Paul McCartney & Wings - Red Rose Speedway (Full Album) 

I think I know what you are talking about... Yeah this planet will Get On The Right Thing real soon...

Adoro questo album , quando lo sentii la prima volta avevo 13 anni , ora 56 . è sempre bello ascoltarlo

***** Ciao Leo anche io sono un grande appassionato di tutta la musica dei Beatles sia insieme che da soli , tutti !

You are not wrong there. It's kind of plush!

Thanks! It's just so hard not to sing along those solid ballads!

aldiakaroofus I remember buying it in Boots (Aberystwyth) - it is funny how vivid the memory - and played it to death. It really has aged very well, not sounding dated. Yep. Totally fresh.

yes!!!!!

Yes. They are more than a sum of the parts... Great albums like this one say something cumulative. Off this one I get 'Happiness is the Meaning and Purpose of Life' which is Aristotle (kind of). I just noticed that rhythm guitar work is perfect.... (not intrusive).

Wow, you're really old! Lol!

probably :)

jim Fish Cool....It has been a long VERY LONG Strange trip. For some reason the past few weeks I have been hooked on McCartney. Usually I'm listening to the Dead or Jerry. Lot of great memory's attached with albums like RAM & Venus & Mars. After not hearing RAM for at least 20 years or more I got chills....Maybe even some flashbacks. Wish I could do it allover again but CID is no longer around, Lost him in the late 90's and haven't seen him since. Peace!

chills on Ram definitely..lotta sweet memories with my girl on this album

RAM was the fist one that hit me that morning and i got goose bumps from all the memory's....OH MAN...

pretty much yeah you got it ....

jim Fish - I usually need a hot cup of coffee and the sports section to have it come out the other end intact. All good.

Wow Jim! I always felt like the beginning of this album wasn't the start, but the continuation of something else. Now it makes sense to me ;)

bramvdheijde Sorry to be so late. I'm glad I could add to your enjoyment!!

'The Mess' is one of the best Macca tunes of this period. Rocking!

londonemski Agreed!

I'll second that! Macca should've included that on an Original Lp!

Nice. Someone else musically inclined.

Michael Boyce It was included on the original CD (which I had in 1991) as a Bonus track.

***** Shoulda woulda coulda. Of course you are entitled to your opinion but I've never heard of the great musician songwriter Moses de la Dena. Imagine that.

***** And they too are entitled to their opinion......even if it's wrong! (smile)

***** Paul talks about his initial struggles after The Beatles, and you can hear him really starting from scratch after the Beatles. Just listen to the first McCartney album - how simple it is. He's definitely trying to re-connect to 'why would I make music still? Why did I make it in the first place? What else do I still have to say?'... Also, the seven year marriage was The Beatles in case you missed that :)

Taylor Abrahamse I think the thing is, after you hit a certain level of success, you think you can just coast onward into more great music, but music is always a lot of work. What I hear on McCartney one is one really produced song and two other solid demos, then a bunch of indulgent throwaways. He was tired of the 9 to 5 grind in the studio and the criticism of Martin and Lennon. Guess what though?, he needed it to do his best. Artistic excellence is only arrived at through suffering, not domestic ease. Otherwise I agree with your post.

Paul never really had it that bad, Linda was there, what were his worries?

***** and that's not even to mention the ingenious guitar solo on My love, by Henry McCullough. He should have really paid those guys and they would've followed him anywhere. That band would've ended up truly an historical phenomenon.

***** There's snatches of brilliance on McCartney (1970) and yes, Ram (1971) is a certifiable stunner, full of gorgeous pop/rock. At this moment though, I have on Wild Life (1971), 'I Am Your Singer', 'Tomorrow', 'Bip Bop'...classics. The rest a little bit uneven but it shows he was gathering momentum. Red Rose Speedway, great album. Big Barn Red, Get On The Right Thing. Incidentally, a lot of it originates from 1970. He had tunes falling out of his arse 1969/70. I simple refuse to admit he was drying up. He just went at it a different angle to John/George. Both had recorded their best music by 1975, too.

