First preview track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE_1V0phMW8
― timellison, Thursday, 29 August 2013 04:18 (ten years ago) link
more like old
― fuck your movie theater yacht (zachlyon), Thursday, 29 August 2013 04:28 (ten years ago) link
14th Oct? Do we have time?
Then again, we have no titles...
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 August 2013 08:10 (ten years ago) link
Then again, again, I found this:
The tracks (these are not in the order they will appear, numbered for reference):1. If We Leave Now ***THE FIRST SINGLE***2. As I Fly3. Hosanna4. Down the Road ***w/Nirvana/Grohl***5. Life of a Party Girl6. This Song Belongs (To You)7. Love Is History8. Nothing Under the Sun is a medley with9. Shine Down10. Quarters and Halves (a possible album title)11. Blue Skies12. Hope13. If I Take You Home Tonight14. Always Be There ***first single candidate***15. It's For YouRockers: If We Leave Now, As I Fly, Down the Road, Shine Down, Always Be ThereBallads/Love Songs: Hosanna, This Song Belongs,Hope, If I Take You Home Tonight, It's For YouPop: Love Is History, Blue SkiesHard to Categorize: Nothing Under the Sun (jazz fusion), Quarters and Halves (south american?/jazz), Life of a Party Girl (almost Dylan-like story-telling)
1. If We Leave Now ***THE FIRST SINGLE***2. As I Fly3. Hosanna4. Down the Road ***w/Nirvana/Grohl***5. Life of a Party Girl6. This Song Belongs (To You)7. Love Is History8. Nothing Under the Sun is a medley with9. Shine Down10. Quarters and Halves (a possible album title)11. Blue Skies12. Hope13. If I Take You Home Tonight14. Always Be There ***first single candidate***15. It's For You
Rockers: If We Leave Now, As I Fly, Down the Road, Shine Down, Always Be ThereBallads/Love Songs: Hosanna, This Song Belongs,Hope, If I Take You Home Tonight, It's For YouPop: Love Is History, Blue SkiesHard to Categorize: Nothing Under the Sun (jazz fusion), Quarters and Halves (south american?/jazz), Life of a Party Girl (almost Dylan-like story-telling)
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 August 2013 08:12 (ten years ago) link
hmm..
THAT'S A FAKE REVIEW!Now album has no title, only tracklist is known. It is:CD11. On the Road2. Quarters3. Keeping You4. Nothing Is Accidental5. Hosannah6. If You Say So7. Defence8. Long to Hold You9. Because I Know10. One Day (You'll See Me)11. It's Not Right12. Standing a Line13. Life of the Party Girl14. Can't Go WrongCD21. I Can't Wait Forever2. Sometimes3. I'm Coming4. It's So Hard5. Like Rain from the Sky6. By the Way7. Victory of Love8. Take You Home Tonight9. Around My Door10. Run Run Run11. Strange Feeling12. Your Song Belongs to You13. Now and Then
Now album has no title, only tracklist is known. It is:
CD11. On the Road2. Quarters3. Keeping You4. Nothing Is Accidental5. Hosannah6. If You Say So7. Defence8. Long to Hold You9. Because I Know10. One Day (You'll See Me)11. It's Not Right12. Standing a Line13. Life of the Party Girl14. Can't Go Wrong
CD21. I Can't Wait Forever2. Sometimes3. I'm Coming4. It's So Hard5. Like Rain from the Sky6. By the Way7. Victory of Love8. Take You Home Tonight9. Around My Door10. Run Run Run11. Strange Feeling12. Your Song Belongs to You13. Now and Then
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 August 2013 08:13 (ten years ago) link
Rolling Stone is calling it a 12 song LP. So unless some of those tracks are left overs/B-sides I'm gonna say fake.
― DavidLeeRoth, Thursday, 29 August 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
that track sounds pretty good tbh
sounds like his voice is giving out a bit. remarkable it lasted so long as it is. coda is super Beach Boys-y
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 29 August 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Four producers this time around: Mark Ronson, Ethan Johns, Paul Epworth & Giles Martin. Apparently the songs on the album were improvised rather than written.
