A music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music (available on Amazon)... picking a random album or song in his collection every day or so and sharing a few thoughts.
It's not easy to make a song that's genuinely spooky and kinda creepy, yet still melodic and infectious. But this Echo & The Bunnymen single from 1984 pulls it off. There's that dark vibe, comparable to what you might've heard a few years earlier from Joy Division or The Cure; a bit of the ol' goth, with the minor-key guitar jangle and horror movie piano, and of course those dark stranger lyrics. But it's also a huge-sounding epic, cutting loose into a beautiful hum-along chorus that makes for a winning new wave era anthem, haunting yet boomy. Singer Ian McCulloch out-Bonos Bono, emotional and operatic but controlled more than self-consciously flashy.Live in '84:And again in 2007:Pavement, exposing their roots in 1999:
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