Album: Ocean Rain
December 28th 2008 15:47
"Man has to be his own savior," Ian McCulloch sings on the LP-opening "Silver," setting the bold tone. While other indie-underground bands were murmuring politely about flowers or girls, McCulloch and the rest of the Bunnymen were making definitive, brash statements like "My Kingdom," or sailing the psychedelica of "Seven Seas." Kissing a tortoise shell never sounded so appealing.
Every moment of Ocean Rain is inspired. While the dark, Doorsy near-hit, "The Killing Moon," is probably the group's best known track, the entire album is worthy of the universal acclaim that it has received since its first release. The cult film Donnnie Darko brought "The Killing Moon" a new audience in 2001, and Rhino's recent remastered version, along with the Bunnymen's succesful reunion, refocuses Ocean Rain's majesty.
McCulloch often bragged--unconvincingly, but charmingly nonethless--that Echo and the Bunnymen were the best band in the world. If any one LP bears witness to this unlikely hyperbole, it is Ocean Rain, one of the best albums of the post punk era and the entire decade of the 1980s.
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