Paul's upcoming album review they say its HOT!
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Squid:
I can't find anything of substance on it - either the songs are about nothing, like Dance Tonight, or they're overblown whimsy, like House of Wax. Feet in the Clouds is one of those hugely embarrassing lyrics, in the manners of "dustbin lid" from The Other Me (though I don't have a problem with that one - at least it has precedent as rhyming slang). As for Gratitude... ugh. Upside: You Tell Me is nice. And I'm fond of Ever Present Past because it's fairly robotic. Only Mama Knows may be good - I can't tell because the mastering of the song is appalling. There was a lot of discussion on this forum at the time of release but most of those threads appear to have been deleted, which is one of the reasons I don't really come here anymore - I don't waste my time writing forum posts just so they can be deleted later.
You may have noticed you're in a minority here. About half of MAF is excellent to great (including all the songs you cite), and the rest is pretty good. Feet in the Clouds is a minor masterpiece, but if you've put your sense of humor in a blind trust it will probably mean nothing to you. As for Paul owing us an album -- no, he doesn't. He's past the age where most people retire, yet he still keeps playing and recording (and whether you like Electric Arguments or Kisses is irrelevant, they're what Paul wanted to record at their moments and many of us like one or both). He'll release a new album when he's ready. I personally hope it's soon, but I'm not so deluded as to think he owes me an album or anything else.
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Bruce M.:
As for Paul owing us an album -- no, he doesn't. He's past the age where most people retire, yet he still keeps playing and recording (and whether you like Electric Arguments or Kisses is irrelevant, they're what Paul wanted to record at their moments and many of us like one or both). He'll release a new album when he's ready. I personally hope it's soon, but I'm not so deluded as to think he owes me an album or anything else.
Agreed.
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I'll be totally dissappointed if McCartney's band isn't on the new album! The one man band thing was cool, but now it's time for something different, a more group sounding album. McCartney is cool alone, but he doesn't get the power of a band, it's time for the full treatment, and besides that, he still hasn't recorded with his entire current band. He uses one here and one there, but never all of them together at the same time, so it's about time he did. This band has been with him for a Decade, they've recorded and toured with him enough, they are a band now, so record an album together, they deserve it!!
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Bruce M.:
Squid:
I can't find anything of substance on it - either the songs are about nothing, like Dance Tonight, or they're overblown whimsy, like House of Wax. Feet in the Clouds is one of those hugely embarrassing lyrics, in the manners of "dustbin lid" from The Other Me (though I don't have a problem with that one - at least it has precedent as rhyming slang). As for Gratitude... ugh. Upside: You Tell Me is nice. And I'm fond of Ever Present Past because it's fairly robotic. Only Mama Knows may be good - I can't tell because the mastering of the song is appalling. There was a lot of discussion on this forum at the time of release but most of those threads appear to have been deleted, which is one of the reasons I don't really come here anymore - I don't waste my time writing forum posts just so they can be deleted later.
You may have noticed you're in a minority here. About half of MAF is excellent to great (including all the songs you cite), and the rest is pretty good. Feet in the Clouds is a minor masterpiece, but if you've put your sense of humor in a blind trust it will probably mean nothing to you. As for Paul owing us an album -- no, he doesn't. He's past the age where most people retire, yet he still keeps playing and recording (and whether you like Electric Arguments or Kisses is irrelevant, they're what Paul wanted to record at their moments and many of us like one or both). He'll release a new album when he's ready. I personally hope it's soon, but I'm not so deluded as to think he owes me an album or anything else.
I agree with you completely, Bruce. Except I will concur with Squid on "Gratitude... ugh". As for "Feet In The Clouds", there is a version "out there" where someone edited all the "very's" down to just two each time, which I find refreshing!
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favoritething:
As for "Feet In The Clouds", there is a version "out there" where someone edited all the "very's" down to just two each time, which I find refreshing!
Could you perhaps post a link, sounds interesting.
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I still think that, in today's music business, 5-7 years is not that long between studio albums and is considered the norm now for older artists. Besides Dylan, Bowie, and Paul Simon, there are many other singer-songwriters in their 60s and 70s who've slowed down in releasing new material. Leonard Cohen waited 8 years before releasing his latest album. Bonnie Raitt waited 7 years until releasing an album last year. Elton John's last solo studio album was 2006. Neil Young seems to be the exception here. For Paul, it's been 5 years, if you go by Electric Arguments (200 or 6 if you go by MAF. That is the new norm and I don't see much wrong with that. It's one way that all of those artists get more attention for their albums when they do release them, seeing as none of them are part of the zeitgeist any more. Paul's new album will be out in the next 6 months. Looking forward to it.
