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Crocodiles (album)

December 20, 2023

Crocodiles is the debut album by the English post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen. It was released on 18 July 1980 in the United Kingdom and on 17 December 1980 in the United States. The album reached number 17 on the UK Albums Chart. "Pictures on My Wall" and "Rescue" had previously been released as singles.

Crocodiles
Studio album by
Echo & the Bunnymen
Released18 July 1980
Recorded1980
Studio
Genre
Length37:03
LabelKorova
Producer
Echo & the Bunnymen chronology
Crocodiles
(1980) 		Heaven Up Here
(1981)
Singles from Crocodiles
  1. "The Pictures on My Wall"
    Released: 5 May 1979
  2. "Rescue"
    Released: 5 May 1980

Recorded at Eden Studios in London and at Rockfield Studios near Monmouth, Crocodiles was produced by Bill Drummond and David Balfe, while Ian Broudie had already produced the single "Rescue". The album received favourable reviews from the music press, receiving four out of five stars by both Rolling Stone and Blender magazines.

Background and recording edit

Echo & the Bunnymen formed in 1978 and originally consisted of Ian McCulloch (lead vocals), Will Sergeant (lead guitar), Les Pattinson (bass) and a drum machine. They released their debut single, "The Pictures on My Wall", in May 1979 on the independent label Zoo Records. The band then signed with WEA subsidiary label Korova and were persuaded to employ a drummer.[4] Pete de Freitas subsequently joined the band, and in early 1980 they recorded their second single, "Rescue". The single was recorded at Eden Studios in London and produced by fellow Liverpudlian and ex-member of Big in Japan Ian Broudie.[5]

A British tour followed in June 1980 before the band went to Rockfield Studios to record their debut album. Despite talk of the American singer Del Shannon being asked to produce the album, it was produced by the band's manager Bill Drummond and his business partner and The Teardrop Explodes keyboard player David Balfe.[6] The recording of the album only took three weeks,[6] but Pattinson was surprised by the boring nature of the recording process: "There was a lot of hanging about. I didn't get all the 'drop-ins' and 'edits' bit."[7]

Music and lyrics edit

The music on Crocodiles is generally dark and moody: In 1980, the British music magazine NME described McCulloch's lyrics as "scattered with themes of sorrow, horror, and despair, themes that are reinforced by stormy animal/sexual imagery" and American music magazine Creem described Crocodiles as "a moody, mysterious, fascinating record."[8] In 1981, music journalist David Fricke, writing for Rolling Stone magazine, said, "Instead of dope, McCulloch trips out on his worst fears: isolation, death and emotional bankruptcy."[9]

In his 2005 book Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978–1984, British music journalist Simon Reynolds describes the sound of the album as "pared and sparse."[10] He goes on to describe Pattinson's "granite basslines" carrying the melody; Sergeant's guitar playing as "jagged-quartz" and avoiding "anything resembling a solo, apart from the odd flinty peal of lead playing"; de Freitas' drumming as minimal and "surging urgency"; and McCulloch's vocals as having "precocious authority." Reynolds describes the songs as being rooted in "doubt, anguish, despair" while the "tightness and brightness of their sound transmits contradictory sensations of confidence, vigour and euphoria."[10] He also describes how the line "Stars are stars and they shine so hard" from the track "Stars Are Stars" showed how the band felt no embarrassment in their wish to be famous.[11] In 1989 McCulloch told Reynolds how, as a teenager, he felt there was "a big movie camera in the sky." McCulloch described the opening line of the track "Going Up" – "Ain't thou watching my film" – as a terrible line, and he went on to say "It was meant to be tongue in cheek, but that was what spurred me on."[11]

Cover edit

The cover photograph is one of a series taken by photographer Brian Griffin[5] in the woods near Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire at night. The photos show themes of introspection, despair and confusion.[12] Describing the cover photo, music journalist Chris Salewicz said, "[...] the Bunnymen are placed in poses of histrionic despair in a near-neurotically gothic woodland that evokes memories of elfin glades and fabled Arthurian legends."[13] Creem magazine said, "The cover art suggests four boys dazed and confused in a drugged dream, a surreal where-are-we landscape. The Bunnymen's images are of loneliness, disconnection, a world gone awry."[8]

