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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jun 11, 2020 12:01:48 GMT
Paul protests Italian government ticket refund policy:
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 13, 2020 22:21:46 GMT
New video from Paul McCartney's 1997 song "Young Boy" (from Flaming Pie).
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Post by kds on Jun 16, 2020 14:31:56 GMT
This must be part of the massive Flaming Pie reissue. I didn't know the album was popular enough to warrant such a release, but for what it's worth, it's probably the last Paul album that I really like.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jun 16, 2020 15:48:18 GMT
Here is news on the Flaming Pie special re-release:
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 16, 2020 16:01:49 GMT
This must be part of the massive Flaming Pie reissue. I didn't know the album was popular enough to warrant such a release, but for what it's worth, it's probably the last Paul album that I really like. Considering the Dylan bootleg series has included alternates and outtakes from a period widely considered his worst, Flaming Pie is practically as obvious a choice for the deluxe treatment as Sgt. Pepper!
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Post by kds on Jun 16, 2020 16:05:04 GMT
This must be part of the massive Flaming Pie reissue. I didn't know the album was popular enough to warrant such a release, but for what it's worth, it's probably the last Paul album that I really like. Considering the Dylan bootleg series has included alternates and outtakes from a period widely considered his worst, Flaming Pie is practically as obvious a choice for the deluxe treatment as Sgt. Pepper! I suppose so. Just looking at the details Sheriff posted, there's no way I need that much Flaming Pie in my life. But, then again, I'm past the point where I'm willing to spend big bucks on these, and haven't even sprung for super editions of albums I love (as discussed in another thread somewhere).
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 16, 2020 16:25:07 GMT
I'm in the same ballpark. I haven't gotten any massive reissues since I think the Basement Tapes Dylan bootleg series one (and that, only digital). Otherwise nothing since MiC. I'm just not going to be getting things like reissues of Flaming Pie.
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Post by kds on Jun 16, 2020 17:04:16 GMT
I'm in the same ballpark. I haven't gotten any massive reissues since I think the Basement Tapes Dylan bootleg series one (and that, only digital). Otherwise nothing since MiC. I'm just not going to be getting things like reissues of Flaming Pie. MiC was my last really big purchase of that kind, and that'll probably remain so.
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 30, 2020 12:09:28 GMT
Based on SJS's work in the Dylan thread, I decided to take a look at McCartney's as well, using Beatles, Wings, and solo studio albums. I'd say the results are even more spectacular than Dylan's, and it seems almost inevitable that if he releases a studio album during this decade, he'll sit beside Dylan with the six decades including Top 40 albums.
More amazingly, unlike Dylan, McCartney has almost ONLY ever had Top 40 albums. In the U.S., he has only ever released ONE studio album that failed to reach the Top 40, the covers album I'll write as CHOBA B CCCP because I don't know how I type in Cyrillic...
The chart ratings are UK, US. The first two, I only used UK since US had different albums for a while there. Rather than try to jam them into anywhere, I just skipped US altogether until they started releasing the same albums (albeit slightly differently for a while yet).
Please Please Me, 1 With the Beatles, 1 A Hard Day’s Night, 1, 1 Beatles for Sale, 1 Help, 1, 1 Rubber Soul, 1, 1 Revolver, 1, 1 Sgt. Pepper, 1, 1 Magical Mystery Tour, 31, 1 White Album, 1, 1 Yellow Submarine, 3, 2 Abbey Road, 1, 1 Let It Be, 1, 1
McCartney, 2, 1 Ram, 1, 2
Wild Life, 11, 10 Red Rose Speedway, 5, 1 Band on the Run, 1, 1 Venus and Mars, 1, 1 Wings at the Speed of Sound, 2, 1 London Town, 4, 2 Back to the Egg, 6, 8
McCartney II, 1, 3 Tug of War, 1, 1 Pipes of Peace, 4, 15 Give My Regards to Broad Street, 1, 21 Press to Play, 8, 30 CHOBA B CCCP, 63, 109 Flowers in the Dirt, 1, 21 Off the Ground, 5, 17 Flaming Pie, 2, 2 Run Devil Run, 12, 27 Driving Rain, 46, 26 Chaos & Creation in the Backyard, 10, 6 Memory Almost Full, 5, 3 Kisses on the Bottom, 3, 5 New, 3, 3 Egypt Station, 3, 1
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Post by kds on Jun 30, 2020 12:17:59 GMT
Interesting that Driving Rain did so poorly in comparison with the rest of his catalog. Sure, it's no masterpiece, but that can be said of a lot of Paul's later era work.
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 30, 2020 12:26:42 GMT
Three things quickly jump out:
- Unlike Bob Dylan, in many cases, Paul does surprisingly better in the U.S. than the U.K.
- I didn't realize how much Magical Mystery Tour didn't catch on in the U.S.
- I'll bet Paul was pissed at Driving Rain coming in at 46, 26
It's the other way around in terms of charts: UK first, US second. So Magical Mystery Tour was a flop in the UK, a hit in the US. (I went in that order because that's the order wikipedia had them.)
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Post by kds on Jun 30, 2020 12:30:01 GMT
Wasn't MMT released originally as an EP in the UK, with only the six songs from the BBC special?
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 30, 2020 12:35:36 GMT
Interesting that Driving Rain did so poorly in comparison with the rest of his catalog. Sure, it's no masterpiece, but that can be said of a lot of Paul's later era work. I looked it up to see whether I could figure out anything. Nope, no theories. It was right after 9/11, but it wasn't the only album with that problem, and something had to chart well.
The top five in the first week after its release: Britney Spears, Britney; Pink Floyd, Echoes: the Best of Pink Floyd; Michael Jackson, Invincible; Enrique Iglesias, Escape; and Enya, A Day Without Rain.
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Post by kds on Jun 30, 2020 12:40:25 GMT
Interesting that Driving Rain did so poorly in comparison with the rest of his catalog. Sure, it's no masterpiece, but that can be said of a lot of Paul's later era work. I looked it up to see whether I could figure out anything. Nope, no theories. It was right after 9/11, but it wasn't the only album with that problem, and something had to chart well.
The top five in the first week after its release: Britney Spears, Britney; Pink Floyd, Echoes: the Best of Pink Floyd; Michael Jackson, Invincible; Enrique Iglesias, Escape; and Enya, A Day Without Rain.
Maybe Paul didn't market it well. I remember, even just five years previously, when Flaming Pie was released, the lead single The World Tonight got a big push from Vh1. But, by the time Driving Rain was released, Vh1 and MTV had pretty much starting ignoring artists over 50.
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Post by lonelysummer on Jul 2, 2020 7:07:38 GMT
I think the chart positions are misleading, though, because, while something like Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper, Band on the Run or Venus and Mars topped the charts and then lingered in the upper half of the top 200 for a long time, the recent stuff hasn't had that kind of staying power. How many casual fans could name even one song off the albums since Flowers in the Dirt? Basically, what we are seeing here is the same thing we see with Dylan - lots of pre-orders add up to a strong first week, then the albums quickly drop off the charts. Another difference is, Dylan does a lot of his recent material in his shows; with Paul, there might be 2 or 3 songs in his setlist from the current album, but by the next tour, those songs are all gone. Wonder when he last played My Brave Face? Hope of Deliverance? Fine Line?
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