Song · Echo and the Bunnymen
“Never Stop” by Echo and the Bunnymen
From the EP Echo and the Bunnymen (1984)
“Never Stop” by Echo and the Bunnymen appears on 21 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1983 and 2005. It was first released in 1984 on the EP Echo and the Bunnymen. Its best result is #17 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1983. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #4 alternative song of 1983, #1,380 alternative song of all time and #212 of the '80s.
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Echo & the Bunnymen released "Never Stop" as a single on 8 July 1983, between "The Cutter" and "The Killing Moon", and this restless post-punk strut made number 15 on the UK Singles Chart that same month. Hugh Jones produced it, and the writing is split four ways among Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson and Pete de Freitas.
The 12-inch swapped in a remix, "Never Stop (Discotheque)", a minute and 15 seconds longer, backed with B-sides that Ian Broudie produced under the name Kingbird. That extended version also appeared on the mini-album The Sound of Echo, and it later played in the 2006 film The History Boys and on its soundtrack. The song turned up on the 1984 EP Echo & the Bunnymen too, and later on the 2003 remaster of Porcupine and a string of compilations.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 26 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1983 | 107 |
| 1983 | 47 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1983 | 91 |
| 1983 | 17 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1983 | 50 |
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