― Dog Man Star took a suck on a pill... (Turrican), Thursday, 29 August 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
that song is terrible. kind of embarrassing that someone that old could still record stuff like this. people are dying out there, man! he sounds like someone's 80 year old grandmother.
― scott seward, Thursday, 29 August 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
improvised is right. pretty sure he could crank that stuff out on the portastudio while asleep on the toilet in about the time it takes to listen to it.
― scott seward, Thursday, 29 August 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
I hate this.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 29 August 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
I'd rather listen to the actual "Penny Lane" personally
― crüt, Thursday, 29 August 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
it's over there.
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 August 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
I wonder if Cd2 #10 is a Velvets....nah.
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 29 August 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
Some interviews from today:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...s_Breakfast_Show_Zoe_Ball_sits_in/?t=1h46m07shttp://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0393nk2/Shaun_Keaveny_Mary_Anne_Hobbs_sits_in/?t=1h40m15shttp://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0393nk2/Shaun_Keaveny_Mary_Anne_Hobbs_sits_in/?t=2h42m13s
Sounds like he's saying that the stuff he did with one of the producers (there are four) was improvisational.
― timellison, Thursday, 29 August 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
Good we certainly don't need a repeat of the last Fireman.
― DavidLeeRoth, Thursday, 29 August 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
pparently the songs on the album were improvised rather than written.
and this is different from his usual methods how?
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 August 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, August 29, 2013 6:52 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hehehehe... yes, I was thinking that myself!
― Dog Man Star took a suck on a pill... (Turrican), Thursday, 29 August 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
coda does seem to be Smiley Smile-ish, and he was on those "Vegetables" sessions, so maybe was a conscious decision? anyway, yeah, he sings like an old person now, because he is one. dunno, I'm a fan, will listen, not necessarily impressed w this tune
― Dominique, Thursday, 29 August 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, the very same, I'm not exactly blown away but I'll still give the album a few listens... there's bound to be a couple of songs on there that I like even if the album isn't that great.
― Dog Man Star took a suck on a pill... (Turrican), Thursday, 29 August 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
not expecting another chaos and creation (which I love) but if it's as good as memory almost full that's good enough for me.
― akm, Thursday, 29 August 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
It's a shame McCartney didn't want to try a second go around with Godrich after Chaos and Creation turned out so great. Rather than bringing in all these producers and making another middle of the road style record like Memory Almost Full maybe its time for a little home spun McCartney III charm.
― DavidLeeRoth, Friday, 30 August 2013 01:29 (ten years ago) link
Rolling Stone is calling it a 12 song LP.
rolling stone is gonna give this album 6 stars, yet this album is gonna suck so bad.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 30 August 2013 01:33 (ten years ago) link
I don't think he warmed to Godrich, G pushed him and had not sufficient respect for his beatleness...
(not none, just not enough)
― Mark G, Friday, 30 August 2013 08:32 (ten years ago) link
sounds like his voice is giving out a bit.
at the magical mystery tour screening at the BFI last year (and on the BBC documentary, for that matter) his voice was very gravelly and he kept clearing his throat. i've noticed he's been like that every time i've seen him speak since.
― Ottworks SKG (stevie), Friday, 30 August 2013 09:11 (ten years ago) link
I have no real definable reason why but I love Memory Almost Full - it's a great comfort food record.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 30 August 2013 09:30 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/3VHaXbz.png
^ it doesn't say 'new' it says 'mew'
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 30 August 2013 12:27 (ten years ago) link
Looks like 'III≡III' to me!
― Dog Man Star took a suck on a pill... (Turrican), Friday, 30 August 2013 12:32 (ten years ago) link
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― Mark G, Friday, 30 August 2013 13:09 (ten years ago) link
his voice is awful nowadays. so so bad. highlighted for me when i saw thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WlNZLwd2_s
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 30 August 2013 13:11 (ten years ago) link
The guy's been smoking weed like a chimney for the last 50 years, so yeah, his voice might be a bit gravelly at 71.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 30 August 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
I'd like to hear Bird and the Bee or someone cover a bunch of his better songs from the last 20 years ago. There's something really jarring about hearing that old man voice on these Penny Lane rewrites.
