fat cherry wrote:I've only heard sliding and love in veins from that album. The former is rubbish and the latter sounds as if it ought to be rubbish but is in fact quite good. I lik ethe rough and ready feel of it. Fairly pointless words utilising the obvious cliche subversion (oo look at me) but nothing trying to be clever but with a really simple guitar riff. In fact one of the better things produced in the last ten years. It would be in but still says ian mcculloch on the label and not 'the bunnymen'. I've just had a thought - are there albums worth of Mac demos that are better than the bunnymen releases. No I'm not starting an 'its all sergeants fault' thread, and I dont mean the mushy 'have i hit rock bottom' tosh eaither just a thought - wondered if they get bogged down in building up a song with a jingly jangly intro which then falls into the straight rock song, hoopy/soaring guitar middle bit and the jingly jangly fade out, where a simple guitar drums bass and vocal would do the job nicely. Do it clean. Maybe with an acoustic album Sarge's thinking this way anyway. Back to basics. Unplugged. o nonesense. In fact thats what I suggest for the next album (sounding like redgumball now), book two weeks in the studio, all in at the same time, just the two of them, drummer and bass player, lock the sarges effects rack in the van. See what happens. Then get phil sspecter in to add a load of strings, ha ha. No. Visconti would do.
They need to just start jamming like they did before OR and all albums after. The only thing that scares me about that is I believe that's how they made Flowers but I could be wrong. I think Will tried to make that album like a retro 60's psychedelic album but it just didn't work.
If we're being honest, the next Bunnymen album should be the album Will is doing with Les. Just have Mac add vocals and BAM the next Bunnymen album. It would probably be closer to an actual real Bunnymen album than anything released since the 80's.