Echo And The Bunnymen • Show of Strength • 1981
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2019
- Echo And The Bunnymen • Show of Strength • 1981
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This video is a new edit of rare footage of Echo And The Bunnymen in 1982, appearing on a Dutch TV show called Götterdämmerung 2000.
On the 23rd of July 1982, Echo and the Bunnymen played a show at the Paradiso, in Amsterdam, so in all likelihood the band’s appearance on Götterdämmerung 2000 was on or around that day.
On the Götterdämmerung 2000 appearance, the band mimed to a playback of studio versions of new song Heads Will Roll, and Show of Strength, All My Colours and Over The Wall from the Heaven Up Here album, which had been released in May of the previous year.
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“I came in right on cue”
Back in the day, I loved the debut Echo And The Bunnymen album, Crocodiles. It’s an album of short, sharp songs with catchy hooks and choruses, and bright bouncy production by The Chameleons AKA Bill Drummond & David Balfe. Pretty much the same sound they had also lent to The Teardrop Explodes debut album, Kilimanjaro that year.
The follow-up album to Crocodiles was hugely anticipated by me. I went into Croydon to buy my copy the day it was released in May 1981. Going home on the bus, I poured over every detail of the record sleeve. I would soon discover that the grim wintery indigo sleeve art suited the new sound; Heaven Up Here was a very different proposition to its predecessor. The Chameleons production team was out, and in was Hugh Jones. Bright and bouncy and catchy was replaced by a dark, cold, funky sophistication and pounding drums high upfront in the mix . In the book Rip It Up and Start Again... Simon Reynolds described the sound of Heaven Up Here as having been filled out with "guitar overdubs, keyboard glints, vocal multitracking and atmospheric vapours". Comparing Heaven Up Here with Joy Division's 1980 album Closer, Reynolds said they are "harrowed by the same things - hypocrisy, distrust, betrayal, lost or frozen potential".
I was not disappointed; Heaven Up Here became my favorite new album and The Bunnymen became my favorite new band. Towards the end of 1981, I saw them for the first time, at the Hammersmith Palais in London. I was 14 years old, and the show was sublime. Barny Hoskyns reviewed the show the following day in Liverpool, in the NME concluded, ”…currently the most urgent and accomplished live performance you’re likely to see”.
Heaven Up Here remains for me Echo And The Bunnymen’s finest hour, and one of the greatest rock albums of all time. And album opener, Show of Strength, is simply a masterpiece.
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On the original clip, some of the miming wasn’t great and moreover some of the original editing really sucked. So in addition to the usual scrub-up and syncing to a decent audio source, I’ve also reedited the clip.
Hope you dig it!
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Huge thanks for sending me the original file of the Götterdämmerung 2000 show:
/ travisbickle1963
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Credits
Video Source:
Echo And The Bunnymen • Show of Strength • Performed on the Dutch TV show Götterdämmerung 2000 • July 1982
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Echo And The Bunnymen • Show of Strength • From the album Heaven Up Here • Recorded at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth, Wales • March 1981 • Released May 30, 1981
Musicians:
Ian McCulloch • vocals, guitar
Will Sergeant • lead guitar
Les Pattinson • bass
Pete de Freitas • drums
Hugh Jones • Production
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A tragedy for the Bunnymen when Pete died at a really young age, so integral to their wonderful sound, those four guys were a formidable unit.. I really loved the five albums from 1980 - 87,
The Bunnymen are Will, Les, Ian & Pete. Nothing else is the same.
Pete died on this day in 1989. R.I.P.
So glad I got to see them play this together.
😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I've seen them with New Order And Gene loves Jezebel SAN-DIEGO after the show they where entering a SAN-DIEGO night spot Diego's the year 88 I was fortunate to meet them... And the next year tragedy hit home for the band...
😂😂😂 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ How many are still hearing our music today?!!
Possibly/Probably one of the best albums ever.
Definitely the best.
After 39 years, I am still enjoying "Heaven Up Here", a timeless album...!!!
Yep, it really stands up. Their finest moment in my opinion.
@@versioncity1 Same here mate you can't get better than band.
@John Smith Welcome to the club then... !
Ocean Rain will always be right there with The Beatles and Rolling Stones.’c Led Zeppelin greatest. They deserve the same.
@@versioncity1 First 3 song on Heaven epitomize everything they've ever recorded.
