McCartney 3?
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^ There are different pictures on some of the albums. And no, Nancy hasn't been on any albums.
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Has anybody had their record store indie album show up without it being numbered? Both myself and a friend received one without it being numbered.
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Yankeefan2 wrote:
BJ - A couple of things I would like to mention to you. On the Q&A on this site, McCartney said "Deep Deep Feeling" was his favorite song from "McCartney III". Check out the "Sticking Out From My Back Pocket" songs for December, I think you will love most of the selections. ("Kiss Of Venus", "Seize The Day", Dominoes", "Calico Skies", "Find My Way", "Great Day" etc). Happy New Year !!
You're right about the excellent January 2021 "Sticking Out of My Back Pocket" song list for songs about change and hope. Great songs from McCartney 3 including Seize the Day, Kiss of Venus and Find My Way. They could have also included "Women and Wives" which also has great "change and hope" lyrics.
Nice they included a hidden gem like "Summer's Day Song" from McCartney 2 and I think "Dominoes" is one of Paul's best Solo tracks.
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Someone on youtube is putting up some fanmade instrumentals. Very cool.
Check it out. Here's one of them... Seize the Day:
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paulfan11 wrote:
Has anybody had their record store indie album show up without it being numbered? Both myself and a friend received one without it being numbered.
No, I have not heard of that. I read that someone couldn't read their number but at least they had one. Did you & your friend order from the same place? They are white ones right? Did you by chance get a signature instead? Paul apparently autographed 10 copies.
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Paul has been on such a hot streak since Flaming Pie with his only misstep being Driving Rain. I'm afrid that McCartney III has put an end to the (almost) uninterrupted string of excellent albums (Flaming Pie, Chaos MAF, EA, New, Egypt Station). McCartnety III doesn't come close to any of those. This is likely to compete with Wild Life and McCartney II for my least favorite Paul album.
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TommyC909 wrote:
Paul has been on such a hot streak since Flaming Pie with his only misstep being Driving Rain. I'm afrid that McCartney III has put an end to the (almost) uninterrupted string of excellent albums (Flaming Pie, Chaos MAF, EA, New, Egypt Station). McCartnety III doesn't come close to any of those. This is likely to compete with Wild Life and McCartney II for my least favorite Paul album.
Tommy...feel bad that you aren't crazy about McCartney 3 but you aren't the first here on Maccaboard that are relatively disappointed in the album. Conversely...me, Yankeefan and Anthony B etc. love McCartney 3 as you've probably seen on this thread. Because it has been the holidays, they're still regulars who haven't reported.
Just curious...what don't you like. Is it some of the vocals, the lyrics etc. Personally I love the cornerstone pieces (the opener and closer), Find My Way, Pretty Boys, Women and Wives, Slidin, Kiss of Venus and Seize the Day. All future classics in my opinion. Just me but I think on the whole, it's a terrific album and miles better than Wild Life and McCartney 2.
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TommyC909 wrote:
Paul has been on such a hot streak since Flaming Pie with his only misstep being Driving Rain. I'm afrid that McCartney III has put an end to the (almost) uninterrupted string of excellent albums (Flaming Pie, Chaos MAF, EA, New, Egypt Station). McCartnety III doesn't come close to any of those. This is likely to compete with Wild Life and McCartney II for my least favorite Paul album.
"McCartney II" and "Wild Life" are the two worst McCartney albums of all time IMO. I have said quite often how much I dislike songs like "Bip Bop" and "Temporary Secretary". That being said, I think "McCartney III" is so much better and in my top 10 McCartney albums. To each their own, different opinons on music make things interesting.
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oobu24 wrote:
paulfan11 wrote:
Has anybody had their record store indie album show up without it being numbered? Both myself and a friend received one without it being numbered.
No, I have not heard of that. I read that someone couldn't read their number but at least they had one. Did you & your friend order from the same place? They are white ones right? Did you by chance get a signature instead? Paul apparently autographed 10 copies.
We did order from the same place, found from the record store day link. The album is the white one, (we both opened ours) and has the limited edition sticker on the clear wrap around it, but no number anywhere. Definitely not one of the signed ones.
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B J Conlee wrote:
TommyC909 wrote:
Paul has been on such a hot streak since Flaming Pie with his only misstep being Driving Rain. I'm afrid that McCartney III has put an end to the (almost) uninterrupted string of excellent albums (Flaming Pie, Chaos MAF, EA, New, Egypt Station). McCartnety III doesn't come close to any of those. This is likely to compete with Wild Life and McCartney II for my least favorite Paul album.
