Echo & The Bunnymen -《Ocean Rain》[APE]
专辑英文名: Ocean Rain
歌手: Echo & The Bunnymen
音乐风格: 流行
资源格式: APE
发行时间: 1984年05月04日
地区: 英国
语言: 英语
简介:

Release Date: 1984-05-04
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Asin: B000002L5U
Genres: Post-Punk / Neo-Psychedelia
专辑介绍:
20年前的英国,在"love will tear us apart again"一般沉痛无助中,Ian Curtis亲手结束了自己的生命,然而诗人的终结并没有扼杀音乐,在Ian Curtis的死亡阴影下,一个又一个足以令后辈们肃然起敬的后朋克乐队开始了他们的旅程,黑暗音乐的时代才刚刚开始。在那一两年里,Bauhaus在 4ad下发行了他们的首张专辑In The Flat Field,同门的Modern English和The The 则完成了各自处女作"After The Snow" 和"Black And White",而本文的主人公Echo & The Bunnymen也开始他们在后朋克领域的首次尝试。
Echo & The Bunnymen最初成立于1978年夏天的Liverpool,刚离开无名乐队Crucial Three不久的Ian McCulloch,也就是乐队后来的主唱,与吉他手Will Sargent相遇,两人完成了乐队最初的几个demo,那时他们把乐队起名叫做Echo。随着贝司手Les Pattinson的加入,乐队最终命名为Echo & The Bunnymen,并在当年年底进行了乐队的第一次现场演出。他们的首张单曲"Pictures On My Wall"于1979年在独立唱片公司Zoo下发行,这首单曲赢得了英国乐坛的广泛关注,也为他们赢得了Sire公司的一纸合约。1980年,Echo & The Bunnymen的首张专辑Crocodiles在Sire旗下发行前,鼓手Pete de Freitas加入了乐队,从而确立了Echo & The Bunnymen的四人阵容。乐队的第二首单曲Rescue在英国引起了不小的震动,接下来的专辑Crocodiles成绩不俗,顺利进入英国Top 20,随后乐队开始了在英国和美洲的巡演。值得一提的是,由独立公司Zoo的组建者Bill Drummond担任制作的这张Crocodiles使得Echo & The Bunnymen成为当时新迷幻(neo-psychedelic)的领头乐队,并使其以在后朋克运动中的独特创新风格率先从一众英伦乐队中脱颖而出,将后朋克的影响力从不列颠扩及全球。
1981年5月,在发行一周内就进入Top 40的EP "Shine So Hard"之后,Echo & The Bunnymen趁热出版了第二张专辑Heaven Up Here。专辑充满了粗糙的阴暗的激情,随音乐缓慢侵入人内心,Ian McCulloch 以一种近乎临界点的绝望情感演绎了单曲A Promise。Heaven Up Here在排行榜上的成绩直入英国Top 10,同时也在挑剔的乐评人中赢得赞誉,Echo & The Bunnymen的名字由此传遍了欧洲。接下来的1983年专辑Porcupine和84年专辑Ocean Rain在打入英国排行榜的同时还进入了美国市场,Ocean Rain中诞生了乐队的代表作Seven Seas。
1985年,Echo & The Bunnymen发行了精选辑Songs to Learn and Sing。同名的专辑完成于1987年,并一路杀入英国榜,最终名列第四,其中Ian McCulloch翻唱了The Doors的名作People Are Strange,吉他手Sargent将synth-pop中的细腻敏感融入了新迷幻中,在McCulloch胜似Jim Morrison般幽暗阴郁的唱腔中,Echo & The Bunnymen以摇滚史上最成功的翻唱作品完成了对The Doors的致敬。之后的1988年,主唱McCulloch离开乐队决定单飞,Echo & The Bunnymen分裂的噩梦接踵而来,26岁的鼓手Pete de Freitas在McCulloch离开的第二年里死于意外车祸。不过,余下的乐队成员顶住压力,邀请客座主唱Noel Burke完成了乐队正式解散前的最后一张专辑Reverberation。1990年底,Echo & The Bunnymen结束了它12年的历史。
Ocean Rain is the fourth studio album by the British post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen. It was released on 8 May 1984 and reached number four on the UK Albums Chart, number 87 on the United States Billboard 200, number 41 on the Canadian RPM 100 Albums and number 22 on the Swedish chart. Since 1984 the album has been certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry. Ocean Rain includes the singles "The Killing Moon", "Silver" and "Seven Seas".
The band wrote the songs for the new album in 1983. In early 1984 they recorded most of the album in Paris using a 35-piece orchestra, with other sessions taking place in Bath and Liverpool. Receiving mixed reviews the album was originally released as an LP and a cassette in May 1984 before it was reissued on CD in August. The album was reissued on CD in 2003, along with the other four of the band's first five studio albums, having been remastered and expanded before again being reissued in 2008 with a live bonus disc. The artwork for the album was designed by Martyn Atkins and the photography was by Brian Griffin. Echo & the Bunnymen played a number of concerts in 2008 where they performed Ocean Rain in full and with the backing of an orchestra.
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