Heaven Up Here is seriously a contender for the greatest album ever made. Without a shadow of a doubt the most underrated album of all time. Strangely I am not their biggest fan and wouldn't put any of their other albums in my top 50. However, this is an undisputed masterpiece. It was only their second album but the musical maturity was incredible and they never matched it again... instead going the more commercial pop route. It has got at least 5 10/10 tracks on it.
I agree with you. Crocodiles was a great album. But HUH was next level. And they would never again scale such heights.
Undeniably The coolest band ever
I'm 50 & I'm enjoying it even more...
He’s so beautiful
what you get from Will's books is that Mac is a seriously under-rated rhythm guitarist and Les just...was an incredible bassist from day one
Yes for sure. Just finished Will’s book. Have you heard the 1979 Peel session that he describes near the end? They are still playing with “Echo”. It on UA-cam. The rhythm guitar is soooo damn good.
This was excellent. I saw them in New Orleans in 84 on a riverboat crazing the Mighty Mississippi.
I AM 34 years and now listening in 2022
Driven by a massive engine room of incredible De Freitas drumming
You have to love Echo and the Bunnymen. And this was probably their finest moment. RIP Pete.
Heaven Up Here......so thankful that my father passed this masterpiece on vinyl down to me. TIMELESS
I’m glad you think so. I bought it when it came out, forty years ago. It sounded like the future then, and nowadays I think it still sounds contemporary.
80s rock is a lifestyle
One of the Best echo songs.
Pete de Freitas influential drummer R.I.P
A powerhouse drummer
@@dermot51 masterful
That drumming 👍🏻
Aged so beautifully - all their music!
Seriously one of their best tracks. They definatley wrote great pop songs in the mid 80s but Echo and the Bunnymen were the best during their early post-punk era
A great track. I love the total energy of Pete De Freitas, a fabulous drummer. (RIP)
"Heaven Up Here" - masterpiece with the big letter and best album of Echo And The Bunnymen!!!
One of the their best! Les Pattinson is such a great bass player.
Yeah, that bassline is pretty kickass
"Heaven Up Here" is an absolutely amazing album from start to finish. "A Show Of Strength" is one of the greatest opening numbers on any album by anyone. Everything from the astoundingly apposite sleeve design (inclusive of the inner bag) and Brian Griffin's stunning photography works in unison and is one of those albums to show to the "download generation" as demonstration of how the art work can be essential to the appreciation of the music itself.
I absolutely loved The Bunnymen at the time as a teenager and still think their work between 1978 and 1984 is up there with the very best. I do love the "Crocodiles" era but, for myself, the "Heaven Up Here" period is their very best followed by the "Porcupine" era.
I do like the "Ocean Rain" era material but it doesn't reach the peaks of the first three albums (and singles from the period) for me.
The eponymous album was just "ok" for my taste but they'd pretty much lost it to me from then on.
They should have stayed split up after that. Anything I've heard by them since reforming has been pedestrian in the extreme and McCulloch (my biggest hero in the early 80s) has seemingly turned into the complete antithesis of what he was as a young man (in much the same way John Lydon became consistently and progressively more awful each month that passed post 1982).
In essence, they were one of the greatest of the Post Punk bands; a genre they helped originate and define. They were really good for the album that they followed up the Post Punk era with,: Ocean Rain", but, by and large, pretty rubbish following that.
This here then, is the band - and McCulloch - at one moment during the glorious and essential two to three year peak they both created and, in part, embodied. Watch, listen and enjoy.
Yup, with you 100%. The sound of my youth in liverpool to a large extent & Heaven LP stands apart. Amazing piece of work.
And in later life I met & worked with Mac several times. The adage of never meeting your heroes could not be truer. Although Will & Les were lovely blokes.
Well put heaven up here is incredible I’ve yet to hear an album that matches it
Bought it in May 81 no bad tracks class LP and this is a fantastic tune
@@dermot51 Reverberation is even better. Sometimes I think they should have stuck with Noel Burke. The reunited band did occasionally reach the stars-Too Young To Kneel, I'll Fly Tonight, SuperMellowMan and In The Margins but "The Fountain" seemed to represent the era they threw in the towel as a creative act and I realised Mac was human after all.
When I first bought it , it took a few plays , then it clicked , one of my favourite albums
CHE. ALBUM !!!
Il migliore.
Best band of the 80's
mmmm..lyrics are meaningless twaddle for the most part
Coolest band in human history. And de Freitas is a criminally under-rated drummer ✌🏽🔥🔥🔥
38 years still digging thishot singer that voice is insane!..... ty👍🇺🇸🔥❤️💯
Brilliant.
