S5E249 - Echo & The Bunnymen 'Ocean Rain' with Corey duBrowa

<p>For Liverpool UK band <strong>Echo & The Bunnymen</strong>'s fourth release, 1984's <strong>'Ocean Rain'</strong>, they went all-in. Recorded primarily in Paris with a 35-piece orchestra, Ocean Rain is a dazzling collection of songs writ large with sweeping string arrangements and inspired - at times restrained and at times ferocious - playing /singing by band members Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson and Pete de Freitas. This week's guest <strong>Corey duBrowa</strong> went all-in as well, as he joined Rob to unpack this splendidly deranged musical masterpiece.</p> <p>Songs featured in this episode: <em>The Killing Moon</em> - CHVRCHES/Pavement/Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs; <em>Oregon Ducks Fight Song; Guiding Light</em> - Television; <em>Here I Go</em> - Syd Barrett; <em>Read It In Books</em> - Echo & The Bunnymen (John Peel Session, August 1979); <em>Some Other Guy</em> - The Beatles (Live at the Cavern Club, August 1962); <em>The Back Of Love (Live at Royal Albert Hall, 1984), Never Stop, Silver, Nocturnal Me, Crystal Days, The Yo Yo Man</em> - Echo & The Bunnymen; <em>Is She Weird?</em> - Pixies; <em>New Slang</em> - The Shins; <em>Waiting For The Sun</em> - The Doors; <em>Thorn Of Crowns, Thorn Of Crowns (Live at Royal Albert Hall, 2008)</em> - Echo & The Bunnymen; <em>BAD</em> - U2 (Live Aid 1985); <em>The Killing Moon</em> - Echo & The Bunnymen; <em>Space Oddity</em> - David Bowie; <em>Seven Seas</em> - Echo & The Bunnymen; <em>Andmoreagain</em> - Love; <em>My Kingdom, Ocean Rain, It's All Over Now Baby Blue</em> - Echo & The Bunnymen; </p>