Paul's upcoming album review they say its HOT!
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I think it's just a case of variety, it's not really about hit singles anymore and I'd sooner have a wait between "regular" albums if the quality is going to show. I mean, I'm sure Paul could still put out a new pop album every 12 months but do you really want MAF 2, MAF 3, MAF 4... etc? Some of you might. But the quality would surely diminish each time, too much of one Paul is a bad thing believe it or not. This break was long enough by last November, I guess it's just ensuring that we all do buy the new one. I'm sure he's written a few good songs in the past 6 years, it's been 4 years since (I Want To) Come Home, that's the last real mainstream Paul song to date for me.
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Paul has often dashed off his more conventional tunes in just a few minutes, as he did on Electric Arguments. They were more polished sounding though usually, the non-EA ditties. So the improv off the cuff m.o.--he's used that lots of times when inspiration hit him like a thunderbolt and he was immediately immersed in the joy of creating and that burst of glory in his brain bore great fruit. Grape fruit? no, great fruit Perhaps he usually labored longer over the more mainstream music and would revise a bit more as well as polish up the apple (pun. sort of pun.) He is supposedly quite often a perfectionist. Especially after his Wings days, he flew more freely and higher up (in more ways than one) then and was more loosey-goosey. He was "winging it" (pun) and swinging. Compare that to Chaos and Creation sessions, for example. He was more uptight and anal retentive for lack of better adjectives on those. Paid closer attention, labored longer, tried harder, and you can tell. I love that, too. His variety and diversity of styles, genres, production methods, song subjects, etc. As far as lyrics, even the esteemed poet W.H. Auden's poems have been criticized for superficiality and being meaningless, nonsensical, etc. (some of them). You automatically don't expect as much from "just" song lyric poems. But the marriage of words and music is something so special and extraordinary and in other league or a league of its own. Also, of course a wonderful melody compensates and supercedes when the lyric may be lacking.
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I have a theory he's already scrapped an album and this one's the follow-up that he's been working hard on, due to the competition from Bowie and possibly Elton John in September Sudden changes and random involvement of new people suggests to me that he keeps changing things or its a project thats been regularly sidetracked (tours, Kisses, Oceans Kingdom, the music for Bungie, etc)
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Yeah. I get that too, he did it ten years ago with the album that became Memory Almost Full.
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I'll just say once again that "Electric Arguments" is more solid as a McCartney album than significant parts of "McCartney", "Wild Life", "McCartney II", "Pipes Of Peace", and "Driving Rain", AT LEAST, and if you disagree, you probably have not actually heard all of these albums.
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I've heard every single one of those albums, and EA doesn't come close to being as solid as any of them! EA sounds like a bunch of kids in the garage trying to play, just not a very good album to me.
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favoritething:
I'll just say once again that "Electric Arguments" is more solid as a McCartney album than significant parts of "McCartney", "Wild Life", "McCartney II", "Pipes Of Peace", and "Driving Rain", AT LEAST, and if you disagree, you probably have not actually heard all of these albums.
I agree.
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I disagree!
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*Perry*:
favoritething:
I'll just say once again that "Electric Arguments" is more solid as a McCartney album than significant parts of "McCartney", "Wild Life", "McCartney II", "Pipes Of Peace"...
I agree.
True 'dat, homies. Electric Arguments stirs the soul. It does mine, at least.
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DanTheFan:
I have a theory he's already scrapped an album and this one's the follow-up that he's been working hard on, due to the competition from Bowie and possibly Elton John in September Sudden changes and random involvement of new people suggests to me that he keeps changing things or its a project thats been regularly sidetracked (tours, Kisses, Oceans Kingdom, the music for Bungie, etc)
I think he's just taking his time, much like Peter Gabriel does, and he fully intends to out-do Chaos, MAF, and EA combined. I think he is looking to make his definitive solo album.
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I just wanted to weigh in here on the merits of Electric Arguments. I agree that I'm not sure how this album fits into the canon of Paul's albums. It's not really a standard album of carefully-composed songs. And it's not entirely a throwaway experiment either. Far from it! These are rough song sketches, quick, intuitive exercises. It's like how a visual artist makes sketches before proceeding to a full-blown project. As such, I think these snippets of melody writing are fantastic for what they are. They are not fully composed songs like Maybe I'm Amazed or Take It Away. These melodic sketches do reinstate Paul as a master of memorable hooks, after years of uneven and flat melodies. EA also makes two huge accomplishments to my ears: 1) It shows Paul getting a groove back that I haven't heard from him in a million years, and 2) it creates an aesthetic that is completely COOL, and void of any of the cheesiness and saccharine that has plagued his music for years and years. At a certain level, I think it's his most LISTENABLE album.....ever. It's my hope that he uses this exercise as a sonic and creative template for his next album of fully-composed songs.
