2016 Paul McCartney compilation album - "Pure McCartney" *

yeah but for what it is (2 CD's) some on here argue it is more comprehensive than the 4 CD box?

 

I couldn’t be bothered with this compilation. The man was amazing from 1962-1970 and solo 1970 to 1977.
After that I can only take some songs from some of his albums.

 

From A Lover To A Friend and Magic are also good considerations for Pure McCartney since I believe both are about Linda.

 

I still wonder what Capitol/MPL were smoking when they decided to make "From A Lover" the first single from "Driving Rain"? To me it could be Paul's weakest single ever in his entire career! Other than some AC stations it was avoided like the plague on radio. Just not a good song (very slow and plodding along). It sounds like a "half finished" song! The whole "I'm in a dilemna" part with mumbled lyrics....yuck! Also not a fan of Abe's drumming on it and I think big Abe is great! Glad it is not on "Pure McCartney". That case of a first single I think also gave no sales boost to the album after "Wingspan" earlier in the year did so well. Not a lot of pre-album buzz for "DR" from what I remember 15 years ago! And that awful original album cover too-yuck! I did love the "tour edition" cover taken from the "Lonely Road" video!

 

I almost sent you a Lady Mucca pic but I knew I would be drawn and quartered if I did so!

 

After "Pure McCartney" comes out, an enterprising fan has done some nice photo shop work. Looks awesome, if it could only be this easy...............

 

Looks great, but we won't be getting photos of either Denny on any of the CD faces.

 

I also think "BOTR" the first reissue was the last to have just the single album disc release. I think the rest have all been 2 CD sets. With of course "WOA" staying a 2 CD set.

 

PRE-ORDERED!

(yeah, I'm the pre-ordered guy!)

 

Actually BOTR was the first and only reissue to have 3 disc in a non-deluxe edition. I believe McCartney I, II and Ram had 1 disc, 2 disc, vinyl and book editions. Subsequent releases dropped the 1-disc option.

 

My favourite too.

 

Wow! You are a genius.

 

I'm my opinion, the lead off single should've been Driving Rain. Usually albums that have their names taken from a song usually have the song which shares its name with the album as a single. Probably since Driving Rain had low sales they never got around to releasing another single to support it and Driving Rain was never a single as a result. The only albums coming to mind that don't have a song that shares its name with the album title as a single are Wild Life, Flaming Pie, Run Devil Run and Driving Rain, Bad Boy and Cloud Nine

 

I happen to love the song,(and the album) but agree that it was a terrible song to pick as the single. Instead of exploding out of the radio, it probably had people dozing off and crashing their cars on the way home from work.

I'm glad you noticed the drumming also. I've mentioned the amateurish drumming in the song in a couple of older threads and nobody ever picked up on the point and agreed.

Pure McCartney is the first release of Paul's that I'm going to pass on because I have everything that's on it already.I had everything on Wingspan also, but I bought that one out of...habit I guess.

 

I'll probably pass as well unless there is a hi Rez download.

 

Wingspan was an easier "buy" because it had some non-lp single mixes. I passed on this new one.

 

I'm not a McCartney scholar but I've read that Ringo chose it as the single.

 

Yes, I remember reading back in the era that Paul said he played the Driving Rain tracks to Ringo and Ringo said " There's your single. " (From A Lover To A Friend)

 

It's the best song on a hard-going album. Not a bad album just McCartney's (only) bleak LP.

 

I like all of Driving Rain actually. If you are using the word bleak to mean downbeat , I think Chaos and Creation in the Backyard has a more melancholy , depressed feel to it than Driving Rain.

If you are using bleak to mean not up to his usual standards, I disagree but that's not unusual here . We will all never agree on which of his albums are his "best" and which ones are his "dogs ". We can agree though (I think, except for the occasional thread troll) that we all like most of his things , just not always the same things , because his catalog is so deep and varied.

 

Bleak as in depressing, and a bit light on tunes too for Paul, but very interesting. I think C&CitB is pretty mostly, not bleak and/or depressing imo. And more tuneful.

 

That's awesome...I'm not even a big Wildlife fan, but that mock up is awesome. Wonder if the real thing (if they ever get round to it) would look like that?

 

I believe this mock-up originated here a few years ago, can't remember the original created. Didn't expect it would take this long to reissue Wild Life though!

 

If Ringo had also chose the singles from his albums from 1977-1981, then him choosing the lead single off of Driving Rain was a trainwreck move. Ringo The 4th had some of the pretty bad single selection, but there was almost nothing able to help that album sadly or Bad Boy. Attention or You've Got A Nice Way should've been a single IMO from SASTR instead of Private Property.

 

No. You likely did NOT have the "Bip Bop/Hey Diddle" medley, which was previously unreleased on CD/LP!! That's the reason that I had to purchase it!