Wingspan (Hits & History)

Paul McCartney - Wingspan (Hits & History)

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Artist: Paul McCartney
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-05-08
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Listen to What the Man Said [Venus and Mars + Single]
  2. Band on the Run [Band on the Run + Single]
  3. Another Day [Single]
  4. Live and Let Die [Single]
  5. Jet [Band on the Run + Single]
  6. My Love
  7. Silly Love Songs
  8. Pipes of Peace
  9. C Moon
  10. Hi, Hi, Hi [Single]
  11. Let 'Em In
  12. Goodnight Tonight [Single]
  13. Junior's Farm
  14. Mull of Kintyre
  15. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
  16. With A Little Luck
  17. Coming Up
  18. No More Lonely Nights
Music CD 2
  1. Let Me Roll It
  2. The Lovely Linda
  3. Daytime Nightime Suffering [B-Side Single]
  4. Maybe I'm Amazed
  5. Helen Wheels [Single + Us Band on the Run]
  6. Bluebird [Band on the Run]
  7. Heart of the Country
  8. Every Night
  9. Take It Away [Tug of War + Single]
  10. Junk
  11. Man We Was Lonely
  12. Venus and Mars/Rock Show [Single Edit]
  13. Back Seat of My Car [Ram + UK Single]
  14. Rockestra Theme [Back to the Egg]
  15. Girlfriend
  16. Waterfalls/ [DJ Edit]
  17. Tomorrow [Wings Wild Life]
  18. Too Many People
  19. Call Me Back Again [Venus and Mars]
  20. Tug of War [Tug of War + Single]
  21. Bip Bop/Hey Diddle [As Featured in Wingspan TV-Film]
  22. No More Lonely Nights / [Playout Version]

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Free Music Review: Classics abound but a proper Wings anthology is sorely needed
Hit: 5 Stars

If anyone needs a box set done of his material it's Paul McCartney. The man has so many albums out there that it's near impossible for the casual listener or newcomer to even find a place to begin. For those that need a hint, there are the classic, must have albums like McCartney, Ram, Band on the Run, Venus and Mars, Wings Over America (live), Flowers in the Dirt, Flaming Pie and 2005's Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. But there's also some other very highly entertaining works like Red Rose Speedway and Tug of War that deserve a listen. WINGSPAN is a great place to start your collection, or to recall a lot of the hit songs Paul released in the 1970s and 1980s, the decades this collection covers.

Putting together a proper retrospective of Wings was, I believe, one of the things Linda McCartney always wanted to do. (Linda was a member of Wings with Paul along with Denny Laine and a host of revolving musicians from 1971-1981.) After her death in 1998, Paul created the WINGSPAN project in her memory, which included this double CD, a book and a national television special, which can be purchased on DVD. But WINGSPAN is ultimately misleading as it features solo McCartney songs recorded both before and after Wings, and this collection turned out not to be the proper Wings anthology so many had been hoping for in the run up to its release. As far as the musical aspect of the WINGSPAN project, I believe this 2 CD collection became (understandably) more of a way for Paul to remember Linda and some of their own personal favorite songs, instead of properly representing the often underrated output of Wings through the years.

Disc one (Hits) is hard to argue with as classics abound. Yet if this was just a retrospective of Wings, songs like "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey," "Another Day," "Pipes of Peace" and "No More Lonely Nights" do not belong as they are solo McCartney works done without Wings proper. I also question the inclusion of "Pipes of Peace," "C Moon" and "Mull of Kintyre," though huge hits in England, they did little in the United States. (But again, I believe these were always personal favorites of Paul and Linda.) There are other key tracks that were hits that are glaringly left off this Hits side.

