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Post by pennylane on Sept 1, 2005 22:56:16 GMT -5
September Uncut Magazine give Chaos and Creation 4 stars 'Mac to where he once belonged' Really - his best since Band on the Run
"..delivering an album fit to bat in the same ballpark as anything he made with The Beatles - He's pulled it off"I'll will be grabbing this issue, because it contains.. a CD called the Beatles Press Conferences 1964-1966 whic of course features Paul heavily.
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Post by Doc on Sept 2, 2005 0:33:12 GMT -5
Thanks for posting about that, PL. Good for Sir Paul! Smashing good! I am truly looking forward to owning the full CD. Wow. I think all that is great praise. Even the mention about some old fans might not get it; well, when they are ready for it, they'll get it and buy a copy. It'll still be for sale then. Rather than pump out a quick piece of money making fluff--he's, along with Nigel, made a mature lasting work. And, BOTR is a high water mark to come up to. I'm real happy for him. Dare I say, we're all very proud of him.
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lah' mah means "Light" in Hawaiian.May we bring "Light" to what really happened to JPM.
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Post by lah' mah on Sept 2, 2005 14:07:28 GMT -5
PAUL MCCARTNEY HMV ‘CHAOS AND CREATION IN THE BACKYARD’ PRE-ORDER SCREENING COMPETITION Pre-order Paul McCartney's New Album For The Chance To Attend A Special Screening Of His New Material & Win A Trip To See Him Perform In New York! To celebrate the release of the fantastic new album 'Chaos and Creation In The Backyard', the legend that is Paul McCartney will be presenting a screening of 3 songs from the new album at HMV Oxford Circus on September 15th, 2005. It will be the first time these songs will be seen or heard live! If you would like the chance to win a pair of 300 wristbands for this exclusive event, all you have to do is pre-order 'Chaos and Creation', and you will automatically be entered in the prize draw. Following the performance, Paul will announce a number. The person wearing the wristband with this number on, will win 2 tickets to see Paul McCartney sound-check and perform a whole show at Madison Square Gardens in New York on (either 30 Sept, 1/4/5 Oct), flights and accommodation included. If you enter and are not lucky enough to win a wristband to the screening, you will get access to watch the 3 tracks online as a stream for a limited period of 12 hours only via an emailed digital ticket with a link to watch in both Windows Media and RealTime from 9pm on Thursday 15 September. www.paulmccartney.com
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Post by -Wings- on Sept 2, 2005 15:04:32 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm really gave Bill decided to give it his all for this one. When was the last time he's had a critically-acclaimed album? Band on the Run?
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Post by JoJo on Sept 2, 2005 17:08:09 GMT -5
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Post by JoJo on Sept 2, 2005 18:07:50 GMT -5
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Post by Doc on Sept 2, 2005 20:00:09 GMT -5
No, but interesting as it is. Thanks for posting.
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Post by JoJo on Sept 4, 2005 11:03:59 GMT -5
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101284,00.html Do We Still Need Him? Paul McCartney is (almost) 64, but a surprising new album suggests his glory days aren't all behind him By JOSH TYRANGIEL Posted Sunday, Sep. 04, 2005 If you want to scare a music critic, whisper these four words in his ear: new Paul McCartney album. In the 35 years since the Beatles broke up, McCartney has made 19 albums. Some have been good. Many have not. McCartney admits that he writes and records with varying degrees of seriousness, and the throngs who will pay any price to watch Sir Paul beep-beep his way through Drive My Car (he was the top-grossing live act in the world as recently as 2002) wouldn't think of holding that against him—nor would they think of declaring any of his recent work his best. Luckily, the 20th Paul McCartney album, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, out Sept. 13, makes matters easy. It took two years to record, in part because McCartney plays almost all the instruments on it (including drums, harmonium and flugelhorn) and in part because he actually cared. Chaos and Creation is adventurous, melodic and emotionally complicated—the first album in his post-Fab Four catalog that really matters. If it is not as dark or as brilliant as TIME Out of Mind, Bob Dylan's "Hey, I can still do this!" album, it belongs on a shelf nearby. "Since the Beatles, I've approached making records every which way," says McCartney. "A lot of times it's a real casual thing. Do a few tracks a day, have a bit of fun. Normally I kind of say, 'I'd like to make a good album.' This time there was motivation, determination. 