― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 21:45 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 21:47 (twenty years ago) link
uhm
8 temporary secretary
don't think I can make 10.
― (Jon L), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 22:08 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link
1. waterfalls2. maybe I'm amazed3. junk4. teddy boy5. dear friend6. wanderlust7. my brave face8. let me roll it9. coming up10. jet
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 22:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link
― (Jon L), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 22:23 (twenty years ago) link
― (Jon L), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 22:41 (twenty years ago) link
Sorry, I had to.
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 23:33 (twenty years ago) link
― reo fordecor, Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:05 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:18 (twenty years ago) link
― mms (mms), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick H, Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:18 (twenty years ago) link
hmm ...Let em In ?Coming Up?Bluebird
..Can't do it .. Sorry.
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:42 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:49 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:21 (twenty years ago) link
― David Merryweather (DavidM), Thursday, 9 October 2003 17:40 (twenty years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 9 October 2003 17:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Joi Raida, Friday, 10 October 2003 02:51 (twenty years ago) link
9 live and let die (alternate: pipes of peace at halfspeed)10 wings - hey jude (linda's tamborine & vocal mic mix)
listening to 'temporary secretary' ten times in a row -- I had to stop halfway through the first time. it's just not possible even for money.
― (Jon L), Friday, 10 October 2003 04:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Paul R (paul R), Friday, 10 October 2003 05:41 (twenty years ago) link
It also reminds me a hell of a lot of The Coral.
Right now, I think Ram is better than Abbey Road.
― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:24 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Friday, 10 October 2003 10:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick H, Friday, 10 October 2003 11:13 (twenty years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Friday, 10 October 2003 11:19 (twenty years ago) link
Melodic ballads is clearly what he is and remains best at.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 10 October 2003 23:00 (twenty years ago) link
― mike a (mike a), Saturday, 11 October 2003 23:55 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Sunday, 12 October 2003 01:22 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Monday, 13 October 2003 09:15 (twenty years ago) link
McCartney is best at melodic ballads.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 13 October 2003 21:02 (twenty years ago) link
― darin, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
"Arrow Through Me" is rapidly becoming my favorite Macca moment.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Big Barn Bed Dear Boy Teddy Boy She's My Baby Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five Arrow Through Me The Back Seat of My Car Maybe I'm Amazed Here Today Long Haired Lady
― darin, Sunday, 8 July 2007 07:55 (seventeen years ago) link
I assume everybody really loved "Freedom" until it got played during the Super Bowl and got super popular, right?
― Cunga, Sunday, 8 July 2007 08:18 (seventeen years ago) link
chronologically:
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey Hi Hi Hi Jet 1985 Helen Wheels Junior's Farm Goodnight Tonight Daytime Nighttime Suffering Wonderful Xmastime Coming Up
I know, the guy's a 'genius', and I treasured my "Hi Hi Hi" and "UA/AH" 45s as a 5-year old. (Still do.) So I really WISH I could enjoy his post-Beatles albums, but except for 2/3 of "Band On The Run", his albums just don't make it.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Sunday, 8 July 2007 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link
It seems you need to learn to enjoy his fantastic ballads and midtempo pop songs. They represent him at his best a lot more than the rockers.
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 8 July 2007 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link
"Darkroom" * "Mrs Vanderbilt" ** "Listen to What the Man Said" "Stranglehold" *** "Wanderlust" "My Brave Face" "No More Lonely Nights" "Letting Go" "Every Night" "Pretty Little Head"
* For whatever reason. The melody pops up in my head from time to time. ** Yes, it's corny, but I loved it when I was 12. *** Press to Play is such an underrated album!
― Johan Lif, Sunday, 8 July 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link
This is enormously difficult...
Indeed. I can't really think of any beyond "Maybe I'm Amazed"...
