The McCartney Poll

Little did he know that would be his exact facial expression more than 20 years later when Heather took all his money and joined a dancing show.

After 15 years of using them I got a wrong Amazon order: Off The Ground. wtf do I DO with this

play the elvis costello collaborations

timellisongeirNaive Teen Idol to thread.

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It's on my table wrapped tempting me to remember how "Hope of Deliverance" goes.

hope of the sibilance

"Hope of Deliverance" is pretty! Other than that I have no idea - never got this one when I was a young Macca fan and couldn't bring myself to later on, especially since I would have wanted to find it on vinyl which may or may not even exist. Pretty sure it's mostly meh though, based on "Biker Like An Icon" and "Looking For Changes" which I think were on a live album.

sampling it on iTunes I remember it: it got airplay here. It's pretty and straightforward. But. Well.

Yeah, I mean, that sort of says it. Pretty and straightforward was Macca's MO at that point, but I kinda dig it. There's some dopey but quite pleasant unreleased things from around this same time-frame, e.g. "Lindiana" and "Return to Pepperland" but that's defffffffffinitely in fans-only territory.

It's no "My Brave Face."

No question on that, but I'm a Geir type who probably would rate Flowers in the Dirt as secretly one of his best albums, counting the bonus tracks.

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― Doctor Casino, Sunday, May 12, 2013 12:27 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

HA! :D

No question on that, but I'm a Geir type who probably would rate Flowers in the Dirt as secretly one of his best albums, counting the bonus tracks.

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, May 12, 2013 12:49 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I rate Flowers In The Dirt highly, myself :)

It's on my table wrapped tempting me to remember how "Hope of Deliverance" goes.

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, May 12, 2013 12:29 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'The Lovers That Never Were' is a track on there that I really really like, but I'll definitely say there are things on that album that you don't want to be reminded of. The lyrics to 'Looking For Changes', for one.

there's something called "Winedark Sea."

Never heard this one!

there's something called "Winedark Sea."
In that case, AImless to thread.

it's not very good. also, gross feet on the cover.

the first 'mccartney hope killer lp followup to hope raiser lp' i experienced in real time, two years earlier i'd had enough residual beatles phase and budding elvis costello phase in me to get flowers in the dirt the day it came out.

first and last?

(For me, Flaming Pie was the hope raiser and I've liked the three since then.)

yeah tbh driving rain is a dropoff from flaming pie (which i really should revisit) and memory almost full is a dropoff from chaos and creation but neither dropoff is anything on the level of flowers in the dirt -> off the ground or tug of war -> pipes of peace or venus and mars -> wings at the speed of sound (could be underestimating wings at the speed of sound there admittedly).

nah

that's got 'cook of the house' on it, you're underestimating nothing

ha yeah cook of the house is an awful thing.

i rep for "Wino Junko"!

balls you are forgetting "Run Devil Run," which is pretty great, I mean I'd feel pretty good if I could do dad-rock that decently at dad-age.

I still have a burned copy of Chaos & Creation courtesy of ~somebody~, I should probably give that some more spins. I remember "Fine Line" being pretty solid, the rest is kinda hazy.

i'm sure this will draw guffaws but the one time i heard that 'valentine' song on snl it sounded pretty good for me, certainly more than i expected when i heard he'd done a rod stewart standards album, good enough he'd written every song of the album instead of tackling johnny mercer etc. better than 'my love'!

balls you are forgetting "Run Devil Run," which is pretty great

i have that on minidisc and have never played it

Memory Almost Full >>> Chaos

I had a similar experience, balls. "My Brave Face" and FITD got massive promotion, coinciding with "Veronica" becoming Elvis C's biggest American hit. FITD the first Macca album I bought, and it still holds up. No one wants to believe that "This One" is one of his very best silly love songs.

Nah, I definitely think Chaos > Memory Almost Full. I think Memory Almost Full has some good stuff on it, but there's nothing on Chaos that's as terrible as Memoory Almost Full's low points: 'Gratitude' and 'Nod Your Head'.

*Memory.

No one wants to believe that "This One" is one of his very best silly love songs.

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, May 12, 2013 11:37 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Err... I believe it!