Top 10 Paul McCartney Post Beatles Songs
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B J Conlee wrote:
Thanks to everyone for contributing. While realizing this is a small sampling, it was nice to see that so many of the songs listed were from Paul's Solo Career well after his big commercial successes in the 70's. I also realize that most of us here are more "hard core" Paul fans compared to moderate Beatle fans who know far more of him from the 60's and 70's.
Couldn't help notice how well certain Paul albums (with great songs) really resonated at least on these lists of "best songs" since the 80's. Those albums include Tug of War. Flaming Pie, Flowers in the Dirt, Chaos and Creation, Memory Almost Full, New and Egypt Station. Even Electric Arguments had a good amount of love.
Conversely a couple of Paul albums since the 80's didn't seem to resonate very much relative to containing great songs. Not surprising that the album Press to Play wasn't listed with any songs, but "Driving Rain" certainly didn't get much love either. I guess you could say that of all of Paul's albums since Flaming Pie, Driving Rain was a definite mistep for Paul. I think you have to be really hard core fan to remember very much from the album. The song "About You" did get a vote but that was more of a deeper cut and hidden gem from Driving Rain. The song "Magic" is another one in retrospect I might have listed but it just didn't jump out to me when putting my list together. But the big songs and "Singles" from the album just didn't get listed. I thought "Your Loving Flame was a good Paul ballad on Driving Rain, but Paul's record company might have been late promoting it as a single from my memory.
All in all, it just shows that if you listen to many of Paul's material from the 80's onward, he has had a very good Solo career and is still writing great songs to this day.
Actually BJ, DR got some decent critical reviews (see below) and while it may not be as good as later albums it may not have really been a misstep IMO. In addition, if you go to Amazon.com there are 320 user reviews of the album and the overall rating was 4.5 stars out of 5. Maybe there was not that one "killer" song in the opinion of fans but overall it was a decent album. Like most McCartney albums, it could have used some trimming like cutting down "Rinse The Raindrops" 3-4 minutes.
http://www.modernrockreview.com/2001-paul-mccartney-driving-rain/
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/driving-rain-252114/
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"No More Lonely Nights"-- how could I have forgotten that gorgeous ballad, long one of my top faves of his?? Well, I've got so many favorites...
Some others are "Rinse The Raindrops," "Venus and Mars,"
"Another Day," "Heaven On a Sunday," "Flaming Pie," "Lindiana," "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (I know he didn't write that, but love how he sings and plays it) "Dance Tonight" "Only Mama Knows" "End of the End" is one that makes me tear up, but it sounds so heartfelt and pretty, apart from its topic and he sings it somehow so cheerfully and optimistically -
I love "Every Night"--another I forgot to put on there
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Yankeefan2 wrote:
B J Conlee wrote:
Thanks to everyone for contributing. While realizing this is a small sampling, it was nice to see that so many of the songs listed were from Paul's Solo Career well after his big commercial successes in the 70's. I also realize that most of us here are more "hard core" Paul fans compared to moderate Beatle fans who know far more of him from the 60's and 70's.
Couldn't help notice how well certain Paul albums (with great songs) really resonated at least on these lists of "best songs" since the 80's. Those albums include Tug of War. Flaming Pie, Flowers in the Dirt, Chaos and Creation, Memory Almost Full, New and Egypt Station. Even Electric Arguments had a good amount of love.
Conversely a couple of Paul albums since the 80's didn't seem to resonate very much relative to containing great songs. Not surprising that the album Press to Play wasn't listed with any songs, but "Driving Rain" certainly didn't get much love either. I guess you could say that of all of Paul's albums since Flaming Pie, Driving Rain was a definite mistep for Paul. I think you have to be really hard core fan to remember very much from the album. The song "About You" did get a vote but that was more of a deeper cut and hidden gem from Driving Rain. The song "Magic" is another one in retrospect I might have listed but it just didn't jump out to me when putting my list together. But the big songs and "Singles" from the album just didn't get listed. I thought "Your Loving Flame was a good Paul ballad on Driving Rain, but Paul's record company might have been late promoting it as a single from my memory.
All in all, it just shows that if you listen to many of Paul's material from the 80's onward, he has had a very good Solo career and is still writing great songs to this day.
