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Post by sallyg on Sept 9, 2014 15:14:39 GMT -5
A number of artists are covering Beatles and Solo McCartney songs as a part of a McCartney tribute album called The Art of Paul McCartney. You can now pre-order this album on The Art of McCartney site, iTunes and Amazon. Here's the track list which Rolling Stone published: www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-mccartney-tribute-comp-bob-dylan-kiss-cover-beatles-20140909#ixzz3CqQlri7Y1. Billy Joel - "Maybe I'm Amazed" 2. Bob Dylan - "Things We Said Today" 3. Heart - "Band on the Run" 4. Steve Miller - "Junior's Farm" 5. Yusuf Islam - "The Long and Winding Road" 6. Harry Connick, Jr. - "My Love" 7. Brian Wilson - "Wanderlust" 8. Corinne Bailey Rae - "Bluebird" 9. Willie Nelson - "Yesterday" 10. Jeff Lynne - "Junk" 11. Barry Gibb - "When I'm 64" 12. Jamie Cullum - "Every Night" 13. Kiss - "Venus and Mars"/"Rock Show" 14. Paul Rodgers - "Let Me Roll It" 15. Roger Daltrey - "Helter Skelter" 16. Def Leppard - "Helen Wheels" 17. The Cure, featuring James McCartney - "Hello Goodbye" 18. Billy Joel - "Live and Let Die" 19. Chrissie Hynde - "Let It Be" 20. Cheap Trick's Robin Zander and Rick Nielsen - "Jet" 21. Joe Elliott - "Hi Hi Hi" 22. Heart - "Letting Go" 23. Steve Miller - "Hey Jude" 24. Owl City - "Listen to What the Man Said" 25. Perry Farrell - "Got to Get You Into My Life" 26. Dion - "Drive My Car" 27. Allen Toussaint - "Lady Madonna" 28. Dr. John - "Let 'Em In" 29. Smokey Robinson - "So Bad" 30. The Airborne Toxic Event - "No More Lonely Nights" 31. Alice Cooper - "Eleanor Rigby" 32. Toots Hibbert with Sly & Robbie - "Come and Get It" 33. B.B. King - "On the Way" 34. Sammy Hagar - "Birthday" The Art of McCartney Bonus Tracks: 1. Robert Smith - C Moon" 2. Booker T. Jones - "Can't Buy Me Love" 3. Ronnie Spector - "P.S. I Love You" 4. Darlene Love - "All My Loving" 5. Ian McCulloch - "For No One" 6. Peter, Bjorn and John - "Put It There" 7. Wanda Jackson - "Run Devil Run" 8. Alice Cooper - "Smile Away"
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 9, 2014 15:23:54 GMT -5
Wow, are these all new recordings or have these covers been around?
I would be interested to hear this.
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 9, 2014 15:31:06 GMT -5
I want to hear Bob Dylan's cover of "Things We Said Today."
This isn't on this comp but here is a good cover of "Let Me Roll It" by a new R & B influenced group called St Paul and the Broken Bones and they use real horns, Macca!
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Post by sallyg on Sept 9, 2014 16:41:28 GMT -5
Wow, are these all new recordings or have these covers been around? I would be interested to hear this. My impression is that they are fairly new recordings. These covers sound interesting and I can't wait to hear them.
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Post by debjorgo on Sept 9, 2014 18:00:50 GMT -5
They were recorded for this project I believe.
amazon.usa doesn't have the deluxe version with the extra tracks. I wouldn't want to but the deluxe because it includes vinyl disks as well as cds. I'd hate to pay for something I have no interest in.
Paul's current backing band plays for each artist.
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Post by kc on Sept 9, 2014 18:16:39 GMT -5
Thanks for posting this updated information, sallyg. I've been waiting for some time to hear the full story about this release. I thought that originally the deluxe box was to appear in the northern summer, but then it didn't. I just visited the special website arcticpoppymusic have put up concerning this product. The deluxe box set looks magnificent, but is very expensive. They quote 150 British pounds. I doubt if I will purchase. The trouble is that buying it is the way to get all of the available audio tracks. The 2CD edition is reasonably priced, at 12 pounds, but misses eight tracks, as suggested in your original post.
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Post by sallyg on Sept 9, 2014 21:10:11 GMT -5
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 10, 2014 14:04:36 GMT -5
They were recorded for this project I believe. amazon.usa doesn't have the deluxe version with the extra tracks. I wouldn't want to but the deluxe because it includes vinyl disks as well as cds. I'd hate to pay for something I have no interest in. Paul's current backing band plays for each artist. Hmm. That is kind of a bummer in some ways. So will these all have a live feel to them? That means no real horns or strings are used, Wix will do all that stuff on the cheap with synths.
