Band On The Run

3. it's fine for what it is, not particularly stellar but not bad. Tbh I expected to recognize more of the tracks considering his incredible list of hits.

My knowledge of Wings pretty much begins and ends with Alan Partridge calling them "the band The Beatles could have been". He's probably not too far wrong - there's plenty of songs here that could easily fit onto a later Fab Four album if they'd had someone else to give them a good-looking over. The hooks and pop smarts are still there, but it doesn't quite work as well as his albums with the Beatles. Reading the Wiki of the album was almost as entertaining as listening to it - deciding to record it in post-Biafran war Lagos amidst a Cholera outbreak for the exoticism (?!) and an irate Fela Kuti storming into their studio accusing McCartney of appropriating Nigerian music after visiting his club (only calmed by being played some of their recordings). The album works best when it strays into Abbey Road medley territory, switching around mid-song and re-visiting previous hooks, and the final Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five is a pretty funky jam - could work well with an extended edit of the piano. Not an album I'd have listened to without this challenge, but glad I did. I was ready to give it a 4 or even higher on first listen, but the initial giddy high didn't quite stay on repeat listens and I doubt it's one I'll revisit in full too often. Sounds better on headphones too, some nice production. 3/5 on the 1001 scale, 3.5 for me.

21st June 2021 Listened on my phone when finishing off work for the day after catching up on unlistened to podcasts. Really enjoyed this actually, a very wide ranging sound which I don't think I give McCartney credit for. Hints of early electro which is fun.

wow it sounds like the Beatles, that's crazy. My mom says that the first song on this album was a hit but I thought it was probably the worst one. Goes to show that people from the 70s weren't actually cool and the shit they liked also sucked dookie

Ach ja ganz ok und ziemlich belanglos klingend

This album starts off so strong; three memorable and iconic tracks. But, it loses its way as much of McCartney's solo works do. Dare I say he had too much "yes" men and weed around him to keep things concise.

LOVE the Beatles but I've never given Wings a go, pleasantly surprised. You can definitely still hear echo's of the later Beatles style and I enjoyed a few songs from the album. Will play again 👍🏻

It's just okay. It it wasn't Paul McCartney people wouldn't rate it as highly.

Kind of boring

Wings fly the thinnest line between 70s rock perfection and cheese. I guess that's part of the appeal at this point in time. Big orchestration. Tasteful synthesizer. Sounds a lot like ELO in places. Straight down the middle, beautiful songs, but deceptively complex here and there. That's Paul's magic. I'm split on this one. It's possibly the best thing he made post Beatles (sorry Ram)? It's a lame duck with clipped Wings? B+

Never thought of this album as a follow up to Ram, but I see it now. Paul McCartney truly seems to be fun on this album. It comes off the page, so to speak. This song has like 5 fives, real bangers each with at least two good hooks. Band on the run is almost cocky, he throws away like 3 hooks in the first minute of the song. Jet he drops two hooks. It’s all in vain though because there are also a few clunkers. Bluebird, perhaps song #2 of Paul’s “bird series” doesn’t hold a candle to blackbird, sounds like maybe Linda Wrote it. Mamunia is done real Paul Simon world music trash, probably appropriated when they visited Nigeria and yes, maybe written by Linda. Then there was the unnecessary medley of remixes of early songs at the end of “Picasso’s last words” it’s like the cutting room floor found it’s way onto this track for some reason, it’s a good allegory for the whole album, should’ve edited. Could’ve been a 5 with two more songs and minus 3-4 others. B-

Do you think this era of Paul McCartney humped pillows while thinking about himself? The album just oozes of self confidence that comes from global success. Some solid bangers in here. Some tracks that feel a tad overproduced IMO and dorky.

They didn't run far enough in my opinion. It was more like that marathon where Paula Radcliffe bend down and took a runny shit at the side of the road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrop_GZsp-U

Shack?

Quite bland. Like a Sunday afternoon at home.

3.5 - When an artist is given free reign to produce whatever he wants, without his former bandmates there to break his balls, does it enhance or detract from the final product? In the case of "Band on the Run", absent of John Lennon and his former co-creators, I'd say Paul's product leans too heavily on playful jokiness and I end up missing an emotional connection with these songs. Clearly, Paul's beautiful and unparalleled ear for melody is here. What's also here is some of his hokier and more childish instincts - writing about cartoonish characters (think Rocky Raccoon, Bungalow Bill, etc) and composing music that to me comes off as kids music. Like Raffi on an extreme sugar high. All of it is good but it's hard for me to take songs like "Jet" and "Bluebird" too seriously. Does this guy ever have a bad day, or is he just constantly farting rainbows?

Excuse me 1001 Albums this is a Wings album not just Paul. Put some respect on the actual BAND on the run. "Band on the Run" is an absolute jam no matter how many times I hear. It's got such an interesting structure for a pop song that it makes repeat listens not feel so repetitive. "Jet" is another classic McCartney pop banger so that gives this album lots of points. It does start losing points after that though. More and more of Paul's silly love songs with little spurts of interesting instrumentation popping up to keep me interested enough to finish the album. Mainly, (we all saw it coming) that sexy sax! But by the time "Picasso's Last Word," entered its 3rd boring minute I was pretty ready for it to be over. I find it really interesting that critics of the time toted this as Paul's return to creative genius, when in 1971 he released RAM which has way more interesting songs and is overall just a ton of fun. That album better be on this list because it kicks this one's ass. On a few songs there were these really fun synth lines that stood out to me but only lasted a couple of seconds and never returned. This got me wondering what a McCartney electronica album would sound like. Spotify sort of granted my wish by playing the song "Cuff Link" from a later Wings album once this album finished. It was a totally synth layered instrumental track that sounded like a slowed down Justice or Daft Punk song if you took all of the fuzz out. So props to this album for showing me that I guess.

Auch in Sir Paul's take on Afrobeat (haha, lass das den Fela nicht hören, der war eh schon sauer!) kann er nicht von der Zirkusmusik und Shantychören lassen und schmuggelt sie uns in der Collage um Picassos letzte Wort so halbelegant, White-Album-mäßig unter. Nicht die schlechteste Nummer auf diesem zwar unheilumrankten aber erfolgreichsten Album der "Band" Wings, die natürlich nur ein weiteres Vehikel für Paules Ego waren. Wäre schon interessant, was Lennon dazu gesagt hätte. Vermutlich gibt es hier mehr zu entdecken als mir gerade auffällt, aber so richtig interessant finde ich das alles auch nicht. Aber vielleicht ragen deshalb die beiden letzten Nummern des Albums so raus, die Picasso-Nummer gefällt mir in ihrer (sehr) wohltemperierten Schräge, 1985 klingt für mich wie die bessere Version von "When I'm 65".