'I'm going to make a good album. I'm going to, and that's that.'" The urgency behind McCartney's renewed ambition is not hard to figure out. Sitting in the Manhattan town house that serves as his office, he praises an "old black drummer," then stops mid-sentence. "I say 'old black drummer,' and it's terrifying, actually. He's about my age [James Gadson, 64]. Excuse me. I'm still coming to grips with the fact that I'm an old white cat." McCartney is 63. With his hair dyed forest-floor brown, he looks younger, "but numbers don't lie, man." He has already buried a wife of almost 30 years and a songwriting partner, and George Harrison's 2001 death from cancer shook him again. "George and I met as kids on the school bus," says McCartney. "It's surprising when one of your friends who you've known that long just ups and goes--'No, no, we hadn't said it all yet. I need more time.' It's a very weird feeling, and it spills over to all aspects of your life. You want to get moving, to say things that haven't been said." When McCartney sorted through his emotions and decided that he wanted to say some of those unsaid things on a new record, he did what he always does—call George Martin. Martin has retired from producing, but he remains the artistic Svengali in McCartney's life, and in a shrewd bit of psychology, he suggested Nigel Godrich as a possible producer. Godrich is almost 30 years younger than McCartney, and his work with Radiohead (OK Computer) and Beck (Sea Change) has earned him a reputation as the most innovative producer in rock. He is also known for expressing his opinions with the sweetness of barbed wire. "I met with him and said I'd do it," recalls Godrich. "But I said I didn't love a lot of his solo stuff and that we'd have to do this my way. I was absolutely s_______ myself as I said this—it is Paul McCartney. But I think the penny dropped there and then to him that he wanted to get out of his comfort zone." Says McCartney: "It appealed to me. When you've done as much as I've done, it's nice that people are impressed, but it can work against you. You want real hard opinions." Almost immediately, Godrich started dispensing them. McCartney brought in a sprawling series of demos he had recorded at home; Godrich listened and announced that he would work only on the songs that interested him. "No '50s rock-'n'-roll pastiche numbers," says Godrich. "He's a jolly old soul, but I thought maybe just for once we could steer him away from those things." After a week of recording, Godrich told McCartney that his regular band had to sit this one out. "In any tense moment, he'd look over at those guys and say, 'What do you think?' It was too easy for him to deflect getting put on the spot. I could only cope with it by isolating him." McCartney understood that Godrich was trying to play the role of iconoclast to the complacent icon, and he was willing to go along with it, to a point. "There were a few times I thought, I could sack this guy," says McCartney. "I've produced more records than he's even looked at in a shop." Instead he convinced Godrich that he didn't need to be confrontational to get his point across, and gradually a positive form of creative tension emerged. "When I write, there are times—not always—when I hear John [Lennon] in my head," says McCartney. "I'll think, O.K., what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve. And one of the good things about working with Nigel is that he became more of a co-worker rather than a grownup producer. His opinion mattered to me in a way that made me want to impress him." Chaos and Creation is full of the melodies that have always been McCartney's trademark—the single, Fine Line, grabs you by the ear in four bars—but for the most part, they've been stripped of cuteness and nostalgia. What strikes you first is that the sad songs are really sad. At the Mercy gets past the sentimental and into the startling fact that genuine love can leave you powerless and insecure. Riding to Vanity Fair, a trippy ballad about rejected friendship, is the most misanthropic thing the composer of Ob-La-Di has ever recorded. He insists it's not directed at anyone in particular, and the lyrics--"You're not aware/ Of what you put me through/ But now the feeling's gone"—don't offer up any autobiographical clues, but it seethes with bitterness. The trick to these very tough tunes is that they're essentially untethered from anything like a formal chorus. They don't try to resolve themselves; they just drift into provocative emotional territory and linger for a while. Chaos and Creation has its share of bright moments too—the arena-ready Follow Me, the joyously goofy Promise to You Girl—but the album feels like a catalog of all McCartney's emotions, not just the easy ones. McCartney knows that he didn't rise to his place in the pop firmament by pushing the envelope. "I'm not a rebel," he says. "In actual fact, I'm pretty straight, and I don't mind at all that people see me that way." Still, he seems to have turned a musical corner. When he thinks about the U.S. tour he will launch Sept. 16 in Miami, he says, "It'll be great not to be out there with a crap album, singing songs I don't care much about." And if audiences still mostly pine for another roundelay of Hey Jude? "They'll get that too, but you have to move forward as well as go back. As they say, the show must go on!" And now there's a compelling reason to tune in.
