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| From | Andrew Hickey <stealthmunchkin@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: McCartney Set List (spoiler alert) |
| Date | Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:14:54 +0100 |
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On 21/09/05, Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net> wrote:
> As it happens, I've been having to listen to a lot of solo and
> Wings-era McCartney stuff for work today, so I feel qualified to snort
> derisively here.
>
> Even taking out the obviously crap hits, here's a list of post-Beatles
> McCartney hits that range from "not really that annoying" to "friggin'
> awesome":
>
> Another Day
> Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
> Hi Hi Hi (incidentally, does anyone besides me think this sounds an
> awful lot like Macca's attempt to write a T. Rex song?)
> Live and Let Die
> Helen Wheels
> Jet
> Band on the Run
> Junior's Farm
> Sally G
> Listen To What the Man Said
> Maybe I'm Amazed
> I've Had Enough
> London Town
> Getting Closer
> Coming Up
> Take It Away
> No More Lonely Nights
> My Brave Face
Well, at least half those I really, really dislike. Most of the others
have been in his set either on this tour or the last one. I *would*
love to hear My Brave Face or Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey live, but
I'd rather hear even Bip Bop than No More Lonely Nights...
> ...and that's just the stuff that CHARTED, never mind the deep album
> cuts! There's not a musician on this list that wouldn't kill to have
> one-quarter so many "fairly poor" songs.
True enough. But very few hold a candle to, say, Eleanor Rigby or For No One.
> > And since when you're playing McCartney-size venues you have to do
> > mostly hits, it's unsurprising that he concentrates on the Beatles
> > stuff...
>
> Which would make sense if the Beatles songs he was doing were all
> "hits," but most of that set list consists of album tracks. I still
> say it's cheap.
But those album tracks are far better known than most of McCartney's
solo hits. I bet *far* more people could hum 'Blackbird' than 'London
Town'. Hell, *I* couldn't hum London Town, and I own that album and
have listened to it a dozen or so times...
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