Like listening to 106.9, The Fox.

Sounds like 106.7 the Fox

It's ok. I'm not particularly inspired by it but it isn't terrible.

+Surprisingly fun +Catchy, sing-along-ish songs -Repeating same songs on latter half of the songs? Did I miss something? -Simplistic, that's a plus or minus Would I listen to it again? Possibly, maybe willingly. If songs from this album are on the radio, there's a good chance I'd listen to them and sing along.

This would be a 2 for me, but Band on the Run carries the rest of the album on its back across the third star. If I wanted lovey-dovey Paul McCartney, I'd just listen to his Beatles tracks.

A little generic rock sounding - but that might be because it's 40+ years old and was influential in making this sound generic. It's good and I get why it was a success when it came out. Band on the Run is obviously a classic, but Bluebird and Mamumia also stand out. It's like a less complex Beatles album... they use the whole "multiple songs in one" trick a few times which is cool but still feels poppy and safe. Not bad at all. Picasso's Last Words has White Album vibes and I like it but it never gets quite deep enough. I think it's an audible progression of drunkenness. The album never goes too deep below the surface. Which isn't a bad thing. It is also interesting to see the album cover and how many band members they are using to replicate the Beatles quartet sound.

Light music

it's unfortunate that the music he made solo came at a time in music history where music overall was so unpleasant. i wanted to like this, but i just don't. never liked the title track, never REALLY cared for jet...and everything else wasn't bad, it just wasn't for me.

Yeah, I mean it's a good album. Cool to listen to the deep cuts, they are all pretty solid too.

Not much to say about this one. Good enough but sort of delivers it's best material in the first two songs.

Wings - no surprises here

9 Songs. Opens with Band on the Run which is also the most memorable.

Great album. Awesome selection

Fun, mellow!

Sounds like the Beatles. Love me some McCartney

A classic collection of Paul McCartney post-Beatles that gets better with every listen.

Not bad but just fails to love up close to any of the hype that's associated with a Ex-Beatle.

OK but largely unmemorable. The music didn't grab me but wasn't unpleasant. It's was background music for me. I.e. something playing that I didn't focus on. Rate it 3.5/5.

Ok, couple of good tracks and rest was fine as background music

I enjoyed this album and it was a good way to explore McCartney's music as prior to this I only really was aware of his work with The Beatles, bar a few tracks. Let Me Roll It was my favorite of the tracks.

1973. Key Songs: Jet, Let Me Roll It, Mamunia

if i ever get out of here gives it a whole extra star

Its decent

I don't really like the Beatles much so no idea what to expect here. I know band on the run but I had no idea it was McCartney. This is better than the Beatles, still a bit clunky though. 3/5

Alright

Just Paul McCartney… not offensive but doesn’t blow me away. Couple of great tunes mind.

There's some good songs on here, but overall a pretty boring record. I believe deep in my soul that this album would not have been a big hit if it weren't for Paul's name recognition.

Heard before?:❌️ Will listen again?:❓️ The only songs that stuck out to me positively were Picasso's last words and Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five. Rest seemed more like desperately trying to rehash the Beatles early magic. I support creating things out of spite but not when the result bores me. At least the album cover is fun. Also: too many "Hey-ho"s

bang on the run idk very mid i feel like i need to be 40 for this no hate to 40 year olds it’s not very interesting oh i got the title wrong oops shows how much attention im paying they’ve said it at least 15 times already gonna try and make these shorter bc idk if anyone wants to read my 100 lines of monologue about each song picasso’s last words mid again i would have no problem listening to this but like wouldn’t pay to see it this feels like a 3 i should listen to more than 2 songs fun strings i like when they do that song is longer than it needs to be, especially since it’s not rly going anywhere ok we have some cute solos aagh i said i was gonna talk less feel free to skip the monologue bluebird i feel like im going to have very similar opinions of everything in this album. it’s all the same in the way that taylor swift is all the same and i don’t like it enough to listen to this vibe continuously. maybe im being too mean. i have definitely been more forgiving with albums of similar quality. idk. imma go do some irish perhaps i’ll come back to this later. i have listened to a whole three songs so far. i did not listen to more lol

baaaand on the run baaaaand on the run honestly man, all these beatles adjacent albums just make me want to listen to the beatles albums. I am a firm believer that the beatles are the beatles because of their incredible sum of their parts. I don't think any solo album lights a candle to the work that they made. I do not believe that this is one of those YOUUUUU MUST HEAR IT BEFORE YOU DIE albums. You'll be fine without this. Honestly, maybe just the title track should be heard but at the same time I woudln't be made if someone said that's not true. I think I'm giving this one a 2/5. I expected much more.

Did not grab my attention. I kept looking to see if it was about over yet. I thought I was on a long elevator ride.

Not for me. Hard to believe this is an ex-Beatle. And I say that as someone who thinks the Beatles are overrated.

Meh....

Every track on this makes me feel queasy. I hate the drums, I hate most of his stupid lyrics, i hate the weird sax parts and reluctance to let a song just be a song and not have to stop for a coconut solo or something. ‘Band on the Run’ is like ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ for traffic wardens, six songs at once and each one is fucking awful. Also pretty much every song after ‘Jet’ has the same slow lolloping tempo. Rubbish.

not as good as Joni Mitchell’s Blue

Lots of echo on most songs. Some classics. Not too psychedelic. Not really my cup of tea. Came out when I was 7 years old. Not offensive, though.

Mrs Vanderbilt was a highlight on this album. Seemed like he was playing with a signature sound on this one, some songs sounded like The Band, others like general pop/rock of the time. One interesting thing thing was that no songs sounded like the Beatles

Couple of classics to start - neither of which I love, and the rest is typical of McCartney's post-Beatles discography. Surrounded by yes men, Paul lost all filter on suitable songwriting content. Stylistic similarities to great music, are not enough to make an album great. I can only assume 'Band on the Run' was included in this challenge, to display how far the mighty can fall.

Чистейшая британская тягомотина. Одноименная песня первая в альбоме, замечательная заставляет тебя надеется, что следующие песни будут хотя бы такими же. Но нет все остальное жутко сонливое тягучие и скучное. Я никогда не понимал beatles и впринципе британскую музыку того времени, с каждым прослушанным альбомом в убеждаюсь, что ничего не терял. Оценка альбома 3/10

ehhhhhhhhhhh

album #99 the amount of beatles and smiths adjacent music i have had to listen to in the past couple of weeks has been nothing short of cruel. however, i was not expecting to love nineteen hundred and eighty five the way i did, lol. that song along is a 3.5/4 to me - it was fun and unique in its composition! unfortunately, the rest of the album fell very flat to me despite it's technical prowess. p.s. mccartney was clearly the better musician between him and lennon ꩜ average track rating: 1./5 ꩜ favourite track(s): nineteen hundred and eighty five ꩜ least favourite track(s): mamunia, bluebird ꩜ album rating: ★★⯪☆☆ ꩜ number of albums left to review: 990 ꩜ number of albums from the list that i agree with being on the list: 47 ꩜ albums from the list that I would consider on my list: 22 ꩜ albums from the list I won't include on my list: 77

Really not very good. Jet is quite enjoyable but the lyrics make those on the recently reviewed Happy Mondays album look like genius.

