New Paul Compilation for 2024
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@b-j-conlee Well, "Bip Bop" should have never seen the light of day in the first place, let alone be on "Pure McCartney"! IMO "Pure McCartney" was 8 years ago??? Seems like it was just two or three years ago... or thereabouts!!! But, I agree that he has many songs that have not been properly released and should be. How does he keep track??
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@b-j-conlee
Classics and Hidden Gems/ New Compilation for 2024Deluxe Edition (4 CD Set)
Disc 1
- Junk - Originally from McCartney 1 Album
- The Mess - Live at The Hague/B-Side of My Love Single
- Live and Let Die - Use the Archive Edition for Red Rose Speedway or Single Version
- Mrs. Vanderbilt - Use Best "Live" Version (Originally on Band on the Run Album)
- Magneto and Titanium Man - Use "Live" Version from Wings Over America (Originally from Venus and Mars Album
- I've Had Enough - From Venus and Mars Album
- Getting Closer - From Back to the Egg Album
- Coming Up - From McCartney 2
- Somebody Who Cares - From Tug of War Album
- Sweetest Little Show - From Pipes of Peace Album
- Write Away - From Press to Play Album
- Figure of 8 - From Flowers in the Dirt Album
- Peace in the Neighborhood - Use the"Live" Version from the "Up Close" Concert at the Ed Sullivan Theater in NYC (much better than the original Off the Ground Album version)
- Somedays - From Flaming Pie Album
- What It Is - From Run Devil Run Album
- Lonely Road - From Driving Rain Album
- Friends To Go - From Chaos and Creation Album
- Ever Present Past - From the Memory Almost Full Album
- Happy With You - From the Egypt Station Album
- Slidin - From McCartney 3 Album
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Classics and Hidden Gems
From 1970 to 2022Disc 2
- Venus and Mars / Rock Show - Use Best "Live" Version (Wings Over America Version is a good choice)
- Old Siam Sir - From Back to the Egg Album
- On The Way - From McCartney 2 Album
- The Pound Is Sinking - From Tug of War Album
- The Other Me - From Pipes of Peace Album
- Tough On A Tightrope - From Press to Play Album
- That Day Is Done - From The Flowers in the Dirt Album (Use the Paul McCartney /Elvis Costello Acoustical Demo Version (in my opinion, better than the original Album Version)
- I Owe It All To You - Use the "Live" Version from the "Up Close" Concert at the Ed Sullivan Theater in NYC
- The World Tonight - From the Flaming Pie Album
- Run Devil Run - Use the "Live" Version from the Special PETA Show in Los Angeles circa 1999
- Too Much Rain - From the Chaos and Creation Album
- House Of Wax - Use the Best "Live" Version (Originally from the Memory Almost Full Album)
- Sun Is Shining - From the Electric Arguments Album
- I Can Bet - Great Deep Cut from the "New"Album
- Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive - Great Paul Cover from the "Kisses" Album
- Who Cares - From Egypt Station
- Winter Bird/ When Winter Comes - From McCartney 3
- Maybe Baby - Great Cover from the Maybe Baby Soundtrack (Movie that starred Hugh Laurie)
Paul makes this classic his own. - In The Blink Of An Eye - From the Ethel and Ernest Soundtrack
- Four Five Seconds - Paul with Kanye West and Rihanna.
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Classics and Hidden Gems
New Compilation for 2024
Deluxe Edition (4 CD Set)Disc 3
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With a Little Luck - Use the "Full" Album Version. The previous "Pure McCartney" Compilation in 2016 use the "Edited" Single Version which cuts out the best part of Paul's fabulous Vocal right in the middle.
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I'll Give You a Ring - B-Side of the "Take It Away" Single. I love the "One Hand Clapping" Version.
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Spin It On - From the Back to the Egg Album
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Daytime Nighttime Suffering - Great B-Side to "Goodnight Tonight" Single
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Summer's Day Song - Great Deep Cut from McCartney 2
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Ballroom Dancing - Great deep cut on the Tug of War Album.
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Move Over Busker - Another Good Deep Cut from the Press to Play Album
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We Got Married - Another Good Deep Cut from Flowers In The Dirt Album
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The Lovers That Never Were - Use the Paul McCartney/ Elvis Costello Acoustic Version (Better Version than the "Off the Ground" Studio Version
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Golden Earth Girl - Another Good Deep Cut from the Off the Ground Album
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Great Day - Use the Acoustic/Studio Version from the Archive Edition of Flaming Pie
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Lonesome Town - Great Cover of the old Ricky Nelson Classic and Paul makes it his own. Originally on the Run Devil Run Album but use the PETA Concert Performance which was great.