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Post by ReturnToPepperland on Sept 12, 2014 16:11:24 GMT -5
They were recorded for this project I believe. amazon.usa doesn't have the deluxe version with the extra tracks. I wouldn't want to but the deluxe because it includes vinyl disks as well as cds. I'd hate to pay for something I have no interest in. Paul's current backing band plays for each artist. Hmm. That is kind of a bummer in some ways. So will these all have a live feel to them? That means no real horns or strings are used, Wix will do all that stuff on the cheap with synths. I am sure different artists will have different ideas about that point. For example, how can you do Got To Get You Into My Life with synthesizers and no horns!! Bleck!
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Post by debjorgo on Sept 30, 2014 18:40:38 GMT -5
There are some more youtube videos out now, most notably, Alice Cooper's Eleanor Rigby. It sounds pretty close to the Beatle's version, vocals included. I was afraid he use that snivel-ly I Love the Dead voice. I he didn't.
About 30 seconds of Brian Wilson's Wonderlust is there too.
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Post by sallyg on Oct 4, 2014 6:34:29 GMT -5
There are some more youtube videos out now, most notably, Alice Cooper's Eleanor Rigby. It sounds pretty close to the Beatle's version, vocals included. I was afraid he use that snivel-ly I Love the Dead voice. I he didn't. About 30 seconds of Brian Wilson's Wonderlust is there too. Here's the Alice Cooper cover of Eleanor Rigby that you were talking about. I like this cover.
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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 4, 2014 12:19:22 GMT -5
Wow, Alice Cooper sounds better now to me than he did in 1976! What is his secret, give it to Paul!
That was good with some slight sinister undertones to it.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Oct 30, 2014 6:53:04 GMT -5
I have been very excited about this coming release, but so far I have heard three songs from it, and none of them appealed to me. On Rob Leonard's radio show he played:
Wanderlust (Brian Wilson) -- blah.
Things We Said Today (Bob Dylan) - I will defend Bob's terrible voice on his own songs, and I loved it on his last album... but he really ruins this song vocally.
Band On The Run (Heart) -- It didn't sound anything like Heart to me. Was Nancy singing instead of Ann? Instantly forgettable.
I have been anticipating this album, but if these are any indication of what we'll be getting, I'm not so thrilled. These covers took the wind right out of my sails.
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Post by kc on Nov 15, 2014 19:15:54 GMT -5
I bought a copy of the standard 2CD version of The Art Of McCartney yesterday. There was no sign of the more elaborate 2CD plus 1DVD book edition in the shop, so I got what I could. I don't often buy tribute albums, but since it concerns an ex- Beatle, I'm interested. I've only listened to a handful of the tracks, but I generally like those. One Corinne Bailey Rae presents a very nice version of Bluebird. Roger Daltrey, Def Leppard and Heart deliver what I consider to be good rocking versions of Helter Skelter, Helen Wheels and Letting Go respectively. Smokey Robinson's rendition of So Bad was interesting, but he has a wobbly voice. I did actually like Brian Wilson's work on Wanderlust.
Paul's backing band is not present on all the songs, maybe two thirds of them and then not necessarily all of the personnel.
As a side note, this Australian edition contains two extra tracks. One of them is Wanda Jackson singing Run Devil Run, which I thoroughly enjoyed. How old is she now? She can still cut it.
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Post by John S. Damm on Nov 15, 2014 19:37:35 GMT -5
This whole album is on YouTube. Some covers are very good, some are utter shit. But at the end of the day, they are all covers and remind me why I like Paul's original versions better. I won't buy this after hearing it all but it was fun playing the album on YouTube. I wouldn't go back to it enough to justify its purchase. By the way, I love Dylan's cover of "Things We Said Today." Paul and his fans should feel honored Dylan agreed to participate. Brian Wilson is very good on "Wanderlust" although one wonders if Auto-Tune was stretched to its limit and for some of these other oldies. The must unneccessary and karaoke cover was Steve Miller doing "Hey Jude." I wanted to projectile vomit and I actually got really pissed off during the bland, boring rendition where Steve Miller even does Paul's exact scatting at the fade-out! The further whoring of one of The Beatles' classics. Please leave our treasures alone!
