Crocs & HUH Vs Ocean Rain

[King Of Kings]

Which Album Show did you prefere

[Frank The Bunny]

prefere?

Didn't see either tour, but I prefer Crocodiles, Heaven Up Here and Porcupine to Ocean Rain. So I think I'd enjoy these gigs more...until I'm recognized and dragged away to be beaten in an alley by hired thugs.

[Voodoo Billy]

It's a bit like Tracey Tracey and Wendy James, I'd have both.

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

More interesting things went on instrumentally with Crocs/HUH than Ocean Rain. Even down to the stage set up. I wouldn't have gone to see OR again and didn't care much for the DVD/CD thing that they put out. Crocs/HUH though different and I think I will go again if they take it to those johnny foreigners over the Channel.

[Voodoo Billy]

It's a tribute to the band that they are capable of doing both 'styles' so well. Last night's 'Crocodiles' section particularly took them back to their raw, punky best whilst the OR show with the orchestra was very accomplished but completely incomparable. It's one thing to manage it in the studio but to be able to do it live is a hell of a credit to them all.

[bunnygod1]

Crocs/HUH deffo

[black francis]

prefere?

Didn't see either tour, but I prefer Crocodiles, Heaven Up Here and Porcupine to Ocean Rain. So I think I'd enjoy these gigs more...until I'm recognized and dragged away to be beaten in an alley by hired thugs.

They can't afford to pay their webmaster. I think you're safe.

[oddbunny]

Crocs & HUH by a landslide.

[Grumpy_Jimbo]

It's like asking a parent who's your favourite child......

All three albums have different merits, so I'll abstain on the vote but will admit Heaven Up Here is still my fave album ever..........!!

[Voodoo Billy]

It's like asking a parent who's your favourite child......

All three albums have different merits, so I'll abstain on the vote but will admit Heaven Up Here is still my fave album ever..........!!

I'm with you on both counts Jimbo, though strangely enough I preferred the Crocodiles section to Heaven Up Here on Saturday.

And if anyone is interested Jimbo has kindly declined my offer to settle the wager (which I obviously lost) on the 'will they play an encore?' at the recent gigs. My kids will get a Christmas after all

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

As a recorded album, Ocean Rain is on par with Crocs, HUH and Porcupine, but I don't think it was a debate about which is the best album. I generally don't like hearing that album live other than that footage of the band on The Tube that Dr Cheese posted on Youtube. I particularly didn't like Mac's vocals when he performed Thorn of Crowns or Nocturnal Me in 2008 - songs that were written around Mac's singing ability when he could belt those ones out. If you compare the two:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEThL6WcgF4[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwiz_vJNrVs[/youtube]

He really seems uncomfortable trying to sing Thorn of Crowns on that 2008 performance.

Crocs and HUH; HUH moreso, sound like they have to be performed live to be fully appreciated, and that was clearly the case, and it didn't appear to matter whether Mac could belt of the songs exactly as he did in the 80s or as he is now. So much so I was surprised by his vocals on songs like Pride, A Promise, It Was A Pleasure and Heaven Up Here when I thought it might go wrong or not work. In my opinion, the loss of Mac's vocal ability actually made some of the songs more refreshing helped by a perfect performance of the band and the atmosphere of the stage set up. I haven't always been able to get my head around the whole of Heaven Up Here and sometimes found it difficult to listen to the whole album, but that has changed since Thursday.

I was also wrong on the encore. I didn't think there would be one.

[tonywojo]

ocean rain by a mile

[Cookie]

Got to be HUH followed by Crocs for me

[JackT]

If the Crocs/HUH show were better than the OR show, that would be really something.

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

I suppose it's a matter of different tastes. I just thought there was more of the wow factor with Crocs/HUH. Musically, the songs transfer better to being performed live than OR. You had the keyboard player joining in the percussion on Happy Death Men. Every song seemed to work, sounding near enough to the original recordings. Then the stage lighting and props just topped it off as a live experience. I suppose it is the best that a Bunnymen fan can get if they don't have the memories of seeing them live in the 80s.