Paul McCartney has officially become an oldies act.
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I am not going to flail you alive, i tend to agree with you wholeheartedly Chappo. A lot of people seem to think his setlist should stay the same, and don't want obscure songs.Most who are complaining about his choice of songs, are not saying play unknown stuff.But play other well known and liked Beatles/Wings material.There is plenty of great songs still ready to be heard.
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His set list was very "standard." However this is a one-off show so he will keep it very basic as it is truncated from a usual 36 song set list to around 26 songs. I wouldn't worry about the set list until he does a proper tour; then we'll talk.
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hey bulldog:
jorke3344:
11. Blackbird: He really struggles with this one. Doesn?t anyone have the guts to tell him he can?t pull this off anymore?
Just one of the things from your 'review' that I disagree with entirely. Also, do you really think that at an event of this sort, playing a slightly truncated set, he is likely to play a song like 'Letting Go'? Highly doubtful. Also, if you truly believe that Paul and band segued into 'Give Peace a Chance' off the back of 'A Day in the Life' to cover it's slightly fluffed lyrics, then you know very little about a band's rehearsal or live performance.
yes, I've seen the video and the changing to Give Peace A Chance was absolutely planned.
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jorke3344:
Paul McCartney?Anfield Liverpool Sound Concert (Running commentary while listening on the radio) 1. Hippy Hippy Shake: What an interesting choice for a concert opener. A nod to the Live at the BBC shows! Wow, we might get a ?new? show. 2. Jet: This one is NOT a surprise. This always been the 2nd or 3rd song to open a Macca show. My wife thinks he has always sung the line ?Jet? a bit off-key. No difference here, but always good to hear. 3. Drive My Car: Gosh, I?m sick of this one, but I guess it keeps up the show?s energy better than ?Flaming Pie.? 4. Flaming Pie: Oops, spoke to soon. A little different than previous concert versions, with harmony vocal in response to the lead vocals at the end of the song (but pretty standard take, nonetheless). 5. Got to Get You Into My Life: OK, let try to get the crowd pumped. 6. Let Me Roll It/Foxy Lady: Arghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!! You know, he says everyone wants to hear the hits. When, exactly, was this a hit? What is wrong with him? If you think the show needs this kind of groove, bring back ?Letting Go? or something else like it. 7. My Love: Shaky vocals. At this point, the number of Wings/solo songs are greater than Beatles tunes. Shocking. 8. CMoon: And now he?s telling the stupid story behind this lame song. Talk about just sucking the air out of the place. With his catalog, he pulls this out for this type of big show???? 9. The Long and Winding Road: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ 10. Dance Tonight: Nice version of this song. Thus begins the acoustic section of the show 11. Blackbird: He really struggles with this one. Doesn?t anyone have the guts to tell him he can?t pull this off anymore? 12. Calico Skies: This is a good ?un, that he sings well. 13. Spent my early life in Liverpool (Not sure if this is the title??): New song, primarily driven by acoustic guitar and accordion. Ringo?s ode to Liverpool was much better. 14. I?ll Follow the Sun: Does the same false ending, three times (the last one sung in a kinda boozy voice. Kinda inspiring me to start drinking heavily as well) 15. Eleanor Rigby: He?s going through the motions now. 16. Something: Did you know that George was a really good Ukulele player? Does he really think anyone in the crowd hasn?t heard this story before? Unbelievable. 17. Penny Lane: Stops the song after the first line, so he can start over and ?get it right.? Wow. How original! Wait, the song is over and now he?s inviting a special guest to the stage. Could it be Elvis Costello? Ringo? No, it?s Mr. Dave Grohl. Now, that is worth the price of admission. 18. Band on the Run: This is for the Wings fans out there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 19. Back in the U.S.S.R.: So much for the Wings fans out there. 20. Live and Let Die: Please, bring Olivia and Yoko on stage to sing backup vocals. Do something different?. anything. The sheep are cheering though. 21. Let it Be: At this point, I think I?d like to go watch Hillary Clinton?s Puerto Rico victory speech. I expect more surprises there. 22. Hey Jude: Great, the bathroom break song. Seriously. OK, he?s left the stage, but I?d like to predict the encore. ?I saw here standing there? and ?Yesterday.? No reason to go out on the limb here. The BBC commentators are praising the show as spectacular. The guy is saying he has never seen anything like the pyrotechnics that accompanied ?Live and Let Die?. OK, so there was someone there tonight that has never seen a Paul McCartney show. 23. Yesterday: He still sings this one well. 24. A Day in the Life/Give Peace a Chance: Well, I guess that?s what he meant by ?a few surprises.? Oh my God..he screwed up the words in the bridge. He caught the bus in seconds flat twice (and mumbles a couple of unrecognizable words as well)!!! No wonder he never does anything new. He?s so shaken by that screw up that he?s not even going to finish the song, rather he?s now made a clumsy transition into ?Give Peace a Chance.? 25. Lady Madonna: Mentions the screw up to the song?s lyrics for a Day in the Life before launching into Lady Madonna. How embarrassing. Dave Grohl is back. How exciting. 26. I saw her standing there: Goodnight! I don?t care how many people may be coming to a show that have never seen Paul McCartney before (it can?t really be that many, can it?). His lack of originality is pathetic.