― rogermexico., Sunday, 8 July 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
OK thanks Geir, I'll keep it in mind! xpost
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Sunday, 8 July 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Rockers:
"Maybe I'm Amazed" "Too Many People" "Get On the Right Thing" "Jet" "Band on the Run" "Nineteen-Hundred and Eighty-Five" "Letting Go" "Getting Closer" "Old Siam, Sir" "Stranglehold"
All highlights in his solo career, Geir.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 8 July 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Those sound like everyone else. They might as well have been written by Cliff Richard in the 50s. It is his pop style that has that uniquely English/European style that was so great about McCartney, and about The Beatles in general.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 9 July 2007 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, don't contradict Geir! He's NEVER wrong.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 9 July 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
"Old Siam, Sir" and "Jet" could have been written in the 50s?!?!?! Man, Europe must be a crazy place!
― Davey D, Monday, 9 July 2007 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link
It is his pop style that has that uniquely English/European style that was so great about McCartney, and about The Beatles in general.
As much as I love Macca's remarkable pop sensibilities, they were but one of the things that was great about him and The Beatles. Besides, the only thing on that list that could've been by Cliff Richard was "Get On the Right Thing." In fact, "Letting Go" sounds so much of its time, it wouldn't sound out of place on a comp w/ BadCo...but it doesn't sound remotely LIKE BadCo. And I defy anyone to argue "Too Many People" sounds generic in any way.
Honestly, sometimes I wonder if Geir's celebrity on ILM has gone to his head -- b/c these arguments seem to be getting increasingly facile and tossed off.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I've heard plenty of McCartney and I'm sure there are better candidates...and yet, if I took the time to make a list I'd go with my gut and find a spot for "Silly Love Songs." What's wrong with that???
― Cunga, Monday, 9 July 2007 07:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Hmm I meant Little Richard not Cliff Richard. Paul McCartney's rockers, to me, sound like Little Richard. And that is not a positive thing!
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 9 July 2007 07:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Ok. I'll try...
Right now it's:
"Magneto and Titanium Man" "Monkberry Moon Delight" "Mama's Little Girl" "Hold Me Tight/Lazy Dynamite/Hands of Love/Power Cut" "Some People Never Know" "Arrow Through Me" (discovered through ILM!) "Listen to What the Man Said" "Little Lamb Dragonfly" "Hi,Hi,Hi" "Man We Was Lonely"
I've also been digging some of his more recent stuff, his last twenty years or so, but his 70's stuff just sounds cooler. He sounds more into it.
I've still never heard much from "McCartney II" through "Press to Play."
― ColinO, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 03:31 (seventeen years ago) link
And I've never heard "Back to the Egg" either but if it's anything like "London Town" I don't think I want to. Definitely the worst of his 70's output- too much Denny Laine folky stuff. Even "Wild Life" is better.
― ColinO, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 03:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Back To the Egg has very little in common with London Town. Seek it and McCartney II out post-haste!
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Even "Wild Life" is better.
Bit of an emotional overstatement there, mh? Not sure myself whether there actually is *any* Maccasir album that's worse than Wild Life :(
― t**t, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
I like London much, much more than Egg. The latter has too many faceless rockers on it, although "Old Siam, Sir" and "Arrow Through Me" are both better than anything on the former.
― Davey D, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link
The title track of London Town is a really nice composition. And the album's got "Cafe on the Left Bank" (which sounds like Duran Duran!) and "Morse Moose" - but yeah, Back to the Egg is a better sounding record and side one of that album is a really good side.
I like Wild Life a lot. The "throwaway" tracks are no more ridiculous or whatever than the ones on McCartney and I think I'd actually take "Some People Never Know," "Tomorrow," and "Dear Friend" over "Junk," "Every Night," and "Maybe I'm Amazed." (OK, that's actually a close call, but I just like the sequencing of Wild Life as an album a lot.)
― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Over "MAYBE I'M AMAZED"?!? Um, I like WWL just fine, but please.
"Every Night" is awesome, btw -- Matthew Sweet does a great cover on the tribute...
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link
"I Am Your Singer" is a rad song.
― Davey D, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm beginning to think that Wild Life is way underrated as a result of the context in which it was presented. Wasn't it released around the same time as Plastic Ono Ban and All Things Must Pass?
― darin, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
can someone do a poll cause this is really hard work?!
― pisces, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link
will anyone defend Pipes of Peace? Worth it only for "So Bad," which remains one of the Great Lost Macca Singles.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link
I am afraid that I cannot defent Pipes, although I really love "Say Say Say."