Originally the band wanted the pictures to include burning stakes, but given the possible KKK connotations, they settled for moody lighting instead.[12] However, McCulloch was pleased with the cover, saying "the cover [...] is better to look at than the Mona Lisa."[14] Sergeant was less happy, saying that he "was pissed off that there was a solo picture of [McCulloch] on the back cover."[15]

In the book The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs, Bill Drummond says that he saw the face of "Echo", an imagined giant rabbit, in the cover design.[16]

Releases edit

The album was originally released as an LP in the United Kingdom on 18 July 1980 by Warner Bros. subsidiary label Korova. Two tracks, "Do It Clean" and "Read It in Books", were included on the cassette but were initially omitted from the LP version of the album because the managing director of Warner Bros., Rob Dickins, mistakenly thought that they contained obscenities.[6] After Dickins realised his error, the tracks were included on the American version of the album, which was released by Sire Records on 17 December 1980. The two tracks were included with the UK release as a limited-edition single. The album was first released on CD in May 1989 by WEA in the UK. It was released on CD in the US by Sire Records the following year. The track listings found on these versions were the same as those of the original LP releases for each country.

Along with Echo & the Bunnymen's first five albums, Crocodiles was remastered and reissued on CD in 2003, marketed as a 25th-anniversary edition ten bonus tracks on the UK version and eight on the American version. The UK version contained the missing tracks "Do It Clean" and "Read It in Books". The other bonus tracks included "Simple Stuff", which was the B-side to the single "Rescue"; early versions of "Villiers Terrace", "Pride" and "Simple Stuff" from the album's recording sessions; and the four tracks from the Shine So Hard EP, "Crocodiles", "Zimbo", "All That Jazz" and "Over the Wall". The reissued album was produced by music historian Andy Zax and producer Bill Inglot.[5]

Two singles were released before the album's release. "Pictures on My Wall" (as "The Pictures on My Wall"), the band's first single, was released on 5 May 1979. The single version was recorded before de Freitas had joined the band, but the song was re-recorded for the album with de Freitas on drums.[17] The band's second single, "Rescue", released on 5 May 1980, became the band's first song to chart when it reached number 62 on the UK Singles Chart.[18]

Scottish band Idlewild covered the track "Rescue" on their single "These Wooden Ideas" in June 2000.[19] In late 2001, American singer-songwriter Kelley Stoltz released the album Crockodials, a track-by-track cover version of the original Crocodiles album.[20]

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [21]
Blender     [22]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[23]
The Guardian     [24]
Pitchfork8.2/10[25]
Record Mirror     [26]
Rolling Stone     [9]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide     [27]
Smash Hits9½/10[28]
The Village VoiceB[29]

Writing for NME in 1980, Chris Salewicz described the album as "being probably the best album this year by a British band."[13] In his review of the album for Smash Hits, Ian Cranna said that the album was "proof positive that there's just no substitute for a good song delivered with power and emotion." Cranna added, "[The band] deliver attractive melodies with dark and moody (but not obscure) personal lyrics, all turned into compulsive listening by a driving beat, ringing guitars and a hauntingly emotional voice."[28] Reviewing the album in 1981 for Rolling Stone magazine, David Fricke awarded it four out of five stars and described McCulloch's vocals: "[He] specializes in a sort of apocalyptic brooding, combining Jim Morrison-style psychosexual yells, a flair for David Bowie-like vocal inflections and the nihilistic bark of his punk peers into a disturbing portrait of the singer as a young neurotic."[9] Fricke went on to say, "Behind him, gripping music swells into Doors-style dirges ('Pictures on My Wall'), PiL-like guitar dynamics ('Monkeys'), spookily evocative pop ('Rescue') and Yardbirds-cum-Elevators ravers jacked up in the New Wave manner ('Do It Clean,' 'Crocodiles')." Reviewing the 2003 remastered version for American music magazine Blender's website, reviewer Andrew Harrison also gave the album four out of five stars and said, "[...] the Bunnymen were a pure nihilistic thrill, with Will Sergeant's desperate, mantra-like guitar summoning up a primal night of blinking hallucinations."[22]

Crocodiles reached number 17 on the UK Albums Chart in July 1980.[18] The album has since sold over 100,000 copies and the band were awarded a gold disc for the album on 5 December 1984 by the British Phonographic Industry.[30] In 1993, the NME listed Crocodiles at number 28 in its list of the 50 greatest albums of the 1980s.[31] In 2006, Uncut magazine listed the album at number 69 on its list of the 100 greatest debut albums.[32] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[33] In 2020, Rolling Stone included Crocodiles in their "80 Greatest albums of 1980" list, praising "Will Sergeants’ ice-dagger guitar and Les Pattinson’s spelunking bass, making “Rescue” and “Pictures on My Wall” the perfect invitations to crawl down into Ian’s hot pit of despair."[34]

Track listing edit

All tracks written by Will Sergeant, Ian McCulloch, Les Pattinson and Pete de Freitas except where noted.

