Disco de Paul McCartney: “Wild Life [Import Bonus Tracks]”
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Wild Life [Import Bonus Tracks] |
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Fecha de Publicación:1998-08-18
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Tipo:Desconocido
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Género:Soft Pop, Classic Rock, Mainstream Rock
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Sello Discográfico:Parlophone
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Letras Explícitas:Si
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UPC:077778923725
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Mumbo |
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Bip Bop |
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Love Is Strange |
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Wild Life |
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Some People Never Know |
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I Am Your Singer |
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Bip Bop Link |
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Tomorrow |
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Dear Friend |
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Mumbo Link |
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36 personas de un total de 44 encontraron útil la siguiente opinión:
- McCartney's Primal Scream Album
This is what I hate most about history: So much of it is based on misconceptions, biases and utter bull. I just experienced the wonder that is Wings' first album, WILD LIFE. Recorded in a one-week period in 1971 (shortly after McCartney's ambitious RAM album), WILD LIFE is even more makeshift and loose than McCartney's first solo release McCARTNEY. In fact, like John Lennon's first solo album (PLASTIC ONO BAND), WILD LIFE could easily be viewed as a precursor to punk-rock. Heck, these idiosyncratic ditties could pass for contemporary indi-rock. The first 2 tracks, "Mumbo" and "Bip Bop" are built on simple, raw and very funky guitar riffs. But it's the vocals/lyrics that really distinguish them. In "Mumbo", McCartney screams out some brilliant nonsense, breaking down all lyrical pretense-the very pretense the Beatles indulged in the mid-1960s-and creating the most pure rock singing I've ever heard. This is what every "hoochie-coochie", "be bop" and "ooo ooo ooo" has been suggesting from 1950s R&B. "Bip Bop" continues with this scat/jive approach. Every critic and so-called musical expert has always savaged the "lyrics" of "Mumbo" and especially "Bip Bop" for being absurd. Every one of these clueless squares should never be able to evoke the name of Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker or any major artist from 1950s blues and rock&roll. They clearly don't GET IT. Nor should they ever be allowed to cite "The "White Album" as brilliant, because they obviously don't get the brilliance of minimalist rockers like "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?" If you like that song, there's no justifiable reason to dislike "Mumbo" and "Bip Bop". What? Does everything need the brand-name stamp of The Beatles? It's only clever or edgy if it's on a late-period Beatles album? Perhaps not. Many critics have praised PLASTIC ONO BAND for its rawness and minimalism. Oh, but John was singing about important things: His resentment towards his parents, to religion, to everything that wasn't himself or Yoko. All fine and good, but why is having a sense of humor and lack of pretension such a bad counterpoint? Not to say WILD LIFE is all silly fun. It's not just similar to PLASTIC ONO BAND because of its minimalist, off-the-cuff approach. The title-track is a cathartic, melancholic outpour of dark, DARK blues; McCartney screaming his head off even more than he did on "Mumbo" (think The Beatles "Oh Darling!"). This is a man who has been criticized for being too shallow and detached from his material. Well, I hear a man in a fevered madness of pain on "Wild Life". And that's just the warm-up for the real stab of pathos. The last full-track, "Dear Friend", is without a doubt, the single most somber and heart-wrenching piece of music Paul McCartney has ever recorded. This is the midnight of McCartney's soul. Lennon lamented "the dream" being over; McCartney lamented the friendship being over. "Dear Friend" can only be taken as a heart-broken-yes, heart-broken-message from Paul to John. The mood and nuance of the playing, singing...everything is perfect on this track. It doesn't sound like a song that was written; it's too organic, too subtle. It's as if Paul broke some piece of a lonely night and caused it to materialize in sudden song. WILD LIFE ends with a tiny snippet of funky bass jamming to the "Mumbo" groove. Then it cuts off just like that. The album even begins in mid-jam and there are all sorts of little eccentric touches throughout. There's a great Afro-techno percussion coda in "Some People Never Know" and the modern-sounding oddity of "I Am Your Singer" will cause you to think McCartney created Stereolab among other things. To sum up, WILD LIFE is cooler than history.
He was the Walrus. But now he's Paul.
3 personas de un total de 3 encontraron útil la siguiente opinión:
- Great product, interesting music.
I always wanted to have "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" on album. Having it remastered on CD is a real treat. I owned the 45 back in 5th grade and loved the song then.
The Wild Life album was not a priority of mine when I was young. At the present time I am rediscovering McCartney's solo career, having preferred the work of George Harrison (All Things Must Past is the Greatest of all the Beatles solo work) and Lennon (Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, great albums), when I was young and when they were fab. (Gear!).
As for McCartney, I enjoyed Venus and Mars and Band on the Run,but played them to death. I like hearing material that is new to me. I recently discovered "Ram" and I think it's his best.