Tommy...feel bad that you aren't crazy about McCartney 3 but you aren't the first here on Maccaboard that are relatively disappointed in the album. Conversely...me, Yankeefan and Anthony B etc. love McCartney 3 as you've probably seen on this thread. Because it has been the holidays, they're still regulars who haven't reported.
Just curious...what don't you like. Is it some of the vocals, the lyrics etc. Personally I love the cornerstone pieces (the opener and closer), Find My Way, Pretty Boys, Women and Wives, Slidin, Kiss of Venus and Seize the Day. All future classics in my opinion. Just me but I think on the whole, it's a terrific album and miles better than Wild Life and McCartney 2.
I've come to accept the fact that Paul is 78 and his vocals are going to reflect his age. His vocals certaily didn't stop me from absolutely loving ES. Regarding lyrics, I couldn't care less. As far as I'm concerned lyrics are simply the melody messenger. The songs you mentioned I actually enjoy to some degree, other than Slidin, but none of them would make it to my list of top 50 McCartney songs. Long Tailed Winter Bird, Deep Deep Feeling and Deep Down are not my kind of McCartney songs and overstay their welcome. Quite frankly I don't think any of the songs are as good as Home Tonight or In a Hurry and they're songs that didn't make the cut for ES.
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paulfan11 wrote:
oobu24 wrote:
paulfan11 wrote:
Has anybody had their record store indie album show up without it being numbered? Both myself and a friend received one without it being numbered.
No, I have not heard of that. I read that someone couldn't read their number but at least they had one. Did you & your friend order from the same place? They are white ones right? Did you by chance get a signature instead? Paul apparently autographed 10 copies.
We did order from the same place, found from the record store day link. The album is the white one, (we both opened ours) and has the limited edition sticker on the clear wrap around it, but no number anywhere. Definitely not one of the signed ones.
Call them up or email them & complain! Tell them you want another.
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Very fair Tommy.
Music is always so subjective. My wife didn't like McCartney 3 that much and she liked Egypt Station a lot minus Fuh You, Now she's a little younger than me and was never very knowlgeable of Paul's Solo stuff in the first place. Her interest in music is a lot broader than mine, I was always a big Beatles' and Paul fan from the time I first saw them in 1964.
Certain songs and the vocals from this album really grew with me with repeated listens. I really liked Find My Way and Pretty Boys from the 1st listen and I still love them. I really like "Pretty Boys" (both lyrics and the melody). I just love that song.
A couple of others had to grow with me especially "Women and Wives". As a piano based song, I don't like it nearly as much as "I Don't Know" from Egypt Station, but I grew to like it a lot. Had to get used to Paul's Johnny Cash like vocals.
While I liked the melody of Kiss of Venus on 1st listen I had to get used to Paul's high register vocals. Loved the bridge and the harpsichord in the song so I like it a lot on the whole. I also liked "Seize The Day" after a couple of listens. It sounded like Paul was thinking of John when he wrote it. Had a feel of John's "Across the Universe" to me.
Because there are at least a half of dozen songs that I really love/like, I'm very pleased with the album. I'm not a heavy metal type guy so I was very surprised how much I liked "Slidin".
Finally, Deep Deep Feeling and Deep Down are not normally my kind of songs (not a big fan of jam based songs) and both are definitely too long but again I have grown to like them. I can see where a different producer like Nigel Godrich or George Martin might have made Paul tweak them a little bit and make them even better. But as a DIY album primarily made in Paul's studio, and as a full album just 2 years after Egypt Station I viewed McCartney 3 as a big surprise.
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B J Conlee wrote:
Very fair Tommy.
Music is always so subjective. My wife didn't like McCartney 3 that much and she liked Egypt Station a lot minus Fuh You, Now she's a little younger than me and was never very knowlgeable of Paul's Solo stuff in the first place. Her interest in music is a lot broader than mine, I was always a big Beatles' and Paul fan from the time I first saw them in 1964.
Certain songs and the vocals from this album really grew with me with repeated listens. I really liked Find My Way and Pretty Boys from the 1st listen and I still love them. I really like "Pretty Boys" (both lyrics and the melody). I just love that song.
A couple of others had to grow with me especially "Women and Wives". As a piano based song, I don't like it nearly as much as "I Don't Know" from Egypt Station, but I grew to like it a lot. Had to get used to Paul's Johnny Cash like vocals.
