The Pictures On My Wall
Read It In Books

7" (Zoo Cage) 004 UK
released May 5, 1979
4,000 only, "The Revenge Of Voodoo Billy" scratched in B-side run-off, label either blue lettering on yellow or green on light gray

There also a 7" released on Cage in 1979 with the same catalog number with no message in the run-off

CD (Document) DC3 1991
CD (Griffin) 466 1995 - this is the one that states " VERY FIRST ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN SINGLE PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE ON CD" in white letters across the front, despite the 1991 Document release

Monkeys

Rescue
Simple Stuff

7" Korova KOW 1
released May 5, 1980

limited edition reissued on 7" vinyl December 4, 2006

Rescue
Simple Stuff
Pride

1. Going Up 3.57
2. Stars Are Stars 2.45
3. Pride 2.41
4. Monkeys 2.49
5. Crocodiles 2.38
6. Rescue 4.26
7. Villiers Terrace 2.44
8. Pictures On My Wall 2.52
9. All That Jazz 2.46
10. Happy Death Men 4.56

*re-issue bonus tracks
11. Do It Clean
12. Read It in Books
13. Simple Stuff
14. Villiers Terrace [Early Version]
15. Pride [Early Version]
16. Simple Stuff [Early Version]
17. Crocodiles [Live]
18. Zimbo [Live]
19. All That Jazz [Live]
20. Over the Wall [Live]

released July 18, 1980
Included a free single 7" SAM 128 Do It Clean/Read It In Books.
Cassette version included two extra tracks: Read It In Books, The Puppet.
US and JP versions include tracks in a different order as well as 2 additional tracks: Do It Clean, Read It In Books.

Cover art photographed in Rickmansworth Woods in the UK by Brian Griffin

Issued on vinyl in Brazil, in 1987, to coincide with their first South American tour. The design and tracklist is the same as in the UK pressing.

rereleased November 3, 2003 (UK) and January 27, 2004 (US)
with 10 bonus tracks. The Package also Includes New Liner Notes and Plenty of Photos in the Booklet, Housed in an "o" Style Slipcase.

Highest UK Chart Position: 17
July 1980

Do It Clean
Read It In Books

7" Korova SAM 128

released 1980
Notes: See Crocodiles above, came free with the album, no picture sleeve

The Puppet
Do It Clean

7" Korova KOW 11

released September 14, 1980

Crocodiles
All That Jazz
Zimbo
Over The Wall

12" Korova Echo 1
12" WEA MX 214362 (NZ)
Cass Korova Echo 1M

released April 10, 1981
Notes: recorded live at the Pavilion Gardens, Buxton January 17, 1981. NZ version swaps order of tracks 2 and 3.

Highest UK Single Chart Position: 37
April 1981

Crocodiles
Crocodiles (Edit)

1981

Edit song is taken from the Shine so Hard EP, so its the live version.

1. Show of Strength 4.50
2. With A Hip 4.15
3. Over The Wall 5.55
4. It Was A Pleasure 3.10
5. A Promise 4.05
6. Heaven Up Here 3.40
7. The Disease 2.25
8. All My Colours 4.05
9. No Dark Things 4.25
10. Turquoise Days 3.50
11. All I Want 4.05

*re-issue bonus tracks
12. Broke My Neck [Long Version]
13. Show of Strength [Live]
14. Disease [Live]
15. All I Want [Live]
16. Zimbo [Live]

LP Korova KODE 3
LP Sire SRK 3569 (US)
CD Sire 3569-2 (US)
LP 58320 (French)
CD Rhino (US)
CD Wea/Warner (UK)

released May 30, 1981

French LP - "It was a
pleasure" is listed as "It was a pleasure to meet you" on label, the same with "My life´s the disease".

Cover art photographed "some mud flats on the Severn Estuary" in the UK by Brian Griffin. Also won "Best Sleeve Award" in NME

rereleased November 3, 2003 (UK) and January 27, 2004 (US)
with 5 bonus tracks
The Package also Includes New Liner Notes and Plenty of Photos in the Booklet, Housed in an "o" Style Slipcase.

