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
I have 2 100 song ballots so far
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 May 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
That was me – I listed "Blow Away" 99 times.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
correction - one of those ballots was actually only 99 tracks cuz voter voted for one song twice
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 May 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
nice try, voter ;)
― niels, Monday, 21 May 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
"jealous guy" is a very good song
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 21 May 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
side two of imagine is really well balanced, feels like a tour through lennon's best modes
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 21 May 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
feel like plugging this, Yoko's best piano ballad imohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8k4lN3Kd28
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 May 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
that's good. never heard that before.
― Darin, Monday, 21 May 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
that song is amazing
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 21 May 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
i'll be voting for it and "death of samantha" and prob several other approximately infinite universe songs
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 21 May 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link