Jeho sólová tvorba ma nikdy neoslovila natoľko, aby som ho programovo počúval. Ešte aj jeho najväčšie hity ma až tak nezaujali, aby som na ňom ulietaval... Škoda, že ako Beatles to nedokázali ťahať ďalej. Spolu s ostatnými to bolo podľa mňa oveľa lepšie.

4/10

Rock, 1973 -> 2

I have tried many many times to get into this but i just cant. There are parts that are excellent but equally parts that are not. I find the whole album does not gel. Even a good song like Band On The Run could be deacribed the same way.

Heard it before. It's a frustrating album for me. There are some songs here that are quite cool but others sound half cooked. The title track sounds like 3 songs badly glued together. And the best part of it (the riff that starts around 1/3rd into the song) doesn't really get developed into anything interesting. Another problem which is more of a funny coincidence than an inherent problem is the song Mamunia. While the title is seemingly taken from Arabic, in Polish it's a way to call your mum. So hearing them repeat what to my Polish ears sounds like mum for 5 minutes straight is just hilarious. Overall, maybe the older I get the less interested I am in Paul's music? 2/5

nothing worth remembering

I have not heard this before. I am pretty sure I have heard all of these songs on classic rock radio over the years because they all sound familiar, but never listened to them in album order or anything. These could have all easily been Beatles songs if the band had kept going and none of them are the circus music that Paul liked to write after he took acid, so that’s a plus. They’re all decent to good songs, but they aren’t particularly moving in any way and none of them are bangers, and I’ve never been particularly fond of any of these. Maybe they woulda been better with the other Beatles involved, or if they were broken up with some John and George songs in between. There is a very 70s feel to these songs on a not so good way that’s hard to describe, I guess malaise is the best term I can think of. I might like these songs better if I never heard any of them before, but I really don’t need to hear any of them again.

I don't have really much to say about the individual songs, because, honestly, it just got too much. I had forgotten just REALLY how much the Beatles were "57 utterly different bands in a trench coat", and yeah, Paul is definitely part of that and brings it forward here. Is there even a single song on this entire album that is only one song? The best way to encapsulate this whole album may be Mamunia - I started out really disliking it, then got into the groove of it and was very on board, and by the end I just got exhausted with everything that was going on. It made me feel literally worn out from listening. Overall review: I Need A Nap/10 Would I listen again: No. What songs go in the playlist: Band on the Run, Bluebird.

Seems to be trying a bit hard.

The Frog Chorus would have improved this album. I'll stop there.

Meh pas mon style

A four star album buried beneath 5min long songs. “ooh this is good, I’ll add it to my liked songs…three more minutes? Nevermind.”

I’ll always remember the infomercial for the Paul McCartney and Wings box set

McCartney for me was always the wet one in the Beatles but his ability to craft a catchy tune is indisputable. It's just that he tends towards a kind of music that lacks any real guts and the 'la la la' parts of some songs to fill in for god knows what is annoying.

No es mi estilo musical, solo por eso pero no creo que sea malo

Too slow for me. Nothing that caught my attention

If Paul McCartney hadn’t been a Beatle, you would be forgiven for asking what the fuss was about.

ok

Would I listen again: ehh nah Just Paul mccartney repeating stuff. Mrs Vanderbilt was my favourite

i try and try. and it try and i try and i try. just can't really get into wings. i really like the first two minutes of the title track here, and i like the horns later, but i don't really like the whole song. "jet" is blurgh.

Dumb fun, if a bit repetitive.

Mid

Ok album. Didn't really feel anything special while listening to this. 2,5/5

Not for me.

i like the beatles stuff more

it was fine. kind of boring if anything

This was disappointing, I'll be honest. I kind of expect better from Paul McCartney than this limp outing of an album. There is an artist statement here, but it isn't a particularly creative or memorable one - nor is it conveyed creatively in ways that are interesting and new. All in all, the Beatles may not have been able to make this album, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing.

More of the same from him. Ludicrously childish lyrics. Pop slop. I will, however, admit that 1985 is probably the best song with a Beatle on I've heard before. So there is that.

LAME

Meh

Tough go right there.

fine album, nothing really memorable to me (Band on the run and Jet are good, but not adding them to my playlists), but if you like more melodic (eerie, fairytale-y) Beatles songs, you would like this.

Ok as background music

I’ve never sat down and listened to a Wings album because I assumed that I wouldn’t like them, I guess based on the little I’d heard of them. So the leading track, “Band on the Run”, came as a bit of a surprise because it’s a good song and that my half-formed impression based on its chorus was maybe leading me astray. “Jet” follows and it’s good too…but the album becomes the mushy soft rock pablum I expected it to be. It picks up at the end, with “Picasso’s Last Words” having a whisper of the experimentalism that the Beatles had at their best; there’s some nice synth on the album closer “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five” but overall there’s not much for me in this album. Paul McCartney is unquestionably a great songwriter but he appears to work best when he has a foil.

Given the involvement of an alleged legend, this was a shockingly shallow and overall dull experience. The only things saving it are a couple of OK singles and my prior exposure to far worse things on this list.

Bland

Wings ask the question "what if good songs were bad"

Not my thing and a bit smug and self-important for my liking

Que sé yo, está bien, pero no es lo mío. No lo puedo escuchar, no me genera nada, prefiero estar en silencio que escucharlo. Tiene varias virtudes, pero yo no lo puedo soportar.

The opening track is pretty much the best song on the album but that doesn't take away from the fact that all the songs are all solid

A couple of nice poppy hits, but nothing special for me. Compared to his work in the Beatles, everything just falls a bit flat. 4.5/10

Seems a little vanilla after the double chocolate chip fudge brownie performance with the Beatles Proving the theory that Paul needs John, and this new "team" were not up to the challange

Não curti muito... Só Let Me Roll It mesmo

Band On The Run - Meg gusta la bateria pero no es mi tipo de musica Jet - wuwuwuw JETSS Blie bird - tuyyovamosasalirdelamiseriapajaritoazul Mrs Vandebilt - ""whats the use of hurrying?" Let Me Roll It - se la dedico a mi novio jajdkskfnskf Mamunia - No le entendígracias No Word - TE AMOOOO Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me) - toma de miii y de mi salud 🗣 Nineteen Hundred and Eighthy Five - wuwuwuejerbdb

I can't recall anything 2

i don't care who the beatles sends it's not gonna make me listen to any of their music

Scraped a 2 as thought Let me roll it was ok and quite liked some of the abbey road/white album touches in the BOTR song. 1985 also good. Otherwise, pretty awful, and at times cringe-inducing.

