From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V1 #14 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Thursday, November 7 2002 Volume 01 : Number 014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 19:05:05 -0600 From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: Re: seven-seas bunnymen compilation On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 06:46 pm, Shaz wrote: > When trying to convey and encapsulate the Bunnymen to a person who is > unfamiliar with their work in one song, I don't think you can find a > better > example than The Killing Moon, I choose The Killing Moon because I > think it > has most of the ingredients of The Bunnymen (as far a one tune can > have). > > Having said that, The Killing Moon is not *my* personal favourite. IMO > if > you were to play Ocean Rain to a person who is > unfamiliar with their work then that person would not experience as > many of > the ingredients and would not get as true a 'picture' ... Too true, but if they didn't like Ocean Rain then I might not be arsed with converting them! ;-) ;-) ;-) I'd had STLAS for donkey's years when I first heard "Ocean Rain" and fell head over heels in love with it. So you're prolly spot on -- I'd been weakened by STLAS and when I heard "Ocean Rain" I succumbed ;-) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 19:34:14 -0600 From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: seven-seas My love affair with "Ocean Rain" Right, any wiseass who takes this to mean literally playing round with the record / CD / cassette will be completely out of line and intentionally wide of the mark, but.... I fell instantly in love with the song "Ocean Rain" the very first time I heard it. I remember it distinctly, because I leaned forward in my seat and turned the volume up, straining to hear the beginning. I just now returned to the computer after listening to it twice -- the second time lying on my back on the wooden floor, with my toes against the wooden enclosure that holds the stereo. I listen to this song with my eyes closed and my chin lifted as if the song is kissing me. I feel the bass pulse through the floor and my toes like a lover's heartbeat. The song begins slowly and austerely, the solo cello like a midnight meeting in a beautiful garden. I can begin to cry if I'm overburdened, and as the tears course down my cheeks, Ian begins singing, and his voice is the strongest yet gentlest of caresses. The ache of desire begins in my throat, the ache of unrequited love, or a love at an unreachable distance. The drums come in, and my pulse quickens as the strings swell all round, and the guitar begins its song to my body and Ian renews his plea for understanding and shelter. The first bridge at about 2:40 begins with an ecstatic burst of cymbals -- like kissing someone I have long loved, for the first time, and the song puts its arms round my waist at 2:53 with Will's guitar solo. The music continues, achingly familiar by now but building in intensity, and on the last verse, the chords suddenly resolve and Ian's voice is breathy and catches, "screaming from beneath your waves...." and my throat sings out the same melody, with the second climax hitting an even higher note, then an exhausted Ian half-murmuring the closing lines to the song and all instruments and vocals ending in collapse a little over five minutes from the song's beginning. I really cannot put into words how this song makes me feel, though I have tried. It's not at all dirty, but beautiful and moving and wondrous. A love affair with pure sound -- what every artist may try to achieve but almost all fail. This is why I love Echo and the Bunnymen. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 20:43:36 -0500 From: Red Subject: Re: seven-seas My love affair with "Ocean Rain" At 07:34 PM 11/6/02 -0600, you wrote: >wondrous. A love affair with pure sound -- what every artist may try to >achieve but almost all fail. > >This is why I love Echo and the Bunnymen. :-) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 19:41:48 -0600 From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: Re: seven-seas My love affair with "Ocean Rain" On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 07:43 pm, Red wrote: >> This is why I love Echo and the Bunnymen. > > > :-) Good for you too, eh, Red? ;-) ;-) ;-) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 09:00:01 -0000 From: "Noose Boy" Subject: RE: seven-seas My love affair with "Ocean Rain" I think I've said this before but one of my favourite renditions of this song was when they first played it to the public, which I believe was live on The Tube, before the album was released. A truly magical moment - -----Original Message----- From: Amy Moseley Rupp On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 07:43 pm, Red wrote: >> This is why I love Echo and the Bunnymen. > > > :-) Good for you too, eh, Red? ;-) ;-) ;-) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V1 #14 *******************************