Tracks:
1. Band On The Run
2. Jet
3. Bluebird
4. Mrs Vanderbilt
5. Let Me Roll It
6. Mamunia
7. No Words
8. Picasso's Last Words
9. Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
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Yeah this album is pretty good. It lacks that slightly darker edge that often bounced off from John Lennon in The Beatles. The tracks are all pretty cheery and don't have too much hidden meaning or anything like that behind them - which is always fine if you want some easy listening. Sometimes you need a break from Radiohead.
My dad always call his "Thumbs Aloft McCartney" - I think that's a pretty fitting name.
This and Ram are the only Paul McCartney-related albums worth listening to.
To the point of what McCartney has always been capable of, yes. Venus And Mars and London Town are okay albums...but consider that this is PAUL McCARTNEY.
The guy who wrote Yesterday and Hey Jude and Eleanor Rigby and Blackbird and Helter Skelter and so on and so on has released 23 solo studio albums since 1970. The argument is which of the two, Ram or Band On The Run, are his greatest work. No other album of the 23 is ever really truly in that conversation. And neither one of those two albums is widely considered to be among the truly greatest albums of all time.
In the 42 years since his solo debut, there have been exactly 3 McCartney compilations. Two single discs and the double Wingspan, which features one disc of "hits" and one disc of "history"...including the in-very poor taste radio edit of "Venus And Mars/Rock Show". And it is true that ever since the release of Band On The Run, every new McCartney album has come with the promise that this is finally the one really great album from Paul that we've been waiting all these years...and it has never happened. Never.
To me, considering that he is who he is, and that he has remained fairly prolific (23 studio albums in 42 years), his career is a disappointment. Too many duds like "My Love" and "Silly Love Songs", too many dreadful albums like Red Rose Speedway and McCartney II, and not enough great work for the time he's been active. I love The Beatles, and I love Paul, but if ever someone spent the good part of 4 decades resting on his laurels, it's McCartney.
His live shows are legendary for good reason. But overall, for me, the most disappointing solo career in music history. _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
Of her mystery
And crashing through the walls
Of dying history
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