Paul McCartney, Wings - Back to the Egg
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Artist: Paul McCartney, WingsEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1993-08-16
Music Label: EMI Europe Generic
Soundtracks:
- Reception
- Getting Closer
- We're Open Tonight
- Spin It On
- Again And Again And Again
- Old Siam, Sir
- Arrow Through Me
- Rockestra Theme
- To You
- After The Ball - Million Miles
- Winter Rose - Love Awake
- The Broadcast
- So Glad To See You Here
- Baby's Request
- Daytime Nightime Suffering
- Wonderful Christmastime
- Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reggae
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Free Music Review: Wings crash & burn
Hit: 2 Stars
Don't believe the McCartney/Beatle fanatics that have conspired here with glowing reviews and set the rating for this one at 4 & 1/2 stars. Let's be honest here folks- this one is pretty bad. The music Paul came up with for this one is stuff that sounds like it was written all in one day. And the performances are pretty lackluster too. The only stand out track for me is "Old Siam Sir" and consequently sounds out of place between the other half baked rock tunes and ballads. "Getting Closer" is a lame pop tune that was chosen as a single. "Arrow Thru Me" is a quasi-disco pop tune which makes me queasy and reminds me too much of "Silly Love Songs". Yuck! Real sickening cheesy late '70s bubblegum nonsense. "Spin It On" & "To You" attempt to show that Paul can still rock but they're sloppily played and Paul gives one of his all time worst vocals on "To You", which is possibly the worst cut on this really insipid album. Paul enlists some all-star help on "Rockestra Theme" in which Dave Gilmour, Pete Townsend, John Bonham, Kenny Jones, Ronnie Lane, John Paul Jones and many others along with the rest of Wings bash out the same incessant lame riff over & over ad infinitum. It's a bit of a puzzler to me, with all that talent in the room and this is the best he could come up with? The only other bright spots on the record is the Denny Laine tune "Again & Again" a mid-tempo rocker with some nice twangy guitar fills and good vocals by Denny. "Love Awake" would have been better off on it's own without the "Winter Rose" intro. It's not a great song by any means but I'm really struggling to find something or anything good here. On the whole, this sounded like a rush job by Paul to get a new record out and feed his massive ego. He usually finds good musicians to back him but this version of Wings seemed hastily put together. They never really seem to jell and Laurence Juber isn't much of a lead guitarist. Never mind Linda's keyboard playing and horrid backing vocals. Needless to say, she doesnt help. If she wanted to help she should have stayed in the kitchen, or in the photo studio where her true talents were. Amazingly this one by a former Beatle, and it's not even his worst. "Press to Play" anyone? "Pipes of Peace", "Wild Life", "Give My Regards to Broad Street"? On 2nd thought, "Wild Life" is better than this.
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The promising career of this final edition of Wings was cut short in 1980 when Paul McCartney, perhaps just a bit too elated to be returning to Japan for his first performances since the Beatles' legendary visit 14 years earlier, was arrested by Japanese customs officials with a substantial stash of marijuana in his luggage. But though it's anchored by the muscular drumming of Steve Holly and the solid guitar work of the classically trained Laurence Juber (who's since carved out a comfortable niche as studio ace and innovative acoustic stylist), it's too often McCartney's songwriting that's the band's weakest link. Ostensibly upbeat numbers such as "Spin it On," "Getting Closer," and the big rock of "Old Siam, Sir" just can't overcome the MOR leanings of much of the rest, including "Arrow Through Me." The star-laden "Rockestra Theme" (featuring Pete Townshend, Ronnie Wood, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Dave Gilmour, and Ronnie Lane) is rollicking fun, but still not enough to surmount the artistic Battle of the Two Pauls; the Little Richard-inspired rocker and the Manilow-esque balladeer who too often gets the upper hand here. This CD also features the strong B-side "Daytime Nighttime Suffering," a track which may unintentionally comment on the other two "bonus" cuts here, the misfired McCartney holiday singles "Wonderful Christmastime" and "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reggae." --Jerry McCulleyDigitally remastered reissue of their top 10 1979 EMI album featuring the hits 'Getting Closer' and 'Arrow Through Me', plus 'Old Siam, Sir' and 'Rockestra Theme', as well as threebonus tracks: 'Daytime Nighttime Suffering', 'Wonderful Christmastime' and 'Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reggae'. 17 trackstotal. 1993 EMI release.
Digitally Remastered Reissue of the Original Album with Getting Closer / Spin it on / Old Siam Sir / Rockestra Theme and More, plus Three Added Bonus Tracks: Daytime Nighttime Suffering / Wonderful Christmastime / Rudolf the Red Nosed Reggae.
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