London Town is my favorite McCartney album. 1. London Town 2. Red Rose Speedway 3. Pipes of Peace 4. Band on the Run 5. II
Interesting thread. The OP created a thread to praise London Town and many of the responses have been thread craps.
I wouldn't disagree with putting either of those two above LONDON TOWN. VENUS AND MARS probably is the best of what I call my 2nd tier and ranks #5 on my list (behind BAND ON THE RUN, RAM, FLAMING PIE, and TUG OF WAR) and is clearly ahead of LONDON TOWN. The best songs on FLOWERS IN THE DIRT (My Brave Face, This One, Put It There) are superior to anything on LONDON TOWN, but I think LONDON TOWN has more depth. But both are clearly in the 2nd tier to me.
When it finally receives the archive release treatment - and hopefully a complete remix - I think it will be better considered in Paul’s canon. I’m with George Harrison - I consider “I’m Carrying” to be a thing of beauty and one of his most underrated songs. Sure it’s sentimental, but so are And I Love Her, P.S. I Love You, I Will and a host of other Beatles classics - and most of us don’t mind them at all.
. I think you haven't listened closely to "Famous Groupies", "Deliver Your Children", "Don't Let It Bring You Down", and "Morse Moose and the Grey Goose" (That one in particular is anything but "soft.")
Love it. A unique mixture of folk/soft/celtic/synth pop. On paper a dubious recipe, it works a treat (on the whole). I really hope it gets the long-overdue Archive treatment.
Fairport Convention it's not. Perhaps I have higher standards when it comes to someone calling music "folk".
The very final note of London Town has an actual acoustic piano. It’s a just one note but it’s there!
The front is okay (were they going for some kind of punk asthetic?), the back is indescribably ugly (or was it conceived as a comic relieve to the 'serious' tone of the front?)
Uncropped cover photo. It looks like each individual photo of Denny, Linda, and Paul was cut-and-pasted onto the background photo:
I wouldn't disagree with putting either of those two above LONDON TOWN. VENUS AND MARS probably is the best of what I call my 2nd tier and ranks #5 on my list (behind BAND ON THE RUN, RAM, FLAMING PIE, and TUG OF WAR) and is clearly ahead of LONDON TOWN. The best songs on FLOWERS IN THE DIRT (My Brave Face, This One, Put It There) are superior to anything on LONDON TOWN, but I think LONDON TOWN has more depth. But both are clearly in the 2nd tier to me.
