POLL: How do you rate Paul McCartney & Wings "Back To The Egg" album?

Definitely in the 'underrated' category for me.

 

Love this album...played it all the time when it came out and still pull it out today and give it a listen....even better on CD with the bonus track "Daytime Nighttime Suffering"
The only track I had a problem with was "To You" just thought something was unfinished about it...but really love the variety of the whole album...
From "Getting Closer" and "Old Siam Sir" to "Love awake/Winter Rose" and "Baby's Request".....

 

I now have come to feel that BACK TO THE EGG is THE one most underrated album from Paul.

 

This is one of Paul's best LPs. There are signature tracks that are definitive Macca. Catchy melodies that stick in your head. "Cage" should have been left on the album.

 

Can't agree, I'm afraid. Just too much filler and too many embarrassing lyrics for me. But to each his/her own. FWIW, side 1 is fabulous, side 2 just falls apart at the seams.

 

While I agree, side 2 is an interesting mess, and one that has grown on me. But yeah, side 1 is great.

 

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the album but I just can't define it as "one of his best" or "essential". It just isn't to me.

 

I view it as much like many of his albums, i.e. 2 or 3 extremely good tracks, 2 or 3 bad / cringeworthy ones and the rest somewhere in between. However, it is one of my favourites.

I particularly like Getting Closer and don't mind the "My Salamander" lyric at all. My other favourites are We're Open Tonight, Again and Again and Again and (to my surprise) the Rockestra tracks - not that I'd argue that these are by any means the "best" tracks on the album.

I enjoy all of the many videos too.

 

I must be one of the few fans of Eleanor's Dream - though the dream sequence in the film really is pants!!

 

I think an "egg" description would have been more apt here. You know, like "the egg cracks open on side 2" or "you get a bunch of undercooked scrambled eggs on side 2"; or something along those lines. The word "Seams" reminds me of "Trousers", and then I think "Rutles" ...

 

Was listening to So Glad To See You Here and man does that song rock!

It's just another that McCartney should be performing live.

It's all a matter of taste, as far as songs go, I'd take Getting Closer over Band On The Run. I absolutely love them both, but GC has that drive that I love.

Baby's Request is another that I love, McCartney's vocal is so amazing on that song, his singing should be a rock and roll treasure, in his vocal prime the man was truly awesome!

I don't think his singing gets the credit it truly deserves!

 

My 2nd fav McCartney album. But it's really more of a guilty pleasure than anything else, I think. So while I personally rate it high, it's not one I'd necessarily recommend to other people.

 

I really like this album. In the thread on rating all his post-Beatles albums I had this at #4. Now recognize that my #4-9 are basically so close that any day those positions change. So tomorrow i might have it as a #9.

Not the first record i would have someone listen to - but if they liked one or two others that i would pick then I would definately have this one ready to recommend.

 

Yes, inspiration failed me. I must be cracking.

 

This is pretty cool. I'd think someone would've posted it before, but I don't recall seeing it here. I'm still watching, but I'm guessing it's all of "side four" of the Kampuchea lp, but there are also some snippets of other songs thrown in which didn't make that album. It's about 40 mins total. Makes one salivate for a BTTE Archive edition. Enjoy!

EDIT: I'd heard the audio, but never seen the footage, of Paul shooting down the Fab Reunion Rumor for that night ("it's not John Lennon, as has been rumored...").

EDIT#2: ok, only 28 mins of Kampuchea, but then it goes into Japan tour rehearsals. Very cool...

 

Gotta bump this once, before it sinks like a stone. I hadn't seen the Kampuchea footage for YEARS before last night...

They should've thrown some on The McCartney Years DVD.

 

My favourite, only let down by not having Cage & Daytime Nightime Suffering on it & including Baby's Request which sticks out like a sore thumb, just like You Gave The Answer off Venus & Mars & English Tea off Chaos.

 

Thanks for this!

Watched for Getting Closer.
Got 17 seconds of Getting Closer.
Still more than I got of Again and Again and Again or Old Siam Sir.
WTF happened to the BTTE tracks?
Coming Up is among the coolest songs ever.
Reaffirms my assertion that 1975-1979 Paul voice was the most versatile Paul voice.
WTF robot?
The director sure thought that mirror effect was cool.

 

Paul liked his robots even back then.

Having heard the audio of the full show, I vaguely remember he made a reference to that robot prior to Goodnight Tonight (that it "kept the rhythm" or something along those lines...

 

While thumbing through the used (vinyl) bin the other day, I saw a familiar looking album cover. Anyone ever seen/heard this thing? It appeared to have no relation to Paul, other than the cover...

[they really did a good job with the lighting and poses, I must say]


Btw, if anyone is late to the party with the various album polls for Paul that I ran, here's a link to the "final" results and to all the individual polls - you can still vote if you missed a few:
A summary of the "How do you rate Paul McCartney's Albums?" polls... »

 

I rate it highly. It's not chock full of hits but he put together a tight band with this lineup of Wings. Lots of potential. It didn't sell very well and McCartney scrapped it and got on with "Tug of War" instead. I love that album but sometimes I wished he wasn't so fast to move from one thing to another and maybe stopped to develop projects a litte more.

 

Is this new? Are they known to be McCartney/Wings fans?

 

No kidding. I'd have to imagine the reference is lost on a lot of their fans, whoever that band is. Maybe the joke's on me.

 

No idea, but I did find this helpful comment on an Amazon review of the album:

The Cover art is a Play on some old poster for something, theirs a mystery in that. possibly a John Cusack thing.​

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