I think part of me was always biased against wings because when I was a kid I knew a girl whose main point of conversation was “my dad was in wings with Paul McCartney” but she was annoying as hell so figured her dad and thus wings couldn’t have been very cool either. God was I right

вылизанные мальчики которые высоко поют

Not for me.

I’m kinda passive on this, didn’t love and didn’t dislike

Today I was not in the mood for cheesy 70s Paul. Maybe another day. Also the medley at the end felt like cheating.

Goede popmuziek, maar doet me niet veel. Beetje top-2000 gevoel. Allemaal te glad en keurig. Wat een hits heeft hij geschreven!! Maar mij allemaal te braaf

😞

Ist ..."meh" schon 2 oder noch 3? Habe mehr über meine Bewertungskonsistenz als über dieses Album nachgedacht.

Band on the run such a good song. Not sure i love the sounds - getting a little but bored in the middle. Find the panning very jarring and don't love the production. Maybe a 3, but it disappointed me, so 2.

As someone who hadn't been born while Wings were active, I had always thought Wings was just a weird footnote in musical history as the band Paul McCartney used to get his feet under him post-Beatles. So when this popped up I was afraid it would be shit. I was right. You'll be totally fine if you don't listen to this before you die. You're not missing anything at all.

I found Band on the Run to be extremely uncompelling. I do actually enjoy the track "Band on the Run" a lot, which made me have artificially high hopes for the album, but aside from maybe "Jet" and "Mrs. Vandebilt", I just did not enjoy this album much at all (and those tracks did not nearly enough make up for it.) I'll keep "Band on the Run" in my classic rock rotation, but other than that, this album's very forgettable for me. Favorite Song: "Band on the Run"

Загалом музика приємна, відчувається трохи бітлів але якось взагалі порожня, без емоцій, і вокал також тоне у музиці, аж стало скучно коли слухав

Better than previous McCartney album, but just not very interesting.

Not bad

I liked jet.

4/10 wasn’t bad just super slow and kinda dad music. I knew a couple songs but not enough to sing along

I thought it was a good album to have on the background. Both the lyrics and the chords are very repetitive throughout every song and the whole album, making it cohesive but... at what cost tbh.

the first half was pretty nice but some of the songs on the second half kinda annoyed me lol

The Band stinks

I liked one song. Not for me.

Sadece ilk şarkıyı biliyordum ama onun dışında çok yükselemedim :(

Pleasant, inoffensive pop. Not texturally interesting but easy to listen to all the way through. Bugs on the run.

Sorry Paul, prefer your previous band

ميه

Mitähän tästä nyt sanois, jotain hauskoja juttuja aikakausi huomioiden mutta aika tämmöstä peruskamaa. Jotain kakkosen ja kolmosen väliltä

Ei nyt tämäkään lähteny. Parissa biisissä ehkä ees vähän menoa, mutta muuten kovin tylsää.

it sounded like every beatles track i ever listened to, not exactly ground breaking, but tolerable

Вот и первый незнакомый альбом. Ну или как сказать. Песню о миссис Вандебильт слышали, наверное, многие, с этим задорным "Хоп, хей хоп". Некоторый парадокс в том, что популярна она была исключительно на пост-советском пространстве, чему сам сэр Маккартни несколько удивился. Не могу сказать, что мне понравился альбом, но мне понравилась песня Jet. Всему виной звук органа в самом начале, который насколько напомнил мне King Crimson, что я несколько раз переслушал начало. Всё окутано чем-то знакомым. Вот тут играет чел из Moody Blues. Вот на обложке сэр Кристофер Ли. Вот Bluebird чем-то напоминает The Beatles (как и многое здесь, благодаря знакомому вокалу). Но волшебства нет. Надеюсь, только для меня. Итого: 2 из 5. Какое-то оно не то.

Band. On. The Run. The title track is now my new unwanted earworm. Quite a middle of the road experience all said. Not overly keen, but that's OK.

1 song liked

Just proves McCartney is boring solo. Maybe it’ll require a relisten but nothing caught my attention. 2 stars? Maybe?

norm, bluebird oli väga hea laul, isiklikult see stand-out siit

Thought it was pretty bad.

Bland on the Run...

I liked it, not a big fan.

This loses a lot of the charm of the beatles and i cant work out exactly why. Maybe its the move into a more 80's sound, maybe its the fairly bland pop, maybe McCartney needs others to temper his commercialism.

Da denne dukket opp på forsiden av 1001 var jeg midt i Glammorama som plutselig skrev Wings og denne skiva spesifikt inn i handlingen; Jet var til-og-med et slags plot device. Jeg hadde ikke veldig høye forventninger. Band on the Run har jeg hørt før, og det eneste som sitter igjen av låta er det idiotiske refrenget. Det er gode elementer i låta, men det er tydlig at den kreative sjelen bak dette er typen som på død og liv skulle spille inn Maxwell's Silver Hammer. A-siden var overraskende grei. Jeg var ganske sikker på at denne fortjente en solid treer, men den gikk såpass på tryne på B-siden at det føltes urettferdig mot Peter Gabriel å gi denne en bedre score enn So. Den vinner seg litt tilbake med 1985, skivas beste spor, men det er ikke nok, ass. Et par gode spor lager ikke en god skive med mindre låtene er 15-20 minutter lange.

More fluff from Sir Paul. Every now and then soft, fluffy things are good (for something.) L = (2.5*s) I always thought McCartny was a little “bubble gum” pop, but I did know all the words - So…. Side A is good, Side B is whimpy. J = (

I barely even like The Beatles

A former Beatle tries to sound like The Beatles with a different band. The results are below average. Not even the saxophone bonus points can really do much for this one.

This was the kind of mediocre album you would purchase due to one single hit. The rest of the album is nonsense hippie drivel.

Title track is decent. "Jet" is OK. The rest, esp. the repetition of the chorus from the title track, is fairly dull.

Day 17. Best tracks: Band on the Run, Jet I just can't get myself into almost any of the tracks here, because McCartney feels the need to change the tune every 30 seconds. 5/10. Several skips after the first two tracks. Does it belong on this list? Maybe if it is the only post-Beatles inclusion for Paul McCartney, which I'm only hopeful that it is. (EDIT: It is not.)

Professionally made, boring music.

2/5 - Band on the Run and Jet are good singles. I can barely recall anything else on this album except the last song, which was I think was 1985 spelled out the long way.

