2016 rumors - new music?
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Given that vinyl 1985 remix, is it possible that the songs listed are remixes?
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Nah ... hence, the compilation's title.
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B J Conlee:
If this is just a CD Greatest Hits Post Beatles compilation, the song selection doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. For one thing, there is way too much duplication. Many songs are included on Full Treatment/ Remastered CD's that have come out over the 3-4 years. I would think if Paul was going to come out with some sort of compilation he would do it by each decade. Within each decade, he could concentrate on tracks that have not been over saturated. As an example, he could do a 70's compilation something like this: Best Non-Hits from the 70's - album cuts, unreleased songs, B-sides Goodbye (Paul's demo of the Mary Hopkin hit) Suicide (Full version) The Mess (B-side) Give Ireland Back to the Irish Live and Let Die I Lie Around Tomorrow Some People Never Know Dear Friend Wildlife Mary Had a Little Lamb Get On the Right Thing Little Lamb Butterfly Single Pigeon Mama's Little Girl When the Night Little Woman Love Hi, Hi, Hi London Town With a Little Luck Don't Let It Get You Down I've Had Enough Girls School Mull of Kintyre I'm Carrying Daytime Nighttime Suffering Goodnight tonight Arrow Through Me Getting closer To You So Glad to See You Here Old Siam Sir Winter Rose /Love Awake Assuming that we are not going to get Full treatment New Remastered albums of Londontown, Back to the Egg, Red Rose Speedway, Wildlife for a long time, a compilation of something like the above listing would really get me excited and I would buy it right away. I think I have listed 33 songs off the top of my head.
______________________________________________________ I am reading some of the other posts and while I agree in general that a new compilation that spans his entire career may have some logic, I'm not crazy with the idea that the track listing of this proposed compilation duplicates so many of the songs from his recent full treatment Remastered albums. Don't know whether Paul's marketing team (and Paul himself) have considered something like I am proposing above. Look at that list above and see how it doesn't in any way cannibalize the existing Remastered CD Series that they have worked so hard developing. The 70's albums that have been remastered in beautiful packages are: McCartney Ram Band on the Run Venus and Mars At the Speed of Sound Wings over America The 70's compilation i'm suggesting above (probably 2 CD's) have no cuts from any of those albums above. But it is still one hell of a compilation in my opinion. Now that Flowers in the Dirt is the next Full treatment Remaster, I think it looks as though Paul will continue with Remasters from his best albums from the 90's and into the 2000's. I just looked at albums from the 70's that have not had this treatment (e.g. Wildlife, Red Rose Speedway, Londontown and Egg) and culled the best tracks from them as well as Unreleased Songs, singles/B-sides around those albums etc. Those albums were uneven but I've picked what I think are the best tracks. I think it would make a terrific 70's compilation right now because it doesn't duplicate what he has done over the last 5 years with the Remasters. Look at that list...is that not a great track listing. As I said, that is something I could get excited about and i think the critics would too. Then as Paul finishes the 80's and 90's with his Remaster Album Series, he can do a new "Decade" Compilation culling the best from other albums as well as Unreleased songs. Maybe he would combine a 80's//90's Compilation that doesn't duplicate what he is already releasing in his Remasters from the same decades. As I said, one Compilation spanning his entire Post Beatles career isn't necessarily a bad idea (as long as the track listing is very good) but I think the decade compilation idea is better by eliminating the cannibalizing.
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This set should be called Cash Cow...and it's milking fans dry. I'm not buying it. Remasters releases and sequencing of them has been a dog's breakfast, releases all over the place. Projects and things overlapping everwhere, not to mention The Beatles projects. All of these suffer because focus is not clear. Just a messy slipshod way of doing things. He drops an album of new material under his name or The Fireman, then I'll fork out.
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moptops:
This set should be called Cash Cow...and it's milking fans dry. I'm not buying it. Remasters releases and sequencing of them has been a dog's breakfast, releases all over the place. Projects and things overlapping everwhere, not to mention The Beatles projects. All of these suffer because focus is not clear. Just a messy slipshod way of doing things...
Macca can't help it. He's a Gemini. They tend to have a bunch of projects going at once, and lack of focus often results in inferior product.
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audi:
Macca can't help it. He's a Gemini. They tend to have a bunch of projects going at once, and lack of focus often results in inferior releases.
...and inferior judgement.
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Apple Corp in the late 60's had more logic than MPL now!
