From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #449 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Friday, June 13 2003 Volume 02 : Number 449 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:16:12 -0400 From: Red Subject: Re: RE: OTOT seven-seas The Art of Mac aka Mac Art(hur) At 05:22 PM 6/13/03 +0100, you wrote: >Texas is a small village about 14 miles from New York. The major export is >bullshit. In winter it doesn't get light until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!! ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:25:29 -0400 From: Peter Charbonneau Subject: Re: seven-seas how you became bunnified I figured I'd throw out something on-topic for once, now that I've been around a few days... and i'm sure it's been covered before, but since I'm new, please indulge me. I was just wondering how you all got involved listening to the bunnymen? Stories, anecdotes and any and all information is welcomed and appreciated! as for my story... Sad to say, I was one of those unfortunate souls who grew up listening to motley crue, poison, and the lot until I hit 16 and my first girlfriend's older brother was kind enough to show me the light. He introduced me to a healthy dose of bands like the bunnymen, the cure, the smiths, new order, etc. If only the relationship with his sister was as lasting, but hey, we were 16. So I liked the bunnymen, but was never completely into them at first. I had "songs to learn and sing" and I bought the grey album and liked them well enough. I remember getting "candleland" when I was a senior in high school and really enjoying the mood and atmosphere of that album. fast forward several years and I'm living in boston and walking down the street to work and I glance up at the marquee of the Paradise to see Echo is playing. I buy a ticket for later that evening and head to the show..... and I'm totally blown away. Intimate setting, fantastic live sound, Mac being Mac.... wow. Everything changed for me that night... I went back and revisited their albums, picked up the older ones and dove right in, headfirst without water wings. I hadn't done that since I got into the Cure back in '89. And that's my story... so what's yours? ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:44:37 -0500 From: "Amy Rupp" Subject: RE: seven-seas how you became bunnified If you search the archives (they are up on the web, but not searchable in a friendly way) you can find many of these. I'll be lynched if I tell my whole story! However, there tend to be two phases of Bunnyaddiction: Phase One: You hear a song or two and think, hey, that's a pretty good song, but you don't investigate the band any deeper. For me, that song was "Never Stop." Phase Two: I went to a party where I knew this extremely good-looking guy was going to be, and he turned out to be a big Echo fan. There was a compilation tape playing with different artists, and the Echo choice was "Bring On The Dancing Horses." Between the magic of the night, the magnetic attraction to him, enough booze to make me experience weird phenomenon, and the song, I became addicted. I honestly don't know if it would have happened if I'd heard it without the atmosphere, but hey, I'll never know. I've read many stories in which a mid-teens boy has a friend who's very excited about the Bunnymen and plays an entire album. The boy experiences something like the Second Coming and is immediately converted into a Bunnyfan. That's never happened with *me* with any band, and I feel like I'm missing out on something! For many here, the album that did it for them was _Heaven Up Here_. I'll stop there because there's already plenty to complicate. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:18:40 -0400 From: Rob Maher Subject: Re: seven-seas how you became bunnified Ok, I'll try to be brief. Through the '80s I had always heard of the Bunnymen, and knew some fans, but never heard them until "Lips Like Sugar" came out. I liked it, so I got the grey album. I thought the album was pretty cool. Not great, but good. Then, a year or so later a new portal was opened in my mind. Someone lent me both the 'Crocodiles' and 'Heaven Up Here' LP's at the same time. I'm sure everyone on the list would agree those albums are on an entirely different level. I taped both of them(later to buy the albums), and listened to that tape constantly for quite a long time. I was forever changed, and ever since then they have been my all time favorite band. It also happens that I think of those albums almost as one because I used to always listen to them together. Anyway, that about sums it up. Rob > From: Peter Charbonneau > Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org > Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:25:29 -0400 > To: seven-seas@smoe.org, seven-seas@smoe.org > Subject: Re: seven-seas how you became bunnified > > I figured I'd throw out something on-topic for once, now that I've been > around a few days... and i'm sure it's been covered before, but since I'm > new, please indulge me. I was just wondering how you all got involved > listening to the bunnymen? Stories, anecdotes and any and all information > is welcomed and appreciated! > > as for my story... Sad to say, I was one of those unfortunate souls who > grew up listening to motley crue, poison, and the lot until I hit 16 and my > first girlfriend's older brother was kind enough to show me the light. He > introduced me to a healthy dose of bands like the bunnymen, the cure, the > smiths, new order, etc. If only the relationship with his sister was as > lasting, but hey, we were 16. So I liked the bunnymen, but was never > completely into them at first. I had "songs to learn and sing" and I bought > the grey album and liked them well enough. I remember getting "candleland" > when I was a senior in high school and really enjoying the mood and > atmosphere of that album. > > fast forward several years and I'm living in boston and walking down the > street to work and I glance up at the marquee of the Paradise to see Echo > is playing. I buy a ticket for later that evening and head to the show..... > and I'm totally blown away. Intimate setting, fantastic live sound, Mac > being Mac.... wow. Everything changed for me that night... I went back and > revisited their albums, picked up the older ones and dove right in, > headfirst without water wings. I hadn't done that since I got into the Cure > back in '89. > > And that's my story... so what's yours? > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #449 ********************************