(TV) Echo ..... echo, echo

["christopher hollow" <doughboy@netspace.net.au>]

i've got to go against popular opinion here and say the last two Echo albums
are actually pretty good ... I've especially enjoyed listening to 'What Are
You Going to Do with Your Life?' - the title track being a cracker with its
'Everybody's Talking' type vibe. Obviously the 80s stuff is great but the
modern version is definitely worthy.
cheers
chris

----- Original Message -----
From: Raymond <ray@wavewalker.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 7:36 AM
Subject: (TV) U-2 / Bunnymen


| ditto- here's my tuppence ha'ppenny worth on the subject - i like some U2
| stuff but after their first record they tried to ape the b'men to a
| ridiculous degree for the longest time -there's a song on Rattle and Hum
| f'ir instance which McCulloch and co should have sued for-the thing with
U2
| is that they worked their asses off constantly touring while the Bunnymen
| thought it was enough just to be putting out great records...sad but true
| unfortunately...Bono even nicked McC's habit at the time of breaking into
| other people's songs mid Bunnyset so i can understand Mac's
| annoyance -wouldn't say he was too jealous at the time..maybe more now
| looking back at what could have been....what annoys me most is that Mac
has
| consistently pissed and snorted away his talent since the mid eighties and
| consequently lost that fabulous rich majestic voice as a result -to hear
him
| today is almost too pitiful for me, he's lost at least half his range and
| all of his vocal control and power- for me the Bunnymen however was always
| the result of the chemistry and tension of the four original members and
| when Pete de Freitas died that was the end of the band for me...i loved
| Sergeant's playing too but how can one man hope to create the genius
| interplay between Lloyd and Verlaine? impossible.....
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