― Darin, Friday, 30 August 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum,
It's a good record, his best since 1989.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 August 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
Second preview track:
http://www.directcurrentmusic.com/music-news-new-music/listen-paul-mccartney-queenie-eye.html
― timellison, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
This too:
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2013/10/paul-mccartney-save-us/
― timellison, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 00:06 (ten years ago) link
^^Reminds me of Back to the Egg
― timellison, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 04:51 (ten years ago) link
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2013/10/paul_mccartney_34.html
Paul McCartney played short Times Square show in a truck, pulled up in yellow cabs (pics & setlist)
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/bv/paul-mccartney-times-square-2.jpg
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/bv/paul-mccartney-times-square-3.jpg
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Thursday, 10 October 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
leak
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 12 October 2013 01:04 (ten years ago) link
two songs in and it's really good so far. alligator has a strong late 70's wings vibe to it.
― akm, Saturday, 12 October 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
stunning return to form
― velko, Saturday, 12 October 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
j/k
three songs in, this is pretty decent
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
which song is his "Mixed Emotions"
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
i kind of feel like i would appreciate paul mccartney 100x more if he didn't dye his hair and instead just let the silver loose? i feel like it show his age so much more gracefully. tbh this affects my appreciation of his music too
― marcos, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
i also feel this way about most aging rockers. it's why j mascis and lee renaldo still seem so great imo
interesting, he's definitely embracing really crafted pop songwriting, wonder if he's been listening to HAIM?
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
It's sad he's chosen Teena Marie as a model. This is what the sixties have come to?
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
haha so what was that? people got mad about comparing Teena Marie to HAIM but then it turned out no one acutally knew who Teena Marie was?
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
first listen, it's good, similar quality as Memory Almost Full, though IMO the songwriting is a tad too "crafted" compared to the previous album. And it's definitely not as good as Chaos & Creation.
Listening to "Looking at Her" as microcosm of whole album, in that song is nice, if pretty standard mid-tempo McCartney fare, with oddly synthetic-sounding drums. They sound like they're from a whole other song, compared to the softer edges of McCartney's voice and guitar. There is absolutely no sonic/mixing reason these drums need to sound like this, but at a point, I think you (or I) start praising someone for trying off-the-wall shit instead of damning them for making a "bad" aesthetic choices. Obv it's all opinion, but I always debate what matters more to me when I listen to a new McCartney record.
― Dominique, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
and btw fuck you for making me drag the last song into Ableton so I could edit together an mp3 of the (good) piano ballad
― Dominique, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link
dominique: i agree completely with everything you said. what i find saddening is that he's (evidently) no longer able to deliver a completely clean take even for a recording—not tragic, not disheartening, but it guides me to wonder how he feels privately about that. it's his main instrument, and a crucial factor in most of what he creates. loads of artists deal with the same thing, but with mccartney it strikes me especially, and i can't say why.
in his public album launch gigs, and on his recent appearance on graham norton, he looks fabulously healthy, nimbly trotting across the stage and so on (apart from the ovaltine mane of hair, which i really don't think helps him not look 10 years older than he is). the fact that he just keeps going, and performing and creating, is so heavily inspiring to me on a personal level. this is a guy who loves what he does so much that he will probably never retire. just this week it occurred to me that he probably has all manner of health and personal issues, but he doesn't ever talk about them publicly; he just keeps going, with the forever happy, carefree, positive persona that even his detractors wouldn't be missing. (i also wonder how lennon's frequently negative/combative attitude would have framed his 70s if he'd gotten to them.)
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:31 (ten years ago) link
Most amazing thing, and for all I know mentioned above, is that Paul still sings everything in the original key. Pretty rare for a rocker his age.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 October 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Columnist/Columnists/2013/10/9/1381332227186/Stella-McCartney-show-Spr-010.jpg
he looks fabulously healthy
― mohel hell (Bob Six), Thursday, 24 October 2013 23:43 (ten years ago) link
he looks fabulously healthy wealthy
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 October 2013 23:51 (ten years ago) link
yes! and his falsetto is still pretty decent.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 25 October 2013 00:14 (ten years ago) link
There's a short "Making of 'Queenie Eye'" video. Filmed at Abbey Road and there's a shot of Peter Blake there at the shoot.
