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26 March 2017
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Side One:
1. Soily
2. Hi Hi Hi
3. Get On The Right Thing
4. 1882
5. The Mess
Side Two:
1. Best Friend
2. Henry’s Blues
3. I Would Only Smile
4. Night Out
5. Mumbo
My alternate debut for Wings. Thoughts? What would you have liked to see?
Some notes
– Soily would be the first “One Hand Clapping” version with the count-in which mirrors the the count-in from I Saw Her Standing There
– Mumbo with the lyrics Paul eventually wrote, as heard on recordings from their ’72 tour
– I imagine Give Ireland Back to the Irish as their debut single, followed-up with Hi Hi Hi / The Mess. I imagine having their first two singles banned for being political and then for overt drug references would have given Wings some street cred in the seventies. Maybe a bit more than Mary Had a Little Lamb…
– Follow this album up with a Live And Let Die single, and then Band On The Run ? Wings would be on a killer hot streak.
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SgtPeppersBulldog12.36am
7 November 2022
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I never heard Soily before (that shows you what kind of a McCartney fan I am, basically up to Venus And Mars , but only like three songs from the album, and my first impression of the rest of the songs I didn’t like them so I just never listened to them again for years until just now). I still don’t like Soily per se. It’s not a song I would want to put on again and listen to for my enjoyment, but I do like one part of it which I think is inspired, shows McCartney’s artistic gift, and that’s the second time he sings the word “Soily” each time, the way he dips down and up again.
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5.25pm
26 March 2017
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Venus And Mars grew on me quite a bit over the years, although on first listen I only liking a few tunes myself. All the songs I listed above date back to 1972 or earlier. Soily’s main claim to fame is being the encore album-closer to Wings Over America . The live version is fantastic, but I’ve come to prefer the various studio takes that have surfaced over the years.
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