Macca's Funkier side
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http://www.voicesofeastanglia.com/2013/06/paul-mccartneys-left-by-bill-brewster.html I ran across this great mix of Paul's much lesser-known songs on a Web site called Voices of East Anglia. Anyway, this DJ, music writer named Bill Brewster put together the collection. If you like conventional Macca then maybe this is not for you, but if you like quirky, funky Macca, it's FANTASTIC!!!! I would buy this in a heartbeat if it was on a CD. Here's the tracklist: 1. Waterfalls 2. Bridge on the River Suite 3. Love is Strange 4. Loup (1st Indian on the Moon) 5. Check My Machine 6. Cuff link 7. 222 8. Arrow Through Me 9. Blue Sway 10. Momma Miss America 11. Letting Go 12. Reception 13. What That You're Doing 14. Secret Friend 15. Hang glide 16. Frozen Jap 17. Goodnight Tonight 18. You Know I'll Get You Baby 19. Coming Up What an excellent, well-thought out mix. This is the sort of thing Paul needs to do or get good people to do for him: Release great compilations -- curated by someone with a good ear to modern tastes -- that will introduce Paul's music to new audiences in different ways. He could do an acoustic best of, an electronic best of, an instrumental best of. Anyway, this is a great listen.
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Very nice tracklist. Good find...listening right now.
Edit to add...just listening to Love is Strange...I always loved this. 
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Any compilation with "Blue Sway" on it is fine in my book any day o' the week.
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The thread title immediately brought to mind "Party Party." That's a pretty neglected little tune, too.
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If you want funky McCartney you can't leave out the songs Roughride and the fast very funky version of No More Lonely Nights.
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When people use the term funky as in the description of that list of tracks Michelley posted I get a bit confused as to what funky is supposed to mean. I always equated funky with 70's - 80' disco/RnB. Music from acts like Earth Wind & Fire, KC and the Sunshine Band, Chic, The Jackson 5, Donna Summer and even going back to James Brown (the father of funk) etc, etc, etc. The list seems to me just a mixture of Paul's many varied forms of music from mainstream pop Coming Up, Goodnight Tonight, Letting Go to the more offbeat electronica like Check My Machine. Secret Friend and Frozen Jap. I would class Goodnight Tonight, Coming Up, What's That You're Doing as funky meaning dance/disco friendly. I know Paul /Linda has even described his early 70's stuff (McCartney album, Ram, Wildlife) as his funky period and I would describe it as anything but ie; disco/dance. So I guess the term has a very loose definition.
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To me it doesn't have a loose definition. Some of those acts you listed like KC, Chic and Donna Summer aren't funky at all, they are strictly disco. Funk is that very heavy drum and thumping bass sound, that's why songs like What's That You're Doing and the fast version of No More Lonely Nights are funky because they rely on that heavy bass and drum sound. Coming Up with it's heavy thumping bass is another.
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left hand man:
To me it doesn't have a loose definition. Some of those acts you listed like KC, Chic and Donna Summer aren't funky at all, they are strictly disco. Funk is that very heavy drum and thumping bass sound, that's why songs like What's That You're Doing and the fast version of No More Lonely Nights are funky because they rely on that heavy bass and drum sound. Coming Up with it's heavy thumping bass is another.
You say KC, Chic, Donna Summer aren't funky just disco but isn't disco music mainly all about bass and beat which is what funk is. Paul in calling his early solo music his funky period, he is obviously giving the word a very different interpretation.
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audi:
Any compilation with "Blue Sway" on it is fine in my book any day o' the week.
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Apollo when McCartney said that I don't think he was even talking about his music, I think he was talking about how they were living at the time. They were living in a lumber yard.
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"Growing Up, Falling Down" would've fit nicely on there.
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3 Legs gets nice and funky as well! I like how Paul changes styles in that tune.
and I love Love Is Strange! could listen to that anytime anyplace. -
kapoo:
3 Legs gets nice and funky as well! I like how Paul changes styles in that tune.
and I love Love Is Strange! could listen to that anytime anyplace. Two very good choices! -
I always think of Funk as a style of soul music with more of a rock beat. James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone. That's Funk to me. Disco is definitely Funk, so is Prince. But that list of McCartney tracks is good stuff!
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left hand man:
To me it doesn't have a loose definition. Some of those acts you listed like KC, Chic and Donna Summer aren't funky at all, they are strictly disco. Funk is that very heavy drum and thumping bass sound, that's why songs like What's That You're Doing and the fast version of No More Lonely Nights are funky because they rely on that heavy bass and drum sound. Coming Up with it's heavy thumping bass is another.
K.C. and Chic were definitely disco/pop acts, but funk is a key ingredient in their best-known songs. Still, there is a fine line between something that's funky -- which can be a broad term -- and something that is pure funk.
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Cant have a Funky Macca list without including Mr. H Atom from McCartney 2!
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And ya can't have funky without including Darkroom. Now where's that supposed 20 minute version McCartney spoke of way back when?
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listening to Wingspan last night, was really digging "Coming Up"--for a long time I considered that 1980 hit rather a "novelty" item--man, was I wrong!!! Course I've known that too for a long time. "Coming Up" even sports elements of cool rockabilly
along with early 80's weirder type techno geeky effects...it's been a while too since I "got" his Fireman "Sing the Changes" ditty, have truly been getting off on that one too although took me a while to grasp or assimilate this into me brain cells 
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I like Waterfalls but I'd hardly call it funky.
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Kathryn O:
I like Waterfalls but I'd hardly call it funky.
I was thinking the same thing!
