Pure McCartney
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love2travel:
I'm really excited about this album. There's not a skip on it, for me! Fantastic! Hope we hear some of these at the show!! Hope he sells it at his shows...it will be a great album for those mainly BeaTles fans...I'll bet they'll be really excited to hear some songs they've never heard before
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moptops:
I just noticed Hope For The Future is followed by Junk. Clever...or somebody at MPL has a sense of humour. Either way, it's apt.
...unless it's the Thash Mix, you're right -- somewhat. Now, as for "Love Song To Earth" ... that's junk. Pure, uncut, un-stepped on junk.
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oobu24:
love2travel:
I'm really excited about this album. There's not a skip on it, for me! Fantastic! Hope we hear some of these at the show!! Hope he sells it at his shows...it will be a great album for those mainly BeaTles fans...I'll bet they'll be really excited to hear some songs they've never heard before
He never sells any of his cds at the shows. (always puzzled me)
Last time I saw CDs for sale at a Paul McCartney concert was at the 2009 Piedmark Park Green Concert in Atlanta. I bought Electric Arguments. I still can't believe that he didn't give away promo copies of NEW at that free gig in Times Square, NYC a few years back. Paul's marketing peeps are perpetually asleep at the wheel.
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yaniv297:
Only one song from Off the Ground, and it's... 'Winedark Open Sea'. Might have been the least likely song to appear in a compilation IMO. Hope of Deliverance is obvious, title track, Get out of My Way, C'mon People, Looking for Changes all makea lot more sense.
winedark open sea is actually my fave on off the ground! (i do love the wholel album..)
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I agree with everyone who is saying that Pure McCartney is strictly intended for the casual fan...boomers, millennials and younger. Problem is that casual fans are not the buyers of McCartney in general. It is the "true fans" that buy Paul's CD"s and this compilation in my opinion offers little to them since there is so much duplication...50% of the 67 songs are already on existing Archive releases and his most recent original CD ...New. HOPE I'M WRONG BUT I DON'T SEE PURE MCCARTNEY SELLING VERY WELL. I think that the 67 song track list (many of us calling it weird) does tell us something. I think and hope that it tell us that the Archive Collection Series will continue and more specifically which albums will follow Flowers in the Dirt for Archive/Remaster releases. Given the fact that there are very few songs from certain albums (none or just 1 or 2) on the 67 song track list might be very intentional and forecasts which album Archives are next. The albums I'm specifically thinking of are: Back to the Egg London Town Red Rose Speedway Wildlife Off the Ground Driving Rain And as others have said, the reason there are no songs on Pure McCartney from Flowers in the Dirt is because that is the next one up. Flaming Pie is the one exception that doesn't make sense in this scenario. I believe 7 Pie songs are on Pure McCartney and why would you do that if you will be releasing it down the road as an Archive Collection Release. And talk about weird...how do you put 7 Pie songs on a career respective and not include Somedays and Young Boy. As a hard core Macca fan, I would be thrilled if all the albums listed above will have full Archive releases. I have bought every one of them so far. Hopefully, they might come out two at a time.
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FlowersInTheGround:
... Has anyone else noticed that the picture sleeve is very similar to Ringo's recent 'Photograph: Very Best Of' CD?
Recent? Ringo' s CD is nine years old so not that recent.
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moptops:
This collection is going to stiff...badly. Ad-hoc choices and pointless. If it was intended to represent all his albums, it fails and insofar as offering rare material it fails. Surely the remasters is intended to reintroduce his output, but MPL can't even do THAT right.
Agreed. Looks like a cowardly attempt to hide recent material inside a much more popular track-listing. Which is depressing because it suggests he's scared to put out a best-of compilation of songs from 89 till now. Yet that material holds its own, easily. I think I'll pass.