― timellison, Friday, 25 October 2013 04:00 (ten years ago) link
someone has to be a churlish bitter human being to hate on macca at this point, frankly.
― akm, Friday, 25 October 2013 04:39 (ten years ago) link
Ah, leave Heather Mills alone!
― Mark G, Friday, 25 October 2013 06:07 (ten years ago) link
I always feel sort of sorry for McCartney when I see him in magazines or on TV. It seems like there's something inherently undignified about being a 70 yr old Paul McCartney? I hope he's happy.
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Saturday, 26 October 2013 07:36 (ten years ago) link
I don't feel sorry for multi-millionaire mega-successful British music icon Paul McCartney at all!
― Dog Man Star took a suck on a pill... (Turrican), Saturday, 26 October 2013 07:57 (ten years ago) link
Do you think Paul McCartney is happy?
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Saturday, 26 October 2013 09:15 (ten years ago) link
http://visitbulgaria.info/files/Paul-McCartney5.jpg
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Saturday, 26 October 2013 09:16 (ten years ago) link
http://www.beatles-unlimited.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/paul-mccartney-wenn_0_0_0x0_400x600.jpg
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Saturday, 26 October 2013 09:19 (ten years ago) link
http://michaeljacksonebmeier.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/paul-mccartney.jpg?w=250&h=300
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Saturday, 26 October 2013 09:20 (ten years ago) link
I don't mean saying I feel sorry for him to come across as some sort of passive aggressive sneer at McCartney, I mean there's something inherently undignified about being a 28 yr old soref as well, and I often feel sort of sorry for myself, it's just that McCartney always comes across to me as a kind of wretched figure for some reason.
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Saturday, 26 October 2013 09:27 (ten years ago) link
Feeling sorry for Paul McCartney? No, can't say I've ever managed that.
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 October 2013 09:29 (ten years ago) link
lonely multi-millionaire mega-successful British music icon just thinking baout things
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Saturday, 26 October 2013 09:34 (ten years ago) link
If someone told that Paul McCartney frequently wakes up in the middle of the night sobbing uncontrollably, wouldn't that strike you as kind of plausible at least? I don't know, maybe no-one else feels this way about Paul McCartney.
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Saturday, 26 October 2013 09:35 (ten years ago) link
I do feel he's locked into a fixed personality that his PR people won't allow him to change. Basically, it centres around the power of nostalgia; so that everything is carefully chosen to appeal to push those triggers. The result is I tend to cringe when i see him on TV shows, and in that making of Queeny Eye video. He's only allowed to reel out a few well-rehearsed nostalgic anecdotes, and become this kind of fossilised caricature making ever so carefully calculated appearances. Every appearance comes across as a saccharine advertisement: slightly false, thin in content and disappointing.
I thought the Pete Doggett book on the Beatles had a really interesting view that the conventional wisdom is that Paul is the ultimate PR man in the music industry, but that actually he's incredibly awkward and talking about himself doesn't come naturally at all.
So I don't hate him at all, but I'd just like him to relax and 'come off it'.
― mohel hell (Bob Six), Saturday, 26 October 2013 10:25 (ten years ago) link
you don't think he's just a bit lacking in personality?
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 26 October 2013 11:17 (ten years ago) link
i.e. actually a reasonably dull person, rather than pretending to be a reasonably dull person
he writes fabulous music, but at a dinner party i reckon he'd just sit quietly and tell the occasional dad joke
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 26 October 2013 11:19 (ten years ago) link
I think I've said this before, but it would be nice in interviews if he cut loose a bit and talked more about his solo material and his solo career, rather than going over the same old Beatles territory which we've all heard a hundred thousand million times. It's not those solo years have been without event. I'd personally like to hear more about stuff like the tension with him and Hugh Padgham during the Press To Play sessions, which Mr. Padgham himself hasn't been shy about talking about over the years.
― Dog Man Star took a suck on a pill... (Turrican), Saturday, 26 October 2013 11:22 (ten years ago) link
*not like those solo years have been without event.
