Rather than new compilations, my personal preference would be to continue the archive collections (and pick up the pace a little). I don't think a comp of rareties is going to have widespread commercial appeal, and these super deluxe editions should capture all of these tracks at some point. Just my opinion. Of course I would take the comp in a heartbeat to more quickly fill in some holes.
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RE: The next Paul McCartney/MPL Music Project should be
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RE: THE NEXT DELUXE/REMASTERED ALBUM FROM PAUL
Guitarman147 wrote:
Press to Play would make a fantastic Archive release. Lots of interesting material from that general period could be included. I also hope Off the Ground gets a proper Archive release. It's not a universally popular album amongst fans but I have a real soft spot for it.
I agree as well. Press To Play could/should have a lot of cool stuff. There were tons of alternate single mixes, some of which are preferred by many to the album versions. Plus perhaps some early versions, without all of the "80s production". It would also be interesting to see if the remaining unreleased "Return To Pepperland" stuff that hasn't come out on subsequent releases might see the light, although that is debatable since most were slightly after the Press To Play sessions - but they won't have an archive edition home otherwise. You also have non-album singles Spies Like Us and Once Upon A Long Ago in the general timeframe, each with either multiple mixes or edits. As a completist, it would just be nice to round up those things in once place.
I would like to see a London Town/Back To The Egg combo hopefully late this year. Maybe in 2022 they could do a Press To Play/Broad Street combo, although I'm not sure what extra stuff could be on Broad Street, other than a couple remixes of the playout version of No More Lonely Nights, as well as perhaps the LP edits of the songs that were shortened from the CD versions. I would also like some version of the Russian album - there isn't a ton of extras to my knowledge, but there are a few, such as I Wanna Cry and It's Now Or Never.
Off The Ground could be a great set as well. I have the good fortune of owning all of the CD singles, so I selfishly wouldn't mind that one being pushed out a few years to fill in the above first.
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RE: McCartney III "Secret Demo Editions" (4 different CDs)
darrel wrote:
I will wait for the deluxe edition containing all the tracks when they no doubt announce it after everybody has spent their money buying all these.
If there isn't a deluxe version the additional songs will appear on a bootleg or on YouTube.
I ended up with 3 different versions of Egypt station including the suitcase. Don't feel like getting stung again.
3 versions of Egypt Station here too, including the suitcase. And you still need to buy the remix of Nothing For Free and the In A Hurry/Home Tonight single to get everything commercially issued from the sessions.
I've resigned myself to the fact I will always buy multiple copies of Paul's albums. I think the last studio album that I've only bought one copy is Electric Arguments, which is one of my regrets that I passed on the deluxe. It seemed to me so expensive at the time for the additional content, but now when I see it on ebay it is outrageous.
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RE: McCartney III "Secret Demo Editions" (4 different CDs)
Can anyone tell me what the difference is between, for example, the Secret Demo Edition White Cover CD (US $7.33) and the Deluxe Edition White Cover CD ($14.33)? There are t-shirt and dice deluxe editions that don't interest me, but I'm curious if there is any difference in audio content between the $7.33 and $14.33 editions.
I can justify a little paying about $30 for the 4 cheap CDs to get the 4 extra demos. I just wish it would be explained what you are getting.
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RE: McCartney III "Secret Demo Editions" (4 different CDs)
Yes, this kind of thing is really irritating for fans, and I really wish they wouldn't go this direction. I'll probably end up buying them because of this "sickness" that I have, and then there will be some sort of deluxe edition that I will buy that will include each of these.
I think back to the interviews I've heard where they talk about the Beatles practice of generally not putting singles on albums; that they didn't want record buyers have to purchase songs they already had. I guess times have changed.
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RE: Mccartney /McManus
alcatrazkidz wrote:
I have been listening to the bonus tracks on the flowers in the dirt album and the collaborations with Elvis Costello are amazing. They sound pure and exciting. Does anyone know why songs like, Tommy's coming home and Twenty Fine Fingers were never officially released by any of them, until the archive collection.
Personally I think it would have made flowers a stronger more consistent album.
This is just a personal hunch, so I may be wrong, but I wonder if Paul was careful to not have too many Elvis collaborations and have the narrative become something like 'Paul needed Costello to revive his career'. While I like Flowers In The Dirt, I agree it could have been so much better.
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RE: THE NEXT DELUXE/REMASTERED ALBUM FROM PAUL
5th-beatle wrote:
$600 for the collector's edition is just too much, like the Egypt Station suitcase. I'll wait for the price of the deluxe edition to drop a little.
