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

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Track 8 - Dear Friend.

Another song about Lennon.

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This is clearly the best song on the album.

And seems to be the basis for every track on Supertramp's Crime of the Century album.

[Guest]

Didn't like side 2 as much as side 1.

Let's see if the last track can pull it back?

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I wonder if he's the only member of Wings on this track? It does sound very much like a solo track - and totally different from the rest of the album.

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The strings on this are chilling. I wonder who did them?

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"Are you afraid, or is it true?"

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"I'm in love with a friend of mine."

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"Are you a fool? Or is it true?"

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He's giving the piano some stick now.

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The strings on this are so Crime of the Century it's uncanny.

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And the sax is so Crime of the Century too. There's no way they didn't listen to it while they were making that.

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And now it is over.

Why couldn't the whole album be as committed as the last track on each side?

[Guest]

It's over!

No, wait, there's still some grooves left!

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My thoughts are that I like the first side which has an amiability that overcomes its lack of ambition and closes with an excellent track, but Side Two feels a bit lifeless until the final track which has a potency possibly unique in the whole of the Wings catalogue.

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

[Guest]

Oh,

Now it's over.

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So, of the Wings albums we've covered on this thread, my ranking is:

Venus and Mars.
Back to the Egg.
Wings at the Speed of Sound.
Wildlife.

[Guest]

Wild Life
Venus and Mars.
Back the Egg, Not Heard it recently but it's got to better than…
Wings at the Speed of Sound

[Guest]

I've never heard Red Rose Speedway, Bland on the Run or That There London Town.

Or Wings over America.

[Guest]

That said, I do think Wings and McCartney 1 and 2 are underrated. Even his 80s record although not good wasn't as bad its reputation.

"Wings? Only the Group the Beatles could have been"


I can't remember what Ram sounds like now.

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