What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

PAUL McCARTNEY  "driving rain" cd, 2001

i decided i needed a couple of days away from listening to and posting Rod Stewart, not that i got bored, just needed a change of sound...
so i went back to one of my go-to artists (have another album to post later by Macca also..)....
this time, one of my faves by him, but one slagged off and put down by fans and critics alike since its release...
Driving Rain, 
it was written int he weeks leading up to and just after Linda's death, recorded not long after to ensure the feeling was there but shelved for a couple of years because he thought it was too raw for him to promote it at the time...
it became his lowest UK charting album to date and worst sales of his career to that point also...
it is a sombre, sad, sorrowful album at best, theres no "obla-di" happy go lucky tunes on here at all and you may ask why...
well go on, ask?....
the song themes revolve around the loss of Linda and the pain he was feeling at the time but that said, there are a few more positive sounding songs that deal with meeting future wife Heather Mills and how she got him through the grief process, theres also a gorgeous song about the first time he met Linda.
there are times his voice cracks with emotion and sincerity with that pain he is feeling and it is a heartbreaking album for sure...
the lyrics are emotive, intelligent and thoughtful, something that lacks in his songs for the most part...
so as previously said, it is not your typical album by him musically, lyrically or even vocally.
think of it as his "plastic ono band" or "tonights the night"/"time fades away" album, and like those albums you either love or loathe it.
I LOVE THIS ALBUM

1:   lonely road  **
2:   from a lover to a friend  ***
3:   shes given up talking  **
4:   driving rain  ***
5:   i do  ***
6:   tiny bubble  ***
7:   magic  ***
8:   your way  ***
9:   spinning on an axis  ***
10: about you  **
11: heather  **
12: back in the sunshine ***
13: your loving flame  ***
14: riding to jaipur  *
15: rinse the raindrops  ***
16 freedom  *

3s -  10
2s -  4
1s -  2

rating:  2.5

favourite is a heartfelt song for Linda:





There must have been magic
The night that we met
If I hadn't stopped you
I'd always regret.
A few minutes later
You'd have been out that door
I'd have been lonely
Forever more, forever more

Oh, what made us do it?
Under what holy spell?
Nature's mother knew it
Only too well

She reached out her fingers
To point at the sky
Leaving me helpless
Not knowing why.
And this is the hour
That they turn out the light
Nothing but memories
Burning so bright, burning so bright

Oh, what made us do it?
Under what holy spell?
Nature's mother knew it
Only too well

There must have been magic
The night that we met
If I hadn't stopped you
I'd always regret, always regret

There must have been magic
There must have been magic
There must have been magic
The night that we met