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Post by sallyg on Nov 16, 2014 7:00:08 GMT -5
WMGK, Philadelphia's classic rock station, is having a Wall to Wall Paul weekend and Andre Gardner will be playing some songs from The Art of Paul McCartney album on his Breakfast with the Beatles show Sunday morning. www.wmgk.com/
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Post by sallyg on Nov 16, 2014 13:37:08 GMT -5
Ralph Sall, The Art of McCartney's producer, will be on Chris Carter's Breakfast with the Beatles today. They will play some songs from the album. Of course features on Breakfast with the Beatles shows is like preaching to the choir. I hope this album will go mainstream and draw people to Paul's music. www.facebook.com/pages/Breakfast-With-The-Beatles/46487459776?fref=nf
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Post by lowbasso on Nov 16, 2014 23:52:09 GMT -5
Well, for decades Paul has been trying to get his Beatle catalogue to be listed as McCartney/Lennon. Now he gets a tribute album (before he has died no less), with a slew of his Beatle songs covered and seeming to be credited to just him; The entire album is called "The Art of McCartney." No mention of Lennon on the Beatles songs? Didn't see it anywhere on the ITunes listings that I listened to this evening on the eve of the release of the double album. Would it be listed in a CD jacket? Paul's ego will definitely get refreshed on this one. And Lennon fanatics will be screaming foul.....
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Post by vectisfabber on Nov 17, 2014 4:33:06 GMT -5
They'd better start reclaiming...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2014 5:47:03 GMT -5
Why do we need a tribute album..
You can still get the originals.
This may well sink without a trace..
Knocked out by Bob Geldof and his collection of C grade muso's re - doing the Christmas song.
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Post by andyb on Nov 17, 2014 11:34:24 GMT -5
They'd better start reclaiming... One compulsive reclaimer is enough for one band I would think.
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Post by lowbasso on Nov 17, 2014 14:29:51 GMT -5
Well, for decades Paul has been trying to get his Beatle catalogue to be listed as McCartney/Lennon. Now he gets a tribute album (before he has died no less), with a slew of his Beatle songs covered and seeming to be credited to just him; The entire album is called "The Art of McCartney." No mention of Lennon on the Beatles songs? Didn't see it anywhere on the ITunes listings that I listened to this evening on the eve of the release of the double album. Would it be listed in a CD jacket? Paul's ego will definitely get refreshed on this one. And Lennon fanatics will be screaming foul..... Downloaded double CD from ITunes today. Won't critique it since it's only my opinion and it does not matter what I think about it (though I like a lot of it). Everyone has to decide for themselves. Already a lot of negative opinions on it from this board. But you must download the album jacket as well (and you have to buy the entire album to get this) in order to see the song listings the way they will come out if you buy a hard disc copy of the album. The Beatle songs do credit Lennon/McCartney as writers, so it is in print for legal purposes. But for those who just download (buy) individual Beatle songs without the information packet, it is possible you will download Beatle covers and could possibly believe they are solely McCartney compositions since the album is entitled "The Art of McCartney." Especially younger generations of fans unfamiliar with the Beatle versions, they could well come away thinking these songs are just McCartney songs.
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Post by John S. Damm on Nov 17, 2014 16:49:18 GMT -5
Well, for decades Paul has been trying to get his Beatle catalogue to be listed as McCartney/Lennon. Now he gets a tribute album (before he has died no less), with a slew of his Beatle songs covered and seeming to be credited to just him; The entire album is called "The Art of McCartney." No mention of Lennon on the Beatles songs? Didn't see it anywhere on the ITunes listings that I listened to this evening on the eve of the release of the double album. Would it be listed in a CD jacket? Paul's ego will definitely get refreshed on this one. And Lennon fanatics will be screaming foul..... Downloaded double CD from ITunes today. Won't critique it since it's only my opinion and it does not matter what I think about it (though I like a lot of it). Everyone has to decide for themselves. Already a lot of negative opinions on it from this board. But you must download the album jacket as well (and you have to buy the entire album to get this) in order to see the song listings the way they will come out if you buy a hard disc copy of the album. The Beatle songs do credit Lennon/McCartney as writers, so it is in print for legal purposes. But for those who just download (buy) individual Beatle songs without the information packet, it is possible you will download Beatle covers and could possibly believe they are solely McCartney compositions since the album is entitled "The Art of McCartney." Especially younger generations of fans unfamiliar with the Beatle versions, they could well come away thinking these songs are just McCartney songs. It is worse than that, lowbasso. The official title is: The Art Of Paul McCartney: The Songs of Paul McCartney Sung By The World's Greatest Artists Oh barf! I always read that "Birthday" was co-written, one of the few on "The Beatles."
