McCartney Songs/Albums You Discovered Late
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Are there any McCartney songs and/or albums that you feel you discovered late in your Paul "fanhood"? As big a fan of Wings as I am, I'd actually never properly listened to Back to the Egg until around a week ago. Really loving After The Ball, Arrow Through Me, and Getting Closer.
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"Back to the Egg" maybe. If not late but a little slower. It was not the most immediate. And some of his side projects like "Thrillington" and "Rushes" by The Fireman. "The Family Way". These are also records that was hard to come by in the 80s-90s. Well, except The Fireman of course.
Songs I rediscover all the time. I loved "McCartney II" when it came out but I think some of the b-sides like "Check My Machine" and "Secret Friend" I play more now with the bonus tracks and outtakes on the reissue. I love the one-man band playfulness of it all. 
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Rushes, Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest, Liverpool Sound Collage and The Piano Tapes. All purchased 2011 or later. Also just got the full Oobu Joobu downloaded on my laptop (from a friend's hard drive) in early 2015.
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Little Lamb Dragonfly about ten years ago after purchasing RRS. The album is just on, but something about that song puts me in a good place.
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I discovered Red Rose Speedway several years after it came out. Don't know why. Maybe I wasn't that keen on "the big hit" My Love. Now of course, I think it's fantastic. I had every other McCartney or Wings album upon or soon after release. My favorite first play impression was London Town. Then Venus and Mars, and Tug of War.
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I didn't discover "A Love for You" until maybe about 10 years ago. Maybe longer. Time flicks on by, it's hard to be sure. Usually when I hear the "rejections', I find there is a reason they didn't make the cut. But I love this song. Never could work out why it didn't make a subsequent album.
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I discovered some of Paul's Solo/Wings albums late...like around 1993 when the remasters first came out. I remember buying Red Rose Speedway, Londontown and Back to the Egg all at the same time. I thought Back to the Egg was the best of the three...very consistent throughout to my ears. I realized then that even on the less publicized/non successful albums, Paul had quite a few gems on all of them. Red Rose Speedway is a great example where Single Pigeon and Little Lamb Butterfly are 2 of the best songs in Paul's tremendous Catalog. Didn't really know them until I bought the album in 1993. The objective critics were right in that some of Paul's Solo/Wings albums were uneven. Where I think they were wrong is they minimized all the great songs that were on those albums. As far as non-album songs are concerned, I didn't really discover most of them until my company forced me to get a laptop (around the late 90's). Then I discovered U-Tube. That is where I found by accident great songs like Goodbye, Yvonne, Simple As that, Waterspout, On the Wings of a Nightingale, Lindiana, I'll Give You a Ring, I'll Be on My Way etc etc. Paul eventually needs to release a Solo Anthology where he can include all of these great unreleased songs, B-Sides etc.
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Single Pigeon , I'm Carrying , Don't Let It Bring You Down,Mumbo, Teddy Boy, Frozen Jap,...all come to mind as I kind of passed on them before , NOW Really like them..
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I just remembered, I never got Press To Play when it came out. I wasn't even aware of it until sometime later I bought it at a Beatles convention!
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Nancy R:
I just remembered, I never got Press To Play when it came out. I wasn't even aware of it until sometime later I bought it at a Beatles convention!
Nancy, Press to Play is probably the only traditional Rock/Pop CD of Paul's that I have never owned. On top of the reviews being bad, I was going through a tough time personally when the album came out so I never bought it. Once Flowers in the Dirt / Off the Ground came out and Paul started touring again, I got seriously back into Paul. I still remember the first time seeing Paul in concert in Philadelphia for the Flowers tour. It was awesome to say the least. If I saw the original remastered PTP at a store, I would no doubt buy it. As I mentioned in the previous post, once I started buying a few of the less successful Macca Solo/Wings albums that were remastered in 1993, I always found hidden gems in them. I'm sure the same would be true with PTP although I was disappointed that Yvonne wasn't on the original CD. I still don't understand how that could happen...a great song in my opinion.