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Post by pennylane on Sept 4, 2005 23:14:37 GMT -5
oooh I'm psyched for this album!
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Post by Doc on Sept 4, 2005 23:39:22 GMT -5
oooh I'm psyched for this album! dittos....
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Post by -Wings- on Sept 4, 2005 23:45:16 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm actually headed to the record shop (record shot? More like CD/DVD store) tomorrow to reserve this. If this is Sir Paul's new attitude towards his music, I hope he's got several more albums in him trying to get out.
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Post by Doc on Sept 4, 2005 23:53:52 GMT -5
Charming---that's an art piece. Melodic, semi classical visitation. Echoes of a scene that is perhaps fast disappearing from English culture. Hopefully not..... The voice....it's sounding to me like.....JamesPaul's "For No One/Michelle" sound......now I'm very confused......either he's grown into it........or...........
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Post by pennylane on Sept 5, 2005 6:02:08 GMT -5
quick question totally OT.. but what the FAAB 12th Sept thingy?
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Post by DarkHorse on Sept 5, 2005 9:47:34 GMT -5
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Post by pennylane on Sept 6, 2005 3:32:52 GMT -5
Thanks DH.. I never noticed the date before! I noticed the image though.. which is creepy as! Anyway.. I downloaded comfort of love and growing up falling down from his website.. but i can't seem to upload them I'll keep trying. Anyway Comfort of Love is a nice little ditty.. but Growing up Falling Down.. wow! My first hear and it bought tears to my eyes.. it's incredible, it's really an emotional song.. well it struck a big chord with me.. anyway if you haven't heard it do yourself a favour and download it...99p we were growing time was going so fast without knowing we were growing so fast we were lying down in the shade i remember the love we made we were lying down on a bed i remember the tears we shed
we were growing time was going so fast without knowing we were growing up fast
we were laughing too we were sad i remember the fun we had we were crying out with the pain we will never be here again growing up falling down
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Post by pennylane on Sept 9, 2005 3:53:01 GMT -5
finally figured it out. Growing up falling down savefile.com/files/9992298The album itself is getting great reviews.. but every now and then it gets a not so great review.. who could be bothered reading people crap on about that.. but this little part is good: Disinterested observers have grown accustomed to the mediocrity of McCartney's solo career over the past few decades, he's been nothing if not consistent in that respect, but dear lord, what on earth is going on here? This much-vaunted hook-up with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich is so bereft of decent songs, hummable tunes and catchy arrangements it's hard to believe it's by the same man who gave us? well, fill in your own fab favourites.heh.. it's funny how many people feel that way, yet can't or simply 'won't' put 2 and 2 together!
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Sept 9, 2005 13:20:55 GMT -5
The other day, I was in the store and they were playing "Michele". Later that night, I was watching the football game and a car commercial came on with "Fine Line" as background music. Appearantly Lexus is a sponser of Faul's upcoming tour. Now we've all heard both voices before; but again, it just struck me how different they both sound. Lexus: www.lexus.com/mccartney/index.htmlYou can listen to "Michele" here ( love this song): www.iqm.ro/beatles/disco/drubbersoul.htmlFidelity is also a sponser and I saw one of their commercials. It's funny, I was doing something and had the TV on in the background. A photo of Paul first came on the screen, so I stopped to watch. Then there was a photo montague of both guys leading up to tour info. Fidelity: personal.fidelity.com/misc/buffers/paul_landing.shtml?refhp=pr[] I don't recall the photo of Faul wearing red shirt, I don't recall seeing it before... Oh and no doubt, one of you guys will capture these commercials while taping a favorite program.
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Post by JoJo on Sept 17, 2005 23:12:41 GMT -5
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Post by pennylane on Sept 17, 2005 23:21:22 GMT -5
In the 2nd pic on the lyric sheet of Follow Me.. does it say (Ringo) ?
Those pictures are weird.. brown eye.. blue green marble type thing...
he's so weird.. i love it!
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Post by JoJo on Sept 17, 2005 23:47:41 GMT -5
Also learned that "Too Much Rain" was based on a Charlie Chaplin song called "Smile".
