Echo & The Bunnymen released The Killing Moon on this day in 1984 (H/T @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social). Here's a thread featuring three great live versions, but let's start with the full 9 minutes of the All Night mix from the 12" ▶️🎧 youtu.be/URTaXcsUk3k - ThreadSky

birmingham81.bsky.social • 38 days ago

Echo & The Bunnymen released The Killing Moon on this day in 1984 (H/T @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social). Here's a thread featuring three great live versions, but let's start with the full 9 minutes of the All Night mix from the 12"
▶️🎧 https://youtu.be/URTaXcsUk3k

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pstudonym.bsky.social•38 days ago

Amazing; hadn’t heard that version before. Cheers.

birmingham81.bsky.social•38 days ago

Here are Echo & The Bunnymen performing The Killing Moon live on The Whistle Test in 1985
https://youtu.be/kCwXNqReft0

birmingham81.bsky.social•38 days ago

This live performance of The Killing Moon was filmed for The Tube in December 1983, but not shown until January 1984 to coincide with the single's release
https://youtu.be/zobNTeQvjds?si=nK2KZDdail-8-ZIz&t=846

birmingham81.bsky.social•38 days ago

And here's Ian McCulloch performing a lovely acoustic version of The Killing Moon with Roddy Frame
https://youtu.be/XaoSojKuRJE

docdarkness.bsky.social•38 days ago

Wonderful song. I’d never heard it until I heard Goose cover it this year. Thanks for sharing man.

manicpopthrlls.bsky.social•37 days ago

Kind of worried its use in that ad at the moment is going to ruin it for me.

birmingham81.bsky.social•37 days ago

The EE one? Only just seen that for the first time. At least they used the original song. Hopefully the kids will Shazam it and discover the delights of the Bunnymen. It's their most played song on Spotify by far, but that's probably because of Donnie Darko

manicpopthrlls.bsky.social•37 days ago

Yeah the EE one. It seems to be on at every ad break during the tennis.

madunlop.bsky.social•37 days ago

Obviously… 😍

bouncingbaby.bsky.social•38 days ago

I made a similar thread (in Spanish) a year ago on twitter. My favourite song, my favourite band.
https://x.com/toni_yoyoman/status/1748780242632602097?t=N1Z5MVjn0sGfR2HF6kE4bQ&s=19

mgomezmtb.bsky.social•38 days ago

The Greatest Song Ever Written!

birmingham81.bsky.social•38 days ago

Well Mac thinks so!

mgomezmtb.bsky.social•38 days ago

He’s the one who let me know that it was. 😀
Ocean Rain is pretty damned great too.

hilliatfields.bsky.social•38 days ago

NME (or maybe Smash Hits) phoned Ian to ask about the meaning of The Killing Moon.
"You wake me at the crack of dawn to explain poetry?"
It was 11am.
(Funny what we remember.)