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Post by respiratoryproblems on Sept 6, 2021 16:42:43 GMT
See also: Wearing And Tearing by Led Zeppelin. “We’ll show those snotty punks that we can also play at high speed, with our smack addictions and morbidly out-of-shape drummer…”
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Sept 6, 2021 17:48:31 GMT
The notion that the Floyd was sitting in the studio saying “we’ll show these twats” is laughable. Musicians are nowhere near as myopic as most music fans. I’ll give you McCartney pandering with the hopeless Spin It On. He’s knobbish enough to try and cash in. Wow, never heard that McCartney song before. It's laughably awful. Definitely seems like a pathetic punk cash in. He should have called it Sit and Spin. If I'm not mistaken, that's the song where all the musicians played different instruments than what they usually play. I don't think it was meant to sound good.
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Post by Norman ‘Whiplash’ Mailer on Sept 6, 2021 18:30:28 GMT
The same maniacs that think the Roger Rabbit soundtrack is jazz and Motley Crue "have a punk album". But Motley Crue's first album was recorded quickly and cheaply with crap production because they were broke unknowns with no major label deal at the time. Thus, it must be punk. They were punk looooooong after the first record, dude! How can anyone forget Decade of Decadence?!
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Post by NeverHeardOfEm on Sept 6, 2021 18:32:33 GMT
Dammit, I had successfully blocked from my memory that the Crue had ever covered the Sex Pistols.
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Post by graucho on Sept 6, 2021 20:05:37 GMT
Wow, never heard that McCartney song before. It's laughably awful. Definitely seems like a pathetic punk cash in. He should have called it Sit and Spin. If I'm not mistaken, that's the song where all the musicians played different instruments than what they usually play. I don't think it was meant to sound good. I think it had the people playing on their main instruments - and Linda of course (!) There was that bloated Roceestra supergroup thing with about five bass players, and so on, for a couple of tracks. There was also Old Siam, Sir - a single. He was obviously trying to re-write My Sharona, but it was shite. God I remember this, being the 12 year old beatard of the time, and waiting in anticipation for that to come out! Then paid about £4.50 for the album cassette, hoping it would be good - that's about twenty now!
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Post by daved on Sept 6, 2021 20:10:55 GMT
Wow, never heard that McCartney song before. It's laughably awful. Definitely seems like a pathetic punk cash in. He should have called it Sit and Spin. If I'm not mistaken, that's the song where all the musicians played different instruments than what they usually play. I don't think it was meant to sound good. Wasn’t that Boys Keep Swinging? And considering the drums at the start I doubt anyone but Steve Holley played drums.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Sept 6, 2021 21:33:53 GMT
oops, I think it was Old Siam Sir where they switched instruments. Both are underrated gems and masterpieces, of course.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Sept 6, 2021 23:10:49 GMT
SHite on.
I quite like the Back to the Egg cover art. (And I will admit enjoying a bootleg CD of a “Wings UK Tour 1979” concert.)
SHite off.
But, my god, what a festering turd the studio album is. (A good way to shut up any Beatard who might say Paulie never wrote bad lyrics would be to type out the putrid mess that is “Getting Closer”.)
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Post by daved on Sept 6, 2021 23:25:59 GMT
SHite on. I quite like the Back to the Egg cover art. (And I will admit enjoying a bootleg CD of a “Wings UK Tour 1979” concert.) SHite off. But, my god, what a festering turd the studio album is. (A good way to shut up any Beatard who might say Paulie never wrote bad lyrics would be to type out the putrid mess that is “Getting Closer”.) After The Ball through to The Broadcast is painful. Poor Chris Thomas must have been shaking his head.
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Post by daved on Sept 6, 2021 23:46:29 GMT
Somewhere there is a podcast from a year or two ago with Chris Thomas, talking about his career in general. He does say that he knew from the first moment that McCartney played him the Back to the Egg demos that he had walked into a hopeless shitstorm. I do wonder why he bothered in the first place. Thomas was riding high at this point; he didn't need to be doing a fucking Wings album. Besides, what the hell did he expect? Did he really believe that McCartney was going to be writing anything other than pedestrian crap? Must find this podcast.
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Post by powerpoppackage on Sept 7, 2021 0:37:25 GMT
I have an inexplicable fondness for "Back to the Egg" even while finding little fault with the criticisms mentioned here.
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Post by Disgraced Ex-Prez Agent Orange on Sept 8, 2021 19:56:14 GMT
There was also Old Siam, Sir - a single. He was obviously trying to re-write My Sharona, but it was shite. Those songs were released within days of each other.
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Post by graucho on Sept 8, 2021 20:39:19 GMT
There was also Old Siam, Sir - a single. He was obviously trying to re-write My Sharona, but it was shite. Those songs were released within days of each other. Ooh, I stand corrected. In fact, now I look into it I see that McCartney actually recorded it before. I don't have such a forensic memory for exact release dates in comparison to other records (thank god!).
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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Sept 17, 2021 18:06:18 GMT
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Sept 17, 2021 18:13:32 GMT
That smile looks like the result of one of those face editing apps.
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