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

Well that must be Billy Budapest

 

Try making an edit of the song, cut out the ghastly oooh la la la armalemma etc, both times it appears and the track is saved. What's left is a haunting melody with fragile voice and piano that could almost have fitted on McCartney or Wildlife. But agree that the track as it stands defies all belief

 

20 music stars lead MASSIVE Pier Head celebration of Beatles' White Album Not sure if this has been posted yet in this thread. Since I'm selectively reading...and not reading...the various posts on this thread. Concert dates are Sept. 8th and 9th, coinciding with the release of Egypt Station.

 

"Genesis bassist Mike Rutherford said: “The White Album has never been performed as a live piece in this way before, and with the world-class musicians and guest vocalists we are gathering together we will deliver an incredible musical and visual experience for all Beatles fans to savour."

OK Mike...

Robyn Hitchcock & Heavy Friends, The Three Kings, Clerkenwell, by Richard Foster

 

Why? There are things in life that just are. Not everything has a resolution or a satisfying conclusion. It's just a snapshot, a window, on someone's life. Perhaps it's based on a real situation that hadn't been resolved at the time of writing...

As the man said, it's just another day... (Now I come to think of it, did that song have any real resolution?) Or maybe he said, "you say you want a resolution, well, you know..."

 

The falsetto goes straight back to Fred Astaire! It’s great.

 

It was a promo single release. On CD if you can locate it. Got mine years ago on the worlwide interwebs.

 

Same for Your Loving Flame, the album version sounds a bit flat to me and slightly too much going on. He did it way better on the Parkinson program (don't know why the video skips)

THIS IS MCCARTNEY.

 

This is how I feel essentially about the entire Driving Rain album.

He lacked much needed guidance, which fortunately he got later with Godrich for Chaos.

 

AFAIK it was never released.

I have it from Richard Marx's "Ultimate Archive" version of Driving Rain.

 

Hahaha. Touché.

I stand by my "lazy" commentary.

 

Yes. I have actually thought of doing this with a couple of DR tracks.

 

I never liked Fred Astaire's falsetto either.

 

I should have known better... ;-) I'm guessing you meant Dave Marx.

 

I don't hear the difference between this remix and the standard version

 

Backing vocals removed. I hear an organ I don't remember as well.

 

I don't know if you were addressing me through Billy (who was responding to my post about the song not having any resolution), but I never said I "need" ALL songs (your words) to "go somewhere." I'm fine with ambivalence and loose ends -- sometimes it works for a song, particularly if there's a reason to leave the listener hanging. In the case of "She's Given Up Talking," though, I feel the song needed something more to make it as good as it could have been. Paul made an interesting observation about this girl, but offers no insight -- and I'm not talking about the actual psychology of the actual girl, I mean the character in the song once Paul decided to write about her. Once he makes her a character in a song, he's free to come up with a final verse that shows us something new about her condition. Instead he just repeats the first verse.

Again, I like the song ... I just think it's incomplete. This happens to a lot of Paul's songs when he gets "first-take-itis."

 

Some news:
In the Netherlands there will be a Indie Only CD version of Egypt Station with 2 extra tracks, only available through independent record stores.

Paul McCartney Egypt Station CD + 2 extra songs

 

This is exactly what I did. I felt the song lost all momentum when he sang the noodling "oh, la la la" part.

I put together my own edit of the Driving Rain album that I'll listen to much more than the released version. Quite a few of the songs received edits and I think they made the album about 10 minutes shorter.

 

Yes and no, for me. "Dustbin lid" struck me immediately (in 1983, at age 15) as a terrible lyric; when I learned that it was a real phrase and not just Paul pulling syllables out of his ar$e, it didn't improve the line as a lyric for me. With "dicky-bird," the line seemed odd -- but even without knowing the provenance of the phrase, I could figure out for myself that the reference was to some kind of talkative bird. An unusual line, but it made sense independent of knowing the actual meaning.

 

Wow -- back on topic, folks! Now we need to know if these two extra tracks are among the tracks that will be on the Target version of the album, or the "Luxury Deluxe" package...

 

A dustbin lid is also referenced in the The Pet Shop Boys song "Only The Wind" which came out in 1990. Their dustbin lid played "havoc with the peace".

Paul's dustbin lid in 1983 was a similie to his behavior in "The Other Me".

Performers in Stomp simply smash them together to make obnoxious noises truly playing havoc with the peace.

 

Someone was going to possibly hear the album today. Correct? Who was that so that I can look out for a notification from him/her?

 

Actually that was reported weeks ago by, I think, @mindgames...

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

 

You have a good memory for someone almost as old as Glenn!