 "Post Beatle" | 2008-05-29 |
| - Reviewed By User: A11V7XIKPAAFXJ |
"Maybe I'm Amazed", "That Would Be Something" and "Every Night" validate the cost of the CD alone. However, for those who have an interest in the growth and maturing of an iconic musician McCartney is a must have. The rawness of the production and individuality of this one man show (with the exception of Linda's vocals) perhaps was what Paul needed to continue musically post-Beatles.
For you younger listeners, with no interest in the growth of Paul's talent, get the three tracks at the very least.
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 "Break-up" | 2008-05-27 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1Z17W3VNUXWLB |
| This was the album that broke the Beatles up. A true solo album.Some of the songs were being rehearsed in the studio for an upcoming Beatles album titled"Let It Be" . Think John was psst for a reason? The rest is all history now. Yoko didn't break up the Beatles ,Yoko and Linda did. Just listen for yourself.Good music although he could have made it better by having another drummer, maybe a couple of guitarists and some background vocalists. HMMMMM |
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 "Macca's 1st Solo Album" | 2008-05-08 |
| - Reviewed By User: AS1BGQXQJNKNE |
| Still by far Paul's best and first solo release with Linda McCartney. A must have for the Macca Collector! |
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| "McCartney fresh from the Beatles" | 2008-04-23 |
| - Reviewed By tobeetwo |
| So much talent in this recording. Coming shortly after the Beatles breakup, this recording showcases what Paul had written for himself. The album crescendos to "Maybe I'm Amazed", which is......amazing! |
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| "Excellent simple pleasure - brings back memories of simpler times" | 2008-04-06 |
| - Reviewed By waynejperry |
Great minimalistic approach from paul - fun disc with great memories attached for me - the measure of music for most people!
I enjoyed this solo album for its simple pleasures - has some nice stuff on it and is refreshingly minimalistic in its approach to some classic writing by paul. it sort of balances "Band on the Run" and "Venus and Mars" type studio productions. I think of it as a close and personal type statement about paul's more happy and free time in his professional and personal lives! these moments come infrequently to us all and i am happy paul captured this time-capsule of his life for us to share and remember moments like these we all cherish! nothing simpler and sweeter than a bowl full of cherries that are so happy they jump out of the bowl and all over the table in celebratory jubilant dance of joy! ;-) can't wait for the next bout of this type of simple pleasure-cycle to come round again! hope the same for y'all! |
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| "McCartney's best" | 2008-02-10 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1X2BGPSA5UPZ4 |
| I have this album and purchased the CD to go into my collection. This is McCartney's best with Band on the Run next to the Best. There are a few strange songs on here, but that is what makes this so unique. Also if I remember correctly, McCartney played each instrument on this album plus vocals. In my opinion, that is "amazing".. Maybe I'm Amazed is still one of the best songs ever made. It is "mood" music also. |
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| "Maybe I'm Amazed At The Way I Really Need You" | 2008-01-06 |
| - Reviewed By prisrob |
"Baby Im amazed at the way you love me all the time
Maybe Im afraid of the way I love you
Baby Im amazed at the the way you pulled me out of time
Hung me on a line
Maybe Im amazed at the way I really need you."
Paul McCartney
"The Beatles influence on rock music and popular culture was--and remains--immense. Their commercial success started an almost immediate wave of changes--including a shift from U.S. global dominance of rock and roll to UK acts, from soloists to groups, from professional songwriters to self-penned songs, and to changes in fashion" Wiki
Remember when we first met the Beatles? They were ours, those boys with the mop-top haircuts who sang those songs for us, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand". Move on to 1970 and Paul McCartney is sitting and writing in a cottage on the Scottish Coast. He and Lennon are on the outs, and the Beatles as they were, are no more. Paul has lovely Linda and his writing is prolific. A decision is made to record these songs and these times. Thirteen songs that started the debut of Paul McCartney's single career. 38 years ago, a new era, is when we first heard 'Baby I'M Amazed', a song that defined the new McCartney.
'Every Night'-"Every night I just wanna go out, get out of my head
Every day I dont want to get up, get out of my bed"- a man twixt and between, finding his way.
'Junk'- "Candlesticks, Building Bricks- Some Old and New Memories for You and Me", the lyrics to a life of building memories.
'Man We Was Lonely'-"Man we was lonely, Yes we was lonely, And we was hard pressed to find a smile, Man we was lonely, Yes we was lonely, But now were fine all the while." It is OK to be alone and lonely- lovely tune.
'Teddy boy'-"Mommy's gonna see you through" And he said:
"Mommy, don't worry, your Teddy boy's here Taking good care of you
Mommy don't worry, Teddy boy's here Teddy's gonna see you through". The lyrics say it all.
