"One Of These Days"
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Somehow I just barely found out this beautiful, wistful little gem existed and heard it for the first time...yesterday. I was on iTunes buying some songs and decided, for whatever reason, to give a listen to songs on McCartney II, an album I remember disctinctly disliking. I have to believe this song was left off the album and was a bonus addition as part of the deluxe edition. At any rate, my point is that Paul has several of these terrific little "hidden" gems that most people are totally unaware of, which is a shame. Beautiful gems...gorgeous melody...such as this song deserve to be well known! Deserve to have been hits. His vocal is absolutely gorgeous as well. I purchased it, "On the Way" and "Blue Sway" as a result of that little iTunes visit. I have been listening to "One of The Days" as if it were a "new" song, which it is to me! Thanks Paul!!! (I sort of discovered "Write Away" and "Once Upon a Long Ago" the same way as this song. Love those too.)
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It wasn't left off the album; it closes the original album. Great song.
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Beautiful song.......and I love that 'delay' effect in the recording.
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Paul McCartney's Hare Krishna song...
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Iowa Hawkeye Beatlefan:
It wasn't left off the album; it closes the original album. Great song.
Oops. I guess after I heard the studio version of "Coming Up" and then"Temporary Secretary" (which I hated) I sort of must have stopped listening....at least with any real interest. My losss. Can't belive in doing so, I overlooked this song all those years. I truly never went back to that album after one listen. The first two songs...just didn't appeal to me. At all. So I missed "One of These Days". Love it's sparse arrangement. Just a beautiful song!!
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^ You also missed 'Waterfalls', which,imho, is the best song Paul's written in the last forty years.
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I love the echo it's sounds like it was recorded in the bath
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Kestrel:
^ You also missed 'Waterfalls', which,imho, is the best song Paul's written in the last forty years.
You're partially/mostly correct. I loved it...from one of his "Best Of..." collections and picked it up from there. Had it on my iPod. But you're correct in that I didn't really know at the time that it was from McCartney II. I just knew it to be a song I really thought was beautiful. So....I guess I need to revisit McCartney II and let myselft get totally past the first two songs...and then just listen. Carefully!
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nowords:
I love the echo it's sounds like it was recorded in the bath
Your comment made me think of those pics with the drums in the toilet... Do you really think?! Hmmm in the bath... interesting -
love2travel:
nowords:
I love the echo it's sounds like it was recorded in the bath
Your comment made me think of those pics with the drums in the toilet... Do you really think?! Hmmm in the bath... interestingYes, so I heard somewhere that is where he recorded it.
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Beatles4Ever&Ever:
Kestrel:
^ You also missed 'Waterfalls', which,imho, is the best song Paul's written in the last forty years.
So....I guess I need to revisit McCartney II and let myselft get totally past the first two songs...and then just listen. Carefully!
To be honest I only really like On The Way,Waterfalls, Summer's Day Song & One Of These Days' I'm not over impressed with the rest of the material,not even with Coming Up which is very popular with a lot of folk and of course was a hit single. If you share my taste then you could still be a little disappointed with the album as a whole.
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Granted, some of the songs on that album are 'experimental', but I think it probably needs a little longer to warm to than, say, Tug of War. For example, I never used to like Secret Friend or Check My Machine because of how repetitive they are, but now I secretly enjoy them.
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This song, in this album is like "Travelling Lights" in Electric Arguments, very spiritual lyrics, and beautiful melodies...and in the first hearing you can't see how good they are...happened with others albums also, is Paul...you know...
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Kestrel:
Beautiful song.......and I love that 'delay' effect in the recording.
me to i like to repeat along with it when i listen to it ; )
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McCartney II is on my list of Paul's top 5 solo albums. And it's funny but this song One of these Days is probably the most traditional track on the album, yet he still manages to make it quirky by playing with his voice a bit. Just re-listened to my McCartney II reissue the other day, and it hangs together so well as an album. I just read a nifty appreciation of the album on a music blog, for those who are interested (ignore the first few paragraphs of the post which are un-related to Paul, but much of the post is about the album): http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/paul-mccartney-mccartney-ii.html Here's an excerpt:
In between these two tracks lies ?Waterfalls,? one of McCartney?s loveliest and scariest ballads, soundtracked for the most part by floating electric piano and distant high-pitched Moog. It sounds like Val Doonican on Mars, all the more because it is evidently so heartfelt; written for his children ? hence the increasingly sinister warnings about running away with strangers as the song progresses and methodically slows down ? with his ?go away? croak longer and more hurt on every return.
I don't know how I had missed that Waterfalls was about his children! But I think this writer is probably right. Plus I liked that the writer ended with this nice bit about Linda:
*and wasn?t Linda VITAL to McCartney?s wellbeing, maybe even his intention to carry on pushing with his music? Sometimes it takes a loving American wife to show you the way you should be progressing?
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I love One of These Days, it's the sort of song you can listen to, in the dark on your headphones and drift off into a happy, hazy dream sleep. )
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Paul McCartney speaking about 'One Of These Days' in 1980: " "One Of These Days" all happened when a Hare Krishna bloke came round to see me. He was a nice fellow,very sort of gentle. After he left, I went to the studio and the vibe carried through a bit - I started writing something a bit more gentle that particular day. The song seemed right as a very simple thing, and it basically just says: "one of these days I'll do what I've been meaning to do the rest of my life". I think it's something a lot of people can identify with. "
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I've always thought "One of These Days" is one of the few saving graces from an otherwise nearly unlistenable album. But I've never liked the exaggerated echo on his voice near the end. Just keep it simple, Paul, please. That one touch is just off enough to nearly ruin the song for me.
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What's sad about the whole thing is that a lovely song such as "One of The Days" just sort of appeared and disappeared simultaneously in 1980. It got no recogniton...except, seemingly, from a few fans who bought McCartney II. The public at large is totally unfamiliar with this beautiful song. Seems wrong. Paul seems to have lots of little gems tucked away/buried in albums that go virtually unnoticed. Another one of those, for me, is "Don't Let It Bring You Down" from London Town. Love that song. How many people actually know about it...or tons of others he has?
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Beatles4Ever&Ever:
What's sad about the whole thing is that a lovely song such as "One of The Days" just sort of appeared and disappeared simultaneously in 1980.
What is weird to me is that Paul recorded the song as he wrote it back in the summer of 1979.......and then that's it. Nearly 34 years later and he's probably never performed the song since.
Beatles4Ever&Ever:
Another one of those, for me, is "Don't Let It Bring You Down" from London Town. Love that song. How many people actually know about it...or tons of others he has?
Oh, Boycie definately knows all about it.