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Only Mama Knows - Use the Best "Live" Version. Paul played it many times on Tour.
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You Tell Me - Great Deep Cut from "Memory Almost Full"
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Early Days - Great Deep Cut on the "New" Album
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Turned Out - Extra Track on the Deluxe Edition of the "New" Album
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Get Yourself Another Fool - Great Bluesy Cover on the "Kisses" Album
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Do It Now - Great Deep Cut on Egypt Station
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Women And Wives - Great Deep Cut on McCartney 3
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The Kiss Of Venus - Another Good Deep Cut on McCartney 3
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Classics and Hidden Gems
Paul McCartney New Compilation for 2024Deluxe Edition (4 CD Package
Disc 4
- I'm Going To Sit Right Down and Write Myself A Letter - From the "Kisses" Standards Album
- Brown Eyed Handsome Man - From the Run Devil Run Album (Use the "Live" Version from either "Live At The Cavern Club". Or The PETA 1999 Concert
- Shake A Hand - From Run Devil Run and use either the 2 Concerts mentioned directly above
- Jenny Wren - From the Chaos and Creation album
- English Tea. - From the Chaos and Creation Album (Use the Best "Live " Version. Paul played it for a Full Tour and also on the "Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road" Special Show
- Queenie Eye - Use the "Live" at the Tokyo Dome Version on the Collector's Edition of this "New" Album.
- New - Use the "Live" at the Tokyo Dome Version
- Save Us. - Use the "Live". at the Tokyo Dome Version
- Your Loving Flame - From Driving Rain ( Use the Best "Live" Version
- Get Started - From the Traveler's Edition of Egypt Station
- See Your Sunshine - Great Deep Cut on the "Memory Almost Full" Album
- Vintage Clothes - Great Deep Cut from Memory Almost Full
- Little Willow - All Time great song from the Flaming Pie Album
- Beautiful Night - Great song from the Flaming Pie Album
- Mr. Bellamy - Another Great Deep Cut from
Memory Almost Full - Distractions- Great Deep Cut from Flowers In The Dirt Album
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I'm Carrying - Great Deep Cut on the London Town Album
- Always - From the "Kisses" Standards Album (Great Irving Berlin Classic). Paul's cover version is very good.
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Hand In Hand - Another Great Deep Cut from Egypt Station
- The End of the End - Great Deep Cut from Memory Almost Full
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I will try and be brief. On this board it has been discussed/mentioned a bunch how poorly "Pure McCartney" was done with the omission of songs on certain albums and song selections. Due to how poorly this compilation sold (60,000) I don't think this type of project is high on MPL priority list. To be completely honest, I don't want to see another compilation done because I believe MPL would once again due a terrible job on it. Finally, like "Pure McCartney", I would not buy a new compilation because I have all these songs already.
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@b-j-conlee
Just want to clarify on Disc 4 immediately above:#17. I'm Carrying is a great Deep Cut from London Town
#19. Hand In Hand is another great deep cut from Egypt Station -
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@b-j-conlee
After a good night's sleep, here are my initial comments on a "Proposed New McCartney Compilation for 2024."Just my opinion...After analyzing Paul/MPL's last Compilation (2016's Pure McCartney), I believe Paul needs an updated Compilation by the end of 2024.
Since the Pure McCartney Compilation, Paul has released Egypt Station and McCartney 3. There's a good chance that Macca will release another "Brand New Album" in the next 12 Months.
On top of this, "Pure McCartney" poorly represented his Discography at that time. I laid out earlier in this Topic/Post just how many Paul Solo Albums were either totally absent on this Compilation or had very little representation. Besides Egypt Station and McCartney 3, there are 0 Tracks from Flowers in the Dirt, Run Devil Run and Driving Rain. There is only 1 track represented from Electric Arguments, Kisses on the Bottom, Give My Regards to Broad Street, Wildlife and Off the Ground. Additionally, there are only 2 Tracks represented from Venus and Mars, Back to the Egg, Red Rose Speedway, Pipes of Peace, Memory Almost Full and Press to Play. Essentially, the overwhelming % of Tracks on "Pure McCartney" come from 6 albums (Ram, Band on the Run, Flaming Pie, Chaos and Creation, Tug of War and the "New" Album). The other problem with "Pure McCartney" was that even some of the Tracks "Selected" were very questionable. A good example was the pick of "Bip Bop" over other far better songs on the Red Rose Speedway Album like "Single Pigeon and Little Lamb Dragonfly. There are many more examples like this I could give you.
