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1.52pm
9 August 2011
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A melancholy McCartney song with chilly visuals of winter loneliness.
A long-time fave - obscure from the beginning. Any other comments?
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9.22pm
26 January 2017
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Footprints is a little bit spooky and eerie. I do enjoy the song, not his best, but one of the few songs from Press To Play that I can listen to without immediately turning on something else. I much prefer the Wayne Shorter song of the same title.
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Into the Sky with Diamonds"The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles!"
-Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues
"We could ride and surf together while our love would grow"
-Brian Wilson, Surfer Girl
12.37pm
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1 May 2011
Offline Ignore the finished version which is buried in endless unnecessary overdubs and listen instead to the uncluttered early mix that circulates. Stunning.
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Ahhh Girl, sir walter raleigh, Into the Sky with Diamonds"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
3.14pm
9 August 2011
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Yeah, really like it. Where'd you find this?
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1 May 2011
Offline Into the Sky with Diamonds said
Yeah, really like it. Where'd you find this?
@Into the Sky with Diamonds,
On a bootleg I downloaded from somewhere a long time ago; I forget the name of the bootleg (something like 'Played to Press') and the site.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
10.24am
14 December 2009
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sir walter raleigh said
I much prefer the Wayne Shorter song of the same title.
YES
One day, a tape-op got a tape on backwards, he went to play it, and it was all "Neeeradno-undowarrroom" and it was "Wow! Sounds Indian!"
-- Paul McCartney
7.29pm
24 August 2020
Offline "Press To Play " received a lot of negative comments, but I love the song "Footprints." Unlike many of Paul's cheerful melodies, the melody on this song is sad and subtle. I have been going through Paul's song catalog in the past few months and I've noticed he writes a lot about waiting for a a past love to return, equating love and yearning for it with this girl who is no longer in his life, or he simply waits for her to call him since 1972 ("The Mess") until 2018 ("Anyway"). This song is quite heartbreaking, as I believe it's Paul visiting his older self and he reflects about his life...without this same girl.
Oh white blanket covers the memory
Of all that used to be. all that used to be.
But his heart keeps aching in the same old way,
He can't help feeling that she might come back someday.