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Post by debjorgo on Nov 17, 2014 19:05:24 GMT -5
So, I guess you can't do a tribute album called "The Art of Elvis, the Songs of Elvis Presley"?
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Post by lowbasso on Nov 17, 2014 21:32:48 GMT -5
Downloaded double CD from ITunes today. Won't critique it since it's only my opinion and it does not matter what I think about it (though I like a lot of it). Everyone has to decide for themselves. Already a lot of negative opinions on it from this board. But you must download the album jacket as well (and you have to buy the entire album to get this) in order to see the song listings the way they will come out if you buy a hard disc copy of the album. The Beatle songs do credit Lennon/McCartney as writers, so it is in print for legal purposes. But for those who just download (buy) individual Beatle songs without the information packet, it is possible you will download Beatle covers and could possibly believe they are solely McCartney compositions since the album is entitled "The Art of McCartney." Especially younger generations of fans unfamiliar with the Beatle versions, they could well come away thinking these songs are just McCartney songs. It is worse than that, lowbasso. The official title is: The Art Of Paul McCartney: The Songs of Paul McCartney Sung By The World's Greatest Artists Oh barf! I always read that "Birthday" was co-written, one of the few on "The Beatles." This is not good. And not right. Paul knows that too. They are not all simply "Songs of Paul McCartney." All the Beatle covers are legally Lennon/McCartney songs. That should be reflected in the title on the CD. And on Itunes. Is the Lennon Estate going to fight this? Is Paul going to fight this?
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Post by debjorgo on Nov 17, 2014 21:50:20 GMT -5
I got the CD in the mail today. I like just about everything on it. I wish they'd stuck with just solo songs but the Beatle songs don't sound out of place.
If you look close on the jacket, John Lennon gets co-writing credit on the Beatle songs, which means Yoko's getting paid. I'm sure she's loving it.
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Post by lowbasso on Nov 17, 2014 22:51:05 GMT -5
I got the CD in the mail today. I like just about everything on it. I wish they'd stuck with just solo songs but the Beatle songs don't sound out of place. If you look close on the jacket, John Lennon gets co-writing credit on the Beatle songs, which means Yoko's getting paid. I'm sure she's loving it. She should get paid. They are Lennon/McCartney songs. But if you buy songs from the album on Itunes, especially Beatle songs, you get just the album cover which says "The Art of Paul McCartney", and "Songs By Paul McCartney" on your IPod screen while you listen to the song. John gets absolutely no credit. That is wrong. And you cannot blame Paul, because he had nothing to do with the album. But their should be legal issues brought up regarding this matter for sure.
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Post by debjorgo on Nov 17, 2014 23:20:29 GMT -5
I got the CD in the mail today. I like just about everything on it. I wish they'd stuck with just solo songs but the Beatle songs don't sound out of place. If you look close on the jacket, John Lennon gets co-writing credit on the Beatle songs, which means Yoko's getting paid. I'm sure she's loving it. She should get paid. They are Lennon/McCartney songs. But if you buy songs from the album on Itunes, especially Beatle songs, you get just the album cover which says "The Art of Paul McCartney", and "Songs By Paul McCartney" on your IPod screen while you listen to the song. John gets absolutely no credit. That is wrong. And you cannot blame Paul, because he had nothing to do with the album. But their should be legal issues brought up regarding this matter for sure. Or if they get played on the radio. You know, I listened to the radio all day today and they never once said who wrote anything. The bastards.
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Post by debjorgo on Nov 17, 2014 23:25:32 GMT -5
I got the CD in the mail today. I like just about everything on it. I wish they'd stuck with just solo songs but the Beatle songs don't sound out of place. If you look close on the jacket, John Lennon gets co-writing credit on the Beatle songs, which means Yoko's getting paid. I'm sure she's loving it. She should get paid. They are Lennon/McCartney songs. But if you buy songs from the album on Itunes, especially Beatle songs, you get just the album cover which says "The Art of Paul McCartney", and "Songs By Paul McCartney" on your IPod screen while you listen to the song. John gets absolutely no credit. That is wrong. And you cannot blame Paul, because he had nothing to do with the album. But their should be legal issues brought up regarding this matter for sure. In iTunes, if you right click on the headings and add the column "Composer", for Birthday it says John Lennon. Paul's not listed.
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Post by vectisfabber on Nov 18, 2014 4:38:32 GMT -5
So the whole thing is monstrously unfair to everybody!!! Ooh, I think I'm going to have conniptions!!
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