Echo And The Bunnymen - all my life, 1987

"McCulloch sings in a mannered and understated way that allows the conflicted emotions within the song to play out on their own merits and the rest of the band plays in a restrained but beautiful fashion that serves the song. I especially love drummer Pete de Freitas’ martial fills during the verse that uses military imagery in the lyrics. It is a subtle touch in a song that is surprisingly subtle and mature for an early Bunnymen track. It is a song about the ebbs and flows of life and is the perfect way to end the last album that the original line-up would make before McCulloch left for a time and de Freitas died in his accident."