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favoritething:
Bruce M.:
Squid:
I can't find anything of substance on it - either the songs are about nothing, like Dance Tonight, or they're overblown whimsy, like House of Wax. Feet in the Clouds is one of those hugely embarrassing lyrics, in the manners of "dustbin lid" from The Other Me (though I don't have a problem with that one - at least it has precedent as rhyming slang). As for Gratitude... ugh. Upside: You Tell Me is nice. And I'm fond of Ever Present Past because it's fairly robotic. Only Mama Knows may be good - I can't tell because the mastering of the song is appalling. There was a lot of discussion on this forum at the time of release but most of those threads appear to have been deleted, which is one of the reasons I don't really come here anymore - I don't waste my time writing forum posts just so they can be deleted later.
You may have noticed you're in a minority here. About half of MAF is excellent to great (including all the songs you cite), and the rest is pretty good. Feet in the Clouds is a minor masterpiece, but if you've put your sense of humor in a blind trust it will probably mean nothing to you. As for Paul owing us an album -- no, he doesn't. He's past the age where most people retire, yet he still keeps playing and recording (and whether you like Electric Arguments or Kisses is irrelevant, they're what Paul wanted to record at their moments and many of us like one or both). He'll release a new album when he's ready. I personally hope it's soon, but I'm not so deluded as to think he owes me an album or anything else.
I agree with you completely, Bruce. Except I will concur with Squid on "Gratitude... ugh". As for "Feet In The Clouds", there is a version "out there" where someone edited all the "very's" down to just two each time, which I find refreshing!
I gotta' hear that one.
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In the meantime, here's a very cute video of three friends singing and playing "Feet In The Clouds" at what looks like a restaurant:
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audi:
21st Century Paul:
When I think he will take 6 or 7 years to release an album... That's the time he needed for writing all his Beatles songs... 1962-1969... So, yes! it's not Paul hasn't done a thing after The Beatles break-up but certainly no period of his works can't even compare to that. Imagine if this was 1969 and he had to release an album of the stuff he was writing for 6 years... how many classics wouldn't be just out of the album?. McCartney 1962-1969 1 Get Back 2 Yesterday 3 Here, There and Everywhere 4 Sgt Pepper LCHB 5 The Long And Winding Road 6 Can't Buy Me Love 7 Here There And Everywhere 8 Penny Lane 9 Eleanor Rigby 10 We Can Work It Out 11 Let It Be 12 Hey Jude 13 Golden Slumbers 14 Carry That Weight 15 The End ... and this would be just an "ordinary" album, not a greatest hits one...
One of your best posts, Ollie.
maybe except for repeating Here, There and Everywhere in the album, like if there were no great songs avalaible...
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John Mackintosh:
What 21st Century Paul says above about this long wait being like if he had only one album from 1962-1969 is mind blowing! My gosh, it makes we want to hear what he has cooked up in the studio. Just back from the D.C. show, which was great. We weren't in field seats for this but I was thinking that if I was, I would have made up a huge poster that said...PLEASE RELEASE YOUR NEXT NEW ALBUM ASAP! I would love for him to have read it and responded with some sort of comment.
Well, but I don't mean I think Paul releases soon an album as good as that... not even close. That was not only his peak, but kind of the best period for any composer. I just wanna compare what were 7 years of writing songs for Paul long long time ago. Off topic but Freddie had kind a weird fantastic year of writing songs in 1974. He wrote so many good songs that he decided they were to good to appear all in the same album: Bohemian Rhapsody, Love Of My Life, We Are The Champions, Somebody To Love.... all that was kind of written for A Night Of The Opera... "Too good"
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21st Century Paul:
audi:
21st Century Paul:
When I think he will take 6 or 7 years to release an album... That's the time he needed for writing all his Beatles songs... 1962-1969... So, yes! it's not Paul hasn't done a thing after The Beatles break-up but certainly no period of his works can't even compare to that. Imagine if this was 1969 and he had to release an album of the stuff he was writing for 6 years... how many classics wouldn't be just out of the album?. McCartney 1962-1969 1 Get Back 2 Yesterday 3 Here, There and Everywhere 4 Sgt Pepper LCHB 5 The Long And Winding Road 6 Can't Buy Me Love 7 Here There And Everywhere 8 Penny Lane 9 Eleanor Rigby 10 We Can Work It Out 11 Let It Be 12 Hey Jude 13 Golden Slumbers 14 Carry That Weight 15 The End ... and this would be just an "ordinary" album, not a greatest hits one...
