McCartney to reissue solo catalog on Concord!?!?!

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100421/music_nm/us_mccartney

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[Chuck Nessa]

An OJMcC series?

[GA Russell]

Until the other day, the only McCartney on Concord that I was aware of was Memory Nearly Full, or whatever it was called.

But I saw in the store last week a double CD album called Live in New York, or something like that, which was also on Concord.

[BruceH]

Does McCartney have any good solo music?

[Dave James]

Does McCartney have any good solo music?

I'll call you and raise. Is there any good McCartney music other than what he made with The Beatles?

[Adam]

The line at the end of that story was more interesting to me:

"Concord said last week it would buy the roots label Rounder Records, home to bluegrass musician Alison Krauss."

Concord is buying up a lot of labels...

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

how did concord get so huge? omg. hopefully the mccartney money can be turned into prestige vault reissue projects!

[Big Al]

Does McCartney have any good solo music?

I'll call you and raise. Is there any good McCartney music other than what he made with The Beatles?

He's had good individual songs since the Beatle breakup, but AFAIC he didn't finally put out a good consistent ALBUM until Chaos and Creation in the Backyard from a few years ago. YMMV of course.

[Hot Ptah]

Does McCartney have any good solo music?

I'll call you and raise. Is there any good McCartney music other than what he made with The Beatles?

You can read more about this subject than you could ever imagine was possible, on literally hundreds of threads on the Steve Hoffman forum. The members are passionate about it there, and differ widely in their opinions.

[Jazzmoose]

He's had good individual songs since the Beatle breakup...

I'd go along with that, although I think Band on the Run and Venus and Mars are decent. However, anything after London Town I've missed, so I can't comment after that.

Just to show how out of it I am, there is a song that just started in the rotation at work, and I was on a typical old fart rant about it today. I think "I've had enough of these stupid Beatles ripoffs; it's been forty years and half of them are dead!" was involved. I was informed that the song was McCartney's Ever Present Past. Damn kids...

[JSngry]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnTskBTaAlU

[Stefan Wood]

Nothing wrong with RAM.

[A Lark Ascending]

Does McCartney have any good solo music?

I'll call you and raise. Is there any good McCartney music other than what he made with The Beatles?

And I'll raise you further, adding 'Lennon or...' and '...they...'.

[BruceH]

Does McCartney have any good solo music?

I'll call you and raise. Is there any good McCartney music other than what he made with The Beatles?

Well, that's exactly what I meant by "solo music." Music he made after The Beatles.

My take is, yeah, there are individual songs, and Band On the Run is decent. (Though I always got the uneasy feeling that that album was actually designed to appeal to 13-year-olds...) Venus and Mars never did much for me. What it comes down to is that only about 5% of his post-Beatles output can be listened to without the gag reflex kicking in, whereas that proportion is almost exactly reversed with The Beatles. That is to say, about 95% of his Beatles output ranging from acceptable to great, the remaining 5% being stuff like "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," "The Long and Winding Road," "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da," and the like. No doubt everybody's mileage varies.

[JSngry]

Nothing wrong with RAM.

Nor McCartney.

[Dave James]

Nothing wrong with RAM.

Nor McCartney.

I can remember waiting with absolutely baited breath for McCartney to be released. The first post-Beatle Beatle album, How much better can it get than this? Well, unfortunately, a lot better. Maybe I was so amped up that realization couldn't possibly have matched my expectations, but, in a word, I was disappointed. The first of many such let downs when it comes to Sir Paul. I stopped taking him seriously after Ram.

[A Lark Ascending]

The bizarre thing I found with Lennon and McCartney after the split was the way that two people, who had been able to write melodies so memorable that they wormed into your brain and would not come out, wrote such two-dimensional tunes thereafter. (though I do like 'Another Day'...has that rich middle eight that made so many Beatles songs work).

With McCartney they usually sound like nursery rhymes to me; Lennon's either sound flat or as if all the energy has gone into the radical posturing.

I started buying records as the Beatles imploded and at the time they didn't get much of my attention - the records Lennon and McCartney put out convinced me that I didn't need more than the singles I could recall from my pre-record buying days.

'Band on the Run' was one of those records that burst out of dorm rooms all over during my first university year (fighting with Dark Side of the Moon and Tubular Bells). It always irritated me - though not as much as 'Silly Love Songs'.

[vajerzy]

I like his solo music and been wondering why it hasn't been remastered since everyone else is being remastered. I like Venus and Mars and At the Speed of Sound and Wings Over America.....these bring back good childhood memories for me.

[neveronfriday]

I often wonder if I tick differently when these questions come up.

I'm not the very analytical type. In my life, there has always been a strong connection with music and my life at that point in time. In that department, "London Town" has remained one of my favorite albums. Is it good music? Hell, I don't care. Whenever I hear that LP my system responds to it with a positive upbeat feeling. That's enough for me. The same goes for "Wings over America".

The same also goes for many other albums that other people around the Internet love to trash continuously.

I don't often listen to these albums but when I do, I switch my brain off and let the feelings take over.

[Chuck Nessa]

I always liked that song called Bandanna Ron.

[JSngry]

Nothing wrong with RAM.

Nor McCartney.

I can remember waiting with absolutely baited breath for McCartney to be released. The first post-Beatle Beatle album, How much better can it get than this? Well, unfortunately, a lot better. Maybe I was so amped up that realization couldn't possibly have matched my expectations, but, in a word, I was disappointed. The first of many such let downs when it comes to Sir Paul. I stopped taking him seriously after Ram.

Yeah, I hear you on that, but, really, although those were understandable expectations then, a time when it seemed like everything was going to keep getting better forever and ever (so much so that there was a kind of a hush all over the world), they certainly weren't realistic, eh?

I think it stands a good-enough-for-the-long-haul album with a few very real gems thrown in. Although I will stipulate that "Teddy Boy" is on of the steamiest piles of shit that anybody who has ever made even semi-decent music of any genre has ever produced.

Whenever I hear that LP my system responds to it with a positive upbeat feeling.

You using tube or solid-state?

[WorldB3]

I don't think it mattered what McCartney put out because it could never hold up to the Beatles and it wouldn't be judged on its own terms.

Now in indie rock everybody loves somebody who puts out melodic low fi records like McCartney and RAM which I both enjoy. I think Band On The Run is great but its obviously no Abbey Road. He went too pop after Venus and Mars for my tastes though there are a handful of singles through the 70's that are guilty pleasures. I dropped off after McCartney II but I did like what I heard off of Chaos and Creation and Electronic Arguments though I haven't spent a lot of time with them.

I'll buy some of these if they have demo's and or live stuff from the early 70's McCartney, Wild Life and RAM era included on them.

Edited April 21, 2010 by WorldB3

[neveronfriday]

You using tube or solid-state?

Solid-state.

I don't listen to LPs much anymore.

Planning on upgrading to a totally new system sometime next year, maybe even later.

Priorities changed when I got sick.

Now I'm spending all of my cash on getting healthy and fit again.

An uphill battle.

Edited April 21, 2010 by neveronfriday

[vajerzy]

A positive outlook also helps to keep healthy.

[neveronfriday]

A positive outlook also helps to keep healthy.

Mine's very positive.

It's just lots of readjusting to be done in a very short timespan.

Takes some getting used to.

But, on with the McCartney show ...