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| From | "Andrew Hickey" <stealthmunchkin@lycos.co.uk> |
| Subject | Re: Back To The Eggo |
| Date | Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:36:50 +0100 |
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> Not sure I agree with Andrew's assertion that McCartney's sparse
> non-emotional arrangements are his strongest. There's something to be
> said for his bombastic epics which were melodically and dynamically
> driven.
I would agree with that - but I still think something like Here Today is
head and shoulders above My Love...
> McCartney needs to self-edit....and he doesn't know how...and
> no one has the balls to tell him when he sucks....or else how do you
> explain insufferable turds "Biker Like An Icon" or "Party Party".
I read an interview with Costello once where he said he *did* tell McCartney
when he was writing bad stuff - but McCartney refused to listen, because he
was Paul McCartney and Costello wasn't...
> In
> the old days you could always tell the difference between McCartney's
> unfinished experiments (which he was smart enough to leave to
> B-sides) and his prized pigs. What's happening now is that
> technology/boredom/need for relevence/desperation (pick one or all of
> these) has allowed the experiments to float alongside his mainstream
> material leaving albums half-finished. And I'm not sure I buy the
> argument that he has earned the right to do this.
I think he's done that throughout his solo career - look at Wild Life, or
releasing Mary Had A Little Lamb as a single. Even McCartney is in large
part unfinished sketches (much as I love that album). I think it's
intensified recently though. Driving Rain was one of the poorest albums I've
heard in a *long* time - and releasing From A Lover To A Friend as a single
was insanity. The verse/chorus is quite nice, but he seems to have decided
that rather than write a middle eight he'd just throw together a bunch of
random noodling and call it good enough, then repeat everything ad
nauseam...
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