Ocean Rain

Um, everybody was new to this venue, but there were a lot of people in the auditorium, like, in the stalls, that, that were, you know, pushing forwards to see the group, that, and the security weren't used to that.

And the Bunnymen were sort of, uh, road testing some of the songs that would come out on Ocean Rain.

And, um, they started with four or five of them on stage, and by the time they were finished, there were about 10 people on stage with extra strings and so on, and they were just utterly on form.

They...

You know, it's, there were guitars and instruments, there was music, there was record players and, There was records and you go into a car and there's music on and, you know, it's everything from Van Morris and my dad used to play to the Beatles.

And I remember a funny story about I bought Echo and the Bunnymen's Ocean Rain album on cassette and I couldn't find it for days.

And I'm going to play a game of football and my father is driving me to the game and I get into the car and he presses play and he has the bloody cassette.

He stole the album.

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

Taking off 1984's album Ocean Rain, that is Ian McCullough and Liverpool's Echo and the Bunnymen.

That got to number nine in the UK in January of that year.

And we got it to number seven here at home.

Number 40, 1981 is, um, Echo & the Bunnymen, so.

Oh, uh, is that Ocean Rain? No.

It's not Ocean Rain.

It's, uh, Heaven Up Here.

Oh, okay.

Like, I haven't seen this in forever, so you've seen it a lot ear- sooner than I have.

But, um, it is that incredible link, and I think that's also, to be honest, a little bit of how I did 10 Tracks because there was a song I was listening to in the car one day recently from an album of my favorites, Echo & the Bunnymen, uh, album, um, Ocean Rain, and one of the songs on there was on in the car and it was making me think about me as a kid when I first heard that album and I would have the cassette in my room in New Orleans and I was probably about 12 whenever...

You know, this was-

Yeah

Look East for Eden, the track there from their 1986 album, Flesh on Flesh.

We had some Echo and the Bunnymen before that, the great Killing Moon from the Ocean Rain album, and that was a...

Nice segue out of a great interview with author Lori Majewski.

We were talking about her new book, which I'm going to plug one last time because everyone should check it out.