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December 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Back To The Excellent: Wings’ Much Maligned But Brilliant Back To The Egg Album at 40

At some stage in the coming weeks or months or next year there will be a new reissue by Sir Paul of Macca – his often shat-on final Wings album, Back To The Egg is rumoured to be part of the next round in the ongoing reissue/reappraisal reviewing of the McCartney/Wings canon. It’s possibly my […]
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September 16, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Paul McCartney: Egypt Station

Paul McCartney Egypt Station Capitol Much as I liked NEW the, er, new Paul McCartney album of five years ago, his last studio solo album for a time, it hasn’t aged particularly well. Too many cooks spoiled that broth. But at least it showed the restless creative spirit that is Sir Paul McCartney, former Beatle, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Abbey Road, Album Review, Band On The Run, Beatles, Driving Rain, Egypt Station, Flaming Pie, Give My Regards To Broad Street, Macca, McCartney II, Memory Almost Full, New, Off The Ground, Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney: Egypt Station, Ram, Sir Paul McCartney, Solo, The Beatles, Wings, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Playlist: Paul on Drums – Big Macca Attack

“Ringo! The best drummer in the world? He’s not even”, so the famous quip goes, “the best drummer in The Beatles”. Attributed to John Lennon, it’s actually a clever piece of satire by the comedian Jasper Carrott. Not only is it the funniest thing he said it has a deadly accuracy – John Lennon might […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged "The White Album", Band On The Run, Big Macca Attack, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Drummer, Drumming, Drums, Foo Fighters, Jasper Carrott, John Lennon, Linda McCartney, Macca, McCartney, McCartney II, Paul, Paul McCartney, Paul on Drums, Paul on Drums – Big Macca Attack, Percussion, Playlist, Playlist: Paul on Drums, Playlist: Paul on Drums – Big Macca Attack, Ringo, Ringo Starr, Spotify, The Beatles, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Take Your Pick: Paul OR John

Every time I write anything about The Beatles someone tries to pull out the “overrated” card. It’s null/void here sorry, calling the Beatles overrated is just stupid. You might not personally enjoy their music – or maybe you’ve just not heard very much of it (I don’t know you and already I feel sorry for […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Double Fantasy, Gimme Some Truth, John Lennon, Just Like Starting Over, McCartney, McCartney II, Paul McCartney, Paul OR John, Plastic Ono Band, Ram, Rock'n'Roll, Solo, Take Your Pick, Take Your Pick: Paul OR John, The Beatles, Wings ·

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October 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

McCartney II: Paul McCartney’s Solo Masterpiece

I was obsessed with the Paul McCartney album McCartney II when I was a youngster. My dad had the LP and told me how much he liked the song Waterfalls – telling me it “was as good as a Beatles song”. (His measure of its worth.) It is a remarkable song, so sparse, stripped back […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Archives, Best of Blog On The Tracks, Blog On The Tracks, Macca, McCartney II, McCartney II: Paul McCartney's Solo Masterpiece, Paul McCartney, The Beatles, Wings ·

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April 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Phil Collins: Face Value (Deluxe Edition)

Phil Collins Face Value (Deluxe Edition) – Take A Look At Me Now: Reissue Series Rhino Records/Warners I still think Face Value – here reissued, as part of a thoughtful career-overview/overhaul reissue campaign – is a classic album. I’m sure of it. I’ve always liked it. I’ve had a couple of goes at defending/appraising the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Blog On The Tracks, Brian Eno, Deluxe Edition, Droned, Drum Machine, Drums, Earth Wind & Fire, Eno, Face Value, Face Value (Deluxe Edition) – Take A Look At Me Now: Reissue Series, Genesis, Hand In Hand, Horns, I Missed Again, If Leaving Me Is Easy, In The Air Tonight, McCartney II, Motown, My Life In The Bush of Ghosts, Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Reissue, Soul, Stuff.co.nz, Take A Look At Me Now, The Beatles, The Roof Is Leaking, The Vinyl Countdown, This Must Be Love, Tomorrow Never Knows ·

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January 18, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Paul McCartney & Wings: Venus and Mars (Reissue)

Paul McCartney & Wings Venus and Mars (Reissue) Hear Music/Universal I wasn’t ever that much of a fan of Venus and Mars – not even sure why, can only put it down to not listening to it as much as the other McCartney/Wings releases. I knew the singles. Knew about it – in fact I’ve […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Band On The Run, Macca, McCartney II, Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney & Wings, The Beatles, Wings, Wings At The Speed Of Sound ·

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August 11, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Dan Croll: Sweet Disarray

Dan Croll Sweet Disarray CMG This Dan Croll is a clever chap. Here he basically one-man-bands it through a version of McCartney II if the lads from Vampire Weekend were overseeing/reimagining it. But as much as he’s the wilful experimentalist he also has super-sharp pop instincts. And a song like Can You Hear Me could […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Arcade Fire, Dan Croll, Dirty Projectors, Imagine Dragons, McCartney II, Paul McCartney, Sweet Disarray, Vampire Weekend ·

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August 19, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1304

Wings, Wild Life (1971) The debut album by Wings arrived swiftly around/after McCartney and Ram and so Paul McCartney was pumping out the music post-Beatles. Not all of it good, but most of it seemed to be unfairly maligned at the time. I don’t have a huge history with Wild Life – my dad didn’t […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1971, Back To The Egg, Dear Friend, John Lennon, Linda McCartney, McCartney, McCartney II, Paul McCartney, Ram, The Beatles, Vinyl, Wild Life, Wings ·

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October 29, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1786

Lindsey Buckingham, Law & Order (1981) What a time for Lindsey Buckingham – the early 1980s. An amazing run really – following his masterpiece, Tusk (almost a solo album) with this; his first official solo album – and then there was that movie soundtrack song and another Fleetwood Mac album which contained this gem among […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Face Value, Fleetwood Mac, Genius, Gift Of Screws, Gypsy, Holiday Road, Law & Order, Lindsey Buckingham, McCartney II, Mick Fleetwood, Mirage, Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Seeds We Sow, Trouble, Tusk, Vacation, Vinyl ·

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October 9, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1817

Paul McCartney, McCartney (1970) Did Paul McCartney invent the concept of the one-man-band? No, but this charming wee bedsit folk-pop/rock album was clearly pretty influential in its own homespun way. And it’s also criminally underrepresented by McCartney whenever he plays live and by the compilers of Macca hit collections. This is the problem with McCartney’s […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Blog On The Tracks, John Lennon, Maybe I'm Amazed, McCartney, McCartney II, Moma Miss America, No More Lonely Nights, Paul McCartney, The Beatles, Vinyl ·

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May 26, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1987

  Paul McCartney, McCartney II (1980) I gave this album the full track-by-track over at my other blog just recently. So I won’t repeat a lot of that. This album used to fascinate me when I was young – when it was released. It’s due to this, Ram and Band On The Run – and later […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Back To The Egg, Band On The Run, Coming Up, Darkroom, John Lennon, McCartney II, Paul McCartney, Ram, The Beatles ·

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