PAUL MCCARTNEY BAND ON THE RUN FULL

I hapen to really like Red Rose Speedway too,but I totally *love* his Great 1975 Wings rock album,Venus and Mars the best.Every song on this album is very good and it’s really a Beatles quality album,I think it’s better than the Band On The Run album,and I also think it’s Paul’s last truly great album.My sister who is 4 years older,and who had a big diverse music collection,bought Venus and Mars when it first came out,and over 20 years later she still was saying it’s one of the best albums she’s ever heard,and that it’s unique and she knows no other album like it.Paul also produced all of his great early-mid 70’s albums,and he co-arranged this album too.Band on the Run is generally considered to be Paul McCartney's strongest solo effort. I don’t agree at all with what Justin wrote about the Band On The Run album.Bluebird is actually a very pretty song,and only Paul McCartney can make a song about Bluebirds,Dragon Flies,and Pigons so beautiful,it s his *music genuis* more than lyrics which for him is usually the case.Band on The Run is a great song,that has three parts in one in it,and it turns into a great rocker,and only Paul and DEnny Laine play all of the instruments great in every song on the album,and Paul’s bass,lead guitar,piano playing and vocals are all great as usual.The song Band On The Run,isn’t silly either,I have heard other reviewers point out that it’s about escaping,and having freedom,which someone once pointed out this is what Bluebird is also about.ġ985 is as other people have described it,a Great piano rocker,and I have always loved Jet from the time I heard it when it first came out when I was in third grade.I love his great rocker Juinor’s Farm which came out almost a year later though too.

That said, this fine-tuned semi-classic should hold die-hard Wings fans for a while, at least until Back to the Egg gets its inevitable redux.

There’s also random documentary evidence of the Band on the Run cover-photo sessions, not to mention some early pre-MTV promotional videos featuring the sort of hokey-jokey showboating that would unfortunately characterize McCartney’s music-supporting visuals for years to come.

PAUL MCCARTNEY BAND ON THE RUN FULL

You get the demo-quality versions of the official CD tracks, then a separate DVD full of curious but crude rehearsal film footage. Naturally the bonus tracks and extra DVD visuals don’t yield much in the way of long-lost treasures. Still, Band on the Run’s clever arrangements and careful instrumentation sound as fresh as ever, while those ever-unsubtle McCartney choruses always occur with the same gut-warming inevitability. Originally released in glam-heavy 1973, Band on the Run finds McCartney more assured as a solo songwriter, while still dabbling with whimsical song cycles, odd reprises, and random mix-n-match structures as he did on 1971’s Ram and 1973’s Red Rose: although his grafting together of seemingly unrelated sections here feels a bit like pastiche compared to, say, the slick segues that hold an otherwise disjointed album like Abbey Road together. What really matters, though, is that it isn’t Red Rose Speedway or London Town that’s being re-released: Band on the Run’s opening one-two punch, the mega-hit singles “Band on the Run” and “Jet,” are easily the best songs Macca ever penned with Wings (with “Let Me Roll It,” claiming honorable mention), which at the time consisted of his shutterbug-turned-keyboardist wife Linda McCartney (who gets partial writing credits on most of these songs) and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine. Whether this recent re-mastering of Paul McCartney and Wings’ Band on the Run CD (along with bonus tracks, DVD, and “enhanced packaging”) is simply a meretricious attempt to return Sir Paul’s bank balance to its pre-Heather Mills glory is anybody’s guess.

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