Paul McCartney/Wings-song by song thread

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Bemagnus, Sep 11, 2019.

Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.
  1. Who Cares

    Who Cares Forum Resident

    Location:
    Earth
    Soily

    A great live rocker song.

    Lyrics:

    People gathered here tonight,
    I want you to listen to me!
    To your left and to you right
    You've got some pretty soily company.

    Reader, writer, farmer, priest
    Breed controller, born deceased.
    Indian, lawyer, doctor, dog
    And a plumber with a fattened hog.

    Soily, soily
    The cat in satin trousers said it's oily
    Soily, soily
    The cat in satin trousers said it's oily
    You know he's right.

    Romans, Italians, country men,
    I want you to listen to me!
    I've said it twice and I'll say it again,
    We've got some pretty soily company.

    Liar, cheater, jungle chief,
    Saint, believer on relief.
    Action painter, Hitler's son,
    And a commie with a tommy gun.

    Soily, soily,
    The cat in satin trousers said it's oily.
    Soily, soily,
    The cat in satin trousers said it's oily,
    You know he's right.

    Credits:

    Produced by Paul McCartney
    Written by Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney
    Bass, Vocals by Paul McCartney
    Keyboard, Vocals by Linda McCartney
    Electric Guitar, Vocals by Denny Laine
    Electric Guitar, Vocals by Jimmy McCulloch
    Drums, Vocals by Joe English
    Saxophone by Howie Casey
    Saxophone by Thaddeus Richard
    Trumpet by Steve Howard
    Trombone by Tony Dorsey
    Label: MPL
    Release Date: December 10, 1976
    Recorded on June 7, 1976 at McNichols Sports Arena in Dnever / Abbey Road Studios in London (overdubs)
    Length: 5:44 minutes
     
    The MEZ likes this.
  2. Who Cares

    Who Cares Forum Resident

    Location:
    Earth
    Last edited: Dec 2, 2019
  3. BZync

    BZync Senior Member

    Location:
    Los Angeles
    Warm And Beautiful - when the album was released this was my favorite. Today I find it somewhat tedious. It could have been a classic McCartney ballad but it misses the mark. The melody is odd. It starts with one note sung five times in a row. Lennon could get away with that, and has many times, but it doesn't work here, perhaps because of the plodding tempo. It is almost redeemed by the leap on the word "beautiful". The bigger problem is the rigid meter of the vocal.

    I forgive McCartney's lyrics most of the time, but these lyrics are just bad. I'll gladly take a salamander or piano up the nose but the clichés in this song are just grating. The bridge to Warm And Beautiful may be an example of the worst, laziest lyrics Paul has ever written: Sunlight's morning glory tells the story of our love. Moonlight on the water brings me inspiration ever after. That's grade school poetry. Eleanor Rigby it ain't.
     
    Archguy, Bruce M. and WilliamWes like this.
  4. Bemagnus

    Bemagnus Music is fun Thread Starter

    We are on page 100 now. Still a way to go
    :):):)
     
  5. Bemagnus

    Bemagnus Music is fun Thread Starter

    I always liked those lines. I actually think the lyrics to Warm and Beatiful are Warm and beatiful.
    :)
     
    Last edited: Dec 2, 2019
    omikron likes this.
  6. BZync

    BZync Senior Member

    Location:
    Los Angeles
    Again, the reason why this thread is so fascinating.
     
    omikron likes this.
  7. Bemagnus

    Bemagnus Music is fun Thread Starter

    True
    We react so differently to songs and lyrics. Warm and beatiful is a song I didn t care much when the album was released. Started to revaluate the song after Working Classical. Now it certanely is a big one for me
     
  8. backseat

    backseat Italian translator - Paul McCartney's 'The Lyrics'

    Location:
    Italy
    San Ferry Anne

    I have a soft spot for this, I must admit. But the melody is so nice, and that jazzy arrangement, with brushes and horns. Yes it fades too early... or this is precisely why I like it? :) It's like: "Give me more please!" and you play it one more time.

    P.S. During the Get Back sessions Paul at some point says the words "San Ferry Anne". I don't have the whole dialogue segment at hand and as far as I remember it's unintelligible... but probably he was referring to the movie.
     
