GW76

Unfailingly melodic, some fine tunes on here-'as you lie there','days we left behind', 'down south','home to us','life can be hard', all with lyrics which nod to other people in McCartney's life over the years, some excellent stylistic touches such as the honey pieish instrumentation on 'life...' and the tex mex horns on 'salesman saint'. To produce this at this age takes some doing

Has one of the all time great songs -'psycho killer' and a couple of other good ones-'uh-oh..' and 'pulled up' but the rest are skittish with occasional melodic parts but almost not fully fleshed out or more likely fleshed out in the style that they liked ,namely herky jerky tunes with non sequitur lyrics. There were some offcuts that didn't make the album that were better tunes-'sugar on my tongue' and 'love -building on fire ' the ... read more

A really funky album, the first half of the record is dense particularly 'the great curve' but it also has enough melodies and hooks to keep you interested with a big pop single thrown in-'once in a Lifetime' for good measure. The second half of the record releases a little of that drive with 'the overload' being a particularly heavy and dirgey track but a fine album nonetheless

Each track on here has something but all are too long and most vamp on two chords which means the tunes can become quite tedious but 'burning down the house','girlfriend is better'and 'this must be the place...'-with it's light as air,summer in NYC vibe-are good songs