So true
Fantastic song and drumming by the late and great Pete De Freitas
Classic Bunnymen. 👊
Just finished Wills book. On a mad Bunnymen kick
Just finished it today. Going down the Bunnymen rabbit hole too 🤘🏼
phenomenalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
I totally agree
Yes!
I was 14 when this was released.
It Still feesl the same.
absolutely brilliant no bullshit just go for it !
Sheer Genius. I Remember buying this at Record Exchange on Belmont in Chicago. Couldn't decide if I liked
'Candleland' more at the time. 'Heaven Up Here' stays with you Forever. When you Think you've outgrown it,
you just find yourself going right back to it when you're out of true inspiration. It's a good thing it's as pared
down as it is . McCulloch's voice is just enormous! Streets Ahead of the Entire Planet, these Boys were
"Never set them down" Love this Song. Reuven Lawrence Engberg
I bought it when it came out. I was 15, and it blew my tiny mind.
@@NachoVideo Yeah, I can well imagine! I remember having the 'Echo and the Bunnymen' album well before I'd really ventured out enough to make the entire journey into this album's path. I was groovin' on 'Blue , Blue Ocean' and 'The Game' well before I purchased it. (Heaven..) I still haven't purchased 'Ocean Rain' , but I've heard it's quite excellent. Haven't missed too much since.... 'Meteorites' is just Brilliant , and 'Evergreen' has some of their best songs. Just a first rate Group --- Regardless of Setting , these guys are True Masters! Reuven
The first 4 albums by EATB have to be part of your record collection. HUH & OR are among the 5 greatest albums by any band… Crocodiles & Porcupine are among the 20 greatest albums by any band, IMHO… 👍😊
Possibly the best song on heaven up here
Its either thisvm one or Ocean Rain....Entire Album is excellent
Maybe a tie with “Over The Wall” that last guitar section has haunted me for nearly 40yrs….
I would give this, Over The Wall and the last 5 tracks all 10/10. If this album were released today it would be instantly recognised as a masterpiece.
Top 3 album openers for me ..This, With a Hip, Over the Wall…the Mighty Echo and the Bunnymen!
That early Echo sure was some great songs.
I love you for loving Bowie and the Bunnymen
hankoegal the feeling is mutual x
Just brilliant
Thank you for doing this I am 18 again, in art school. They were a huge influence on me. Saw them in Cardiff on the Heaven Up Here tour. Amazing!
Iain Davies thanks mate. Also saw them on the HUH tour, tho I was a bit younger. It seemed to me at the time to be the most musically and culturally mature let’s call it, gig I’d attended.
I was at that Cardiff gig too. Still in school - art college would be three years later.
Ouvindo em 2023 ✌
I shared a few beers with these guys in Vancouver BC. Great lads! Great upload!
A great album
"Your golden smile would shame a politician" was a reference to Julian Cope, apparently.
Another classic Bunnymen upload.
Yes; and, "I feel cold when it turns to gold for you" was a Cope lyric (from "The Culture Bunker") referencing his antipathy (and jealousy) towards McCulloch's success with The Bunnymen. There was barb after barb traded between the two between 1978 and the mid 80s: sometimes in lyrics and, most often, in the press.
'Bonds will break and fade go snapping all in two the lies that bind and tie come sailing out of you' a reference to nothing or no one in particular
It was actually called ' That Golden Smile' originally check out the Peel session from 1980
Classic echo and the bunnymen ! Thanks Nacho !
Epic!
Doesn't get any better.
Absolutely outstanding 🙌
Great song by a great band
These were good.
Fantastic work yet again! Mucho thanks Nacho
Nice! Thanks for sharing.
Merci Nacho, tres tres transcendent!!!
The best line up .
brilliant...forever .
That was wonderful. Yeah, I thought they were miming to something pre-recorded, but I don't care. Still amazing, and what a find. Thanks for the upload!
Spooky and brilliant
Realistically
It's hard to dig it all too happily
But I can see
It's not always that real to me
A funny thing
Is always a funny thing
Though sadly things
Just get in the way
Open to suggestion
Falling over questions
Hopefully
But that's as well as maybe
A shaking hand
Won't transmit all fidelity
Your stalwart smile
Would shame a politician
Typically
I'll apologise next time
Bonds will break and fade
Go snapping all in two
The lies that bind the tie
Come sailing out of you
Realistically,
Hard to dig it all too happily
But I can see,
Not always that real to me
A funny thing
Is always a funny thing
And those sadly things
Is always a sadly thing
Bonds will break and fade
A snapping all in two
The lies that bind the tie
Come sailing out of you
A show of strength
Is all you want
You can never set it down...