2003 bonus tracks edit

  2. "Do It Clean"[A] – 2:44
  3. "Read It in Books"[A] (McCulloch, Cope) – 2:31
  4. "Simple Stuff" – 2:38
  5. "Villiers Terrace" (early version) – 3:08
  6. "Pride" (early version) – 2:54
  7. "Simple Stuff" (early version) – 2:37
  8. "Crocodiles"[B] (live) – 5:09
  9. "Zimbo"[B] (live) – 3:36
  10. "All That Jazz"[B] (live) – 2:53
  11. "Over the Wall"[B] (live) – 5:28

Personnel edit

Echo & the Bunnymen
Technical

Notes edit

  • A. ^1 2 Originally included on the US release of Crocodiles.
  • B. ^1 2 3 4 From the Shine So Hard EP (Korona ECHO 1, 1981). Recorded live at the Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, UK, 17 January 1981.
  • C. ^1 2 Credited as The Chameleons.

References edit

  1. ^ Caramanzana, Ian (27 July 2017). "Tips like sugar: Things you should know about Echo & The Bunnymen". Las Vegas Weekly. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  2. ^ Terich, Jeff (2 July 2015). "10 Essential Neo-Psychedelia Albums". Treble. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  3. ^ de Visé, Daniel. "Thirteen New Wave Album Classics". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  4. ^ Adams 2002, p. 34
  5. ^ a b c Crocodiles (CD booklet). Echo & the Bunnymen. Warner Strategic Marketing. 2003. 2564-61161-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. ^ a b c Adams 2002, p. 39
  7. ^ Bell 2003, pp. 6–7
  8. ^ a b Adams 2002, p. 41
  9. ^ a b c Fricke, David (16 April 1981). "Crocodiles". Rolling Stone. ISSN 0035-791X. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  10. ^ a b Reynolds 2006, p. 440
  11. ^ a b Reynolds 2006, p. 443
  12. ^ a b Adams 2002, pp. 39–40
  13. ^ a b Salewicz, Chris (22 November 1980). "Echo & The Bunnymen: Welcome To The Bunnyhouse". NME. ISSN 0028-6362.
  14. ^ Adams 2002, p. 40
  15. ^ Bell 2003, p. 7
  16. ^ Higgs, John (2013). The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds. Phoenix. pp. 38–39. ISBN 9781780226552.
  17. ^ Wilson, MacKenzie. "The Pictures on My Wall – Echo & the Bunnymen". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 April 2004.
  18. ^ a b Roberts, David, ed. (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). HIT Entertainment. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  19. ^ "Those Wooden Ideas – Idlewild". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
  20. ^ "Kelley Stoltz – Music". Kelley Stoltz. Retrieved 7 April 2008.
  21. ^ Raggett, Ned. "Crocodiles – Echo & the Bunnymen". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  22. ^ a b Harrison, Andrew (2004). . Blender. ISSN 1534-0554. Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
  23. ^ Endelman, Michael (5 March 2004). "Crocodiles". Entertainment Weekly. No. 754. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
  24. ^ Sweeting, Adam (31 October 2003). "Echo and the Bunnymen: Various". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  25. ^ Tangari, Joe (2 March 2004). "Echo and the Bunnymen: Crocodiles / Heaven Up Here / Porcupine / Ocean Rain / Echo & The Bunnymen". Pitchfork. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
  26. ^ Westwood, Chris (12 July 1980). "Echo & the Bunnymen: Crocodiles". Record Mirror. p. 20.
  27. ^ Gross, Joe (2004). "Echo and the Bunnymen". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 271. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  28. ^ a b Cranna, Ian (24 July – 6 August 1980). "Echo & the Bunnymen: Crocodiles". Smash Hits. Vol. 2, no. 15. p. 29.
  29. ^ Christgau, Robert (30 March 1981). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  30. ^ . British Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 24 September 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2010. Note: User needs to enter "echo & the bunnymen" in the "Search" field and then click "Go". The user then needs to click on "More Info >>" next to the entry for Crocodiles.
  31. ^ "The 50 Greatest Albums of The '80s". NME. 25 September 1993. p. 19. ISSN 0028-6362.
  32. ^ "100 Greatest Debut Albums". Uncut. No. 111. August 2006. ISSN 1368-0722.
  33. ^ Dimery, Robert, ed. (2006). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (revised and updated ed.). Universe Publishing. ISBN 0-7893-1371-5.
  34. ^ "The 80 Greatest Albums of 1980 What came out of all this was, arguably, the greatest year for great albums ever". Rolling Stone. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
