Echo & the Bunnymen discography
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The discography of Echo & the Bunnymen, an English post-punk band which formed in 1978, consists of twelve studio albums, ten live albums, twelve compilation albums, eight extended plays (EP), and thirty singles on Zoo Records; WEA and its subsidiaries, Korova, Sire Records, London Records and Rhino; Cooking Vinyl; and Ocean Rain Records, as well as five music VHS/DVDs, and twenty-two music videos.
Studio albums12
EPs8
Live albums10
Compilation albums12
| Echo & the Bunnymen discography | |
|---|---|
Echo & the Bunnymen in concert in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 | |
| Studio albums | 12 |
| EPs | 8 |
| Live albums | 10 |
| Compilation albums | 12 |
| Singles | 30 |
| Video albums | 5 |
| Music videos | 22 |
Echo & the Bunnymen's original line-up consisted of vocalist Ian McCulloch, guitarist Will Sergeant and bass player Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine. By 1980, Pete de Freitas had joined as the band's drummer, and their debut album, Crocodiles, met with critical acclaim and made the UK Top 20. Their second album, Heaven Up Here (1981), again found favour with critics and reached number 10 in the UK. The band's cult status was followed by mainstream success in the mid-1980s, as they scored a UK Top 10 hit with the single "The Cutter", and the attendant album, Porcupine (1983), which reached number two in the UK. The next release, Ocean Rain (1984), regarded as their landmark release, spawned the hit singles "The Killing Moon", "Silver" and "Seven Seas". One more studio album, Echo & the Bunnymen (1987), was released before McCulloch left the band to pursue a solo career in 1988. The following year, de Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident, and the band re-emerged with a new line-up. Sergeant and Pattinson were joined by Noel Burke as lead singer, Damon Reece on drums and Jake Brockman on keyboards. They released Reverberation in 1990, but the disappointing critical and commercial reaction it received culminated with a complete disbanding in early 1993.
After working together as Electrafixion, McCulloch, Sergeant and Pattinson regrouped in 1997 and returned as Echo & the Bunnymen with the UK Top 10 hit "Nothing Lasts Forever". An album of new material, Evergreen, was greeted enthusiastically by critics and the band made a successful return to the live arena. Though Pattinson left the group for a second time, McCulloch and Sergeant continue to record as Echo & the Bunnymen, releasing What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? (1999), Flowers (2001), Siberia (2005), The Fountain (2009), and Meteorites (2014).
Albums
Studio albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1][2] |
AUS [3][4] |
US [5] |
CAN | FRA [6] |
SWE [7] |
NZ [8] | |||
| Crocodiles | 17 | — | — | — | — | — | 36 | ||
| Heaven Up Here |
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10 | — | 184 | — | — | — | 17 | |
| Porcupine |
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2 | 47 | 137 | 85 [10] |
— | 24 | 15 |
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| Ocean Rain |
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4 | 58 | 87 | 41 [11] |
— | 22 | 10 |
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| Echo & the Bunnymen |
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4 | 70 | 51 | 51 [12] |
— | 22 | 26 |
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| Reverberation |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Evergreen |
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8 | 98 | — | — | — | — | — |
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| What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? |
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21 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Flowers |
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56 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Siberia |
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83 [13] |
— | — | — | 161 | — | — | |
| The Fountain |
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63 [14] |
— | — | — | 176 | — | — | |
| Meteorites |
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37 | — | 138 | — | — | — | — | |
Live albums
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert |
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| Live in Liverpool |
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| Instant Live: Fillmore – San Francisco, CA, 12/5/05 |
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| Instant Live: House of Blues – West Hollywood, CA, 12/6/05 |
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| Instant Live: House of Blues – Anaheim, CA, 12/7/05 |
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| Instant Live: House of Blues – San Diego, CA, 12/9/05 |
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| Me, I'm All Smiles |
