Echo and the Bunnymen | Mercury Lounge

Echo and the Bunnymen

"It's the greatest album ever made." That's what Echo and the Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch said about the band's seminal work, "Ocean Rain," back in 1983. Although the singer was sort of joking, the quote stuck—and more than a few fans and peers came to believe it. “I do believe it's good," McCulloch told us last year before his band played their magnum opus at Radio City. “When I said that, it was kind of a joke. I was probably in a bar. I always said things like that at the time.” We caught the band at the tiny Mercury Lounge—the Liverpool group’s smallest NYC show probably ever. With Zaza.

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