[.ca] Live in Liverpool

From Amazon.co.uk:
Nothing, apparently, lasts forever. But in light of the youthful quality of Live in Liverpool, it's entirely fitting to see the original super furry Merseysiders ignoring their own maxim. Echo and the Bunnymen's first ever official "in concert" offering, Live in Liverpool captures the Bunnymen performing at Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts in August 2001. Frankly, though, the date is a matter of utter horological insignificance, for despite encroaching superannuation, depleted membership (only gloom crooner Ian McCulloch and sitar-flavoured guitarist Will Sergeant remain from the old days) and increased competition from garment-filching younger bucks, Echo and the Bunnymen are still cutting the live mustard. For even the casually committed, Live in Liverpool is a tasty alternative to any of the preceding Best Of compilations, not only offering those cornerstone moments of monochromic sleepy-eyed psychedelia ("Zimbo") and nautically-inspired nonsense ("Seven Seas") but such items of gloriously dark pop as "Rescue", "Lips Like Sugar" and the stealthy, surf-guitar strewn, cloak-and-dagger drama of "Killing Moon". For oburate, floppy-eared Bunny fans, Live in Liverpool is nothing less than essential. --Kevin Maidment

good, but DVD better.:
Big fan and because i couldnt get to a show when them came around last time i was looking forward to getting this cd. check out the DVD as it includes several more songs and the visuals add to the experiance.

Rockin' Live record!!!:
I loved this 2001 Liverpool, England concert CD from the still alive and kickin' Echo & The Bunnymen... OK, they've got a number of hired guns these days, but originals - Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant get the best out of them and as a result, this record (CD) rocks! I saw this band lineup when they toured the States and they did a great job...this CD captures them well...additionally the sound quality is really GREAT here - thumbs up to the recording / mixing engineer Pete Coleman! The well chosen song selection covers alot of ground, from the early days clear up to 2001's, "Flowers". I look forward to many more from Echo & The Bunnymen!

How to get a fifth star?!:
The only thing that keeps this from being a five star album is that it does not include all the songs that are on the dvd and also seems rushed as songs almost blend into one another. This should have been a 2 disc set. The same goes for the recently released Neil Finn live album. I ended up burning my own!

Echo-less:
Echo and the Bunnymen: once the world's best pop band - now one of the worst. Ian Mcculloch live looks like he's trying to pull off a Ramones impression but sounds even worse. Smoking turned his heroic 1984 bellows into nasal sqeaking. The new material is different music from a different band - even Will's still magestic guitar playing can't carve it out of its tomb. Bunnymen fans will be more content mining the original albums or the new box set than this CD's illumination of a band that only casts a sad shadow.

Don't Deny it, Just Buy It:
Live albums today rarely live up to their previously set standards of expectations--so the most we can generally hope to enjoy about them is a polished performance (or excellent post-show mixing) and a 'greatest hits' song-selection. With "Live In Liverpool", the Bunnymen set their sights somewhere between self-parody and brilliance. I'm happy to say the album is quite good; material from "Crocodiles" and "Songs to Learn & Sing" mesh well with newer tunes from "Evergreen" and "Flowers", something that's hard for any band to pull off. But they pull out the stops with "Lips Like Sugar", "Zimbo", "Killing Moon", and "Seven Seas." There's very little innovation to be found here; just a well-rounded, superb-sounding performance that is sure to please old 'where are they now?' fans and newer ones.

• Rescue
• Lips Like Sugar
• King of Kings
• Never Stop
• Seven Seas
• Buried Alive
• Supermellow Man
• My Kingdom
• Zimbo (All My Colours)
• All That Jazz
• Eternity Turns
• Back of Love
• Killing Moon
• Cutter
• Over the Wall
• Nothing Lasts Forever
• Ocean Rain