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Post by Joe Karlosi on Oct 13, 2010 4:57:16 GMT -5
I think Paul struggled to have a huge hit with this album because he was up against one of the centuries most productive years in popular music. The major hits of 1979 will be remembered long after the year of their release. Which is to say that there was just better music going around at the time. I think BTTE just falls short, there is nothing on there that is mind-boggling good and there's lots of unrealised potential there. This could have been alot better. You only have to look at the lead playing on this, it's quite bad and yet Paul used to give George Harrison such a hard time. There were no whips cracking on this one. I've always thought the playing on BACK TO THE EGG was top notch, and that this lineup was one of Wings' best.
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Post by nine on Oct 13, 2010 5:13:57 GMT -5
I've always thought the playing on BACK TO THE EGG was top notch, and that this lineup was one of Wings' best. I concur. It would have been nice to see them to tour. I wonder if Paul's intentions were to tour other countries after Japan with this band. Oh, and I'd like to add that this album sounds great with headphones.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Oct 13, 2010 6:19:13 GMT -5
Many on this Board have also opined that Paul should have added "Goodnight Tonight" and "Daytime Nightime Suffering" to BTTE. Question: For those who think BTTE is such a hard rocking album, wouldn't the inclusion of a disco song have ruined that image? But although BACK TO THE EGG is a hard rockin' album, it's also got soft songs and some fluff on it (like BABY'S REQUEST, AFTER THE BALL, and WINTER ROSE/LOVE AWAKE --- all of which I like). So it's not as if the entire record is ROCK. I don't think it would have affected the album's rocking vibe to also have GOODNIGHT TONIGHT/DAYTIME NIGHTIME SUFFERING on it somewhere. However, at the same time, somehow those two songs don't really seem to fit. The thing with me is, I would just want to have them both at the end of any new BTTE cd release so we'd have all the tracks in one place.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Oct 13, 2010 6:32:35 GMT -5
BTTE was a personal favourite and I still like it a great deal (as opposed to Wild Life - you do keep dragging it in, John! ). And JSD -- where's your song-by-song analysis of WILD LIFE for the thread I started?
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Oct 13, 2010 6:45:58 GMT -5
I don't hate BTTE at all but I am alarmed by efforts to rewrite its history as we all know it was considered a let down back then to the kids and critics. This coming from the man who defends and builds up WILD LIFE? That's part of it, but not all of it. I liked that Paul ROCKED again. Period.
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Post by nine on Oct 13, 2010 7:10:48 GMT -5
Many on this Board have also opined that Paul should have added "Goodnight Tonight" and "Daytime Nightime Suffering" to BTTE. Question: For those who think BTTE is such a hard rocking album, wouldn't the inclusion of a disco song have ruined that image? But although BACK TO THE EGG is a hard rockin' album, it's also got soft songs and some fluff on it (like BABY'S REQUEST, AFTER THE BALL, and WINTER ROSE/LOVE AWAKE --- all of which I like). So it's not as if the entire record is ROCK. I don't think it would have affected the album's rocking vibe to also have GOODNIGHT TONIGHT/DAYTIME NIGHTIME SUFFERING on it somewhere. However, at the same time, somehow those two songs don't really seem to fit. The thing with me is, I would just want to have them both at the end of any new BTTE cd release so we'd have all the tracks in one place. In Australia they are already added as bonus tracks however I think for some odd reason Goodnight Tonight is on McCartney II. I could be wrong.
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