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Crocodiles is the debut album by the English post punk band Echo amp the Bunnymen It was released on 18 July 1980 in the United Kingdom and on 17 December 1980 in the United States The album reached number 17 on the UK Albums Chart Pictures on My Wall and Rescue had previously been released as singles CrocodilesStudio album by Echo amp the BunnymenReleased18 July 1980Recorded1980StudioEden London Rockfield Rockfield Wales GenrePost punk 1 neo psychedelia 2 new wave 3 Length37 03LabelKorovaProducerBill DrummondDavid BalfeIan BroudieEcho amp the Bunnymen chronologyCrocodiles 1980 Heaven Up Here 1981 Singles from Crocodiles The Pictures on My Wall Released 5 May 1979 Rescue Released 5 May 1980Recorded at Eden Studios in London and at Rockfield Studios near Monmouth Crocodiles was produced by Bill Drummond and David Balfe while Ian Broudie had already produced the single Rescue The album received favourable reviews from the music press receiving four out of five stars by both Rolling Stone and Blender magazines Contents 1 Background and recording 2 Music and lyrics 3 Cover 4 Releases 5 Reception 6 Track listing 6 1 1980 UK LP version and Canadian Cassette 6 1 1 Side one 6 1 2 Side two 6 2 1980 US version and 1980 UK cassette version 6 2 1 Side one 6 2 2 Side two 6 3 2003 bonus tracks 7 Personnel 8 Notes 9 ReferencesBackground and recording editEcho amp the Bunnymen formed in 1978 and originally consisted of Ian McCulloch lead vocals Will Sergeant lead guitar Les Pattinson bass and a drum machine They released their debut single The Pictures on My Wall in May 1979 on the independent label Zoo Records The band then signed with WEA subsidiary label Korova and were persuaded to employ a drummer 4 Pete de Freitas subsequently joined the band and in early 1980 they recorded their second single Rescue The single was recorded at Eden Studios in London and produced by fellow Liverpudlian and ex member of Big in Japan Ian Broudie 5 A British tour followed in June 1980 before the band went to Rockfield Studios to record their debut album Despite talk of the American singer Del Shannon being asked to produce the album it was produced by the band s manager Bill Drummond and his business partner and The Teardrop Explodes keyboard player David Balfe 6 The recording of the album only took three weeks 6 but Pattinson was surprised by the boring nature of the recording process There was a lot of hanging about I didn t get all the drop ins and edits bit 7 Music and lyrics editThe music on Crocodiles is generally dark and moody In 1980 the British music magazine NME described McCulloch s lyrics as scattered with themes of sorrow horror and despair themes that are reinforced by stormy animal sexual imagery and American music magazine Creem described Crocodiles as a moody mysterious fascinating record 8 In 1981 music journalist David Fricke writing for Rolling Stone magazine said Instead of dope McCulloch trips out on his worst fears isolation death and emotional bankruptcy 9 In his 2005 book Rip It Up and Start Again Post Punk 1978 1984 British music journalist Simon Reynolds describes the sound of the album as pared and sparse 10 He goes on to describe Pattinson s granite basslines carrying the melody Sergeant s guitar playing as jagged quartz and avoiding anything resembling a solo apart from the odd flinty peal of lead playing de Freitas drumming as minimal and surging urgency and McCulloch s vocals as having precocious authority Reynolds describes the songs as being rooted in doubt anguish despair while the tightness and brightness of their sound transmits contradictory sensations of confidence vigour and euphoria 10 He also describes how the line Stars are stars and they shine so hard from the track Stars Are Stars showed how the band felt no embarrassment in their wish to be famous 11 In 1989 McCulloch told Reynolds how as a teenager he felt there was a big movie camera in the sky McCulloch described the opening line of the track Going Up Ain t thou watching my film as a terrible line and he went on to say It was meant to be tongue in cheek but that was what spurred me on 11 Cover editThe cover photograph is one of a series taken by photographer Brian Griffin 5 in the woods near Rickmansworth Hertfordshire at night The photos show themes of introspection despair and confusion 