POLL: How do you rate Paul McCartney's "Run Devil Run" album?

Absolutely love it, more than essential, one of the best of his entire career!

She Said Yeah is just absolutely primal rock and roll - wish he would perform it right now!
What It Is - McCartney at his blues rocking best.
Shake A Hand - One of the absolute best vocal performances of McCartney's entire career!
Party - Elvis wished he could rock this hard, another that I wish McCartney was performing right now!

I also absolutely love the Russian album!

 

One of his best works. A good counterargument to those that think Paul can't rock. Great band. Not just Gilmour but also Ian Paice on the drums, Deep Purple's secret weapon.

 

I think it's great.

How's that for an insightful post ?

 

I guess I'm one of the few that prefer Choba to this. That's why I voted "Not bad" for this album.

 

He's playing how he should be playing on here.
Covers or not, this is one of his best.

 

With Twin Freaks my favourite McC album from the last 25 years.

 

It's a fun album and I get into it when I did it out... I do kick myself over seeing the singles box in the record shop that day soon after it was realsed and thinking, 'Oh - that's nice.' But I try not to let that tarnish my view of it. Yep I enjoy it quite a bit and went for option 2.

 

Some of the covers are really brilliant. "Fabulous" is...uh...fabulous.

 

An OK album, IMO much better than "Driving Rain" or "New". Pretty good lineup of great musicians including David Gilmour an Ian Paice. Pure and unspoiled rock'n roll - love it!

 

Thought I'd bump this thread to see if it can get a few more ratings - it's the only one of the 25 polls that doesn't have 200 votes now (CCCP finally exceeded 200), and I'd like it to get there!

Btw, I mentioned in another thread that in addition to the one released outtake from these sessions (Fabulous), there's also several other known outakes that were mentioned at the time: Ready Teddy, Thumbin' A Ride, Fools Like Me, We're Gonna Move (aka There's A Leak) and possibly a few others (Rip It Up, Oh My Soul).

Like it's "sister" oldies album - CHOBA - a lot of outtakes exist from that. "I'm In Love Again" got added to the cd version. "It's Now Or Never" and the McCartney original "I Wanna Cry" found release on cd-singles, and five other songs have been partially booted, so we know they exist ("Cut Across Shorty", "Poor Boy", "Lend Me Your Comb", "Take This Hammer" and a very different version of "No Other Baby"). Maybe Paul should combine the outtakes and release a 3rd album of oldies!

 

We can only hope!

Just added my vote - I somehow missed this poll the first time around. Absolutely essential McCartney. I could listen to him do covers of this stuff all day every day: channeling the rock'n'roll-mad days of his youth, screaming and crooning away in his bedroom on Forthlin Rd or from the stage in Hamburg. While I love CHOBA and absolutely played it to death when it was released, Run is an absolute adrenaline-filled rush in comparison.

Love love love love love it! And if I thought he still had the voice for it (or wouldn't end up shredding his vocal chords trying), I'd be thrilled to death if he'd "complete the trilogy".

 

I think both of the Oldies albums have their mis-steps. My RDR gripes: I think "Coquette" is the worst recording on either oldies disc. I also don't care for the accordion (or whatever it is) on Brown Eyed Handsome Man (perhaps the horror of the video never left my mind, too), or the corny (to me) Movie Magg. I think Try Not To Cry is one of Paul's lamest attempts to write a "hit" in recent memory and I find "Shake A Hand" to be more than a little too "strained". The rest of the album is almost all A+ material for me.

For CHOBA, I find "I'm Gonna Be A Wheel" dreadfully repetitive and "Bring It On Home To Me" a bit flat - lacking in energy. "Crackin' Up" is also not very strong. But I love the throat-shredding returns to "Lucille" and "Kansas City", the bluesy exploration of "Summertime" (and album outtake "I Wanna Cry" - a McCartney BLUES SONG! Ain't many of those!), the bouncy Presley covers and so on.

I am thankful Paul opted to not release the '88 version of "No Other Baby" - the latter version clearly smokes it!

 

Heh - it's all opinions as they say as the songs you don't care for are among my favorites! As I love those songs so much anyway - nevermind the guys who originally performed them (Bo Diddley! The Fat Man!! Carl Perkins! Chuck Berry!) - hearing Paul cover them (when it would most likely have been John or George doing so during the Fabs) made it a treat for me.

I'm somewhat with you on Try Not To Cry but I'd put it in the Not Such A Bad Boy category - not the strongest of songs but an excuse to get loud and rock out, which I'm always happy for him to do and wish he'd (still) do more often, to be honest.

 

I like the idea of "Run Devil Run" more than I like listening to it. I was very excited when I heard about the project, and even more excited when I saw the song titles on the CD cover. But from my first listen on, I have never enjoyed listening to it as much as I had expected. To me, it is too tense, not in a groove. They didn't quite nail it, in my humble opinion.

 

I love it, but I've already voted.

 

Pretty much how I feel.

 

Pretty solid effort. I think Paul rocks hard on this, and sounds like he was back in the Cavern/Hamburg days!

 

They absolutely nailed it!

 

Love this album. I turned a few friends, who aren't Macca fans one way or the other, onto it and they were surprised at how good the album is. Ian Paice is amazing. Fun listening to Gilmour rip it up. I hope Macca does another album in this vein.

 

This thread has persuaded me to buy this CD. Hoping it's better than CHOBA B CCCP.

 

A pretty solid effort - worth recommending, I would say. There's only one artist I can think of who might do 50s rock & roll and rockabilly better and that's Brian Setzer. They should do an album together, a rockabilly trio with Paul McCartney on bass/upright bass and vocals, Brian Setzer on guitar and vocals, and rockabilly drummer Bernie Dressel on drums. It will never happen...

 

Not a bad song on this album and Paul's vocals are in tip top shape here!