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| Breaking the Back of Love |
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| Ocean Rain Live 2008 |
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| Do It Clean |
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| It's All Live Now |
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Compilation albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [2] |
AUS [3] |
US [5] |
NZ [8] | |||
| Songs to Learn & Sing |
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6 | 57 | 158 | 25 |
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| The Cutter |
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— | — | — | — | |
| Ballyhoo |
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59 | — | — | — |
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| Crystal Days: 1979–1999 |
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— | — | — | — | |
| Seven Seas |
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20 | — | — | — | |
| More Songs to Learn and Sing |
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47 | — | — | — | |
| Killing Moon: The Best of Echo & the Bunnymen |
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— | — | — | — |
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| B-sides & Live |
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— | — | — | — | |
| The Works |
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— | — | — | — | |
| The Killing Moon – The Singles 1980–1990 |
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— | — | — | — | |
| The Stars, the Oceans & the Moon |
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11 | — | — | — | |
| The John Peel Sessions 1979–1983 |
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— | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||||
Other album appearances
| Year | Song | Album | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | "Monkeys"[15] | Street To Street: A Liverpool Album | The title was misspelled as "Monkies" on the sleeve and inner record label. |
| 1981 | "The Puppet"[16] | Urgh! A Music War soundtrack | Live version recorded at the Lyceum Ballroom, London on 7 September 1980. |
| 1982 | "Villiers Terrace"[17] | To the Shores of Lake Placid | A previously unreleased version from the 1979 John Peel session. |
| 1982 | "All That Jazz"[18] | Life in the European Theater | |
| 1984 | "Zimbo"[19] | Raindrops Pattering on Banana Leaves and Other Tunes | Live performance from the 1982 WOMAD festival with The Royal Burundi Drummers. |
| 1991 | "Action Woman" | Pebbles, Volume 1 | A cover of a song by The Litter as a bonus track for the 1991 CD re-issue of the 1978 garage compilation album. |
| 1992 | "Foggy Notion"[20] | Heaven and Hell Vol.2: a Tribute to the Velvet Underground | A previously unreleased track, with singer Noel Burke. |
| 1998 | "Fools Like Us"[21] | Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence soundtrack | A previously unreleased track. |
| 1998 | "Just a Touch Away"[22] | Dark City soundtrack | |
| 2005 | "The Cutter"[23] | Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story | The music video of the 1983 single. |
| 2006 | "Lips Like Sugar [Way Out West Remix Edit]"[24] | Future Retro | A previously unreleased mix of the 1987 single. |
Extended plays
| Title | EP details | Peak chart positions | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [2] |
IRE [25] |
NZ [8] | ||||
| Shine So Hard |
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37 | — | 26 | ||
| The Sound of Echo |
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— | — | — | Also known as The Echo and the Bunnymen EP and The Never Stop EP. | |
| Life at Brian's – Lean and Hungry |
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16 | 10 | — | Numbered limited edition of the "Seven Seas" single. | |
| The Peel Sessions |
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— | — | — | ||
| New Live and Rare |
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— | — | — | ||
| World Tour E.P. |
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— | — | — | ||
| Avalanche |
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— | — | — | ||
| Live from Glasgow |
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— | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||||
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [2] |
US Alt. [26] |
CAN Alt. |
IRE [25] |
NZ [8] |
AUS [27] | ||||
| 1979 | "The Pictures on My Wall" | — | — | — | — | — | — | Crocodiles | |
| 1980 | "Rescue" | 62 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "The Puppet" | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||
| 1981 | "Crocodiles" | 37 | — | — | — | — | — | Crocodiles | |
| "A Promise" | 49 | — | — | — | — | — | Heaven Up Here | ||
| "Over the Wall" | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1982 | "The Back of Love" | 19 | — | — | 24 | — | — | Porcupine | |