"Wild Life" is very uncommercial, Paul going junky accoustic and pushing the envelope. It doesn't come accross as a work of a hit machine. "Wild Life" is an acquired taste with not alot of instrumentation or overproduction. It doesn't sound like anything produced by George Martin or Phil Spector. It's bare bones Paul McCartney. I like it. Not his best. The bonus tracks, "Irish" as I mentioned before and "Mary Had a Little Lamb" definitely put icing on the cake.
I know I have it as 2 stars above, but it should be 4.
3 personas de un total de 3 encontraron útil la siguiente opinión:
- Completely different from anything else he's made.
I really don't get why people talk so much smack about this album. Sure, it lacks the experimental quality of Ram, but it truely sounds like a band's first album. In that respect, a seasoned professional like Paul McCartney really succeeds. Wings Wild Life is intimate, unpolished, and maybe even a little crude.
On "Mumbo," Paul manages to put together a throat-shredding yet lyricless piece which is shocking (I can't imagine what his fans must have thought upon hearing this for the first time back in 1971!) yet rather interesting. Yeah, "Bip Bop" IS pretty queer lyrically, but the vocal effect and guitar riff are nevertheless entrancing. The over 6 1/2-minute "Wild Life" is a song that Paul wrote after (as the lyrics clearly describe) walking through an African park and seeing a sign which read, "Remember: the animals have the right of way." I find it to be an incredible piece of music. Paul screams his lungs out, "WILD LIFE," as the band harmonizes beautifully, "whatever happened to?"--a nice clash of sound. The lyrical and instrumental buildup on this song is amazing. On "Some People Never Know," a sweet love song and another long one, Paul & Linda do a near-duet. The result is actually very nice. Linda handles most of the lead vocals on "I Am Your Singer" competently. A lot of people made fun of her vocal capabilities, but no one ever seemed to realize that her voice matched Paul's perfectly...despite the fact that he obviously overshadowed her skill-wise. The piano-based "Dear Friend" has the eeriest sound of any record Paul has ever made. Desolate & beautiful.
Bonus Tracks: Of all the bonus tracks to be included on the CD reissues of Paul's albums, the collection of these four is the best. You've got to admire a guy who has the stones to release a song such as "Mary Had A Little Lamb" as a single just to thumb his nose at the people who banned "Give Ireland Back To The Irish." "Little Woman Love" is a fast-paced one that could sound right at home musically on the Beatles' Rubber Soul album. Then, of course, there's the melodically beautiful "Mama's Little Girl," a soft number which went unissued officially until 1990!
bobtec (United States) - 11 Enero 2010
2 personas de un total de 2 encontraron útil la siguiente opinión:
- It's musically not that bad (a musician's review)
First, let's get the downside out of the way. With the exception of Dear Friend (still the most haunting song of any ex-Beatle), the lyrics are very substandard (even for McCartney).
On the positive side, the music isn't half bad. It's raw by today's standards, but the playing has some fairly good riffs (with the exception of the remake of Love is Strange which could have been left out altogether). This has an equivalent sound akin to the First McCartney album without the hooks of "Every Night", and "Maybe I'm Amazed" (none of the songs are in any known greatest hits collection, although I may be wrong).
The bottom line, if you go into the album hoping to find good (at times unique) riffs, this is a good album to have. As a musician, I love jam session type albums (even better on DVD) so that I can listen to riffs, and listen to the players accentuate each other, and sometime challenge each other. Lyrically, Bip Bop is a stupid song, but musically, it is sheer genius. Listen to the guitar playing in that song, and Mambo is a really good jam. Sir Paul is very versatile on stringed instruments (some of his bass riffs are some of the most complicated that I've ever heard. Right up there with Geddy Lee, Jack Bruce, and Stanley Clarke). He's also good on piano. So even though (overall) this album is lyrically lame, the music's not that bad.
2 personas de un total de 2 encontraron útil la siguiente opinión:
- A Wild Begainning for Wings
This album introduces Paul McCartney's band Wings, which would go on to be a multiplatinum selling, stadium filling act by 1976. Their begainnings were considerably more modest- they started out by taking a pickup truck, literally 'going on the road', and finding a place to play at every town.
This, their debut album, is likewise a modest undertaking in comparison with later Wings albums, and also in comparison with "Imagine", a John Lennon album released around
It does sound rather hastily put together, and they perhaps went into the studio too quickly. It seems as though McCartney had a shortage of good songs at the time- on the original album there are only six, plus one quasi-reggae cover and one, "Bip Bop", that is very dull indeed- one of the worst McCartney songs I've ever heard. (However, the short instrumental interlude that's said to be based on 'Bip Bop' is fine.)
That said, what you get here that you don't get in better known, better loved McCartney and Wings albums is the sound of a band just getting together and playing. The playing and singing isn't perfect, but it's mostly great to listen to nonetheless. The raving opener "Mumbo Jumbo" features some vintage McCartney screams, while "Wild Life" is an enigmatic slow jam melancholy blues of a waltz. "Some People Never Know", "Tommorrow" and "Dear Friend" are just lovely.
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