Sad to say I never liked any post-Beatles McCartney, probably just because it wasn't the Beatles, and I guess I'm still not over it, I still don't like this song or this album, though I admit if he'd recorded these same songs under the Beatles I'd probably think they were genius. His first solo, McCartney, is the exception for me, it's on this list, love that album.

Pretty milquetoast McCartney but I do like his discovering the synth and you can see the seeds for albums later albums. Bluebird makes me want to stab my ears though. Ban the guiro in all western rock/pop.

Not my style

First two tracks are good, but it’s all down hill from there.

I love Paul, but that's cheesy as hell.

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This begins with the big bombastic showman numbers "Band On the Run" and "Jet" but falls off after that. The title track is a catchy medley, but has always felt like just a stitching together of good ideas, which makes it feel rushed rather than fleshed out. A lot of Paul's songs are this way for me-- he is one of the best-ever pop and melody writers, but he's never been the greatest lyricist or one to have emotional weight (that's where he was complemented well by other Beatles). That's kind of how I felt throughout this album, that there are lots of good ideas here, but they feel hacked together or not fully realized or are more about show than content. The fragmented and stilted feel could be because he is recording so many overdubs himself, having only Linda and Denny Laine with him rather than a full band to get a live, organic sound. "Jet" feels like an Elton John song and is fun but doesn't have much substance. I also feel like it is a bit overproduced or overdubbed. Songs like "Bluebird" and "Mamunia" (and even "Band On the Run" itself which is reprised in a couple songs) fall into a repetition of singing the title over and over and become rather annoying. "Let Me Roll It" has a great guitar riff but just sounds so much like a John song, I can't believe it wasn't intentional. "Picasso's Last Words" I got into and grooved with, but it again fell into the Paul-medley problem, which is that once you start sinking into the song it changes, like we have some kind of attention-deficit disorder and can't be trusted to stick to something for longer than a minute. Overall it just falls into this problem of feeling stitched together or rushed. I can understand many liking it, but the sound is not for me.

Basic picks up—eventually

Not a massive fan

1 refrain connu Bon son **

unpopular opinion: don't care about the beatles, don't care about a beatle by themself either

I could take it or leave it

Not my favorite former Beatle solo album.

I've never been a fan of McCartney after the Beatles. The songs are ok, but they are somehow to "smooth" and nothing interesting about them. Jet and Band On The Run (on this album) are well known and of course I also know them and have listened to them often. They are, in my opinion, the best songs of the album. The rest is simply the typical McCartney music.

It's a pleasant album, but it's rather scattered and missing some edge.

Still not a Wings fan. I'm not sure I'd ever listened to this whole album but *wow* does it fall off after the title track.

I don't really find any of Paul's post Beatles stuff to be interesting at all. Ram maybe, but most everything else is from my point of view, corny and boring.

Some fun bits, but nothing that really perked up my ears. I like Wings alright, but I don't think I'd listen to this album on my own.

Real weak effort from McCartney here. He and Lennon really were more together!

Should have stay in the Beatles :(

'Band on the Run' would be a great song if you only had to hear it once, instead of 6,347 times.

2/5. You know, I think I finally understand what makes Paul so popular despite having some of the most annoying songs of all time. He sings with so much confidence that it really feels like he enjoys these lyrics and they are not just hilariously bad for the most part. I enjoy the first two songs, classics for sure but he loses the plot really fast. Abruptly, bluebird is nothing and kind of stays at that level for the most part and then as a final saving grace, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five makes a great closer. It feels like I'm being lied to, or that we listened to a different album. This is not even in comparison to Lennon, this is in comparison to his own songs. It's clear he can write hits, why does most of the album feel so half-baked? Like I'll bop to Jet and Band any day, but put on most everything else here and it's feels like a McCartney copycat that has never heard of the Beatles. Mostly disappointed, but it saves itself from being unlistenable with a few choice cuts here and there. Best Song: Band On The Run, Jet, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five

It's all a bit dull. Couple of nice tracks, but very, very repetitive, and lyrically unimpressive.

Starts out strong. but there's some goofy stuff on here. Paul McCartney should have written children's music after he left the beatles.

Not fussed about this, Mrs Vandebilt was my fav track but not arsed beyond that, it gets a 2 as I need to save the 1s for truly dreadful stuff like Kid Rock

Oh my what a mess. At least they tried something new.

I am POSITIVE that there is enough McCartney in this list already. This is just wanky.

Meh…couple of good tracks. Fairly bland and repetitive. It does have some good qualities but they all can be experienced listening to only the title track.

McCartney without Lennon sucks, and Lennon without McCartney sucks. They needed each other.

Fav songs: Let Me Roll It; Mrs. Vandebilt This isn't my type of music. It feels like middle-aged, slightly experimental rock that is careful not to offend. I absolutely have no clue what's going on with 'Picasso's Last Words'. The singles from this album I remember from childhood. My current status as a middle-aged person has not given me any greater appreciation like I found with Steely Dan. And the album art is doofy. I cannot decide if that's apropos or terrible.

All the talent, production wizardry, and cocaine in the world and this is what he comes up with?

langweilig, 2

Kako je ovo meni dosadno... Kao da je trunčicu bolje od onog preglupog Beatles albuma što sam dosad slušala pa eto možda zaslužuje dvije zvjezdice.

Högst ett par låtar som har nåt sorts intressant i sig, resten fick mig att ifrågasätta Pauls supposed genistatus.

Can't remember but boring I think

There is something about Paul McCartney that I just don’t buy into. It always feels like he’s just playing around, that he doesn’t actually believe what he’s saying. He’s just playing and singing what he knows will work for his audience, not necessarily what he’s feeling. On the last track of this album, the band moves from a funky disco section into a church organ hymn with three part harmonies, and back again. Cool. Then at the climax of the song an orchestra builds and builds to a big final note, with a slight reference to Also Sprach Zarathustra- and then- we get a three second reprise of Band on the Run. As if to say “just kidding!” Even Paul doesn’t buy what he’s selling, and neither do I.

Band on the Run is really good, and I love Jet but those were not enough to elevate this album above a 2

Meh 2 star

Standouts Band on the Run Jet Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five

2.9

naja, irgendwie wie beatles. und lyrics sind auch nicht literaturpreisverdächtig. sorry!

Did not even include the frog song.

Average

I've never been able to get into the Beatles, let alone the post-work and projects unless it involves Thomas the Tank Engine. I listen to this and can recognize excellent craftsmanship of music and song writing, but as I listen it just makes me wish for anything else because it just does nothing positive for me.

This reaffirms my conviction that RAM is the only worthwhile McCartney album from the 70s. The only other McCartney album besides RAM I even bother with is III.

Paul McCartney is too light-hearted and cheeky for the '70s. His style played very well in the '60s, but the next decade called for more grit and more style. These songs are well crafted, but they're innocent to the point of boredom.