Actually BJ, DR got some decent critical reviews (see below) and while it may not be as good as later albums it may not have really been a misstep IMO. In addition, if you go to Amazon.com there are 320 user reviews of the album and the overall rating was 4.5 stars out of 5. Maybe there was not that one "killer" song in the opinion of fans but overall it was a decent album. Like most McCartney albums, it could have used some trimming like cutting down "Rinse The Raindrops" 3-4 minutes.
http://www.modernrockreview.com/2001-paul-mccartney-driving-rain/
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/driving-rain-252114/
Thanks for the DR reviews and you're right... both were pretty positive. The Rollingstone review was written by Greg Kot who I have read before and he has always been fair when it comes to McCartney. He was a little off on the "title" for one of the tracks that he praised. The title is actually just "Magic" but I agree with him...one of the best songs on the album imo. He could have been a little more detailed in his review but he really praised Paul's bass playing on DR.
I still remember the music reviewer in our local paper (Philadelphia Inquirer) who reviewed both the album DR and the subsequent tour show for our local paper. He was never a Paul fan and his review on DR wasn't positive at all. He really crushed the title track 'Driving Rain" saying that Paul would have never written the 1,2,3,4, 5 lyric line etc if he still had John as a writing partner. He wasn't favorable towards the whole album in general. He was a big David Bowie fan and had always preferred John over Paul. The song "Driving Rain" later became another "poster child" for Paul's weak lyric writing from other reviewers I read but I actually liked the song as a whole. It kind of reminded me of another Paul song "The Other Me" where critics kept on harping on the "Dustbin lid" line. "The Other Me" was one of my favorites on Pipes of Peace.
I still clearly remember the 2002 Tour Show in Philadelphia because it was the first time I had seen Paul in a smaller arena compared to a Stadium Show. Several of my friends (customers and work friends) also went to the show and everyone I talked to thought Paul's show was tremendous. Again, my "favorite" local music reviewer was underwhelmed picking on a few songs on the Setlist. One of my biggest customers said to me "I wonder what show he attended?". This reviewer was very biased. He just couldn't admit that the fans loved the show.
Like all my friends, I thought the Driving Rain Show was GREAT!. I still remember how exciting the "opening song" was - Hello Goodbye. There were a bunch of songs that night I had never heard live like Getting Better, Here There and Everywhere and Here Today.
I thought the 3 songs from the Driving Rain album went down very well. He did Lonely Road, Driving Rain (the song) and Your Loving Flame. He did them all in a row and his vocals were terrific. I thought the songs "live" sounded better than the studio versions. I remember my best freind sitting next to me saying "Driving Rain" (the song) sounded much better live. He was more of a John Beatle fan and was in line with the local critic who loathed the song. He liked the song much better!
Since I'm much more of a "hard core" Paul fan than most (Beatles and post Beatles) I was still wishing on my way home that Paul had performed more Solo songs especially from Tug of War or Flaming Pie. Great songs from both albums could have been done in my mind (e.g. Wanderlust, Take It Away, Beautiful Night, Calico Skies, Little Willow etc). I could hardly be critical though...it was a great great show and everyone seemed to feel the same.
Still the DR album didn't do well commercially. I guess the main thing was that there wasn't a "big hit" to carry it relative to sales. Because I'm such a big Solo fan, I'm not the most objective. I still liked several of the less publicized tracks like Magic, Your Way, About You and Back in the Sunshine Again.
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B J Conlee wrote:
Yankeefan2 wrote:
B J Conlee wrote:
Thanks to everyone for contributing. While realizing this is a small sampling, it was nice to see that so many of the songs listed were from Paul's Solo Career well after his big commercial successes in the 70's. I also realize that most of us here are more "hard core" Paul fans compared to moderate Beatle fans who know far more of him from the 60's and 70's.
Couldn't help notice how well certain Paul albums (with great songs) really resonated at least on these lists of "best songs" since the 80's. Those albums include Tug of War. Flaming Pie, Flowers in the Dirt, Chaos and Creation, Memory Almost Full, New and Egypt Station. Even Electric Arguments had a good amount of love.
