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      admin last edited by

      Press To Play? I love this album. I currently have an infatuation with Tough On A Tightrope, it's outrageous.

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        rich n last edited by

        The only time I hear PtP tracks is when I play a bootleg of alternate versions of these songs (Pretty Little Head is actually a pretty cool song when not gobbed under whatever treatment was given to the album proper)

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        • Kestrel
          Kestrel last edited by

          Like McCartney II, Press To Play hasn't dated well. At least being home-made McCartney II has a certain charm, unfortunately PTP doesn't even have that going for it. Underneath the gloss though, Footprints is a nice song.

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          • Mclenarr
            Mclenarr last edited by

            *Perry*:

            Press To Play? I love this album. I currently have an infatuation with Tough On A Tightrope, it's outrageous.

            I think it's his most under-rated album. I can't see why so many people don't like it.

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              admin last edited by

              Never understood the dislike for it, always in my top 3, sounds less dated than half of FITD, & by mid-80's production standards it isn't too bad at all, hell even the likes of Dylan & Costello have their dodgy mid-80's albums ( Empire Burlesque & Goodbye Cruel World ) both still full of good songs just dodgy production. I've said it a million times but after POP & Broad St, it was a God send .

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              • BOYCIE
                BOYCIE last edited by

                Macca Mad:

                Never understood the dislike for it, always in my top 3, sounds less dated than half of FITD, & by mid-80's production standards it isn't too bad at all, hell even the likes of Dylan & Costello have their dodgy mid-80's albums ( Empire Burlesque & Goodbye Cruel World ) both still full of good songs just dodgy production. I've said it a million times but after POP & Broad St, it was a God send .

                Press To Play sounds much more inventive than Pipes and Broad Street. I think the first half is good, but it starts to run out of steam thereafter. It's funny how '80's production has dated more than '60's and '70's. Digital probably didn't help, it can often sound cold and clinical, analogue is better. I do think human beings playing instruments will always be better than some machine trying to do the job.

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                  admin last edited by

                  Mclenarr:

                  *Perry*:

                  Press To Play? I love this album. I currently have an infatuation with Tough On A Tightrope, it's outrageous.

                  I think it's his most under-rated album. I can't see why so many people don't like it.

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                    RRA last edited by

                    Kestrel:

                    Like McCartney II, Press To Play hasn't dated well. At least being home-made McCartney II has a certain charm, unfortunately PTP doesn't even have that going for it. Underneath the gloss though, Footprints is a nice song.

                    All albums are dated, that's part of their charm. BOTR is certainly pure 70s radio-friendly arena rock, but a great example of it. I think what you mean, and I think I agree with you, is in 2011 what do I get out of it? MC2 is an interesting record, the guy stretching his creative muscles, took some chances with ideas and licks that in retrospect seem like he was on the right path, prophetic perhaps to a degree. ("Temporary Secretary," that outtake "CYM") Whether you "like" it or not, you respect that Paul is a natural talent, definately much more talented and creatively capable than one would expect from his public stereotype. Alot of the reissue reviews bring that aspect up. P2P was the guy trying to maintain his cred as a major chart player, and he dives into the 80s sound so hard, he invadvertedly landed in the shallow end of the pool creatively IMO. Unsurprisingly, the public no-sold it. MC2 as extension of the Macca psychology, shows self-indulgent (in a good way) and unrestrained insight of a pop music master's creative mindbank. Flaws and all, its Macca's imagination unrestrained, and its fascinating. P2P is too reactionary, too polished, too boring for me. P2P is the Macca stereotype. As an album, P2P (and his late 80's work in general) is Macca's midlife crisis. MC2 is honest Macca just trying out some new toys.

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                    • Bruce M.
                      Bruce M. last edited by

                      This is one of the albums (along with Pipes of Peace and McCartney II) that I pull out every few years in hopes of discovering some charms that had previously escaped me. So far, no luck, though I've always thought "Press" was a fun tune, most of it sounds like an awkward attempt to sound "modern" in the mid-'80s.

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                      • nowords
                        nowords last edited by

                        Decent enough album but I don't like the artwork

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                        • Mclenarr
                          Mclenarr last edited by

                          RRA:

                          Kestrel:

                          Like McCartney II, Press To Play hasn't dated well. At least being home-made McCartney II has a certain charm, unfortunately PTP doesn't even have that going for it. Underneath the gloss though, Footprints is a nice song.

                          All albums are dated, that's part of their charm. BOTR is certainly pure 70s radio-friendly arena rock, but a great example of it. I think what you mean, and I think I agree with you, is in 2011 what do I get out of it? MC2 is an interesting record, the guy stretching his creative muscles, took some chances with ideas and licks that in retrospect seem like he was on the right path, prophetic perhaps to a degree. ("Temporary Secretary," that outtake "CYM") Whether you "like" it or not, you respect that Paul is a natural talent, definately much more talented and creatively capable than one would expect from his public stereotype. Alot of the reissue reviews bring that aspect up. P2P was the guy trying to maintain his cred as a major chart player, and he dives into the 80s sound so hard, he invadvertedly landed in the shallow end of the pool creatively IMO. Unsurprisingly, the public no-sold it. MC2 as extension of the Macca psychology, shows self-indulgent (in a good way) and unrestrained insight of a pop music master's creative mindbank. Flaws and all, its Macca's imagination unrestrained, and its fascinating. P2P is too reactionary, too polished, too boring for me. P2P is the Macca stereotype. As an album, P2P (and his late 80's work in general) is Macca's midlife crisis. MC2 is honest Macca just trying out some new toys.

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                            admin last edited by

                            No I agree about the midlife crisis thing. But Macca should have been trying Level 42 type stuff, it's his range and was current back then.

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                            • ewanme
                              ewanme last edited by

                              There's no such thing as 'dated'. It's all in your mind - it's an illusion.

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                                admin last edited by

                                ewanme:

                                There's no such thing as 'dated'. It's all in your mind - it's an illusion.

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                                  admin last edited by

                                  I certainly prefer it to POP, GMRTBS, FITD & OTG. I think it's 80's sound is one of it's qualities, isn't the re-issue like a 20 cd, 10 dvd version? I may have to get all of them for this one... I's so damn good.

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                                    rich n last edited by

                                    *Perry*:

                                    I certainly prefer it to POP, GMRTBS, FITD & OTG. I think it's 80's sound is one of it's qualities, isn't the re-issue like a 20 cd, 10 dvd version? I may have to get all of them for this one... I's so damn good.

                                    I'll grant you Pipes of Peace...but I'll have to give the ol' 'to each is own' if you think this album is better than Flowers in the Dirt His big three albums since he started touring again in the 89/90 era was Flowers in the Dirt, Flaming Pie and Chaos and Creations in the Back Yard...(although Press to Play falls a little before that era, it's pretty much right on the heals of it)

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                                    • Rockerdude
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                                      The album doesn't blow my hair back; however I don't mind "Pretty Little Head"

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                                      • SusyLuvsPaul
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                                        Is that really you in that picture, Rockerdude?!? Hubba, hubba! Whoa Nelly

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                                          admin last edited by

                                          SusyLuvsPaul:

                                          Is that really you in that picture, Rockerdude?!? Hubba, hubba! Whoa Nelly

                                          That's Roch Voisine, a Canadian singer.

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                                            SusyLuvsPaul:

                                            Is that really you in that picture, Rockerdude?!? Hubba, hubba! Whoa Nelly

                                            LOL!! Susy ..what am I gonna do with you, lol. You fonny!!.lol

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