Macca sounding oddly like E from Eels there.
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
OK these guys despise "Press," fuck them
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
new Paul is cool stuff. i like "Come On to Me", the chorus sounds like something Beck might come up with if he didn't suck nowadays
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
So this poll led me down a solo Beatle rabbit hole and I watched this last night:https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07938WKMWđ¸Any Amazon Prime members here might really enjoy it. It follows J & P throughout the seventies and features Klaus Voorman, Denny Laine and whole other host of ex-Wings members.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 21 June 2018 00:48 (five years ago) link
Stoked on these new songs, guys. <3
― timellison, Thursday, 21 June 2018 00:50 (five years ago) link
Pretty solid song (v white album IMO) but god, that video, like someone made it on a dare to produce the shittiest imaginable promo
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 21 June 2018 02:11 (five years ago) link
From the email that went out:
Sharing a title with one of Paulâs own paintings, Egypt Station is the first full album of all-new McCartney music since 2013âs international chart-topping NEW. Preceded by two of its tracks just released as double A-sides - plaintive ballad 'I Donât Know' and raucous stomper 'Come On To Me' - Egypt Station was recorded between Los Angeles, London and Sussex, and produced (with the exception of one Ryan Tedder track) by Greg Kurstin (Adele, Beck, Foo Fighters).
Of the forthcoming albumâs enigmatic title, Paul says, âI liked the words âEgypt Station.â It reminded me of the âalbumâ albums we used to make... 'Egypt Station' starts off at the station on the first song and then each song is like a different station. So it gave us some idea to base all the songs around that. I think of it as a dream location that the music emanates from.â
True to the inspiration behind its title, Egypt Station âs 14 songs combine to convey a unique travelogue vibe. Between the opening and closing instrumentals 'Station I' and 'Station II', each song finds Paul capturing a place or moment before transporting the listener seamlessly to the next destination. Stops along the way include an acoustic meditation on present day contentedness ('Happy With You'), a timeless anthem that would fit on virtually any album of any McCartney era ('People Want Peace'), and an epic multi-movement closer clocking in at seven minutes with a song suite structure harkening back to the days of Paulâs previous combos ('Despite Repeated Warnings'). The result is a kaleidoscopic journey through myriad musical locales and eras, yet firmly rooted in the here and now - with Paulâs singular unmistakeable melodic and lyrical sensibility serving as a guide.
― timellison, Thursday, 21 June 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
(with the exception of one Ryan Tedder track)
nooooooooo
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Thursday, 21 June 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
I thought I posted this but I didnât. I enjoyed it as well. Who knew Amazon had so many Beatles documentaries? (but still not The Compleat Beatles, which was my introduction to them but I believe has been pulled out of circulation)
yeah, these are pretty great. I ended up watching all four docs.
― Darin, Thursday, 21 June 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSGlnXRHLZo
anyone seen this? Paul is unusually forthright.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 June 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
"I Don't Know" almost sounds like the tune Jimmy Fallon says he tried to pitch him, around 4 min in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40dnEuHWySU
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 21 June 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
Cool interview, Alfred!
― timellison, Thursday, 21 June 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
LADS
I'M AT A DJ NIGHT AT A BAR RN AND THEY'RE PLAYING "TEMPORARY SCRETARY" AND IT'S RULING....
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 June 2018 04:00 (five years ago) link
SECRETARY
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 June 2018 04:01 (five years ago) link
otm
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Friday, 22 June 2018 06:44 (five years ago) link
Of the forthcoming albumâs enigmatic title, Paul says, âI liked the words âEgypt Station.â
good stuff Paul
― niels, Friday, 22 June 2018 09:12 (five years ago) link
Stops along the way include an acoustic meditation on present day contentedness ('Happy With You'), a timeless anthem that would fit on virtually any album of any McCartney era ('People Want Peace'), and an epic multi-movement closer clocking in at seven minutes with a song suite structure harkening back to the days of Paulâs previous combos ('Despite Repeated Warnings').
― niels, Friday, 22 June 2018 09:14 (five years ago) link
True, but other times he's aimed for the "Abbey Road" style medley, it's come up short.
― Mark G, Friday, 22 June 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
You say that like âHold Me Tightâ is somehow lesser than âGolden Slumbersâ
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 22 June 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
Alfred, that McCartney interview you posted is amazing.