Highest UK Chart Position: 10
June 1981

Highest US Chart Position: 184

A Promise
Broke My Neck (live)

A Promise
Broke My Neck (extended version)

A Promise
Do It Clean
Broke my neck (recorded on a long day at Tistedal, Norway, June 7, 1981)

released July 10, 1981

Over The Wall
Crocodiles

includes "The Puppet"

released 1981
no pic sleeve, white label

Side A
Driven to Tears (The Police)
The Puppet (EATB)
Ain't This the Life (Oingo Boingo)

Side B
Uncontrollable Urge (Devo)
We Got the Beat (Go-Go's)
Respectable Street (XTC)

The Puppet (live)

LP A&M AMLX 64692
CD A&M

released September 1981

re-released in 1989 on CD

The Puppet (live)

Villiers Terrace
Over The Wall

LP Korova
released September 1981

includes "All That Jazz"

LP WEA K58412 (UK)
LP Warner P-11151 (Japan)
LP IRS SP 70800 (US)

released December 1981

released 1982

Shine So Hard. Echo And The Bunnymen 32 Minutes
Shot on Location in Buxton, Derbyshire, England January 17 1981. Produced by
Atlas Adventures. Directed by John Smith,Cameraman, Patrick Duval

Le Via Luonge. A Film By Bill Butt. 16 Minutes
Soundtrack by Will Sergeant, with exceptions from 'Heaven Up Here' by Echo
and the Bunnymen

In order to obtain the video and be in attendance at the filming you need a coupon. The coupon states that only 500 of these videos were produced and only to those in attendance at the filming. Very rare item.

The Pictures On My Wall*
Read It In Books*
Villiers Terrace**

LP Zoo 4

released March 1982
*Zoo Cage 004 version.
**From the John Peel Session.

Scene I 1:58
Scene II 3:57
Scene III 3:32
Scene IV 3:49)
Scene V 4:48
Scene VI 4:10
Scene VII 5:43
Scene VIII 5:14
Scene IX 5:10
Scene X 4:43

LP 92 Happy Customers HAPLP 001
CD 92 Happy Customers
HAPCD001

released March 1982


Re-released 1997 on CD in a limited run, including the single, Favourite Branches

Favourite Branches

7" WEA K19238

released June 1982
b/w Himalaya by Shankar and Bill Loveday

Zimbo (live)*
The Cutter (live)

LP Womad WOMAD001

released 1982
*with the Royal Burundi Drummers

The Back Of Love
The Subject

The Back Of Love
The Subject
Fuel

The cover is a painting by Henry Scott Tuke called "The Promise"

Highest UK Single Chart Position: 19
May 1982

7" ECHO 1

recorded January 1983

The Cutter
Way Out And Up We Go

released January 14, 1983
some copies came with a free cassette of the John Peel Session, KOW 26C

Highest UK Single Chart Position: 8
Jan 1983

The Cutter
Way Out And Up We Go
Zimbo*

12" Korova KOW 26T

The Cutter
Villiers Terrace
Ashes To Ashes (Stars Are Stars)
Monkeys
Read It In Books

CS Korova KOW 26C

released January 14, 1983
came free with The Cutter 7"

Rescue
Never Stop
The Cutter

7" Korova SAM271

released January 1983
promotional only

In Bluer Skies
The Cutter
My White Devil
Porcupine
Heads Will Roll
The Back Of Love

Filmed in Liverpool and Iceland in late 1982, this collection on Castle Hendring (HEN2 001) came out in 1983.

1. The Cutter 3.50
2. The Back Of Love 3.13
3. My White Devil 4.32
4. Clay 4.07
5. Porcupine 5.55
6. Heads Will Roll 3.29
7. Ripeness 4.50
8. Higher Hell 4.59
9. Gods Will Be Gods 5.18
10 In Bluer Skies 4.26

*re-issue bonus tracks
11. Fuel
12. Cutter [Alternate Version]
13. My White Devil [Alternate Version]
14. Porcupine [Alternate Version]
15. Ripeness [Alternate Version]
16. Gods Will Be Gods [Alternate Version]
17. Never Stop (Discotheque)

released February 4, 1983
Initial copies came with a free copy of the Peel Sessions KOW 26C

Cover art was photographed"by a waterfall called Gorfolos, in Reykjavik, Iceland" by Brian Griffin

rereleased November 3, 2003 (UK) and January 27, 2004 (US)
with 7 bonus tracks
25th anniversary expanded edition features new liner notes & unseen photos. Slipcase. WSM. 2003.

