Ocean Rain
Echo & The Bunnymen (1984)
The fourth studio album from a band that I am looking forward to seeing later this month was released forty years ago tomorrow. Ocean Rain was released across Europe on May 4th, 1984 with a US release following ten days later. I don't necessarily agree with lead singer Ian McCulloch's assertation that it's "the greatest album ever made", but it is a damn good record and one of the best of the 80's.
The song that it's best remembered for gained new life 17 years after its release when it opened the 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko. It's one of the greatest uses of music in film that I've ever seen.
Under blue moon I saw youSo soon you'll take meUp in your arms; too late to beg youOr cancel it though I know it must beThe killing timeUnwillingly mineFateUp against your willThrough the thick and thinHe will wait untilYou give yourself to himIn starlit nights I saw youSo cruelly you kissed meYour lips a magic worldYour sky all hung with jewelsThe killing moonWill come too soonFateUp against your willThrough the thick and thinHe will wait untilYou give yourself to him
