so i was just watching this live video of then play on demand!
it was called lips like sugar,i totally digged the lyrics and whole band.
so does anyone know a good starter album for this band?
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becuz I didn't know they were cool

because i thought almost everybody on the org knew that. i don't think there is anything i've heard that nobody on here hasn't heard!

brownsugar said:

well, now you know, there's two of us

i'm a little late to them also. i started getting into them when a friend of mine got this album for me and i really liked it. i kinda got a 'doors' vibe from this one. i dont think this is the one to start with however maybe siberia or heaven up here- i have not heard these in their entirety so i cant say.

flowers is the one i started with.

echo and the bunny man are cool, always have been
even the almighty
u2 admitted their influence in rock culture was high

Moonbeam, hipped me to them and a 12-inch called "Never Stop." Cool tune.

Quite simply and truly, they are the greatest band in the world ever. The best haircut, voice, attitude - Christ, four dudes embodying all which can be perceived as hip while still retaining a sense of wonder at the obvious magic surrounding us all. The first four albums are a pack of cards with the peak being 1984's Ocean Rain - the Hearts of the deck, the most darkly romantic album I've ever heard, sexy with a Sinatra swagger. They make U2 look like the stumbling dullards they are. Any questions or requests, ornote me.

PS - Lips Like Sugar is plastic shit.

I've heard, but I haven't yet heard.

Number23 said:

I agree in that saying you like "Lips Like Sugar" is like saying you like Prince's "Cream"--cool song, but the earlier material is much better. 'Ocean Rain' was recently remastered with bonus tracks. I've been meaning to get that one myself.



Or if you're a "hits" kinda guy, then pick up their U.K best of which is solid from start to finish:

This is seriously one of the coolest songs in history...


The Killing Moon

Under blue moon I saw you
So soon you'll take me
Up in your arms
Too late to beg you or cancel it
Though I know it must be the killing time
Unwillingly mine


Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him


In starlit nights I saw you
So cruelly you kissed me
Your lips a magic world
Your sky all hung with jewels
The killing moon
Will come too soon


Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him


Under blue moon I saw you
So soon you'll take me
Up in your arms
Too late to beg you or cancel it
Though I know it must be the killing time
Unwillingly mine


Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him


Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him
You give yourself to him


La la la la la...


Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him


La la la la la...


Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him


Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him


La la la la la...

This one too is infectious...and both are from "Ocean Rain" (the album 23 and sextonseven were talking about)


Seven Seas

Stab a sorry heart
With your favourite finger
Paint the whole world blue
And stop your tears from stinging
Hear the cavemen singing
Good news they're bringing


Seven seas
Swimming them so well
Glad to see
My face among them
Kissing the tortoise shell


A longing for
Some fresher feeling
Belonging
Or just forever kneeling
Where is the sense in stealing
Without the grace to be it


Seven seas
Swimming them so well
Glad to see
My face among them
Kissing the tortoise shell


Burning my bridges
And smashing my mirrors
Turning to see if you're cowardly
Burning the witches with mother religious
You'll strike the matches and shower me
In water games
Washing the rocks below
Taught and tamed
In time with tear flow


Seven seas
Swimming them so well
Glad to see
My face among them
Kissing the tortoise shell


Seven seas
Swimming them so well
Glad to see
My face among them
Kissing the tortoise


Seven seas
Swimming them so well
Glad to see
My face among them
Kissing the tortoise shell

applekisses said:

That's a fine song for sure, but I've always thought it failed badly on that 'cavemen singing' line.

I've always thought Porcupine was the finer album. I realize that's a minority opinion, but I'll take the opening one-two of The Cutter and Back of Love over anything you could care to name on Ocean Rain.

I saw them live about three years ago, and oddly enough they were absolutely brilliant - tons of fog and dense, slashing guitars. Ian M was sounding a little ragged, but time and a million cigarettes will do that, I guess.

damosuzuki said:

"The Cutter" is a great song. How is Ian looking these days? He always had such a beautiful, boyish quality...but, I always thought (and I told sextonseven this) that if Echo ever made a bio pic Matthew Broderick would be a perfect Ian McCollough.

they were great.

i love their version of The Doors' "People are Strange" from the Lost Boys soundtrack.