'Run Devil Run' appreciation post
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Am I the only one who believes RDR is an extension of 'Flaming Pie'? I don't mean musically because FP has original songs and RDR has a lot of covers. I mean about Paul's moment in his life. When I hear FP I feel that Paul is preparing for the hardest punch in his life, and when I hear RDR I feel he's showing how strong he is. I heard a lot of artists talking about his admiration for this LP. He could made a soft-sad album about the things he lived with Linda, a kind of Off The Ground but with sad and tragic colors... songs like 'Somedays', 'Jenny Wren' and stuff like that. But instead he made a cover of 'No Other Baby' (one of the best covers I've ever heard, a song that made me cry the first time I heard it), 'Lonesome Town', an aggressive version of a sad feeling (the 'Run Devil Run' song)... come on, is amazing. If I lost my wife, the mother of my children, the woman who went with me for 30 years... I couldn't do something like that.
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Hadn't really thought of it that way, but I like your train of thought. I've always enjoyed RDR - especially his version of Lonesome Town.
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Thanks dear Prudence!!
I always felt RDR in that way. -
Paul's music saved him
As it did after the Beatles ended. 
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Yes, I agree it was an extension, and he mentions on the interview disc that people say that it sounds like Linda in the background of the song "Run Devil Run," even though it's not her. "Magic," he says.
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I effing love RDR! He came out swinging: playing like he means it and singing like his life was on the line. He said it was the rock n roll album Linda was always at him to do. So she clearly was the inspiration behind it. It must have been like he was a teen again in those sessions. Thank God Chris Thomas produced and he roped in old mates for the project. I sense by the urgency and energy that everyone was determined to make this a healing and transitional album for Paul. My only gripe is that Fabulous is not on the album! It is fabulous and should sit proudly and comfortably along with the other tracks...
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As I've said on here before ( a while back, and I have no idea in what thread), I've always regarded Flaming Pie, Run Devil Run and Driving Rain as a trilogy dealing with Linda's illness, death and Paul's process of recovering and reengaging with life. RDR is simultaneously a great rock 'n' roll album and a musical walking tour of the stages of grieving. If any one doubts that, just compare Paul's version of No Other Baby with the original:
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WingsOfMacca:
Am I the only one who believes RDR is an extension of 'Flaming Pie'? I don't mean musically because FP has original songs and RDR has a lot of covers. I mean about Paul's moment in his life. When I hear FP I feel that Paul is preparing for the hardest punch in his life, and when I hear RDR I feel he's showing how strong he is. I heard a lot of artists talking about his admiration for this LP. He could made a soft-sad album about the things he lived with Linda, a kind of Off The Ground but with sad and tragic colors... songs like 'Somedays', 'Jenny Wren' and stuff like that. But instead he made a cover of 'No Other Baby' (one of the best covers I've ever heard, a song that made me cry the first time I heard it), 'Lonesome Town', an aggressive version of a sad feeling (the 'Run Devil Run' song)... come on, is amazing. If I lost my wife, the mother of my children, the woman who went with me for 30 years... I couldn't do something like that.
I loved this record. IMO - Nobody does 50's rock covers better than Mr. McCartney. I also think this is one of his all time best vocal records, love him on "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" and "Lonesome Town". I also think the three original songs he wrote for this album including the title song fit wonderfully with the other 50's classics.
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yankeefan7:
WingsOfMacca:
Am I the only one who believes RDR is an extension of 'Flaming Pie'? I don't mean musically because FP has original songs and RDR has a lot of covers. I mean about Paul's moment in his life. When I hear FP I feel that Paul is preparing for the hardest punch in his life, and when I hear RDR I feel he's showing how strong he is. I heard a lot of artists talking about his admiration for this LP. He could made a soft-sad album about the things he lived with Linda, a kind of Off The Ground but with sad and tragic colors... songs like 'Somedays', 'Jenny Wren' and stuff like that. But instead he made a cover of 'No Other Baby' (one of the best covers I've ever heard, a song that made me cry the first time I heard it), 'Lonesome Town', an aggressive version of a sad feeling (the 'Run Devil Run' song)... come on, is amazing. If I lost my wife, the mother of my children, the woman who went with me for 30 years... I couldn't do something like that.