I know that Paul McCartney is one of the great artists of all time, but frankly I found this album to be pretty bland. The two popular singles, Band on the Run and Jet, are alright. I liked Mrs Vanderbilt and Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five the best. The rest of this is very average. An ok album, but certainly nothing special and not anything I would come back to.

This album goes to show that even the (arguably) best Beatle really needed to have the other Beatles around him to make music at the same level. That's not to say this is bad, it's not, but it is certainly not the Beatles. And I guess that was the point to a certain degree. There are Beatle-esque moments on this album, but overall it kind of fell flat for me. I'm not saying that I want everything Paul McCartney does to sound like the Beatles, but what he came out with here is just not even close to the same level. 2.5/5 but I'm going to round down. I feel like George Harrison's solo attempts were much stronger, especially All Things Must Pass. This is absolutely not that.

Often hear songs on the radio from this album, which I either didn't pay attention to or would change stations. Made a sound effort to listen to it this time. The songs are familiar but just couldn't get into it - just too limp for me

I enjoyed Markiplier's Let's Play of the Beatles, though MatPat still hasn't put out his game theory video yet. I feel like this spin-off may be a little over my head Trying to find a good resource about the Beatles, their history and their creative process is such an annoying task. I've looked before and every time I've been pointed to the Get Back/Let It Be documentaries, the Anthology book or random ass autobiographies about the guy who brushed up against Lennon in May of 1968, all of which don't help me to actually understand the band. However, if I have anything to gleam from the time that I've been a fan of The Beatles, it's that McCartney was my favourite of the bunch because he just is, okay? All of this to say that I feel incredibly under-equipped going into this album despite having a better-than-average knowledge on the subject matter. Wait! I can check the book. Thank you, Robert Demmerlist, owner of the Demsdale Demmerlist. The album came from adversity when McCartney got busted for toking gas station weed ((real) or maybe not? The only search results for a McCartney drug bust are from 1980). The cover art doesn't feature the actual band members on the run. I want all of my $0 back. A mostly-solo work from McCartney. Doesn't seem like there's a lot going for this album, though in all fairness it's a McCartney album. We had to get at least one on the list I enjoyed this album for what it is, though something definitely feels like it's missing here - a certain something that I don't have the time or knowledge to discuss. The instrumentals err on the side of feeling like they're a little directionless and "off", though this could just be the post-Beatles high speaking. McCartney's vocals are competent, though these are far from his best performances. There are some good cuts on this album. "Bluebird" was my favourite song - it's just a nice little tune. Other songs I liked include Mrs. Vandebilt and Picasso's Last Words. There's an impressive level of variety to this album, which I also respect. I like how many of the instrumentals undergo drastic changes. The blending of different genres across each song is also appeciated, particularly on Mamunia and 1985.

Meh. First two tunes are really good, were in heavy rotation when they were released. The rest of it is fine but it just doesn't measure up to Beatles.

Meh

I know a couple of these tracks, but generally this wasn’t particularly gripping to listen to. Which is a shame because jet and banned on the run are both half decent. The rest of the album just didn’t inspire me.

Yup, this definitely sounds like the sort of songs that the Beatles weren't letting Paul record. Not a fan.

Boy oh boy, do I not like post-Beatles Beatles. A few highlights here and there, with the rest being a bit of a chore.

‘Nice’, I suppose, but not in anyway interesting.

It’s….ok

Paul McCartney annoys me.

Ass

Ga meg ikkje så masse

only liked a couple songs entirely, mostly not my tea

Yeah sorry Paul no disrespect but get this out of my face

Had the Beatles continued into the 70s maybe as a band they would have churned out cheesy songs, but they didn’t continue, and so all we have are the various solo projects which are almost all bad. The soft rock quality of Paul’s solo stuff is particularly annoying to me.

Sounded like tracks rejected from beatles...

Meh

meh

Non actual

After first two songs it was fine. Will not be adding to my library

..

A little too sleepy

I don’t know, man this is a weird album.

Just can't come close to competing with "All Things Must Pass."

This is the band that The Beatles could have been. Apparently. The album opens up with a massive classic, as Macca makes his bid for stadium supremacy, and is generally successful from there on out. Although I get tired of the knowingly-vaudellian twists and turns between genres, it is indeed the very well executed sound of a band on the run. What if Alex Harvey wasn't deranged? Favourite tracks: Band on the Run, Mrs Vandebilt, 1900&85

I'm not sure how Paul became so pedestrian without John.

Not his best, 2 good tracks at beginning. Rest mediocre.

Not typically my favorite style of music. Good background music.