If you analyze the Tracks on my "Proposed" Compilation for 2024, you will see that I spread out many more Paul Albums on my Proposal. I also think my Deep Cuts Selections on the whole are much better (in all modesty).
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@beatles4ever-1
100% Agree with on "Bip Bop" not belonging on the "Pure McCartney" Compilation. If they wanted to include something from "wildlife"..."Tomorrow" would have been a much better choice.
There were several more selections on Pure McCartney that were strange and wrong IMO.
They were:
Girlfriend (London Town) - Many better choices
We All Stand Together - Rupert and the Frog Song Soundtrack - Many better choices
Baby's Request (Back to the Egg) - Many better choices
Temporary Secretary (McCartney 2) - Again, Many better choices
Press (Press to Play) - Again, many better choices.There were a few other selections that were questionable to me like Dance Tonight, Big Barn Red, Flaming Pie (the Song) and Wine Dark Open Sea. Not that these tracks above are necessarily bad songs but when you're doing a "compilation" they're are so many better choices.
Thanks as always "Beatles4Ever"
PS Do you think that McCartney/MPL should release a New and Updated Compilation by the End of 2024?
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@b-j-conlee said in New Paul Compilation for 2024:
@beatles4ever-1
100% Agree with on "Bip Bop" not belonging on the "Pure McCartney" Compilation. If they wanted to include something from "wildlife"..."Tomorrow" would have been a much better choice.
There were several more selections on Pure McCartney that were strange and wrong IMO.
They were:
Girlfriend (London Town) - Many better choices
We All Stand Together - Rupert and the Frog Song Soundtrack - Many better choices
Baby's Request (Back to the Egg) - Many better choices
Temporary Secretary (McCartney 2) - Again, Many better choices
Press (Press to Play) - Again, many better choices.There were a few other selections that were questionable to me like Dance Tonight, Big Barn Red, Flaming Pie (the Song) and Wine Dark Open Sea. Not that these tracks above are necessarily bad songs but when you're doing a "compilation" they're are so many better choices.
Thanks as always "Beatles4Ever"
PS Do you think that McCartney/MPL should release a New and Updated Compilation by the End of 2024?
BJ... again we disagree.... whilst also agreeing on many things!.... I love Girlfriend. Love it!.... I know that makes me in the minority. But I also love The Man. And Tug of Peace.... And I love Wine Dark Open Sea.... Dance Tonight, average. Flaming Pie, the song, average.... Oh, and I love My Baby's Request.... Well, as they say in the classics, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum.... All good!
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@toris And yet, one of my favorite McCartney songs of all time is "Oh Woman, Oh Why".
Different strokes for different folks.
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@b-j-conlee I would love to have a compilation of songs he's left off albums, released in other countries as singles, but not in America, or were B-sides of singles. Songs such as "Once Upon a Longago", I believe that's its name, I would love on an album. It would be like a new album with new songs. I question Paul's explanation of how or why he came up with "Pure McCartney" in the first place when he released the compilation. It was something along the lines of an office worker just casually saying to him: It would be great to have CDs of many of your songs that people could just play when driving across country...or something like that which didn't seem to make any sense. Some of Paul's explanations for various things he does just don't ring true. This was one of them. I mean, if he's going to come up with some reason for a huge compilation such as "Pure McCartney",., make it plausible and....pick better songs. If he can do that, I think a new and updated compilation would be welcome. Meanwhile, I am hoping he and Ringo can come up with some compilation to be part of the new and final Beatles song featuring John's AI enhanced vocal and Paul, Ringo and George. I would welcome updating the sound quality of "Free As a Bird" (and also picking up its speed a bit) and "Real Love" using that same AI technology. I think they will not just release that one song. I'm looking forward to it, however, in whatever form. I'm especially looking forward to hearing a remixed "Rubber Soul" and their first two albums...those three badly need to be updated with the new technology available. I am assuming doing that is in the works. They wouldn't just stop with "Revolver."
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@toris
I also love "O'h Woman O'h Why". That was on my Leftovers/ Flip Sides Topic a couple of months ago. My new topic is covering Compilations and why Paul needs a new one in 2024. Here we're discussing songs already on Macca's original Albums...not B-Sides, unreleased stuff etc. Paul's last official Compilation was 2016's Pure McCartney. By mid-2024 that Compilation will be 8 Years Old already!
It's not that songs like "Girlfriend", Baby's Request, Wine Dark Open Sea are bad songs. I'm focusing on the great songs that Paul left off his last Compilation "Pure McCartney".
As I have said, The main problem with "Pure McCartney" was all the "Duplications" from previous Compilations like Wingspan, All the Best, etc. They were not only the same songs but exact same versions. Why would fans that already bought his First 3 Compilations want or need to buy "Pure McCartney".
