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Echo & the Bunnymen is tagged as: post-punk, new wave, 80s, alternative, indie

Echo & the Bunnymen are a British post-punk band formed in Liverpool in 1978. The original line-up consisted of Ian McCulloch (of The Crucial Three), Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson. There are many stories, probably apocryphal, that the quartet was completed by a drum machine known as “Echo”.
By the time of their debut album, 1980’s Crocodiles - a moderate UK hit - the drum machine had been replaced by Pete de Freitas. Their next, the critically-acclaimed Heaven Up Here, reached the Top Ten in 1981, as did 1983’s Porcupine and ‘84’s Ocean Rain. Singles like “The Killing Moon” (later used in the soundtrack to Donnie Darko, a film whose imagery owed much to the artwork of the band’s early records.), “Silver,” “Bring On The Dancing Horses,” and “The Cutter” helped keep the group in the public eye as they took a brief hiatus in the late 1980s. Their 1987 self-titled LP was a small American hit, their only LP to have significant sales there.
McCulloch quit the band in 1988. De Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident one year later. The others decided to continue, recruiting Noel Burke to replace McCulloch on vocals in Reverberation (1990), which did not generate much excitement amon...
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Top 10 Echo & the Bunnymen Songs
The Killing Moon
Seven Seas
The Cutter
Lips Like Sugar
Silver
Bring On The Dancing Horses
Rescue
Ocean Rain
My Kingdom
Crystal Days
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Top 10 Echo & the Bunnymen Albums
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Ocean Rain
Crystal Days 1979-1999
Crocodiles
Porcupine
Live In Liverpool
Heaven Up Here
Echo & the Bunnymen
Songs to Learn & Sing
Siberia
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