'It's like fishing in a lake with leeches' is probably my favourite review of any song ever

This and "Lips like Sugar" are part of my lifes soundtrack. I will never not love these songs.

This is such a great song. If you want another song from the era, check out Love My Way by The Psychedelic Furs. It's in my opinion one of the best songs to come out of the 80's.

"Being in a creepy place, but also being chill with it" is 100% the vibe.

Echo was a good band back in the day. Should give "Bring on the Dancing Horses" a listen to. Won't be disappointed.

Honestly, Donnie Darko introduced me to a lot of great music as a young teenager. The Killing Moon, Love will tear us apart by Joy Division, Head over heals by Tears for Fears. And of course that great cover of Mad World :)

Ah Echo and the Bunnymen, one of the best concerts I went to in the 80s, they were amazing live.

The album that this is from "Ocean Rain" is one of the finest albums ever recorded. Brilliant

In my humble opinion. This is one of the highlights of post British punk rock. This and the first five Simple Minds albums.

This song always reminds me of Donnie Darko

I'm with Brad on this one. They definitely create a intense, suspenseful atmosphere. This track is a post-punk masterpiece IMO, and is pretty much held up as one of the best tracks in the genre. "Fate, up against your will," is such a great line. Interesting factoid: the chord progression is based on Bowie's Space Oddity played backwards. The song has been featured in movies and TV shows and has been covered by many bands; most recently Chvrches

Man, this song is just as mesmerizing today as it was the day it was released..

They are amazing....they have lots of great songs...Never Stop....The Cutter... Rescue...Seven Seas...great band!!

Watch the movie Donnie Darko (absolute cult classic) & this song played at the begging of that movie gives it this melancholy but epic feel. It’s a great song period but it’s used so effectively in that movie (the whole soundtrack is used to incredible effect) that it takes it to a new lvl. Ads an emotional resonance. I love the 80’s goth era music. I wish it had lasted longer bc I feel like I’ve listened to most of the music from that era and I just want more. This song, Siouxie & the Banshees, The Church, The Smiths, they all elicit a vibe that’s hard to find in other music. I hate when I find music that I love that isn’t being made anymore.

Love the way lex is always super happy smiley , and the way she looks over to see what Brad is thinking ☺️

Echo and The Bunnymen have a classic song call "Bring on The Dancing Horses " , Awesome song

Such a great band. Lips Like Sugar is also a great song by them.

Ian McCullough, what a voice.

Echo and the Bunnymen were so good, they really put out a beautiful sonic landscape.

This song was written about a dream the singer had. It was about meeting god after death.

This song is such a classic. Love the vocals, melody, atmosphere... the 80s are so underrated.

Such a brilliant band, they used to come here and play in the pubs

This is from one of last years '80s alternative stream. Around spring of 2022. We need another one.

This song makes me feel that you’re willingly going towards your demise but you’re so attracted to the energy that you can’t help yourself. Excellent song.

"This is the greatest song ever written." - Ian McCulloch

Absolutely love Ian McCulloch's voice.

Bring on the Dancing Horses, Lips Like Sugar (my personal fave) and The Cutter...three beauties!

Ok, based on the 'fishing in a lake with leeches' vibe that Lex got from this song, I want to see you two react to Nick Cave. I think your will find that menace below the surface feeling with him too.

Your description of it being peaceful yet dangerous is pretty spot on I think! It's beautiful and there's something mellow about it but there's such darkness underneath it all.

The singer Ian McCulloch said that he woke up with the words to the chorus in his head and says that God co-wrote the song. Its a great song

This band wrote incredibly evocative and haunting, memorable tunes. Amazing creatives.

Oh my god 😍 Five times I've seen this amazing band, love em' too pieces 😇😊😎 1985' was the first time 🥲

Great band. Good live as well. I also got to see the lead singer do an acoustic set in my local theatre. It was incredible. That voice in a room designed for acoustics is amazing.

I've been waiting for you guys to discover Echo.. Thank you! Great first choice!

Wow so long since I've heard the bunnymen. Awesome you guys rock.

