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Heaven Up Here [Extra tracks] [Original recording remastered]

~ Echo & The Bunnymen
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  • Audio CD (3 Nov 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Wsm
  • ASIN: B0000E2Y8Z
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,906 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Show Of Strength 4:49£0.69
Listen  2. With A Hip 3:15£0.69
Listen  3. Over The Wall 5:59£0.69
Listen  4. It Was A Pleasure 3:12£0.69
Listen  5. A Promise 4:06£0.69
Listen  6. Heaven Up Here 3:44£0.69
Listen  7. The Disease 2:28£0.69
Listen  8. All My Colours 4:06£0.69
Listen  9. No Dark Things 4:27£0.69
Listen10. Turquoise Days 3:51£0.69
Listen11. All I Want 4:09£0.69
Listen12. Broke My Neck (Long Version) 7:15£0.69
Listen13. Show Of Strength (Live) 4:39£0.69
Listen14. The Disease (Live) 1:53£0.69
Listen15. All I Want (Live) 3:10£0.69
Listen16. Zimbo (Live) 3:52£0.69

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Though it yielded only one minor hit single in the band's native England, HEAVEN UP HERE is considered by many to be the ultimate Echo and the Bunnymen album. The album is drenched in an aura of mystery that is fueled by the swirling, epicsound of guitarist Will Sergeant and drummer Pete De Freitas. The music is so powerful that singer Ian McCulloch's vague, almost nonsensical lyrics take on a profundity.
While tracks like "The Disease", a desolate two-chord sound-poem based on a solitary rhythm guitar and a haunting recorder passage, do feature some incisive lyrics, most of McCulloch's words seem intent on reinforcing the dark, brooding atmosphere of the music. The opening "Show of Strength", a soaring song that is driven by one of Sergeant's gripping guitar passages, sets the tone for the album, creating a heroic soundscape that crests with the majesty of "A Promise". The latter is a hypnotic song in which drummer DeFritas showcases his explosive style and McCulloch provides one the most compellingvocal performances of his career. While HEAVEN UP HERE may lack the hit singles that made the Bunnymen alternative-radio favourites throughout the '80s, it is a classic rock albumand arguably the Bunnymen's finest hour.

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Pick up thy raincoats and groove!, 2 Feb 2004
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Like many Bunnymen fans I rate Heaven Up Here as their best album. I remember listening to it for the first time and being swept away by it. Everything just stood out - the musicianship, the way the songs were crafted, even the cover.

And this remastering is very sympathetic to the original recording that came out all those years back. From my experience, some 'remasters' sound tinny and lack depth. This one doesn't - probably because of the excellent production the first time around. And like most Bunnymen tracks, very little of this sounds dated. Play something from U2, or any of the Bunnymen's contemporaries from this time and the opposite is true.

As other reviewers have said, there are no duff tracks on this album, and along with the track listing it defies any attempts to play tracks out of sequence - the mark of a truly great album.

The inclusion of the spiky and brilliant B-side "Broke My Neck" is a fantastic addition to this remastering, much more so than the live tracks, which give some idea of the live brilliance of the Bunnymen around that time, but sound as if they were messed around with in the studio and have better versions elsewhere.

The new sleeve notes and additional photos are a great introduction to anybody buying this album for the first time, as well as giving some of us oldies a little bit of nostalgia!

If you're in two minds about buying this, just do it. You won't be disappointed!

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best album ever made....and then some, 24 Dec 2003
22 years on from its original release, this still sends shivers down my spine. And now, digitally remastered, it sounds even better. The production is crystal-clear, with Pete DeFreitas' drumming seemingly brought to the fore, most notably on the amazing Over The Wall and the oh-so-moving All My Colours. The bonus tracks are welcome, too, though the purist in me tends to think that a masterpiece should not be fiddled with.

If Julian Cope had dismissed this album, and specifically Ian McCulloch's vocals, as Victorian-sounding, it is presumably nothing more than jealousy that his own Teardrop Explodes could not come up with anything anywhere near as good.

Never mind The Beatles....this is essential listening from Liverpool's TRUE greatest-ever band.

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars It was a pleasure, 4 Nov 2003
By degrant "degrant" (London) - See all my reviews
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A couple of years after the 4 cd compilation of album tracks, singles, alternative versions, live renditions and outtakes, Echo fans might be thought what else there is to hear. To commemorate 25 years of the band we are presented with a remastered album which succeeds in cleaning the sometimes claustrophobic sound without sacrificing the intensity and atmosphere. Pounding drum, textured bass sounds, spiralling guitar still chop in and out of one another but without suffocating Ian McCulloch's often overlooked voice which is in fantastic form.

In addition to these benefits one of the bonus tracks, "Broke My Neck" is one of the band's best b-sides but one which any self-respecting fan has heard. The four live tracks from Australia are brilliant though, proof of what a great concert group the Bunnymen were at the prime. Finally the idiosyncratic liner notes are complemented by generally excellent photographs many of which have not been shown before.

For anyone whose musical education has somehow circumvented "Heaven Up Here" suffice it say that it is the archetypal Bunnymen album and, for many, their best. Despite the presence of only one single (the uncommercial "A Promise")the songwriting and performance levels are of the highest order and compulsory listening for the uninitiated. The converted might gripe at the lack of truly new material but that should not dissuade them from purchasing the album. All in all, a show of strength indeed.

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