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What arr you Going to do with Your Life - Echo and the Bunny ...

What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? ( released in 1999) was the second Echo and the Bunnymen album after they reformed in 1997 and is a joy from start to finish. Mac sings as though he s having a mid-life crisis. The title track (which opens the album) obviously implies this and during the magnificent closing track Fools Like Us (the last Bunnymen song to feature the legendary Les Pattinson on bass which is up there with their best), he seems to doubt his own persona. "If I could be someone. Someone better than me", he sings. Whatever happened to Mac the Mouth from the Bunnymen s heyday in the 1980 s? One of the things I love most about Ian McCulloch is ...

What arr you Going to do with Your Life - Echo and the Bunny ...

There is a line sung on this album: "Everything's gonna be alright" It is a lyric that touches me in The happiest of moments. In this week, where we have all been reminded so brutally of humanity's capacity for cruelty and the fragility of human life, it sounds almost unbearably poignant and ineffectual. The horrors we've seen either make the delicate sentimentality of this album sound trite and indulgent, or they make it sound doubly precious - I am torn between the two conclusions. It is an album of autumnal hues, with acoustic guitars as crisp as frost and vocals as warm as fire-sides. There is indeed a preciousness to this recording, an ...

Ballyhoo: The Best Of Echo & The Bunnymen - Echo & The Bunny ...

Ask anybody who they think the most important British guitar band of the 80's was, and chances are likely that most people will say The Smiths. Tell them who Echo & The Bunnymen are and they may say they have heard the name at most. It's tragic, as these Bunnymen deserve more legendary status than they have been entrusted. Before making a comeback in 1997 with their acclaimed 'Evergreen' album (and then being dropped by London Records for poor sales with the follow-up), 10 years before, the band delivered their last album. It seemed that they wouldn't return. The death of their drummer in a motorcycle accident almost cemented this. The 10 years ...