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Best Paul McCartney Album

post #1 of 29
8/28/07 at 12:23pm
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Venus & Mars
Listening to it right now and you can't tell me it's not his best solo work. "Letting Go" puts sex in my pants.
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post #2 of 29
8/28/07 at 12:32pm
I'm saying Ram, because those songs wrap themselves around your spine and never let go.

I tell you what, though, Driving Rain is probably my second favourite. It took me a year to like it, but I love it now. Well, I love five of the songs, but those five are so great that I'm happy to ignore the shite that fills out the rest of the album. I'd enthusiastically place From A Lover To A Friend and I Do amongst his very best songs from any period of his career. Sincerely.
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post #3 of 29
8/28/07 at 12:41pm
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But does he don a green metal suit and prepare to blow up the city in Ram?

I didn't think so.
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post #4 of 29
8/28/07 at 12:46pm
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Originally Posted by BobClark
But does he don a green metal suit and prepare to blow up the city in Ram?

I didn't think so.
I knew there was a reason that I liked that album.
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post #5 of 29
8/28/07 at 12:58pm
all things considered, I'd have to say Wings: The Greatest Hits.

Mull of Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre
Far have I travelled and much have I seen
Dark distant mountains with valleys of green
Past painted desert the sunset's on fire
As he carries me home to the Mull of Kintyre
Mull of Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre
Sweep through the heather like deer in the glen
Carry me back to the days I knew then
Nights when we sang like a heavenly choir
Of the life and the times of the Mull of Kintyre
Mull of Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre
Smiles in the sunshine and tears in the rain
Still take me back where my mem'ries remain
Figuring ambers grow higher and high'r
As they carry me back to the Mull of Kintyre
Mull of Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre
Mull of Kintyre
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post #6 of 29
8/28/07 at 1:06pm
Abbey Road.
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post #7 of 29
8/28/07 at 1:12pm
Thriller.
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post #8 of 29
8/28/07 at 1:16pm
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Originally Posted by Mad Dog Tannen
Thriller.
Someone should stomp on your genitalia for that. Not the good Sadomasochist style stomp, but the one where your junk explodes like someone dropping a fleshy cup of a Jell-o fruit cup from the top of a skyscraper.
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post #9 of 29
8/28/07 at 1:31pm
You're joking, right?
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post #10 of 29
8/28/07 at 1:38pm
I'm seconding "Ram" because "Too Many People" and "Uncle Albert-Admiral Halsey" are the closest PMc ever came to transcending the "Paul Sound" with complex, Abbey Road-style production.

Also, just to jump the gun here, anyone who brings up the merits of "Flaming Pie" based on songs being featured on the 'Father's Day' soundtrack is getting expelled from music.
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post #11 of 29
8/28/07 at 1:52pm
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Originally Posted by KinoEye
You're joking, right?
I never joke about Thriller.
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post #12 of 29
8/28/07 at 2:57pm
His new record is apparently a masterpiece. Anyone able to weigh in on it?
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post #13 of 29
8/28/07 at 3:23pm
Band on the Run
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post #14 of 29
8/28/07 at 3:33pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Kent
His new record is apparently a masterpiece. Anyone able to weigh in on it?
I wouldn't go so far as to call it a masterpiece, but I prefer it a great deal over Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.
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post #15 of 29
8/28/07 at 3:45pm
I prefer Ace of Base.
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post #16 of 29
8/28/07 at 3:57pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Kent
His new record is apparently a masterpiece. Anyone able to weigh in on it?
I've heard a lot of it and it does sound like his best stuff in years.
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post #17 of 29
8/28/07 at 3:57pm
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But it's no Venus And Mars.
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post #18 of 29
8/28/07 at 4:31pm
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Originally Posted by BobClark
I've heard a lot of it and it does sound like his best stuff in years.
I've had to VETO this purchase based solely on the dorkiness of that pouty-lipped, oops you caught me tightening my tie, image I saw in Starbucks. (I don't know if it's the cover art or not.) Sir Paul's always been dorky, but this dorkness creeps into an unexceptable pretense.

Mull of Kintyre blows chunks. Worst Wings song ever.

I'm dying to hear VENUS AND MARS again, it actually came up in another McCartney discussion I was in, but alas, I only have it on LP and haven't yet transferred it to a digital format.
My memory serves, however, that it, like ALL McCartney records, has brilliance inter-sprinkled with turd. I cannot at this time proclaim it his best.

