Echo & The Bunnymen - What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? album mp3

But 2 members from an original band, does not resound like the band ...Flowers, and here with What Are You Going To Do With Your Life, stand as rather disenchanted bookends for me. That being said, one could easily see the record as their breakaway album, as the band left their London Records label early in 2000, meaning that perhaps not as much care was taken to create contextual flow as on earlier albums. Add to that that the album’s title suggest one of those high school counseling meetings where a career discussion takes place. In addition, the band was, shall I say, getting more mature, where they were more indulgent with their interest in the music of Jimmy Webb and the likes of Burt Bacharach, though neither Will Sergeant nor Ian McCulloch, the now only remaining original band members, had the writing skills to pen those sort of winning melodies.Then of course, without the Bunnymen in tow, McCulloch and Sergeant were seemingly adrift on their own, again turning to backing music by The London Metropolitan Orchestra, which had worked before, yet signaled a need to return to an established format rather than creating something new … yet when they did decide to break new ground, it was with the incorporation of the alternative hip hop band Fun Lovin’ Criminals, which didn’t go down at all well with long time fans. As with the album Flowers, there was but one song I considered worthy of keeping from this release, the only Echo & The Bunnymen sounding number, “Lost on You.”If you’re looking for a record that compares with their greatest hits affair, Songs To Learn And Sing, then there’s no need for you to ever come near this outing. Some would like to suggest that it’s a mellow album, yet I thought most of Echo’s music was rather mellow in its way, which is why I loved them so much, yet here the music is middle aged introspective (even though I was of that age) acoustic numbers simply perfect for their audience of aging geezers … though I, despite my age, refuse to go down that bloated bleached on the beach path of irrelevance.Sounding more like Bono here, backed by the band’s stripped down approach, featuring gentle guitar strumming and light handed nearly brushwork on the drums, McCulloch’s vocals sound more rich, with his resonant voice, yet all of the songs sound tired and out of place, with the band, which was now two people, totally unrecognizable, as if all this music were being beamed in from two out of touch artists struggling to figure out what they were going to do with their lives and failing miserably.Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the record shows up on songs such as “Fools Like Us” and “Rust,” where there’s something untouchable yet vaguely familiar about the music, where they nearly become a parody of themselves, comforting and cute yet, though entirely overzealous, where I simply wished I’d been in the studio to reach in and stop them, saying, “Perhaps next year boys, because this isn’t working.” It’s said that with age comes wisdom, but I’m not seeing here, where being older myself than this band, I’m nowhere near ready to warm homespun loungewear and rocking chairs, nor the bittersweet autumn of my life reminiscences. One reviewer went so far as to say, “What Are You Going To Do With Your Life is ultimately a good album for a very specific mood. When you're existing in that space of wet leaves, mown grass and sullen regret, these songs will likely deliver. If you're not in that frame of mind, however, this refuse will refuse your advances at every turn. A bit like your grandmother.” which I thought was simply captivating and charming … making me wish that I said that, though who knows, perhaps that mystery reviewer was me, in a younger day, who still enjoys dancing my heart out.Review by Jenell Kesler

YES LP EXIST...I HAVE IT BUY FROM Utrecht RECORDS FAIR HOLLAND 2017..UNOFFICIAL BUT AMAZING ! ALSO CLEAR TRANSPARENT LP EXIST.

If someone sold this disk... I would be receptive... does it really exist?

don-matanza If someone sold this disk... I would be receptive... does it really exist? YES LP EXIST...I HAVE IT BUY FROM Utrecht RECORDS FAIR HOLLAND 2017..UNOFFICIAL BUT AMAZING ! ALSO CLEAR TRANSPARENT LP EXIST.

yep, would love to buy it even iof it bootleg only

Cool. Would be wonderful if you could post some higher-rez/up-close photos. THANKS

Mozzer2004 yep, would love to buy it even iof it bootleg only YES LP EXIST...I HAVE IT BUY FROM Utrecht RECORDS FAIR HOLLAND 2017..UNOFFICIAL BUT AMAZING ! ALSO CLEAR TRANSPARENT LP EXIST.

Does this really exist on vinyl? I want to believe that it does! I noticed someone listed it for sale around May of 2017, and then when I inquired about purchasing it and seeing more photos, user deleted sale option the same day. It is a bootleg? Who actually has one of these?!? And if it does exist -- I hope the same people make a version of the Bunnymen's The Fountain album on vinyl.