Wings Wild Life

Paul McCartney, Wings - Wings Wild Life

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Artist: Paul McCartney, Wings
Brand: Capitol
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1989-06-20
Music Label: Emd/Capitol
Soundtracks:

Mumbo
Bip Bop
Love Is Strange
Wild Life
Some People Never Know
I Am Your Singer
Bip Bop Line (Instrumental)
Tomorrow
Dear Friend
Mumbo Link (Instrumental)
Oh Woman, Oh Why
Mary Had A Little Lamb
Little Woman Love

Music reviews of Wings Wild Life

Music Review: McCartney Catalogue offers a great texture of sound
Rating: 5 Stars

Wings Wild Life...

You can listen to the reviews which echo the original sentiments when this album was released and believe this album doesn't live up to "some critic's" idea of McCartney standards. If you do, you'll be the one missing out, not the reviewer who has had the pleasure to listen to the music and already has a copy (free copy) of this album. Instead think of the music created as a Beatle and as solo artists by all four men.

If you take the Beatles recordings in terms of years you can package many of their albums into double record sets without blinking an eye. You can easily mistake their first two albums (and respective singles) and make a CD or album from those tracks and never know they were released as separate albums. But they did record 2 albums a year which is so ridiculous to keep up that pace and quality, which no other band has ever done.

So You can take (for ease of discussion using the British titles) Please Please Me and With the Beatles and make one album out of them and never know the difference because the sound was basically the same over the same 12 month period they recorded those albums.

The same could be said of A Hard Day's Night and Beatles For Sale. You can easily make a set out of Rubber Soul and Revolver and the American albums prove me right as they mixed many of these songs on different albums as well as making Yesterday and Today using some left over Help! album tracks. WHich means you can eliminate Help! and take some tracks and use them with the Hard Day's Night / Beatles For Sale set, and use the rest with the Rubber Soul / Revolver set...bonus tracks if you will.

You can package up Sgt. Pepper's and Magial Mystery Tour along with tracks recorded during that time from Yellow Submarine sndtrk. and make one album from them. The Beatles (white album) is already a 2 record set missing a tune recorded later for Yellow Sub, Hey Bulldog which would fit nicely near Bungalow Bill, Martha My Dear, Piggies or Blackbird in the animal section of the album. ;-) Perhaps if they polished the recordings at that time for Let it Be they could manage to make them fit with Abbey Road. But perhaps they could stand on their own given the vastly different sound between the two albums they'd be the only ones recorded within a 12 month period to stand alone.

Now, what does this have to do with Wild Life? SImply put, this album is not like anything else McCartney ever did, but it's not so far away it sounds foriegn to McCartney. Wilde Life is more complete than McCartney which was always panned for being a "home recording" sound. It took me a while to grow to like McCartney, but now it fits in nicely with everything else. But why? It's simple actually. If McCartney or Lennon or Harrison were to repeat themselves musically with what they did as Beatles, what point would that serve? They'd sell records I suppose, but would they still be recording artists? Would they be panned for repeating themselves? Would they be trashed by fans for not growing musically or finding their own voice as writers and musicans?

I find that McCartney unlike the others offers a much more varied listening pleasure over Lennon or Harrison and maybe many other artists. He takes chances others won't take. I know Lennon fans (me being a fan as well) might think I am pushing Macca over him, but remember, John places Yoko on his albums and thus there are songs that just need to be skipped. If Paul just recorded perfect songs all the time and not a varied texture, we could easily take out his greatest hits compilations. John Lennon arguably sounds the same in almost every album. The exceptions are Plastic Ono Band, (the sparsist of sounds with the simplest of instrumentation); Walls and Bridges, (the most produced sound to my ears); and the biggest exception, though I don't know what new ground he broke, would be Double Fantasy, which is really only half a John Lennon album given Yoko has every other track. So really it was an EP of Lennon unless you finish off those tracks with his tracks from Milk and Honey.

So when people trash Wild Life, keep in mind, it is not like any other album McCartney put together. Very few of Paul's albums can be linked by a common sound. Even now you can't place Flaming Pie with Off the Ground or Flowers in the Dirt. He keeps trying to give you something new and different to listen to as part of the soundtrack of your life. For me, I like all of it with some rare exceptions when I just am not in the mood for that particular sound at a given time. But you can almost dismiss whole albums by John like Sometime in New York City or even Rock and Roll which has less than inspired renditions (see Beatles at the BBC or McCartney Unplugged or Choba B CCCP) of old rock songs he liked. Not that I don't like it, but was it really his best when he was admittedly drunk much of that time when recording it?

Wild Life...give it a listen and maybe even listen on a summer's day while driving to a vacation destination or a pleasure drive with the windows down and the wind rustling in your hair to tunes like Mumbo blaring out your speakers. It's a fun album with soulful feel thanks to songs like Bip Bop and Dear Friend as well as thought provoking tracks like Wild Life itself. Since I didn't discover much of these albums from any of the band until after they had been out there a while (I was born in 1965 and really didn't "discover" the Beatles solo work outside of Band on the Run until 1978 when I bought a yard sale copy of London Town and got hooked for life to such a rich tapestry of musical sounds provided by these wonderfully talented artists, John, Paul, George and of course the ever fun Ringo...check out his Christmas CD if you just want a fun CD to hear start to finish at the Holiday season.

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Description of Wings Wild Life

Digitally remastered Japanese reissue of his 1971 debut with Wings in a miniaturized LP sleeve limited to the initial pressing only. 10 tracks (though the back cover art only lists eight). 1999 release.

Rich, successful, happily married, and absurdly talented, Paul McCartney had nothing to do, so he recorded Wild Life. That would explain the frippery for which this curious record has long been ridiculed, but it's a perspective that does Wild Life--recorded in a couple of days--a disservice. In every sense it's the work of a still-young man still reeling from the '60s, unsure what to do with himself, in a still-young decade that had the same problem. Once past the thumbs-up inanity of "Bip Bop," much of it is great--like the title track, an ominous, slow-mo blues, showcasing a throat-shredding McCartney vocal and a genuine sense of doom, and the bleak and wistful "Tomorrow." Best is "Dear Friend," a red-raw ballad that throws long shadows over the rest of the album, with McCartney singing of his crushed friendship with John Lennon. --Taylor Parkes

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