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Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full - CD/DVD Deluxe Edition
Music CD CoverArtist: Paul McCartney Edition: Music CD Format: Extra tracks, Live CD Release Date: 2007-11-06 Music Label: HEAR MUSIC Soundtracks: Music CD 1- Dance Tonight
- Ever Present Past
- See Your Sunshine
- Only Mama Knows
- You Tell Me
- Mr. Bellamy
- Gratitude
- Vintage Clothes
- That Was Me
- Feet In The Clouds
- House Of Wax
- The End Of The End
- Nod Your Head
- In Private (Bonus Track)
- Why So Blue (Bonus Track)
- 222 (Bonus Track)
Music CD 2- Drive My Car - Live At The Electric Ballroom, London
- Dance Tonight - Live At The Electric Ballroom, London
- House Of Wax - Live At The Electric Ballroom, London
- Nod Your Head - Live At The Electric Ballroom, London
- Only Mama Knows - Live At The Electric Ballroom, London
- Dance Tonight (Video)
- Ever Present Past (Video)
Free Music Notes for Memory Almost Full - CD/DVD Deluxe EditionFree Music Review: Best yet? Hit: 5 StarsThis might be McCartney's best album yet.
Some songs show shades of past McCartney glory ("Only Mama Knows," "Vintage Clothes"), but some are incredibly orginal to Sir Paul ("House of Wax" "dance Tonight"). The jazz influences, specifically on the bonus tracks ("In Private" and "222") are absolutely wonderful. Maybe he'll come out with an entire jazz CD?!
I've already told my daughter that she should play "The End of the End" at my funeral. What a fantastic tribute song.
Only "Nod Your Head" does absolutely nothing for me and I actually skip the track when playing this disc in my car.
This one is worth picking up.
Memory Almost Full - CD/DVD Deluxe Edition Poster"Many years from now" must have seemed like an understatement to 16-year-old Paul McCartney, wondering if he'd still be needed or fed at the age of 64. As it turned out, all doubt as to the latter had ceased by his 22nd birthday (though few could have predicted he'd end up washing down those meals with the liquid pride of Seattle). As to the former? Now that McCartney, as of the date of this album's release, has reached that mythic age, his greatest work is 40 years behind him, his solo peak over 30 years gone. Does the world need a new Paul McCartney album? The answer is yes, at least as much as it needs anything else that passes for music these days. With Memory Almost Full, Macca is back. No, it's not Ram or Band on the Run. It might not even be Flowers in the Dirt--in 1989, he had a full band, the support of Linda, and Elvis Costello as a collaborator. Here, he's on his own. Literally: on the majority of the tracks, everything but the strings is multi-instrumentalist Paul. But the surprise is that it's one of his freest, loosest affairs in years, sonically reminiscent of the Tug of War/Pipes of Peace era with nods to Abbey Road in the album-closing medley, McCartney's gravelly tones on "Gratitude," and 2007's version of "Her Majesty," the palate-cleansing "Nod Your Head." It's a surprise because of the album's inescapable sense of retrospection ("Ever Present Past," "Vintage Clothes," "That Was Me") and even a bit of weariness. The next-to-last song is "The End of the End," after all, in which McCartney tells us about what he'd like to happen "on the day that I die." (He wants "songs that were sung/to be hung out like blankets/that lovers have played on/and laid on while listening to songs that were sung," and will likely get his wish.) But it never gets overwhelming, for McCartney mostly resists his tendency to get plodding and maudlin. In fact, Memory Almost Full must be the most sanguine album made during the dissolution of a marriage since...well, ever. "What went out is coming back," he sings in "Vintage Clothes," and from the sound of things, that may not be just wishful thinking. What's past is prologue; if we're lucky, what to come may be McCartney's late renaissance. --Benjamin Lukoff More from Paul McCartney  A Hard Day's Night |  Wingspan (Hits & History) |  All the Best |  Ram |  Band on the Run |  McCartney |  Wings - Greatest Hits |  Venus and Mars |  Chaos and Creation in the Backyard |  Unplugged (The Official Bootleg) |
The CD/DVD Deluxe Edition features three bonus audio tracks on the CD: "In Private," "Why So Blue," and "222." In addition, the package includes a DVD that features never-before-released footage from McCartney's "secret show" at the Electric Ballroom in London in June, 2007. The video portion of the package includes live performances of material from "Memory Almost Full" including "Dance Tonight," "Nod Your Head," "House of Wax" and "Only Mama Knows," as well as a live performance of "Drive My Car." Also included in the package are the music videos for the singles "Ever Present Past," directed by Phil Griffin and "Dance Tonight," directed by Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and starring Natalie Portman.
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