Xpost re: poll, I already did one.
― Davey D, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 07:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Pipes, methinks, is nearly fine after all - esp. compared to really dull shit like Press To Play, which I bought recently and was GRANDLY dissappointed with.
― t**t, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link
how on earth can "Press" and "Good Times Comin'" disappoint??
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
O oh-key, Alfredo-san, just for you, just tonite, just now I'mma a-putting that damn thing on again! :)
― t**t, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
"However Absurd," fellas.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link
"However" - not! :( "Good Times" - mm, good, like, yeh; wouldn't be out of place on Queen's Hot Space. "Press" - nah, this's exactly the kind of '80s sound' that broes me to total numbness. "Pretty Little Head", however (no matter how generically P-Gabrielesque it appears), me likes also -- a little. "Write Away" - a decent George-Michael-song. "Stranglehold" - wouldn't be out of place on Queen's The Game.
(Haha, no -- this doesn't mean I'll be buying me Wild Life next!:)
― t**t, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Wild Life >>> Press to Play
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link
WORD
― Davey D, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Um, a coupla more dozens of posts like that and - who kno's?!
― t**t, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link
In the case of "Pipes...", the title track and "The Man" are great while "Keep Under Cover" is OK. The rest - apart from the production, which I love - is mostly rather mediocre. Not among his best albums.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
"Keep Under Cover" is about the only thing that's compositionally interesting on that album. The production on the title track is really something else, though.
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
OMFG Where is the love for "Girls' School"?
― Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
"Press" - nah, this's exactly the kind of '80s sound' that broes me to total numbness.
This is the kind of eighties sound that drives me to ecstacy. Twenty-four tracks madness! Linda's psychotic harmonies! Paul's guitar fills!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link
And Carlos Alomar's, people!
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 12 July 2007 02:20 (seventeen years ago) link
CANNOT RECALL THE RADNESS OF THESE GUITAR PARTS
― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 12 July 2007 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link
I cannot imagine a world in which "Press" does not exist.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 12 July 2007 02:39 (seventeen years ago) link
"Press" and "Only Love Remains" were great. The rest of that album was not.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 12 July 2007 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link
... "Press" ... This is the kind of eighties sound that drives me to ecstacy. -- Alfred, Lord
Good Lord, we *are* two different people eh!:)
On the Wild Life front, however, didn't find it today in any of my hometown's shops. So got me 3 other Maccasir's instead, he.
― t**t, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link
junkcoming upone of these daystoo many peoplefront parlourband on the rundarkroomfrozen japtemporary secretarythe lovely linda
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 05:26 (seven years ago) link
The End of the EndEnglish TeaScaredYou Tell MeSingle PigeonYou Gave Me the AnswerMagneto and Titanium ManDear BoyUncle Albert/Admiral HalseyBand on the Run
― timellison, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 06:39 (seven years ago) link
lol @ flappy bird's McCartney range only extending to McCartney, McCartney II, Ram and Band On The Run ... all Pitchfork-approved favourites, I'm sure.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 18:18 (seven years ago) link
This is an impossible question for me, fwiw.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link
oooooooooOOOOHHHH!!
no.
a few years ago I was driving with a friend to a Panda Bear show (the man from the Animal Collective). he put on "Darkroom." He asked us all in the car "who do you think this is?" We had no idea. It was wild. Listened to the whole record after that. Was blown away.
I don't like Ram at all. but Too Many People is good.
now JUNK? you wanna talk junk. you ever heard the Esher acoustic demos? when paul, george, and john got together at george's house in May 1968 and laid down all the songs they wrote in India. beautiful collection of double-tracked acoustics and vocals, messy and stoned and gorgeous. the demo of Junk on there has stuck with me ever since.
i ran out of songs so I put band on the run.
boom!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 18:22 (seven years ago) link
honestly i should've just written Junk ten times
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 18:23 (seven years ago) link
I'll post 10 I wanna hear right now:
1. Figure of Eight2. Only Love Remains3. No More Lonely Nights4. Take It Away5. This One6. Old Siam Sir7. The Note You Never Wrote8. Magneto and Titanium Man9. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five10. Maybe I'm Amazed
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 18:23 (seven years ago) link