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4.48am
10 August 2011
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Some McCartney songs simply haven't appeared on any studio albums (B-sides, charity releases, unreleased altogether…).
I just discovered "Simple As That" a McCartney charity release (anti-drug). It's a bonus track on Pipes of Peace.
Really good!
5.48am
1 December 2009
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Into the Sky with Diamonds said
I just discovered "Simple As That" a McCartney charity release (anti-drug). It's a bonus track on Pipes of Peace.
OK, impossible to read that without snickering: Paul McCartney, anti-drug zealot! (And the album title makes it even funnier if you think about it!)
Not totally on topic, but I was surprised to just recently learn that "Wonderful Christmas Time" never charted in the USA. Which is a surprise because I remember it being a big hit here in Canada. Usually it's only songs by Canadian performers that chart here but not south of the border.
Also, does "Girls' School" (b-side of "Mull of Kintyre") show up anywhere?
5.49am
23 January 2011
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That is a good one! I think it was released as an anti-heroin charity song or something. I love the lyric, "If you love your life, everybody will love you, too." That is so Paul!
5.53am
23 January 2011
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vonbontee said
Into the Sky with Diamonds said
I just discovered "Simple As That" a McCartney charity release (anti-drug). It's a bonus track on Pipes of Peace.
OK, impossible to read that without snickering: Paul McCartney, anti-drug zealot! (And the album title makes it even funnier if you think about it!)
Not totally on topic, but I was surprised to just recently learn that "Wonderful Christmas Time" never charted in the USA. Which is a surprise because I remember it being a big hit here in Canada. Usually it's only songs by Canadian performers that chart here but not south of the border.
Also, does "Girls' School" (b-side of "Mull of Kintyre") show up anywhere?
We got flipped! It is ironic, isn't it…Though, I don't think Paul ever really got into heroin, and he saw what it did to John.
And Pipes of Peace…lol. That is a funny coincidence.
I think the general consensus is that Wonderful Christmastime is a horrible song…but I like it. I liked it before I knew it was Paul because I like Christmas songs at Christmas. But it doesn't surprise me that it never charted.
Girl's School charted in the US, but I don't know if it is on any other album. I got it from a McCartney B-sides torrent.
Edit: We didn't get flipped. I just didn't read ITSWD's post clearly enough. Forgive my redundancy.
6.31am
12 March 2010
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vonbontee said
Not totally on topic, but I was surprised to just recently learn that "Wonderful Christmas Time" never charted in the USA. Which is a surprise because I remember it being a big hit here in Canada. Usually it's only songs by Canadian performers that chart here but not south of the border.
Also, does "Girls' School" (b-side of "Mull of Kintyre") show up anywhere?
"Wonderful christmas time" must be the "guilty pleasure" of a lot of people!
And I don't really see why to feel guilty about it – how many deep personal meanings can you put into a Xmas song?! Simply lyrics? Hey, Christmas is ABOUT having a wonderful time, so what's not to like! Great vocal arrangement (the "bells"), nice synths – cool song!
"Girl's school" ROCKS!
Appeared as a bonus track on "London Town" CD. One of my favourites (esp. since we did have a Girl's school in town…).
My favourite "appeared nowhere" track is still "The loveliest thing".
Usually you can hear when a Macca song didn't hit the spotlight, the production is often "thin" and something is missing…
Not with this song, produced by Phil Ramone, recorded with Billy Joels backing band.
Nice little song I wish more people would know about.
6.59am
1 December 2009
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I expect that a lot of the "Wonderful Christmastime" hate comes from folks who can't stand Xmas music in general, can't stand hearing the same songs 1000 times each December – a sentiment I can totally sympathize with – for 30+ years. I've always thought it was really cool, the way it bounces and burbles along. Not quite as good as Stevie Wonder's similar synthesized funk (like "Higher Gound" or "Boogie On Reggae Woman"), but that's what it reminds me of, all the same. I guess it is a bit repetitive, as far as that goes.
11.27am
1 May 2011
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The lyrics to Simple As That are appalling and the tune is ghastly, cannot stand it. The backing response "simply as that" vocals sends shudders down my spine. Horrid.