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Post by beatlies on Sept 18, 2005 1:12:21 GMT -5
Interesting information about "smile" --that was the name of the Doris Day-Melcher-Manson-Beach Boys' Brian Wilson album SMiLE and I've read that was one of the names being considered originally for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band."
To the people praising this album a few questions:
1) How much of these songs do you think the JPM imposter "Billy Shepherd" actually wrote? 30%? 5%? 0% My guess would be close to 0%, approximately the same for his other fraudulent albums.
2) Can you really enjoy listening to these songs, no matter how tuneful or pleasant-sounding knowing they are the product of a horrible Orwellian fraud? I think for me "his" music and much of the Beatles music is invalidated and even painful to hear at times.
3) I keep thinking of the horrific murders of Mal Evans, John Lennon and possibly Dr. Richard Asher and Brian Epstein and who knows what other people that are Faul related. George Harrison was also severely injured by an assassination attempt.
Some of this imposter's music is outstanding, brilliantly made --what clandestine services cadres really produced them?
Also, a few months ago I read that Billy "Silly Love Sings" Pepper was recording an anti-Bush song for this album: what happened with this?
What are the civil penalties for fraud in the United Kingdom? Any chance of getting a lawsuit going?
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Post by pennylane on Sept 18, 2005 1:24:20 GMT -5
*EDIT* going to ignore the mindless Bill bashing dribble
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Post by beatlies on Sept 18, 2005 1:28:44 GMT -5
Just trying to clarify PennyLane: So you think Faul wrote these songs? You also think Faul is not a fraud? You're entitled to your opinions! If the general public became aware Faul is not James Paul McCartney I think some people might feel cheated. A few people are oversensitive that way EDIT: okay the post I was responding to just got edited to what you see but I think you can guess the content of the statements upon which I'm commenting. If Bill were recording as Bill, fine, but he's not, he's pretending to be James Paul McCartney, and everybody should wonder who's been writing these songs, some of which are (on the surface) great .......
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Post by pennylane on Sept 18, 2005 1:35:22 GMT -5
There is nothing to indicate that he didn't write these songs.
And no, I do not think he is a fraud. I believe it's something he has to do.
It's called benefit of the doubt. I am not gonna vilify a man, whom I know nothing about. Either should you.
You know NOTHING of his circumstances.
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Post by eyesbleed on Sept 18, 2005 7:30:18 GMT -5
Interesting information about "smile" --that was the name of the Doris Day-Melcher-Manson-Beach Boys' Brian Wilson album SMiLE and I've read that was one of the names being considered originally for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band." Smile was primarily Brian & Van Dyke Parks. Manson, or Doris, or Melcher had nothing to do with it. After all the hell "The Beach Boys" gave Brian & VDP over that masterpiece, those dweebs don't deserve to have their name anywhere near SMILE. To the people praising this album a few questions: 1) How much of these songs do you think the JPM imposter "Billy Shepherd" actually wrote? 30%? 5%? 0% My guess would be close to 0%, approximately the same for his other fraudulent albums. 2) Can you really enjoy listening to these songs, no matter how tuneful or pleasant-sounding knowing they are the product of a horrible Orwellian fraud? I think for me "his" music and much of the Beatles music is invalidated and even painful to hear at times. 3) I keep thinking of the horrific murders of Mal Evans, John Lennon and possibly Dr. Robert Asher and Brian Epstein and who knows what other people that are Faul related. George Harrison was also severely injured by an assassination attempt. 1. I'm guessing much closer to 100% with lots of help from Nigel Godrich. To truely capture the essence of someone like this is very rare. This is a very special piece of work & I don't think just any ol' songwriting goon could come anywhere close to this, no way. This took way too much love & labor. 2.I think Bill is as much a victim in this as the rest of The beatles. He didn't put a spike strip out for JPM's car to hit that night, he just won a lookalike contest & accepted a job that required him to leave his own life & identity behind. That couldn't have been an easy job. 3.see #2 Some of this imposter's music is outstanding, brilliantly made --what clandestine services cadres really produced them? I think 90% of his solo career has been total crap. That makes this just that much more special. Actually, I'll betcha that a lot more of the songs on his earlier crappy albums were in fact ghostwritten, but this piece is much too pure & perfect & oozing JPM from beginning to end. This took a LOT of work & a LOT of love.
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