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

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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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Echo & The Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen are an English post-punk group, formed in Liverpool in 1978. Their original lineup consisted of vocalist Ian McCulloch, guitarist Will Sergeant and bass player Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine. By 1980, Pete de Freitas had joined as the band's drummer, and their debut album, Crocodiles, met with critical acclaim and made the UK Top 20. Their second album, Heaven Up Here (1981), again found favour with the critics and reached number 10 in the UK Album chart. The band's cult status was followed by mainstream success in the mid-1980s, as they scored a UK Top 10 hit with "The Cutter", and the attendant album, Porcupine (1983), reached number 2 in the UK. Their next release, Ocean Rain (1984), continued the band's UK chart success, and has since been regarded as their landmark release, spawning the hit singles "The Killing Moon", "Silver" and "Seven Seas". One more studio album, Echo & the Bunnymen (1987), was released before McCulloch left the band to pursue a solo career in 1988. The following year, de Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident, and the band re-emerged with a new line-up. Original members Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson were joined by Noel Burke as lead singer, Damon Reece on drums and Jake Brockman on keyboards. This new incarnation of the band released Reverberation in 1990, but the disappointing critical and commercial reaction it received culminated with a complete split in 1993.

After working together as Electrafixion, McCulloch and Sergeant regrouped with Pattinson in 1997 and returned as Echo & the Bunnymen with the UK Top 10 hit "Nothing Lasts Forever". An album of new material, Evergreen, was greeted enthusiastically by critics and the band made a successful return to the live arena. Though Pattinson left the group for a second time, McCulloch and Sergeant have continued to issue new material as Echo & the Bunnymen, including the albums What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? (1999), Flowers (2001), Siberia (2005) and The Fountain (2009). ...

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