THE NEXT DELUXE/REMASTERED ALBUM FROM PAUL
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Kestrel wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
Kestrel wrote:
I had tried earlier but as you say,it doesn't ship to the UK. Because its a pre-order I suspect the seller will try every trick in the book over the next six weeks to get out of the mess they've created for themselves.
Where DOES it ship to? Only EU countries?
I don't know to be honest as I haven't used Amazon for years, not since they did away with their free postage on everything policy. But as a lot of countries have their own Amazon sites it might be that they actively discourage sales from other countries where the same product is available on their own websites.
I don't remember them having free postage for everything in the U.S. First it was $25 minimum, now it's $35 I think. I have a Prime Membership, so I never pay for postage. Plus I watch Prime videos for free. It's worth it for me. It also includes "Subscribe & Save" where I get 5% off items I regularly buy like laundry detergent, kleenex, etc. You pick how often you want it delivered (every month to every 6 mos.) If you get 5 items in one month's delivery you get 15% off each item.
I've been buying from them since they used to only sell books! If I had bought stock in them back then, I'd be a millionaire today!
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Nancy R wrote:
I don't remember them having free postage for everything in the U.S.
I've been buying from them since they used to only sell books! If I had bought stock in them back then, I'd be a millionaire today!
She who dares, wins...only you didn't.
I'm sure it was free postage originally in the UK and then they imposed a minimum £10 spend......which was then hiked up to £20, which was when I lost interest and used eBay instead.
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Kestrel wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
I don't remember them having free postage for everything in the U.S.
I've been buying from them since they used to only sell books! If I had bought stock in them back then, I'd be a millionaire today!
She who dares, wins...only you didn't.
I'm sure it was free postage originally in the UK and then they imposed a minimum £10 spend......which was then hiked up to £20, which was when I lost interest and used eBay instead.
£20 isn't much though - my problem was always spending too much! Oh, well, my "vice" is The Beatles!
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Nancy R wrote:
£20 isn't much though - my problem was always spending too much! Oh, well, my "vice" is The Beatles!
I found that I would want to buy 'something' and then had to also buy 'something else' in order to get over the £20 limit for free postage,which I resented. So now I buy 95% of my on-line purchases via eBay where I can jusr order what I want and get free postage...and even click & collect.
The Beatles are a nice 'vice' to have . I hate to think how much I've spent on them over the years.
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Flaming Pie - The World Tonight
Rough Mix
Home Recording
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The 'rough mix' sounds like its from a completely different recording to the released version? I love the 'home recording' version, the song and performance sounds so much more natural sung in a lower register.
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Kestrel wrote:
The 'rough mix' sounds like its from a completely different recording to the released version? I love the 'home recording' version, the song and performance sounds so much more natural sung in a lower register.
Amazing to hear how the song progressed to what it is now. Wonderful voice there!
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oobu24 wrote:
Flaming Pie - The World Tonight
Rough Mix
Home Recording
Just looking at the complete contents of "The World Tonight" EP got my curiosity. The last part of this EP is Track 4...Oobu Joobu Part 3. First thing I noticed was that Oobu Joobu Part 3 was 7:57 in length. The next step of course was listening to the entire track. Basically most of it was one instrumental song that as a huge Paul fan sounded quite familiar but I couldn't remember the name of the song. While the song was a little long for an instrmental, it was, at the same time, very beautiful. As I looked at the customer notes on this Youtube recording, I saw one of the fans identifying the song as "Squid". That is when the light bulb went off in my head. Yes I then remembered this "instrumental unreleased song" that Paul called "Squid". I think it was one of the songs from a proposed unreleased 1987 album "Return to Pepperland"or the "Cold Cuts" bootleg. As I said, a very nice melody and it was great to hear as I was listening to Oobu Joobu Part 3. I'm a big fan of Paul's unreleased songs. He has so many and I never understood how so many of them never appeared on one of Paul's many Solo albums. I actually do understand because Paul likes "loose" concept albums and many of these songs probably wouldn't fit specific albums when you think about it. But in my mind, all of these unreleased songs are a separate future project for Paul in themselves.