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WixRocks!:
Well...this is all very weird. 1. Why that picture? Who identifies macca with a 'stache? 2. Why the glaring omissions of certain hits and over-attentiveness to certain albums with non-hits? For example... Where are songs like "Letting Go" and "Beware My Love"...if we're including s**t like "Girlfriend" from the 70's you'd think they'd be there first! : Where are "Tug of War" and "Take it Away"...oh, but thank goodness "Ebony and Ivory" made it! : Practically nothing from Flowers in the Dirt, Pipes of Peace, or Driving Rain BUT more than half of the Flaming Pie record is on this one compilation. And...the blatantly obvious plug for "New" with the abundance of tracks from that record too. Hopefully that tracklist isn't set in stone yet...
Two songs from Pipes of Peace are on the list, also nothing from Run Devil Run is not on there.
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moptops:
Apple Corp in the late 60's had more logic than MPL now!
Ouch! "moptops" is on a roll tonight, kiddies.
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WixRocks!:
Well...this is all very weird. 1. Why that picture? Who identifies macca with a 'stache? 2. Why the glaring omissions of certain hits and over-attentiveness to certain albums with non-hits? For example... Where are songs like "Letting Go" and "Beware My Love"...if we're including s**t like "Girlfriend" from the 70's you'd think they'd be there first! : Where are "Tug of War" and "Take it Away"...oh, but thank goodness "Ebony and Ivory" made it! : Practically nothing from Flowers in the Dirt, Pipes of Peace, or Driving Rain BUT more than half of the Flaming Pie record is on this one compilation. And...the blatantly obvious plug for "New" with the abundance of tracks from that record too. Hopefully that tracklist isn't set in stone yet...
I think maybe the photo is from Paul's early-70s full-beard era, but the beard is obscured by the shadows around his face? My guess is that the marketing people think that he looked pretty "now" back then (in a beardy hipster kind of a way)? The selections that I find the strangest are: 1. Great Day. What? As you mentioned, there are a lot of Flaming Pie tracks included, but at least the others are good songs. This was a throwaway "family song" tacked onto the album at the last minute and, in my view, significantly mars an otherwise very good to excellent album. Looks like it will mar this one too. 2. Bip bop. Well, it certainly is "pure McCartney" but not necessarily in a good way (though I actually have a soft spot for it, if I'm honest). However, if there can only be one track from "Wild Life", then surely that track should be "Tomorrow"? 3. Good Times Coming/Feel The Sun. Again, I don't mind this song, but it is an odd choice. I would have picked Stranglehold instead.
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No What It Is, and no About You. zzzz...nothing to see here...
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EdBeebout:
Although hard core fans (including me) could endlessly debate which tracks should and should not be included, I like the concept of the compilation and think it is a good idea for several reasons: 1) It spans his entire career. The last McCartney compilation (Wingspan) was released 15 years ago, and included no music beyond 1984, which means no song after his "top 10" era has ever been in a compilation. I still meet a maddening number of people who assume Paul has created no interesting music since the mid-80's, including people who attend his concerts! 2) The "hits" are well-represented. Though not every single is included, every U.S. #1 song is here as well as non-#1's such as Another Day and Live and Let Die. 3) The song sequence in NOT in chronological order (Or divided by hits vs. album tracks). That is, IF THE LIST THAT WAS POSTED IS THE TRACK LISTING (we don't know for sure yet). If so, my sense is this package is designed to showcase the fact that McCartney has continued to produce an outstanding and versatile body of work beyond his chart-topping years (some would argue the quality of much of his work has gone up). If the music was divided into eras or hits vs. album cuts, casual fans who pick this up might ignore discs that don't focus on the 70's. This sequencing allows listeners to experience outstanding or unusual tracks they might not have heard otherwise. All in all, I think this collection could help some reassess how they view Paul as a performer or songwriter. It does make me wonder, however, if this means he is planning to wrap up the "archive series" after one or two more releases.