Until further review, which I plan, I have to go with RAM.
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post #19 of 29
8/28/07 at 4:34pm
I'm on the Ram bandwagon. It's always been my favorite. Band on the Run, Wings at the Speed of Sound, and his solo debut are close behind.
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post #20 of 29
8/28/07 at 8:56pm
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Originally Posted by Wadeisdead
I'm seconding "Ram" because "Too Many People" and "Uncle Albert-Admiral Halsey" are the closest PMc ever came to transcending the "Paul Sound" with complex, Abbey Road-style production
Don't forget "The Back Seat Of My Car", which the best thing ever, especially that OOOOOWHOHOHOHOHHOWWWOOOOOWWOWWWW at the finale.

However, "Listen To What The Man Said" from Venus and Mars is one of my finest solo achievements. It has a nice galloping beat which makes it a really good song to ride a horse to.

THE WONDER OF IT ALL BABY
THE WONDER OF IT ALL BABY
THE WONDER OF IT ALL BABYEAHYEAHYEAH

Despite this, I have to give it to Ram or McCartney.
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post #21 of 29
8/28/07 at 8:59pm
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Originally Posted by Paul McCartney
Don't forget "The Back Seat Of My Car", which the best thing ever, especially that OOOOOWHOHOHOHOHHOWWWOOOOOWWOWWWW at the finale.
Sorry, I was just listening to it, and he actually says OOOOOWMAMAMAMAAHAAOWWWOOOOOWWOWWWW. I'm sorry if I mislead anyone!
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post #22 of 29
8/28/07 at 10:23pm
No love for McCartney II, huh?
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post #23 of 29
8/28/07 at 10:26pm
And while we're correcting lyrics...

It's "I'm preparing to SHOOT up the city," Bob.

Venus and Mars isn't even my favorite Wings album. That honor goes to the final, Back to the Egg (1979). "Old Siam Sir" is the song to crank up and go gloriously deaf to, and "Arrow Through Me" is so cool it just had to be the theme to OH HEAVENLY DOG.

Favorite McCartney album? I'm probably with CHUD's McCartney here in choosing McCartney. I also like the imitation techno Kraftwerk cheese of McCartney II, and Run Devil Run consists almost entirely of covers but it's a rollicking foot-stomper nonetheless.

My favorite Paul and Linda McCartney album is, of course, Ram.
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post #24 of 29
8/29/07 at 10:33am
Gotta give big love to the MECO Galactic Funk break-down at the end of GOODNIGHT TONIGHT!
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post #25 of 29
8/30/07 at 6:40am
McCartney is a wonderful listen, "Temporary Secretary" off of McCartney II just makes my mind boggle as it sounds so cheesy yet cool in a way. Venus and Mars i've never heard but from the feedback i'll be on the lookout for it.
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post #26 of 29
8/30/07 at 10:43am
Ok. I listened to the entire bombasity of 70's rock that is VENUS AND MARS and I have to say, it was quite awesome. I'd forgotten about that rad coda on VENUS AN MARS/ROCKSHOW, as I had been listening to the single edit from Wing Span. (Not to mention the spaceship name-checking "reprise"!)

I really wish the new McCartney 3 DVD set had the entirety of the ROCKSHOW show and not just a portion. I still think I'll have to pick it up.

Next time he tours, he should play smaller venues and do multiple night stands, each night playing one or two of his lps in there entirety... enough already with the the LIVE AND LET DIE laser light show and the token Beatles rarity.
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post #27 of 29
9/6/07 at 2:33pm
Just gave a listen to FLOWERS IN THE DIRT. Eh, doesn't hold up so well. Not as good as it was in 89 when it was hyped as the best thing McCartney had done since McCartney II.

BTW - Is McCARTNEY II McCartney's TATTOO YOU when it comes to which benchmark to compare the latest record to?
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post #28 of 29
9/13/07 at 4:38pm
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Originally Posted by NightShadow
[B]"Temporary Secretary" off of McCartney II just makes my mind boggle as it sounds so cheesy yet cool in a way.
Gotta love the lyrics:

She can be a belly dancer
I don't need a true romancer
She can be a diplomat
But I don't need a girl like that
She can be a neurosurgeon
If she's doin' nuthin' urgent
What I need's a temporary, temporary secretary!
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post #29 of 29
9/13/07 at 4:55pm
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Originally Posted by P-3
Next time he tours, he should play smaller venues and do multiple night stands, each night playing one or two of his lps in there entirety... enough already with the the LIVE AND LET DIE laser light show and the token Beatles rarity.
Every McCartney concert is someone's first and only. Nobody wants to be the n00b who, when all the cool kids are talking about how awesome the Live And Let Die lasershow was, only has, "Man, his Mamunia lasershow was pretty sweet too!" to counter with.
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