― Dog Man Star took a suck on a pill... (Turrican), Saturday, 26 October 2013 11:32 (ten years ago) link
yes! god yes enough about the beatles, tell us more about your FORTY THREE of creativity after that.
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 26 October 2013 12:03 (ten years ago) link
*years
"Hugh, how many hit songs have you written?"
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 26 October 2013 12:31 (ten years ago) link
A friend of a friend of mine named Paul used to go on vacation with the parents of a different friend of the same friend (follow?). Once they went down to some island in the Caribbean. Paul was hanging on the beach - he must have been high school aged, maybe younger - and none other than Paul McCartney saunters up from the resort bungalow next door and introduces himself. "Hello," said Paul McCartney. "I'm Paul."
"Nice to meet you," said Paul. "I'm Paul, too!"
Unfortunately, that's as much of the story as I know.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 October 2013 12:38 (ten years ago) link
Q - You were a fan of The Beatles. So, when Paul McCartney asked you to produce one of his albums, how do you get past the fact that standing in front of you or sitting across from you is one of the most celebrated singer / songwriters the world has ever known?A - Of course I was bowled over. I was in my late 20s, still relatively young, young to the game. I thought this was just amazing. When he or someone couriered to me a cassette to the studio when I was working with Phil Collins or whoever I was working with, I went home incredibly excited to listen to a cassette of those demos that he had done with Eric Stewart from 10cc and I can honestly tell you now that I was underwhelmed when I heard those songs. I thought, well, hang on, who am I to know, as a little 28 year old guy, that Paul McCartney has given me these songs that are not very impressive? It must be me not being able to sort of see these songs that are effectively them sitting around a campfire with a couple of acoustic guitars. If I'm completely honest then, the album we made called "Press To Play" wasn't a very good album. I kind of fell out with Eric Stewart during it. Paul McCartney became quite annoying as far as I'm concerned, if I'm being completely honest. After sort of a year of every day in the studio, he's not on the same pedestal as when you started. I really don't look back on the record that I made with him with much fondness at all to be quite honest. I don't think it was that great. I don't think he was in an era of writing good songs. I was amazed because Eric Stewart was a hero of mine from 10cc. I just thought it must be me. I can't see the wood for the trees, or whatever. But I look back at it now and realize I was completely right, really. But what are you going to do as a 28 year old when you've suddenly been asked to record an album with one of the greatest guys in Pop music ever? You're not gonna say no, are you?Q - As a producer, what can you do in a situation like that?A - I suppose I didn't have the confidence I do now. I just thought it must be me. Often when I made records in those days, sometimes it would happen with other bands that I was working with that were great. You just think if I work hard enough on it, it will work out alright in the end. In other words, a little bit like flying by the seat of your pants and sort of using production values, sound production values, engineering values, will sometimes save the day. McCartney's wasn't the first record I ever made where I was, to coin a not very good language, shitting myself. You're in the control room going "Oh, my God!" It's like when I first heard "Every Breath You Take" by The Police. Police manager Miles Copeland said to me, and we all knew it was a hit, "Hey Hugh, don't fuck this up!" I'm thinking "Oh, my God! How much pressure is that?" (laughs) How do I take a demo that obviously sounds like a hit into a song that is going to be a hit? Not a song, a record that is going to be a hit. I tell you, many times in my career have I had situations where you were given the most awful sounding demo made on a cassette, which in those days was the most completely dreadful quality but it had some vibe on it that you would try to re-create in the studio, often to no avail. I used to go to bed sometimes absolutely, as I said, shitting myself.
A - Of course I was bowled over. I was in my late 20s, still relatively young, young to the game. I thought this was just amazing. When he or someone couriered to me a cassette to the studio when I was working with Phil Collins or whoever I was working with, I went home incredibly excited to listen to a cassette of those demos that he had done with Eric Stewart from 10cc and I can honestly tell you now that I was underwhelmed when I heard those songs. I thought, well, hang on, who am I to know, as a little 28 year old guy, that Paul McCartney has given me these songs that are not very impressive? It must be me not being able to sort of see these songs that are effectively them sitting around a campfire with a couple of acoustic guitars. If I'm completely honest then, the album we made called "Press To Play" wasn't a very good album. I kind of fell out with Eric Stewart during it. Paul McCartney became quite annoying as far as I'm concerned, if I'm being completely honest. After sort of a year of every day in the studio, he's not on the same pedestal as when you started. I really don't look back on the record that I made with him with much fondness at all to be quite honest. I don't think it was that great. I don't think he was in an era of writing good songs. I was amazed because Eric Stewart was a hero of mine from 10cc. I just thought it must be me. I can't see the wood for the trees, or whatever. But I look back at it now and realize I was completely right, really. But what are you going to do as a 28 year old when you've suddenly been asked to record an album with one of the greatest guys in Pop music ever? You're not gonna say no, are you?
