Echo & the Bunnymen "Ocean Rain" Beach Bunny Frontman Wesley Schultz and co-founder

Frontman Wesley Schultz and co-founder Jeremiah Fraites got back to basics when it came time to write for the 11-track collection

The band recorded the bulk of the album with producer Rick Parashar (who had produced Pearl Jam's 'Ten') at London Bridge Studio in Seattle

The album was a commercial success

giving the album a glossier more commercial sound than its predecessor

Only half of the album's 14 tracks are original compositions

Echo & the Bunnymen "Ocean Rain" Beach Bunny Frontman Wesley Schultz and co-founderOcean Rain is the fourth studio album by the English post punk band Echo & the Bunnymen. It was released on 4 May 1984 and reached number four on the UK Albums Chart. "Channeling the lessons of the experimental Porcupine into more conventional and simple structural parameters, Ocean Rain emerges as Echo & the Bunnymen's most beautiful and memorable effort. Ornamenting Ian McCulloch's most consistently strong collection of songs to date with subdued