    The MEZ, Archguy, WilliamWes and 4 others like this.
  9. BZync

    BZync Senior Member

    Location:
    Los Angeles
    Speed Of Sound - somehow I am more generous to Speed Of Sound than I am to other McCartney albums but, when looking at it's components, its really only half an album. And it's not like the better half is so amazing. The highlights of this album are, for the most part, light weight. Which makes it a pleasant listen but nothing I find myself reaching for. With the exception of the Denny sung tracks, I have zero use for the non-McCartney vocals. I don't buy McCartney albums to hear Joe English sing. I'm very happy that this democracy experiment was short lived.
     
    The MEZ, WilliamWes and Who Cares like this.
  10. Who Cares

    Who Cares Forum Resident

    Location:
    Earth
    More about Soily...

    Paul McCartney & Wings - Soily (Live In Berlin 1972) (2018 Remaster)

     
    DocShipe and omikron like this.
  11. BZync

    BZync Senior Member

    Location:
    Los Angeles
    Soily - When was Wings Over America released? 1976? That's what I remember. I was 14 years old and the perfect age to be a McCartney fan, I suppose. Not as critical an ear as I would have in just two years. Even so I just never took to Soily. Even to this day it feels directionless. I love it when McCartney rocks - but this track just kind of hard-rock-meanders.
     
    streetlegal and Ludger like this.
  12. JDeanB

    JDeanB Senior Member

    Location:
    Newton, NC USA
    I remember reading a comment in an article years ago about Wings closing the show with Soily. I cannot remember who said it, but a record exec said he felt the momentum of the show was brought down by closing with an unknown song. He specifically mentioned that had the show closed with Get Back or Junior’s Farm, the audience would have gone nuts.
     
    WilliamWes and Who Cares like this.
  13. Rojo

    Rojo Forum Resident

    My impression is that McCartney wanted to write an old-fashioned love ballad and that the lyrics were consciously naive, in an old fashioned way. That's the feeling I get from the song.
     
  14. coco77

    coco77 Forum Resident

    Location:
    United States
    When I was googling for the spelling of “ça ne fait rien” I read that it actually became an expression in England, brought back from France by soldiers in WW1. So maybe he was just using the expression!

    Oh and I agree with your thoughts on the song- wish it was longer
     
    Who Cares and omikron like this.
  15. backseat

    backseat Italian translator - Paul McCartney's 'The Lyrics'

    Location:
    Italy
    He’s definitely using that expression. He heard it in 1973 on the boat on his way to Calais.
     
  16. Who Cares

    Who Cares Forum Resident

    Location:
    Earth
    Seaside Woman

    A lovely reggae song. Great Linda's vocals and nice harmonies.

    Lyrics:

    [Verse 1]
    Oh! Papa catch the fish from the bottom of the sea
    Mama fixes net, she keeps an eye on me
    Dainty little Mama, smile all day
    Cook your sweet potato, at night she lay, lay

    [Chorus]
    Oh, Seaside Woman
    Oh, Seaside Woman

    [Verse 2]
    Ride grey mule to market place each day
    Sells her beads and baskets for seashell pay
    Dainty little Mama, smile all day
    Papa loves you Mama, and he say, say

    [Chorus]
    Oh, Seaside Woman
    (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
    Oh, Seaside Woman
    (All right, snap it on Denny)

    Oh, Seaside Woman
    Oh, Seaside Woman
    (Yeah
    Turn around
    I don't wanna walk, I don't wanna talk
    I just wanna be with you)

    [Verse 1]
    Oh! Papa catch the fish from the bottom of the sea
    Mama fixes net, she keeps an eye on me
    Dainty little Mama, smile all day
    Papa love you Mama, at night he lay, lay

    [Outro]
    Oh, Seaside Woman
    Oh, Seaside Woman (oo yeah, hey!)
    Oh, Seaside Woman
    Seaside Woman
    Seaside Woman
    Seaside Woman (Yeah)
    Seaside Woman
    Seaside Woman

    Credits:

    Produced by Paul McCartney
    Written by Linda McCartney
    Backing and Harmony Vocals by Paul McCartney
    Backing Vocals, Electric Piano, Lead Vocals by Linda McCartney
    Backing Vocals, Guitar, Piano by Denny Laine
    Guitar by Henry McCullough
    Drums by Denny Seiwell
    Label: MPL
    Release Date: May 31, 1977 (US)
    Recorded at AIR Studios, London
    Length: 3:57 minutes

