Called LIFE, DEATH, LOVE AND FREEDOM, he says it’s the best one he’s ever done. I have heard two songs from it so far. One was pretty bad and the other was really good. But after his last album (shudder!!!) I am going to wait and see!!
So… recently I heard a song from paul McCartney’s new CD “Memory Almost Full”, and Hhmmm I thought, that’s pretty good. Then i heard a second one and I liked that too, so I decided to check it out. It’s actually a pretty damn good album. I sat listenign to it thinking how cool it was someone of Paul’s stature hasn’t bothered to sit back and count his millions; instead he’s still out there trying to make good music, and succeeding. He has nothing left to prove. No one to impress. And it shows. This is an album written by, and about, a man looking back on his life and weighing up where he’s been. Doing this prompted me to go back and find his previous album (Chaos and Creation in The Backyard), remembering hearing a good song or two from that. This was pretty good, too! Again, just a good, solid set of songs. So, of course now I remember that I liked a few songs from the previous album “Flaming Pie”, so yes i got that, too! And it’s also excellent!
I read a few reviews of all three, and read the same thing a couple of times; they were a return to form after years of so-so music-making. Paul’s career seemed to have been seen as a downward slope: The Beatles were… well, the Beatles! Not a lot more need be said. Then came Wings - a little fluffly but not without their own merits. His solo career then seemed to be kinna…well… not so much. But I think people spent too much time worrying about The Frog Chorus and giving him a bad rap. Yes The Frog Chorus sucked, but it was a soundtrack song from a kids movie he had made; it wasn’t meant to be Mull Of Kintyre! These days, with the flood of terrible soundtrack crap we have to listen to, no one would bat an eyelid; back then it was a little bit of an oddity for someone of his calibre to be doing something like that twee. Hell, Kenny Loggins made a career out of it.
Anyhoo… I just wanted to wax lyrical about three albums that surprised me somewhat. I love to see something like this; an artist generally considered to be past his prime suddenly making good three albums in a row. Go Paul.
Can you believe this isn’t real???
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to The Who a bit lately. Man those guys were on some serious shit.
… to my very own sexy milf!
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meat loaf has to take it as it comes, I guess, given his up/down career; but wtf is Jim Steinman doing allowing this song in an ad???? This is the man who took out a court order to stop meat loaf singing All Coming Back To Me Now many years ago, saying it was a girl’s song not a man’s (he was right, though the loafster eventually did the song on Bat 3 (shudder!!) ) THAT’S how protective Jim Steinman is of his music!!
Now… this…?!?!
“NEW YORK (April 18th) - Danny Federici, the longtime keyboard player for Bruce Springsteen whose stylish work helped define the E Street Band’s sound on hits from “Hungry Heart” through “The Rising,” died Thursday. He was 58.
Federici, who had battled melanoma for three years, died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. News of his death was posted late Thursday on Springsteen’s official Web site.”
He had just joined them onstage recently, I had thought it was because he was on the mend; I guess it was for the other reason…
Along with Garry Tallent, Danny Federicia was probably the member of the E Street Band whose playing I most loved. When I hum a Brucer song, I hum the organ parts.
A Big, Big loss.
