Macca Wild Life & Red Rose Speedway deluxe boxes.
Re: Macca Wild Life & Red Rose Speedway deluxe boxes.
I completely forgot these were coming out! I’ve been listening to the extras on Spotify over the last few days.
I loved the extra tracks on RAM so much I got my hopes a bit sky high if I’m being honest.
The Wildlife extras are pretty bare bones and nothing to get excited about at all. Red Rose Soeedway has some fun stuff though. None of it feels essential but lots of it is charming and I Lie Around is a particular treat. It reminds me of Ronnie Lane.
ChrisChopping wrote: I completely forgot these were coming out! I’ve been listening to the extras on Spotify over the last few days.
I really like I Lie Around too. The best on the Wildlife bonus disk was When The Wind Is Blowing but the rest was mostly forgettable which is hardly surprising given the album proper is largely poor. I was hoping to be able to reassess it positively but sadly no, it is what it is, half hearted uninspired and throwaway.
I actually really like the wildlife album but my understanding, from memory, is that they pretty much went into the studio, recorded the few songs they had and jammed a couple of tracks and that was that, it was all done quite quickly. So I guess it’s not surprising there aren’t any hidden gems to dust off for this though I would’ve welcomed a crazy 17 minute version of Mumbo!
Good grief. Way to miss the whole point of the record.
Are you suggesting he meant to release a turd?
It is very much in the style of both Ram and McCartney. Rough and ready , and at times almost demo quality. But I think these records have a charm and quality that his better produced records lack. They have an intimacy and enthusiasm which disappears once production values click in. Its a personal opinion, but i find Macca a lot less interesting the more produced he is.
yomptepi wrote: It is very much in the style of both Ram and McCartney. Rough and ready , and at times almost demo quality. But I think these records have a charm and quality that his better produced records lack. They have an intimacy and enthusiasm which disappears once production values click in. Its a personal opinion, but i find Macca a lot less interesting the more produced he is.
I can appreciate that quality on those albums but for me what sets McCartney and Ram apart from Wildlife is that both those albums are full of terrific songs but with Wildlife he forgot to write any.