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| From | mkropp@comcast.net |
| Subject | Re: No Love for "Flowers?" |
| Date | Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:05:05 +0000 |
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I might be a blind loyalist, but I always seem to find something on each Paul McCartney solo/Wings album that brings me back record after record. It might be a complete song, a great bass run, something... Sure, some of the albums don't hold up, and some tracks are downright embarrasing, but I do like many of them and still play them often.
"Silly Love Songs" from "Speed of Sound" is still one of my favorites - that bass line gets me every time. I have a soft spot for the "Ram" album, and so on.
The first McCartney show I saw was after "Flowers..." was released and I like many of the songs on it ("Put It There", "This One").
"Flaming Pie" gets a lot of play in my house, as it is one of my wife's favorite albums by anybody. And I love "Beautiful Night" (especially the playout featuring Ringo).
I like Mark's idea of putting together a personal "box set" of the best studio stiff - thanks for sparking that idea!
Michael
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> That's been my big hope for a long time, that he would reconcile
> himself with his post Beatles career and do those songs live. I
> thought when Wingspan came out it might happen but sadly no and the
> rumoured boxset never happened either. I've even heard him in
> interviews admitting that he's a bit embaressed by a lot of his 70's
> stuff which is just ridiculous. He seems to think that people only
> want to hear the Beatles songs but to be honest I'd be more likely to
> check him out if he promised to play no Beatles songs and just did the
> Wings and solo stuff. That would be an immense gig.
>
> A few years ago, I got fed up with all the abuse his solo career got
> and decided to buy all his post Beatles work on CD to hear for myself
> and was pleasantly surprised how good it was. Patchy in places, sure,
> but whose career isn't that's been going so long. A damn sight more
> consistently good than the Stones for example and he's remained fairly
> prolific throughout. I was able to cull a really good 4CD set that
> covered his studio stuff 1970-2000 and it definitely gives lie to the
> fact that he's produced nothing but rubbish.
>
> The worst record for me is Wings At The Speed Of Sound when he decided
> to be more democratic and let the other members write, then again it
> does have Silly Love Songs on it (and Let Em In but I've never cared
> for that).
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:28:56 -0500, Josh Chasin wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mike"
> > > I was prepared to go see him in 2002 but was pissed when I heard that he
> > > was doing nothing from Run Devil Run (which I loved) and Flaming Pie
> > > (which I liked). He may have done Calico Skies but I may be mistaken.
> >
> > I believe he did.
> >
> > He does seem to discount much of his post-Beatles material. "Vanilla Sky,"
> > "Here Today," and (if memory serves) "Calico Skies were the only post-1980
> > save for the ones from the one he was touring behind, Driving Rain. Why
> > never play "Getting Closer," "Back Seat of My Car" (underappreciated
> > classic), "Uncle Albert," "I Had Enough," "Tug of War," and for that matter
> > anything off Venus and Mars or Band On the Run (besides the title track and
> > "Jet")? And you can add your own dozen or two. To his credit though he
> > does seem to pull out a fresh Beatles song or three every tour-- recently
> > "She's Leaving Home" and "Getting Better," among my favorite
> > McCartney-Lennon songs...
> >
> >
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