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Crystal Days (1979-1999) (Box Set) (CD)

By: Echo & The Bunnymen (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Crystal Days (1979-1999) (Box Set) (CD) Album By Echo & The Bunnymen (Artist)
1   Monkeys - (original version)
2   Pictures On My Wall, The - (original single version)
3   Read It In Books - (original single version)
4   Villier's Terrace - (Peel Session version)
5   Rescue
6   Simple Stuff - (previously unreleased)
7   Stars Are Stars
8   All That Jazz
9   Crocodiles
10   Puppet, The
11   Do It Clean
12   Show Of Strength
13   Over The Wall
14   Promise, A
15   Heaven Up Here
16   All My Colours
17   Broke My Neck
18   No Hands - (John Peel Session version)
19   Fuel - (previously unreleased)
20   Subject, The - (previously unreleased)
 
DISC 2 for Crystal Days (1979-1999) (Box Set) (CD) Album By Echo & The Bunnymen (Artist)
1   Back Of Love, The
2   Cutter, The
3   Way Out And Up We Go - (previously unreleased)
4   Clay
5   Heads Will Roll
6   Gods Will Be Gods - (alternate version)
7   Never Stop - (Discotheque version)
8   Watch Out Below - (previously unreleased, John Peel Session version)
9   Killing Moon, The - (previously unreleased, all night version)
10   Silver (Tidal Wave) - (previously unreleased)
11   Angels And Devils - (previously unreleased)
12   Crystal Days
13   Seven Seas
14   My Kingdom
15   Ocean Rain
16   All You Need Is Love - (previously unreleased)
 
DISC 3 for Crystal Days (1979-1999) (Box Set) (CD) Album By Echo & The Bunnymen (Artist)
1   Bring On The Dancing Horses
2   Over Your Shoulder - (previously unreleased)
3   Lover I Love You - (previously unreleased)
4   Satisfaction - (previously unreleased)
5   New Direction - (previously unreleased, original version)
6   Ship Of Fools - (previously unreleased)
7   All My Life
8   Game, The
9   Bedbugs And Ballyhoo
10   Lips Like Sugar - (single version)
11   People Are Strange
12   Rollercoaster - (previously unreleased)
13   Don't Let It Get You Down
14   I Want To Be There (When You Come)
15   Nothing Lasts Forever
16   Hurracaine - (previously unreleased)
17   Rust
18   What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?
 
DISC 4 for Crystal Days (1979-1999) (Box Set) (CD) Album By Echo & The Bunnymen (Artist)
1   In The Midnight Hour - (previously unreleased)
2   Start Again - (previously unreleased, live)
3   Original Cutter-A Drop In The Ocean, The - (previously unreleased)
4   Heads Will Roll - (previously unreleased, Summer version)
5   Bed Bugs And Ballyhoo - (previously unreleased, original single version)
6   Zimbo - (live, with The Royal Burundi Drummers)
7   Angels And Devils - (previously unreleased, live)
8   She Cracked - (previously unreleased, live)
9   It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - (previously unreleased, live)
10   Soul Kitchen - (previously unreleased, live)
11   Action Woman - (previously unreleased, live)
12   Paint It Black - (previously unreleased, live)
13   Run, Run, Run - (previously unreleased, live)
14   Friction - (previously unreleased, live)
15   Crocodiles - (previously unreleased, live)
16   Heroin - (previously unreleased, live)
17   Do It Clean - (previously unreleased, live)
18   Cutter, The - (hidden track, alternate version)
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (9/13/01, pp.108,111) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A completist's compilation...featuring lost of unreleased songs...suggesting that Echo's songwriting produced some contemporary standards....Echo's crystal days haven't shattered yet..."
Q (Summer/01, pp.122-3) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Conjures McCulloch's insolent good looks and the band's more willful inclinations....giving a chance to view their music in relief free of grand, heroically absurdist gestures..."
Uncut (8/01, p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Very fine indeed.....What's startling about spinning back to the band's beginnings at the dawn of the Eighties is how strong they became in how short a time..."
Mojo (Publisher) (1/02, p.70) - Ranked #4 in Mojo's "Best [10] Box Sets & Compilations of 2001".

Title Note

The 4-CD box CRYSTAL DAYS includes singles, B-sides, rare live tracks, alternate versions and a 64-page companion book with complete recording notes and historical photos.

Echo & The Bunnymen: Ian McCulloch (vocals); Will Sergeant (guitar, sitar); Les Pattinson (bass); Pete De Freitas (drums).

Additional personnel includes: Mike Mooney (guitar); Adam Peters (cello, piano); Nick Bernard (violin); London Metropolitan Orchestra (strings, woodwinds, brass); Shankar (strings); Luvan Kiem (clarinet); Ed Shearmur (piano); Alan Perman (harpsichord); Jake Brockman, Ray Manzarek, Henry Priestman, Julian Cope, David Balfe, Mark Taylor (keyboards); Guy Pratt (bass); David Palmer, Stephen Morris, Michael Lee, Jeremy Stacy (drums); Harry Morgan, Royal Burundi Drummers, Tim Whittaker (percussion); Paul Williams (background vocals).

Producers include: Echo & The Bunnymen, Gil Norton, Ian Broudie, Laurie Latham, Alan Douglas.

Compilation producer: Andy Zax.

Engineers include: Michael Bergek, Chris Nagle, Gil Norton.

Recorded between 1979 & 1999. Includes liner notes by Andy Zax, Mick Houghton, Ian McCulloch, Wayne Coyne and Will Sergeant.

Digitally remastered by Dan Hersch and Bill Inglot (Digiprep).

This is the box set of Echo & the Bunnymen fans' dreams. Four discs that amply cover the high points of the band's albums as well as a hefty batch of rarities. It's fascinating to hear the band's earliest, pre-first album recordings from 1979. Spare, scratchy guitar, uptight vocal, and drum machine were the original band's formula for post-punk expression. By the time drummer Pete De Freitas arrived, however, the band's sonic muscle had developed considerably, as heard on the pumping, energetic cuts from the first album.

Though we're onto disc two by the time the group's most critically acclaimed period (OCEAN RAIN, PORCUPINE) comes into view, it only took a couple of years for guitarist Will Sergeant to evolve from scrubby rhythm guitarist into the master sound sculptor wielding moody Middle Easternisms on "The Cutter" and atmospheric watercolors on "The Killing Moon." As if this weren't enough there's an entire disc devoted to unreleased, mostly live material, including a nod to the band's roots via covers of the Rolling Stones' "Paint it Black," the Doors' "Soul Kitchen," and the Velvet Underground's "Heroin." Bunnyfans, your day has come.

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