Conversely a couple of Paul albums since the 80's didn't seem to resonate very much relative to containing great songs. Not surprising that the album Press to Play wasn't listed with any songs, but "Driving Rain" certainly didn't get much love either. I guess you could say that of all of Paul's albums since Flaming Pie, Driving Rain was a definite mistep for Paul. I think you have to be really hard core fan to remember very much from the album. The song "About You" did get a vote but that was more of a deeper cut and hidden gem from Driving Rain. The song "Magic" is another one in retrospect I might have listed but it just didn't jump out to me when putting my list together. But the big songs and "Singles" from the album just didn't get listed. I thought "Your Loving Flame was a good Paul ballad on Driving Rain, but Paul's record company might have been late promoting it as a single from my memory.
All in all, it just shows that if you listen to many of Paul's material from the 80's onward, he has had a very good Solo career and is still writing great songs to this day.
Actually BJ, DR got some decent critical reviews (see below) and while it may not be as good as later albums it may not have really been a misstep IMO. In addition, if you go to Amazon.com there are 320 user reviews of the album and the overall rating was 4.5 stars out of 5. Maybe there was not that one "killer" song in the opinion of fans but overall it was a decent album. Like most McCartney albums, it could have used some trimming like cutting down "Rinse The Raindrops" 3-4 minutes.
http://www.modernrockreview.com/2001-paul-mccartney-driving-rain/
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/driving-rain-252114/
Thanks for the DR reviews and you're right... both were pretty positive. The Rollingstone review was written by Greg Kot who I have read before and he has always been fair when it comes to McCartney. He was a little off on the "title" for one of the tracks that he praised. The title is actually just "Magic" but I agree with him...one of the best songs on the album imo. He could have been a little more detailed in his review but he really praised Paul's bass playing on DR.
I still remember the music reviewer in our local paper (Philadelphia Inquirer) who reviewed both the album DR and the subsequent tour show for our local paper. He was never a Paul fan and his review on DR wasn't positive at all. He really crushed the title track 'Driving Rain" saying that Paul would have never written the 1,2,3,4, 5 lyric line etc if he still had John as a writing partner. He wasn't favorable towards the whole album in general. He was a big David Bowie fan and had always preferred John over Paul. The song "Driving Rain" later became another "poster child" for Paul's weak lyric writing from other reviewers I read but I actually liked the song as a whole. It kind of reminded me of another Paul song "The Other Me" where critics kept on harping on the "Dustbin lid" line. "The Other Me" was one of my favorites on Pipes of Peace.
I still clearly the 2002 Tour Show in Philadelphia because it was the first time I had seen Paul in a smaller arena compared to a Stadium Show. Several of my friends (customers and work friends) also went to the show and everyone I talked to thought Paul's show was tremendous. Again, my "favorite" local music reviewer was underwhelmed picking on a few songs on the Setlist. One of my biggest customers said to me "I wonder what show he attended?". This reviewer was very biased. He just couldn't admit that the fans loved the show.
Like all my friends, I thought the Driving Rain Show was GREAT!. I still remember how exciting the "opening song" was - Hello Goodbye. There were a bunch of songs that night I had never heard live that night like Getting Better, Here There and Everywhere and Here Today.
I thought the 3 songs from the Driving Rain album went down very well. He did Lonely Road, Driving Rain (the song) and Your Loving Flame. He did them all in a row and his vocals were terrific. I thought the songs "live" sounded better than the studio versions. I remember my best freind sitting next to me saying "Driving Rain" (the song) sounded much better live. He was more of a John Beatle fan and was in line with the local critic who loathed the song. He liked the song much better!
Since I'm much more of a "hard core" Paul fan than most (Beatles and post Beatles) I was still wishing on my way home that Paul had performed more Solo songs especially from Tug of War or Flaming Pie. Great songs from both albums could have been done in my mind (e.g. Wanderlust, Take It Away, Beautiful Night, Calico Skies, Little Willow etc). I could hardly be critical though...it was a great great show and everyone seemed to feel the same.
Still the DR album didn't do well commercially. I guess the main thing was that there wasn't a "big hit" to carry it relative to sales. Because I'm such a big Solo fan, I'm not the most objective. I still liked several of the less publicized tracks like Magic, Your Way, About You and Back in the Sunshine Again.