| "Fuel" | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1983 | "The Cutter" | 8 | — | — | 10 | 30 | 67 | ||
| "Never Stop" | 15 | — | — | 8 | 49 | — | Non-album single | ||
| 1984 | "The Killing Moon" | 9 | — | — | 7 | 12 | 96 |
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Ocean Rain |
| "Silver" | 30 | — | — | 14 | — | — | |||
| "Seven Seas" | 16 | — | — | 10 | — | — | |||
| 1985 | "Bring On the Dancing Horses" | 21 | — | — | 15 | 31 | 78 | Songs to Learn & Sing | |
| 1987 | "The Game" | 28 | — | — | — | — | — | Echo & the Bunnymen | |
| "Lips Like Sugar" | 36 | — | — | 24 | 43 | — | |||
| "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo" | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1988 | "People Are Strange" | 29 | — | — | 13 [A] |
— | — | The Lost Boys soundtrack | |
| 1990 | "Enlighten Me" | 96 | 8 | — | — | — | — | Reverberation | |
| 1991 | "Prove Me Wrong" | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | |
| 1992 | "Inside Me, Inside You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1997 | "Nothing Lasts Forever" | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | Evergreen | |
| "I Want to Be There (When You Come)" | 30 | 26 | 16 [28] |
— | — | — | |||
| "Don't Let It Get You Down" | 50 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1999 | "Rust" | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? | |
| "Get in the Car" | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2001 | "It's Alright" | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | Flowers | |
| "Make Me Shine" | 84 [29] |
— | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2005 | "Stormy Weather" | 55 | — | — | — | — | — | Siberia | |
| "In the Margins" | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2006 | "Scissors in the Sand" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2009 | "Think I Need It Too" | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Fountain | |
| 2014 | "Lovers On the Run" | — | — | — | — | — | — | Meteorites | |
| 2018 | "Seven Seas (Transformed)" | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Stars, The Ocean & The Moon | |
Other singles appearances
| Year | Song | Single | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | "What Time Is Love? (Echo & The Bunnymen Mix)"[30] | "What Time Is Love? (Remodelled & Remixed)" | A remix of The KLF single by Echo & the Bunnymen. |
| 1998 | "(How Does It Feel to Be) On Top of the World"[31] | "(How Does It Feel To Be) On Top of the World" | England's official 1998 World Cup song by England United (Echo & the Bunnymen, Ocean Colour Scene, Space, and the Spice Girls). |
Video albums
| Title | Album details | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Shine So Hard |
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Released in a limited edition of 500. |
| Porcupine – An Atlas Adventure |
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| Pictures on My Wall |
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Re-released 14 September 1998 |
| Live in Liverpool |
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| Dancing Horses |
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Other video album appearances
| Year | Song | Video | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | "The Puppet"[32] | Urgh! A Music War | Recorded at the Lyceum Ballroom, London on 7 September 1980. |
| 2004 | "Lips Like Sugar"[33] | F.I.B. Heineken 2003 | Recorded at the 2003 Benicàssim International Festival. |
| "Nothing Lasts Forever"[34] | Later... with Jools Holland – Cool Britannia | Recorded for the BBC Television programme Later... with Jools Holland. | |
| "Lips Like Sugar"[35] | Essential Music Videos: '80s UK | The promotional music video released in 1987. | |
| "The Killing Moon"[36] | Donnie Darko | An easter egg on the region 2 Metrodome version of the DVD. Performance is from the 2002 DVD Live in Liverpool. | |
| 2005 | "Seven Seas"[37] | The Work of Director Anton Corbijn | The promotional music video released in 1984. |
Music videos
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | "The Back of Love" | Bill Butt[38] |
| "In Bluer Skies" | ||
| "The Cutter" | ||
| "My White Devil" | ||
| "Porcupine" | ||
| "Heads Will Roll" | ||
| "Higher Hell" | Anton Corbijn[32] | |
| 1984 | "The Killing Moon" | Brian Griffin[32] |
| "Seven Seas" | Anton Corbijn[39] | |
| 1985 | "Bring on the Dancing Horses" | |
| 1987 | "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo" | |
| "The Game" | ||
| "Lips Like Sugar" | ||
| "People Are Strange" | Joel Schumacher Anton Corbijn | |
| 1990 | "Enlighten Me" | |
| 1997 | "I Want to Be There (When You Come)" | Norman Watson[40][41] |
| "Nothing Lasts Forever" | ||
| 1999 | "Rust" | The Douglas Brothers[41] |
| 2001 | "It's Alright" | Gavin Gordon-Rogers[42] |
| "Make Me Shine" | Hambi Haralambous[42] | |
| 2005 | "Stormy Weather" | |
| "In the Margins" | ||
| 2014 | "Lovers On the Run" | Roger Sargent |
Notes
- Chart position for the 1991 reissue; the 1987 chart position was No. 21.