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.
Posts made by Iowa Hawkeye Beatlefan
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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
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RE: Moline, IL- TaxSlayer Center- 6/11/19- CONFIRMED
The link above is to the local Quad Cities newspaper review. Fantastic show, a couple minutes shy of 3 hours. Paul had never been here before, so I knew a lot of people seeing him for the first time (this was my 7th), and they were all thrilled by the experience from those I have heard from today. Clearly the voice isn't what it used to be, but it is a great show nonetheless. Magical night.
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RE: 2019 Soundcheck Setlists
A little bit off topic, but kind of related (wasn't sure where to post this), but since this group has attended soundchecks...
I am seeing Paul next week in Moline, IL (my 7th PM concert). I do not have special package tickets that get into the soundcheck. However, I will have a lot of time available that day, and figured I might try to be outside the arena as he arrives, just in the off chance I may catch a glimpse. If the show is scheduled for 8pm, does anyone know about what time he would typically arrive for soundcheck and all of the other pre-concert things? Thanks for any insight.
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RE: Linda McCartney 'Wide Prairie' to be re-released
Iowa Hawkeye Beatlefan wrote:
Has anyone seen anything that tells whether or not this is remastered? In the description, I am not seeing anything to that effect, which leads me to believe this is a straight reissue (well first time issue on vinyl). In other words, my 1998 CD would be the same as a new CD, other than packaging.
Basically for me it will come down to purchasing if it is remastered and passing otherwise. Like many of you, I've spent so much money re-buying stuff I already own (it's a disease being a Macca completist), I'm trying to draw some line in the sand. But happy for those who have not had a chance to own some of these things that have been out of print.
To answer my own question:
Wide Prairie, a posthumous 1998 compilation of Linda McCartney recordings spanning the early 1970s through the late 1990s, will be re-released 2nd August via MPL / Capitol / UMe having been remastered at Abbey Road Studios under Paul's supervision.
The other question I have is whether or not it is being issued on CD. The description mentions the vinyl editions and digital and streaming, but doesn't specify a CD. None on the pre-order sites I have seen show a CD option.
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RE: Linda McCartney 'Wide Prairie' to be re-released
Has anyone seen anything that tells whether or not this is remastered? In the description, I am not seeing anything to that effect, which leads me to believe this is a straight reissue (well first time issue on vinyl). In other words, my 1998 CD would be the same as a new CD, other than packaging.
Basically for me it will come down to purchasing if it is remastered and passing otherwise. Like many of you, I've spent so much money re-buying stuff I already own (it's a disease being a Macca completist), I'm trying to draw some line in the sand. But happy for those who have not had a chance to own some of these things that have been out of print.
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RE: Ringo's Concerts Question
I'd also disagree with those negatives here. The two hours is accurate. I finally saw him last fall for the first time, thinking it would be okay but not great, and I had a blast and would go in an instant if I get a chance. The band was fantastic. Hearing Gregg Rolie singing Black Magic Woman with Steve Lukather showing off his brilliant lead guitar skills in a bit of an extended jam was amazing. There was a ton more to the concert than "gawking at Ringo". Ringo was great, and the band was outstanding.
I talked to a friend a few days later who did the same thing in a different city the next tour stop, finally seeing him after so long, and he had exactly the same reaction I did.
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RE: Members face-value ticket offers and requests
I am looking for 2-4 tickets to the Moline/Quad Cities show. I will be there for my 7th Paul show, but have some family members who would like to go and have never seen Paul. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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RE: Decades-Spanning "Live" Album Milestone Reissues
cheerdown wrote:
Although I would love to listen to remastered CHOBA and the AMOEBA sounds vaguely interesting to me, and the "Paul is Live" does have one of the nicest live versions of "Here There Everywhere," I don't understand how Wings Over America is also being re-released, not because it isn't good-it's arguably the bes tof the bunch, but I would have preferred a remastering of Tripping or even Unplugged: A nice box set of CHOBA, Unplugged and Tripping would have been nice, as these albums I believe were tied closely together.
But, i'm not going to complain, and will most likely forgo vinyl variations and fget the CD's
PS: if Wings over America somehow manages to get another remastered treatment ( I did not care for the last remaster) then I will pick that up too.
I'm guessing Wings Over America is included because it hasn't been reissued since Paul returned to Capitol, so this just puts it back into print. Since it just was remastered about five years ago, it was probably deemed not necessary to do again, which gives us the straight reissue. Capitol did this I think last year with all of the archived albums to date, I think except for Tug Of War and Pipes Of Peace. They also did straight reissues of Thrillington, Chaos, and New, and a reissue of Wings Greatest, which gave us the first remastered version of the full-length With A Little Luck and the single edit (without the cross-fade) of Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey.
I suspect that this release means that we won't be getting the deluxe treatments of CHOBA and Paul Is Live, at least not anytime soon. I sort of get why they are issuing the 11 track CHOBA, but now they are essentially creating three orphan tracks from the 14 track international release. At any rate, I have pre-ordered CHOBA and Paul Is Live on CD, since I am a CD guy. But I have pre-ordered Amoeba's gig in both CD and vinyl, since the vinyl has the extra track. I am a sick person in my attempt to collect everything (as probably many of us are).
I had also kind of hoped that we'd get Paul Is Live is some sort of deluxe set with either Off The Ground or Tripping. It's just hard to figure out what the strategy is. But for me, I'd honestly like them just to go back and go through chronologically to fill in the gaps - hoping for the 1977-1979 set next.
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RE: 'Egypt Station - Traveller’s Edition' New Box Set
Nancy R wrote:
Iowa Hawkeye Beatlefan wrote:
My suitcase just arrived, and it is damaged. One of the buckles is broken off the suitcase.
I was already having much buyer's remorse as it was for spending so much on so little new product (ordered before any annoucement of the Explorer's Edition). Now I spent $400 for a damaged collector's item.
Write to customer service and see what they say!
I did soon after I posted, and it looks like they are going to make it right, either through a refund or a replacement. So I feel better there, both in the end result and the promptness in which they replied.