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Post by sallyg on Aug 10, 2009 20:12:40 GMT -5
Okay, I just open-mindedly attempted to listen to DRIVING RAIN again. I was only able to get to the first 6 tracks before wanting to stick needles inside my eardrums. I'm going to have to undertake this dreadful album in spurts, because it's still a horror. Here are some obervations: Lonely Road - tolerable, but nothing good. From a Lover to a Friend - typical bull from Paul, and rather zzzzzzzzz. She's Given Up Talking - Crap. Driving Rain - embarrassingly bad. Never recovers from those kiddie "1-2-3-4-5" "lyrics". I Do - God-awful. Tiny Bubble - Just ordinary 'awful'. This is still far and away Macca's WORST album for me. It's not the music which is so bad, but the lyrics are appallingly pedestrian and sound like a kindergartener could have written them. This is the epitome of Paul's "June/Moon/Spoon" approach. One gets the impression when slithering through this amateurish muck that McCartney has run completely dry when it comes to ideas for words. And every damn thing is "love", again. A dismal, ugly, desperate record. Driving Rain is my least favorite Macca CD too. Tiny Bubble is one of my least favorite McCartney songs. When I first saw the song title I wondered if Paul did a cover of the Don Ho song. Ho's song is "Tiny Bubbles".
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Post by sallyg on Aug 10, 2009 20:24:16 GMT -5
I feel that "Motor Of Love"is one of the most stirring love songs ever written by Paul. I've noticed that Paul will often place these very dramatic, stirring love songs towards the end of his albums, where they get lost: !. Pipes Of Peace: Through Our Love; 2. Flowers In The Dirt: Motor of Love; 3. Off The Ground: Wine Dark Open Sea. There are probably others but these were the trio I view as the "Forgotten McCartney Love Classics." The lyrics to"Motor Of Love" are just so stirring to me: "I can`t get over your love No matter how hard life seems, there`s a light in my dreams Thanks to you. My Friends keep asking me why there`s such a smile on my face, there`s a home at my place, Thanks to you. I don`t want anything from you, turn on your motor of love. Motor of love, motor of love, Heavenly Father look down from above, I can`t get over your powerful Motor of love. I can`t get over your Love no matter how lost I feel, I know my Love is real, Thanks to you. You simply reached out your Hand and touched me deep in my Soul, I came in out of the Cold, Thanks to you. I won`t steal anything from you, You give me more than enough. Motor of Love, Motor of Love, Heavenly Father look down from above, I can`t get over your powerful Motor of Love. There was a time when I was down and counted out, well I remember I felt so bad I nearly threw away, Nearly threw away the keys, no, no, no, no. Motor of Love, Motor of Love, Heavenly Father look down from above, Motor of Love, Motor of Love, Heavenly Father look down from above, I can`t get over your powerfulMotor of Love." The climax is the: "There was a time when I was down and counted out, well I remember I felt so bad I nearly threw away, Nearly threw away the keys, no, no, no, no." Is Paul remembering the hard times back in 1970 or is he referring to the more recent hard times of the critical drubbing of Pipes Of Peace saved only by Michael Jackson's involvement; the whole Broadstreet debacle where Paul instantly became an "oldy but goldy" by opening the Beatles' musical floodgate(a true Pandora's Box) that all but drowned out Paul's own viable, commercially successful solo career; and the failure of the Flock to embrace Press To Play. I would love to hear "Motor Of Love" live but I would have a better chance of hearing "Mumbo" live than this one. I do agree that "This One" was a great song that deserved a higher chart showing but I am happy that it did get a ton of radio airplay in my little town so it was all over the airwaves at least where I lived. I really like this song too!
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Post by cosmo on Aug 16, 2009 12:52:42 GMT -5
Well, I'm going to nominate "Rock Show." I heard it on the radio last week, and I finally admitted to myself that I really, really dislike it - the rhymes sound contrived to my ears and I don't like the spoken word part at the end. I mean, come on:
What's That Man Holding In His Hand? He Looks A Lot Like A Guy I Knew Way Back When Its Silly Willy With Philly Band Could Be . . . . . Oo-Ee . . . . . . What's That Man Movin' Cross The Stage? It Looks A Lot Like The One Used By Jimmy Page Its Like A Relic From A Different Age Could Be . . . . . Oo-Ee . . . . . .
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Post by sayne on Aug 16, 2009 16:26:37 GMT -5
Well, I'm going to nominate "Rock Show." I heard it on the radio last week, and I finally admitted to myself that I really, really dislike it - the rhymes sound contrived to my ears and I don't like the spoken word part at the end. I mean, come on: What's That Man Holding In His Hand? He Looks A Lot Like A Guy I Knew Way Back When Its Silly Willy With Philly Band Could Be . . . . . Oo-Ee . . . . . . What's That Man Movin' Cross The Stage? It Looks A Lot Like The One Used By Jimmy Page Its Like A Relic From A Different Age Could Be . . . . . Oo-Ee . . . . . . But, it was such a thrill for me seeing Paul at the San Diego Sports Arena when that song (along with Venus and Mars) opened the show. I don't know if it was the only venue he played in that 1976 tour with the words "sports arena" as part of its name, but I really felt like he was talking to us. Very spine tingling.
