The WAYGTDWYL Appreciation Society

[Frank The Bunny]

Fools Like Us was on the soundtrack to Dark City, a year before WAYGTDWYLOLLYPOP was released

No, That was Just a Touch Away in 1998 on Dark City. Martha Meet Frank Daniel And Laurence did come out with Fools Like Us, as pointed out earlier, that same year, a full year ahead of the WAYGTDWYL release.

hmmm.. sorry. was drinking

[Red]

what's Dark City??? (you can tell we don't go to the movies much!)

that's one of my fave songs (just a touch away) and all this time i never knew it was on a sound track!!!!!!!

[Mr. Brian]

:eek: what's Dark City??? (you can tell we don't go to the movies much!)

that's one of my fave songs (just a touch away) and all this time i never knew it was on a sound track!!!!!!!

Dark City at Amazon

[Frank The Bunny]

:eek: what's Dark City??? (you can tell we don't go to the movies much!)

that's one of my fave songs (just a touch away) and all this time i never knew it was on a sound track!!!!!!!

scifi flick with that guy from Lost Boys - Corey Feldman, I think.

[blinkilite]

nah, it's kiefer sutherland... corey feldman is much shorter. hahahaha

and i vaguely remember this movie... but i didn't know the bunnymen song was in it either. maybe i'll have to add it to the netflix list and watch it again

[Fish Hook Girl]

I looked on the liner notes to Martha Meet Frank etc. (yes, I own the soundtrack...) and the song was published in 1998 and was mixed and engineered by Alan Douglas, the same guy who mixed most of WAYGTDWYL. So I don't think it was a leftover from the Evergreen sessions. But I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the band just recorded a song that Ian had written already.

I do recall that the song was purposely recorded for that movie with the idea that the movie would be a blockbuster and propel the group into the next stratosphere of stardom. Obviously, none of them read the script before getting that idea. Interestingly though, Donnie Darko did a lot more to further the Bunnymen cause with their usage (at least in the original version of the movie) of The Killing Moon.

[Fish Hook Girl]

nah, it's kiefer sutherland... corey feldman is much shorter. hahahaha

and i vaguely remember this movie... but i didn't know the bunnymen song was in it either. maybe i'll have to add it to the netflix list and watch it again

I watched this movie years ago, and the Bunny song isn't in the movie per se, but it is on the soundtrack. It's a very good movie, nonetheless.

[Red]

I watched this movie years ago, and the Bunny song isn't in the movie per se, but it is on the soundtrack.

i could never quite figure out that concept........why put a song on a soundtrack cd if it's not actually in the damn film!???! i mean, isn't the whole point of a soundtrack so you can listen to the music that's in the film?? it's dumb. i've seen other ones like that. they'll have songs on it that aren't in the film, and songs in the film that aren't on the soundtrack. STOOPID!!!

[Frank The Bunny]

nah, it's kiefer sutherland... corey feldman is much shorter.

For those of you who may not know, I'm much smarter than I sometimes let on to be.

On occasion, I'll play the part of the idiot for comic effect.

Corey Haim is great in "24".

[Frank The Bunny]

I looked on the liner notes to Martha Meet Frank etc. (yes, I own the soundtrack...) and the song was published in 1998 and was mixed and engineered by Alan Douglas, the same guy who mixed most of WAYGTDWYL. So I don't think it was a leftover from the Evergreen sessions.

Actually, I believe I read somewhere, sometime that this song is all the band had gotten to recording before the issues in Les' life (and with Ian) forced him to leave the Bunnymen.

Fools Like Us was published by Warner/Chappel music, and lists McCulloch, Ian/Sergeant, William/Pattinson, Les as songwriters

[Fish Hook Girl]

Actually, I believe I read somewhere, sometime that this song is all the band had gotten to recording before the issues in Les' life (and with Ian) forced him to leave the Bunnymen.

Fools Like Us was published by Warner/Chappel music, and lists McCulloch, Ian/Sergeant, William/Pattinson, Les as songwriters

Then if this is true (and there's no reason to believe it isn't) then the song is even more special because it was the last collaborative effort among the original survivor members. Pardon my cynicism above!

[Fish Hook Girl]

i could never quite figure out that concept........why put a song on a soundtrack cd if it's not actually in the damn film!???! i mean, isn't the whole point of a soundtrack so you can listen to the music that's in the film?? it's dumb. i've seen other ones like that. they'll have songs on it that aren't in the film, and songs in the film that aren't on the soundtrack. STOOPID!!!

One word: PAYOLA.

Or at least that concept. You know?

[Dave Smith]

Right -re Fools Like Us.The Bunnymen played it in 98 on the Spring mini-tour in the UK as an encore with Les playing bass and Mac on acoustic.I saw it played at Sheffield Octagon and Manchester Apollo.Also its smack bang in the middle of the film when the girl leaves one of the guys(or vice versa).You just have to listen hard.

re Flowers....mmmmm.I just think its a cheaply recorded batch of B-sides.The Bunnymen swagger is none existence and Mac comes up with his most obvious set of lyrics ever.The songs are much better live.I think it represents a point in their history when they'd been dropped by the label and had to do things DIY just to survive.

btw I've just picked up the Silversun Pickups album and its sounding really good.Anybody else like them?

[Red]

Also its smack bang in the middle of the film when the girl leaves one of the guys(or vice versa).You just have to listen hard.

yeah, that song is in the film, but i think someone was saying Just a Touch Away wasn't in the other one...too many films being talked about in the same thread. i actually saw that one. (but not Dark City)

[moondance]

re Flowers....mmmmm.I just think its a cheaply recorded batch of B-sides.The Bunnymen swagger is none existence and Mac comes up with his most obvious set of lyrics ever.The songs are much better live.I think it represents a point in their history when they'd been dropped by the label and had to do things DIY just to survive.

I'm no audiophile but the recordings didn't sound cheap at all. I thought that the lyrics were very dark and interesting. There isn't really much swagger, it feels like defeat but that's the touching thing about it. The loss of dreams is palpable and very well expressed. Maybe that's not what everybody wants to hear on an album of songs by their favorite band, but to me, it's still the work of great artists who are recognizing their own mortality and trying to keep their flame alive, though it seems to be flickering out. Perhaps the 'flowers' are laid on the grave of their hopes.