12 Describing the cover photo music journalist Chris Salewicz said the Bunnymen are placed in poses of histrionic despair in a near neurotically gothic woodland that evokes memories of elfin glades and fabled Arthurian legends 13 Creem magazine said The cover art suggests four boys dazed and confused in a drugged dream a surreal where are we landscape The Bunnymen s images are of loneliness disconnection a world gone awry 8 Originally the band wanted the pictures to include burning stakes but given the possible KKK connotations they settled for moody lighting instead 12 However McCulloch was pleased with the cover saying the cover is better to look at than the Mona Lisa 14 Sergeant was less happy saying that he was pissed off that there was a solo picture of McCulloch on the back cover 15 In the book The KLF Chaos Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs Bill Drummond says that he saw the face of Echo an imagined giant rabbit in the cover design 16 Releases editThe album was originally released as an LP in the United Kingdom on 18 July 1980 by Warner Bros subsidiary label Korova Two tracks Do It Clean and Read It in Books were included on the cassette but were initially omitted from the LP version of the album because the managing director of Warner Bros Rob Dickins mistakenly thought that they contained obscenities 6 After Dickins realised his error the tracks were included on the American version of the album which was released by Sire Records on 17 December 1980 The two tracks were included with the UK release as a limited edition single The album was first released on CD in May 1989 by WEA in the UK It was released on CD in the US by Sire Records the following year The track listings found on these versions were the same as those of the original LP releases for each country Along with Echo amp the Bunnymen s first five albums Crocodiles was remastered and reissued on CD in 2003 marketed as a 25th anniversary edition ten bonus tracks on the UK version and eight on the American version The UK version contained the missing tracks Do It Clean and Read It in Books The other bonus tracks included Simple Stuff which was the B side to the single Rescue early versions of Villiers Terrace Pride and Simple Stuff from the album s recording sessions and the four tracks from the Shine So Hard EP Crocodiles Zimbo All That Jazz and Over the Wall The reissued album was produced by music historian Andy Zax and producer Bill Inglot 5 Two singles were released before the album s release Pictures on My Wall as The Pictures on My Wall the band s first single was released on 5 May 1979 The single version was recorded before de Freitas had joined the band but the song was re recorded for the album with de Freitas on drums 17 The band s second single Rescue released on 5 May 1980 became the band s first song to chart when it reached number 62 on the UK Singles Chart 18 Scottish band Idlewild covered the track Rescue on their single These Wooden Ideas in June 2000 19 In late 2001 American singer songwriter Kelley Stoltz released the album Crockodials a track by track cover version of the original Crocodiles album 20 Reception editProfessional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllMusic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 21 Blender nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 22 Entertainment WeeklyA 23 The Guardian nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 24 Pitchfork8 2 10 25 Record Mirror nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 26 Rolling Stone nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 9 The Rolling Stone Album Guide nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 27 Smash Hits9 10 28 The Village VoiceB 29 Writing for NME in 1980 Chris Salewicz described the album as being probably the best album this year by a British band 13 In his review of the album for Smash Hits Ian Cranna said that the album was proof positive that there s just no substitute for a good song delivered with power and emotion Cranna added The band deliver attractive melodies with dark and moody but not obscure personal lyrics all turned into compulsive listening by a driving beat ringing guitars and a hauntingly emotional voice 28 Reviewing the album in 1981 for Rolling Stone magazine David Fricke awarded it four out of five stars and described McCulloch s vocals He specializes in a sort