McCartney 3?
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At the bottom page of each song is a tab that says “storyline”. There are 5-6 slides per song with a few anecdote about the writing or recording of each song.
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Created about an hour ago
joyce wrote:
Lavatory Lil (Lyrics video)
Did you see the pic they put in the background? It's Paul recording McCartney II
Wow--thanks for identifying that photo, oobu!! Talk about creative acoustics! Just goes to show....Paul has a photo for everything musical! J
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Just heard a few tracks for the first time - my impression is this is going to be one of his best albums for years. The last two albums didn't do anything for me, but it looks like this one benefits from stripping away all the over-production. I like Seize the Day - it got me singing Hello Goodbye, but that's no bad thing ! Looking forward to getting the CD, it sounds promising.
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Another very good review, this one from USA Today. See link.
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Hey Paulie,
Congrats on your new release McCartney III. Can't wait to sift through it..
Was hoping to catch up to you one fine day..
Merry Christmas love,
Meli
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The thing I keep thinking about this album is how much it sounds "like him." I think that was what turned me off about Egypt Station. That whole record just sounds like it's trying too hard. But this one has the same effortlessness as Chaos and Creation and Flaming Pie had (though perhaps the songs on those 2 are stronger). It's a joy to listen to.
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Love listening to this! He did wonderful. Can't imagine what it takes to do ALL the vocals and instruments to get them synchronized, etc. That truly takes special skill. He's among the greatest musical geniuses of all time is all I can say. And it's wonderful that he wants to continue making music as long as he can. Since he eats healthy and keeps physically fit, I think we'll hear more music from him in the future. There may be snow on the rooftop but there's still fire in the guitar
and I can see his mind being continually active in creating new songs, since he's a keen observer of things around him.
Love the entire album, but if I had to choose, my favorite tracks are Deep Down, Kiss of Venus, and Deep Deep Feeling. Love that he wanted to get "deep" in these songs. Everytime he composes, he shares a part of himself with us all through his music, and that is special, and can truly be felt.
Thank you, Paul!
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As I was listening to Lavatory Lil, I mused how cool it would have been to have John and George on it, each contributing a verse.
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The only thing that I don't like is the way he pronounces Lavatory! ("lavatree")
Is that how Brits pronounce it?
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Nancy R wrote:
The only thing that I don't like is the way he pronounces Lavatory! ("lavatree")
Is that how Brits pronounce it?
I think it is. I'm not British, but I've noticed they pronounce "0bservatory" as "0bservatree"and History is "Histree" and Mystery is "Mistree" except when the Beatles sing "The Magical Mystair-ree Tour"
. We Americans tend to draw (or drawl) out our vowel sounds a little longer.
Not sure if this is just a Liverpool dialect, but I've noticed from interviews in the 1960s, the Beatles would pronounce "cousin" as "coosin" and the word "up" is "oop"
(not laughing at them, just laughing at how it looks when I type it this way)
Macca84 wrote:
As I was listening to Lavatory Lil, I mused how cool it would have been to have John and George on it, each contributing a verse.
I'm sure he talked about it in one of his recent interviews, but was Lavatory Lil written recently, or was it a song Paul has had around for a while but just recently finished? Would be great if there were some past John and George influence in it, like Polyethylene Pam...
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Really liked McCartney III!
My top tunes are:
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Deep down: really loved that one.
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Seize the day: this tune has an special vibe, I FEEL this tune. It's really great.
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Deep deep feeling - I really love this one. At first I thought it was too long, but every part of the song has its interesting features! If there are any Bowie fans in the area, I found this kind of song really similar to Bowie's latest works on Blackstar. I loved experimental Macca!
I find bits of Chaos and Creation, Electric Arguments and Memory Almost Full.
I guess my new order would be: 1) Macca I 2) Macca III 3) Macca II.
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thomascbullock wrote:
The thing I keep thinking about this album is how much it sounds "like him." I think that was what turned me off about Egypt Station. That whole record just sounds like it's trying too hard. But this one has the same effortlessness as Chaos and Creation and Flaming Pie had (though perhaps the songs on those 2 are stronger). It's a joy to listen to.
Yes. On Egypt Station he was trying too hard. "Fuh You" best exemplifies that for me. We dont't want to hear you singing those lyrics, Paul. While I do like several of the songs on that album, overall, it is hard to listen to; not one I go back to. This one truly captures him. No outside inflluences or input from people who think they know what a hit record sounds like...or should sound like. Paul followed his instincts. This is clearly who he is....doing exactly what he wants to do. And it all works.