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Post by sallyg on Aug 17, 2009 10:24:04 GMT -5
Okay, I just open-mindedly attempted to listen to DRIVING RAIN again. I was only able to get to the first 6 tracks before wanting to stick needles inside my eardrums. I'm going to have to undertake this dreadful album in spurts, because it's still a horror. Here are some obervations: Lonely Road - tolerable, but nothing good. From a Lover to a Friend - typical bull from Paul, and rather zzzzzzzzz. She's Given Up Talking - Crap. Driving Rain - embarrassingly bad. Never recovers from those kiddie "1-2-3-4-5" "lyrics". I Do - God-awful. Tiny Bubble - Just ordinary 'awful'. This is still far and away Macca's WORST album for me. It's not the music which is so bad, but the lyrics are appallingly pedestrian and sound like a kindergartener could have written them. This is the epitome of Paul's "June/Moon/Spoon" approach. One gets the impression when slithering through this amateurish muck that McCartney has run completely dry when it comes to ideas for words. And every damn thing is "love", again. A dismal, ugly, desperate record. Driving Rain is my least favorite Macca CD too. Tiny Bubble is one of my least favorite McCartney songs. When I first saw the song title I wondered if Paul did a cover of the Don Ho song. Ho's song is "Tiny Bubbles". The only song I like off of Driving Rain is "Riding Into Jaipur".
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Post by secretfriend on Aug 17, 2009 16:42:44 GMT -5
I do like "Your Way" off Driving Rain.
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Post by jellyzero79 on Oct 10, 2009 4:47:44 GMT -5
There are good songs off of "Driving Rain". The prob PM has is not knowing what to keep for himself. If you keep the songs "Magic", "Your Way", "About You", "She's Given Up Talking", and "Lonely Road" - you have one hell of a McCartney EP or one half of a great album.
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Post by jellyzero79 on Feb 22, 2010 20:29:39 GMT -5
It seems I have this unique ability on the boards of completely halting a discussion...
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Post by John S. Damm on Feb 22, 2010 20:55:00 GMT -5
It seems I have this unique ability on the boards of completely halting a discussion... LOL! I agree with your last post. There are many fines songs on Driving Rain. It could have been a shorter, thus better, album.
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Post by nine on Feb 23, 2010 3:02:04 GMT -5
It seems I have this unique ability on the boards of completely halting a discussion... LOL! I agree with your last post. There are many fines songs on Driving Rain. It could have been a shorter, thus better, album. I've said this a million times but I'll say it again.... Paul's 1970s were as a rule 10 songs long. I've often whittled down his later albums to ten tracls and obviously they all become stronger. How would you whittle down DR to 10?
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Post by acebackwords on Feb 25, 2010 14:06:24 GMT -5
I always hated "My Love." Not sure why. Every time that one came on it was like a 20 minute dirge to endure.
Always kind of liked the much maligned "Mary Had a Little Lamb." I mean, it was just a charming little children's song. And whats wrong with that, I'd like to know?
Can't think of any least favorite Macca albums, except maybe "Wild Life' which wasn't so much bad as just pointless. Most of his real clunkers I can usually spot a mile away and just avoid. Though this thread has me curious to sit down with a really BAD Macca album just to see what that would be like.
Worst album cover art has got to be "Off the Ground." I get the creeps every time I look at that thing.
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Post by stavros on Feb 25, 2010 14:43:10 GMT -5
"Liverpool Sound Collage"....it's how I imagine Carnival of Light as a full album could sound like.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Feb 25, 2010 17:27:22 GMT -5
Of Paul's "regular" albums, DRIVING RAIN. I never tire of bashing that horrible album.
As for his worst song, I have no clue. And that's because there are so damn many clunkers, it's impossible to pick one.
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Post by nine on Feb 26, 2010 6:57:10 GMT -5
Bur you gotta admit Paul's hit miss ratio is pretty bloody good.
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Post by nine on Feb 26, 2010 7:06:02 GMT -5
I always hated "My Love." Not sure why. Every time that one came on it was like a 20 minute dirge to endure. Always kind of liked the much maligned "Mary Had a Little Lamb." I mean, it was just a charming little children's song. And whats wrong with that, I'd like to know? Can't think of any least favorite Macca albums, except maybe "Wild Life' which wasn't so much bad as just pointless. Most of his real clunkers I can usually spot a mile away and just avoid. Though this thread has me curious to sit down with a really BAD Macca album just to see what that would be like. Worst album cover art has got to be "Off the Ground." I get the creeps every time I look at that thing. Wild Life us superb.
