one of my favorite things marcello's ever written is the mccartney ii post http://nobilliards.blogspot.com/2013/01/paul-mccartney-mccartney-ii.html
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
there's very little going on in pipes of peace after the first two tracks
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 00:26 (six years ago) link
It's dead.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
there are some cool things happening with the arrangements but the songs are just not even written
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link
damn, the credits for press to play
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 00:43 (six years ago) link
wtf is this record
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 00:49 (six years ago) link
idk exactly why paul hired hugh padgham but "talk more talk" feels like it's been invaded by a bunch of lost ideas from the third peter gabriel record
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 00:54 (six years ago) link
or like mccartney trying to write a song from the big chair
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
Songs I like: Stranglehold, Good Times Coming/Feel the Sun (more the latter), However Absurd, PREEESSSSS
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2018 00:57 (six years ago) link
paul mccartney is such a fuckin weirdo
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 00:58 (six years ago) link
Brad, stop making me change from Sun-El to Paul.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2018 01:02 (six years ago) link
who is this record for? i don't understand why it was made. (i'm into it)
"press" is everything you built it up to be alfred. i'm not sure how to describe it. it has reminded me several times of both new order and heart in motion
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
your first time?!? *envious*
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
"press" is gonna win this poll
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 01:06 (six years ago) link
"pretty little head" is over and i feel like my gabriel comparison isn't so exaggerated. also this album doesn't make any SENSE. like what happened at the end of "pretty little head"? i don't know.
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link
There are so many ballads on the recent albums that are better than "Here Today." He is a better writer now than he was then.
― timellison, Friday, 25 May 2018 01:14 (six years ago) link
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson),
Not that I care about intentions, but Hugh Padgham has said Paul had no clue what he wanted, only that he had to make an album. Same experience with Bowie the year before.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
lol i nearly called pipes of peace paul's tonight
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 01:21 (six years ago) link
HILLMENHILLMEN
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 25 May 2018 02:47 (six years ago) link
Paul McCartney - Penny LaneJohn Lennon - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
― flopson, Friday, 25 May 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link
George Harrison - Sheik of Araby
― timellison, Friday, 25 May 2018 02:58 (six years ago) link
All Those Years Ago >>>>>>>>>>>>> Here Today
― Darin, Friday, 25 May 2018 06:25 (six years ago) link
I can't find the post now, but I think on another thread someone suggested that Press To Play = McCartney II, but with all the weird little songs produced in the style of mid 80s blockbuster pop smashes rather than lo-fi demos, which seems accurate?
it's a little sad that he never really did anything as odd and freewheeling as this again, at least under his own name. Starting with Flowers In The Dirt he kind of slips into a kind of careful, respectable elder statesman zone (I like Flowers In The Dirt in though) (and I guess you could argue that the careful, respectable elder statesman stuff starts with Tug Of War and him working with George Martin and self-consciously trying to sound like 'classic' Paul McCartney?)
― soref, Friday, 25 May 2018 08:36 (six years ago) link
Write Away should have been on Press To Play instead of just being a b-side, I think this is maybe the most Jazz FM he ever went?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsRdM8iBHh0
― soref, Friday, 25 May 2018 08:39 (six years ago) link
"Spies Like Us" sucks, doesn't it?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2018 10:45 (six years ago) link
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2018 10:46 (six years ago) link
The second Fireman album - Rushes - is good. Used to listen to it a lot on shrooms in the early 2000s, though always needed to skip an unbearably jarring third track.The third Fireman album - though widely lauded at the time - is sadly dire, as I recall Lex pointed out in a review at the time.
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 25 May 2018 12:04 (six years ago) link
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 25, 2018 3:45 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's p bad afaict
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 12:36 (six years ago) link
"write away" is good though!
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 12:45 (six years ago) link
whoever this was is otm
it's not a perfect record by any means but i'm thrilled that it exists
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 12:46 (six years ago) link
like a dating profile that's clearly a thinly-veiled screed against the last person dated. "looking for someone real authentic, NOT FANCY, who'll just stick with one note per chord and really thud it out ad nauseum! rock and roll, not some MUSIC HALL BULLSHIT FOR GRANNY OR JAZZ!!! must be chill cause i am too :)"
― niels, Friday, 25 May 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
glad you guys like Press
doesn't really do anything for me
― niels, Friday, 25 May 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link
"Dark Horse" (title track) is really one that I can almost hear done by the Beatles. Would have been awesome! (With Harrison in good voice, of course.)
― timellison, Friday, 25 May 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link
"why not" is one of the coolest pieces of music i've heard all year
― marcos, Friday, 25 May 2018 14:23 (six years ago) link
heh, i just got through listening to Dark Horse the album, and can't remember any of the songs, even ones i liked yesterday. i like the sound and the playing all the way through (tho yes the vocals were very hoarse in several places) - peppy, varied, some nice little accents. but not a lot of super strong tunes coming into focus. went back and listened to title track tho and yeah that's not bad, though severely overlong and criminally hobbled by the vocal take. real shame to squander an album's worth of someone's oeuvre by not letting them record it at full strength. but it's got an idea and that main strummy hook and the flute wandering in are nice.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 25 May 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
"once upon a long ago" is... really good?
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
I always like when Paul plays lead guitar, and I think he does on "...Long Ago."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
“wanderlust” is incredibly lovely as well. this record seems stranded between at least three identities but the introverted orchestral pop part is great― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 May 2018 23:44 (yesterday) Permalink
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 May 2018 23:44 (yesterday) Permalink
'Wanderlust' is one of my favourites - a beautiful song, but also quite funny when you find out it was actually written about a real incident that happened during the recording of London Town. They were recording on a boat (not called Wanderlust, although that was the name of one of the other boats) and were sufficiently far enough away from land where McCartney could smoke his spliffs without any trouble. Unfortunately, the captain was anti-drugs and threatened to bring the boat in to get Paul busted.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 25 May 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
i identify with paul’s dedication to weed
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
McCartney wanted to work with Padgham simply because he was a hot name at the time with Genesis and Phil Collins, and The Police before that. He fell out with both Padgham and Eric Stewart during that record. 'Only Love Remains' and 'Press' are my favourite tracks during this period. 'Once Upon a Long Ago', from roughly around this time (although later than Press to Play rules. 'Spies Like Us' is crap, I agree.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 25 May 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
As for Klaus Voorman, I can't say I'm much of a fan of his playing either.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 25 May 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
flowers in the dirt is pretty good! think i enjoyed every track except “how many ppl.” i did lmao a little through “motor of love”
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
The thing about 'Motor of Love' is that I really, really like the tune but jesus christ that lyric.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 25 May 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
Rough Ride is a nothing.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
I love Figure of Eight beyond reason. So loose!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
I'll warn you in advance, Off the Ground isn't one of McCartney's better albums... I wouldn't call it an awful record, but it does have more than a few bland moments.
'The Lovers That Never Were' fucking rules, though.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 25 May 2018 16:56 (six years ago) link
'Figure of Eight' is one of my favourite McCartney songs, plus 'My Brave Face', 'Distractions', 'Put It There', 'We Got Married', 'This One', 'That Day Is Done' ...
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 25 May 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
after flowers i might check out flaming pie, chaos and creation, memory almost full, and the last two fireman records, which lol sounds like a lot of albums still but i’m not gonna exhaustively approach post-‘80s paul
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 25 May 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
“figure of eight” and “we got married” are both amazing