I agree that the "1,2,3,4,5" lyric was a lazy piece of songwriting and I bet somebody like Godrich would have made him change it. Years ago on this board, I created a contest for everyone to try and come up with a better lyric to replace the "1,2,3,4,5". The prize for being the winner was a very nice McCartney coffeee table like book. The winner was a guy in the UK and I wished I remember the lyrics he came up with to win. He was very nice and did not want me to pay to ship the book to the UK so he said donate it to somebody else, I believe I gave it to Suzy. That being said, I wonder if the same critic ever heard the Beatle song (You Never Give Me Your Money) lyric "1,2,3,4,5,6,7 all good children go to heaven" and was equally as critical.
I think the DR tour was great and I think the songs from that album came off well live, I personally loved "Lonely Road". Of course, I wish he had done "About You" live but oh well. I did not think of it at the time but in retrospect I wish he would have done some songs from albums that you mentioned above. I think the McCartney team was hoping putting "Freedom" on the album would help seell the album, it obviously did not help -lol.
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I mentioned "Rinse the Raindrops" as one of my favorites, and I also really like several other songs on DR such as "Your Loving Flame," "Magic," "Lonely Road," "About You" etc. DR is a pretty good Macca album.
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Yankeefan2 wrote:
I agree that the "1,2,3,4,5" lyric was a lazy piece of songwriting and I bet somebody like Godrich would have made him change it.
That being said, I wonder if the same critic ever heard the Beatle song (You Never Give Me Your Money) lyric "1,2,3,4,5,6,7 all good children go to heaven" and was equally as critical.
There's also 'One, two, three, four', the opening line to All Together Now, although Paul does make it up to ten by the end of the third line. And then there's the repeated chant of 'one, two, three, four' at the end of Helen Wheels. It seems Paul does like to count occasionally in his songs.
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I agree with you that the 1,2,3,4,5 part of "Driving Rain" (the song) was weak and I think you're right that someone like Godrich probably would have told Paul so. David Kahne was Paul's main producer for Driving Rain and he was less incline to criticize Paul. David produced Paul on Memory Almost Full so it is pretty clear that Paul liked working with Kahne.
I guess I liked the melody behind the song Driving Rain so I don't agree when a crijtic crushes an entire album based on one song. I don't like the lyrics of "Fuh You" but the album as a whole is terrific in my opinion.
By the way, Driving Rain (the album) is anothe great reason for Paul needing a new and more complete Compilatlion/Anthology in the future. Pure McCartney (Paul's last Post Beatles' compilation) did not contain one Driving Rain song. As several here have pointed out, Driving Rain had a half dozen (or more) good to very good tracks.
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B J Conlee wrote:
I agree with you that the 1,2,3,4,5 part of "Driving Rain" (the song) was weak and I think you're right that someone like Godrich probably would have told Paul so. David Kahne was Paul's main producer for Driving Rain and he was less incline to criticize Paul. David produced Paul on Memory Almost Full so it is pretty clear that Paul liked working with Kahne.
I guess I liked the melody behind the song Driving Rain so I don't agree when a crijtic crushes an entire album based on one song. I don't like the lyrics of "Fuh You" but the album as a whole is terrific in my opinion.
By the way, Driving Rain (the album) is anothe great reason for Paul needing a new and more complete Compilatlion/Anthology in the future. Pure McCartney (Paul's last Post Beatles' compilation) did not contain one Driving Rain song. As several here have pointed out, Driving Rain had a half dozen (or more) good to very good tracks.
I liked the song "Driving Rain" a bunch and I got passed the counting lyic. You nailed with with the comparison with "Fuh You", I did not like the suggestive lyric but admitted the song was catchy. In addition, like you not being crazy about "Fuh You" did not spoil my enjoyment of "Egypt Station". David Kahne did good job working with McCartney producing "Driving Rain" and "Memory Almost Full" which are two pretty good albums IMO. (MAF is obviously better IMO). The counting lyric is just the one thing a stronger personality as a producer would have persuaded McCartney to change.
I just don't get how you can make an album like "Pure McCartney" and not put anything on it from two albums like "Flowers In The Dirt" and "Driving Rain". IMO it just shows you how the McCartney team kinds of throws a project like this together without that much thought and expects it to sell.
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Yankeefan2 wrote:
B J Conlee wrote:
I agree with you that the 1,2,3,4,5 part of "Driving Rain" (the song) was weak and I think you're right that someone like Godrich probably would have told Paul so. David Kahne was Paul's main producer for Driving Rain and he was less incline to criticize Paul. David produced Paul on Memory Almost Full so it is pretty clear that Paul liked working with Kahne.
