17-07-2023, 09:07
PAUL McCARTNEY "mccartney II" cd/vinyl 1980
his tenth post Beatle project,
this time it falls in to the electronic/synth-pop genre of music...
there are a couple of ballads and a bluesy tune but the rest falls here...
album came about by accident as Macca had recently built a new studio and loaded it the latest gadgets and technology...
all he was doing was trying to figure out the electronics and out popped an album...
theres some really cool McCartney moments on here including the huge hit "coming up" and one of his most gorgeous acoustic songs in "one of these days", the latter is under produced and feels not quite finished but that just adds to the charm of it IMO...
elsewhere, there are a couple of electronic instrumentals and several which feature vocal manipulations...
its a McCartney album without being a McCartney album much like the experimental Fireman albums of the 1990s...
its the sort of album that still divides fans, me, i really like it because it is not your stock standard Macca album...
I LIKE THIS ALBUM
my favourite:
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.