[Heeplist] McCartney & Wings

[Igor Shveitser]

 Tug of War - crap?! McCartney II - adventurous?! It is either something wrong with definitions or... I don't know what else to say. Seems, Jay listens to music very differently - or is it me instead? :)))))))))))))))
Overall, Paul McCartney is a genius, and I honestly don't understand when you use the word "crap" (if not for some McCartney II songs) speaking of him when he was great. Kisses On The Bottom - that is a sad old man's thing, not much of Paul left there, but if we talk of his productive years, hardly there was crap as such. Terrific songs? Sure! To me his "Ram" songwise means much more than all of Lennon's solo albums. Nothing against John: he was great with some songs (Imagine, Jealous Guy, Mother, Instant Carma, Just Like Starting Over and probably 5-6 more) but that was all, while Paul (with Wings mostly, of course) had albums of hits like Ram, Band On The Run, Venus And Mars, London Town or Back To The Egg... and don't forget Tug Of War! Even the first experimental and not very successful McCartney album had Junk and Maybe I'm Amazed  which are masterpieces worth any of his Beatle-age songs. If you don't like them - it's another thing, but still terrific songs are what they are.
Cheers, Igor


Четверг, 29 августа 2013, 14:50 -07:00 от Jay Pearson <deepheep at yahoo.com>:
>I suggest y'all listen to The Fireman: Electric Arguments. Paul McCartney does experimental heavy progressive rock that is surprisingly good. I don't care much for his classical/opera, but that's a stylistic thing for me. McCartney II was one the most adventurous pop albums ever. Sides 1 & 6 of Wings Over America are as heavy as any hard rock band of the 70s. Then he puts out pop pablum like Tug of War or Kisses on the Bottom, which both make Equator sound like the second coming of Demons & Wizards. I don't know if any other musician of our generation has a more varied catalog, has taken more chances, or put out more crap.
>
>That said, I think the best post-Beatles albums are all by John: Imagine, Mind Games, Walls & Bridges (although his "soundscape" albums are among the worst things ever released)
>My next favorite is Ringo (the album), a great guilty pleasure
>But no post-Beatles albums match Rubber Soul, Revolver, or Abbey Road, IMO
>
>Jay
>np - John Fogerty - Wrote a Song for Everyone
>
>
>________________________________
> From: Todd Clark < tuck0411 at gmail.com >
> 
>
>Clearly, Lennon was an essential part of the Beatles song-writing formula, 
>but I think McCartney had enough quality on his own to come close, if not 
>match, the Beatles in that regard.  Yeah, his stuff was lighter and more 
>pop-oriented, no doubt, but that was the case in the Beatles, too.  Even 
>though all the songs were credited to Lennon/McCartney, it was easy to pick 
>out which ones were largely Paul's doing.  Just my opinion, but I'd put Band 
>On The Run up against just about any of the Beatles albums with maybe the 
>exception of the White Album and Abbey Road.
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Igor Shveytser