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Music: I never thought I would be an Echo & the Bunnymen fan. I always used to laugh at their name. But, after reading more and more about them, I decided to check out this album, "Ocean Rain." The album begins with the languid "Silver" and ends with the swirling title track, and between it all is one of the most original sounding albums I have ever heard. It is like Echo picked up where The Beatles and The Doors left off, and added some New Wave texturing and in the midst of it all, created their own sound. From the first listen, you will feel like you've heard it before, but never heard anything quite like it. It's often bizarre in its orchestral instrumentation and themes. It sounds like Alice In Wonderland on one big drug trip. Echo defies rationality to make this a howling, dark, engaging master stroke.
I could go on and on about everysong. The important thing is that no one before or since has made an album that sounds quite like "Ocean Rain." Sure, some of Siouxsie and the Banshees' and Depeche Mode's stuff of the same time period may sound similar. But none can compare to the swirling, mystical nature of Echo and the Bunnymen's masterpiece, "Ocean Rain."
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