I loved this record. IMO - Nobody does 50's rock covers better than Mr. McCartney. I also think this is one of his all time best vocal records, love him on "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" and "Lonesome Town". I also think the three original songs he wrote for this album including the title song fit wonderfully with the other 50's classics.
That's another reason I love the album. Most of the 50's songs he chose are NOT AT ALL classics.
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I love it it's one of my guilty pleasures and never gets tracked when it on
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All killer no filler.
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Been a awhile since I listened to it, I must say.... But this thread made me put it in the CD player in the car as I had to do some driving today.... yep, there's some real good stuff in this album!
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I love the way "She Said Yeah" just bursts out of the speakers. KOTB was fine, and so was CHOBA B CCCP, but this album blows them away.
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Agreed, I love this album 'No Other Baby' is outstanding!
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prudence1964:
Hadn't really thought of it that way, but I like your train of thought. I've always enjoyed RDR - especially his version of Lonesome Town.
Took me a while to warm up to his version of that song. Didn't care for the falsetto at first, but like he said.....Rickey Nelson's straight-on version could not be improved on, so something different was needed. Love that entire album Paul was in great voice, his originals fit perfectly with the cover songs....and absolutely loved "No Other Baby"! I was totally unfamiliar with the song prior to Paul singing it, and it is one of my favorite "Paul" songs!!! The band Paul put together for that album was...well, could not have been any better. I did want Gilmour to have a bit more showy guitar parts, but he was great nevertheless!!
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Yes I think I can hear a link to or a continuation of "Flaming Pie" and what he was going through at the time. I'm not sure if i would have known just by listening, "Run Devil Run" is stylistically more of a musical project in itself, like "Choba B CCCP The Russian Album" before it and "Kisses on the Bottom" later. I think it's a great album for what it is, McCartney grew up with this music and play it with authenticity, even though it's "teenager music" performed by a middle-aged man. I'm quite a fan of 50's rock & roll and rockabilly music . I read an interview with rockabilly guitarist Brian Setzer of Stray Cats and he noted that David Gilmour could have get out of the way and left the guitar to him.
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moptops:
yankeefan7:
WingsOfMacca:
Am I the only one who believes RDR is an extension of 'Flaming Pie'? I don't mean musically because FP has original songs and RDR has a lot of covers. I mean about Paul's moment in his life. When I hear FP I feel that Paul is preparing for the hardest punch in his life, and when I hear RDR I feel he's showing how strong he is. I heard a lot of artists talking about his admiration for this LP. He could made a soft-sad album about the things he lived with Linda, a kind of Off The Ground but with sad and tragic colors... songs like 'Somedays', 'Jenny Wren' and stuff like that. But instead he made a cover of 'No Other Baby' (one of the best covers I've ever heard, a song that made me cry the first time I heard it), 'Lonesome Town', an aggressive version of a sad feeling (the 'Run Devil Run' song)... come on, is amazing. If I lost my wife, the mother of my children, the woman who went with me for 30 years... I couldn't do something like that.
I loved this record. IMO - Nobody does 50's rock covers better than Mr. McCartney. I also think this is one of his all time best vocal records, love him on "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" and "Lonesome Town". I also think the three original songs he wrote for this album including the title song fit wonderfully with the other 50's classics.
That's another reason I love the album. Most of the 50's songs he chose are NOT AT ALL classics.
I understand what you are saying. When I said "classics" I was really thinking of the age of the songs not the popularity.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
Yes I think I can hear a link to or a continuation of "Flaming Pie" and what he was going through at the time. I'm not sure if i would have known just by listening, "Run Devil Run" is stylistically more of a musical project in itself, like "Choba B CCCP The Russian Album" before it and "Kisses on the Bottom" later. I think it's a great album for what it is, McCartney grew up with this music and play it with authenticity, even though it's "teenager music" performed by a middle-aged man. I'm quite a fan of 50's rock & roll and rockabilly music . I read an interview with rockabilly guitarist Brian Setzer of Stray Cats and he noted that David Gilmour could have get out of the way and left the guitar to him.
When you say "him" are you referring to Brian himself or Paul?
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Brian Setzer. Sorry if I talk a bit ramshackle English.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
Brian Setzer. Sorry if I talk a bit ramshackle English.
ops:No worries! Thanks for the clarification.