of apocalyptic brooding combining Jim Morrison style psychosexual yells a flair for David Bowie like vocal inflections and the nihilistic bark of his punk peers into a disturbing portrait of the singer as a young neurotic 9 Fricke went on to say Behind him gripping music swells into Doors style dirges Pictures on My Wall PiL like guitar dynamics Monkeys spookily evocative pop Rescue and Yardbirds cum Elevators ravers jacked up in the New Wave manner Do It Clean Crocodiles Reviewing the 2003 remastered version for American music magazine Blender s website reviewer Andrew Harrison also gave the album four out of five stars and said the Bunnymen were a pure nihilistic thrill with Will Sergeant s desperate mantra like guitar summoning up a primal night of blinking hallucinations 22 Crocodiles reached number 17 on the UK Albums Chart in July 1980 18 The album has since sold over 100 000 copies and the band were awarded a gold disc for the album on 5 December 1984 by the British Phonographic Industry 30 In 1993 the NME listed Crocodiles at number 28 in its list of the 50 greatest albums of the 1980s 31 In 2006 Uncut magazine listed the album at number 69 on its list of the 100 greatest debut albums 32 The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die 33 In 2020 Rolling Stone included Crocodiles in their 80 Greatest albums of 1980 list praising Will Sergeants ice dagger guitar and Les Pattinson s spelunking bass making Rescue and Pictures on My Wall the perfect invitations to crawl down into Ian s hot pit of despair 34 Track listing editAll tracks written by Will Sergeant Ian McCulloch Les Pattinson and Pete de Freitas except where noted 1980 UK LP version and Canadian Cassette edit Side one edit Going Up 3 57 Stars Are Stars 2 45 Pride 2 41 Monkeys 2 49 Crocodiles 2 38Side two edit Rescue 4 26 Villiers Terrace 2 44 Pictures on My Wall Sergeant McCulloch Pattinson 2 52 All That Jazz 2 43 Happy Death Men 4 56 1980 US version and 1980 UK cassette version edit Side one edit Going Up 3 57 Do It Clean 2 44 Stars Are Stars 2 45 Pride 2 41 Monkeys 2 49 Crocodiles 2 38Side two edit Rescue 4 26 Villiers Terrace 2 44 Read It in Books McCulloch Julian Cope 2 31 Pictures on My Wall Sergeant McCulloch Pattinson 2 52 All That Jazz 2 43 Happy Death Men 4 56 2003 bonus tracks edit Do It Clean A 2 44 Read It in Books A McCulloch Cope 2 31 Simple Stuff 2 38 Villiers Terrace early version 3 08 Pride early version 2 54 Simple Stuff early version 2 37 Crocodiles B live 5 09 Zimbo B live 3 36 All That Jazz B live 2 53 Over the Wall B live 5 28Personnel editEcho amp the BunnymenIan McCulloch vocals guitar piano Will Sergeant lead guitar Les Pattinson bass Pete de Freitas drumsTechnicalBill Drummond C producer original album and Shine So Hard tracks David Balfe C producer original album keyboards Ian Broudie producer Pride and Rescue The Bunnymen producer Simple Stuff Pat Moran producer early versions Hugh Jones producer Shine So Hard tracks engineer original album Andy Zax reissue producer Bill Inglot reissue producer remastering Rod Houison engineer Pride and Rescue Gary Edwards engineer early versions Dan Hersch remastering Brian Griffin cover photography Bill Butt insert photographyNotes editA 1 2 Originally included on the US release of Crocodiles B 1 2 3 4 From the Shine So Hard EP Korona ECHO 1 1981 Recorded live at the Pavilion Gardens Buxton UK 17 January 1981 C 1 2 Credited as The Chameleons References edit Caramanzana Ian 27 July 2017 Tips like sugar Things you should know about Echo amp The Bunnymen Las Vegas Weekly Retrieved 24 April 2020 Terich Jeff 2 July 2015 10 Essential Neo Psychedelia Albums Treble Retrieved 24 April 2020 de Vise Daniel Thirteen New Wave Album Classics AllMusic Retrieved 7 May 2023 Adams 2002 p 34 a b c Crocodiles CD booklet Echo amp the Bunnymen Warner Strategic Marketing 2003 2564 61161 2 a href Template Cite AV media notes html title Template Cite AV media notes cite AV media notes a CS1 maint others in cite AV media notes link a b c Adams 2002 p 39 Bell 2003 pp 6 7 a b Adams 2002 p 41 a b c Fricke David 16 April 1981 Crocodiles Rolling Stone ISSN 0035 791X Retrieved 19 March 2017 a b Reynolds 2006 p 440 a b Reynolds 2006 p 443 a b Adams 2002 pp 39 40 a b Salewicz Chris 22 November 1980 Echo amp The Bunnymen Welcome To The Bunnyhouse NME ISSN 0028 6362 Adams 2002 p 40 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