For the record I am quite critical (even to my best friends), so please don't take it personal.
- Let Me Roll It: Not a fan of this type of song.
- 1985: I really liked this song.
- Wanderlust: Was a very "meh" song.
- Calico Skies: I quite liked the guitar beat and rhythm, but there is also something about it which didn't make me love it.
- Sing the Changes: Now this is a song I can get behind - love the beat, melody, and how he sings it. Reminds of the best in the 80s.
- Lifelong Passion: Another song I quite enjoyed, resembles a very 1990's sort of Eric Serra/Savage Garden style of sound.
- Mr. Bellamy: This song didn't do anything for me, it wasn't bad because I like the weird sound, but nothing special in the end.
- House of Wax: Man this would have been an amazing song if it had a faster pace to it.
- Why So Blue: Liked the guitar riffs and how it goes along with the song, but just not my style. I swear I was expecting him to say "Why so serious" every effin time.
- On My Way to Work: Another "meh" song.
- Everybody Out There: Sounded like a bad version of Peter Murphy's Cut You Up.
I tried to be and honestly unbiased because like everyone, I tend to make hot-take comments here and there. So perhaps I underrated McCartney's work, but in the end I quite enjoyed his Firemen band. The rest was simply mediocre for me. McCartney and the Wings was his 80's band correct? Got anymore recommendations for this period of his music?
Paul McCartney did a song for the previous Destiny soundtrack before Marty O'Donnell left and it is effin amazing.
Oh SEPH, I've long not taken your opinions on my musical tastes personally, my friend.
-His work as The Fireman on 2008's
Electric Arguments was the first to include vocals. The previous two albums were just instrumental work with him and producer Youth. There are other songs that were quite good on that album, I'll have to find them again though.
-As far as "Let Me Roll It"...kind of surprised you weren't a fan. Written as sort of a "trippy rocker", in the style of late-era Beatles Lennon. "Wanderlust" is just considered "good deep cut" from his album
Tug of War, there are other songs on there that I like too, but I thought they may have been a bit too "mainstream" for you, in terms of poppiness and whatnot. But I'll send some more over your way for you to have a listen to, if you want.
-If you figure out what made you not quite like/love "Calico Skies", I'd be happy to hear. Because I think the acoustic guitar work, rhythm, and even lyrics make it one of his better solo works, in my opinion.
-Can't say I agree with your assessments on either "House of Wax" or "Why So Blue", lol. I seriously think that "Why So Blue" should've been on the album it was released as a bonus track for. It was the best track on that release.
-The last two tracks...I thought they would've been up your alley, they were from his most recent album,
New. I actually omitted the two lead singles because they were, in my estimation, typical "pop McCartney", just in different styles. But there were some others on there that perhaps you may like, given the affinity for his Fireman tracks.
I'll have to take another look through my McCartney discography for some other tracks that, while may not always be "deep cuts" per se, are sort of "forgotten tracks" in terms of his catalog. Love him or hate him, there's no denying the man has a monstrous catalog of songs he's written or co-written. And Wings was his first band post-The Beatles. At times billed as Paul McCartney & Wings as well as just Wings. It can be kind of hard to keep track of some stuff because he'd release things under the Wings banner, and then solo works as just Paul McCartney.
