Is There an Echo in Here? A Podcast About Echo & the Bunnymen
Courtney Chappell & Shane Parish
36 episodes
8 months ago
Join Courtney and Shane as they peel back the layers of reality and dive deep down into “Going Up”, the first song on the first album from, you guessed it, Echo & the Bunnymen. An interrogation of Ian’s lyrics leads to investigations into quantum physics, the etymology of the words “ain’t” and “thou”, the Truman Show, William Blake, Dr. Who, life, the universe, and everything. They discuss the influence of the band Love and Probe Records, the epicenter of Liverpool’s musical zeitgeist. (Thank you Hitoma Drone and Andrew Male!) And they learn about Cosmic Scouse. Finally, Shane offers a musical/harmonic/theoretical analysis of the guitar and bass parts. Let’s get the hell outta here!
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Join Courtney and Shane as they peel back the layers of reality and dive deep down into “Going Up”, the first song on the first album from, you guessed it, Echo & the Bunnymen. An interrogation of Ian’s lyrics leads to investigations into quantum physics, the etymology of the words “ain’t” and “thou”, the Truman Show, William Blake, Dr. Who, life, the universe, and everything. They discuss the influence of the band Love and Probe Records, the epicenter of Liverpool’s musical zeitgeist. (Thank you Hitoma Drone and Andrew Male!) And they learn about Cosmic Scouse. Finally, Shane offers a musical/harmonic/theoretical analysis of the guitar and bass parts. Let’s get the hell outta here!
Is There an Echo in Here? A Podcast About Echo & the Bunnymen
1 hour 19 minutes 50 seconds
6 years ago
Episode 18 - Keymon
We return from the cosmic, archetypal realm of episode 17 and land squarely in the middle of Will Sergeant's 1979 abode to join the Bunnymen where a band practice is underway. We focus on a burgeoning song called "I Bagsy Yours" and begin by defining the meaning of "bagsy" and it's usages in the Liverpool vernacular. We practice using this term in various sentences and we search for correlations to American slang words. After exhausting our efforts to understand, we come across another word that appears to have no meaning at all. Nonetheless, we heroically forge ahead to provide an in-depth lyrical analysis, followed by a musical analysis that leads Shane to assert that it really is, indeed, the blues Ian McCulloch is singing. We close out the episode with a dramatic reenactment of a Bunnymen rehearsal that ends with a cliffhanger. Join us as we decipher the mysteries of "Monkeys". Keymon!
Is There an Echo in Here? A Podcast About Echo & the Bunnymen
Join Courtney and Shane as they peel back the layers of reality and dive deep down into “Going Up”, the first song on the first album from, you guessed it, Echo & the Bunnymen. An interrogation of Ian’s lyrics leads to investigations into quantum physics, the etymology of the words “ain’t” and “thou”, the Truman Show, William Blake, Dr. Who, life, the universe, and everything. They discuss the influence of the band Love and Probe Records, the epicenter of Liverpool’s musical zeitgeist. (Thank you Hitoma Drone and Andrew Male!) And they learn about Cosmic Scouse. Finally, Shane offers a musical/harmonic/theoretical analysis of the guitar and bass parts. Let’s get the hell outta here!