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Hee Hee
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The bass on Good Times Comin' is also one of those great McCartney Moments (along with that silky chorus) which for me is well worth the price of admission. This is the same 'summer' that Paul has revisited often, in the interview with his daughter, and in a very melancholy way in the You Tell Me tune. That is also a great little thread of Macca Memory that dances in and out of his muse which makes GTC such a great little number. Must of been a very meaningful summer! CMD
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I really need to give this LP another listen.
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It's certainly an album which has grown on me. I'd like to hear it with a rawer production or more stripped back sound. "Press" has a fantastic melody...great pop tune. I also like "Good Times Comin'/Feel The Sun" "Feel the Sun" just sounds so good. But my fav on the album is "Move Over Busker" It would sound so good live.
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Kestrel:
Like McCartney II, Press To Play hasn't dated well. At least being home-made McCartney II has a certain charm, unfortunately PTP doesn't even have that going for it. Underneath the gloss though, Footprints is a nice song.
True. Love "Footprints." Paul can seemingly do those types of songs so effortlessly. (I almost like that song as much as "Don't Let It Bring You Down," sort of the same vibe/swirling guitar-riffing going on that I love...sounds like rockets in flight. (He did that on "I Want You To Fly" also, which I really love, and to some extent on "Hope of Deliverence." The version of PTP with bonus cuts is quite nice. I especially like "Write Away." It's funky and R&Bish and one can dance to it!! I always wondered why he didn't include that song and "Once Upon A Long Ago" (also a bonus cut) on the proper album when first released? To me, those two songs would have helped the album greatly...and there are at least a couple on that album that I would have kept of...and made them the bonus cuts later on.
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Beatles4Ever&Ever:
Love "Footprints." Paul can seemingly do those types of songs so effortlessly. (I almost like that song as much as "Don't Let It Bring You Down."
"Footprints" is a great song -- I loved it the first time I heard it, and it's vastly superior to "Don't Let It Bring You Down," which is really just a knock-off of "Greensleeves." If the latter hadn't been in the public domain, Paul likely would have been sued.
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I fell in love with the song Press after getting the McCartney Years. I love that video so much! As far as the rest of the album...I immediately also loved Stranglehold and Good Times Comin/Feel the Sun, but the rest didn't blow me away. So, I would put it on when I felt like listening to those few tracks in particular. But, I started to notice that the other songs were growing on me one by one. This is an album that has slowly, but surely crept into being one of my favorites on any given day.
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There's this great bit of guitar hidden in 'Press' (I think it's maybe the verse guitar as seen on the diagram) it's either Paul's or Carlo's, it's quite muted at the bottom of the mix during the "Maybe we should hit upon a word, something that the other's haven't heard" and "Maybe we should have a secret code, before we both get ready to explode" parts, it's so understatedly hooky... Never understood why this wasn't a hit, wasn't there different mixes released on different formats, I know there was at least on the '12... Really reckon this has a wider audience outside of his staple market, I think if it was given a modern supersonic bass kinda dance feel to it, it would be a big hit today...
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Love it -- from A to Z.
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CustomMadeDinosaurs:
The bass on Good Times Comin' is also one of those great McCartney Moments (along with that silky chorus) which for me is well worth the price of admission. This is the same 'summer' that Paul has revisited often, in the interview with his daughter, and in a very melancholy way in the You Tell Me tune. That is also a great little thread of Macca Memory that dances in and out of his muse which makes GTC such a great little number. Must of been a very meaningful summer! CMD
You Sir, talk sense.
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I found this LP to be a real disappointment when it first came out. But in recent years I come to enjoy it more and more. And although the some will say the production is dated .... it was produced in the 80s what's it suppose to sound like??? I like the sound of this record and it does sound good when I listen to it with a set of headphones. Some of my favorites: Stranglehold Footprints Only Love Remains Press Move Over Busker Angry Write Away
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dcshark:
I found this LP to be a real disappointment when it first came out. But in recent years I come to enjoy it more and more. And although the some will say the production is dated .... it was produced in the 80s what's it suppose to sound like??? I like the sound of this record and it does sound good when I listen to it with a set of headphones. Some of my favorites: Stranglehold Footprints Only Love Remains Press Move Over Busker Angry Write Away
This was the album that made a fan of Paul McCartney when I was in high school (aahhh....cassette tapes -- those were the days!) Funny enough: "Write Away" was one of those nuggets that I hadn't discovered until the '90s when I got my hands on an import CD. Great solid album! And "Angry" is one of the best three-piece rockers by one of the best super-groups of all time: Paul: Bass/vocals Phil Collins: Drums Pete Townshend: Guitar
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Just my two cents: Press to Play is my favorite Macca album of the 80s (keep in though that I haven't heard Tug of War yet ops: ). Probably a personal preference, but to my ears, it doesn't sound dated at all. Flowers in the Dirt on the other hand..... All in all a good little album!
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I'm still in love with PTP.
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This is a strange album, because many people seems to ignore it, but when someone ask for it, you realize that many people love it...may be is not easy first listen, but when you really pay attention, it catch you and you love it. For me the songs are Only Love Remains, Strangehold, Footprints and Write Away.
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I really enjoy the album... My favourites are Good Times Coming/Feel the Sun, Footprints, Pretty Little Head, Write Away and Once Upon a Long Ago with one of my favourite videos
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"Press to Play" was the first McCartney album I went out and bought on release date. (Had been a fan for a couple of years). Got all the singles on release date as well. From day one I loved the album. Each and every track on it. I can think of several other 80's albums that have aged worse than this one. It has become a myth/legend that it's a bad album. And some people just keep echoing the myth.
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I'm going to have to give it a listen to on Jukebox. Oh wait....
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nigel.thrillington:
I'm going to have to give it a listen to on Jukebox. Oh wait....