I'm going to take this Topic a different direction. I'm going to list the many great songs that were "skipped over" on 2016's Pure McCartney.
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@b-j-conlee
Here's a partial list:
Macca songs NOTon Paul's last compilation- Pure McCartneyMy Brave Face
Put It There
Figure of 8
This One
We Got Married
Distractions
That Day is Done
You Want Her Too
Hop of Deliverance
The Lovers That Never Were
Get Out of My Way
I Owe it All To You
Off the Ground (the song)
Young Boy
Heaven on a Sunday
Somedays
Run Devil Run (the song)
Try Not To Cry
What it Is
No Other Baby
Lonely Road
Magic
Your Way
About You
Riding to Vanity Fair
Friends to Go
Promise to you Girl
How Kind of You
Ever Present Past
That Was Me
House of Wax
Mr. Bellamy
See Your Sunshine
You Tell Me
Vintage Clothes
Alligator
I Can Bet
I Don't Know
Happy With You
Who Cares
Dominoes
Do It Now
Getting Closer
Spin It On
Old Siam Sir
Winter Rose/Love Awake
I've Had Enough
Name and Address
Cafe On the Left Bank
I'm Carrying
Beware My Love
Time to Hide
Bluebird
Country Dreamer
I'll Give You a Ring
Little Lamb Dragonfly
Single Pigeon
Get on the Right Thing
Tomorrow
Dear Friend
Eat At Home
Smile Away
Find My Way
Slidin
Seize the Day
When Winter Comes
Kiss of Venus
Only Our Hearts
Once Upon a Long Ago
Stranglehold
Footprints
Only Love Remains
Move Over Busker
Write Away
It's Not True
Tough on a TightropeAnd this is only a partial List!
Now I Beg the Question...
Does Macca Needs a New Compilation in 2024?? -
@toris said in New Paul Compilation for 2024:
@b-j-conlee said in New Paul Compilation for 2024:
@beatles4ever-1
100% Agree with on "Bip Bop" not belonging on the "Pure McCartney" Compilation. If they wanted to include something from "wildlife"..."Tomorrow" would have been a much better choice.
There were several more selections on Pure McCartney that were strange and wrong IMO.
They were:
Girlfriend (London Town) - Many better choices
We All Stand Together - Rupert and the Frog Song Soundtrack - Many better choices
Baby's Request (Back to the Egg) - Many better choices
Temporary Secretary (McCartney 2) - Again, Many better choices
Press (Press to Play) - Again, many better choices.There were a few other selections that were questionable to me like Dance Tonight, Big Barn Red, Flaming Pie (the Song) and Wine Dark Open Sea. Not that these tracks above are necessarily bad songs but when you're doing a "compilation" they're are so many better choices.
Thanks as always "Beatles4Ever"
PS Do you think that McCartney/MPL should release a New and Updated Compilation by the End of 2024?
BJ... again we disagree.... whilst also agreeing on many things!.... I love Girlfriend. Love it!.... I know that makes me in the minority. But I also love The Man. And Tug of Peace.... And I love Wine Dark Open Sea.... Dance Tonight, average. Flaming Pie, the song, average.... Oh, and I love My Baby's Request.... Well, as they say in the classics, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum.... All good!
Do you mean Tug of War or Pipes of Peace?
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@njr Nance, the Tug of Peace... I'm probably the only person on the planet who loves it! A great song. And Through Our Love, which I still think is very underrated. But, I'm somewhat a fan of that album.... And Keep Under Cover.
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@toris
Yes, "Through Our Love" is yet another terrific ballad NOT on the "Pure McCartney" Compilation. It should have been on my list immediately above. -
@b-j-conlee I have a special love for 80's Paul... Probably cos it was the same time I was buying all those Beatles' albums.... Geez, I spent all my money from my paper round on those terrific guys!... I'm probably also one of the few that like However Absurd.... a fave song from Banarama, I recall them saying in Smash Hits Magazine.... Underrated.... And I also like Move Over Busker and Angry.... The Pound is Sinking is awesome.
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@toris said in New Paul Compilation for 2024:
@b-j-conlee I have a special love for 80's Paul... Probably cos it was the same time I was buying all those Beatles' albums.... Geez, I spent all my money from my paper round on those terrific guys!... I'm probably also one of the few that like However Absurd.... a fave song from Banarama, I recall them saying in Smash Hits Magazine.... Underrated.... And I also like Move Over Busker and Angry.... The Pound is Sinking is awesome.
And I'm listening to Ebony and Ivory.... and I don't care what anyone says.... A GREAT song.