While I liked the melody of Kiss of Venus on 1st listen I had to get used to Paul's high register vocals. Loved the bridge and the harpsichord in the song so I like it a lot on the whole. I also liked "Seize The Day" after a couple of listens. It sounded like Paul was thinking of John when he wrote it. Had a feel of John's "Across the Universe" to me.
Because there are at least a half of dozen songs that I really love/like, I'm very pleased with the album. I'm not a heavy metal type guy so I was very surprised how much I liked "Slidin".
Finally, Deep Deep Feeling and Deep Down are not normally my kind of songs (not a big fan of jam based songs) and both are definitely too long but again I have grown to like them. I can see where a different producer like Nigel Godrich or George Martin might have made Paul tweak them a little bit and make them even better. But as a DIY album primarily made in Paul's studio, and as a full album just 2 years after Egypt Station I viewed McCartney 3 as a big surprise.
BJ - I wonder what some people were expecting from "McCartney III". I know I was not expecting some masterpiece of an album that was going to blow me away. I was just hoping for 4-5 good songs (and there were more -lol) I would really enjoy and no cringeworthy songs like "Temporary Secretary" which is awful IMO. My wife is not a fan of McCartney solo work for the most part, she is definitely in the "Beatle Paul" fan category. When I play his solo albums she usually for the most part ignores it and says nothing. When I played "McCartney III", she actually asked what the name of some songs were and appeared to enjoy them which took me by surprise. She liked "Find My Way", "Slidin" and "Kiss of Venus". Like you said, music is subjective. It does not bother me when people disagree with my taste. I am just glad this album has been a hit with most critics and started off commercially successful, we will see how long that lasts -lol.
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oobu24 wrote:
paulfan11 wrote:
oobu24 wrote:
paulfan11 wrote:
Has anybody had their record store indie album show up without it being numbered? Both myself and a friend received one without it being numbered.
No, I have not heard of that. I read that someone couldn't read their number but at least they had one. Did you & your friend order from the same place? They are white ones right? Did you by chance get a signature instead? Paul apparently autographed 10 copies.
We did order from the same place, found from the record store day link. The album is the white one, (we both opened ours) and has the limited edition sticker on the clear wrap around it, but no number anywhere. Definitely not one of the signed ones.
Call them up or email them & complain! Tell them you want another.
It's all good now, I heard back from the record store and got an explanation.
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On Gerry Marsden's passing...
Going off topic a little bit, I couldn't help being sad hearing that Gerry Marsden (AKA Gerry and the Pacemakers) died the other day. Growing up in South Jersey near Philadelphia I was a typical 12 year old boy I guess. There were mainly 2 things that had my interest in those pre-teen years - sports and music. I was s very impressionable 12 year old and like many kids you had your heroes and with me it was sports (mainly baseball) and music starting out with the British Invasion Rock/Pop groups that got me into music.
At this point in my life, I unfortunately am at the age that those early heroes of mine are starting to drop like flies. It seems like every day lately a former baseball player that I idolized and watched in Philadelphia has died. In just the last few months some of my baseball idols (growing up outside Philadelphia) have recently died like Tom Seaver, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock and the other day Dick (Richie) Allen from our own Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies were in the National League so I could fairly easily go to the Stadium and see them play. Normally before I got my own Driver's License, it was my Dad who brought me to the games.
Same thing with our music star from the mid 60's who are dying these days from natural causes. Reading about the passing of Gerry Marsden the other day really got to me. After the Bealtles I also loved Gerry and the Pacemakers from those early British Invasion groups. The Pacemakers were also from Liverpool and also managed by Brian Epstein. I really liked Gerry Marsden's voice as the lead singer and he and his brother also wrote some great songs. I remember buying the album Gerry and the Pacemakers Greatest Hits and I wore out that album. I loved songs like Ferry Across the Mersey, I Like It, How Do You Do It, Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying etc. Not sure where it started, but I was always interested in who actually wrote these songs that I loved. One of my farvorite deeper cuts from Gerry and the Pacemakers was "I'll Be There" which was actually written by Bobby Darin who was another, more local hero of mine. I was so shocked that Bobby Darin was the writer of "I'll Be There". With Bobby Darin, I always thought of great songs like Mack the Knife, Dream Lover and Beyond the Sea. Anyway, I loved,loved "I"ll Be There" and Gerry Marsden's vocal. Besides Sports and Music, I was also just starting to notice "gilrls". I was a Freshman in High School and I clearly remember seeing the High School Cheerleaders in their outfits. With "I'll Be There" you could easlily imagine yourself singing "I'll Be There" to one of those girls you had a crush on.