One of your best posts, Ollie.
maybe except for repeating Here, There and Everywhere in the album, like if there were no great songs avalaible...
It's Paul's (and my) favorite so why not?
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hey_kittay:
Get On The Right Thing:
sorry if it is a repost...I am just now seeing this video. Wow. That is the King Of Cosmania. Love it. p.s.> wondering exactly what images are on the stained glass windows? and at the end of the video, the wall in Paul disappears into, looks like the one in the My Valentine video. just stuff I notice.
oh, and I wonder what Paul is thinking when his eyes are closed in the video? I mean I wonder if we can somehow know what thoughts, if any, he is trying to convey there? I guess you'd have to be a mind reader to know. And that is science fiction stuff.
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Junk:
favoritething:
As for "Feet In The Clouds", there is a version "out there" where someone edited all the "very's" down to just two each time, which I find refreshing!
Could you perhaps post a link, sounds interesting.
I don't seem to have a link for it. This was when the album was still new, which, as we know, was a long time ago!
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TommyC909:
Ane:
Abe on the new album: Now beginning their second decade together, McCartney?s solo band is working on their fourth studio album. Six years since their last, ?Memory Almost Full? (McCartney?s most recent album, last year?s ?Kisses on the Bottom,? was a collection of Great American Songbook standards), they have ?a wealth of material? amassed, says Laboriel. ?It?s exciting,? he says. ?A lot of different styles. It?s very youthful ? aggressively rock at times, and singer-songwriter, insular and intimate, at others.? http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2013/07/04/keeping-beat-for-sir-paul/waAErTKnLpPaoG4sBDED6J/story.html
If you read this Abe never says he or the other members of Paul's touring band are on the new album. Phew
....and it's quite "strange" that Abe would be the one to be commenting on the album. I think he and the band may have been on a couple of cuts, but he is NOT the one who should (or would) be commenting on the album ,whatever his involvement may have been. And I think his and the band's involvement would likely have been minimal. Paul is not stupid. He knows this is "THE" album for him....after his highly successful tour (he was GREAT in D.C.). He's smart enough to know that EVERYONE expects him to deliver THE album if his solo career. He won't have any more chances.....let's face it. No matter how good he is on stage...and he is THE greatest performer/entertainer on the scene (forget Mick Jagger), he realistically doesn't have any more chances to DELIVER. I think he will. Big time!!!!!
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Beatles4Ever&Ever:
TommyC909:
Ane:
Abe on the new album: Now beginning their second decade together, McCartney?s solo band is working on their fourth studio album. Six years since their last, ?Memory Almost Full? (McCartney?s most recent album, last year?s ?Kisses on the Bottom,? was a collection of Great American Songbook standards), they have ?a wealth of material? amassed, says Laboriel. ?It?s exciting,? he says. ?A lot of different styles. It?s very youthful ? aggressively rock at times, and singer-songwriter, insular and intimate, at others.? http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2013/07/04/keeping-beat-for-sir-paul/waAErTKnLpPaoG4sBDED6J/story.html
If you read this Abe never says he or the other members of Paul's touring band are on the new album. Phew
....and it's quite "strange" that Abe would be the one to be commenting on the album. I think he and the band may have been on a couple of cuts, but he is NOT the one who should (or would) be commenting on the album ,whatever his involvement may have been. And I think his and the band's involvement would likely have been minimal. Paul is not stupid. He knows this is "THE" album for him....after his highly successful tour (he was GREAT in D.C.). He's smart enough to know that EVERYONE expects him to deliver THE album if his solo career. He won't have any more chances.....let's face it. No matter how good he is on stage...and he is THE greatest performer/entertainer on the scene (forget Mick Jagger), he realistically doesn't have any more chances to DELIVER. I think he will. Big time!!!!!
You make it sound like after this tour and new album he'll turn into Katherine Hepburn. You sound like he's got one foot in the grave.
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I don't think McCartney is thinking this is the album at all! I think he plans to record more. I think McCartney just wants to release a very good album like he always does. He should use his band, they would add energy and more rock and roll power to his songs. They would help make this a very good album. I think McCartney is missing out by not using all the talents of his band when recording. He has very good singers all around him, especially Abe, he is a very very good singer.