Guts and passion
Those things you can't
Even set down
All those things you think might count
You can't ever set them down
Don't ever set them down
Never set them down
Hey, I came in right on cue
One is me and one is you...
Hey, I came in right on cue
One is me and one is you...
These videos are great, don’t know where your finding them but keep em coming! Thanks.
Pete de Freitas was one of the classic band members of the time
A melhor música do echo para mim
🖤🖤🖤
#lyrics
Realistically, it's hard to dig it all, too happily
But I can see it's not always that real to me
A funny thing is always a funny thing
And though sadly things just get in the way
Open to suggestion
Falling over questions
Hopefully but that's as well as maybe
A shaking hand won't transmit all fidelity
And your golden smile would shame a politician
Typically, I'll apologize next time
Bonds will break and fade
Go snapping all in two
The lies that bind the tie
Come sailing out of you
Bonds will break and fade
Go snapping all in two
The lies that bind the tie
Come sailing out of you
Show of strength, is all you want
You can never set it down
Guts and passion
Those things you can't even set down
Don't ever set down, won't ever set down
Hey, I came in right on cue
One is me and one is you
Hey, I came in right on cue
One is me and one is you
Altas Banda! Escuto direto!
Cool.
oh my heart....
The DeFrietas thang . Sleep well son.
❤❤❤....
Just a great cd
Just how cool are they in this video? hahaha
Post Punk/New Wave. Industrial strength.
Echo & The Bunnymen influential post-punk, neo-psyhadelic band
Epic
cresciuto a pane, cuffiette ed Echo & the Bunnymen
確かに…ボーカル、ベース、ドラム、ギター、絶妙な緊張感、重く、暗く、力強く、
この頃のエコバニは他を寄せ付けないほと最高だった
A frame for many gothic stuffs that came later
Love your work Nacho! Simon Reynolds book is fantastic, isn't it?
Recontra ochenterazo!!!!! muy weno
Too bad they disintegrated after the death of Pete - one of the best drummers who ever lived.
Mac had already quit before the tragic accident that killed Pete. But I take your point...
DecodeR Was going to note the same thing about Pete
AGREED!
he was really the heart of the band..
To be fair the Bunnymen reached the end of their cycle in 84 with Ocean Rain, the Grey Album was an album too far in my view, the glory days were behind them by this point.
In the 🇺🇸 , I wish they had been on American Bandstand like PIL ! Think Sire artists were banned after Johnny's hijinx ! Great song from a great album.
That PIL appearance was classic. Johnny’s now a Trump supporter which, weird as it sounds, is a very Lydon thing to do.
Echo & the Bunnymen influenced the soviet group Kino mostly on Victor Tsoi
Note ten, Nacho! This material of Echo in Blu Ray in Brazil?
Souza Josias only available on this channel :)
I SEE NACHO .. I CLICK
What happened to the live audio of this video?
Philo Nerd there was no live audio. They were miming to playback
What was the name of the programme Nacho? excellent picture quality
Mac was a nifty rhythm player its all over their work
Shit loads of bands used to imitate each other back then. I suppose nothing much has changed.
EATB Brazil 1987
3:16 Red Hot Chili Peppers (Blood Sugar Sex Magik ending Off The Map)
I've listened to that concert & track uncountable times. Cool to finally figure out what it originates from.
@@reneznota8305 For nothing 😉👍🏻
I really wish I'd grown up in this era! What happened to all the good music?
If you like Echo & the Bunnymen definitely check out "Lost in this world" by The Urban Foxes.
klingt etwas wie cure
Funny I agree how untouchable they were on these first two albums...flawless....live as exciting in expectation as going to see a Clash big they blew U2 out of the Lyceum...but Mac and coke total lifelong disaster.
Ya definitely such a shame hope he has given it up like I did thanks to Mark Hollis of Talk Talk
Is he still into that crap? Remember when he played here was lookin to score in DC back in the 80’s when I met him several times such a waste!.....
I add their third album, Porcupine..another masterpiece
@@pabloimireia And their fourth,.....
'To see a Clash big they blew U2'
music that will always stand the test of time... just the dogs bollocks..
Epic