Highest UK Chart Position: 2
Feb 1983

Never Stop
Heads Will Roll

Never Stop (Discotheque)
Heads Will Roll (Summer Version)
The Original Cutter - A Drop In The Ocean

released July 8, 1983

1983 Spanish 3-track 12" pink & mauve group picture sleeve).

Highest UK Single Chart Position: 15
July 1983

The Killing Moon 5.45
Do It Clean 2.44


The Killing Moon (All Night Version) 9.12
The Killing Moon 5.46
Do It Clean* 6.38

released January 20, 1984
some came with a free song sheet


*recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall, London July 18, 1983

Highest UK Single Chart Position: 9
Jan 1984

Never Stop 4.44
Rescue 4.30
The Cutter 3.55
The Back Of Love 3.12
Do It Clean* 5.36

12" Sire 1-23987

released February 1984
*recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall, London July 18, 1983

Silver
Angels And Devils

Silver (Tidal Wave)
Silver
Angels And Devils

released April 13, 1984

Highest UK Single Chart Position: 30
April 1984

1. Silver
2. Nocturnal Me
3. Crystal Days
4. The Yo-Yo Man
5. Thorn Of Crowns
6. The Killing Moon
7. Seven Seas
8. My Kingdom
9. Ocean Rain
10. Angels And Devils

*2003 reissue bonus tracks
11. All You Need Is Love (Life at Brian's)
12. The Killing Moon (Life at Brian's)
13. Stars Are Stars (Life at Brian's)
14. Villiers Terrace (Life at Brian's)
15. Silver (Life at Brian's)
16. My Kingdom (Live - The Crystal Day)
17. Ocean Rain (Live - The Crystal Day)

**2008 reissue bonus Royal Albert Hall CD
1. Going Up
2. Villiers Terrace
3. All That Jazz
4. Heads Will Roll
5. Porcupine
6. All My Colours (Zimbo)
7. Silver
8. Simple Stuff
9. The Cutter
10. The Killing Moon

released May 4, 1984

Japanese 9-track promo LP, sample stickered picture sleeve plus fold-out lyric insert and obi P-11480)

The cover was photographed in the Carnglaze Caverns, Liskeard, Cornwall by Brian Griffin

*rereleased November 3, 2003 (UK) and January 27, 2004 (US)
with 8 bonus tracks, 25th anniversary expanded edition features new liner notes & unseen photos. Slipcase. WSM. 2003.

**rereleased October 27, 2008 (UK) and November 4, 2008 (US)
with second CD of Royal Albert Hall performance from 1983

Highest UK Chart Position: 4
May 1984

Highest US Chart Position: 87

Seven Seas 3.17
All You Need Is Love* 6.38
The Killing Moon* 3.18
Stars Are Stars* 3.05
Villiers Terrace* 6.52

released July 6, 1984
*recorded live at Liverpool Cathedral for the programme 'Play At Home'

Highest UK Single Chart Position: 16
July 1984

Seven Seas
Silver

Seven Seas
All You Need Is Love*
The Killing Moon*
Stars Are Stars*
Villiers Terrace*

2x7" Korova 35F
12" Korova KOW 35 Treleased July 6, 1984
Numbered limited edition.

*Recorded live at Liverpool Cathedral for the programme 'Play At Home'

September Song
Cockles And Mussels

September Song (78 rpm)
September Song (long version)
Cockles And Mussels

September Song (long version)
September Song (short version)
Cockles And Mussels

released December 7, 1984

Take
Cruel Circus

CD Chrysalis F2-21480
LP Chrysalis 41480
CD Capitol 21480

released April 1985
with Pete De Frietas
re-released 1989

Fourteen tracks, including 'Porcupine', 'Pictures On My Wall', 'The Back Of Love' and 'Thorn Of Crowns'.

Warner Music Vision
VHS Tape

released 1985
re-released 14 September, 1998

Bring On The Dancing Horses
Over Your Shoulder

Bring On The Dancing Horses
Read It In Books

7" Korova KOW 43
7" Korova KOW 43 (white label promo, Dancing Horses is on side A and B)
7" WEA 7-248933 (Australia)
7" Sire 7-28791 (US)

released November 14, 1985
Some versions came with a free 7" single with Villiers Terrace and Monkeys from the 1979 John Peel Sessions

1985 Japanese promo sample 7" b/w Over Your Shoulder, picture insert with Japanese biography and lyrics in English on reverse).