Paul McCartney left Wings?? He was the best one! One of the great Simpson’s quotes of all time perfectly encapsulates this ridiculous album cover and what I’m sure will be uhh music of some description. Allow me to fly upon the ample bosom of one Paul “MC Walrus” McCartney carried by the wind and of course the rest of this ensemble carrying my bloated body deftly across the breeze. Another movie montage song coming up. Beatles style. Am I allowed to say “Beatles” here? Maybe I’ll be on the run soon. This time, from the estate of John Lennon. Jokes aside, this song really heats up at the 1:30 mark or so and then dives into that lame verse and chorus we all know and hate. What are they on the run from? That bald guy centre right definitely has some skeletons in his closet. And the matching drivers licenses in his sock drawer. To be completely fair, I’ve heard far worse songs here. This is fine. This would make a great Buffalo Wild Wings commercial. Firstly. The band is called WINGS. Sold. Second. The song already sounds like a commercial. It has had the life PRE-DRAINED from it!! You can’t buy that kind of sterility. Finally, it has a member of the Beatles involved. Slap a motorcycle into an AI video generator and run that sumbitch at the Taquitos fiesta bowl halftime show or whatever. Sell all the Carolina Ghost Annihilator Ranch Dogs you can. I do love the buzzy bass here, but this was another fine one. Ho boy. Not the vibe. Whatever that scratchy instrument is has always been awful. Paul smoked what he thought was weed (oregano) at a resort in Cuba and bought the instrument for far too much money at a local market. Talk about a missile crisis! Yeah this song sucks. Ho. Hey Ho. Ho. Hey Ho. Yeah. More like HO HUM. Santana visits Санкт-Петербург. Back to the USSR with this one. Let YOU roll it?? What are your doobie credentials? I need to see a certificate from $w4g.com OR higher. No bullshit here Paul. Oh he’s talking about his heart being a wheel that he rolls towards somebody. And I thought my metaphors were laboured. This is end of dinner party at a suburban mansion type music. Deeply depressing somehow. The guitar part is kind of fun, but it’s just not for me. Mamunia is making me realize that every other song on this album has been pretty god damned good. This is a train wreck. The eternal 2020’s debate of cultural appropriation vs appreciation springs to mind. This is the bad one. Wake me up when this song is over please. Whoa. I’m up I’m up. Is this actually going to be a cool little folk-y ballad? Yeah I like this. Why does it have to change back to “Jet” halfway through UGH. Although, did you know; Picasso’s last words were not “Drink to Me.” It’s true. They were “I actually hate cubism, I just did it for the ‘tang.” Historians believed this outburst to be too crude to include in records and thus deferred to “Wings” as the official scribe(s). Oh no no no. “My little lady gets me high” is my cue to exit. I want to thank the good people at 1 million records .comp my favourite band camp webpage and of course the rascals down at dorchester max security. You guys keep me real. Big respect to Ringo. Not Starr, but my guy at the Cincinnati zoo who keeps me stocked with Giraffe kibble and gorilla chow. Great alternative to human food and FLUSH with vitamin K6. You haven’t heard of it… yet. I can imagine trees you haven’t dreamed of in your wildest fantasies. And I’ve had some wild tree fantasies. Of course, I wouldn’t be here without my man, my MAIN man, Akeem the African Dream. My rock. Jive on, my sweet soul brother. Play me off Paul. Or whomever is responsible for the Wings outro music. Get that guy in here. Man, finding the actual music review in this thing is like finding that one guy in your neighbourhood’s great uncle in the picture on the album cover. “Uhh yeah my PeePaw’s neighbour knew this guy who ran into the washboard player on tracks 1-4 of “Band on the Run.” Real nice guy.” Impossible! If you followed that or have even read this, may the most spiritual member of Wings come to you in a dream and bestow upon you mystic knowledge of a kingdom long forgotten. Alabaster sheen cascades inviting light upon its audience. The mortals gaze skyward; hopeful to be enrobed in its warming glow. Not enough time to panic. All consuming beams thirst for humanity. Unknown horrors carve sigils in the dessicated mortals, now too weak to comprehend mercy. The ritual of consumption continues. Life on earth ends, only to emerge amnesiac. Seek the light to return to dark. Anyway this album was mid. Dorkiness all around. 2 HIGHLIGHTS: Picasso’s Last Words (Drink to Me)

1. band - 2 2. jet - 1.5 3. blue - 1.5 4. vanderbilt - 1 5. roll - 1 6. mamunia - 1 7. uuordz - 1.5 8. picazzo - 1 9. 1985 - 1

I enjoyed Let Me Roll It. And I had heard band on the run. This is not for me though.

I disliked this album. Band on the Run was the only song that I even slightly enjoyed, and I didn't enjoy it a lot. Overall, I just am not a fan of Mr, McCartney's work.

Great album for background chill music to have at a cafe or as you do other stuff that require minimal attention. Probably not ideal for studying as it changes rhythm and is catchy, but still a great candidate.

The singles are all pretty memorable and good. The rest is just okay. C

Hey lads, let's start our album with a couple of Beatlesesque pop tunes for old times sake, then move to some slow rumba, what do you say? Yeah, then we can transition to a circus type jingle, follow that up with an Elvis-y ballad. I wonder if we could nab some of that Paul Simon Graceland sound at some point? Certainly! Then a dramatic Clapton type bluesy number, then a drunkenly sing-a-long, then... How about a rambunctious piano toe tapper to close it out? Paul can even do his redneck hillbilly voice that he's so good at! Top notch ideas lads! The key here is to keep the listener on their toes. What's the use of worrying about consistency, throw everything we got at them. Two kitchen sinks out of five.

I tried to go into this album with an open mind, as I tended to think of McCartney’s solo career as unbearably cheesy, though I recognize his contributions to the Beatles. This album reminded me that the Beatles are better as the sum of their parts. I felt like the whole album had a sort of “Day in the Life” vibe, where all of the songs have a pretty disparate feel to them, jumping around through many different genres (I always forget that I like the beginning of the title track, but the chorus makes me want to punch it in the face). Mrs Vanderbilt is a fun track, ruined by cheesy sax. bluebird is cringe worthy. Let me Roll It, Mamunia, and 1984 are not bad, though nothing remarkable. I hated how the last track recapitulated bits from all the other songs-it felt needlessly self indulgent. I wouldn’t revisit this, but it’s not awful. I listened to it twice to make sure of my opinion.

First song was good, but the rest of the album was pretty disappointing. “Bluebird” and “Mamunia” were annoying enough to drop this down to 2-stars.

A bit insipid. 5/10

It's a normal part of life for a lot of men: you get a little older, get married, have a kid, drift apart from your high school buddies—and so you start a mediocre rock band. It's just a bummer when the man is Paul McCartney, he's still in his 20s when he starts the band, and his high school buddies were the fucking Beatles. I really wanted to like this, but the songs are just so boring. Paul and John needed each other.

I only liked Band on the Run and I already knew that one. Nothing special here to me.

Pretty categorical proof that Paul is the most overrated Beatle. George solos.

A remarkably dull and plodding album. I remember Band on the Run having a bit more vim to it than it actually does. This isn't an album I particularly cared for, and I'm unlikely to play it again. It does have an amusing cover.

Well this was all blandly competent. In a hollow sort of way.

I found this pretty dull, McCartney doing tedious little songs.

I generally think the word ‘naff’ is underused these days. So let’s bring it back where it’s rightly deserved. This album is very polished, and there are some occasional rhythm and bass parts which offer encouragement, but then it just does something incredibly cheesy to ruin the song e.g. crappy brass or particularly the chorus parts. It just feels like it borrows ideas kind of schizophrenically from better 70s rock at the time, and makes it worse. I think this might mark the beginning of ‘Dad Rock’. The whole thing, as I say, is just incredibly naff. If this wasn’t McCartney surely this wouldn’t have been as popular as it apparently was.

2,3

I dunno, fairly generic and boring to me

Some were ok, some were hard to finish

Eh -- never a big fan of Paul McCartney's solo stuff always felt a little light-weight and wishy washy.

Self indulgent whining tripe.

Kinda viby but meh

Halt Gitarren-"Rock"-Musik.

Nu er jeg ved at få nok af Paul og John.. Når eneste sang jeg synes stikker ud er den der med "Ho, hey ho", så synes jeg sgu at det er lidt tyndt.

It’s okay, but nothing more. I understand that it is interesting to see what McCartney was up to after The Beatles. He could have done better - his solo stuff is better IMO. The last song on this album is the best

Some fun tracks (I've always enjoyed Band on the Run for all the different sections it has) but not particularly interesting or engaging.

More like shit on the run

One of Paul’s better solo efforts which really isn’t saying much…

A couple good bookends. This album seems like it tries to be so many things, that it's nothing really at all

2.5 but overall just a bit mundane. Starts strong of course with the eponymous track then Jet, trails off and tries to reunite at the end.

