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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!
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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?
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
5.49am
23 January 2011
Offline 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!
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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.
"You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?"
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6.59am
1 December 2009
Offline 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.
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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1 May 2011
Offline 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.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
1.26pm
26 March 2012
Offline 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!
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1 May 2011
Offline 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.
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10.38pm
10 August 2011
Offline 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)
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1 May 2011
Offline 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.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
1.41am
25 August 2012
Offline 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
Offline 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.
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7.48pm
14 December 2009
Offline 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…)
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
8.27pm
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1 May 2011
Offline 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.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
8.59pm
14 December 2009
Offline Hm. Well, I’m not paying for more than a 2CD set.
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
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
Once there was a way to get back homewards. Once there was a way to get back home; sleep pretty darling do not cry. And I will sing a lullaby
4.27pm
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1 May 2011
Offline 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.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
10.34pm
7 February 2014
Offline A little known gem that is a big favourite of mine is “On the wings of a nightingale”.
Paul wrote it but I have the Everly Brothers singing it.
I’m not sure if Paul recorded it himself. I think he may have written it for the Everlys.
I think Paul also produced the Everlys version, although I could be wrong about that.
The Everlys sing it marvellously – as they do everything – it is hard to imagine anyone topping their version.
Was sad to hear that Phil Everly passed away recently. RIP.
10.44pm
9 February 2014
Offline This thread makes me realize how many songs I still haven’t heard!
Not sure if “Soily” counts as obscure, but it’s an amazing song that should have been given a proper rocking studio recording. The bootleg studio versions I’ve heard have paled in comparison to the Wings Over America version, and especially the Rockshow version, which has a different vocal that I prefer to the album. It’s one of Paul’s best rockers, in my opinion.
How could I ever have lost you when I loved you?