One of my favorite post-punk bands! From Britain. So ahead of their time. And I think you both nailed it. To me, tension and suspense and danger nearby equals fishing in a lake with leeches, at once relaxing but you never know if something unsettling might happen. They're the same! They actually formed in the late 70s but Ocean Rain was the first album I heard by them and it came out when I was 22 in the early 80s. Everybody that I knew played it constantly. It was all over the college alt music charts. Everybody in my post punk band had a copy and we played it constantly. My drummer was so obsessed with it he figured out the drum parts for every song on the album, and this album is one of those where literally every song on it is pure gold. It's sometimes melancholy but it's so beautiful and melodic and sometimes carefree and it's so driving and his voice is unique. And the songs are all over the map in terms of tempo and feel and lyrics. They were one of the best. If you ever have a spare 35 minutes, just hop on KZfaq and search for Echo & the Bunnymen Ocean Rain and just listen through the playlist; it's nine songs. And most of them are between 3 and 4 minutes. Silver, the opening track, is quite uplifting, and there are others, Yo Yo Man is a mix of really uplifting and kind of tense and unsettling. Nocturnal Me and Crown of Thorns are dark and disturbing, but really catchy. I like this one as well for something upbeat by them, Seven Seas. These songs can really get stuck in your head for sure. m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bbBlZNmClbGwcps.html

“The Killing Moon” opens the movie “Donnie Darko” a very underrated film. I loved it the first time seeing it. This movie stayed with me for days, even weeks after watching. It is intense. cruel, vulgar, funny, mysterious, shocking, somber, and teen angst w/ an awesome soundtrack from the 80’s. Check out “Donnie Darko” Echo and the Bunnymen , New Wave. Super cool. Underrated.

Finally. Someone reacting to one of my all time favorite bands. Seen them in London in 1987. Fantastic live.

Thank you for your reaction. I would love to see you react to more Echo and the Bunnymen.

Oh this is so my jam ,saw them in the Top rank Cardiff in 1983,18 years old,my daughter came with me 2 months ago to see them in Birmingham,I'm now 58 and they were as good as ever!

One of my favorite songs! I discovered this song in the nineties, one of my friends liked it. Then another friend asked me to ask the DJ to play it in a club for her a few years later. Spectacular song.

One of my fave bands as a teenager from the 80’s. Class act!

Great band. The Cutter. Bring On The Dancing Horses. Nothing Lasts Forever. Seven Seas. Lips Like Sugar. Ian McCulloch great song writer with a gorgeous voice.

Finally! Echo & The Bunnymen. One of my favorite bands. 🐰 🐇 There is a concert video on KZfaq that's titled "Echo & The Bunnymen live at the Royal Albert Hall". It's my favorite concert video. The performance, sound, lighting, camera work, audience energy. Perfection.

FINALLY! I LOVE this song!!! So good. Loved it since it came out. A must do is also Lips Like Sugar!

So glad you gave this a listen, Brad think you nailed it, dark, suspense, edgy with a melancholic chorus. One of my favourite tracks of all time and Will Sergeant’s guitar is 🔥.

Lex's analogies are so random lol, love it!

Watching this again because I'm so glad when someone discovers Echo and gives them a little attention. Lex is so cute. I love the "fishing in a lake with leeches."

One of my all time favourite songs!

Such a masterpiece of a song. The music and lyrics go together so perfectly and superbly catch this sort of dark, compulsive romanticism. It evokes images of werewolves, vampires, or even the devil himself. Giving in to these creatures and their seductions, or these entities themselves giving in to their impulses (perhaps violent?) in opposition to their romantic desires., and the mirror of these sorts of fantastical encounters in complicated human relationships. The ambiguity in the narrative makes it all the more compelling to me.

truly a unique and seriously talented band. Echo's voice fits their music so perfectly. Dark, moody and mysterious.Post-punk perfection. This song holds up now and forever.

Echo & The Bunnyman; The Clash; The Church; The Cult; The Cure; Simple MInds; Pixies; Siouxie & the Banshees; Peter Murphy; The Bolshoi; OMD; Marillion; INXS; U2; The Who...best time ever!