Yep, I think this is pretty much on-target. A few other thoughts: ? Some of the oddball choices (Great Day, Bip Bop) are probably included because they have positive associations for Paul, in these cases, they were sung to his kids. ? I wonder (though I don't expect it) if "Good Times Coming / Feel The Sun" could be the unreleased full-length version, where "Feel The Sun" has its own verses. For that matter, could "Winedark Open Sea" be the unreleased fast version? (Yeah, I doubt it, but still....) ? I suppose that leaving off anything from FITD is to help whet our appetites for the Archive version? Or maybe the remastering is not done yet on those, and he didn't like the original mastering? ? Obviously, he's using the mustache photo because facial hair is "in" right now, and it'll get people's attention, although the focus really is more on his iconic eyes and eyebrows here. ? This collection is noticeably light on albums that have not been rereleased in the Archive series OR do not have an original release in the past 11 years. Maybe they're avoiding stuff that doesn't sound "up to modern standards" in mastering? Does that mean they haven't bothered remastering songs like "With A Little Luck" or "Arrow Through Me", or maybe that they did remaster them, but didn't want to spend too much time doing that for this project? ? The one non-Archive album that's well-represented is Flaming Pie, which could mean that the remastering of those tracks is already done, and that will be the next Archive release after FITD (as I've long expected it would be)? Or he just really likes that album! ? Back to my earlier point: Is it possible that the 4-CD version will have some unreleased versions of tracks from non-Archive albums that maybe never WILL be released as Archive sets? ? Interesting that this announcement kind of coincides with April Fool's Day. Wonder what THAT could mean?
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moptops:
This set should be called Cash Cow...and it's milking fans dry. ..... He drops an album of new material under his name or The Fireman, then I'll fork out.
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Nobody asked, but I'm happy with the songs, but of course missing a lot of them hahaha
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darkstar:
with corresponding album: 1. Maybe I?m Amazed (McCartney) 2. Heart of the Country (Ram) 3. Jet (Band on the Run) 4. Warm and Beautiful (Wings at the Speed of Sound) 5. Silly Love Songs (Wings at the Speed of Sound) 6. Listen to What The Man Said (Venus and Mars) 7. Dear Boy (Ram) 8. The Song We Were Singing (Flaming Pie) 9. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey (Ram) 10. Early Days (New) 11. Big Barn Red (Red Rose Speedway) 12. Another Day (non-album single) 13. Flaming Pie (Flaming Pie) 14. Jenny Wren (Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard) 15. Too Many People (Ram) 16. Let Me Roll It (Band on the Run) 17. New (New) 18. Live and Let Die (non-album single) 19. English Tea (Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard) 20. Mull of Kintyre (non album single) 21. Save Us (New) 22. My Love (Red Rose Speedway) 23. Bip Bop (Wild Life) 24. Let ?Em In (Wings at the Speed of Sound) 25. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five (Band on the Run) 26. Calico Skies (Flaming Pie) 27. Hi Hi Hi (non-album single) 28. Waterfalls (McCartney II) 29. Band on the Run (Band on the Run) 30. Appreciate (New) 31. Sing The Changes (The Fireman ? Electric Arguments) 32. Arrow Through Me (Back To The Egg) 33. Every Night (McCartney) 34. Junior?s Farm (non-album single) 35. Mrs Vandebilt (Band on the Run) 36. Say Say Say (2015 remix) (Pipes of Peace) 37. My Valentine (Kisses on the Bottom) 38. Pipes of Peace (Pipes of Peace) 39. The World Tonight (Flaming Pie) 40. Dance Tonight (Memory Almost Full) 41. Souvenir (Flaming Pie) 42. Ebony and Ivory (Tug of War) 43. Fine Line (Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard) 44. Here Today (Tug of War) 45. Press (Press to Play) 46. Wanderlust (Tug of War) 47. Winedark Open Sea (Off The Ground) 48. Beautiful Night (Flaming Pie) 49. Girlfriend (London Town) 50. Queenie Eye (New) 51. We All Stand Together (non-album single) 52. Coming Up (McCartney II) 53. Too Much Rain (Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard) 54. Good Times Coming / Feel The Sun (Press to Play) 55. Goodnight Tonight (non-album single) 56. Baby?s Request (Back to the Egg or Kisses on the Bottom) 57. With A Little Luck (London Town) 58. Little Willow (Flaming Pie) 59. Only Mama Knows (Memory Almost Full) 60. Don?t Let It Bring You Down (London Town) 61. The Back Seat of My Car (Ram) 62. No More Lonely Nights (Give My Regards to Broad Street) 63. Temporary Secretary (McCartney II) 64. Great Day (Flaming Pie) 65. Venus and Mars/Rock Show (Venus and Mars) 66. Hope For The Future (non-album single) 67. Junk (McCartney) > >
A nice retrospective, but a missed opportunity to include 'Once Upon A Long Ago'
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I don't like this cover photo. The photo itself is fine but it reminds me Phil Collins records. Not what I expect from McCartney for an album cover
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I think the cover and the songs show's McCartney "The Artist" ...I like that ..
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as many other here I'll surely not buy this. IMO McCartney should publish it rather "now" then in june and offer it from the beginning of "one on one" tour and sell it with the other tour stuff!