Q - As a producer, what can you do in a situation like that?
A - I suppose I didn't have the confidence I do now. I just thought it must be me. Often when I made records in those days, sometimes it would happen with other bands that I was working with that were great. You just think if I work hard enough on it, it will work out alright in the end. In other words, a little bit like flying by the seat of your pants and sort of using production values, sound production values, engineering values, will sometimes save the day. McCartney's wasn't the first record I ever made where I was, to coin a not very good language, shitting myself. You're in the control room going "Oh, my God!" It's like when I first heard "Every Breath You Take" by The Police. Police manager Miles Copeland said to me, and we all knew it was a hit, "Hey Hugh, don't fuck this up!" I'm thinking "Oh, my God! How much pressure is that?" (laughs) How do I take a demo that obviously sounds like a hit into a song that is going to be a hit? Not a song, a record that is going to be a hit. I tell you, many times in my career have I had situations where you were given the most awful sounding demo made on a cassette, which in those days was the most completely dreadful quality but it had some vibe on it that you would try to re-create in the studio, often to no avail. I used to go to bed sometimes absolutely, as I said, shitting myself.
Taken from this Hugh Padgham interview here
― Dog Man Star took a suck on a pill... (Turrican), Saturday, 26 October 2013 12:40 (ten years ago) link
I guess that the demand from people that he talk about the Beatles must be overwhelming, and that it would be unthinkable not to give into that demand because it would be so awkward? I'm imagining him appearing on a talkshow and the host keeps getting him to try and tell Beatles anecdotes, but he just keeps talking about the recording sessions for Back to the Egg or something. But yeah, you'd think there would be enough obsessives out there who would want to hear about his solo career that there would be more books and articles about it.
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Saturday, 26 October 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU8xqIotJug
This is interesting, I think.
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Saturday, 26 October 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
I'd fucking love to hear him talk about the sessions for Back To The Egg!
Lennon made it really easy for his solo career to be documented and pored-over, simply because he was more open to talking about his solo material when he was alive, and his solo songs were more obviously linked to what was going on in his life at the time. That, and because he died merely 10 years after the end of The Beatles (and he was dormant for the latter half of the '70s), historians have a really narrow period of time to focus on, whereas I'd imagine an in-depth book on McCartney's career would take an incredible amount of work. Especially since McCartney seems fucking reluctant to talk about it most of the time, instead focusing on The Beatles or his relationship with Lennon. Lennon seemed to be the opposite: he'd talk about The Beatles, but seemed more reluctant to do so, and far happier to talk about what he was doing at that time.
― Dog Man Star took a suck on a pill... (Turrican), Saturday, 26 October 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
McCartney doesn't much like his solo work, it seems. He regards it as day labor.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 26 October 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
It seems to me that finding an interview with him to be unsatisfying is one thing. Blaming him for how it goes is another. Claiming that it's all orchestrated by his PR team is yet another.
― timellison, Saturday, 26 October 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
And I know the book is about the Beatles, but for an example of how well interviews with McCartney could conceivably go, I would recommend Barry Miles' book.
― timellison, Saturday, 26 October 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
It's funny you should bring up the Barry Miles book. I have it (as I would), and enjoyed reading it, but it tallies in nicely with what I'm talking about here in the sense that while I was reading it for the first time I thought "christ, if only he could talk about his post-Beatles work like this".
