Trivia / Echo & the Bunnymen

• Channel Hop: The band were initially signed onto the WEA-owned Korova Records, with the 1987 Self-Titled Album being put out directly through WEA themselves, before being dropped in 1991 after the critical and commercial failure of Reverberation the previous year. When the band eventually reformed in 1997, they signed onto London Records, and remained there before shifting over to indie label Cooking Vinyl with the Turn of the Millennium. The band later switched over to the Ocean Rain Records vanity label for 2009's The Fountain, then to 429 Records for 2014's Meteorites, before ultimately signing onto BMG for The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon in 2018.
• Creator Killer: Reverberation was this for the band as a mainstream force. Following Pete de Freitas' death in a motorcycle accident and Ian McCulloch's departure to pursue a solo career, the band opted to replace Ian with North Irish singer Noel Burke and continue the psychedelic-tinged Alternative Rock style of their 1987 Self-Titled Album. However, the album was lambasted by fans, critics, and McCulloch himself as indistinct, and failed to chart in either the UK or the US; WEA dropped them in 1991, and the band would break up two years later. While they eventually reformed, they would never again reach their 80's levels of mainstream prominence.
• Executive Meddling:
  • The tracks "Do It Clean" and "Read It In Books" were initially left off the UK LP release of Crocodiles at the insistence of Rob Dickins, the managing director at Warner (Bros.) Records, who assumed that they were Bawdy Songs based on their titles. The songs were, however, kept on cassette releases and the US LP and CD in their intended positions, later being added to the Japanese CD and the 2003 remaster as bonus tracks (after the UK LP tracklist).
  • WEA initially rejected Porcupine, believing that it was too uncommercial. As a result, the band re-recorded everything from the ground up, most prominently featuring Indian violinist Lakshminarayana Shankar on several tracks, this time to the label's approval. The rejected versions of five tracks^note "The Cutter", "My White Devil", "Porcupine", "Ripeness", and "Gods Will Be Gods" would later appear as bonus tracks on the 2003 expanded edition.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: As a result of its poor commercial and critical performance, Reverberation has never seen any reissues since its original release in 1990. The album did eventually see official inclusion on streaming releases, however, but the album still has yet to see any new physical releases, having been conspicuously excluded from both the 2003 remastering campaign of the band's back-catalog and the 2013-2015 LP reissues.
• What Could Have Been: According to a developer for Zelda's Adventure, the band were in talks with the development team to provide the game's soundtrack.
• Working Title: Early live versions of "All My Colours" were released as "Zimbo".

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