It was so nice to see Paul McCartney paying such a great and heartfelt tribute to Gerry Marsden.
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paulfan11 wrote:
It's all good now, I heard back from the record store and got an explanation.
How did they explain it?
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B J Conlee wrote:
On Gerry Marsden's passing.
Going off topic a little bit, .......
It was so nice to see Paul McCartney paying such a great and heartfelt tribute to Gerry Marsden.
Did you watch the video I posted in the RIP thread? Paul appeared (in a video) on Gerry's "This Is Your Life" show.
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oobu24 wrote:
B J Conlee wrote:
On Gerry Marsden's passing.
Going off topic a little bit, .......
It was so nice to see Paul McCartney paying such a great and heartfelt tribute to Gerry Marsden.
Did you watch the video I posted in the RIP thread? Paul appeared (in a video) on Gerry's "This Is Your Life" show.
I loved it Oobu. Thank you very much. Loved watching Gerry's face on the "This is Your LIfe" show as Paul was congratulating Gerry. You could tell that Gerry really liked/loved Pau and that they were good friends.
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Very sad to hear about Gerry Marsden passing away, like others I just loved his voice. "Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying" was my favorite song that he sung. Like BJ mentioned, so many people of our era are passing away in the field of music and sports which is very sad.
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B J Conlee wrote:
On Gerry Marsden's passing...
Going off topic a little bit, I couldn't help being sad hearing that Gerry Marsden (AKA Gerry and the Pacemakers) died the other day. Growing up in South Jersey near Philadelphia I was a typical 12 year old boy I guess. There were mainly 2 things that had my interest in those pre-teen years - sports and music. I was s very impressionable 12 year old and like many kids you had your heroes and with me it was sports (mainly baseball) and music starting out with the British Invasion Rock/Pop groups that got me into music.
At this point in my life, I unfortunately am at the age that those early heroes of mine are starting to drop like flies. It seems like every day lately a former baseball player that I idolized and watched in Philadelphia has died. In just the last few months some of my baseball idols (growing up outside Philadelphia) have recently died like Tom Seaver, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock and the other day Dick (Richie) Allen from our own Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies were in the National League so I could fairly easily go to the Stadium and see them play. Normally before I got my own Driver's License, it was my Dad who brought me to the games.
Same thing with our music star from the mid 60's who are dying these days from natural causes. Reading about the passing of Gerry Marsden the other day really got to me. After the Bealtles I also loved Gerry and the Pacemakers from those early British Invasion groups. The Pacemakers were also from Liverpool and also managed by Brian Epstein. I really liked Gerry Marsden's voice as the lead singer and he and his brother also wrote some great songs. I remember buying the album Gerry and the Pacemakers Greatest Hits and I wore out that album. I loved songs like Ferry Across the Mersey, I Like It, How Do You Do It, Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying etc. Not sure where it started, but I was always interested in who actually wrote these songs that I loved. One of my farvorite deeper cuts from Gerry and the Pacemakers was "I'll Be There" which was actually written by Bobby Darin who was another, more local hero of mine. I was so shocked that Bobby Darin was the writer of "I'll Be There". With Bobby Darin, I always thought of great songs like Mack the Knife, Dream Lover and Beyond the Sea. Anyway, I loved,loved "I"ll Be There" and Gerry Marsden's vocal. Besides Sports and Music, I was also just starting to notice "gilrls". I was a Freshman in High School and I clearly remember seeing the High School Cheerleaders in their outfits. With "I'll Be There" you could easlily imagine yourself singing "I'll Be There" to one of those girls you had a crush on.
It was so nice to see Paul McCartney paying such a great and heartfelt tribute to Gerry Marsden.
We've also recently lost Chad, of Chad and Jeremy, and Peter, of Peter and Gordon, for whom Paul (and John, I guess,) wrote two great songs, World Without Love and Woman. As you may or may not know, the Beatles first single was supposed to be How Do You Do It. They hated it. John did a passable vocal, but it just wasn't there. They wanted to record one of their own songs...or two...to launch their recording career....hence, Love Me Do and Please Please Me. Since Gerry and the Pacemakers had the same manager, they got How Do You Do It, which was a big hit for them. Their production was much better and Gerry had the right voice for the song....and the right attitude. Just a tidbit of info.