Paul's upcoming album review they say its HOT!
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No doubt he's lining Petrushka up as another Dance Tonight or Biker Like an Icon - released as a single and flogged as the lead track on every TV show, to monumental cringe-inducement.
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The problem is that whatever the single happens to be then judging by the last few proper albums it's not going to be what any of us want... expect another From A Lover To A Friend, Fine Line, Dance Tonight. I hope I'm wrong and it's a huge hit but I'm just tempering my overly enthusiastic expectations with a little realistic thought. Can't wait...
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*Perry*:
The problem is that whatever the single happens to be then judging by the last few proper albums it's not going to be what any of us want... expect another From A Lover To A Friend, Fine Line, Dance Tonight. I hope I'm wrong and it's a huge hit but I'm just tempering my overly enthusiastic expectations with a little realistic thought. Can't wait...
The way I see it, he has a history of bending to current musical trends, as in: Silly Love Songs Goodnight Tonight Say Say Say Spies Like Us Press Figure Of Eight After that, for the most part, he mostly stuck to more "traditional" music forms, leaving remixes to the likes of his Fireman and Twin Freaks projects. But now, I'm getting the impression that it may be coming back to the forefront in this new album. I'm preparing myself, anyway!
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21st Century Paul:
*Perry*:
You weren't seriously considering them to be album contenders were you?
Well, not Meat Free Monday the way Paul recorded it but yes if it was recorded in a different way. And yes for Petrushka, why not? I admit both lyrics are a bit strange. It's not easy writing a song about not eating meat, I can tell you . And Petrushka seems like a joke, but well, Get Back lyrics seem like some kind of joke and they worked anyway. He's Paul McCartney, he's supposed to put some humour into his music... though many don't like it. And a "pop" version of Celebration wouldn't be a surprise, Paul plays it at the piano with the band a lot in soundchecks. Nod Your Head is some kind of joke too and it became the 3rd single of MAF . Now that was a surprise for me, Nod Your Head instead of Only Mama Knows, House Of Wax, End Of The End...
What about this? Surely this is album worthy too (if Meat Free Monday is)..
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LOL!!!!! Melvyn Bragg!!!!!!!! Great one!
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favoritething:
21st Century Paul:
*Perry*:
You weren't seriously considering them to be album contenders were you?
Well, not Meat Free Monday the way Paul recorded it but yes if it was recorded in a different way. And yes for Petrushka, why not? I admit both lyrics are a bit strange. It's not easy writing a song about not eating meat, I can tell you . And Petrushka seems like a joke, but well, Get Back lyrics seem like some kind of joke and they worked anyway. He's Paul McCartney, he's supposed to put some humour into his music... though many don't like it. And a "pop" version of Celebration wouldn't be a surprise, Paul plays it at the piano with the band a lot in soundchecks. Nod Your Head is some kind of joke too and it became the 3rd single of MAF . Now that was a surprise for me, Nod Your Head instead of Only Mama Knows, House Of Wax, End Of The End...
You do have a point about "Nod Your Head"... but I think "Crossroads Theme" was a better joke!
I guess whatever joke it was went completely over my head 'cause I didn't get it....then or now.
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Beatles4Ever&Ever:
favoritething:
21st Century Paul:
*Perry*:
You weren't seriously considering them to be album contenders were you?
Well, not Meat Free Monday the way Paul recorded it but yes if it was recorded in a different way. And yes for Petrushka, why not? I admit both lyrics are a bit strange. It's not easy writing a song about not eating meat, I can tell you . And Petrushka seems like a joke, but well, Get Back lyrics seem like some kind of joke and they worked anyway. He's Paul McCartney, he's supposed to put some humour into his music... though many don't like it. And a "pop" version of Celebration wouldn't be a surprise, Paul plays it at the piano with the band a lot in soundchecks. Nod Your Head is some kind of joke too and it became the 3rd single of MAF . Now that was a surprise for me, Nod Your Head instead of Only Mama Knows, House Of Wax, End Of The End...