Such a great band. WS’ guitar playing is incredibly mesmerizing and melodic at the same time on most of their tunes. Saw them a few years ago in Philly.

Lex never fails to make me smile, so cute and so open to the vibe of every song. Then coming out with the most left field take on it, what an imagination, so unique and totally unpredictable. Poor Brad just looks bemused by everything, and him looking to Lex for clarity is hilarious.

I loved this band back in the day and not giving my age away got to see them at the old Birmingham Odeon in 1983 lol. There is a real melancholy in Ian McCulloch's voice and anyone wanting to hear more should listen to their Crocodiles album.

I was blessed to see Echo and the bunny man in concert with the original singer... They opened up for a New Order...

"Suspenseful". Perfect! The Bunnymen were so good at creating atmosphere and suspense. Its a truly theatrical piece of music with a real undertow to it. I loved The Bunnymen.

A great track from a great band. Sounds as fresh today as it did back in 1984 when it came out.

Excellent song. Great choice 👌

I luv their cover of People are Strange .

One of the best songs to come out of the 80s.

You guys are really getting into some good music. Echo is fantastic. I would say they are what was known as alternative music. They got a lot of great music. Lips like sugar is a great song to dance to too.

I love, love, LOVE this song! Thank you for reacting to it. ❤️

'80s alternative/Indie, new wave (darkwave)! Gothic rock/post-punk group. They are from the UK. I remember the video for this song gave a vampire vibe when I was a kid. Was only shown at night time, Cutting Edge show on MTV for alternative music. And 120 Minutes, similar show on MTV. And on college/underground/alternative radio stations. This group was during the late '70s, '80s and early '90s. Lex was right about the melancholy feel and Brad was right, too. Very atmospheric, ethereal music, too. If yall heard this song somewhere before, probably on Donnie Darko, lol. A movie made in the early 2000s, set in the '80s. Creepy movie, played lots of '80s new wave and alternative stuff on that movie. See more of Echo and The Bunnymen videos/songs "Heads Will Roll", "The Cutter", "Lips like Sugar", "Show of Strength", "Nothing Lasts Forever", " Bringing on the Dancing Horses", etc They were inspired by Velvet Underground (proto-punk group), Roxy Music, David Bowie, The Doors and others. Similar groups to them are Psychedelic Furs, Killing Joke, Sioxsee and the Banshees, The Smiths, The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, Clan of Xymox, Joy Division, The Cult (early stuff), The Church, The Chameleons, The The, Coldplay, Interpol, Arcade Fire, The Killers, Flaming Lips, Modern English, early U2 , and others. Yall need to do another new wave/post-punk stream.

Loved this since high school in the early 80’s. Almost sounds like a James Bond theme song.

From the classic Ocean Rain album - 'fishing where there's leeches' is pretty good, the album is over the top romantic, dramatic, with danger and darkness.

"It's like fishing in a lake with leeches," I like this channel

Love this band. So unique.

Another icon of the 80s is the queen of early goth... Siouxsie & The Banshees. Start with the hits: "Spellbound" and "Cities in Dust". You'll love her.

Quintessential song for encapsulating that classic melancholy 80's vibe. "Seven Seas" from this same album also a favorite of mine.

Echo and the Bunnymen formed in Liverpool in 1978. The original line-up was vocalist Ian McCulloch, guitarist Will Sergeant, and bassist Les Pattinson. Pete de Freitas joined as the drummer in 1980. The early band used a drum machine that many people speculated to be "Echo" but this was denied by the band. Sadly in 1989 drummer Pete de Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident while on his way to band practice.

This band is so good.

An Iconic song. Transports me back to the feelings of that time. I remember the chorus being credited to God, as the singer awoke with those words in his head.

I get what Lex is saying. On the surface everything seems calm and peaceful, but there's a darkness lurking beneath the surface.

