What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (Remastered & Expanded) Echo & The Bunnymen

• 1 What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (Remastered) 05:12
• 2 Rust (Remastered) 05:11
• 3 Get In The Car (Remastered) 04:19
• 4 Baby Rain (Remastered) 04:15
• 5 History Chimes (Remastered) 03:28
• 6 Lost On You (Remastered) 04:51
• 7 Morning Sun (Remastered) 04:14
• 8 When It All Blows Over (Remastered) 02:57
• 9 Fools Like Us (Remastered) 04:04
• 10 The Fish Hook Girl (Remastered) 04:37
• 11 See The Horizon (Remastered) 04:03
• 12 Sense Of A Life (Remastered) 04:18
• 13 Beyond The Green (Remastered) 02:45
• 14 The Wood 04:42
• 15 Rust (Video Edit) [Remastered] 03:01
• 16 Fools Like Us (Alternate Extended Mix) 04:17
• 17 Baby Rain (Alternate Mix) 04:00
• 18 History Chimes (Piano and Guitar Version) 03:35
• 19 What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (Radio Edit) [Remastered] 03:36
• 20 Get In The Car (Radio Edit) [Remastered] 02:59
• 21 On Top Of The World (Early Band Version) 04:07
• 22 Rust (Live At The Improv Theatre, 1999) 04:56
• 23 Fools Like Us (Live At The Improv Theatre, 1999) 04:18
• 24 Baby Rain (Live At The Improv Theatre, 1999) 04:01
• 25 What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (Live At The Improv Theatre, 1999) 05:26
• 26 All That Jazz (Live At Cream, Liverpool, 1997) 03:19
• 27 Back Of Love (Live At Cream, Liverpool, 1997) 03:32
• 28 People Are Strange (Live At Cream, Liverpool, 1997) 01:39
• 29 The Cutter (Live At Cream, Liverpool, 1997) 04:05
• 30 Lips Like Sugar (Live At Cream, Liverpool, 1997) 04:46
• 31 Over The Wall (Live At Cream, Liverpool, 1997) 06:52
• 32 Do It Clean Medley (Live At Cream, Liverpool, 1997) 07:16
• 33 The Killing Moon (Live At Cream, Liverpool, 1997) 05:04
• 34 Rust (BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, 1999) 05:15
• Total Runtime 02:25:00

Info for What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (Remastered & Expanded)

25th anniversary: Echo & The Bunnymen "What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?" Newly remastered!

What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? is the eighth studio album by British post-punk legends Echo and The Bunnymen, released on April 16, 1999. With an inspired selection of collaborators including strings from the London Metropolitan Orchestra and two songs featuring the American rap rock band Fun Loving Criminals, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? featured two singles, the title track, and the atmospheric fan favourite ‘Rust’, which would mark the band’s final Top 40 UK single.

"After ‘Evergreen’ I was writing all this kind of stuff, and I thought, we’re just going to go in there, and half of it will be very song-orientated, and the other will be ‘Heaven Up Here’" (Ian McCulloch)

Speaking in 1999 about the album’s organic approach McCulloch states: “After Evergreen I was writing all this kind of stuff, and I thought, we’re just going to go in there, and half of it will be very song-orientated, and the other will be Heaven Up Here.”

“The title What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? is more of an eternal question than where do we come from? It’s where the sod are we going to go? It dawned on me that I can write these words that don’t go above people’s heads. It wasn’t like ‘I’m going to simplify lyrics,’ it’s just I felt confident of who I am.”

“My solo period was kind of learning that I don’t write abstract lyrics very well and never really did. It’s still, for me, the Leonard Cohens and the John Lennons… It’s like, how much simpler can you get than that? But it’s one of the most poetic things I’ve ever heard in a song, because it resonates and you know exactly what he’s on about.”

The album features a final turn on bass on Fools Like Us from Les Pattison, who would leave the band in 1998, and the inspired choice of Fun Lovin’ Criminals, who provide horns on Get in the Car and When It All Blows Over. What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? featured two singles, Get in The Car and fan favourite Rust, which was an NME Single Of The Week and the band’s final UK Top 40 hit.

The band would tour extensively in 1999 in support of the album, and the expanded double album edition features previously unreleased live tracks from shows of the time including The Improv Theatre in London (recorded for Radio One’s John Peel Show) and Cream in Liverpool, including Bunnymen classics The Killing Moon, Lips Like Sugar, Back Of Love and The Cutter.

Formed in Liverpool in 1978, Echo & The Bunnymen have been a seminal force in the indie rock world for over four decades, garnering millions of obsessive music fans worldwide while influencing countless bands, from the Flaming Lips to Coldplay to Pavement.

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eine der einflussreichsten Bands der späten 70er und frühen 80er Jahre, die maßgeblich den Sound der New Wave / Post Punk Zeit mitgeprägt haben, kommen für ein exklusives Konzert am 31. Oktober nach Berlin.

An diesem Abend werden die beiden Urmitglieder, Sänger/Gitarrist Ian McCulloch und Gitarrist Will Sergeant, von einer String Section unterstützt um ihre psychdelischenNew Wave und Pop- Hymnen in ein ganz besonderes Gewand zu hüllen. Seit nunmehr fast 40 Jahren sind die Liverpooler aktiv und haben sich seit den eher düsteren ersten Jahren mit schrägen Texten über Drogenexzesse und die damit verbundene Reue, gepaart mit schwarzen Klamotten und Turmfrisuren zu einem eher von Burt Bacharach Arrangements beeinflusste Popband gemausert, die auch weiterhin ihren ganz eigen Weg gehen wird.

Die kürzlich beendete UK Tour führte die Band unter anderem in legendäre Konzerthallen wie die Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Birmingham`s Symphony Hall und endete in der legendären Royal Albert Hall in London.

Das neue Album, „The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon“wurde gerade fertiggestellt und erscheint via BMG am 05. Oktober. Es enthält 13 Bunnymen Classic, die mit „Strings and Things“ neu aufgenommen wurden. Zudem bekommt man noch zwei brandneue Songs „The Sonambulist“ und „HowFar?“dargeboten. Aufgenommen wurde im The Dog House Studios mit Co-Produzent Andy Wright. Mac sagt zu den neuen Aufnahmen: „Ich mache das für niemand anderes als für mich. Ich mache das weil es mir wichtig ist die Songs noch besser zu machen. Ich muss das tun.“

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