Honestly $260 US Amazon is crazy expensive for the regular deluxe edition compared to past deluxe editions, and probably about double that of the most expensive ones to date. While I'm sure it is full of beautiful things, I mostly want the music and video, and $260 is an obscene amount of money for 5 CDs and 2 DVDs. As nice as these things are, I wish they would go back to more how they were earlier in the series. Not necessarily for audio/video content, as I think that is getting more generous, but just less trinkets and reproductions of everything, if that is what it takes to keep the price more reasonable.
Fortunately I'm at a point in my life where I will be able to still get the standard deluxe, but I can only imagine in my younger years being able to justify spending this much money on something like this.
Anyone else wondering how expensive a potentially packaged Wings 1977-79 box, with London Town, Back To The Egg, and maybe a new live 79 collection, similar to the Wings 1971-73 box might be?
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RE: Paul & Ringo against gun violence
SurSteven wrote:
For those who don't think that Trump, as someone who has constantly been in the public eye for several years, is not one of the primary reasons for the distinct escalation of violence on our planet, is sorely mistaken. They have obviously forgotten how he divided the entire human race into 2 well defined groups before he came into office. WINNERS and LOSERS. In the same month that he swore on The Bible, the following event occured. He and his devoted followers are as about as far removed from being TRUE AMERICANS as anyone can be. Americans have a Constitutional and GOD given Right and Obligation to stand up against his beliefs.
"A pair of bullies targeted a 10-year-old Iowa girl on a school bus — holding her on the floor and scrawling the word “loser” across her forehead, her family said.
Raeann Long remains “very hurt and very sad” more than a week after she was held down by a girl as another drew on her face — which included putting a mustache on her upper lip — during their ride home on the bus from Titan Hill Intermediate School in Council Bluffs on Jan. 31, said her grandmother Debra Dabney."
https://nypost.com/2017/02/08/bullies-wrote-loser-on-10-year-old-girls-forehead-family/
I should just let this go, but you keep offering political opinion on a forum where we are here in a common purpose of appreciating Paul's music, expecting everyone to agree with you, and then calling those not in agreement sorely mistaken. I'm not much a fan of Trump the person, but the escalation of violence has been building a long time, and now there are many on the left waiting for the next incident to somehow blame him. There has been a ton of divisiveness from the left in recent years, and violent acts perpetrated by people with those views (Dayton being a very recent example), yet that is never the fault of anyone but the murderer. I happen to think that there has been a general devaluing human life in society over several decades rooted in moral relativism, and now we have segments of people who have no moral compass at all.
You are free to believe what you do, as am I, but this particular forum is for chatting about Paul and his music. There are other forums here where political discussion is more appropriate, which is why I am asking that this kind of stuff goes there. Those of us who want to talk about Paul's music (there's something that unifies us) can choose to avoid those forums if we want to not see this kind of stuff.
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RE: Paul & Ringo against gun violence
SurSteven wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
SurSteven wrote:
Gilroy...El Paso...Dayton
The U.S. has a president who incites violence with one breath, and then denounces it with the next breath.
My cousin has been to The Garlic Festival in the past. Thank God she wasn't there this year. We have an administration in office now that inspires hatred and then wonders why we have more gun violence then ever.
Well said!
There were 14 mass shootings during Democrat Obama's 8 years in office and 18 now during Republican Trump's 2 1/2 years in office. I don't think that even a proverbial 5th grader could explain it to his supporters and followers. As long as we keep allowing a violent, self absorbed sex fiend to run our country, this is what we'll have.
Please take the politics elsewhere. It is pretty disgusting to see people trying to use horrific tragedies to score political points.
And those stats aren't even accurate. In just the city of Chicago in the year 2015, America's "mass shooting capital", there were 18 mass shootings in that year alone. And that was well before the current president was in office. This has been a growing problem for a long time, and I'm all for anyone who has a solution, regardless of party.
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RE: What Are Your Top 40 Solo Paul Songs?
Without a ton of thought, at the moment, here goes (in no order of ranking). I'm excluding covers; otherwise I'd include some from Run Devil Run, one of my favorite Paul albums.
Maybe I'm Amazed
Every Night
Too Many People
Back Seat Of My Car
Tomorrow
Band On The Run
Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five
Junior's Farm
Love In Song
Listen To What The Man Said
Beware My Love
Silly Love Songs
Mull Of Kintyre
Waterfalls
Summer's Day Song
Tug Of War
Here Today
Wanderlust
No More Lonely Nights
Footprints
This One
That Day Is Done
Golden Earth Girl
The Lovers That Never Were
Somedays
Calico Skies
Heaven On A Sunday
Magic
Heather
Rinse The Raindrops
Friends To Go
Too Much Rain
Only Mama Knows
House Of Wax
Traveling Light
Dance 'Till We're High
Alligator
New
Hand In Hand
Dominoes