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So we're all analising the 4 cd version https://store.puremccartney.com/*/*/Pure-McCartney-4CD/55480000000 but the casual fan anyway is more like to just shell out for the cheaper 2 cd version https://store.puremccartney.com/*/*/Pure-McCartney-2CD/55490000000 So do we think the better ones from the 4 cd are missing on the 2cd, or have they edited it down well?! DISC 1 Maybe I?m Amazed Heart Of The Country Jet Warm And Beautiful Listen To What The Man Said Dear Boy Silly Love Songs The Song We Were Singing Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey Another Day Sing The Changes Jenny Wren Save Us Mrs Vandebilt Mull of Kintyre Let ?Em In Let Me Roll It Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five Ebony and Ivory DISC 2 Band on the Run Arrow Through Me My Love Live and Let Die Too Much Rain Goodnight Tonight Say Say Say [2015 Remix] My Valentine The World Tonight Pipes of Peace Dance Tonight Here Today Wanderlust Great Day Coming Up No More Lonely Nights Only Mama Knows With a Little Luck Hope For The Future Junk
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Eeee Cor Blimey:
yaniv297:
Only one song from Off the Ground, and it's... 'Winedark Open Sea'. Might have been the least likely song to appear in a compilation IMO. Hope of Deliverance is obvious, title track, Get out of My Way, C'mon People, Looking for Changes all makea lot more sense.
winedark open sea is actually my fave on off the ground! (i do love the wholel album..)
I love it too! I think we are in the minority!
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Too bad it wasn't this rumored set from 2009. http://wogew.blogspot.com/2009/05/mccartney-cold-cuts-boxed-set-in-works.html
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oobu24:
Too bad it wasn't this rumored set from 2009. http://wogew.blogspot.com/2009/05/mccartney-cold-cuts-boxed-set-in-works.html
NOW that is a set I can be patient for the arrival of FITD!
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MetalGod:
oobu24:
Too bad it wasn't this rumored set from 2009. http://wogew.blogspot.com/2009/05/mccartney-cold-cuts-boxed-set-in-works.html
NOW that is a set I can be patient for the arrival of FITD!
All they'd need to do is add another disc (!) for a few from the last decade.
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Squid:
moptops:
This collection is going to stiff...badly. Ad-hoc choices and pointless. If it was intended to represent all his albums, it fails and insofar as offering rare material it fails. Surely the remasters is intended to reintroduce his output, but MPL can't even do THAT right.
Agreed. Looks like a cowardly attempt to hide recent material inside a much more popular track-listing. Which is depressing because it suggests he's scared to put out a best-of compilation of songs from 89 till now. Yet that material holds its own, easily. I think I'll pass.
Sadly, I have to completely agree. This compilation is a colossal waste of time, and -- imo - likely to bomb, saleswise. Why? The tracklisting is a mess -- it's neither a 'greatest hits', nor properly considered sample of his work. Just a random jumble, randomly sequenced. I own all of these songs, and can make my own playlist without spending a single penny for the privilege. Other Macca fans I know feel the same, so why would we buy it? Just to put money in MPL's coffers? So, if this is aimed at the casual record buyer -- you know, the ones who now routinely ignore Paul's albums when they come out -- why is it missing so many big hits? Why no Hope of Deliverance, My Brave Face, C Moon, Hi Hi Hi, Take It Away, Helen Wheels, Spies Like Us, Once Upon A Long Ago....you know, songs that "casual buyers" might actually recognise and want to have. The same people who have already said "no thanks" to The Songs We Were Singing, Jenny Wren, Queenie Eye et al. How can this be a career spanning collection when there is nothing from 'FITD' or 'Driving Rain'? Come on, EIGHT songs from 'Flaming Pie' and nothing from those? The idea that he's "saving" 'Flowers' songs for the reissue is ludicrous.....why wouldn't you trail it on this album with a couple of hits (My Brave Face and This One, for example)? Those "casual buyers", on the unlikely chance they do see the reissue whenever it comes out, will most likely just scratch their heads because they don't recognise any tunes from 'Pure McCartney'.....or think that Paul just doesn't rate it as an album. Bip Bop is the best song from 'Wild Life'? Really??? I seem to recall Paul mentioning his dislike of this track a number of times in the past. The cover is crap. Of the 45 years as a solo artist the album purports to document, Paul had a beard for all of one of them. And this is supposed to represent him to the public? And the idea that it may retroactively make Paul look hip by today's standards is laughable -- it will date the cover before it even reaches the shops. I fear this ill-conceived project will limp into the charts, thanks to diehards with money to burn, and then race out again -- another PR fiasco. Worst of all, it means that