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Title: Some Promise, Same Old Flaws
Review: First of all, let me say that the really sad song, Riding To Vanity Fair is a flawless record. It already may rank right up there with the Long and Winding Road in my book.By his own admission, McCartney has often been "in his element" aping the style of a popular artist or record. In the case of Vanity Fair, it's pure Beck from Sea Change - down to using the instruments from Golden Age (track #1 coincidentally)Other songs are trivialized by trite, rushed lyrics - a worsening problem for Paul lately. The handful of tunes with true promise here are reduced to throw-aways by throw away lyrics.Oh, and "Jenny Wren" isn't a sequal to Blackbird, it the sequal to "Put It There - and its irritating, to be kind."
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