Just reading Will Sargent's autobiography "Bunnyman". Very insightful.

One of my favorite bands! RIP Pete!

@NicBunnymen

7 жыл бұрын

THE GREATEST BAND

@scootjockey

6 жыл бұрын

Yup Ducati sucks ,but what really sucks are fucking not paying attention car drivers.

Liverpool late 70s/ 80s music scene was so good at this time. Bunnymen, Wah and Teardrop Explodes - Classics. Takes me back to Saturday afternoons in Probe Records, nights in The Grapes then over to Michelle Clares nightclub.

@YannGuillermou

5 жыл бұрын

When was the Liverpool scene not great exactly?

I remember the original broadcast.blown away . fantastic stuff.

I love these versions - they're really good. But Pete made them great.

Just superb villiers terrace: groundbreaking

Echo was a sound skinsman

At the top of their game..Echo & the Bunnymen….ending with Villiers Terrace their All time Classic....

takes me back to the days when i used to see them at erics matinees in 79 /they were usually on with the teardrop explodes

Superb session once again. One of Liverpools very finest at their very best. Remarkable how Peel sessions were almost invariably better than the original versions of the same songs. With every band Peely invited they definitely raised their own bar time and time again. RIP John. I will always miss you.

@johnmorris7818

6 жыл бұрын

Tend to feel that the producer and engineers were thinking, 'this is on a record already? ... let's make a definitive version'. The standards of recording and broadcast of the beeb were high

@Spectrescup

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnmorris7818 sessions were invariably of new, or newish, unrecorded songs. That was kind of the point of them.

@markfisher6404

4 жыл бұрын

@@Spectrescup for sure. love peel

@chrisdstard5644

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and no-one has even nearly filled his vacancy. Hard to believe that he would have been 80 this year.....

@pressureworks

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisdstard5644 please know Marc Riley carries the torch on BBC 6 Music. And Peel's son Tom Ravenscroft as well !

This is the blues.

@strappaplank6017

8 ай бұрын

Well said

I was in Liverpool maybe a year or so after the Toxteth riots. Beyond the city (Victoria Street ?) center, I can say it was, bar none, the eeriest city I have ever seen. The desertion was so complete I began to feel like I was in a Twilight Zone episode. Boarded up windows literally everywhere. Gutters stuffed with garbage and a silence which, in a city that size, is haunting. Then there were the legendary tower blocks which also showed no signs of life, but were defaced and demolished so methodically, it seemed like an army of psychos was on the loose. I’m American and have seen my share of slums. But I have never been anywhere nearly as surreal as Liverpool in the early 80s. No disrespect to Scousers. I never met one who wasn’t funny, friendly and quick witted. But to describe what I saw as ‘hard times’ fails to do it justice. My guess is Thatcher, when she wasn’t busy entertaining Jimmy Saville, wreaked such havoc. Beatles aside, I imagine groups like the Bunnymen coming of age in a place like that. Just the sight of it made me feel robbed of all hope. Or maybe I just took a stroll in the very-wrong part of town. I hope it’s improved for the sake of the really remarkable people I met there.

@versioncity1

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. I was around at the same time and it has got better, to some extent. The early 80's was a very bleak time. Still, a lot of Liverpool hasn't changed much since then, the city centre has been redeveloped, but soon outside of that there is a lot of poverty, plenty of toxteth is still boarded up.

@bimb0cat

5 жыл бұрын

An American invention, the shipping container, destroyed much of Liverpool's economy in the 1970s before Mrs Thatcher was elected.

@lennon1482

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/dICf0NqqXbTAZJs.html

@gazriley624

4 жыл бұрын

it's Booming now

@skellbert

4 жыл бұрын

@@gazriley624 and still fucked too.

it s amazing ... the voice and the sound . ..good night

Fabulous this is so fabulous!

These songs take me back to the dorms of Goldsworth Valley in Kalamazoo in the early 80’s

Fabulous drummer

I'd never heard these versions before, quite mellow and new to my ears. I still have the Crocodiles LP, but no record player to enjoy it. So sad...all I have is the CD which is better than not having any I guess.

@derekwilliams1660

5 жыл бұрын

Get a record player.

@TH-yx5eb

4 жыл бұрын

Or, get a pc plug in record player, record in wav, use foobar to switch to flac, play that on a naim, attached via digital, wrap up the original & treasure it. Or, yeh - get a Linn sondek, or borrow...bring it over & we'll find best way ;) !

@mattiemclean9882

2 жыл бұрын

The whole albums on KZread. get headphones !

Lucky to have met Mac many times when he plays Washington DC. Such a great hot dude gigs were killer as always!!!! Crushing on him for 37 years & still am !!!!!❤️👍☮️🔥😻🦊

Fucking hell, I just keep replaying this :)

“I need an easy friend...✨”.

This version of "Read It In Books" is spot on. Better than any other of their (otherwise great) versions... :)

Yes, Just Great

Absolutely perfect !!! Love this !!

1979 WOOOOW ANTIQUISIMOS

Thanks!!!

It's Wonderful my god !!!!!!!!!

❤️❤️❤️

Immense.