However, what is cool to find is that the songs found on the first disc have never sounded better, and in many ways, have gotten better with age! The hipsters can rail against "Silly Love Songs" all they want, but Paul's bass work and the overall solid structure of this song is unmistakable. "Silly Love Songs" is great based on the fact alone that it's Paul shouting out a big "F... you" to the critics (not literally, but you know what I mean.) "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" is avant-garde rock at its best, and songs like "Band on the Run" and "Jet" still rock after all these years. Honorable mention goes to "No More Lonely Nights," one of Paul's best songs ever, with awesome guitar work by Pink Floyd's own Dave Gilmour. However, on such great cuts like "Junior's Farm" and "With a Little Luck", radio edits have been used, which is a sin when you know how much better the unedited version is in comparison.

For years the stuck up critics at Rolling Stone derailed McCartney for the #1 smash "My Love" found here, but the death of Linda has only made this song that much more sentimental and relevant. It has remained a staple of McCartney live shows for years, and Henry McCullough's guitar work on "My Love" is still incredible.

Disc two (History) is the more controversial side for me, as some of Paul's selections again seem to reflect (once again, understandably) his and Linda's favorites, but don't necessarily represent the plethora of long, lost great Wings tracks. Wings definitely had their own sound and style, and in hindsight, a lot of people now have a greater appreciation for Wings and their work. (Bono himself recently said that the band of the year for him was Wings!) In their day, Wings was never given a fair chance coming so quickly after The Beatles. And for that reason, it is important in the future for Paul to release a proper Wings anthology. And what exactly is "Maybe I'm Amazed" doing on the History disc and not the Hits disc? It's only probably his most well known solo song ever!

On disc two there are once again way too many solo McCartney tracks, even though they are absolutely stunning selections ("Too Many People," "Every Night," "Man We Was Lonely," "Junk," "Heart of the Country," "Tug of War," "Take It Away," "Waterfalls," "The Back Seat of My Car" and "Maybe I'm Amazed"), but these songs once again obviously meant a lot to Paul and Linda and it's hard to argue cutting any of those classic songs from a McCartney collection. But this is supposed to be a representation of the work of Wings! Furthermore, another solo track, "The Lovely Linda," would be near impossible to delete on a collection like this. However, the inclusion of all these solo McCartney songs clearly does Wings little justice.

What WINGSPAN ended up becoming was a nice way to remember Linda by Paul, and in that degree it succeeds wonderfully (thus my five star rating). Yet one can't help but think that Paul missed the mark by not actually showing through this collection something Linda always believed in, and that was the validity of Wings as a band. On deeper inspection, there are many, many, many Wings tracks that in hindsight show what a fine band Paul fronted throughout the 1970s. Consider the following sampling of incredible tracks that are absent from WINGSPAN:

Beware My Love, Cafe On The Left Bank, Girls' School, Letting Go, Give Ireland Back to the Irish, Country Dreamer, Old Siam Sir, Soily (live 1976), Time to Hide, Don't Let It Bring You Down, Wild Life, Sally G, Big Barn Bed, Some People Never Know, Get on the Right Thing, Love In Song, London Town, Dear Friend, The Mess, Treat Her Gently/Lonely Old People, Seaside Woman, Maybe I'm Amazed (live 1976), Little Woman Love, Arrow Through Me, Little Lamb Dragonfly, When the Night, Again and Again and Again, Magneto and Titanium Man, A Love For You, Medicine Jar, Mama's Little Girl, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five, Spin It On, I Lie Around, I've Had Enough, So Glad To See You Here, I'm Carrying, Mrs. Vandebilt, Picasso's Last Words, so on and so forth...

The folks at Paul's record company and Paul himself need to anthologize Wings properly, and his whole career for that matter. Start rolling those box sets out soon, please!

Otherwise, WINGSPAN is highly recommended as it does allow one to discover such great Wings songs like "Tomorrow," "Daytime Nightime Suffering" and "Call Me Back Again," not to mention the solo classic "The Back Seat of My Car," the last song from the Ram album. "Too Many People" and "Helen Wheels" still rock out, but I will never understand the inclusion of the remix of "No More Lonely Nights"!

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