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audi:
favoritething:
Bruce M.:
Squid:
I can't find anything of substance on it - either the songs are about nothing, like Dance Tonight, or they're overblown whimsy, like House of Wax. Feet in the Clouds is one of those hugely embarrassing lyrics, in the manners of "dustbin lid" from The Other Me (though I don't have a problem with that one - at least it has precedent as rhyming slang). As for Gratitude... ugh. Upside: You Tell Me is nice. And I'm fond of Ever Present Past because it's fairly robotic. Only Mama Knows may be good - I can't tell because the mastering of the song is appalling. There was a lot of discussion on this forum at the time of release but most of those threads appear to have been deleted, which is one of the reasons I don't really come here anymore - I don't waste my time writing forum posts just so they can be deleted later.
You may have noticed you're in a minority here. About half of MAF is excellent to great (including all the songs you cite), and the rest is pretty good. Feet in the Clouds is a minor masterpiece, but if you've put your sense of humor in a blind trust it will probably mean nothing to you. As for Paul owing us an album -- no, he doesn't. He's past the age where most people retire, yet he still keeps playing and recording (and whether you like Electric Arguments or Kisses is irrelevant, they're what Paul wanted to record at their moments and many of us like one or both). He'll release a new album when he's ready. I personally hope it's soon, but I'm not so deluded as to think he owes me an album or anything else.
I agree with you completely, Bruce. Except I will concur with Squid on "Gratitude... ugh". As for "Feet In The Clouds", there is a version "out there" where someone edited all the "very's" down to just two each time, which I find refreshing!
I gotta' hear that one.
Not me. I'll keep every last"very"!!!!!
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Cord:
Beatles4Ever&Ever:
TommyC909:
Ane:
Abe on the new album: Now beginning their second decade together, McCartney?s solo band is working on their fourth studio album. Six years since their last, ?Memory Almost Full? (McCartney?s most recent album, last year?s ?Kisses on the Bottom,? was a collection of Great American Songbook standards), they have ?a wealth of material? amassed, says Laboriel. ?It?s exciting,? he says. ?A lot of different styles. It?s very youthful ? aggressively rock at times, and singer-songwriter, insular and intimate, at others.? http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2013/07/04/keeping-beat-for-sir-paul/waAErTKnLpPaoG4sBDED6J/story.html
If you read this Abe never says he or the other members of Paul's touring band are on the new album. Phew
....and it's quite "strange" that Abe would be the one to be commenting on the album. I think he and the band may have been on a couple of cuts, but he is NOT the one who should (or would) be commenting on the album ,whatever his involvement may have been. And I think his and the band's involvement would likely have been minimal. Paul is not stupid. He knows this is "THE" album for him....after his highly successful tour (he was GREAT in D.C.). He's smart enough to know that EVERYONE expects him to deliver THE album if his solo career. He won't have any more chances.....let's face it. No matter how good he is on stage...and he is THE greatest performer/entertainer on the scene (forget Mick Jagger), he realistically doesn't have any more chances to DELIVER. I think he will. Big time!!!!!
You make it sound like after this tour and new album he'll turn into Katherine Hepburn. You sound like he's got one foot in the grave.
Sorry. It does sound that way. Didn't mean that....I'm sure he'll have much to do and will stay busy in music. I just think "now" is the time for the big statement from him; the BIG album, if you will!! Moreover, I believe that he believes that; hence he's taking his time to get it right.
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I would expect nothing less than glowing reviews of Macca's newest. THE creator of modern music for 5 decades knows what keeps us all fans. going to see him August 12 here in Winnipeg. 32 more sleeps! Not that we are counting!
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Ian Shanley:
I would expect nothing less than glowing reviews of Macca's newest. THE creator of modern music for 5 decades knows what keeps us all fans. going to see him August 12 here in Winnipeg. 32 more sleeps! Not that we are counting!
Oh, he was SO good here in D.C. He was in very good voice, had tons of energy bouncing around the stage and bantering with the audience. It was one big love fest....both ways. To see him....after more than 2 1/2 hours ...go skipping from the piano after "Golden Slumbers" to grab his guitar for "The End" was just great. He seemed the most youthful person on stage!!! Obviously he loves what he's doing or he would not be able to keep that sort of pace...I would imagine!