The Killing Moon

Certain Songs #1500: Pavement – “The Killing Moon”

April 3, 2019 by Jim Connelly

Album: Major Leagues EP
Year: 1999

“Fate, up against your will”

So, way back in 2015, I pointed out that Echo & The Bunnymen’s original version of “The Killing Moon” wasn’t just Echo & The Bunnymen’s greatest song, but an absolutely enduring classic that will forever be counted among the greatest rock songs of not just the 1980s, but all-time.

And as such, should be totally uncoverable. Especially by Pavement, who you would think would automatically rob “The Killing Moon” of the epic, er, epicness that made it so epochally epic.

Certain Songs #377: Echo & The Bunnymen – “The Killing Moon”

November 25, 2015 by Jim Connelly

Album: Ocean Rain
Year: 1984

I’m trying to remember: when did it first become obvious that “The Killing Moon” wasn’t just Echo & The Bunnymen’s greatest song, but an absolutely enduring classic that will forever be counted among the greatest rock songs of not just the 1980s, but all-time?

I think it took some time. I think it was too big to grok in 1984.