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[SteveO]

Calico Skies is beautifully crafted...so reminiscent of his Beatle days !!!!

PAUL McCARTNEY "flaming pie" 1997,cd.

from start to finish it is classic McCartney, a couple of rockers, some blues-rock,acoustic ballads and string arrangements courtesy of George Martin make this one hell of an album.
recorded around the same time as he was compiling material for the Beatle Anthology series, and also while wife Linda was in her darkest days suffering from cancer.
some of these songs date back to his own archives from the 1980's, George Martin is quoted on the inner sleeve as saying "somedays" shows Paul still has what it takes.
a couple of tracks on here with Steve Miller also(who?an aging rocker from the 1970/80s) although not great songs Millers contribution on vocals does do enough to break up the album and add something interesting, Ringo appears on the classic power ballad "beautiful day"...easily one of the top five ballads Macca has ever put to disc IMO. i guess the title track could be called psychadelia not for the piano pumping sound but for the imagery created in the lyrics.
this is Macca playing soley to his strengths, no fillers on this one.....gets a "love" rating from my at a solid 2.6.

selections from the album:

somedays
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnC9UmFrdkw audio

calico skies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysCzW7Nn8...re=related audio

heaven on a sunday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LyEGn-ZL...re=related audio

beautiful night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkiV3WzWW...re=related video

flaming pie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2QCFm9Q0Yg live audio

used to be bad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elAVL1myKFA audio