-digest) To: seven-seas-moderated-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-moderated-digest V1 #68 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-moderated-digest Wednesday, December 11 2002 Volume 01 : Number 068 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:11:45 -0500 From: "Zap" Subject: seven-seas-moderated Found this online Echo And The Bunnymen Live in liverpool THE ROLLING STONE REVIEW Sometimes it's OK to settle for second best. Echo and the Bunnymen were not the U.K.'s best indie band of the Eighties (see the Smiths); they were not the most successful overseas (see the Cure), and they were certainly not their hometown's favorite sons (see the Beatles). In 1997, after a decade-long break, the above presumably stopped bothering Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant enough to realize that there's nothing wrong with being a darn good band. Recorded over two nights last summer, Live in Liverpool is Echo's triumphant return to the city where they formed twenty-five years earlier, and its seventeen tracks showcase the many treasures they've amassed during their many travels. From Sergeant's ringing "we can name that tune in two notes" riff in "Rescue" to McCulloch's whisper-to-a-scream crooning in "Ocean Rain," Live in Liverpool represents all the edgy and eerie that is Echo and the Bunnymen. And, while somewhat gentler then their older brothers, the band's post-hiatus representatives (especially "Buried Alive" and "King of Kings") are worthy set mates for "The Cutter" and "Over the Wall." As always, McCulloch is a man of few words, offering few intelligible words besides his greeting of "Hello . . . Cheers" -- and age and cigarettes have clipped a few notes from the top his vocal range (the chorus of "Lips Like Sugar" is particularly strained, and, after hearing the octave-adjusted "Bring on the Dancing Horses" last year, I'm not surprised by its absence). But Live in Liverpool is proof that, amidst all the Beatlemania of 2001, Liverpool was right to devote a couple nights to somebody else. BILL CRANDALL ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:22:55 -0500 From: "Zap" Subject: seven-seas-moderated The years Top 10 Hmmm, Not sure if I can pick ten... But here are the ones I found myself listening to the most this year. 1. Electric Soft Parade-Holes in the Wall 2. Mull Historical Society-Loss 3. Tanya Donnelly- Beauty Sleep 4. Coldplay-Rush of Blood to the Head 5. Lisa Loeb- cake and pie (AKA Hello Lisa) 6. Red Hot Chili Peppers-By the Way 7. The Doves-Last Broadcast 8. Black Rebel Motorcycle club 9. Tom Petty-The Last DJ 10. Tracy Chapman-Let it Rain I'm sure all these weren't released this year... But this is the year that I listened to them. Surely you can tell that musically I'm everywhere and then some! I voted against allowing myself to use "live" or remastered stuff. ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-moderated-digest V1 #68 *****************************************