Week Thirty-Three: Echo & The Bunnymen - "Bring on the Dancing Horses" - Songs to Learn & Sing

This is another one of my favorites from Echo & The Bunnymen. I'm probably not telling most of you anything new when I mention that this song appears in the film, Pretty in Pink. According to the liner notes for Songs to Learn & Sing, it was specifically recorded for the film.

However, what you may not know is that what you hear in the film or on Songs to Learn & Sing is not the original version. If you are lucky enough to possess the Sire/Rhino 2003 reissue/compilation of Echo & The Bunnymen (which I do), then you own "Jimmy Brown" (track 12), which was a previously unissued early version of "Bring on the Dancing Horses". Fortunately, someone posted it to youtube, so I will be able to include both versions:

Here's the original version called "Jimmy Brown":

And here is the video, which is directed by Anton Corbijn --- you may remember him from the Front 242 - "Headhunter" video --- remember the eggs??? You'll probably also notice that many of the famous images that are closely associated with Echo & The Bunnymen are pulled from this video:

Jimmy Brown 
Made of stone 
Charlie Clown 
No way home 
Bring on the dancing horses 
Headless and all alone 


Shiver and say the words 
Of every lie you've heard 


First I'm gonna make it 
Then I'm gonna break it 
Till it falls apart 
Hating all the faking 
And shaking while I'm breaking 
Your brittle heart 


Billy stands 
All alone 
Sinking sand 
Skin and bone 
Bring on the dancing horses 
Wherever they may roam 


Shiver and say the words 
Of every lie you've heard 


First I'm gonna make it 
Then I'm gonna break it 
Till it falls apart 
Hating all the faking 
And shaking while I'm breaking 
Your brittle heart 


Brittle heart
Brittle heart
Brittle heart
And my little heart
Goes


Jimmy Brown 
Made of stone 
Charlie Clown 
No way home 


Bring on the headless horses
Wherever they may roam
Shiver and say the words
Of every lie you've heard


First I'm gonna make it 
Then I'm gonna break it 
Till it falls apart 
Hating all the faking 
And shaking while you're breaking 
My brittle heart 
Brittle heart 
Brittle heart 
And our little heart 
Goes


Bring on the new messiah
Wherever he may roam
Bring on the new messiah
Wherever he may roam
Bring on the new messiah
Wherever he may roam
Bring on the new messiah
Wherever he may roam