[Music] Paul McCartney's Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

I think it's pretty good, I find it similar but not as good as Flaming Pie. One of my favorite songs on this new release is Riding To Vanity Fair.

I really wish I could see him on tour this year, but I just can't afford it.

 

i like ringo!

 

i'm about to go pick it up. the only song i've heard, "fine line" is OK but i have enough faith in macca to think the rest of the album will be good.

a few years ago i said i'd make sure i got to see him live next time he came here but i missed out on getting the tickets. now they're way to expensive for me. he's what 63, hopefully he's got atleast one more tour in him after this one.

 

does anybody got tickets to that mans show?


i want some booty, and this is my best chance.

 

Agreed, not as good as Flaming Pie, but better than Off the Ground and Driving Rain. I like "Friends To Go," that one i listen to repeatedly. And Fine Line is catchy if a little dorky. As a whole, the record sounds a little maudlin and mushy, but it is sounding good after a few listens. It is well produced. I just dont listen too terribly close, more as background, and it creeps in that way.

You gotta watch the video for Fine Line to really get a grip on the fact that Paul Frigging McCartney is Sixty Frigging Three years old. I mean, dude is still trying to put together little songs, it is sort of amazing to watch. I love how he plays all the instruments on the album, that is pretty cool -- i love McCartney drums, totally subtle and cool, almost no cymbals -- but just watching a grandfather hand-making rock and roll songs from scratch, on his own, is a mind blower. I feel old when I try to do it, and I am 34. Dude is 63, still making little rock and roll songs.

In another news flash, he is a preposterously good melody writer, just gifted like none other. Whatever that 'ear' for a good tune is, he is like the Lance Armstrong of that gift. It is supernatural - his lyrics and confidence might have run out of steam consistency-wise in the post Bealte years, but his melodies are just rock solid, every album, every time. Even the worst McCartney songs have a melody most people could wait a lifetime to write. I'm a John Lennon fan, too, but the solo years show who the melodicist was in that band - Paul is just a witch, a total witch.

 

Was at the library today (hey, all the cool people go there ) and on a whim checked out Paul McCartneys old 'Ram' LP. I remembered really liking it as a youngster and I gotta tell ya, I'm listening to the MF for the 4th time all the way thru today. It's pretty amazing suff.

 

I think this is a really great album. I can't get "Jenny Wren" out of my head.

Good call on Ram, Win. "Dear Boy" is superb!