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Beatles4Ever wrote:
thomascbullock wrote:
The thing I keep thinking about this album is how much it sounds "like him." I think that was what turned me off about Egypt Station. That whole record just sounds like it's trying too hard. But this one has the same effortlessness as Chaos and Creation and Flaming Pie had (though perhaps the songs on those 2 are stronger). It's a joy to listen to.
Yes. On Egypt Station he was trying too hard. "Fuh You" best exemplifies that for me. We dont't want to hear you singing those lyrics, Paul. While I do like several of the songs on that album, overall, it is hard to listen to; not one I go back to. This one truly captures him. No outside inflluences or input from people who think they know what a hit record sounds like...or should sound like. Paul followed his instincts. This is clearly who he is....doing exactly what he wants to do. And it all works.
Hey Beatles4Ever...I hear what you're saying about Fuh You. I know there are fans here that are going to vehemently disagree with me but it was "Fuh You" specifically that blew the momentum on ES for me. Unfortunately, Paul listened to Ryan Tedder (the song's cowriter and producer) too much and and made the decision to keep it on the album. It became a track where Paul was ,in my opinion, trying to be" too cute"and hoping for a commercial hit. While "Fuh You" was catchy on the 1st few listens (and happily it was short) the lyrics amounted in my opinion to "cringeworthy fluff" and deceptive in its meaning . And because there were so many good to great songs on ES, it "overshadowed" a few of the true "great" songs on the album. When I hear many of the other ES songs independently on a "full" Paul Solo playlist like Spotify's "This is Paul McCartney" I love many of the ES songs like "I Don't Know, Happy With You, Hand in Hand, Dominoes, Do It Now and Despite Repeated Warnings". Like I said, it blew the momentium of ES for an "album listener"like me. Looking back at other Paul Solo albums, I felt a similar way on Tug of War. I loved that album (especially the 1st 3 songs) but it was the 4th song (the 1st Paul/Stevie Wonder collaboration called "What's That You're Doing") that took the wind out of the sails for me. It was a 6:23 length jam song that went entirely too long.
As far as McCartney 3, I am loving it so far. I'm still digesting all the songs so I will wait another week before I give my full review. But on 1st impression, I'm loving some of the songs (and they're still growing with me) like Find My Way, Pretty Boys, Lavatory Lil, Slidin, Kiss of Venus and Seize the Day.
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Leslie, *Polythene* Pam...or were you just being funny writing Polyethylene Pam?
And I'm one of the ones who disagrees about "Fuh You" but I think the song should have been titled "For You" and then there might not have been all this controversy. I like the song. I don't quite understand why you write this Beatles4Ever:
"We dont't want to hear you singing those lyrics, Paul." The lyric he is singing is "I just want it for you" but it's only in your mind that he's singing something else. It was Ryan Tedder who is to blame for that. Paul should not have listened to him and changed the title.
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Nancy R wrote:
Leslie, *Polythene* Pam...or were you just being funny writing Polyethylene Pam?
That was a definite typo
by the time I realized my mistake and went back to fix it, it was past the 30 minute mark... *sigh*
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I'm an old geezer and am admittedly "tech challenged".
Perhaps someone can" post" the new "Billboard" article/poll on McCartney 3. It basically said that in their Poll, McCartney 3 received the "highest percentage" of votes for "Best new music for the week" getting like 60% of the vote. While this isn't necessarily a total shock since Paul's new album broke on 11/18, I think the surprise is that he got "60%" of the vote.
I'm thinking this couild be very good news for Paul since I would think that Billboard has a very "broad" demographic of voters/readers including many younger fans. It might be telling us that more "younger" music fans are liking what they hear on many of the McCartney 3 songs. I get that Paul's normal fans are mostly like me...older music fans born on Beatles' and Paul music but I'm thinking that a high percentage of Billboard readers and listeners don't exactly fit Paul's normal demographic. 30 or 40% wouldn't surprise me on this recent Poll but 60% seems very good. This could be good news. Maybe songs like Deep Deep Feeling and Deep Down (not Beatlesque type songs)are resonating with a younger audience for Paul. Just a thought.
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Since buying the album (cd) on Saturday I've only had the chance to give it a couple of plays. First impressions are basically that it sounds like a Fireman album without Youth. It feels more like a 'performance' album rather than a 'song' album and as such, it sounds more interesting and 'real' than the glossy mush of Egypt Station. Deep Deep Feeling & When Winter Comes stand out early but I think this is any album that needs to be listened to and appreciated as a whole rather than cherry pick individual tracks. I just need the time to be able to give the album more plays.
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This was posted on Paul's twitter account today
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AndrewMBarros wrote:
This was posted on Paul's twitter account today
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