Echo & the Bunnymen "Ocean Rain" 2024-05-10 6 Billboard 200 charting albums

6 Billboard 200 charting albums (3 appearing in the top 10) and past success at radio (singles on last album reached #3 and #7 on US Active Rock) have primed the band for success

5 hit "(She's) Sexy + 17"

committed suicide

The early-mid ‘80s had their share of insane combos -- The Birthday Party

Tracks B1 and B2 Ardent Studios outtakes

Echo & the Bunnymen "Ocean Rain" 2024-05-10 6 Billboard 200 charting albumsOcean Rain is the fourth studio album by the English post punk band Echo & the Bunnymen. It was released on 4 May 1984 and reached number four on the UK Albums Chart. "Channeling the lessons of the experimental Porcupine into more conventional and simple structural parameters, Ocean Rain emerges as Echo & the Bunnymen's most beautiful and memorable effort. Ornamenting Ian McCulloch's most consistently strong collection of songs to date with subdued