The rock stuff is among his best recently. 'Rinse the Raindrops' is one of the best things he's ever done. Any more bagging of Driving Rain and I shall be forced to cry.
Memory Almost Full is a bit all over the place, despite half of it being massively accomplished for an old feller.
Current solo better than Wings? Yep, definitely. A few years ago he claimed that scouring archives for the Beatles Anthology inspired him to write better stuff, and fortunately it seems to have been a sustained influence.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 22 October 2007 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i am going to buy this shirt
http://www.iamfauxpas.com/images/mcheart04.jpg
― jaxon, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 04:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 04:25 (sixteen years ago) link
After 15 years of using them I got a wrong Amazon order: Off The Ground. wtf do I DO with this
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 May 2013 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
play the elvis costello collaborations
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 12 May 2013 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
timellisongeirNaive Teen Idol to thread.
― Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 May 2013 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
Big boys shippin' thingsFuckin' it up for Amazon
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 12 May 2013 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
It's on my table wrapped tempting me to remember how "Hope of Deliverance" goes.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 May 2013 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
hope of the sibilance
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 12 May 2013 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 12 May 2013 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
sampling it on iTunes I remember it: it got airplay here. It's pretty and straightforward. But. Well.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 May 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 12 May 2013 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
It's no "My Brave Face."
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 May 2013 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
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, 12 May 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, May 12, 2013 12:27 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
HA! :D
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Sunday, 12 May 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, May 12, 2013 12:49 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I rate Flowers In The Dirt highly, myself :)
― 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.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Sunday, 12 May 2013 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
there's something called "Winedark Sea."
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 May 2013 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
Never heard this one!
― timellison, Sunday, 12 May 2013 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
there's something called "Winedark Sea."In that case, AImless to thread.
― Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 May 2013 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
it's not very good. also, gross feet on the cover.
― akm, Sunday, 12 May 2013 03:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― balls, Sunday, 12 May 2013 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
first and last?
― timellison, Sunday, 12 May 2013 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
(For me, Flaming Pie was the hope raiser and I've liked the three since then.)
― timellison, Sunday, 12 May 2013 03:44 (eleven years ago) link
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).
― balls, Sunday, 12 May 2013 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
nah
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 12 May 2013 04:05 (eleven years ago) link
that's got 'cook of the house' on it, you're underestimating nothing
ha yeah cook of the house is an awful thing.
― piscesx, Sunday, 12 May 2013 04:12 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 12 May 2013 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 12 May 2013 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
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, Sunday, 12 May 2013 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
balls you are forgetting "Run Devil Run," which is pretty great
i have that on minidisc and have never played it
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 12 May 2013 08:08 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 May 2013 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
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'.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Sunday, 12 May 2013 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
*Memory.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Sunday, 12 May 2013 11:56 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Sunday, 12 May 2013 11:58 (eleven years ago) link