also unfortunately i don't think i understand why "my love" is so bad, though it def is macca desperately trying to rewrite "something"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
lmao exactly
"How would George play this? OK, Henry, your solo is GREAT, man."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
btw the not-so-big surprise of this thread is how consistently great George's solos are, even at his hackiest. On paper the idea of a slide solo bores me, but he 99.9 percent of the time is terser, more sarcastic, or more liquid than expected. Like, he always knows what the song means. The dude is one of my top ten favorite guitarists ever.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
means = ever
lol means = needs
I hate phones
red rose speedway doesn't really make any kind of sense as an album but it's kind of adorable. i love the arrangements of "get on the right thing" and "little lamb dragonfly." the production is almost confectionary, just clouds of sugar
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
yeah those are two songs i always totally forget about and then find totally enjoyable when they're on.c moon rules. "was that the intro i should have been in?"
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
Brad may dig the chord/tempo changes on this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzHJcW5wpP0
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
'Little Lamb Dragonfly' was never really one that grabbed me, although it's a favourite of many in the McCartney hardcore. 'Get On The Right Thing' has some neat ideas and I like the drum sound on it, but doesn't 100% work for me.
'Big Barn Bed' is okay (you can hear him break into an early draft of it during the fade of the 'Ram On' reprise on Ram) but the main highlights for me are 'My Love' (all-time McCartney favourite) and 'Single Pigeon' ...
I have absolutely no use at all for the Medley (absolute waste of time) or 'When the Night' ...
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
'C Moon' is great - always loved that one.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
Speedway is a good sounding record. Better than BOTR, I think.
― timellison, Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
Actually, looking at the tracklisting, I'd somehow forgot 'One More Kiss' and 'Loup' were on Red Rose Speedway. I like both of those - 'One More Kiss' has the kind of melody that wouldn't have sounded out of place on an early Beatles record, and 'Loup' has that neat Floyd-like section in the middle.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 May 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
the medley is weirdly kinda bad yeah. it's weird, you'd think paul connecting unrelated songs would be the main attraction at this point in his career, with "uncle albert" and "band on the run" coming out in the surrounding years
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 19 May 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
That's what I thought when I first heard it way back, plus this was the guy that had a big hand in piecing together the Abbey Road medley from scraps of unfinished Lennon and McCartney songs. The Red Rose Speedway medley just doesn't feel focused at all - individually the different parts aren't very good, and together the whole thing feels a bit of a mess. I don't like it at all and find it a bit of a slog, come to think of it.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 May 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
Paul’s pre-Beatles solo LP will likely figure heavily in my ballot.https://i1-wp-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w820/s/i1.wp.com/rockcriticsarchives.com/bookshelf/shipper01a.jpg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 19 May 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
i love band on the run, it's so charming. "nineteen hundred and eighty five" is one of the coolest songs paul ever wrote
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 19 May 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
Yeah, love that song too, and one time heard a great version of it one Sunday evening whilst changing trains at Times Square by Beatles tribute band The Meetles.
― Bring Me The Binaural Heads Of Butch Firbanks (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 May 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
lol means = needsI hate phones
― Bring Me The Binaural Heads Of Butch Firbanks (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 May 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
whoa i LOVE "magneto and titanium man"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 19 May 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
otm -- the keyboard!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 May 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
"letting go" also rocks
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 19 May 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
that's long been one of my favorite solo Macca favorites -- and a total bomb on the charts.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 May 2018 22:15 (five years ago) link
yesssss to magnetoThe Speedway medley --- I want to say I read that the original idea, when this was a double album, was that each of the first three bits would have been sprinkled around the different sides, so that when they start appearing in "Power Cut" it's this awesome payoff. Or maybe I just imagined that, but it makes a *little* more sense than just unrolling these fairly trifling songs one after the other as your closer. Ambition exceeding his grasp - I still like it, but if each section was really convincing as a song in itself, it could have been spectacular.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 May 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
Fan of “Love in Song” if we are talking Venus and Mars.
― timellison, Saturday, 19 May 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
I love 'Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five', particularly the way it builds up to that ending!
'Magneto', 'Letting Go' and 'Love In Song' all favourites of mine, but then I rate Venus and Mars quite highly in general. I get 'Medicine Jar' stuck in my head quite a fair bit too, and McCartney didn't write that one!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 May 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
AND THE CRIMSON DYNAMOJUST COULDN'T CUT IT NO MO'!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 May 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
A few other McCartney songs that deserve shout outs: No WordsTomorrowShe's My Baby (I might be alone in my appreciation of this one)Jenny WrenJunk
― Darin, Saturday, 19 May 2018 23:47 (five years ago) link
HI DERE
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 May 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
i love "She's My Baby," "mopping her up" and all. That's a real pop-into-my-head-at-the-grocery-store tune.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 20 May 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
No Words
ok so: i started constructing a ballot i may never complete, but this is currently my no. 1
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 20 May 2018 00:36 (five years ago) link
also "junk" is so lovely
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 20 May 2018 00:38 (five years ago) link
wow i’m really glad i heard “getting closer”
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 20 May 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
On paper the idea of a slide solo bores me
you have never listened to classic country i take it?
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 20 May 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
No, I never listen to any country music.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 May 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
I am so loving BN's deep Wings dive, and that it keeps paying out dividends.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 20 May 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
Lol alfred
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 20 May 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link
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Yup, me too!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 20 May 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
Back to the Egg in general has become a huge favourite of mine, and it sucks that there weren't more albums with that line-up.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 20 May 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
I've always kind of liked this Ringo song. Roger Manning and Andy Sturmer from Jellyfish are on it. He covers a Posies track on the same album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAjq2uxLfpY
― purrington, Sunday, 20 May 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
^^ by far his most listenable album after 1974.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 May 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
Giving Wings at the Speed of Sound another listen today... definitely one of the patchier Wings albums for a couple of reasons (side two can fuck off entirely apart from 'Silly Love Songs' and 'Warm and Beautiful') but I forgot how much I love 'The Note You Never Wrote' ...
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
I wish there was a 12" instrumental of Paul McCartney's 'Temporary Secretary'
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
Non-Macca Speed of Sound jam "Wino Junko" is one of my favorite dumb Wings songs.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 20 May 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
omigod why haven't I paid attention to Red Rose Speedway's "When the Night"???
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link
the na na na na na na na na na naaaaghtfell on me
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Monday, 21 May 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
is "Loup" his attempt at writing Sly & Family Stone's "Thank You For Talking To Me Africa"?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2018 13:11 (five years ago) link
4 ballots in already! Off to a good start
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 May 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
against my better judgment i'm making one
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 21 May 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
just curious, did the ballots make it to 100?
i'd like to list 100 songs, but i want to genuinely like every song on my list, and i'm not sure that's possible
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Monday, 21 May 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
100 song ballot really useful for when i inevitably put every non-apple jam all things must pass song on my ballot
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 21 May 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link