Shake up a heavy pour of big Bond horns here and I’d be double-oh so delighted to imbibe; as is, I’ll live and let you have it.

I was actually disappointed with this album without totally hating it. I just expected more Beatles sounding songs instead of Simon and Garfunkel sounding songs. I passed on this before it was completely finished. Choice cut: Band on the Run

Boring

Average album. Liked track 1 4 8 and 9 the rest was mid.

meh

Why?

Two decent singles, but not much else I cared for.

The Beatles ruined my life. Sorry Mr McCartney but I did NOT fw this album heavy idk why lol. Some of the instrumentals were pretty good but like the album overall was just whatever

I’ve always like this group. However, I now realize that I only like two songs on this album (“Band on the Run” and “Jet”).

Paul McCartney can really write some catchy tunes. Unfortunately be it the lack of a solid collaborative band or the 70s influence, these just aren’t interesting.

Paul really said, “This one’s for the ADHD girlies,” because god, this record is all over the place.

not for me

I had a very difficult time assessing the music at face value. These songs are so beloved by a generation that they're used to push goals and incite an urge in the form of commercials for cars or Coke or whatever. Yes, I like some of the music. No, I'm not familiar with the world culture, nor am I familiar with the popular or music culture of 1973. I think this music is lost on me because it no longer symbolizes anything but relinquishing agency to the machine. Is this what Paul McCartney wanted? tl;dr , I don't feel qualified to rate the music because I only know it to be "commercial music."

Pretty fun and very skillfully executed, although it lacks purpose and passion. It seems like professional coasting, to be honest.

Fiiiiiiine. It's fine. It's worse than fine, actually. It's more Paul McCartney than I ever want.

On the Wikipedia entry for Wings one of their ever rotating guitarists claims Wings sounds like a band and not a solo McCartney project and that is only true on the songs that sound like Beatles songs. Mostly boring!

I'd say "meh this was fine" but I was finding it annoying by the end. It felt very samey and I didn't find any of it particularly interesting.

I love Paul, but this album was meh. “Band on the Run” is a classic, but the other songs were just not hitting the same mark for me.

It's just totally fine for me. Nothing remarkable, nothing exciting

I genuinely tried to be objective when listening to this. The first two songs were alright! A strong start in my opinion. Then Bluebird came on… I couldn’t do it. Had to skip halfway through. Same with the rest of the album. The songs were not hitting and I was over Paul’s voice.

2 really good songs- the remaining were ok

This album is plagued by the "first and last song are great, and the middle songs are subpar" scenario. The song Band on the run is good enough, but Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five makes the album. Not strong enough to hold the rest of the album up. 2/5.

Never a fan of McCartney, Wings or the Beatles. Lowest common denominator pop stuff. That being said, there's a handful of songs that I think are decent enough. Two are on this album... Band on the Run Jet So for only having 2 listenable tracks, this album gets a 2

Pretty generic Paul

Another band I have historically hated! This is such a cheese-dick record. It's like children's music for adults. I hate it. There are a few moments where it almost gets interesting but then they swing back into some bullshit sing-songy carnival-ass sounding repetitive thing again. Not the worst thing I have ever heard, but not for me for sure. BOOOO.

Ugh. McCartney at his most Macca. There’s a reason you’ve only heard the first two tracks on this.

I have already confessed to the influence that Charles Shaar Murray's essay on Paul McCartney (featured in his volume of compiled writings, Shots From The Hip) had on forming my (not-very-high) opinion of Paul McCartney's solo output. And he makes an exception for Band On The Run, as the best post-Beatles album from Paul, and proof that he could still write a great record, Well, I humbly disagree. Village Voice critic Robert Christgau wrote in 1981: "I originally underrated what many consider McCartney's definitive post-Beatles statement, but not as much as its admirers overrate it. Pop masterpiece? This? Sure it's a relief after the vagaries of Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway." He ultimately awarded the album a C+ rating, indicating "a not disreputable performance, most likely a failed experiment or a pleasant piece of hackwork". That sounds more realistic to me. I find this whole record under-written, over-produced, and desperate to be liked. They are not good things. A few songs are blessed with a pretty good tune -- you could never accuse Paul of not being capable of a pretty tune -- but really not hugely memorable. And I never really liked the title track. The story I find most revealing about this record is the account of Fela Kuti confronting Paul in the studio, accusing him of ripping off African music. Paul plays him the tapes, and convinces him that there is no local influence. And ain't that the truth; there is none of the energy, inventiveness, funk or power of a Fela Kuti record on this disc. I agree that many fan, hoping against hope for a return to former glories, grabbed onto this not-incompetent record like a drowning man clutching at flotsam. Desperately trying to kid themselves that this was actually good, it has been massively over-praised. I am writing this just a few days after the 50th anniversary re-release of the 'under dubbed' version, with orchestras etc. all stripped off. I can't think of a record I am less interested in hearing. 2.5 stars, rounding down for hype.

This is a tough one, because Paul McCartney has written some of my favourite ever songs, but nothing in this album landed with me. There's something missing, I'm not sure what, but it means there's nothing I'm keen to return to.

I love the Beatles, but their post-Beatles ventures didn't do much for me. They truly were greater than the sum of their parts. 2.5 stars.

Enjoyed it

Sophisticated arrangements, but generally not interesting.

Never heard any of these tracks before, even though the title track has a lot of plays. Paul is only interested in crafting clever pop songs in a classic rock mould. There is no heart, no fury, no pulse, no nerve and no lust. The bass is nice and there are a lot of arrangement ideas, but I still struggle to find anything worth caring for. I liked Bluebird and the title track though. After having an album from each ex-beatle (excluding Ringo) and two or three from the Beatles I can safely say I don’t care much for the group itself or Paul or John individually. The George Harrison one was the best of the bunch (all things must pass).

I don't know what it is about the Wings but something about their songs just bore me. It lacks some kind of oumph like their heart wasn't really in it or something. Maybe it's the mixing? I just can't put my finger on it. There are a lot of decent songs on this album, my favourite being "Mrs. Vandebilt. Probably should be a weak 3 but I'm giving it a strong 2 since i don't really feel like listening to it again.

Läser att låten Jet var en singel. Rätt trist låt. Inte heller titelspåret är jätteskoj. Fattar faktiskt inte riktig. Men smaken är ju som baken.

Booring

im not doing it you cant make me

Spricht mich überhaupt nicht an. Handwerklich bestimmt gut gemacht - aber kein Funke springt über.

Funny songs

Nimikkobiisi oli entuudestaan tuttu. Kauniisti sanottuna kovin rönsyilevä levy.

Ihan hyvän kuulosta, mut ei jäänyt erityisesti mieleen