This is why I would love for Paul and EMI to eventually release a "Solo Anthology by Decade" filled with many of his unreleased music along with great deep cuts, rare live versions that are not on previous Compilation sets. Frankly, I'm much more interested in complete "unreleased Paul songs" rather than "multiple" versions of the same songs we already know from Paul albums. I want to hear different songs I've never heard. "Squid" is a perfect example but there are so many others like "I Love Thise House, Love Mix, Lindiana, I Can't Write Another Song, Yvonne, On the Wings of a Nightingale, Cage, Waterspout etc etc. I could go on forever. I would also add many of the "extra songs" that Paul didn't include on original albums but added on subsequent versions of the same album or released as singles. Recent great examples of these extra songs is from Paul's most recent work...Egypt Station. I'm referring to great songs like "In a Hurry" and "Home Tonight" that came out as separate singles.
It's not that i'm totally disinteresed in Paul's latest Archive project like Flaming Pie but I don't want to put this much money on multiple versions of the same songs. Just give me the best version. I will definitely buy the remastered FP album and the one bonus CD of FP's B-sides, some home recordings etc. I will buy this 2 CD package as long as it sells for around $20. I will do that in a heartbeat because it represents great value as a big Paul fan. As someone who was in "Sales and Marketing" his entire working career, I understand what Paul and EMI are trying to do. They want to maximize sales to "hard core fans" that want everything from the specific sessions that they are promoting at the time. Just count me out. I don't have that much money to spend on a tremendous amount of duplication. Paul has so much great material in his vaults that we haven't heard before and he has great "rare" versions of familiar songs that we never hear on the radio. That is where I want to spend my money.
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^^ Yes, I love Squid too! Celebration is another one for you to research. And India. Do you have the bootleg cds of his OobuJoobu show? I don't want only the best version of his songs...I want all the versions to see how he got there. I guess that's why I collect boots.
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Squid is so hypnotic, beautiful, rocking, and a bit enchanting. Would love to run during this tune, but can't quite figure out how yet. Ha.
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wingsoverkc wrote:
Squid is so hypnotic, beautiful, rocking, and a bit enchanting. Would love to run during this tune, but can't quite figure out how yet. Ha.
Just heard "The World Tonight" on Spotify's "This is Paul McCartney" Playlist. Now that is a song to run to.
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wingsoverkc wrote:
Squid is so hypnotic, beautiful, rocking, and a bit enchanting. Would love to run during this tune, but can't quite figure out how yet. Ha.
What do you mean? Can't figure out how to download it? Google youtube to MP3. It will produce a MP3 version for you to add to your song set list.
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Nancy R wrote:
Thanks Nancy...hopefully we'll see more "reviews" on the FP Reissue. I didn't agree with this critic on Beautiful Night but it was a fairly positive review on a great album.
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MP3? What's that? Sorry, but old school here. Ha. Still play McCartney on my Pioneer turntable I bought in Korea in 1976.
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B J Conlee wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
Thanks Nancy...hopefully we'll see more "reviews" on the FP Reissue. I didn't agree with this critic on Beautiful Night but it was a fairly positive review on a great album.
Yeah, I didn't agree either! I absolutely LOVE Beautiful Night!
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wingsoverkc wrote:
MP3? What's that? Sorry, but old school here. Ha. Still play McCartney on my Pioneer turntable I bought in Korea in 1976.
Same here! I bought my turntable in 1974! Can't remember the brand offhand - will have to check tomorrow.
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wingsoverkc wrote:
MP3? What's that? Sorry, but old school here. Ha. Still play McCartney on my Pioneer turntable I bought in Korea in 1976.
Sorry, I thought you said you'd like to run to this so I figured that you had an ipod or some other device.
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Nancy R wrote:
wingsoverkc wrote:
MP3? What's that? Sorry, but old school here. Ha. Still play McCartney on my Pioneer turntable I bought in Korea in 1976.
Same here! I bought my turntable in 1974! Can't remember the brand offhand - will have to check tomorrow.
You don't know what an MP3 is either?
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oobu24 wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
wingsoverkc wrote:
MP3? What's that? Sorry, but old school here. Ha. Still play McCartney on my Pioneer turntable I bought in Korea in 1976.
Same here! I bought my turntable in 1974! Can't remember the brand offhand - will have to check tomorrow.
You don't know what an MP3 is either?
Yeah, I do. I never had an iPod though. I have music downloaded on my laptop and iPad. And a lot I can access through iTunes. I'm still old school and like to listen to CDs in my car.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3
Btw, my turntable is a Technics.