'Road' is the best track from the album 'New'
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audi:
Ed is my very first friend at this board. Since late '02.
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We had a party last night and I played the album NEW once or twice for the guests so I was listening while I was talking. I have to admit that Road was one of the tracks that caught my ear while listening to the album in a different light. I have to admit that I'm warming to this song as opposed to my prior post that I thought the song rather lackluster. One of the guests was a big Beatle fan and he liked the album for the most part...I'd played it for him a couple weeks ago when I first picked it up. Interestingly enough he didn't really care for Queenie Eye which he and others had seen Paul perform at the Grammys. I told him that I liked the song and he agreed with me that it contained a bit of an "I Am The Walrus" sound to it.
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Early Days for me is far and away the best song on the album. (Of course, like most of my "favorite" Beatles/Paul songs, it changes daily ) But for now, Early Days is my fav.
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"Road" sounds so unlike a Paul song, in theme, emotional affect and musicality, unless it is an "Electric Arguments" out take, as someone pointed out before. The song sometimes arouses a certain anxiety in me, it's so fearful in an existential, "what am I doing here, what's going to happen to me" way. I don't like to hear Macca sound so frightened. Yet "Road" is quite striking in its unusual for Paul manner, and its overall sound. I enjoyed it much more initially, and will probably start digging it again--while "Queenie Eye" has fallen some in my estimation. I think I understand why Bruce M. keeps reiterating he doesn't understand why "Queenie Eye" was released as the second single from "New." And I love the song "New" like he does. I wonder what he thinks about "Road."
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SusyLuvsPaul:
"Road" sounds so unlike a Paul song, in theme, emotional affect and musicality, unless it is an "Electric Arguments" out take, as someone pointed out before. The song sometimes arouses a certain anxiety in me, it's so fearful in an existential, "what am I doing here, what's going to happen to me" way. I don't like to hear Macca sound so frightened. Yet "Road" is quite striking in its unusual for Paul manner, and its overall sound. I enjoyed it much more initially, and will probably start digging it again--while "Queenie Eye" has fallen some in my estimation. I think I understand why Bruce M. keeps reiterating he doesn't understand why "Queenie Eye" was released as the second single from "New." And I love the song "New" like he does. I wonder what he thinks about "Road."
I didn't care for "Road" all that much at first, but it's grown on me some. Not my favorite on the album, but I like it.
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Hello guys, may I venture an opinion on Road? So many (arguably all) songs have echoes of others in them. Sometimes the echo boosts the new one, sometimes it gets in the way. Sometimes it's an homage, or a cute quote, sometimes an unconscious influence. How we subjectively feel about that varies and can make the song seem too derivative or still seem original. Sometimes we like it. Sometimes it's distracting. Anyway, when I hear Road I always sense that in the back of Macca's mind was The Doors' 'Riders on the Storm'. Road's similar eerie sound palette and lines like "We came from nowhere / Hiding from a storm" remind me of Riders with its lines like "there's a killer on the road". In this case I admit I personally find the echo distracting. For this reason I don't enjoy Road as much as I otherwise might. My NEW favourites would be Alligator, I Can Bet, Turned Out, New, Save Us, Early Days, Looking At Her, Scared, and even Queenie Eye... oh, that's most of them, heh! Appreciate and Hosanna I am not fond of. Well that's just my two penn'orth. Thanks for listening. Strath
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For me New is macca new masterpice the only one i skip is hosanna all the rest is top including road
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I do not think 'Road' is the best track. I think 'Scared' and 'New' is better But 'Road' is a good one Carlos: I think 'Hosanna' is quite good.
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One of my favorites is Scared, I'm glad it closes the album, on both versions. I like Road, but it's not a closer imo
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The thing that strikes me about "Road" is that it ventures on what in the old days we would have called Progressive FM or AOR (Album Oriented Rock)... Songs like this, "House Of Wax", "Riding To Vanity Fair", "Nineteen Hundred & Eighty Five", "Only Mama Knows", etc are not monster hit oriented tracks that hit radio flocks to. So in the 'early days', when FM was new, instead of playing "With A Little Luck", my FM station played "Morse Moose & The Grey Goose" off 'London Town', or "Beware My Love" instead of "Silly Love Songs". It enhanced the more rock crowd who feared that Paul had gone more 'pop' after The Beatles. So to ME I get a hook/vibe similar to The Who in the chorus ("I can't see anymore...) and some Fireman experimentation. For the regular album, it's a nice closer. If I had to pick the radio "hit", to me again, it's "I Can Bet" with its' trippy moog/synth in the middle that screams 'Ghost of Linda'.
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What's sad, of course, is that there's almost no stations left on commercial radio that play those obscure album tracks that don't sound like hits. Had this been released in 1970, progressive rock stations would have been all over Road and Appreciate, in addition to the catchier, easier-to-digest tracks.
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Bruce M.:
What's sad, of course, is that there's almost no stations left on commercial radio that play those obscure album tracks that don't sound like hits. Had this been released in 1970, progressive rock stations would have been all over Road and Appreciate, in addition to the catchier, easier-to-digest tracks.
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ewanme:
'Road' is the best track from the 'New' album. It's a masterpiece, and one of the greatest tracks Paul has ever recorded. Sonics, Production, Vocal arrangement, song structure all superb.
you said that so Elequent this song Sends me to the MOON TOO!! WOOO WOO!
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I think Road is growing on me more and more after I read the lyrics and went back and listened to it. I love "I can't see any more/the blinding light/It's just a metaphor/I use when things aren't going right." Appreciate is also growing on me more in this manner as well. Love the line, "When you're left for dead/in the middle of a crisis/you must appreciate the day."