echo and the bunnymen

CD shooting party

Ink’s party leaders Blair, Hague, Kennedy and The voice of reason gathered at a secret location to pass judgement, track by track, on the new manifestos from the music hustings

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN – FLOWERS COOKING VINYL

Like Stephen Segal, the Bunnymen are proving rather hard to kill, coming back again with another album much anticipated by everyone except, presumably, the people who count record sales.

KENNEDY: [Confused] I can never remember, are we supposed to like Echo & The Bunnymen?

KING OF KINGS

BLAIR: Well, this makes you wonder why they were dropped, doesn’t it? [He’s speaking slowly, so we can assume a degree of sarcasm]

SUPERMELLOW MAN

KENNEDY: Are we still on the first track here, or has it changed?
HAGUE: This is very dull.
KENNEDY: They used to write good tunes, but McCulloch should just give it up now and become a Liverpool personality.

HIDE & SEEK

HAGUE: Now he just sounds like he’s lost all interest and is singing by numbers
KENNEDY: While the writing has been reduced to tired rhyming couplets.
BLAIR: But he’s invented a whole new style Peggy [King of the] Hill’s musings set to music.

IT’S ALRIGHT

BLAIR:At least this is more like an old Bunnymen track. Best one on the album
HAGUE: It’s just hard to think that this is band who sang Killing Moon. Even those this is okay, it’s still not fantastic
BLAIR: Its Cooking Vinyl’s fault. They’re like an exotic zoo, hoarding bands that would otherwise be extinct. Someone should tell musicians when they’re past their best.