Never understood the logic of leaving Rainclouds and I'll Give You a Ring off the Tug of War reissue. Similar story with leaving Ode to a Koala Bear off Pipes of Peace. Fast forward to the McCartney Years video collection, which is missing Only Love Remains and the Driving Rain videos. And now we have a seemingly abandoned Archive Collection. It would be generous to call it incompetence. So what is it? Expediency? Malice? Pity the Paul completist.
I was curious why these songs from tug of war and pipes of peace did not had i'll give you ring. Or ode to a koala. But tug of war had zero extra's. In the 90's.
If you had your choose one of those failed collections to continue, which one would it be. I think I would like the deluxe box sets. Even if it is just London Town and Back to the egg.
I loved the Paul McCartney Collection from 1993... Being a Harrison fan, I thought that "All The Best" and "Unplugged" were the only Paul albums I needed!! But time proved me wrong and I gradually got the entirety of the set... That was a successful series in my opinion.... All the studio albums were there, good sound quality, most of them with bonus tracks and booklets replicating the original inners. My only two complaints were the omission of bonus tracks from "Tug Of War" and the ultimate whiteness of the back covers!! Trivia: In my country (Greece), the "Band On The Run" reissue from this batch also came out on Vinyl....
I don't think the McCartney 1971-73 was so expencive. I think I gave DDK 2700, ~310£, ~335$ I guy in the Beatles facebook group showed a picture of the 3 black dot album, 12 colored, 1 special white, 3 three-colored, 4 double albums of the McGreedy III and 6 double albums of the Imagined. I miss the rest of the Archive collection, too! 3 years and 7 month since Flaming Pie
Hey Andrew Great video. I remember when the 4 live albums came out here in the USA THEY WERE marketing them as live album releases which is true except for the Russian album that had a lot of us scratching our heads. I wonder where is the rest of the live albums to go with that first 4??? Anyway it does stink that they start and then stop or delay the release of these Albums. I have a few of the cds from 1993. And a few from the archive release. Thanks for the video take care.
Good video I didn’t know much about his archive I don’t understand why he would not do Back to the egg because there must be a lot of stuff that could be released.
Hi Andrew, I don't think the McCartney Archive Collection has been finished, actually when McCartney toured Australia in October last year the tour program had an advertisement saying that there were more Archive Collection planned in the future. Now, I have got a feeling that the Archive Collection and the 50th Anniversary Half Speed Master collection will be combined. When the Flaming Pie Archive Collection was released the Vinyl version was released as a Half Speed Master. I also believe that this year's Band On The Run 50th Anniversary Half Speed Master with the Underdubbed mix and the soon to be released One Hand Clapping Vinyl LP/CD sets was/is an Archive Collection release without it being advertised as such as when Paul released the original Band On The Run Archive Collection release was an experimental release with not much extra material compare with other Archive Collection releases. It is in my opinion that the next combined Archive Collection/50th Anniversary Half Speed Master release will be London Town in 2028 as I believe it will be pointless releasing an Archive Collection vinyl release with a Half Speed Master LP only for it to be released as a 50th Anniversary Half Speed Master a couple of years later. The only albums I could see being released before then would be Off The Ground, Tripping The Live Fantastic (live) album or any of the post Flaming Pie studio/live album releases.
I brought the McCartney Collection when I was starting on my Paul journey I would not of been aware of what was missing at the time, so to me it was just fabulous . I dont buy everything he has released , I dont like McCartney 1970 , Wild Life and McCartney 3 and the Classical Music .