I guess I liked the melody behind the song Driving Rain so I don't agree when a crijtic crushes an entire album based on one song. I don't like the lyrics of "Fuh You" but the album as a whole is terrific in my opinion.
By the way, Driving Rain (the album) is anothe great reason for Paul needing a new and more complete Compilatlion/Anthology in the future. Pure McCartney (Paul's last Post Beatles' compilation) did not contain one Driving Rain song. As several here have pointed out, Driving Rain had a half dozen (or more) good to very good tracks.
I liked the song "Driving Rain" a bunch and I got passed the counting lyic. You nailed with with the comparison with "Fuh You", I did not like the suggestive lyric but admitted the song was catchy. In addition, like you not being crazy about "Fuh You" did not spoil my enjoyment of "Egypt Station". David Kahne did good job working with McCartney producing "Driving Rain" and "Memory Almost Full" which are two pretty good albums IMO. (MAF is obviously better IMO). The counting lyric is just the one thing a stronger personality as a producer would have persuaded McCartney to change.
I just don't get how you can make an album like "Pure McCartney" and not put anything on it from two albums like "Flowers In The Dirt" and "Driving Rain". IMO it just shows you how the McCartney team kinds of throws a project like this together without that much thought and expects it to sell.
Couldn't agree more with what you are saying Yankeefan. Makes me start to wonder where McCartney's priorities might be now that the whole European tour for 2020 has been cancelled. Who knows when he might be able to tour next at least the way he has been doing tours for many years. I should probably go over to the "is this Paul's last concert" type topics over in the "Rock Show" Section.
Just guessing but there are at least several avenues that could be taking Paul's time and energy over the next few months or even the next year. Here are some possibilities:
*Working on a new album (hopefully with Greg Kurstin). This would probably depend on whether he has enough material in the works for an album.
* Working on the "It's a Wonderful Life" Soundtrack
* Working on future Archive/Remastering projects. We believe that Flaming PIe is the next one slated for July and others like London Town and Back to the Egg are rumored. I would love to have Press to Play done since it is so underrated. I would also love a Memory Almost Full Remaster down the pike since it was in the middle of the "loudness wars" era when it was released. It might be a great improvement over the CD release backin 2007.
* Working on a new Compilation/Solo Anthology to cover the 5 Full Decades of his Post Beatles' Career. I have no basis for whether this is something that Paul is even thinking about...just my personal hope that we do get something available for fans that covers every era of his career and contains so many of his unreleased and/or rare material etc.
I would be very happy if he was tackling any of the above projects.
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B J Conlee wrote:
Yankeefan2 wrote:
B J Conlee wrote:
I agree with you that the 1,2,3,4,5 part of "Driving Rain" (the song) was weak and I think you're right that someone like Godrich probably would have told Paul so. David Kahne was Paul's main producer for Driving Rain and he was less incline to criticize Paul. David produced Paul on Memory Almost Full so it is pretty clear that Paul liked working with Kahne.
I guess I liked the melody behind the song Driving Rain so I don't agree when a crijtic crushes an entire album based on one song. I don't like the lyrics of "Fuh You" but the album as a whole is terrific in my opinion.
By the way, Driving Rain (the album) is anothe great reason for Paul needing a new and more complete Compilatlion/Anthology in the future. Pure McCartney (Paul's last Post Beatles' compilation) did not contain one Driving Rain song. As several here have pointed out, Driving Rain had a half dozen (or more) good to very good tracks.
I liked the song "Driving Rain" a bunch and I got passed the counting lyic. You nailed with with the comparison with "Fuh You", I did not like the suggestive lyric but admitted the song was catchy. In addition, like you not being crazy about "Fuh You" did not spoil my enjoyment of "Egypt Station". David Kahne did good job working with McCartney producing "Driving Rain" and "Memory Almost Full" which are two pretty good albums IMO. (MAF is obviously better IMO). The counting lyric is just the one thing a stronger personality as a producer would have persuaded McCartney to change.
I just don't get how you can make an album like "Pure McCartney" and not put anything on it from two albums like "Flowers In The Dirt" and "Driving Rain". IMO it just shows you how the McCartney team kinds of throws a project like this together without that much thought and expects it to sell.
