Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Part 2!

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It is over.

I feel that's an album that has interesting moments but never quite gels, thanks to unsympathetic production and patchy song quality.

Talk More Talk, Footprints, most of Only Love Remains and Move Over Busker are good songs. Pretty Little Head isn't a good song but it's an intriguing concoction whose single mix is far more effective.

Angry and Press don't work at all, as either songs or performances.

The rest of the album is so-so.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it.

[Nightjar]

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Let's see what the Steve Hoffman Forum has to say about it.

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/paul-mccartney-press-to-play-appreciation-thread.638618/

[Guest]

It is definitely somewhere in my top 24 of McCartney studio albums.

[Fangirl Three]

I have a secret liking for Press. I taped it off the Top 40 some time in June/July 1986.

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[Guest]

Track 6 - Press. The big hit single.

I've never heard this before in my life.

Wait, this was that one that was on Top of the Pops where's he down the tube station being All Nice Paul Thumbs aloft Uncle Paul wasn't he?

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That is the one.

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As demanded by you the reader, I shall be doing this one at one o'clock today.



It's only 25 minutes. Isn't that a bit short for an album?

[Guest]

That's only one track,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Quiet_Men_from_a_Tiny_Girl

I can't be bothered finding due to technical problems I can't locate the other tracks at the mo.

[Guest]

That is the one.

I've never heard that song before in my life.

[Guest]

Maybe we should have done The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion?

Oh well too late now.

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That's only one track,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Quiet_Men_from_a_Tiny_Girl

I can't be bothered finding due to technical problems I can't locate the other tracks at the mo.

The full album appears not to be available on the YouTuba.

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Anyway, here goes:

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It's started.

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Humming.

[Guest]

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Still humming.

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Sudden electric guitar noodling!

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Old style telephone dialling.

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