Wings - Wild Life
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Artist: WingsBrand: WINGS
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1993-06-08
Music Label: EMI Europe Generic
Soundtracks:
- Mumbo
- Bip Bop
- Love Is Strange
- Wild Life
- Some People Never Know
- I Am Your Singer
- Bip Bop Link
- Tomorrow
- Dear Friend
- Mumbo Link
- Give Ireland Back to the Irish [*]
- Mary Had a Little Lamb [*]
- Little Woman Love [*]
- Mama's Little Girl [*]
Music reviews of Wild Life
Music Review: One of the Best LPs of All Time
Rating: 5 Stars
If this album sounds quick and sloppy, that's not such a bad thing. This is a vibe that comes from playing a lot of the tracks live, giving it harmonic colouring, warmth of tone, and presense. When studio effects such as splicing and overdubbing are over done, the music sounds artificial. In McCartney's first three LPs, are his best post-Beatle song writing. This LP has great song writing, guitar playing, and singing, and it's one of the best LPs of all time.
If you check out Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955-2001, or the data at the RIAA website, you'll see that this LP was relatively unsuccessful commercially. This was not due to the music, but to the failure of the marketing. The cover photo and amatuerish artwork (by McCartney), conveyed a sense of sloppyness to the consumers, who invariably judge a book buy the cover. They were probably puzzled about its having only eight cuts. Also, it was released way too soon after Ram.
Description of Wild Life
Digitally Remastered Version of the Album with Bip Bop / Love is Strange / Dear Friend plus Four Bonus Tracks Added: Give Ireland Back to the Irish / Mary Had a Little Lamb / Little Woman Love / Mama's Little Girl.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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