Why no McCartney Best Of?

Paul McCartney is Wings
Wings is Paul McCartney

It's all Paul.

 

I never said it wasn't. But, he has 2 comps for Wings already. IMO, when he stopped using the name Wings , he forgot how to write good singles.

 

No More Lonely Nights
Coming Up
My Brave Face
This One
Hope Of Deliverance
Jenny Wren
Beautiful Night

And if you say they didn't chart high enough then.....Ebony and Ivory /Say, Say, Say

 

PRE-ORDERED!!

 

I would cut it down to 4 discs instead of 6, but you've got some very good songs there.

 

You are a masochist.

 

Actually, he's had a dozen or so Top 30 hits in the UK in the last 30 years.

 

Why most of users think that 'Best Of' compilation must be based on top 30 hits? I don't think other 3 fabs' solo compilations based on such criteria. No one of them really had a lot of Top xx success with singles.

What is needed is the 'Best Of' retrospective of the whole solo career from 1970 till 2014. Best material from each album/single.
It seems to me, no one needs another mixture of Wings Greatest and All the Best which were based on hits.

 

I don't remember any of them.

 

Talk about a flop. A McCartney post TUG of WAR Greatest hits would be a flop. Unless it was filled with some tracks of Paul singing Beatles stuff live or something, the interest would be ZERO. Paul knows it too. If there was a new HITS album, it would have to be sprinkled with some WINGS classics. Imagine a post 70's RINGO set. Stop and Smell the F***ing Roses would be of no interest to anyone except people who played on the songs.

 

I'm not sure which version (unedited) you refer to.

Paul has three versions that have been released;

1) Live at the BBC- sings lead on Beatles version track 15
2) Choba B CCCP- track 8
3) Good Rockin' Tonight - Legacy of Sun Records- w' Scotty Moore & D. J. Fontana track 1

None of these are the version you're referring to?
Otherwise where might I find it?
What was the promo you mentioned promoting?

 

There was an advance promo release titled 'Unmastered Selections From Good Rockin' Tonight' that contains an unedited 4:57 version of Paul's "That's All Right" from the Sun Records tribute from 2001. It's out there, though I've never heard it. If any kind soul has it and would care to share, please PM me as I have just about any other Macca to offer in return (including the new Sweet Thrash mixes!)...

 

I agree with the OP. "We" need a new comp of entirely singles /non-album tracks remastered a lot better than "Wingspan" and hopefully omitting most of the unnecessary material from that compilation.

Wings made a lot of good singles in their day but only one good studio album. With all the remastering taking place of McCartney's back-catalogue currently , you might have hoped for a decent Wings period compilation by now that is expanded well beyond "Greatest Hits" (that ashamedly omitted "Listen To What The Man Said") but omits all the other superfluous material. I'm not buying Venus & Mars at any price just to get that one song.

 

I bought All the Best! on cassette when it came out. It was great for the time.

 

BEST OF MCCARTNEY:

1.Can't Buy Me Love
2.Yesterday
3.Day Tripper
4.We Can Work It Out
5.Yellow Submarine
6.Eleanor Rigby
7.Penny Lane
8.Hello, Goodbye
9.Lady Madonna
10.Hey Jude
11.Get Back
12.Let It Be
13.The Long and Winding Road
14.Maybe I'm Amazed
15.Another Day
16.Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
17.Give Ireland Back To The Irish
18.My Love
19.Live and Let Die

1.Band on the Run
2.Listen to What the Man Said
3.Silly Love Songs
4.Mull of Kyntire
5.Coming Up
6.Ebony and Ivory
7.Say Say Say
8.Hope of Deliverance
9.Young Boy
10.Fine Line
11.Dance Tonight
12.My Valentine
13.Queenie Eye
14.Four Five Seconds


I mean, this is a great stuff for a 'Compilation for beginners'.

 

I certainly wouldn't mind a nice comp covering Flowers in the Dirt through New. It's really ridiculous, when you think about it, how many legacy artists ignore the last 30 years of their career. It's not like many didn't fall in love with their music during the late 80s/early 90s, and after.

 

This is my All The Best Volume 2:

Fine Line
Ever Present Past
This One
Hope Of Deliverance
From a Lover to a Friend
No Other Baby
Lonely Road
Young Boy
New
My Soul
Off The Ground
C'mon People
Sing The Changes
Jenny Wren
Dance Tonight
Out of Sight
(I Want To) Come Home
Figure of Eight
Queenie Eye
Tropic Island Hum
Beautiful Night
Put it There
My Brave Face
Your Loving Flame
Dance 'Til We're High
All My Trials
My Valentine
Hope For The Future

 

I don't think any of those even remotely hold a candle to Band On the Run, Live and Let Die, Jet, Uncle Albert, etc.

And, I'm aware Uncle Albert was listed as Paul McCartney, but it was during the Wings era.

 

We've already had "All The Best".

I guess they could package up "All The Rest":

1. My Brave Face
2. Put It There
3. Hope of Deliverance
4. Get Outta My Way
5. I Owe It All To You
6. The World Tonight
7. Young Boy
8. Beautiful Night
9. Run Devil Run
10. Watercolour Guitars
11. Lonely Road
12. Fine Line
13. Friends To Go
14. Jenny Wren
15. Dance Tonight
16. Mr. Bellamy
17. Vintage Clothes
18. My Valentine
19. New
20. Queenie Eye

Meh.

 

Don't forget the DVD configurations as well.

 

Great job except I think you'd have to include Ebony and Ivory & No More Lonely Nights, so probably Tug of War and one of the other newer songs would have to go.

 

Too late:

 

As many here have pointed out, McCartney had lots of hits in the 70s and early 80s and very little since.

Any hits-oriented compilation would very much cover the same ground that Wings Greatest Hits and All the Best have already covered.

As for a compilation filled with deeper album tracks, B-sides, there is probably no market for that anymore.

 

I can't argue about any of your choices...excellent comp! I'd buy it.

 

Disc 1
Sing The Changes
The World Tonight
Lonely Road (Remix)
Press
Hope Of Deliverance
My Valentine
Fine Line
My Brave Face
Young Boy
No Other Baby
Figure Of Eight
Vanilla Sky (Oscar Nominated so has to go on, IMO)
Promise To You Girl
My Soul
Dance Tonight
New

Disc 2
Only Mama Knows (Edited intro)
Jenny Wren
This One
Little Willow
Why So Blue (one of the best from MAF)
Calico Skies
Your Loving Flame
Too Much Rain
Stranglehold
From A Lover To A Friend (edit)
Off The Ground
Queenie Eye
This Never Happened Before
Maybe Baby
Dance Till We're High
Ever Present Past