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11 April 2011
1.33am

Ph.D.

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I'm just listening to this album for the first time, and I must say, so far it's much better than I expected. Any other opinions?

11 April 2011
4.38am

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One of my favorite McCartney albums. He wrote very meaningful songs on this album including: 'We Got Married', 'Put It There' and 'This One'

After 'Pipes Of Peace' and 'Press To Play' he really needed to have a strong album and this one delivers.

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11 April 2011
11.35am

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I've not listened to it since the early 90s, but I *wish* he'd issued the original Elvis Costello collaboration tapes instead of polishing up the songs with his band. Apparently the first recordings were a lot more basic and instant-sounding.

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11 April 2011
12.39pm

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Oh, I love this album!!! It has a great opening 6. But I love the Costello duet.

I tried to think of something powerful and moving… and failed. "You were given a choice between war and dishonor - you chose dishonor, and you shall have war" - Winston Churchill

11 April 2011
2.18pm

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Used to be one of my favourites. I must have played it literally thousands of times when it came out.

Cool production by big ones like Trevor Horn.

Favourite tracks:

My brave face (Smash opener!!)

Rough ride

Distractions (fantastic!!)

We got married (nice Gilmour solo)

This one (Typical Macca nonsense lyrics, but nicely arranged)

Figure of eight (though not the album version, the long "live" one is much better)

Motor of love

and of course Ou est le soleil? Great closing track!

I don't care that much about "You want her too" and "Don't be careless love" (he overdoes the highpitched singing in this one).

11 April 2011
6.42pm

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A friend of mine loves this album so much, that her nickname on internet is FlowersintheDirt. Another Paul album I need to get. a-hard-days-night-paul-10

Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie…… Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower… Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go. Beware of Darkness… I believe in SH...

11 April 2011
6.55pm

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You really do. I'm listening to it now.

I tried to think of something powerful and moving… and failed. "You were given a choice between war and dishonor - you chose dishonor, and you shall have war" - Winston Churchill

11 April 2011
9.35pm

MeanMrsMustard

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paulsbass said:

My brave face (Smash opener!!)

I love that song! It's probably a hereditary thing. My mom loves Elvis Costello, so the McCartney-McManus songwriting credit was too much to resist….

Sort of related: Once we heard "My Brave Face" playing in the grocery store. We started dancing along, of course. I'm lucky enough to have a family of hardcore Beatles fans.

If I seem to act unkind, it's only me, it's not my mind that is confusing things.

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11 April 2011
9.43pm

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MMM, what does your mom think of You Want Her Too? It features them duetting, after all!

I tried to think of something powerful and moving… and failed. "You were given a choice between war and dishonor - you chose dishonor, and you shall have war" - Winston Churchill

12 April 2011
4.20am

Ph.D.

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I especially like This One, it almost reminds me of Calico Skies, my favorite Paul song.

9 July 2011
1.48am

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I keep noticing that people think that "My Brave Face" sounds like a Go-Go's song, if you know who they are. They were fronted by singer Belinda Carlisle.

The promo video for MBF, co-written by Elvis Costello (the pair also wrote "Veronica" for Costello's 1989 album, Spike), features at the beginning a speech by a Japanese Beatles fanatic (who claims to want to collect everything the Beatles ever did), who in the end is arrested. Am I led to think this Japanese Beatles fan is Issei Sagawa (or one of his relations), who is one of the subjects of the Rolling Stones' 1983 song, "Too Much Blood"?

~Ben

8 March 2012
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arella

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I agree it's really much better than I expected! I really enjoy listening to it from time to time, so why not? btw I think ClassicTVMan's comment about Issei Sagawa and Too much Blood is really interesting… I have to agree!

And I love the name! "Flowers in the Dirt" is such a hopeful name, don't you think? This is the reason why postal flowers always give people much hope

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