I like London much, much more than Egg. The latter has too many faceless rockers on it, although "Old Siam, Sir" and "Arrow Through Me" are both better than anything on the former.
― Davey D, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link
The title track of London Town is a really nice composition. And the album's got "Cafe on the Left Bank" (which sounds like Duran Duran!) and "Morse Moose" - but yeah, Back to the Egg is a better sounding record and side one of that album is a really good side.
I like Wild Life a lot. The "throwaway" tracks are no more ridiculous or whatever than the ones on McCartney and I think I'd actually take "Some People Never Know," "Tomorrow," and "Dear Friend" over "Junk," "Every Night," and "Maybe I'm Amazed." (OK, that's actually a close call, but I just like the sequencing of Wild Life as an album a lot.)
― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Over "MAYBE I'M AMAZED"?!? Um, I like WWL just fine, but please.
"Every Night" is awesome, btw -- Matthew Sweet does a great cover on the tribute...
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link
"I Am Your Singer" is a rad song.
― Davey D, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm beginning to think that Wild Life is way underrated as a result of the context in which it was presented. Wasn't it released around the same time as Plastic Ono Ban and All Things Must Pass?
― darin, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
can someone do a poll cause this is really hard work?!
― pisces, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link
will anyone defend Pipes of Peace? Worth it only for "So Bad," which remains one of the Great Lost Macca Singles.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link
I am afraid that I cannot defent Pipes, although I really love "Say Say Say."
Xpost re: poll, I already did one.
― Davey D, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 07:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Pipes, methinks, is nearly fine after all - esp. compared to really dull shit like Press To Play, which I bought recently and was GRANDLY dissappointed with.
― t**t, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link
how on earth can "Press" and "Good Times Comin'" disappoint??
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
O oh-key, Alfredo-san, just for you, just tonite, just now I'mma a-putting that damn thing on again! :)
― t**t, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
"However Absurd," fellas.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link
"However" - not! :( "Good Times" - mm, good, like, yeh; wouldn't be out of place on Queen's Hot Space. "Press" - nah, this's exactly the kind of '80s sound' that broes me to total numbness. "Pretty Little Head", however (no matter how generically P-Gabrielesque it appears), me likes also -- a little. "Write Away" - a decent George-Michael-song. "Stranglehold" - wouldn't be out of place on Queen's The Game.
(Haha, no -- this doesn't mean I'll be buying me Wild Life next!:)
― t**t, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Wild Life >>> Press to Play
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link
WORD
― Davey D, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Um, a coupla more dozens of posts like that and - who kno's?!
― t**t, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link
In the case of "Pipes...", the title track and "The Man" are great while "Keep Under Cover" is OK. The rest - apart from the production, which I love - is mostly rather mediocre. Not among his best albums.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
"Keep Under Cover" is about the only thing that's compositionally interesting on that album. The production on the title track is really something else, though.
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
OMFG Where is the love for "Girls' School"?
― Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
"Press" - nah, this's exactly the kind of '80s sound' that broes me to total numbness.
This is the kind of eighties sound that drives me to ecstacy. Twenty-four tracks madness! Linda's psychotic harmonies! Paul's guitar fills!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link
And Carlos Alomar's, people!
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 12 July 2007 02:20 (seventeen years ago) link
CANNOT RECALL THE RADNESS OF THESE GUITAR PARTS
― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 12 July 2007 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link
I cannot imagine a world in which "Press" does not exist.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 12 July 2007 02:39 (seventeen years ago) link
"Press" and "Only Love Remains" were great. The rest of that album was not.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 12 July 2007 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link
... "Press" ... This is the kind of eighties sound that drives me to ecstacy. -- Alfred, Lord
Good Lord, we *are* two different people eh!:)
On the Wild Life front, however, didn't find it today in any of my hometown's shops. So got me 3 other Maccasir's instead, he.
― t**t, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link
junkcoming upone of these daystoo many peoplefront parlourband on the rundarkroomfrozen japtemporary secretarythe lovely linda
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 05:26 (seven years ago) link
The End of the EndEnglish TeaScaredYou Tell MeSingle PigeonYou Gave Me the AnswerMagneto and Titanium ManDear BoyUncle Albert/Admiral HalseyBand on the Run
― timellison, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 06:39 (seven years ago) link
lol @ flappy bird's McCartney range only extending to McCartney, McCartney II, Ram and Band On The Run ... all Pitchfork-approved favourites, I'm sure.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 18:18 (seven years ago) link
This is an impossible question for me, fwiw.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link
oooooooooOOOOHHHH!!
no.
a few years ago I was driving with a friend to a Panda Bear show (the man from the Animal Collective). he put on "Darkroom." He asked us all in the car "who do you think this is?" We had no idea. It was wild. Listened to the whole record after that. Was blown away.
I don't like Ram at all. but Too Many People is good.
now JUNK? you wanna talk junk. you ever heard the Esher acoustic demos? when paul, george, and john got together at george's house in May 1968 and laid down all the songs they wrote in India. beautiful collection of double-tracked acoustics and vocals, messy and stoned and gorgeous. the demo of Junk on there has stuck with me ever since.
i ran out of songs so I put band on the run.
boom!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 18:22 (seven years ago) link
honestly i should've just written Junk ten times
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 18:23 (seven years ago) link
I'll post 10 I wanna hear right now:
1. Figure of Eight2. Only Love Remains3. No More Lonely Nights4. Take It Away5. This One6. Old Siam Sir7. The Note You Never Wrote8. Magneto and Titanium Man9. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five10. Maybe I'm Amazed
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 18:23 (seven years ago) link