Where are all our insiders to drop some hints?
Sept 17, 2020 23:10:57 GMT
Post by hoffa_nagila on Sept 17, 2020 23:10:57 GMT
I like his music a lot. I have all the albums, b-sides, seasides, etc. Egypt Station was BAD. I really hope it was just a big misstep. Maybe he and Greg Kurstin are not a match. But it took years, a longer stretch than between any other album of his, and without anything else happening in between aside from his tours, to make it and it just fell flat. Can he bounce back? I sure hope so. But I'm not expecting much anymore. And I'm not gonna waste my time trying to like it (or anything.) I know what I like when I hear it. Bob Dylan's new album? Great stuff for sure. Tracks keep coming up in shuffle and I continue to be impressed.
But I have a soft spot for the old guy too. And maybe a "quarantine" record of him just jamming and farting around in his studio could be a good thing. That's the kind of music I like (and make, more or less). The McCartney album is something I hold in very regard. Only half of the tracks are developed songs, while the rest is fun nonsense. That's way better than a record where half the songs are good and the other half try to be but fall flat. On my last album, I'd generously count 8 of the 13 tracks as proper songs, with the rest being noise or interludes. And the album before that would be 5 out of ten. Then there's stuff like Beck's pre-Mellow Gold records. When I heard Western Harvest Field, I thought "ah, this is the greatest thing ever." Back to McCartney, he even did this again to a degree with Electric Arguments, especially if you throw in all the remixes and instrumental bonuses. The aesthetic is very different from the McCartney album but the big idea is still there. It's a one man band, farting around and throwing this and that and whatever the fuck into the mix. Some of the songs are developed, others are loose. Some songs sort of fizzle out towards the end and segue into something else.
And there goes another one of my patented pointless rambles. As usual, I don't have any point at all.
Maccawings is clearly following this thread as he changed his profile pic to an emoji. I can almost appreciate that.
But I have a soft spot for the old guy too. And maybe a "quarantine" record of him just jamming and farting around in his studio could be a good thing. That's the kind of music I like (and make, more or less). The McCartney album is something I hold in very regard. Only half of the tracks are developed songs, while the rest is fun nonsense. That's way better than a record where half the songs are good and the other half try to be but fall flat. On my last album, I'd generously count 8 of the 13 tracks as proper songs, with the rest being noise or interludes. And the album before that would be 5 out of ten. Then there's stuff like Beck's pre-Mellow Gold records. When I heard Western Harvest Field, I thought "ah, this is the greatest thing ever." Back to McCartney, he even did this again to a degree with Electric Arguments, especially if you throw in all the remixes and instrumental bonuses. The aesthetic is very different from the McCartney album but the big idea is still there. It's a one man band, farting around and throwing this and that and whatever the fuck into the mix. Some of the songs are developed, others are loose. Some songs sort of fizzle out towards the end and segue into something else.
And there goes another one of my patented pointless rambles. As usual, I don't have any point at all.
Maccawings is clearly following this thread as he changed his profile pic to an emoji. I can almost appreciate that.