Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Brynjar]

Just wondering, but..

..do you think Paul intended or expected C'mon People to be a bigger song than it actually was? He got George Martin to produce it. When was the last time he played it live? How do YOU like it?

Q_eKzc7JSXo

[Geoff]

It was the big album closer, with an orchestral score, which is probably why Paul asked George Martin to produce. It's too earnest for my taste, and I think it's one of the album's weaker tracks. "Winedark Open Sea" and "Get Out Of My Way" are my favorite cuts.  

[DaveRam]

I like "C'mon People" , although i think the lyric is a bit weak , i'm with Geoff "WineDark Open Sea" is the better song from the "Off The Ground" album .

[wingsman]

I like "C'mon People" , although i think the lyric is a bit weak , i'm with Geoff "WineDark Open Sea" is the better song from the "Off The Ground" album .

"Winedark" was fantastic. It sounded like Paul was experimenting for the first time in years. It was the first track recorded for "Off the Ground" in November 1991.
"C'Mon People" is nice, but I think it's a little obvious cut. "Peace and love" once again.
The best songs on Off The Ground are Winedark, I Owe it all to you, Get out of my way and Hope of deliverance. Even so is a pretty weak album. 3.0 stars.

[NoNameR]

I liked C'Mon People a lot at the time (hey, I was very young!) but it is very earnest, Christmas-sounding McCartney by numbers. Still loads better than Hope of Deliverance, though!

[Geoff]

Many other tracks were recorded at these sessions, too, and collected on a second CD that was issued in Japan and the Netherlands.:

Japanese track listing CD2

   1. "Big Boys Bickering"
   2. "Long Leather Coat" (McCartney/McCartney)
   3. "Kicking Around No More"
   4. "Keeping Coming Back To Love" (McCartney/Stuart)
   5. "Sweet Sweet Memories"
   6. "Things We Said Today" (Lennon/McCartney)
   7. "Midnight Special" (Arranged by Led Better/Lomax)
   8. "Style Style"
   9. "I Can't Imagine"
  10. "Down To The River"
  11. "Soggy Noodle"
  12. "Cosmically Conscious" - 4:39


I'd like to see Off The Ground reissued with at least some of these included as bonus tracks. You could do the same thing with Paul's other post-Flowers In The Dirt albums as well.  

[Brynjar]

Off the Ground was one the first McCartney-solo-album I bought. I was about 15. I quite liked it, I must say. Never listen to it these days though. But hey, who can forget classic-poetry like:

I saw a cat with a machine in his brain, the man who fed him said he didn't feel any pain.
I