Highest UK Single Chart Position: 21
Oct 1985

Bring On The Dancing Horses
Bedbugs & Ballyhoo
Over Your Shoulder

12" Korova KOW 43T

released November 14, 1985

Bring On The Dancing Horses (7" version) 4.00
Bring On The Dancing Horses (extended remix) 5.48

12" Sire PRO-A-2398 (US)

released 1985
promotional only

Bring On The Dancing Horses
Over Your Shoulder

7" Korova KOW 43P

released November 14, 1985
shaped picture disk

Rescue 3.46
The Puppet 3.05
Do It Clean 2.43
A Promise 3.40
The Back of Love 3.13
The Cutter 3.55
Never Stop 3.29
The Killing Moon 5.46
Silver 3.17
Seven Seas 3.19
Bring On The Dancing Horses 3.56

released November 15, 1985

UK CS version included 4 bonus tracks Simple Stuff, Pride, Read It In Books, Angels & Devils

Highest UK Chart Position: 6
Nov 1985

Highest US Chart Position: 158

Rescue 3.46
The Puppet 3.05
Do It Clean 2.43
A Promise 3.40
The Back of Love 3.13
The Cutter 3.55
Never Stop 3.29
The Killing Moon 5.46
Silver 3.17
Seven Seas 3.19
Bring On The Dancing Horses 3.56

Bring On The Dancing Horses

People Are Strange

LP
CD WEA K7817672
CS

released 1987

Label: Probe Plus

Noel Burke - vocals

released April 1987

This album from Belfast band St Vitus Dance was issued in a vinyl run of just 500 in 1987.

Belfast rock band who decamped to Liverpool (mid-80s), feat; Noel Burke (voc), Haydn Boyle (keys), Maurice Mulvenna (bass), Philip Freckleton (gtr), Damien Magee (gtr), Peter Hesketh (drms). Rel LP 'Love Me Love My Dogma' (Probe Apr87). Reformed 2005 to play a sell out gig in Belfast with Liverpool shows planned for summer 2005. Noel Burke joined Echo & The Bunnymen when Ian McCulloch left& did the Reverberation album.

The Cutter
The Killing Moon
Seven Seas
Bring On The Dancing Horses
The Game

The Game
Lost And Found

The Game
Lost And Found
Ship Of Fools

7" WEA YZ 134
12" WEA YZ 134T
WEA YZ 134TW

released June 1, 1987

came with free poster

Highest UK Single Chart Position: 28
June 1987

1. The Game
2. Over You
3. Bedbugs And Ballyhoo
4. All In Your Mind
5. Bombers Bay
6. Lips Like Sugar
7. Lost And Found
8. New Direction
9. Blue Blue Ocean
10. Satellite
11. All My Life

*reissue bonus tracks
12. Jimmy Brown (Early Version of “Dancing Horses”)
13. Hole In The Holy
14. Soul Kitchen
15. The Game (Acoustic Demo)
16. Bedbugs And Ballyhoo (Original Version)
17. Over Your Shoulder
18. Bring On The Dancing Horses (Extended Mix)

LP WEA WX108
LP WEA WE 381 (France)
LP Sire 1-25597 (US)
CD Sire 9 25597-2 (US)
CD Wea/Warner 242 137-2 (UK)

released July 1987

1987 UK 11-track promo CD test pressing, stickered case

rereleased November 3, 2003 (UK) and January 27, 2004 (US)
with 7 bonus tracks, 25th anniversary expanded edition features new liner notes & unseen photos. Slipcase. WSM. 2003.
CD Warner 2564-61164-2 (UK)
CD Rhino/Sire 2564-61164-2, 2564-61164-2 (US)

Highest UK Chart Position: 4
July 1987

Highest US Chart Position: 51

Rollercoaster

10" WEA EV 1028121XS (US)

Flexidisc released 1987
including New Order 'Shame Of The Nation' and Gene Loves Jezebel 'Fresh Slice'. Promo only for tour of the 3 bands.

New Direction 4.45

12" Sire PRO-A-2774 (US)

released 1987
Part of a 3 12" single promotional pack which also included singles by New Order and Gene Loves Jezebel to promote their tour.

