I might get flack for this from the legions of Macca devotees (like that would stop me lol)...BUT...I think the song "Dance Tonight" is one of Paul's WEAKEST songs in ages (taking it's rightful place along "With A Little Luck" & "Silly Love Songs". Dont get me wrong, "Memory Almost Full" is fairly decent (as a full cd)  but this track is GOD AWEFUL...it's SOOOO simplistic. Sounds like Paulie threw it together in two minutes. I hate it. Boring after second hearing. (And "boring" is a word I usually NEVER apply to Macca)

( "Gratitude" & "You Tell Me" are decent tracks, though)

I think it's quite fun. Nothing special though. I prefer it to Ever Present Past.

It was a nice song for me for about the first week, but then it grew increasingly annoying as I heard it more.

It's just my opinion, but I think the last really great song he wrote was "Jenny Wren" on the previous album. I find that song complex and beautiful. Before that, I havent been that impressed w/ his output since the great "Mull of Kintyre". His first five solo albums are all top-notch,  IMO (yes, even "Wild Life")
For me, Paul's compositions were more inspired (and therefore better) when Linda was still alive and well and w/ him. These days, in my estimation, he seldom "hits one out of the ballpark" (like he did w/ "Jenny Wren"), but when he does, it's usually a great piece of art.

Needless to say, all his Beatle-era work is beyond reproach.

-MMM

it is for me the owrst track on the album by a long shot theres something really cheesy about it and i dont mean the usual good cheesy macca and i personally think ever present past is very fresh sounding

Quoted from fendertele

it is for me the owrst track on the album by a long shot theres something really cheesy about it and i dont mean the usual good cheesy macca and i personally think ever present past is very fresh sounding

I like your term "good cheesy macca"---(that could be a whole new thread !)(beatle era & solo years?)

my fave "good cheesy maccas" (at least the ones I can think of right now  lol) :

1)You're Mother Should Know
2) You Gave Me The Answer
3)Ob La Di, Ob la da
4)Rocky Racoon
5)Maxwell's Silver Hammer....etc., etc....

and...*drumroll*..the GREATEST "good cheesy macca" of ALL TIME: "When I'm 64"

-MMM

Well, it's indicative of what pot and domesticity did to Paul's prior inventiveness. He started trying to fit in with existing trends instead of setting new ones. I still think his most underrated album is Off the Ground. With the exceptions of maybe two songs, it's beautiful stuff.

I also like the term "good cheesy macca". It suits perfectly!

I lament that I have less tolerance for it than many others on this board. And me, a cheese lover! I find great enjoyment in "Your Mother Should Know" and "Ob La Di, Ob la da" (great aerobics song), but usually I just shriek and hit skip. Sort of what I expect Tkitna's reaction would be if he ever hears any Indian music.

I agree, 'Dance Tonight' does suck, but i'm not sure how anybody can say 'Gratitude' is any good either.

It's not his best work, but that doesn't mean you can't appreciate it.

Quoted from Chris

I still think his most underrated album is Off the Ground. With the exceptions of maybe two songs, it's beautiful stuff.

i agree 100%, Off The Ground is a fantastic album, totally forgotten
by a lot of critics & people. C'mon People is a fantastic song!

Quoted from Andy Smith

i agree 100%, Off The Ground is a fantastic album, totally forgotten
by a lot of critics & people. C'mon People is a fantastic song!

I agree with you two. Off the Ground is really underrated. I guess that's because OTG was in the middle of two comeback albums, really special productions in McCartney's catalogue - Flowers in the Dirt and Flaming Pie.
Off the Ground follows nearly the same spirit as Flowers, so there was nothing really new there. That's because no one consider that album.

I love Off The Ground!  

I like Dance Tonight when I hear it every once in a while, I just think it's a fun little song. Yeah, it's definitly not the best work he's done, but so what? I read in an interview with him about Memory Almost Full, and he said that he was just messing around with his piano with his daughter Beatrice, and he just came up with a little tune that she started dancing to. It just kept going, and so I guess it was just a little song put together with his daughter as an inspiration.

Quoted from 829

I might get flack for this from the legions of Macca devotees (like that would stop me lol)...BUT...I think the song "Dance Tonight" is one of Paul's WEAKEST songs in ages (taking it's rightful place along "With A Little Luck" & "Silly Love Songs". Dont get me wrong, "Memory Almost Full" is fairly decent (as a full cd)  but this track is GOD AWEFUL...it's SOOOO simplistic. Sounds like Paulie threw it together in two minutes. I hate it. Boring after second hearing. (And "boring" is a word I usually NEVER apply to Macca)

( "Gratitude" & "You Tell Me" are decent tracks, though)

Its just a fun little song that he put together. Its not like he wrote the song intending to be the next "The Long and Winding Road". Simplistic is what its suppose to be. Just because its not complex doesn't mean its 'GOD AWEFUL'.  You judge too harshly.

Not a bad little song, but nothing near his best work of course (same goes for MAF as an album). I will say that I HATE his new single, Ever Present Past. I have no idea what goes through his head when he picks such mediocre tracks for singles. I mean, If he knows Dance Tonight is not fantastic, as he has implied in interviews, why does he want to put it out as a single to be representative of his new album?