Heaven Up Here (studio album) by Echo & The Bunnymen

Heaven Up Here by Echo & The Bunnymen
Year: 1981
Overall rank: 1,179th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 316 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1981 (16th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (190th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,179th)
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Echo & The Bunnymen bestography

Heaven Up Here is ranked 2nd best out of 24 albums by Echo & The Bunnymen on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Echo & The Bunnymen is Ocean Rain which is ranked number 461 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,888.

Echo & The Bunnymen album bestography « Higher ranked (461st) This album (1,179th) Lower ranked (1,740th) »
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Heaven Up Here track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 316 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 75.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.

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80/100
From 08/28/2022 08:42
This album is definitely less raw, but more consistent than Crocodiles. Very enjoyable, this is my type of music.
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65/100
From 04/20/2022 23:54
This is a record with a few stand out tracks and the rest sounds like a bit of a mess. It is their most inconsistent project I think they have ever released and that makes it very difficult to get into. Songs like Show Of Strength, Over The Wall and All My Colours are brilliant though with the latter being my personal favourite. This is mainly due to the drum work which stands out so well on that track and brings it so much life. The rest of the songs are either poor or filler and there is quite a lot you could remove off this record. The instrumentation is a bit bland and not very experimental on this release as well. I love McCulloch's vocal however. Overall, not one of their albums I frequently come back to but if I do it is only to hear those 3 or 4 amazing tracks.
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60/100
From 03/31/2021 22:14
Never did anything for me, and listening to it again has not changed my opinion. There are no good songs and everything sounds the same. Show of Strength, Over The Wall and A Promise sort of stand out. But the last one only from familiarity of it being on their greatest hits album.
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85/100
From 05/10/2020 22:24
A consistently very, very good record. All My Colours stands out to me as a gorgeous masterpiece.
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70/100
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80/100
From 01/11/2016 19:02
Heaven Up Here > Ocean Rain
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90/100
From 11/19/2015 18:55
The best Bunnymen album, although I equally like Ocean Rain. The 3 first songs are really awesome, killer tracks. The drumming is really standing out.
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70/100
From 10/20/2014 19:09
After a week of repeated listening, I'd say you can try on this album in either of two ways. Either, you judge it by its stand out songs, which are far and few between: if you can listen half a dozen times and manage to hum more than 2 tunes afterwards, you're doing better than me.
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95/100
From 01/14/2013 01:56
Sadly, I could never get into this one. I love everything else the Bunnymen have put out, but Heaven Up Here just dosen't make the cut. That's not to say there aren't moments I love. All My Colours is one of my favourite Echo songs, and A Promise is fantastic. But as an album, I found it didn't come together as well as any other release by the band.
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95/100
From 08/05/2012 14:41
Not as good as Ocean Rain but getting there. Love the way it builds towards a climax towards the end of the 2nd side with a brace of brilliant songs.
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