I think we'll all come to a general agreement with this one, in that it's probably about the best record that Paul has been involved with. It's certainly up there anyway.
Band On The Run A very good song. Paul tends to get knocked about poor lyrics and sometimes they are poor, not often in my view, but sometimes. On the past few records his words just seem to be, for the most part, a bit uninvolved. Here every word flows to create a great sense of what the song is about, just read the words, they are brilliant even on their own fabulous images in there. The singing is tops too, particularly how they go into the title with such joy et gusto. Nice guitars on the intro sections and acoustics on the main piece. Orchestral was how Paul once described this on a TV advert...
Jet Great fuzziness on here there is something else interesting going on inside of it too, maybe it's keys or percussion but it underpins it all very well, great voice. One of Paul's most nonsense rockers of them all, it's about a black puppy runt or a black horse apparently. Black something anyway.
Bluebird Kind of dreamy, nice guitar, nice percussion, splendid vocal swell it just makes you want to sing it. Simple but again nice images, it's soft and it's good...
Mrs Vanderbilt Nice acoustics and percussions. Bouncy bass, catchy and not much too it. Maybe the words are a dig at someone or something I don't know. Probably means nothing but its harmless enough, maybe the weakest on this...
Let Me Roll It Great guitar and yeah I can hear Cold Turkey similarity. The words "I can't tell you how I feel..." it's from the heart I'm sure of it and another rolling pun. There’s a can't quite hear it bit in there too it's very good, heavy with it.
Mamunia I like this one, it’s true indeed that “you’ve never felt the rain my friend ‘til you’ve felt it running down your back…” it’s maybe the most philosophical song on this, if that applies at all anyway… Guitars are pretty and when the vocal builds it really makes the song.
No Words When I first heard the album I found this to be the best most obviously single worthy song on it. Great harmonies again, brilliant guitar work. It just has that melody. Well done Denny.
Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me) This starts slowly and has been the most difficult track to get into on the record for me. It's a set of snips that eventually gets pulled off with aplomb in that McCartney style.
Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five Great piano, great vocal, rocks, interesting words. Blue chip Macca. Particularly the break with the synths and the ooo's. Builds up and breaks down brilliantly. What more can I say?
Overall it's the best McCartney/Wings record. It's concise, I think it's the easiest record to listen to without skipping tracks it flows very well and there's a link in it too I'm sure. It sounds like it was recorded where it was, if that makes sense, and that helps too.
A great album...
This sort of content is what this place should be about, pity it's being watered down and has been considerably.