― Darin, Saturday, 23 June 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link
Isn't it? For most of it, he drops the guile. The moment when he reminisces about hanging out with George a few months earlier is touching.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 June 2018 10:59 (five years ago) link
I know we all hate James Cordon and he's the worst thing about this but it is rather charming, even if Paul does tell the story of Let it Be for the 56000th time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjvzCTqkBDQ
― akm, Saturday, 23 June 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
my mom was on a trip visiting Liverpool last week and when they got on the Magical Mystery Tour bus the driver was like, "Paul actually just hopped onto the bus a few days ago". gg imagine that!
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 25 June 2018 00:08 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50A9cU4o0Lo
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 29 June 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/paul-mccartneys-producer-greg-kurstin-breaks-down-egypt-station-666987/
― timellison, Friday, 6 July 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
all of that sounds v encouraging :D
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 6 July 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
so I ranked Paul's shit.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 September 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
that's p close to how i'd rank them myself -- i've definitely played his debut more than anything else he ever did.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 6 September 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
My seven favorite solo Beatles albums.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 November 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
If heâd cut... âNo Words"
lolwhat. best song on the album!
good writeups, cheers
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 2 November 2018 13:18 (five years ago) link
best song?!
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 November 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
to me, it's up there. I wish it was twice as long
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 2 November 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
"no words" was in my top five? it's totally the best song on band on the run
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 2 November 2018 13:25 (five years ago) link
I love you, ILM.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 November 2018 13:25 (five years ago) link
it's sublimely produced disco-ballad-rock.
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 2 November 2018 13:29 (five years ago) link
88. One of These Days - Paul McCartney (feat. Paul) (394 points, 7 votes)
I pretty much know duck-all about Solo Beatles, but âTemporary Secretaryâ (a recent discovery) led me to McCartney II â and the above closing track is a very fine song.
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 19 January 2019 20:49 (five years ago) link
McCartney II is pretty much the hipster/Pitchfork readers choice.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 January 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link
Yr starting at the wrong end of the list morris
― Îá˝ĎΚĎ, Saturday, 19 January 2019 22:30 (five years ago) link
The first 4 or 5 tracks (and that final track) are great â for a minute I was like, âIs this gonna be a one-guy skewed bedroom-pop classic? â but then thereâs some real bloozy shmooz in the middle. I do like a few of the instrumentals. I guess it was a big deal for a guy like McCartney to release an album full of that stuff, showing that heâs not weighed down by his rep?It also sent me off listening to other stuff that seemed related in my personal taxonomy, like Fred Frithâs Cheap at Half the Price (thatâs a lot more âunconventional,â of course).
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 19 January 2019 22:31 (five years ago) link
Nah, he'd already released McCartney ten years prior, which was mostly him pissing about at home. In between those two, it was all stuff with (Paul McCartney &) Wings and Ram (which was billed as a Paul & Linda album) ...
The first album released solely under his name (i.e. not Wings) to have high production values is Tug of War, which was designed to be a blockbuster.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:26 (five years ago) link
The first Wings album sounds like it was written and recorded in the same amount of time as it takes to listen to it!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:28 (five years ago) link
Hmm. I tried listening to the first McCartney LP, but it didnât jibe (âMaybe Iâm Amazedâ notwithstanding)
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:30 (five years ago) link
Usually I do dig âmusician messing around with a multitrack and lots of instrumentsâ type albums
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
mccartney I is more interesting than mccartney II imo, the later album has some cool stuff but feels way blander than its reputation
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link
It's a mixed bag of stuff - 'Junk' and 'Teddy Boy' were songs that didn't make it onto The Beatles, I think 'Hot as Sun' was written pre-Beatles even (I'll have to double check that) ... most of the songs were just made up as he was recording. 'Maybe I'm Amazed' is the best song on there, IMO, and it's tempting to think of it as an obvious Beatles single had they stayed together.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link
The reputation of MII comes from its re-release during a particular time: the apogee of Hot Chip, Junior Boys, etc. Lots of stories praising "Secret Friend," for example.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:46 (five years ago) link
The first McCartney is pretty much McCartney pissing about at home and trying to take his mind off the whole Beatles fall-out, whereas McCartney II was McCartney pissing about at home in between Wings projects and possibly trying to come up with something for the next Wings album. 'Wonderful Christmastime' came out of the same sessions.
Of course, the Japan thing happened and Wings broke up and a solo album was cobbled together from the demos.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:57 (five years ago) link
one of these days >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> maybe I'm amazed
― flappy bird, Sunday, 20 January 2019 00:53 (five years ago) link
This isn't the controversial opinions thread.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 20 January 2019 01:14 (five years ago) link
no way. more like one of these days >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> maybe I'm amazed
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 20 January 2019 02:31 (five years ago) link