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- From: djs@sadtler.com
- Subject: Off The Ground Preview
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.193242.19993@sadtler.com>
- Organization: BIO-RAD Laboratories
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:32:42 GMT
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- Ok, so here is a very simple review of Maccas new album. I have it on
- cassette and rumor has it that it was recorded at a listening party in NYC
- a couple of weeks ago. The quality is not that great because they played the
- music over a sound system and someone with a tape player recorded it
- near one of the speakers. This means that the tape has alot of hiss, is in
- mono and sometimes you can hear people talking and laughing in the backround!
- Obviously they are not there to hear the music, but rather to be seen.
- With that said, the tape does capture the entire album and it is listenable
- if you keep in mind the recording conditions .
-
-
- OFF THE GROUND
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-
- Approx
- Song
- Length Title Very Brief Synopsis
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-
- 3:30 Off The Ground Above average song. Kind of catchy, but not
- terrific. Has a background chorus that
- sounds like Linda is present!
-
- 2:51 Looking For Changes Would have been my pick for the first
- single. This song is fast paced and Macca
- even howls like a coyote at one point -
- "Ow Ow Owwwwwwww!!!!!". Great song.
-
- 3:30 Hope Of Deliverance The first single. It is not much like any
- other song on the album. It is very much
- Macca reggae / quasi funky tune. ( Macca
- reggae, not REAL reggae.) Poor choice for
- the first single. Above average.
-
- 3:20 Mistress & Maid This is a McCartney-Mac Manus song.
- Definately from the Flowers In The Dirt
- sessions. And it has the flavor of "You Want
- Her Too". A strong Mac Manus influenced song.
-
- 4:50 I Owe It All To You A Slow song but not a ballad. If they make a
- video for this song it will be in heavy
- rotation on VH-1. One of my favorites on
- this album.
-
- 3:30 Biker Like An Icon A faster paced song than all of the previous
- songs except Looking For Changes, but it
- does not really rock. mediocre.
- 4:50 Peace In The
- Neighborhood A Mid-tempo, average, Macca song.
-
- 4:05 Golden Earth Girl This song opens with a piano piece that is
- similar to the opening of Maybe I'm Amazed.
- It is the first real ballad on the album.
-
- 3:40 The Lovers That
- Never Were The 2nd McCartney-Mac Manus song on the
- album. It sounds like it too.
-
- 3:35 Get Out Of My Way This is an upbeat tempo song. This would
- be my choice for the 2nd single release.
- This song could be great in concert.
-
- 5:30 Wine Dark Open Sea I was told this is the title of the song but
- it might be incorrect, it could be titled
- Wide Dark Open Sea. It is a slow song but
- again, it is not a ballad. Above average.
-
- 5:40 C'mon People This is another slow song, good for closing
- out the album. Not particulary exciting.
-
-
-
-
- So that is it. Interesting enough, "Cosmically Conscious" did not show up,
- or if it did then it was buried somewhere in between songs. The current
- press releases say that this album really rocks, but I don't believe it
- even comes close. It is a good album but it is not a great album. Macca
- fans will like it alot, but I do not believe that it will bring over many new
- listeners. There is here nothing as catchy/pop as My Brave Face. Only
- two songs, Looking For Changes and Get Out Of My Way are true rockers, the
- rest are either mid tempo or slower. I do not feel that this album will sell
- very well. It will probable sell as much as Flowers In The Dirt. The album
- sounds like a mixture of Press To Play and Flowers In The Dirt, which is not
- surprising. It does NOT sound like Back To The Egg.
-
- Although I have not heard the song Big Boys Bickering, which will be a b-side
- to Hope Of Deliverance, a friend of mine has heard it and Macca says the word
- "fuck" over twenty times during the song. Sounds like a great song for a
- single :-). The song might be about his feelings toward the British
- Parliment (sp?). Who knows.
-
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- D. Sears Email: djs@sadtler.com
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