    Paul's own words:

    Wide Prairie 1998:

    "Paul McCartney on the song "Seaside Woman": “[This] was the first song Linda wrote. Her delight in being exposed to the Caribbean lifestyle inspired this beautiful response. The song was made by Linda and Oscar Grillo into an animated short which went on to win the Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or.” "

    Wingspan 2002:

    "Because of all the business troubles at Apple we really didn’t have much money. Well, I had some but I couldn’t get at it because it was frozen. But Linda had some savings from her photography so we were able to live on that for a while. We always used to say that if all the money went, if we became broke, then we’d go to Jamaica and live in a little shack. After our first visit to Jamaica, Linda wrote her first song, Seaside Woman. We cut a demo and I played drums. I didn’t have a snare drum, though, so I used a couple of ropes. Again, that’s why we called it our ‘funky period’ – it was all improvised. The harmonies on tracks like Seaside Woman became central to Wings. That sound was slightly different to what anyone else was doing. Elton John said he really loved our harmonies, and when I later worked with Michael Jackson he asked for Linda to be on the harmonies. Our voices did blend very well together."

    Promo Film:

    ""Seaside Woman" was turned into a cartoon short by Oscar Grillo in 1980. It depicts a young Jamaican girl and her loving parents who tend the fishing lines in Jamaica. The film won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. The cartoon was released (along with The Oriental Nightfish) on the VHS issue of Rupert and the Frog Song. It was re-released on DVD in 2004 (this time without The Oriental Nightfish) on Tales of Wonder: Music and Animation Classics."

    Source: Seaside Woman - Wikipedia

     
    omikron likes this.
  17. Who Cares

    Who Cares Forum Resident

    Location:
    Earth
    More about Seaside Woman...

    1986 Promo Film:

     
    omikron likes this.
  18. Who Cares

    Who Cares Forum Resident

    Location:
    Earth
    More about Seaside Woman...

    Paul McCartney & Wings -Seaside Woman (Live In Groningen 1972) (2018 Remaster):

     
    omikron likes this.
  19. Who Cares

    Who Cares Forum Resident

    Location:
    Earth
    Label: Epic
     
    omikron likes this.
  20. Dr. Pepper

    Dr. Pepper What, me worry?

    soily 8/1- due to lyric challenges otherwise it would be a 10.

    Seaside Woman - 10 /10 for Linda, her best song. If I wasn't grading it on a Linda curve, then probably a 7.5/10 or so.
     
    The MEZ likes this.
  21. Who Cares

    Who Cares Forum Resident

    Location:
    Earth
    More about Seaside Woman...

    There is a 1977 US Promo with a mono version. I think is a fold down version:

    [​IMG]
     
    omikron likes this.
  22. kaztor

    kaztor Music is the Best

    Suzy And The Red Stripes - Seaside Woman:
    This freewheeling little reggae tune sounds like something the Tom Tom Club could’ve come up with.
    It’s also very much a 1972 Wings song. Play it next to C Moon and you would be none the wiser without knowing about it’s origins.
    It’s just a fun, lighthearted throwaway kinda thing.
     
    Who Cares likes this.
  23. Who Cares

    Who Cares Forum Resident

    Location:
    Earth
    More about Seaside Woman...

    On August 17, 1979 the UK single was released on Am label with the same songs on yellow vinyl and a limited box set with postcards and badge:

    [​IMG]


    [​IMG]

     
    omikron likes this.
  24. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader

    Location:
    ontario canada
    ' Soily' is a good rocker ...and sometimes Macca's lyrics are best left unseen. Because once ya see ' em ya can' t unsee ' em.
     
    The MEZ, BZync, Rojo and 1 other person like this.
  25. maccafan

    maccafan Senior Member

    I agree with this! Though it's a good rocker, I was let down with Soily as an encore. When I saw Wings, I was hoping they would encore with Junior's Farm and then come back out and blow the roof off with Hi Hi Hi and it's hyper fast hard rocking ending! That would have just been mind blowing!
    I absolutely love Must Do Something About It, it was a very pleasant surprise to hear how good Joe English can sing.
     
    JDeanB and Who Cares like this.
Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.

Share This Page

molar-endocrine