'Singalong Junk'- the most beautiful instrumental-
"Baby Im a man and maybe Im a lonely man
Whos in the middle of something
That he dosent really understand
Babe Im a man and maybe youre the only woman
Who could ever help me
Baby wont you help me understand"
Paul McCartney
One of the most beautiful CD's of our era. Songs that were written unaware that Paul McCartney was traveling down another new road.
Highly Recommended. prisrob 01-05-08
The McCartney Years
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| "(3.5 stars) THE "HOMEMADE" McCARTNEY ALBUM ! (gems, jams, junk, and "Junk")" | 2007-10-30 |
| - Reviewed By howlinblindmojo |
While still with The Beatles, Paul McCartney secretly made the one-man-band, 4-track recorded McCartney album at his home in London, England. He sings, plays all the instruments, and his wife, Linda, sings backing vocals. Mostly acoustic, the songs sound homespun and carefree, and they revolve around Paul's fun and happy new family life. McCartney is not a great album, but it did what it set out to do, and it introduced the public to Paul McCartney, ex-Beatle. The classic Maybe I'm Amazed is the highlight of the album, and the song is still a McCartney concert staple and fan favorite. The acoustic Junk is a pleasantly melodic tune from the precarious perspective of second-hand items for sale at a thrift store.
Buy, buy says the sign in the shop window
Why, why says the junk in the yard.
The song is quite charming, and it's still a part of Paul's repitoire. Every Night is acoustic and also good, and continues the theme of the happy family man.
But tonight, I just want to stay in
...and be with you.
The acoustic Teddy Boy is the story of a single mom, her young son, and their devotion to each other, even as circumstances change their lives. Paul goes electric and plays a hot guitar riff on the lusty Oo You. Man We Was Lonely and That Would Be Something are simple and fun, but that's about it, and the instrumentals on the album are pretty much filler. McCartney fans will find the album special because it was Paul's first, and it has some historical significance because it was the first solo album by an ex-Beatle, and it made it official that, indeed, The Beatles had split. In all, McCartney is an unpolished, homemade, one-man-band family affair that's fun, sort of frivolous, has it's moments, and really isn't that bad, if you relax and take it on it's own terms. |
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| "A Fractured Album From A Fractured Artist" | 2007-10-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: A6IKK4QF779PQ |
As the greatest band in the world splintered into four pieces, the "cute poppy" piece of that band fell into a depression, grew a beard, retreated to his farm and took aid and comfort in his new bride and family.
As Paul struggled for a new direction in a new decade, he penned songs that showcased the true heart of a man that rarely revealed such things; while the lyrics remained straight-forward Macca fare, with only hints of what the man really felt peaking through, the music itself is stark, bare, unfinished melodies that drift by with an underlying current of moody self-doubt that exposes more than Paul probably intended of his true state of mind.
Some of the songs work ("Every Night", "Junk", and of course, the classic "Maybe I'm Amazed", which could have sat quite comfortably next to anything on LET IT BE). Unfortunately, though, much of the album falls short. Still, the shoulder-shrugging verve McCartney displayed by actually releasing this unpolished album gives it a certain charm, and stands against the overrated first solo outing by fellow ex-Beatle/songwriting partner John Lennon as the better of the two.
It's an uneven, fractured album from a fractured artist who was just "a lonely man in the middle of something" that he couldn't understand... And this was his musical testament to that period in his life. |
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| "The official "Beatle Breakup Album"." | 2007-09-30 |
| - Reviewed By rcj67 |
| If you were around back then you remember that we all still couldn't quite believe or be absolutely certain if the fab four were all done or not. Hoping, just hoping for that one last album. Never happened really. McCartney turned his back on the boys, told them all to bugg off for a bit and fired up his home brew studio to create a masterpiece. It was a mindblower. When news of this album's pending release came out, everyone was skeptical. Will it be Beatlish kind of music or some new type of sound that Paul had in his private stash or a complete bust. Turned out, it wasn't any of those. It was Paul, in a studio, just being left the hell alone to do what he wanted. Paul will go down in history as having been the "bossy" Beatle in the studio. Always sparing and taking swings at the rest of the group (mostly John...no contest there) to try and get the music done his way. He didn't have to do that on his first solo release.. Pure Paul...like it or lump it. We liked it. Liked it so much that fans eventually changed the name of the album for him. Unofficially retitled "A bowlfull of Cherries", this recording holds up perfectly in modern day. I wish Paul would go back to that studio and do another one like it. Do away with all the digital this and that, dubs and overdubs etc etc etc and just build another masterpiece. Maybe he still has that 8 track machine around.. |
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