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List Price: $13.96 | | Label: Rhino / Wea
Salesrank: 27345
Released: January 27, 2004 |
| Our Price: $5.95 |
| Used Price: $6.85 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Echo & the Bunnymen Track Listing:
1. Game
2. Over You
3. Bedbugs and Ballyhoo
4. All in Your Mind
5. Bombers Bay
6. Lips Like Sugar
7. Lost and Found
8. New Direction
9. Blue Blue Ocean
10. Satellite
11. All My Life
12. Jimmy Brown [*]
13. Hole in the Holy [#][*]
14. Soul Kitchen [#][*]
15. Game [Acoustic Demo][#][*]
16. Bedbugs and Ballyhoo [Original Version][#][*]
17. Over Your Shoulder [#][*]
18. Bring on the Dancing Horses [#][*]
Editorial Review:
Remastered reissue of 1987 album features 18 tracks including 7 bonus tracks, 'Jimmy Brown' (Early Version of 'Bring On The Dancing Horses' - prev. unreleased), 'Hole In The Holy' (prev. unreleased), 'Soul Kitchen' (prev. unreleased), 'The Game' (Acoustic Demo - prev. unreleased), 'Bedbugs & Ballyhoo' (Original Vers - prev. unreleased), 'Over Your Shoulder', & 'Bring On The Dancing Horses' (Extended Mix). 25th anniversary expanded edition features new liner notes & unseen photos. Slipcase. WSM. 2003.
Echo & the Bunnymen Reviews:
this is their best album!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
2009-05-21 - ocean rain!,ocean rain!,thats all you hear from people who "sup(pose)dly" like echo and the bunny men.im here to tell you that the grey album is a more cohesive & melodic effort than ocean rain.dont get me wrong,i like ocean rain,but this is a better album, period!!!this album is more melodic and the songs are fully realized.this was the last truly great postpunk album of the 80s and by echo.also check out candleland and mysterio(ians first and second solo efforts)if you like this.both of those are true gems!!
Iconic and Irreplaceable!
2008-06-17 - This is one of the greatest 80's Brit bands to ever emerge from this era. Their music is iconic and quite inspirational for many bands of today. This cd has it all, with the exception of my other favorite, 'The Killing Moon' ... and I adore the early version of 'Bring on the Dancing Horses' entitled 'Jimmy Brown'. The artwork is great too! This is a must have for any Echo fan!
Lips Like Sugar the only hit 
2007-03-20 - The rest is pretty BORING. Amazing how a group can produce one fantastic song and not be able to follow it up with anything nearly as good.
*sigh* 
2007-03-04 -
What can I say? Meh. Nothing too spectacular going on here. I was a little disappointed. This later sound is a little too commercial for me. You'd be better off buying "Crocodiles" if you want the early, good stuff.
The Last 'True' Echo & the Bunnymen Album 
2007-01-21 - Echo & the Bunnymen's self-titled album, popularly referred to as "the gray album" (due to the color of the cover), is similar to "Ocean Rain" in the sense that it has a timeless quality and sounds fresh and new, despite the passing of years. This, their fifth studio album, comes off as a far less earnest attempt than their previous releases. Ian McCulloch's vocals are more restrained, possibly more refined and artful than before.The instrumentation isn't anything epic or grandeur like "Porcupine" or "Ocean Rain", but I think this album is a bit classier and probably more accessible for newer fans' tastes. Though there are a few tracks that stand out ("Lips Like Sugar", "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo", and "The Game", for instance), this album seems to be best listened to as a whole.
This album was really the last one that truly captured the spirit of the band; after this, the band's singer, Ian McCulloch, on to do solo work and the drummer, Pete de Freitas, died in a motorcycle accident. Their next album, "Reverberation", was released in 1990 and featured an entirely different vocalist and new drummer in place of the previous Echo & the Bunnymen members. An album featuring Ian McCulloch as vocalist, "Evergreen", did not appear until 1997. Still, after several more major album releases (in 1999, 2001, and 2005) the band hasn't yet been able to, and probably won't, regain the energy and style of music that they once made in their first five studio albums, especially due to the loss of a very critical member of a band, Pete de Freitas, Echo & the Bunnymen's incredibly talented drummer.
This re-mastered edition includes seven extra tracks: "Jimmy Brown" (an early version of "Bring on the Dancing Horses"), "Hole in the Holy" (an early version of "Over You"), "Soul Kitchen" (Doors cover), an acoustic demo of "The Game", and two B-sides ("Over Your Shoulder" and an early version of "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo").
