Matthew you omitted major non-album singles
1971-85 only:
Yes: "Hi Hi Hi," "Live and Let Die," "I Lie Around," "Country Dreamer," "Junior's Farm," "Mull of Kintyre," "Daytime Nighttime Suffering," "Coming Up (live at Glasgow)," "I'll Give You a Ring," "My Carnival."
Ehh: "Another Day," "Little Woman Love," "C Moon," "Sally G," "Girls School," "Goodnight Tonight," "Lunch Box/Odd Sox," "Rainclouds," "Spies Like Us."
Nae: "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "The Mess," "Zoo Gang."
― Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Not me. I think he was at a low ebb compositionally on that album and the album before.
― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Friday, 12 January 2007 05:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Friday, 12 January 2007 05:09 (seventeen years ago) link
For the fan, his discography is rich with oddities, one-offs, half-baked experiments, overly self-conscious experiments, fully successful experiments, frankly brilliant fusions, unexpected detours, really expected detours, shockingly good rockers, embarassingly boneheaded rockers, sappy ballads, crappy ballads, convincing instant-classic ballads, odes to mooses that use Morse Code, and "The cat in the satin trousers said it's oily." The guy is a one-man landscape of gut pop instincts crossed with idiosyncratic overthought left turns. And if you're satisfied by swingin' tunes and enthusiasm there's so, so, so much to love.
Since his albums have been pretty well-discussed here, let me give a heads-up to a few of his many, MANY unreleased gems and uncollected b-sides. In the category of rockers (whether of the pop, stomp, or 'blooze' variety) there's "Oh Woman Oh Why," ("Oh Darling" done right) "Girls' School," "A Love For You" (tho it goes on too long), "Rode All Night" (ditto), "Daytime Nighttime Suffering," "I'll Give You A Ring," "Back on My Feet" (really dated but great), "Cage" (love the calliope!), "Soily"....etc, etc, etc.....
Ballads: "Suicide" (fragmentary though it is), "Lindiana" (don't mind the awful title), "Love Come Tumbling Down," "My Little Koala Bear," (!!!), "Tragedy" (I think this is a cover),
For weird experiments etc, go for "Boil Crisis," followed immediately by "Waterspout," then "Robber's Ball," then all the unused McCartney II stuff, especially "Secret Friend" and "Mr. H Atom." The unused dancey stuff from the mid-80s is mostly dire (eg "PS Love Me Do") but there are some interesting diversions - "Atlantic Ocean" and "Ou Est Le Soleil" for example. At this point we're starting to get into stuff that's enjoyable mainly for how it adds to the "the man's insane" portrait: "B-Side To Seaside," "Little Woman Love," "Big Boys Bickering," and on and on....
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 January 2007 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Friday, 12 January 2007 09:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 January 2007 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 12 January 2007 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Paul McCartney: Tug Of War
TS: Paul McCartney's "Pipes of Peace" vs "Press to Play"
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Luke Slater (Alan Bean), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-236705-1156668016.jpeg
― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?what=R&obid=236705
― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bob Six, Sunday, 25 March 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 26 March 2007 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 26 March 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― ColinO, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― ColinO, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark G, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark G, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 26 March 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Davey D, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 01:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 01:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Davey D, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 06:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 28 April 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
― akm, Saturday, 28 April 2007 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Saturday, 28 April 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 28 April 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Saturday, 28 April 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Saturday, 28 April 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 28 April 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 28 April 2007 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Saturday, 28 April 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 28 April 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
― Davey D, Saturday, 28 April 2007 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 28 April 2007 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link
― Davey D, Saturday, 28 April 2007 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 28 April 2007 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
― akm, Sunday, 29 April 2007 05:32 (sixteen years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 29 April 2007 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 29 April 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link