Thank you for your interesting concert review, it is an honest one I think. Yes, thes set list is not very surprising, I did hoped he gonna plays "Listen To What The Man Said' I was wrong, instead the 1000000000. version of Live and Let Die , i think is now boring to me.
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Maybe there are more people than just he hardcore fans, and maybe they wanna hear the hits. Just a guess
: If he plays on tours or other gigs where the amount of the fans who want to hear other songs is lager, he plays more different songs. On gigs like this every artist plays their hits and well known songs, because 90% want to hear those songs. I last went to a concert from a dutch artist, and he had always played his hits but now he wanted to do songs he really liked and those he had never preformed and although al the fans(including me) loved it most of the audince was disapointed.
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Frankieman:
Maybe there are more people than just he hardcore fans, and maybe they wanna hear the hits. Just a guess
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True. But there are lots more hits to choose from which he hasn't done before. Personally I'm waiting for him to open his shows with "Loup (1st Indian On The Moon)" though
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jorke3344:
Paul McCartney?Anfield Liverpool Sound Concert (Running commentary while listening on the radio) 1. Hippy Hippy Shake: What an interesting choice for a concert opener. A nod to the Live at the BBC shows! Wow, we might get a ?new? show. 2. Jet: This one is NOT a surprise. This always been the 2nd or 3rd song to open a Macca show. My wife thinks he has always sung the line ?Jet? a bit off-key. No difference here, but always good to hear. 3. Drive My Car: Gosh, I?m sick of this one, but I guess it keeps up the show?s energy better than ?Flaming Pie.? 4. Flaming Pie: Oops, spoke to soon. A little different than previous concert versions, with harmony vocal in response to the lead vocals at the end of the song (but pretty standard take, nonetheless). 5. Got to Get You Into My Life: OK, let try to get the crowd pumped. 6. Let Me Roll It/Foxy Lady: Arghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!! You know, he says everyone wants to hear the hits. When, exactly, was this a hit? What is wrong with him? If you think the show needs this kind of groove, bring back ?Letting Go? or something else like it. 7. My Love: Shaky vocals. At this point, the number of Wings/solo songs are greater than Beatles tunes. Shocking. 8. CMoon: And now he?s telling the stupid story behind this lame song. Talk about just sucking the air out of the place. With his catalog, he pulls this out for this type of big show???? 9. The Long and Winding Road: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ 10. Dance Tonight: Nice version of this song. Thus begins the acoustic section of the show 11. Blackbird: He really struggles with this one. Doesn?t anyone have the guts to tell him he can?t pull this off anymore? 12. Calico Skies: This is a good ?un, that he sings well. 13. Spent my early life in Liverpool (Not sure if this is the title??): New song, primarily driven by acoustic guitar and accordion. Ringo?s ode to Liverpool was much better. 14. I?ll Follow the Sun: Does the same false ending, three times (the last one sung in a kinda boozy voice. Kinda inspiring me to start drinking heavily as well) 15. Eleanor Rigby: He?s going through the motions now. 16. Something: Did you know that George was a really good Ukulele player? Does he really think anyone in the crowd hasn?t heard this story before? Unbelievable. 17. Penny Lane: Stops the song after the first line, so he can start over and ?get it right.? Wow. How original! Wait, the song is over and now he?s inviting a special guest to the stage. Could it be Elvis Costello? Ringo? No, it?s Mr. Dave Grohl. Now, that is worth the price of admission. 18. Band on the Run: This is for the Wings fans out there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 19. Back in the U.S.S.R.: So much for the Wings fans out there. 20. Live and Let Die: Please, bring Olivia and Yoko on stage to sing backup vocals. Do something different?. anything. The sheep are cheering though. 21. Let it Be: At this point, I think I?d like to go watch Hillary Clinton?s Puerto Rico victory speech. I expect more surprises there. 22. Hey Jude: Great, the bathroom break song. Seriously. OK, he?s left the stage, but I?d like to predict the encore. ?I saw here standing there? and ?Yesterday.? No reason to go out on the limb here. The BBC commentators are praising the show as spectacular. The guy is saying he has never seen anything like the pyrotechnics that accompanied ?Live and Let Die?. OK, so there was someone there tonight that has never seen a Paul McCartney show. 23. Yesterday: He still sings this one well. 24. A Day in the Life/Give Peace a Chance: Well, I guess that?s what he meant by ?a few surprises.? Oh my God..he screwed up the words in the bridge. He caught the bus in seconds flat twice (and mumbles a couple of unrecognizable words as well)!!! No wonder he never does anything new. He?s so shaken by that screw up that he?s not even going to finish the song, rather he?s now made a clumsy transition into ?Give Peace a Chance.? 25. Lady Madonna: Mentions the screw up to the song?s lyrics for a Day in the Life before launching into Lady Madonna. How embarrassing. Dave Grohl is back. How exciting. 26. I saw her standing there: Goodnight! I don?t care how many people may be coming to a show that have never seen Paul McCartney before (it can?t really be that many, can it?). His lack of originality is pathetic.