Couldn't agree more with what you are saying Yankeefan. Makes me start to wonder where McCartney's priorities might be now that the whole European tour for 2020 has been cancelled. Who knows when he might be able to tour next at least the way he has been doing tours for many years. I should probably go over to the "is this Paul's last concert" type topics over in the "Rock Show" Section.
Just guessing but there are at least several avenues that could be taking Paul's time and energy over the next few months or even the next year. Here are some possibilities:
*Working on a new album (hopefully with Greg Kurstin). This would probably depend on whether he has enough material in the works for an album.
* Working on the "It's a Wonderful Life" Soundtrack
* Working on future Archive/Remastering projects. We believe that Flaming PIe is the next one slated for July and others like London Town and Back to the Egg are rumored. I would love to have Press to Play done since it is so underrated. I would also love a Memory Almost Full Remaster down the pike since it was in the middle of the "loudness wars" era when it was released. It might be a great improvement over the CD release backin 2007.
* Working on a new Compilation/Solo Anthology to cover the 5 Full Decades of his Post Beatles' Career. I have no basis for whether this is something that Paul is even thinking about...just my personal hope that we do get something available for fans that covers every era of his career and contains so many of his unreleased and/or rare material etc.
I would be very happy if he was tackling any of the above projects.
We have not heard much about "It's A Wonderful Life" and that may be due to the coronavirus and live theater in the US and UK shut down probably for months. Since it is a Christmas theme show, I would guess this will not be ready until late 2021 now. I would think by end of this year at latest they will probably have the music and book for show pretty much done. After that, McCartney would probably not be involved until they actually begin trying to put this on stage and see if songs need to be re-written or they need to cut songs.
With no touring until 2021, I could see a new album by middle of next year if he wants to do another one. It would be interesting to see what direction his music would take and whether this could be more of a McCartney III type album or one with the band. Would he think of doing one final "Fireman" album?
I would need somebody like you BJ to explain what McCartney has to do with the remastering his old albums. I really am clueless about the process of such a project.
I have expressed it before and will say it once again, I don't forsee a solo Anthology album done in his lifetime. I think the things mentioned above and just enjoying his life this will not be a high priority. If it gets done, it will probably be done by his estate to put the final chapter of his total career on record and get some revenue. Since his son James is the most musical child, maybe this would interest him.
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Great summary Yankeefan.
Of all the possible future projects (non-touring), I hope mostly for a new album. My gut feel is that Greg Kurstin (if available) would be the most likely choice as a Producer. Hopefully, Paul has got the Top 40 guy (Ryan Tedder) out of his head. Greg is so good for an older artist like Paul. As other Producers of his ilk, Greg mentioned George Martin as his idol and he also mentioned that when he was doing Egypt Station with Paul he wanted Chaos and Creation (Nigel Godrich) to serve as one of his blueprints. Not sure Paul would want to work with Nigel (and vice versa) again, but he would definitely be another great candidate. I loved the way Greg produced ES songs like Hand in Hand, Happy With You, Who Cares, Confidante, Dominoes, Do It Now, Back in Brazil etc etc. Because of Greg's versatility and variety of genres in his Producing background, I think he would be the best Producer for what could possibly be Paul's last album.
By the way, Greg seems to be flexible Producer as he worked with Paul's Band on a few of the album's tracks and he worked more alone with Paul as well as providing many of the extra string and horn instruments where needed depending on the song. I got my fingers crossed that Greg would be available over the next year or so as Mr. Kurstin is always in high demand.
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Mytop 10 macca songs would be
#10 - maybe I'm amazed
#9- she's given up talking
#8- hand in hand
#7- bluebird
#6 - why so blue
#5 - c'mon people
#4 - somdays
#3 - you tell me
#2 - Jenny wren
#1- I don't know
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B J Conlee wrote:
Great summary Yankeefan.