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Post by nine on Feb 26, 2010 7:09:25 GMT -5
I always hated "My Love." Not sure why. Every time that one came on it was like a 20 minute dirge to endure. Always kind of liked the much maligned "Mary Had a Little Lamb." I mean, it was just a charming little children's song. And whats wrong with that, I'd like to know? Can't think of any least favorite Macca albums, except maybe "Wild Life' which wasn't so much bad as just pointless. Most of his real clunkers I can usually spot a mile away and just avoid. Though this thread has me curious to sit down with a really BAD Macca album just to see what that would be like. Worst album cover art has got to be "Off the Ground." I get the creeps every time I look at that thing. Off The Ground is better than Flowers In The Dirt. It is better than all the albums that followed. It had six or seven good songs on it. None that follow have.
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Post by pbirdchat on Feb 26, 2010 8:16:02 GMT -5
I've always loved Motor Of Love. It has a very woolly cozy Brian Wilson sound to me. It makes me feel like I'm curled up by the fire with my loved one.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Feb 26, 2010 12:17:07 GMT -5
Off The Ground is better than Flowers In The Dirt. It is better than all the albums that followed. It had six or seven good songs on it. None that follow have. I love OFF THE GROUND. I also like it better (as a whole) than FLOWERS IN THE DIRT. It was also the last "official Paul album" when Paul was still Paul and he had his Linda and he was in good form, and it sounded like a McCartney record.
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Post by acebackwords on Feb 26, 2010 12:25:17 GMT -5
Off The Ground is better than Flowers In The Dirt. It is better than all the albums that followed. It had six or seven good songs on it. None that follow have. Yeah, agreed. "Off the Ground" is the last great Beatles solo album I've heard. Though I've missed some of the ones that came after, so there might well be some more gems in the catalgoue. Special fave: "Cosmically Conscious." As far as I know, thats Macca's last great slice of psychedelia. And does anyone know if "C'mon People" is the last time he worked with George Martin?
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Post by ReturnToPepperland on Mar 3, 2010 19:59:14 GMT -5
There is no Paul album I've heard which is consistently great; the closest would be McCartney (1970), which nevertheless has 5 instrumentals. I have to say that I once borrowed a copy of Flaming Pie (1997), and I wasn't able to sit through it even once. I must say, that's mind-boggling to me, but to each his own! I mean, to actually consider McCARTNEY "closest to consistently great" (with all its odd and half-baked tracks)* but to condemn FLAMING PIE (which even has many Beatles-worthy great songs on it like "Little Willow", "Somedays", and "Calico Skies")... *(I enjoy McCARTNEY for sure, but I just think this is a wild choice for the most consistent album). The McCartney album is not necessarily the most consistent album, but the album with the highest quality tracks: Maybe I'm Amazed, Every Night, Junk, That Would Be Something, Man We Was Lonely, Ooh You (all AM and/or FM staples in the 70s in Detroit at least) plus The Lovely Linda, Hot As Sun, Singalong Junk, Momma Miss America and maybe Teddy Boy aren't half bad--mostly pretty good in fact. Two unreleased songs Indeed I Do and Suicide are worthwhile too.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Mar 4, 2010 6:05:30 GMT -5
The McCartney album is not necessarily the most consistent album, but the album with the highest quality tracks: Maybe I'm Amazed, Every Night, Junk, That Would Be Something, Man We Was Lonely, Ooh You (all AM and/or FM staples in the 70s in Detroit at least) plus The Lovely Linda, Hot As Sun, Singalong Junk, Momma Miss America and maybe Teddy Boy aren't half bad--mostly pretty good in fact. Two unreleased songs Indeed I Do and Suicide are worthwhile too. RTP, I must say that it's interesting to hear you say this, since you are such an avid McCartney supporter. I enjoy the McCARTNEY album myself because it's "offbeat". But I can't believe you really believe "it's the album with the highest quality tracks"! Other than the classic Maybe I'm Amazed, everything else is just filler and/or tinkering. Now, that's not to say I don't enjoy this experimental tinkering -- I DO... but "highest quality tracks"?? I couldn't agree there at all. It's all singalong junk and knock-off's for the most part, albeit interesting junk. I'd say that, perhaps, BAND ON THE RUN has the most "high quality tracks" on one album.
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Post by Panther on Mar 4, 2010 15:21:18 GMT -5
Well, for once I agree with RTP. McCartney's tracks are all high quality, I think. I certainly consider 'Every Night', 'That Would be Something', 'Man We Was Lonely', 'Junk', 'Teddy Boy', and of course 'Maybe I'm Amazed' as first-rate McCartney tunes that stand up with the best of his Beatles work.
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Post by coachbk on Mar 20, 2010 20:22:29 GMT -5
"Bip Bop" is Paul's worst song. "Three Legs" is also one of my least favorite. I generally skip over "Kreen Akrore". "She's Given Up Talking" and "Dark Room" are also very annoying. DRIVING RAIN is his worst album. The first Fireman album is also very boring. WILD LIFE, RED ROSE SPEEDWAY, MCCARTNEY II, and OFF THE GROUND are also pretty mediocre, but each have enough songs I enjoy to make them pleasant listens. I'm a Paul fan and he has released very little material that I don't at least find pleasant.
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