THE MENNING O' THE UNIVERSE! ECHO, GOD & THE BUNNY MEN

Echo & The Bunnymen aren’t innovators, They’re re-invigorators. When they started, a lot of critics compared them to the Doors, but one listen to Crocodiles revealed this link to be facile. Sure, Ian McCulloch’s voice vaguely echoed Morrison’s—and the band did recently cover “People Are Strange” with former Door Ray Manzarek producing, for the soundtrack of The Lost Boys—but McCulloch’s voice and guitar, along with the guitars of Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson’s bass and Pete DeFreitas’s drums often tap into a more primal vein of rock than even the Doors could muster.