Of all the possible future projects (non-touring), I hope mostly for a new album. My gut feel is that Greg Kurstin (if available) would be the most likely choice as a Producer. Hopefully, Paul has got the Top 40 guy (Ryan Tedder) out of his head. Greg is so good for an older artist like Paul. As other Producers of his ilk, Greg mentioned George Martin as his idol and he also mentioned that when he was doing Egypt Station with Paul he wanted Chaos and Creation (Nigel Godrich) to serve as one of his blueprints. Not sure Paul would want to work with Nigel (and vice versa) again, but he would definitely be another great candidate. I loved the way Greg produced ES songs like Hand in Hand, Happy With You, Who Cares, Confidante, Dominoes, Do It Now, Back in Brazil etc etc. Because of Greg's versatility and variety of genres in his Producing background, I think he would be the best Producer for what could possibly be Paul's last album.
By the way, Greg seems to be flexible Producer as he worked with Paul's Band on a few of the album's tracks and he worked more alone with Paul as well as providing many of the extra string and horn instruments where needed depending on the song. I got my fingers crossed that Greg would be available over the next year or so as Mr. Kurstin is always in high demand.
I agree that Godrich and McCartney would not work together again. While they created a great album, they obviously did not get along that well together. Kurstin did very good job with "Egypt Station" so why not bring him back if he is available. If he is not available, would McCartney let Giles Martin produce an entire album for him?
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Flamingpie55 wrote:
Mytop 10 macca songs would be
#10 - maybe I'm amazed
#9- she's given up talking
#8- hand in hand
#7- bluebird
#6 - why so blue
#5 - c'mon people
#4 - somdays
#3 - you tell me
#2 - Jenny wren
#1- I don't know
"Bluebird" is one of the songs from BOTR that has flew under the radar IMO and I love it.
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Yankeefan2 wrote:
Flamingpie55 wrote:
Mytop 10 macca songs would be
#10 - maybe I'm amazed
#9- she's given up talking
#8- hand in hand
#7- bluebird
#6 - why so blue
#5 - c'mon people
#4 - somdays
#3 - you tell me
#2 - Jenny wren
#1- I don't know
"Bluebird" is one of the songs from BOTR that has flew under the radar IMO and I love it.
Interesting list from Flamingpie. She's Given Up Talking from Driving Rain is certainly a deep,deep cut from that album. I liked the song initially but thought it went on a little too long. Why So Blue wasn't even on the original Memory Almost Full album but I really love the song. I always wished that Paul put "You Tell Me" on one of his setlists...a great song imo but I didn't think the production on MAF was very good.
PS Like your other Producer choice Yankeefan for the next possible Paul album...Giles Martin. Paul seems to get along real well with Giles and sentimentally it would be great for Paul to work with George's son on possibly his last album.
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(scoffs reprovingly) It won't be Paul's "last" album ! He's always been a prolific songwriter. He finds inspiration seemingly everywhere. No telling how many he's dreamed up during this prolonged quarentine period, when he can't jet set around like he's used to.
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The guy is a human juke box, LOL. Makes one feel better to reflect on favorites by him. So I really like this thread
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Flamingpie55 wrote:
Mytop 10 macca songs would be
#10 - maybe I'm amazed
#9- she's given up talking
#8- hand in hand
#7- bluebird
#6 - why so blue
#5 - c'mon people
#4 - somdays
#3 - you tell me
#2 - Jenny wren
#1- I don't know
I had to smile "Flamingpie55" with your list and your #1 choice. I think that "I Don't Know" is one of Paul's absolute best Solo songs ever and I had it at #2 on my list. Can't put my finger on it, but I just love the song and never tire of it. Just love the "but it's allright, sleep tight" part and the whole song in general (lyrics and melody). Never hear it on the radio which is a crying shame imo. You also had some great deeper cuts on your list like Somedays, You Tell Me and the totally underrated Why So Blue.
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SusyLuvsPaul wrote:
(scoffs reprovingly) It won't be Paul's "last" album ! He's always been a prolific songwriter. He finds inspiration seemingly everywhere. No telling how many he's dreamed up during this prolonged quarentine period, when he can't jet set around like he's used to.
Susy...Yankeefan and I were just discussing what Paul is going to do musically with all of his "free" time now that the entire tour has been cancelled. At Paul's age, we were just thinking that Paul's next album could be his last. I'm surely hoping that isn't the case but it is a possibility.
In the real short term, I'm hoping the Archive/Remaster of Flaming Pie is just around the corner. So many great songs on FP and I for one am looking forward to the extra songs or alternated versions on this package. The last I heard, it is due for release in July. Hope that this is not just a rumour and we will get a tracklisting for the Archive release very soon.
