Buried In Time--McCARTNEY II--POLL:

~"Summer's Day Song"
~"One Of These Days"
~"Coming Up"
~"Waterfalls"

 

I was not a fan when it was released... but it has grown on me. Fun low pretense innovative experimental pop. Love it. Top 5 solo McCartney for me.

 

Headphones and a fatty.

 

The original double album version wasn't turned down, Paul actually decided to whittle it down to a more "commercial" single album. No question, 90% of the listeners never would have made it past side one of the double album (if they even made it that far). Gotta admire Paul's cajones for sequencing it that way, though.

That used to be S.O.P. for me

 

Hmmmmm..... played this and "Trans" this week. One comes across as actually pretty cool, successful experiment, the other as an old guy locked in a room with too much state of the art equipment. And way too much time. And money. Now: Guess what is what

(Apparently Lennon liked it)

 

John Lennon rated it,so

 

Two things I really like about this album: The two instrumentals. And the fact that you can make really cool selfies with the vinyl edition's sleeve.

 

Songs I like:

Coming Up
Temporary Secretary
Waterfalls
One Of These Days

Songs I love:

Front Parlour
Frozen Jap

OK - but too conventional:

On The Way
Nobody Knows
Summer Day's Song

Can't stand:

Bogey Music
Darkroom

Strange mixture.

 

Currently spinning the 2011 reissue

 

One of McCartney's absolute worse!

I do like Coming Up - both versions.
One Of These Days - It's actually one of my very fave McCartney acoustic songs.
On The Way - Yeah it's the bluesy guitar playing that I love, and I also like BB Kings version.

 

If forced to choose, One Of These Days. But Temp Sec, Coming Up, Waterfalls, and others are incredible. How come Mccartney did not sue TLC over Waterfalls? Some straight up plagiarism going on there. Clearly I love the more avant-garde (ie crap) side of the Beatles as Mac 2 is in my top 3 fav solo records by Paul. Conventional music is so....conventional.

 

Girls Just Want to Have Fun also feels like it borrowed from Frozen Jap a little.

 

As Robert Hazard wrote Girls Just Want to Have Fun in 1979, it most certainly borrowed none of it.

 

That's right! I forgot it was released by him first. So, maybe McCartney heard it and ripped it off.

 

This is one of those albums that has really grown on me over the years. I like it more now than I ever did. I have the original UK CD and really like the extra track called Secret Friend.

 

Or maybe an idea so fantastic as "Frozen (Potentially Offensive Term In These Sensitive Times Redacted) Girls Just Want to Have Fun" was just sitting there in the ether, and both men were tuned enough into the universe to pluck it out.

(Seriously, though, it appears McCartney's recording and Hazard's authorship were pretty simultaneous. Neither was released when the other was written.)

 

Yeah, the part that sounds similar is not the most unexpected melodic line, it's reasonable to expect more than one person to compose it.

 

I'll spin this record tonight. An odd album maybe Paul was just getting his toes wet entering 80's waters. Not sure what sound he should enter the new decade with, with much chagrine of his then current audience.

 

Just listening now. Forgot that I really like On The Way!

Side 1 is fun.

Frankly, if one has affection for McCartney, I don’t see how one can not appreciate II...They are separated by 10 years and nothing else. They are kooky, fragmented, homespun, wack-job records that grow on you like an old flannel shirt with pink buttons...as in, it doesn’t quite work on first glance, but so what!

 

That’s such a great little song! It’s my daughters favorite!

 

McCartney II sucked me in from the first listen, even if I didn't quite know what to make of the album at the time. I always liked the album, but it took me years -once I started doing my own 'one man band' projects- to actually "get it".

My five year old likes it as well.

 

Bump

 

40 years old next week, and have it on now. It's one of my favorites, fun record indeed.

 

McCartney II... I'm a big fan of McCartney's 5-album run from 'Venus & Mars' through 'II'. For me, that period was when I was first getting into music and then getting fanatic about it (4th grade through freshman year of high school), and The Beatles were the first band I was fanatic about so of course with Paul on Casey's Top 40 all the time I became a fan of what he was doing in those years. All these years later, I'd say I listen to 'II' more than any of the others. 'London Town' would be close. Just something about the weirdness of 'II'. Sometimes I sounds like an experiment to me, sometimes it sounds more finished. Big fan of the Archive version of this album.

One of the things that makes this album appealing to me is I think the track sequencing is very well done. "One Of These Days" as a closer, 2 thumbs up.

 

My four pics;
Coming Up
On The Way
Waterfalls
Front Parlour
btw I like Secret Friend bonus track on the CD too.
This was recorded June/July 1979, Bowie's Low released in Jan '77, Heroes in Oct '77.
I gave this another listen recently and I think it's a great album.
I don't know about it being so experimental, sounds like Paul is in full control of things.
I would rank it as one of the best post Beatles albums by any of the former Fabs.