I mean, we already know more than enough about McCartney's working/personal relationships with the other Beatles, but wouldn't it be great for him to shed more light on his working/personal relationships with the other members of Wings (that aren't Linda, of course). He's always been keen to set the record straight on various Beatle matters, but less keen to set the record straight on the numerous things ex-Wings members or producers (such as Hugh Padgham) have said about him over the years. What's he afraid of? Is he scared that people will think he actually can be a bit of a bastard from time to time?
I can't help but think of what Lennon said in an interview about McCartney being "a good PR person", because as much as I'm a fan of McCartney's, I think he does present himself in such a glossy way that you could be forgiven for thinking he hides a lot of who he is behind a well-crafted veneer. It'd be so refreshing if one day he came out with an anecdote about Wings or his solo career that made him sound like a right bastard and he said (for example) "yeah, I did ask Hugh Padgham when his last number one record was... god, I was such a cunt that day."
― Dog Man Star took a suck on a pill... (Turrican), Saturday, 26 October 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
I think what I'd be most interested in hearing him talk about is his career as an artist since the Beatles. The Miles book is great for that because it's like "this was the period when I was learning piano" or "this was the period when I used to see persons x and y at the restaurant" or "we got Richard Hamilton to do the white album poster and I used to go around and see him while he was working on it." That type of thing.
― timellison, Saturday, 26 October 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
And, you know, it took someone like Miles to bring that stuff out. That's good biographical work and not an easy thing to do.
― timellison, Saturday, 26 October 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
What it's like to be Paul McCartney:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOdCMt7EX7g&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLDMVPuy1cqckmV5l4EuccJaj7xHIgIeCwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVAs49YjWcs&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLDMVPuy1cqclbv1M_LuMbDq40aEuCSXVJ
― timellison, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 02:23 (ten years ago) link
It's funny you should bring up the Barry Miles book. I have it (as I would), and enjoyed reading it, but it tallies in nicely with what I'm talking about here in the sense that while I was reading it for the first time I thought "christ, if only he could talk about his post-Beatles work like this".I mean, we already know more than enough about McCartney's working/personal relationships with the other Beatles, but wouldn't it be great for him to shed more light on his working/personal relationships with the other members of Wings (that aren't Linda, of course). He's always been keen to set the record straight on various Beatle matters, but less keen to set the record straight on the numerous things ex-Wings members or producers (such as Hugh Padgham) have said about him over the years. What's he afraid of? Is he scared that people will think he actually can be a bit of a bastard from time to time? I can't help but think of what Lennon said in an interview about McCartney being "a good PR person", because as much as I'm a fan of McCartney's, I think he does present himself in such a glossy way that you could be forgiven for thinking he hides a lot of who he is behind a well-crafted veneer. It'd be so refreshing if one day he came out with an anecdote about Wings or his solo career that made him sound like a right bastard and he said (for example) "yeah, I did ask Hugh Padgham when his last number one record was... god, I was such a cunt that day."
His recent Mojo interview did this, quite a bit. Not so much about Hugh Padgham but certainly about Nigel Godrich..
I think he does do these types of interviews, it's just that they tend not to be made into books.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 11:22 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvBVIA_ZaNg&feature=youtu.be
― timellison, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 02:02 (nine years ago) link
New song "Hope" done for a video game. Quite beautiful, you can hear it on this show at the 02:01:53 mark:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04l3nln
― timellison, Thursday, 30 October 2014 04:23 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ1FM5X6m-8
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 06:21 (nine years ago) link
Dug this out for a listen last night and enjoyed it very much, I'm still unsure even now where I'd place it in terms of McCartney's solo discography, though. It did get me into spending some time on Youtube watching recent McCartney interviews, and age is definitely catching up with him... his speaking voice is getting very husky and he's beginning to sound like a very old man.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
He is an old man; I wish he would embrace that fact more.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
I think that he has been, actually, if some of the tracks on Memory Almost Full and New are anything to go by.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 15 January 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
I think "Alligator" is my favorite track on this.
― timellison, Saturday, 14 March 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
That one and "Road."
"Save Us" is a good one.
― DavidLeeRoth, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:34 (nine years ago) link
And I'd skipped the hidden track, "Scared," sometimes when listening before. That's very good.
― timellison, Sunday, 15 March 2015 03:21 (nine years ago) link