No label would sign any of the great Australian bands in the 70s/80s those that could afford it went to uk but it was so cheap for all your band's to come here wtf exchange rates . thank independent radio for playing uk songs .we bought enough records that it was a good earn to come to Australia. I saw everyone but the sex pistols and Joy Division because they didn't come here. love this music

Obrigado homens coelho!

💜💜💜💜💜

the bannyboys the time the story the greatness.

fucking killer. grew up listening on 91X san diego

Dear Mr Echo; I hope your are still in good working order and well looked after.

Used to have the album which featured this song but have long misplaced it sad to impart.

Dear Mr Echo; 16 People with either very poor hearing or eyesight pressed the wrong thumb. button.

4:30 that percussion parts is the same as in omd how cool is dat.

@soepil

3 жыл бұрын

What's even more cool: It's the very same drum machine! Will Sergeant lent the Korg Minipops Junior to OMD, and they used it on "Julia's song". It's the buttons "Latin Beat" and "Rock 1" pressed together. :)

my kindest regards to the family Joe

GREAT!

🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Is that "Echo" on drums?

@adelinemonteiro1477

3 жыл бұрын

Yea! in the past there was no drummer, the "Echo" was a simulator that they used

👍👍👍👍👍

what's 1979 minus 2018 - ? remember exactly where i was when i first heard this - in my bedroom

read it in books has the same chords as about a girl

Cool! Mick Jagger of New Wave!

+Vibracobra23 , Many ThankYou's!!!!!, dtf

@danthefan5378

Жыл бұрын

VC, 💯❤️'s, Bests, dtf

They messed up Villiers Terrace on the album - this is the definitive version

They sound Garage influenced on the guitars.

Echo was a drum machine, after the drummer died in a road collision, in Paris. Now then saville you bacon.

with a drum machine ECHO. Without drummer Pete De Freitas

This sounds jus like Nirvana, about a girl in the opening of this song. Kurt did rip off alot small parts a riffs frm a whole bunch of new wave songs...

@leecooper9911

3 жыл бұрын

smells like about a girl

@vongustadolf

3 жыл бұрын

It doens't matter. Life is just a big plagiarism. I guess he was very desperate at the beginning of his success. I won't blame him at all. Kurt composed many other great songs. He remains one of the best musicians of all times.

@shawn6669

3 жыл бұрын

@@vongustadolf Good artists borrow, great artists steal.

@robjones5581

3 жыл бұрын

Read it in Books was co-written with Julian Cope (Tear Drop Explodes) when they were in the Crucial Three together in 1977 - The Crucial Three were a Supergroup before they were famous.... also included Pete Wylie (Wah!) what a team!!

@DaveAnchovies

3 жыл бұрын

His, and my generation, grew up on these guys, a truly great band with more than a handful of songs--a real deal 80s/90s institution. So musicians ain't stealing, it just can turn into the sum of great influences. I dont hear it, anyway.

0:07 Nirvana - About a Girl HAHAHAHAHA

@MrMrwaz

4 жыл бұрын

Influence from influence... This riff could also be velvet underground or Patti Smith

@leahflower9924

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrMrwaz yes punk influenced new wave...but come on Kurt directly stole that riff

@Andy-wp1ux

6 ай бұрын

Well spotted chief

Intro sounds like The Hives 🤷‍♀

wrong photo. no pete in this session!

It seems Kurt Cobaine really liked first song and created "about a girl"

It's the first time I've heard echo before he hit the drugs hard and fell out with Mac over creative differences

does anyone else think Nirvana ripped off the song read it in books for their about a girl song??

Kurt Cobain copied this song and made aboult a girl

@pvtjohntowle4081

4 жыл бұрын

What song did he allegedly copy? Never heard this before.

@tintomara6209

3 жыл бұрын

It could be one of many tunes, it is after all a pretty standard garage jam. See also Do it Clean for example. It's probably derived ultimately from Lou Reed and the V.U, ad Will was a huge fan.

@leahflower9924

3 жыл бұрын

@@tintomara6209 stop kidding yourself...velvet influenced the sound of so much indie/new wave music but come on Nirvana didn't even switch it up a little for about a girl

@dacra9625

2 жыл бұрын

It is very unlikely that Kurt had heard Read it in Books in the late 1980s when he was writing About a Girl. This version wasn’t commercially available until 1997. And the single version of Read it in Books (Pictures on My Wall B side) was hard to obtain at the time.

This is average i used to do this when was 13 this is why everyone went past you . u2 icicle works better

@kenmills30

6 жыл бұрын

U2 went past them if past is measured in commercial terms because they had a singer with megalomaniac messianic papal tendencies and an ego to match which come the right hour in the mid-1980s was bound to catch the attention of the generation of dullards who emerged in that decade from the ashes of post-punk which is how long it took for a certain type to discard their Boston, Foreigner and Eagles haircuts and albums and embrace the 'new' sound and though The Clash dabbled in that area for a bit in 82/83 mercifully decided it was not for them and of course Bono with his shades and pals and their catholic sentimental take on post-punk were the main beneficiaries of the new order of music becoming mass market.

@kevinbarryc

6 жыл бұрын

well said sir,hit the nail on the head!

@pressureworks

5 жыл бұрын

U2 were never invited to do a Peel Session. Neither was Nigel.

@leahflower9924

3 жыл бұрын

seriously harsh.....this sounds great and nothing matches the beauty of Killing Moon, these guys are cooler than U2