{"product_id":"echo-the-bunnymen-evergreen-25th-anniversary-white-vinyl","title":"Echo \u0026 The Bunnymen - Evergreen - 25th Anniversary - White Vinyl","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCelebrating the 25\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s5\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e anniversary of Echo \u0026amp; The Bunnymen’s second coming, London Records revisit the band’s triumphant album Evergreen, set for release on the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e18\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s5\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e November. Evergreen receives a vinyl pressing for the very first time, with an initial run of white vinyl available to pre-order\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The anniversary release also features an expanded double CD version with an extensive array of studio \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eb-sides\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, radio sessions, and unreleased live versions across 33 tracks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOriginally released in 1997, Evergreen marked a critical and commercial renaissance for the band after more than half a decade’s hiatus; an album that rightfully returned them to the Top 10 that sported three UK hits including the seminal ‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Tc1J7y4xIdA\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s6\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNothing Lasts Forever\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e’. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen Echo \u0026amp; The Bunnymen imploded at the end of the 1980s, the decade lost one of its greatest bands in the messiest of circumstances. Until then, theirs had been a magical rise: since 1979 they’d outgrown the Liverpool punk scene, outshone their alternative pop rivals of the mid-80s, and looked set to step into the big league. But by the end of the decade the magic that had kept them together was slowly unthreading. The die was cast in 1988 when Ian McCulloch quit after a tour of Japan. It should have marked the end for the band, but the remaining Bunnymen decided to persevere and seek a replacement. Unthinkable tragedy struck in 1989 when drummer Pete de Freitas was killed in a motorbike accident. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe finality – as it then seemed – of the Bunnymen was all the worse for the nagging sense that they hadn’t so much faded away as burned out before their time.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter a half-decade wilderness years of side projects and solo outings, in January 1997 Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson and Ian McCulloch decided to come back together in a recording studio for the first time in ten years. The reborn Bunnymen entered Doghouse studios in Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, as fate would have it at the same time as Oasis, then gliding on a post-Knebworth high as the biggest band in Britain. In a pivotal generational passing of the baton, the two legends of their eras merged on the killer ace nestling up McCulloch’s sleeve, ‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Tc1J7y4xIdA\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s6\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNothing Lasts Forever\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e’, featuring a 24-year-old Liam Gallagher on backing “yeah, yeah, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eyeah!”s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and tambourine shakes. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAny doubts among fans that the Bunnymen might have been making a terrible mistake by regrouping were obliterated by the song’s first chorus, crashing the UK Top Ten at number 8 in June 1997, the first taster of the album, the highest new entry in the band’s career and equalling their \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebest ever\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e chart position for ‘The Cutter’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe self-produced sessions at Doghouse were further embellished with strings, horns and vocal arrangements at the more imperious sounding Abbey Road and the resultant album achieved the almost impossible; commercial, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003econceptual\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and critical acclaim on a par with their past achievements. NME called it \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s7\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“impossibly good. The first comeback in history not to be dogged by a nauseous sense of distress, the first one to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s7\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eactually sound\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s7\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e important”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, the Melody Maker declared \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s7\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“the new songs are as good as the old songs, and probably better than almost anything you’ll hear this year”. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormer manager (and later KLF pop maverick Bill Drummond) spoke of their return at the time:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s7\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “Within the soul of Echo \u0026amp; The Bunnymen there was a pure aspiration that transcended all those would-be dragged up memories. It’s as if The Bunnymen were going for some ultimate and indefinable glory.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTen years since they last graced the Top Ten Album Chart, Evergreen returned them there in July 1997. The Bunnymen had proved themselves not only deserving of a second wind but effortlessly welcomed by the musical landscape of the late-90s. Arriving in the season of Oasis’s Be Here Now and The Verve’s Urban Hymns, Evergreen was both of and beyond its time. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt the time, McCulloch proudly spoke of the album as the best he’d believed they’d ever made. Through the sepia lens of hindsight, today he understates its value as containing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s7\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“at least three great songs, which is three more than most bands have in their entire catalogue.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e By name, the ballads ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’, ‘Forgiven’ and ‘Just A Touch Away’. Beyond McCulloch’s holy trinity, Evergreen was just as notable for its snake-charming title track and the similarly serpentine ‘Empire State Halo’, both, like the best Bunnymen songs of yore, reaching our ears somewhere from Norris Green via Marrakesh. Elsewhere the Mersey shuffle of singles ‘Don’t Let it Get You Down’ and ‘I Want \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Be There (When You Come)’ sees the brighter side of the band, as open and as relevant as their contemporaries past and present.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s7\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Someone asked me the other day why I reunited the Bunnymen,”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e McCulloch commented that summer. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s7\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Well, I haven’t. I’ve re-ignited the Bunnymen. Having said that, they never stopped glowing somewhere in my heart.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThat glow made \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emusic,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Evergreen still blinds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTRACKLISTINGS:  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEVERGREEN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(25 YEAR ANNIVERSARY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEDITION)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  LP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA1 Don’t Let It Get You Down \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA2 In My Time  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e I Want To Be There (When You Come) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA4 Evergreen  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA5 I’ll Fly Tonight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA6 Nothing Lasts \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eForever  3:55\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB1 Baseball Bill \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB2 Altamont \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB3 Just a Touch Away \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB4 Empire State Halo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB5 Too Young \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Kneel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB6 Forgiven \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Echo \u0026 The Bunnymen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44641318732084,"sku":"","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2208\/6196\/products\/evergreen-white-vinyl.webp?v=1678357390","url":"https:\/\/16-kingland.myshopify.com\/products\/echo-the-bunnymen-evergreen-25th-anniversary-white-vinyl","provider":"16 Kingland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}