the 'FITD' reissue will now not appear until the end of the year, at the absolute earliest. It is infuriating. Phil Collins, to give one example, will have put out remasters of his entire back catalogue within about six months this year, yet we get one album -- or two, if we're lucky -- a year from Paul. For someone who talks a lot about legacy and who presumably wants people to take notice of his solo career, it makes absolutely no sense. Look, I love Paul and almost all the music on this collection is brilliant. But that's not the point. This could've worked. We've all got our idea of what Paul's best songs are, and everyone's list would be different. So what MPL should've done is base it purely on his most commercially popular, best known songs. By my reckoning, he's had 37 UK or US Top 20 hits (plus Maybe I'm Amazed), more than enough for a two-disc set (okay, most of them will be pre-1990, but you could throw in Hope for the Future or I Want To Come Home or My Valentine as a recent release people might recognise). Then the fabled "casual buyer" might instead be drawn to a 4-disc version which ALSO offers up more obscure singles or album tracks (drawn from ALL his albums), plus a couple of new songs or rarities for us loyal fans to enjoy. Job done, everyone happy, and -- with a promotional blitz -- it might even sell a few copies. Is this really such an outlandish proposal.....? The only possible good thing which could come out of this is that Paul performs some of these songs (and I don't mean the usual suspects) at his upcoming shows. But, judging by the lack of live promotion of the remasters in recent years, that isn't likely to happen either.
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I think the cover looks great.
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Eeee Cor Blimey:
So we're all analising the 4 cd version https://store.puremccartney.com/*/*/Pure-McCartney-4CD/55480000000 but the casual fan anyway is more like to just shell out for the cheaper 2 cd version https://store.puremccartney.com/*/*/Pure-McCartney-2CD/55490000000 So do we think the better ones from the 4 cd are missing on the 2cd, or have they edited it down well?! DISC 1 Maybe I?m Amazed Heart Of The Country Jet Warm And Beautiful Listen To What The Man Said Dear Boy Silly Love Songs The Song We Were Singing Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey Another Day Sing The Changes Jenny Wren Save Us Mrs Vandebilt Mull of Kintyre Let ?Em In Let Me Roll It Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five Ebony and Ivory DISC 2 Band on the Run Arrow Through Me My Love Live and Let Die Too Much Rain Goodnight Tonight Say Say Say [2015 Remix] My Valentine The World Tonight Pipes of Peace Dance Tonight Here Today Wanderlust Great Day Coming Up No More Lonely Nights Only Mama Knows With a Little Luck Hope For The Future Junk
Great question! I thought it was weird enough that "Great Day" made the cut for the 4-disc version. The fact that it is also on the 2-disc version is absolutely astounding as it gives people the impression that it is supposed to be one of the best 39 songs of his post-Beatles career, whereas I would rank it well witiin the bottom 39. I'd say that there are other tracks on here that other fans would feel the same about also, but IMHO "Great Day" is the very definition of "throwaway" or "album filler" (and that's in the context of the original album, Flaming Pie, let alone a career retrospective collection like this).
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I dunno... I have no need for a compilation like this so I'm not the intended audience. On the one hand, I see what people are saying about this being a somewhat incoherent collection of tracks. On the other hand, it might introduce some listeners to a number of great songs that the general public doesn't know, so I'm not going to complain. But like others, I'm not sure the point of bringing this out or why it's coming now. It would be great to see a few of the lesser-known tracks here to appear in the new tour's set list, but he hasn't done a lot of that with the album reissues, so I don't dare get my hopes up. As always, Macca's marketing is a bit of a puzzle.
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Bit of a puzzle? More a complete cluster**** mess.
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I took a quick look at the track list, and it looks like there are no recordings I wouldn't already own on CD, with the exception of Hope For the Future. Would someone please kindly confirm this is correct? (I own all the albums including either the bonus track or bonus disc version where applicable)
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seventieslord:
I took a quick look at the track list, and it looks like there are no recordings I wouldn't already own on CD, with the exception of Hope For the Future. Would someone please kindly confirm this is correct? (I own all the albums including either the bonus track or bonus disc version where applicable)
Yes, that's correct.
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Woo Hoo! Isn't exciting? :