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| | Agreed, Tug of War is one of solo Macca's last strong albums, and "Take It Away" is a winner. |
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| | Now let's see a Seconds done for 'Red Rose Speedway'. |
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| | Are you kidding me? Tug of War is an excellent album, but Take It Away is certainly one of it's lesser cuts. It's the kind of sugary, corny pap that has kept MacCartney's albums in the dustbin for years. The fact that Thomas Inskeep prefers MacCartney far more than the Beatles shows his naivte and bias for twee cuddlecore. Please don't tell me he loves Ebony and Ivory. Blech! |
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| | have you noticed how around 3:31, where the brass comes in, it sounds a lot like the main sample of "one more time" by daft punk? if they really sampled it, then illegally, nobody is allowed to sample mccartney for free. |
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| | boilingboy: I do prefer "Ballroom Dancing." |
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| | You know, now that I think of it, I thought Flaming Pie was pretty good, and quite liked Run Devil Run. His last two have been steaming piles, though, particularly Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. What a mess. |
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| | any positive comment regarding mccartney's completely overlooked solo career is preferable to yet another rehashing over the genius of "Revolver"/"Plastic Ono Band"/john lennon ad infinitum. i'm absolutely certain that when (god forbid) macca dies, everyone will change their mind for sure...then it will be in fashion to give props to how "raw" Wild Life was, or how Ram "invented home taping" or whatever. the man is still with us and just released his best album in 25 years ("McCartney II" is waaaay better than "Tug of War"), let's give him some fucking credit already! |
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| | Yes indeed, Ballroom Dancing is an fine song. besides the Lennon tribute Here Today, I think the best song on the album is the title track (pushin...pullin). Hell, it might be the best creation of his solo career. |
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| | How, exactly, does my preference for solo Paul over the Beatles show my "naiveté," boilingboy? It's not as if I'm unaware of the Beatles catalog, or their legacy.
Also, since you love to throw the word "bias" around (especially regarding me, it seems), define "twee cuddlecore." |
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| | Congratulations on having heard of the Beatles, Thomas. You are now ready to be a music critic. Since you even ask the above questions, the existence of your musical naivte is self-evident. Solo MacCartney is watered-down Beatles melodies; minus the relentless experimentation and intellectual curiosity. That you prefer the cheap imitation over the real thing demonstrates your love for plasticity and saccarine. There's a reason John lennon wrote "How Do You Sleep". Or, perhaps you are even unaware of that song. The Beatles have been canonized and gushed over to the point of parody; I went years before I could here many of there songs again. But no one with any taste prefers Gavin Rossdale over Kurt Cobain. See? Secondly, I can't be bothered to explain what "twee" or "cuddlecore" means to the guy who champions Amy Grant and solo Diana Ross. Try doing a Google search on those words. While you're at it, look up the word "cloying". |
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| | Did this guy just admit to preferring Paul's solo work to the Beatles? That's like trying to make a case for MC Ren over N.W.A. The Beatles are a classic case of the whole being more than the sum of the parts - John checked Paul's tendency to be too mawkish, Paul checked John's tendency to be too weird, for lack of a better word, and both of them lost their bearings after the breakup anyway - which is par for the course with great songwriters, not many, for whatever reason, are consistent for over a decade. |
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| | i'll make a case for paul mccartney being better than john lennon... |
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| | I'd second that. Except for the powerful Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon was too strung out on heroin throughout the 70s to produce much that was up to his former standards. A good Lennon "best of" collection should just about cover the highlights. |
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