I couldnt have put it better myself. It was a highly unoriginal and clumsy set from a very clumsy band. And what the hell was going on with Live and Let Die - what was that extremely loud fog horn type sound all the way through the instrumental break?! Did Wix get his foot wedged underneath one of his organ pedals??! I found the performance boring - and turned went and did something else during Let it Be and Hey Jude. Day in the Life was nice enough but no need to fall flat on their faces into Give Peace A Chance. They should have just finished the song. For all those hoping to hear new songs on the new tour - get ready to be disappointed.
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Paul has now done enough tours and performed the "mandatory" songs more than enough times.........this next tour he should truly shake things up, and I agree that noone will be dissappointed. This is constructive criticism not complaints, but until he does go out on tour, we can only speculate on his setlist...............
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I was at last nights show and it was awesome. I have been lucky enough to see macca a few times including Liverpool five years ago and at Glastonbury. As a Macca fan of course I would love to hear some new songs but that will be for the next tour. Interesting last night, when he played "In liverpool" I was really excited to hear this and a nice surprise but was distracted by everyone else around me who used this point, as well as C moon, to chat and show very little interst in the song. It was nice to see Dance Tonight really hold its own in the show and I have to admit after seeing Paul perform flaming pie a couple of times it still sounds fantastic. I think Something was included because Olivia was in the audience and the fact that Yoko was there why A day in the life ended with give peace a chance. A day in the life was a goose pimp moment, the emotion in Maccas voice
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21st Century Paul:
Well, there's two ways of doing a setlist for a music living legend. 1. Kind of doing the same old things, kind of greatest hits live. Usual of Queen, and The Rolling Stones.... 2. Stick with some irrepleceable songs and changing the rest, even from concert to concert.... U2 stick with With or Without you, where the streets have no name but sometimes they don't even play one, but they play the same stuff every concert of every tour. Springsteen sticks with Born To Run and Badlands and Born in the USA, and rest is unpredictable every concert. And then there's Bob Dylan.
Paul no way it's gonna do what Bob Dylan does with the songs... the plan of saving his "Holy Trinity" (Hey Jude, Let It Be and Yesterday) and changing the rest it's nice. Maybe doing the same setlist all the tour (a la U2) or maybe changing every concert (a la Springsteen). This is an isolated concert, so the list was gonna be predictable, no way the band are gonna learn a lot of songs for only one concert.... they play what they know they already can play well. Actually, they seem to have problem with the Hippy hippy shake... so Paul is not gonna play with the band something they've never played in a concert like that. Maybe one or two songs.
This band recorded with Paul on MAF and did the new songs at promotional shows. I am sure the crowd last night would have loved "Only Mama Knows" a bunch more than "C Moon". Sad to say but I don't think I would go to see Paul again because it would be the same old thing. I happen to love his new music and hate that he does not play it as much as he should.
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I loved the 2002 and 2005 tours because each setlist was varied. I'm seeing a combination of the 02/05 songs. Though I loved the MAF promo tour with quite a few new numbers. I'm not worried yet until a full fledge tour happens. But I agree deep down inside with the original review. Perhaps, i'm too greedy but to see this man continue to tour on and off for the last six years is still very special.