Run, Run, Run*
Bedbugs & Ballyhoo

7" Sire 7-28113 (US)

released 1987
*recorded live at the "Karen" in Gothenburg for the
"Bommen" Show on Swedish National Radio

Bedbugs & Ballyhoo (club mix)
Bedbugs & Ballyhoo (7" remix)

Bedbugs & Ballyhoo
Over You

Bedbugs & Ballyhoo
Over You
New Direction

Bedbugs & Ballyhoo (Club Remix) 6.15
Bedbugs & Ballyhoo (LP Version) 3.28
Run, Run, Run*
Paint It Black*
Friction*

7" WEA 248135-7 (Germany)
12" WEA 248134-0 (Germany)
12" Sire 0-20838 (US)
Sire PRO-A-2977 (promo club remix)

Lips Like Sugar
Rollercoaster

Lips Like Sugar (edit/fade) 3.59
Lips Like Sugar (LP) 4.52

Lips Like Sugar
Rollercoaster
People Are Strange

Lips Like Sugar (12" mix)
Rollercoaster
Lips Like Sugar (dub)
Lips Like Sugar (single mix)

released August 1987
UK version is a gatefold. YZ144B is a limited edition box set that comes with 3 postcards as well




Features a photo of Ian on the cover wearing a fruit basket hat

Highest UK Single Chart Position: 36
Aug 1983

People Are Strange
Run, Run, Run*

People Are Strange
Lips Like Sugar
Rollercoaster

released 1987

Highest UK Single Chart Position: 29
Feb 1988

Echo And The Bunnymen - Way Out And Up We Go

LP Warner Brothers 1-25068
CS Warner Brothers 4-25068

released 1987

Lips Like Sugar [12" Mix]

Original Release Date: November 4, 1987

Audio CD (October 25, 1990)

This is the only version of this song on a CD

Published:

November 16, 1987

Out of print biography of Echo and the Bunnymen. Sometimes copies can be found on EBay or used on Amazon

1. Fluency 3
2. Wheel of Fortune
3. Good Little, Bad Little
4. Shot to Earth
5. Drug Planet #7
6. Balcony Dog
7. Charlene's Dream
8. Rings of Saturn
9. Underworld
vl: Island ILPS 9922; cd: Bloodline

Lable: Island Records

Pete de Freitas - drums

released 1988

Pete De Freitas (drums), Andy Eastwood (both later of The Divine Thunderbolt), Mike Mooney (later of Spiritualised), Tim Whittaker (drums) (ex Deaf School, Lori & The Chameleons, Gale Force) & friends & roadies of Echo & The Bunnymen. incl Johnno (ex Wah). Initially signed to Island recs who bottled out of rel an LP under that name. The LP eventually came out as being by 'The Balcony Dogs',

Read It In Books 2.25
Stars Are Stars 3.05
I Bagsy Yours 2.50
Villiers Terrace 4.10

released 1988
recorded August 15, 1979, first transmission August 22, 1979



re-released 1995 with new cover design

LP Sire/Reprise

released 1988
track, Revolutionary Spirit, produced by Pete De Freitas
promotional only

CD WEA 22P2-2155 (Japan)

released 1988
Includes lyric sheet in Japanese. * Recorded live at Liverpool Cathedral for the programme 'Play At Home'. ** Recorded live at the "Karen" in Gothenburg for the "Bommen" Show on Swedish National Radio. *** Recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall, London July 18, 1983

Sheet Music for 31 songs
from 1980 - 1987:

The Game
Bombers Bay
All In Your Mind
All My Life
Lips Like Sugar
My Kingdom
Never Stop
Ocean Rain
Do It Clean
Seven Seas
The Back Of Love
A Promise
Bring On The Dancing Horses
The Killing Moon
Crocodiles
All That Jazz
Rescue
Over The Wall
The Cutter
Pictures On My Wall
Show Of Strength
Heaven Up Here
The Disease
Over Your Shoulder
All My Colours
Silver
Angels and Devils
Bedbugs and Ballyhoo
Thorn Of Crowns
The Yo Yo Man
Gods Will Be Gods

published 1988

contains photos by Anton Corbijn Design by Peter Saville Associates Music was transcribed by Roger Day.