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SiberianPrincess’sMidriff
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 7:52 pm
I think I still like New best.
Can't remember now, could listen to them all again.
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The Call of the Wendigo Admin
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 7:52 pm
I shall give it 3 stars.
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 7:53 pm
But that's it. We've now done all of Macca's proper solo albums.
Unless we count Give My Regards to Broad Street as a proper album. Perhaps we can save that for his 90th birthday.
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Nightjar
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 7:53 pm
It picked up a bit about half-way thru, but the first half was mostly dreadful.
Then, when you thought it improving generally, that hideous Chuck Berry-esque song burst out of it's mildewed, cobwebby tomb.
The last track (and the hidden track) were OK though.
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Nightjar
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 7:54 pm
Macca on on Wogan on on BBC2 from 1989.
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Nightjar
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 7:55 pm
Worst shipped-in dancing audience eva!
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Nightjar
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 7:55 pm
Macca in conversation with Bob Mortimer.
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Butterfield
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 7:56 pm
Other than the two singles, I remembered nothing of that album from the time, despite the fact both my dad AND brother owned copies of it. For the most part I found it incredibly boring, bland and very generic in parts. C'mon People is still a great song though, but as an album it did absolutely nothing for me, which albums like Pipes of Peace and Tug of War do. This did nothing unique.
Happy Birthday, Paul!
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Butterfield
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 7:59 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Unless we count Give My Regards to Broad Street as a proper album.
The irony is that this is probably my favourite Paul McCartney album, and a soundtrack to my life aged 4-ish (along with Culture Club and Billy Joel) as we listened to it in the car going on holiday to Wales and various other exciting destinations.
Nightjar
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 8:00 pm
"Mullet Entire" on the Mike Yarwood Show.
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 8:04 pm
SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:
I think I still like New best.
Can't remember now, could listen to them all again.
This is my current ranking:
New Venus and Mars Driving Rain Ram Memory Almost Full Back to the Egg Band on the Run McCartney McCartney II Egypt Station Flaming Pie Pipes of Peace McCartney III London Town Flowers in the Dirt Wings at the Speed of Sound Tug of War Wildlife Off the Ground Press to Play Red Rose Speedway Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 8:04 pm
Butterfield wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Unless we count Give My Regards to Broad Street as a proper album.
The irony is that this is probably my favourite Paul McCartney album, and a soundtrack to my life aged 4-ish (along with Culture Club and Billy Joel) as we listened to it in the car going on holiday to Wales and various other exciting destinations.
We can squeeze it in, some time, if people want to.
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 8:08 pm
That BBC2 show has just used the phrase, "Smoke tea in his dad's pipe."
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 8:10 pm
Now Paul and George Martin are meeting Russell Harty, as they record Pipes of Peace.
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 8:11 pm
Paul looks about 12, even though he's in his early 40s.
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 8:11 pm
It's weird how he looked younger in 1983 than he did in 1970.
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 8:12 pm
Almost as though he'd been replaced by a lookalike.
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Subject: Re: Paul McCartney - Off the Ground (1993). Sat Jun 18, 2022 10:45 pm
Let's find out what John made of it.
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