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My goodness what a cynical lot you are. You'd think you were some kind of Connoisseurs of music but in reality you are really just a bit up your own a***s. Paul McCartney is not just a rock star doing a show he's a legend who is a part of history. I'd never had the opportunity to see him and always wanted to. I didn't want him playing obsure songs but ones I knew the words of . As for songs like CMoon, well of course I know those too -I'm a fan and they remind me of being younger. Good grief ! just enjoy the experience and being able to sing along with Macca while he's still here. I loved it and I'd see this show with the same songs in the same order over and over again. If you don't want to then don't but stop moaning-Lets here it for the FAB One. Denise
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My goodness what a cynical lot you are. You'd think you were some kind of Connoisseurs of music but in reality you are really just a bit up your own a***s. Denise Well said. The whole production of this concert was brilliant. To say that Paul sang shakey. Get a life and enjoy the music. Thankfully you were not sitting around me last night, moaning and criticising.
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bodgerella:
My goodness what a cynical lot you are. You'd think you were some kind of Connoisseurs of music but in reality you are really just a bit up your own a***s. Paul McCartney is not just a rock star doing a show he's a legend who is a part of history. I'd never had the opportunity to see him and always wanted to. I didn't want him playing obsure songs but ones I knew the words of . As for songs like CMoon, well of course I know those too -I'm a fan and they remind me of being younger. Good grief ! just enjoy the experience and being able to sing along with Macca while he's still here. I loved it and I'd see this show with the same songs in the same order over and over again. If you don't want to then don't but stop moaning-Lets here it for the FAB One. Denise
I third that.
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Personally i was happy with what he played at Anfield as i have never seen or heard him live. I would have liked to hear Beautiful night and some more songs from his solo albums (eg Flowers in the Dirt) Got to admit though i would have rather been there as listening to it online isn't quite the same. If you don't like what he plays live, don't go. As for Paul being an official oldie, no I don't think so as he sounds great. His voice is amazing!
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I wished he'd played Maybe I'm Amazed but I am not going to hold that against him. My dream has come true and that's all that matters to me. I have seen Paul play live.
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Cayenne:
I wished he'd played Maybe I'm Amazed but I am not going to hold that against him. My dream has come true and that's all that matters to me. I have seen Paul play live.
Now that is a good song.
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First off let me say this, the setlist was very appropriate for a celebration of Liverpool. I can understand McCartney dragging out the same old Beatle songs, but that's as far as it goes! My following comments are in regards to his regular tours and his upcoming tour. It's way way way past time that McCartney changed his setlist! I have been sharing this point of view for years. It's always going to be someones first time seeing McCartney, does that mean that the man has to perform the same basic set of songs for the rest of his life? He's given all the Beatle heads the last twenty plus years, it's not his fault if someone wasn't able to see the shows! Paul McCartney is much more than just a freaking Beatle, he has one of the most amazing careers of any artist! There's just no excuse to play the exact same songs year after year after year. This man has hits from every decade since the 60s and he should be performing them! A whole generation of people came up listening to Wings, in fact they were the biggest group of the 70s, and that's documented fact! How many artist have #1 hits that they've never ever performed live? I find it absolutely amazing that anyone wouldn't want this man to perform as much of his fantastic music as humanly possible?? Yes it's time for Paul McCartney to seriously change his setlist, I'd hate for him to look back on his career and think Woulda, shoulda, coulda. The Beatles have been done, redone, and overdone! Let's all e-mail his guitarist Brian Ray and let him know how we feel. I mention him because I e-mailed him and he answered me back, so he does listen to the fans, and he does share info with McCartney. This upcoming tour will determine a lot as far as McCartney being just an old nastalgia act. If he drags out the same old songs yet again, it will be a shame because Paul McCartney can and should do better!! Fans should expect more. Mr. McCartney stop selling yourself and your music short!
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21st Century Paul:
This is an isolated concert, so the list was gonna be predictable, no way the band are gonna learn a lot of songs for only one concert.... they play what they know they already can play well.
I think that's a really good point, 21st Century Paul.
Personally, I 've never seen Paul live before, so for me I wouldn't mind hearing all the classics if I went to one of his shows. Sure, he has so many great songs that he can be a little more diverse in his setlist, but really we are very lucky to have him still performing for us after all these years. And if you don't like 'the same old songs' then don't attend. If the set-list is really annoying to you, then don't waste your time or money seeing him live. It's interesting, I have been reading a lot of reviews of the show last night and so many of the critics mention how the crowd came alive once Paul started to sing his well-known hits/classics. So, I think many people really enjoyed themselves last night. That's why Paul does them. Because the majority of people at his shows want to hear those songs (maybe not the people who have seen him many times) but most of his fans, like me, would be happy just to be there and sing along with him.
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Always the same songs..what a pity....Why he never play new songs..?
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