New Paul McCartney album "Egypt Station" coming September 7, 2018*

There probably will be songs about love.

 

And one about Brazil!

 

..and, one about the president.....maybe?

 

Also one about frogs

 

And one about trains ...

 

And one about tight trousers ...
Wait, that's not the Dirk McQuickly thread?

 

I've actually found a sample lyric from that song!


"on my way to work
I took a public train
There were photographers
I made the tabloid news"

 

That's almost a haiku...

 

In fact, it might indeed be a haiku. Because I really don't know what a haiku is. It just sounds good ...

 

It's not a haiku
Search Google to learn the rules
It's fun once you know

 

Although there are exceptions I believe, the standard haiku format is three lines, with 5, 7, and 5 syllables.

 

Usually a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

 

I doubt he will include that song on the new album, if he has even recorded it. It would attract the kind of controversy he seems to prefer to avoid. Everyone would focus on it, instead of discussing the melodies, lyrics, etc.

If he does include that one on the new album, I wonder: would he play it live only in Brazil?
Perhaps it will have a Latin American vibe without mentioning a specific country, so that he can play it live in other countries as well.

 

If he wrote one about the president it would be recorded and put on the album. I don’t think he’d mind the publicity at all.

 

So let me get this straight, Paul's album has been delayed because he is writing the lyrics to each song in haiku?

 

In fact, it might in
deed be a haiku. Because
I really don't know


With apologies to Arnold Grove

 

It sure seems everyone is taking for granted that the White album thing is happening in their timeline predictions...I don’t get it.

 

None of these things are happening. No new album. No White Album box. No Archive Collection for 'Wild Life' and 'Red Rose Speedway'. None of it. At least, officially none of it is going to happen. Until I hear more than rumors, it ain't happening. ;-)

 

You're familiar with the 50 year "use it or lose it" copyright law in the EU, yes? Aside from a handful of those "White Album Demos" (aka the Esher acoustic recordings) on Anth 3, none have been officially released. If they aren't issued officially by Dec 31 2018, undoubtedly some minor label would have a pretty appealing release they could put out in 2019. That's one reason I've fully expected a deluxe White Album for quite some time...

http://www.ppluk.com/Documents/Member Services/PPL Copyright Term Extension FAQs - Performers 2014.pdf

3. How is copyright term measured?

For released recordings, the law calculates the duration of copyright protection for sound recordings by counting years from the end of the year of release. The year of release will be the first of:
 the year in which the recording was first published (this means physical publication); or
 the year in which the recording was first played in public or communicated to the public.

Following copyright term extension, the copyright term for sound recordings will generally be:
 50 years for sound recordings released on or before 31 December 1962 (and so copyright in these sound recordings has now expired, and is not "revived" by copyright term extension).
 70 years for sound recordings released on or after 1 January 1963, subject to termination of the copyright in the extended term (years 51 to 70) under the "use it or lose it" provisions.

If a sound recording is not released within 50 years of the end of the year in which it is made, the copyright in the sound recording expires at the end of that 50th year, even if it is released at a later date.
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Perhaps a bonus track or a B-side, like he did with Big Boys Bickering?

 

And unlike anything that would have made it to Bootleg Release 196X, these Esher demos are likely the most listenable previously-bootlegged material by the Beatles.

 

So as to avoid specifically mentioning "BRAZIL", he will call the song "Home of Portuguese-Speaking Beautiful People Who Live In A Country Other Than Portugal". Which would leave more to the imagination ...

 

Yea, I understand and familiar with the copyright law.

It just seems a bit arrogant (not referring to you in particular) to assume we are getting such a lavish box set or to post things like, “well we are getting product X in November and product Y in December” when nothing has even been hinted at officially.

But again, I certainly HOPE you’re right in your expectations. It would be a Day 1 preorder for me.

 

Drainpipe trousers. Maybe some council houses.

 

Is Drainpipe Trousers the name of the new album?