You do have a point about "Nod Your Head"... but I think "Crossroads Theme" was a better joke!
I guess whatever joke it was went completely over my head 'cause I didn't get it....then or now.
It was Wings' version of the theme song to a British TV show watched mainly by "lonely old people"!
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still a total lack of information about the album....how much longer will everything be so secretive? Let's hope with the tour over for now that he'll slip into promotional mode and things will start coming out
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Bob Gannon:
still a total lack of information about the album....how much longer will everything be so secretive? Let's hope with the tour over for now that he'll slip into promotional mode and things will start coming out
Today yet another blurb about the new album, from a different source, but all it does it regurgitate the information we already know! http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/News/en-us/New-Paul-McCartney-Album.aspx If I read one more quote from Ethan Johns about hey they threw up a couple of microphones in 4 hours I'll scream! New single! New album!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!
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October is what I hear. Single late August, early September
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Bob Gannon:
October is what I hear. Single late August, early September
I think you can scratch late August off the list, since there's been no whisper of a new single on the industry sites that post such things in advance. There's usually at least a few weeks' advance word when a new single is coming, so my guess is the single will come out no sooner than mid-Sept., maybe around the time he plays the iHeartRadio festival
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Very possible Bruce, but at the 5 song listening party, they were told late August or early September. But as we know street dates change often.
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If it clashes with Mark Lewisohn's epic first installment, I'll fair dinkum spew up!!!!!!!!
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Just musing, but knowing Mark Ronson's productions so far, he does tend to use horn sections a lot (kind of retro R&B, usually, as in Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" and "You Know I'm No Good"). If he has done that for Paul, that would be the first time in quite a while that Paul has had a real live horn section on an album, at least in a funky or soulful way. (I would love to see him with a horn section in concert again, by the way. Seeing "Rockshow" reminded me how much that can add to the experience.)
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moptops:
If it clashes with Mark Lewisohn's epic first installment, I'll fair dinkum spew up!!!!!!!!
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moptops:
21st Century Paul:
*Perry*:
You weren't seriously considering them to be album contenders were you?
Well, not Meat Free Monday the way Paul recorded it but yes if it was recorded in a different way. And yes for Petrushka, why not? I admit both lyrics are a bit strange. It's not easy writing a song about not eating meat, I can tell you . And Petrushka seems like a joke, but well, Get Back lyrics seem like some kind of joke and they worked anyway. He's Paul McCartney, he's supposed to put some humour into his music... though many don't like it. And a "pop" version of Celebration wouldn't be a surprise, Paul plays it at the piano with the band a lot in soundchecks. Nod Your Head is some kind of joke too and it became the 3rd single of MAF . Now that was a surprise for me, Nod Your Head instead of Only Mama Knows, House Of Wax, End Of The End...
What about this? Surely this is album worthy too (if Meat Free Monday is)..
:Well, that made me remind this... McCartney improvised song at TV 2007, "Shoes"
someone did kind of a remix of it -
Any new album by Paul McCartney us better than any album by anybody! Ha!
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thehud:
Any new album by Paul McCartney us better than any album by anybody! Ha!
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favoritething:
Just musing, but knowing Mark Ronson's productions so far, he does tend to use horn sections a lot (kind of retro R&B, usually, as in Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" and "You Know I'm No Good"). If he has done that for Paul, that would be the first time in quite a while that Paul has had a real live horn section on an album, at least in a funky or soulful way. (I would love to see him with a horn section in concert again, by the way. Seeing "Rockshow" reminded me how much that can add to the experience.)
Unless Ronson was so ga-ga over working with Paul McCartney that it was really Paul running the show. Ronson seemed so in awe of Paul's ideas and abilities and how it was such an honor and all to be asked by Paul. He did seem to want to please Paul and give him exactly what he wanted. Or so I've read. That could be good or not so good. I don't think Ronson approached this project as if Paul were someone like Amy Winehouse, or like anybody else.