Omg this is one of my favourite band from the 80s and this was my favourite song from them 🤩😍they had a lot of other good songs from then too. I love you guys for reacting to the bunny men 😎😍😍😍😍so cool

RICK: I'm not prepared to discuss it with you, Vyvyan. You will be hearing from my solicitors in the morning. I'm going to write to my MP. [takes out paper and pencil] NEIL: You haven't got an MP, Rick. You're an anarchist. RICK: Oh. Well, then I shall write to the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen!

One thing you can always count on with this band is incredibly lush production. This track has a gothic feel.

Amazing Amazing song. Every Halloween I start listening to Echo along with The Church they are 2 of the most Underrated bands of Alltime

The Cutter was their biggest hit. That's deffo worth a listen too.

One of the best songs ever written. We know this because Ian McCulloch says so. He wrote it btw.

The most underrated rock band in history. By a mile. OMG, they are a treasure.

Man....That is such a great song.

My all time favourite song and my all time favourite band. Can't beat this imo, absolute perfection!

I am transported back to the UK 1984-1985, listening to Radio Caroline late at night in an ECP.

Americans listening to the great ‘Echo & the Bunnymen’…I’m stunned! But bravo guys 👏 It’s all about education. While you’ll try to get the music, you’ll never get the English alternative scene of that time period that spawned this band and their music. These dudes were really alternative at the time. If you’re struggling to get this…you’ll have no hope with ‘The Cutter’…Echo’s biggest hit. Well done for Lex feeling the tune.

Great band, saw them many times in my late teens.

Lips like sugar, and their cover of the door’s “people are strange” are really good.

With a lot of '80s songs it helps to treat the lyrics as poetry - the important thing is how they make you feel. The Killing Moon is very dramatic, which has always appealed to me, especially since I was in my early twenties when it came out.

Many (non-Killing)moons ago, I ran into Ian and his boys at a cool London hotel (name escapes me but whre I stayedat) and it was like 3a.m. and I was on beer #22, and as the lone Yankee I had a dozen assrtd Brits giving me the business! It was a real good time despite being 10-on-1 or wtvr... but will skip some great details and at dawn me Ian, some raven-haired beauty and the crazy Scot all adjourned to my room to test out some tobacco alternative and the last thing Ian said to me was "Good luck catching your flight mate...you can still catch a couple of hours..." And then he walked away cackling with his friends. I think I heard one say "yeah, right!" Yes, I missed that 10am flight doing a full sprint to the BA desk at Heathrow -- but girl at desk rebooked me on PanAm or Luft to Frankfurt and I had to run by foot once more, 2 35 lbs of luggage, in ridiculous condition (by right I should have been on a gurney)to the PanAm desk where they held the flight and hustled me onto plane and I collapsed into seat that stwrdss guided me to winded as hell. But here is how F-d Up life can be... I arrived at arpt b4 original BA flight!!!

I am always amazed at the way EATB can create songs that have so much dark tension, but with a tiny sliver of hopefulness. It’s why they are one of my very favorite bands of all time. The LP “Heaven Up Here” is a masterpiece. And I’d say they have about 30 songs altogether that are just perfect 10/10 songs in my book. No one lives in the crossroads of goth, new wave, glam rock & post-punk as well as Echo & The Bunnymen.

Takes me back. Great song. Was pleased to rediscover it some years back when it was used in the film Donny Darko

My favorite Echo tune. There was a time I had this album and the Cure's Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me on repeat. I really grooved on the darker side of the 80's. Check out Vitamin Z and Sisters Of Mercy too. ✌️

Never stop, the cutter or the back of love, all good.

My favourite band of the 80's. Saw them many times. Their show at the Albert Hall is here too.

I’m 15 again, you’ve took me right back, in my bedroom listening to this my friend had taped this for me. I never had money for records unlike now that you can stream music.

“Lips like sugar” has to be a mandatory choice.

I wish Lex could paint her musical impressions! So abstract.

Aw, Lex is great. She’s a bit mad & seems like a lot of fun. You guys make a good team 👍

You really just had to be lucky enough to be in your teens when songs like this came out. Desperately awesome song and band!

A backlit smoke-filled stage, with the Bunnymen silhouetted to the sound of Ave Maria, was the opening of one of their concerts. Unforgettable.