Echo & The Bunnymen - "The Killing Moon"

[oscillations.]

Soaring, majestic, completely transcendent. A true anthem.
One of the most astonishing songs ever created.

[punkydoodle]

I shamefully haven't listened to this in the longest time. That's now been corrected. Gracias for the reminder! *is happy*

[Chato]

Not my favorite of theirs but still an amazing song.
This came out before a Modern Rock chart even existed , so it never made any official chart in the US. Had it been released after 1987 (and before 1992) it definitely would have been a top3 hit.

[tortuga]

I found out about this song thanks to Donnie Darko. :)

[halo19]

Incredible song. This and "The Cutter" (which I made a topic on long ago) are my two favorite Echo songs.

[banet2001]

The Killing Moon is a great song.

It is certainly one of my two or three favorite Echo and the Bunnymen songs, along with The Cutter, Lips Like Sugar, Back of Love, Rescue, and Seven Seas.

[joker]

One of my all-time favorite tracks. Brilliant stuff.

[oscillations.]

Pavement has a pretty decent cover of this; it doesn't approach the heroic heights of the original, of course. As everything is with Malkmus, it's low-key and understated.

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Probably my favorite by them. Peaked at #9 in the UK in 1984.

Fun fact: This song was born out of playing Bowie's "Space Oddity" backward. (www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/07/how-we-made-the-killing-moon-ian-sergeant-echo-and-the-bunnymen)