New Paul McCartney Album
By Amadeus on Jan 9, 2012 in Features
McCartney has confirmed the new album title and artwork for his new album which is supposed to be out on Feb 6.
Paul McCartney – Kisses On The Bottom
It’s basically another covers album with two new McCartney songs. It’s a collection of standards he grew up with as a kid, so presumably it’s not a rock and roll album. Diana Krall and her band, Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder appear on his album of old American songs he grew up with, in most cases, hearing them for the first time being played on the piano at home by his father.
Ringo of course did the same thing back in 1970 for his solo debut Sentimental Journey. Lots of people didn’t like it very much, but they can suck it! I liked it. I just hope Paul’s album doesn’t sound like all those trendy standards albums that have been coming out in the last few years like Rod Stewart’s. That’s merely my opinion.
A review will be forthcoming.
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Paul McCartney’s album is called Kiss my ass . . .ha ha you couldn’t make it up. it shows what he really thinks of the music public and shows his general music contribution. I have said it before, Salieri to Lennon’s Amadeus . . .
I know I am being massively uncharitable to a music legend, but this guy winds me up as i have also said before.
H | Jan 10, 2012 | Reply
OMG!
The title is a line from one of the songs(albeit taken out of context slightly). I believe he is always sincere about the music that he makes and he always hopes that the fans will like it.
He has released some stinkers but, he does live in a warped reality compared to ours. I think his intentions are good in spite of his dreamworld that he lives in.
And that whole Salieri/Mozart thing,,,,I suppose it’s a matter of taste. Mozart was groundbreaking while Salieri was merely a good writer of tunes. At the most you could say that The Beatles collectively were Mozart and individually, they were Salierei. That’s a pretty crass generalisation, but I certainly don’t think that Lennon was all that groundbreaking on his own. Not anymore than McCartney at any rate.
Like I said, I believe that McCartney does try to put out a good product, even if he isn’t always successful. I also like songs with 12 or 13 chords in it from time to time, as a change from Lennon’s usual 3 chords.
Hopefully your holidays were good H.
I can’t wait to have a new U2 album to review for you!
Blah!
Amadeus | Jan 10, 2012 | Reply
I’m a big solo Paul fan – but I have to say this doesn’t sound too promising to me… that said; I’ll certainly give it a listen …
Marvin Marks | Jan 10, 2012 | Reply
Also – the John vs. Paul debate has been done to death on this site… but I’ll add in one more time: I think Paul is ridiculously underrated. People who say things like John was the Mozart blah blah = ignorant about The Beatles. (That shouldn’t be an offense to H as he’s said he doesn’t like The Beatles.)
http://www.musicbyday.com/paul-mccartney-musical-director-of-the-beatles/786/
Marvin Marks | Jan 10, 2012 | Reply
I’d also say that Paul is an “advanced genius” according to the Advanced Genius Theory. … so his new works always deserve a listen.
Marvin Marks | Jan 10, 2012 | Reply
(being a bit tongue in cheek there… like Paul often is … “kisses on the bottom” … ha!)
Marvin Marks | Jan 10, 2012 | Reply
I guess i should apoligise but i only re-iterated my statements in order to get a reaction.
Anyway, I will give the album a listen in order to try to get a balanced view. To be honest though, I can nly think of a couple of re-interpretations albums, or full covers that really stand out to me. eMotive by A perfect Circle and the Johnny cash album. Even then there are stand out songs, not all of them are great. i have done covers a couple of times on my blog and so my thoughts are there for all to read, but a full album of covers. i guess when you have the number of albums McCartney has you can do what ever you want. Seems he did.
Anyway, Happy New year and i look forward to getting to discover new music, to me , and discussing it in the up coming year.
cheers
H | Jan 11, 2012 | Reply
Cover albums are pretty silly in my view, there are no covers albums that I listen to… even individual cover songs I rarely get into (rather than listening to a few times out of curiosity maybe)… there are some exceptions where a cover really does something interesting with a song.. where they “make it their own” but mostly it just seems like a pointless exercise.
I’ll probably listen to it once (like I did with the Run Devil Run album) and never again. Maybe I’ll be surprised… the one interesting thing to me is that I’m not familiar with these songs so maybe I’ll learn a thing or two … I’m interested in these older standards from a certain standpoint… I rarely really enjoy them but there are thins about them I find interesting.
/ramble.
Marvin Marks | Jan 12, 2012 | Reply
I agree with Marvin Marks, I don´t like cover albums, but I might give this one a go.
Sævar | Jan 17, 2012 | Reply
That Mozart/Salieri comment really deserves to be retired but I just can’t get worked up about it because it’s just so inaccurate — as anyone who knows anything about the Beatles can attest. Hell just look at Lennon’s disappointing solo career. If I had to choose the solo work of one or the other (and fortunately I don’t), I’d go with McCartney’s — thanks to the absolute masterpiece of Ram as well as things like McCartney, McCartney II, Band on the Run, Flaming Pie, Chaos and Creation and Electric Arguments. Toss the rest of his stuff. I only listen to the good ones.
As for this new album, I’ve heard it. And it’s a spare, classy club Jazz kind of album. Quiet and small. But it’s a big risk for him (given the decades of dumb comments from rock nazi’s attacking him for liking “granny” music) but he pulls it off here, thanks to bringing in some great jazz musicians. His voice sounds vulnerable here, which I like but some people won’t. It’s amazing that he can pull off singing these songs so quietly and delicately — it’s really precision singing — after years of stadium singing and screaming Helter Skelter.
It’s just a minor album — nothing at all revolutionary or unusual — but it’s quite lovely. Good for a quiet night. I doubt it’ll be a big seller, though. The masses don’t want vulnerability; they seem to like Rod Stewart’s cheesy Vegas approach to these standards.
louise | Feb 1, 2012 | Reply
Am I glad to hear you say that. I was afraid of the Rod Vegas thing. I look forward to hearing it.
Amadeus | Feb 1, 2012 | Reply