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Nancy R:
Rushes, Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest, Liverpool Sound Collage and The Piano Tapes. All purchased 2011 or later. Also just got the full Oobu Joobu downloaded on my laptop (from a friend's hard drive) in early 2015.
what are the Piano Tapes?!?! Also where do you get the full OobuJoobu?? For me the Family Way and the Sound Collage were discovered late, as well as Liverpool Oratorio. The are still songs that pop up, never having been heard. Is there a catalogue, so I could see what I'm missing? Just read that Paul did Boil Crisis for Heather, in keeping with the music she was listening to! The only song I really don't care for... Prick the blighter... 
: B J Conlee:
Paul eventually needs to release a Solo Anthology where he can include all of these great unreleased songs, B-Sides etc.
He really really does...
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'McGear', which is basically the lost Wings album. 'Cold Cuts'. Its a shame Paul still hasnt released many of these songs officially.
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New. I know it's not an old album. The title says as much. But when it first came out, I heard it once and pretty much ignored it. It wasn't one of those albums that I loved right away, like the classics Pipes of Peace, Wild Life and everyone's favorite, Press To Play. A few weeks ago, I started playing it again and now it's growing on me. There are no instant masterpieces like Ebony and Ivory or Lazy Dynamite, but it's better than I thought it was the first time.
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HaileyMcComet:
New. I know it's not an old album. The title says as much. But when it first came out, I heard it once and pretty much ignored it. It wasn't one of those albums that I loved right away, like the classics Pipes of Peace, Wild Life and everyone's favorite, Press To Play. A few weeks ago, I started playing it again and now it's growing on me. There are no instant masterpieces like Ebony and Ivory or Lazy Dynamite, but it's better than I thought it was the first time.
I am sincere in asking the question: but is this a serious post or are you joking?
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I heard New online when it first came out and decided not to buy it. But then I bought the CD and started to listen to it. I like it a lot more than I used to.
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That I understand, but my question was with regard to the rest of your post.
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love2travel:
Nancy R:
Rushes, Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest, Liverpool Sound Collage and The Piano Tapes. All purchased 2011 or later. Also just got the full Oobu Joobu downloaded on my laptop (from a friend's hard drive) in early 2015.
what are the Piano Tapes?!?! Also where do you get the full OobuJoobu??The Piano Tapes is from 1974. I got the CD in Liverpool in 2011 for 5GBP at the Beatles Convention at the Adelphi Hotel. It is a bootleg put out by Mistral in 1992. Has 25 songs on it including I'll Give You A Ring, Lunch Box/Odd Sox, I Lost My Little Girl, Suicide, Letting Go, Mull Of Kintyre. It's just Paul singing and playing the piano. The songs are like demos. Like I said, I got the full Ooobu Joobu from a friend. Will have to ask her where she got it.
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love2travel:
B J Conlee:
Paul eventually needs to release a Solo Anthology where he can include all of these great unreleased songs, B-Sides etc.
He really really does...
There are many boots of his Bsides floating around. http://www.bigozine2.com/MP310/PMbsides/PMbsidesFr.jpg
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Two things I recently discovered are the Liverpool Sound Collage album and the Return to Pepperland boot. Enjoying both immensely. Still haven't acquired any of The Fireman albums, so I still have more to discover.
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The Songs The Beatles Gave Away album. I found this in an import shop around 1978. An early 70's compilation of pretty obscure (mostly) Lennon and McCartney songs recorded by other artists to varying degrees of success. Like Dreamers Do, From a Window, Mine For Me, Let's Love, Catcall, Bad To Me, Tip Of My Tongue etc... In the pre'internet era this was a major surprise and a very pleasant one, cos prior to obtaining this album, these were titles I'd only read about in books and it would have been damn near impossible to obtain them all (and more) via old original singles releases.
