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| From | Marty Rudnick <mrudnick@marturo.com> |
| Subject | Re: New McCartney |
| Date | Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:53:43 -0700 |
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After all the early praise, I had been thinking the album should have
been called "The Emperor's New Clothes"
Marty
Michael Carpenter wrote:
> Josh wrote..
>
>> Having played Chaos & Creation a bunch now, I think the word I'm
>> settling in on is "boring." I liked it a lot at first, but its kind
>> of sitting there for me. (Although I think "Jenny Wren" is
>> outstanding, and I've heard him speak of it as a follow-up to
>> "Blackbird," both songs referring to a woman as a "bird.") Here's my
>> test: put all the songs from this album into a playlist on your iPod,
>> and drop "Beware My Love" in there, and hit shuffle. See what you
>> think.
>>
>> Obviously your mileage may vary. But I was enjoying Chaos until
>> "Beware My Love" happened to come up on my iPod, and I thought to
>> myself, if that was on the new one, it would be the standout track by
>> like a million miles. Shortly thereafter I went through it to
>> decide which tracks to import, and song-for-song, not a lot of them
>> made the cut.
>
>
> Unbelievably, just tonight almost the EXACT same thing happened. When
> i first heard the new album, i thought the first 3 songs were
> promising, and 30 minutes later felt let down, bored and disappointed.
> Friends told me to try again, and i did a few days later, and liked it
> a bit more after a few listens (and watching the DVD), but still was
> quite down on it... i just thought it was boring. So tonight while
> driving home i had another listen and started to think it was ok.
>
> Then while bathing my child tonight, i had my iTunes on on shuffle,
> and Beware My Love came on. Now, i love this song, but it was an album
> track from one of his less heralded albums of the 70's. And it was
> EASILY the best McCartney song i'd heard all day....
>
> I know.. i know.. BML was 30 years ago, and he was still a young man
> with something to prove. I guess my biggest beef though with the new
> album is, where has his ability to write good lyrics, and write pop
> songs gone? On any album between 1970 and 1980 there are at least a
> few good straight pop songs, with nice grooves and good basslines...
> something that you could still find on albums up to Flaming Pie. On
> this one, all we have is Fine Line, which has some of the most insipid
> lyrics i've heard... "everything is better when you come home to
> stay".. what is that?
>
> Maybe Linda was his muse, because the last 2 albums have just been
> devoid of the very things i love about Macca. I can forgive Wild Life,
> and Young Boy, but i may never recover from Driving Rain, and this new
> one may not get much more airing..
>
> Like i said, we're always hardest on the ones we love... and i will
> say that he will always be possibly my greatest musical hero, and he
> owes me nothing, as he's given me so much already.
>
> MC
> www.myspace.com/thesupahip
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