Same Time Next Year has been lost, i think its only been offically released on the Put It There cd single, gorgeous song. I think it was in a movie but it may have been ditched, i dont know.
1.26pm
26 March 2012
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There are tons of little obscure Macca gems that I love and wish had been on albums. A Love For You, from the Ram sessions, is amazing and should have been on the record, contains one of his best vocal performances too. I'm also a big fan of Cage, which would have been very welcome as a replacement for the poorer songs on Back to the Egg. Then there's the beautiful sitar-laden Tragedy, and 1882, which started off as a nice little melancholic piano waltz but was turned into a rock song for Wings '72 tour, didn't really work.
I'm also fond of the unfinished reggae tune Unbelievable Experience, although apparently Paul brought that in for the Tug of War sessions and George Martin told him it wasn't up to par and he had to write some higher quality material for the crucial record to test his relevance in the '80s. Always nice to think that there's at least one person in the music industry who'll tell him what's worth recording and what's not!
10.11pm
3 September 2012
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I really like "3 Legs" off of Ram for some reason. It apparently tends to be the most hated song on the record; I can see why considering its competition.
10.25pm
1 May 2011
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Peace In The Neighbourhood from Off The Ground is a really good track, completely forgotten about that. Maybe could have been faded out a bit earlier but still a fine song. The Lovers That Never Were is one of my favourite Paul songs ever.
10.38pm
10 August 2011
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meanmistermustard said,"The Lovers That Never Were is one of my favourite Paul songs ever."
I think meanmistermustard and I disagree on just about every Beatle song, so I find it interesting that he and I should agree on this song. (It doesn't hurt that the lyrics are probably mostly Elvis Costello's)
10.47pm
1 May 2011
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Into the Sky with Diamonds said
meanmistermustard said,"The Lovers That Never Were is one of my favourite Paul songs ever."I think meanmistermustard and I disagree on just about every Beatle song, so I find it interesting that he and I should agree on this song. (It doesn't hurt that the lyrics are probably mostly Elvis Costello's)
LOL. Surely not!!
Ah at least we are able to co-exist.
1.41am
25 August 2012
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I'm probably most curious to hear the Red Rose Speedway outtakes from when it was planned to be a double album… which is why I wish they'd pick up the pace with these reissues! 
11.43am
26 March 2012
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The majority of stuff I've heard which was feted for the double-LP Speedway is pretty good, a lot of errs on the side of hard rock and prog rock ("Jazz Street", "Night Out") but there are of course some beautiful ballads too ("Tragedy", "Mama's Little Girl"). I think Speedway would have been better received in its original double incarnation- I like the medley but it did seem a bit of an easy cop out to round off the record.
7.48pm
14 December 2009
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Not to mention the fact that it's lousy! 
Be interesting to see if RRS is indeed expanded to it's double LP length. (Hey, I'd give it the benefit of doubt and buy it!) Really though, I suspect that the best of RRS and WWL together would make a single fairly solid single LP. (Just IMO.)
(Curious how the man could release two of his weakest albums of the decade in between his two best…)
8.27pm
1 May 2011
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More than likely RRS would be the same pattern as McCartney II with original line-up and then the extra tracks from the rejected double lp on a third cd of the super deluxe edition.
8.59pm
14 December 2009
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Hm. Well, I'm not paying for more than a 2CD set.
9.01pm
12 April 2012
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I love simple as that. Wonderful Christmas Time is my favourite christmas song (next to happy xmas (war is over)) and I love christmas songs in general. A main reason why I love the christmas time so much. Still I think those two christmas songs are the greatest.
Yeah a anti-drug song by paul is a bit funny, even more funny is that jimmy mcculloch (the second lead guitarist of the wings, and imo the best guitarist of all time) wrote two songs for the wings, both anti-drug songs. He later died because of a heroin overdose. And geoff britton even quit the wings because of the massive drug-taking by jimmy
4.27pm
1 May 2011
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Some fabulous tracks released around Flaming Pie but not on that album: I Love This House, Broomstick, Atlantic Ocean, Love Come Tumbling Down, Squid & Same Love.
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