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I love Canadians.
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First off McCartney has always been a master of memorable hooks, he didn't need any reinstatement! To say that McCartney has produced years of uneven and flat melodies is the kind of total nonsense statement, (and yes that's total nonsense) that McCartney has been accused of every since the Beatles broke up!! McCartney has always had his groove, now a person may not like his groove but he's never ever lost it. McCartney's music hasn't been plagued by cheesiness and saccharine, it's just been accused of that! I hope McCartney stays as far away as he can from sounding like the Fireman, because it's just some of his worst music!! One of his most unlistenable albums.....ever!!
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left hand man:
First off McCartney has always been a master of memorable hooks, he didn't need any reinstatement! To say that McCartney has produced years of uneven and flat melodies is the kind of total nonsense statement, (and yes that's total nonsense) that McCartney has been accused of every since the Beatles broke up!! McCartney has always had his groove, now a person may not like his groove but he's never ever lost it. McCartney's music hasn't been plagued by cheesiness and saccharine, it's just been accused of that! I hope McCartney stays as far away as he can from sounding like the Fireman, because it's just some of his worst music!! One of his most unlistenable albums.....ever!!
He certainly hasn't "produced years of uneven and flat melodies" -- but he has produced uneven albums, particularly during the Wings era. I can accept that EA isn't your thing, but it's certainly more of a proper McCartney album than its two predecessors. The unguarded, relentless lack of pretention is its appeal. The melodies, progressiveness, musicality, electro, organic, vocals, etc. make EA the definitive amalgam of everything we all love about Paul's music. It's got it all, really.
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The one great thing about Paul McCartney is and always has been originality. Every song and album is totally original. That's what he brought to the Beatles, Wings, and throughout his career. You can always expect a true original with each song. Amazing.
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I know it's a matter of opinion, but those Wings albums are no more uneven than any other artist album that may be considered so called uneven! Seems some people expect McCartney to be different from all other artist, EVERY ARTIST HAS SOME UNEVEN MUSIC IN THEIR CAREER!! EVERY ARTIST!! No, EA is not a proper album, even McCartney said it's different from his regular or proper albums! EA has a lack of pretention, ok on what album was McCartney pretending? EA has absolutely nothing that I love about McCartney's music, it has absolutely nothing really!! Now I will say that McCartney's live performances of Sing The Changes and Highway made me like those two songs, but on the album I couldn't stand them! EA is one of McCartney's absolute worst!
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left hand man:
I know it's a matter of opinion, but those Wings albums are no more uneven than any other artist album that may be considered so called uneven! Seems some people expect McCartney to be different from all other artist, EVERY ARTIST HAS SOME UNEVEN MUSIC IN THEIR CAREER!! EVERY ARTIST!! No, EA is not a proper album, even McCartney said it's different from his regular or proper albums! EA has a lack of pretention, ok on what album was McCartney pretending? EA has absolutely nothing that I love about McCartney's music, it has absolutely nothing really!! Now I will say that McCartney's live performances of Sing The Changes and Highway made me like those two songs, but on the album I couldn't stand them! EA is one of McCartney's absolute worst!
So ... just to be clear: You don't like Paul's Fireman albums?
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I don't like them at all, along with McCartney II, they are the absolute worst albums of McCartney's entire career!!
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I'd get Liverpool Sound Collage if I were you.
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Sean Murdock:
left hand man:
I know it's a matter of opinion, but those Wings albums are no more uneven than any other artist album that may be considered so called uneven! Seems some people expect McCartney to be different from all other artist, EVERY ARTIST HAS SOME UNEVEN MUSIC IN THEIR CAREER!! EVERY ARTIST!! No, EA is not a proper album, even McCartney said it's different from his regular or proper albums! EA has a lack of pretention, ok on what album was McCartney pretending? EA has absolutely nothing that I love about McCartney's music, it has absolutely nothing really!! Now I will say that McCartney's live performances of Sing The Changes and Highway made me like those two songs, but on the album I couldn't stand them! EA is one of McCartney's absolute worst!
So ... just to be clear: You don't like Paul's Fireman albums?