I like Single Pigeon. It's one of the 4 songs I'd keep of this album.

garethb1961 Another vote for Single Pigeon.

too bad the Beatles couldn't have gotten back together at this time. Could you imagine an album with "I'm the Greatest" "Photograph" "Give Me Love" "Mind Games" "Tight Ass" "My Love"....... it would be the top album of all time.

Steven W Rodgers Yeah , It´s my lament too.There are some juicy songs here besides "My Love" : Get on the Right Thing; Big Barn Bed; and even "When the Night" and the beginning to "Hold me Tight" . All of them would be great numbers with the Beatles perfect balance, because with Paul and Wings these songs sound excessively light, cheesy and mellow! "Little Lamb Dragonfly" is an underrated diamond!

Viuomar I agree. I like your comment "All of them would be great numbers with the Beatles perfect balance,". That about sums it up. Paul didn't lose his song writing, he lost the back up vcals and the musical ideas of the Beatles to shore up his songs. I always try to imagine Paul songs played by the Beatles - thay are great!

i think Red Rose is a fantastic album. It depends my friend. :P

what about flaming pie?

Jake Aldrich Yeah I like that one too.

Script could be argued to be everything in film(though I would place visual composition above it, because it is a visual medium), but music is a far deeper art; lyrics are components that carry the aesthetic whole of the form. If you're thinking about the words, you're not listening intuitively, beyond intellect, and music surpasses rationality. If you listen to Beau Soir by Debussy and you don't speak French, then your experience is what it should be while listening to a song with an English lyric, or virtually so. The literal meaning of the words should disappear into the form, delicately balancing between specific intensity and generality. Words in a song are primarily flowing sounds that enable a string of notes to build a sonic phrase. If they're terrible, they ruin the form. If they're great literature, they usually jar against the visceral experience, or else dumb down the music, which is true of many Dylan songs; much of his music literally anyone could've written. People forget when they disparage the Beatles next to Dylan, that the Beatles were far superior as composers. Currently, our culture is a Matriarchy, so feminine impulses rule us psychologically. Women think while they listen to a song or watch a film. Men are more likely to let the form flood their emotional responses. In other words, despite the opposite myth, men are more sensitive than women in general. This is why the football coach calls the male players girls. He seeks to kill their natural sensitivity, so that later on, they will develop tumors and be dysfunctional. But for his purposes, they are good soldiers. Look at all of the caricatures of masculinity in our culture. That's to appease a woman's cartoon sense of masculinity. They are manipulated to be warriors; to compete for women and then to protect them in a marriage and be a drone for the rearing of bodies. This centralizes women and keeps the culture superficial. A drone for procreation cannot identify with McCartney's crisis of meaning. He has eschewed an individual search for truth in order to play a role perpetuated by women. He does not have the burden to create works, which for an artist is the central thing. Paul was asking himself "can I still create?" "Am I anything on my own?" Lennon had to be held and rocked like a baby during a bad acid trip, by Derek Taylor, and reassured of his worth as an artist. Ordinary people are self satisfied with being good conformists. Artists have to actually achieve their sense of worth by production of excellence, and it never really resolves itself. They are constantly dissolving and never really satisfied. They must constantly create meaning, instead of being spun like a top by society. Conformists are gyroscopic, not self generated. It's a very different thing to create your own energy system, versus being obedient to a pre-scripted choreography. Society is a script that we perform, in exchange for resources, respect and security. So, for women, the script is everything, because the script is safe and predictable and reaches a rational resolution, tidying up the usually formulaic dichotomies. Security is the religion of the masses, and the masses are feminine. However, powerful art wields a dangerous ambiguity, a double or even polymorphic meaning that opens a kind of psychic wound to act as a lens onto, or door into, the intangible world of the soul. In a female culture, the soul is promoted as the fiction of a primitive mind, instead of what it truly is: a masculine womb through which God figuratively enters the world in timeless works.

I would argue that script is everything in a stage play, which is a story told in dialogue, and cinematography is everything in a movie, which is a story told in pictures. A good play can be delivered on the radio without much loss. A good movie can be shown with the sound off without losing its essence.

By not abusing or polluting his body!

onlyjoetee Yeah he stopped doing that in the 70s

A very wise man with a very wise way of living