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Duke_of_Kirkcaldy said

Wigwam said
For different reasons ‘Nasty’ and ‘Mean’….just sound mean and nasty……So negative.
I’m excited by both new releases….Thought I’d pop my head back in the Beatles room and imbibe in the shared joy…Sheesh how things have changed here! 

Indeed, I assumed most people here were McCartney completists and would buy the album regardless (I’ll be buying it digitally; I haven’t bought a physical album in over 6 years now). It’s particularly puzzling since I’ve felt Paul has stepped up his game since Flaming Pie and think every album he’s released since then (except maybe Driving Rain — and his covers albums don’t count) is at least generally better overall than any of his ’80s output. Different strokes, I guess.  

I don’t believe in love-ins, i dont believe this forum should consist of only positives, the negatives are required too so it’s balanced and folk can be honest about how they feel and what they think when expressing themselves. As long as it’s not aimed at individuals or breaks a rule then let the people speak.

I had typed a reply about Carpool but here is not the place to submit and my thoughts do not fit in with those expressed by others on the forum. 

Going back to the album itself. Wogblog has a list of the formats that ‘Egypt Station’ will be available thru

(note: all the information below is from Wogblog, formatting when inserted in quotes ruins the layout and makes it look weird.)

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Okay, so we promised a breakdown of the full array of editions of the album, here goes:

• An album with 16 tracks as download
• 140 gram black double vinyl, single jacket with 16 tracks (14 songs + 2 interludes)
• Same on coloured double vinyl 
• Same from Barnes & Noble on coloured double vinyl, likely a unique colour to this store
• From Spotify and other stream providers 
• 180 gram black deluxe double vinyl unique tri-gatefold packaging with 16 tracks
• Same, on coloured double vinyl
• CD with 16 tracks
• CD with 18 tracks, but only from physical stores
• Target (USA) / HMV (UK) edition with two extra tracks
• Luxury boxed set with 26 tracks and various ephemera (Coming in October)
• And when that one sells out, expect a re-release without the ephemera

Oh, and we guess there’s going to be high resolution files from select download providers and probably shm-cds in Japan. Actually, when it comes to vinyl, we have previously found that the 140 gram British pressings from the sixties of Beatles albums surpass the deluxe 180 gram albums of late, in fidelity and resistance of crackling.

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Greg Kurstin on working with Paul McCartney http://ultimateclassicrock.com…..kurstin-2/

Greg Kurstin, who produced Paul McCartney ’s upcoming album Egypt Station, revealed how he tackled the challenge of telling the Beatles icon to change his songs.

Kurstin – a lifelong Beatles fan – spent two years working on the record with McCartney and his band in Los Angeles, Sussex in England and London’s Abbey Road Studios.

Responding to the observation that “It must have been odd telling a Beatle how to improve a song,” the producer told Rolling Stone, “It was. It is strange, but I know that’s what he really wants from me. I just have to take a breath and say it. Sometimes it might not go over very well, but he was always really cool.”

Kurstin recalled “a couple of times where I might have suggested something that might have been challenging.” “I can’t remember specifically, but I remember him just sort of carrying on, and I’m wondering, ‘Did he hear me?’” he said. “Then maybe half an hour would go by and I’d say, ‘Hey, Paul, what about that idea I mentioned a little while ago?’ He said, ‘Oh, I heard you. I was just pretending to ignore you.’ We’d just laugh about it. Then sometimes two days later he’d try the idea, and I’d be like, ‘Wow, okay.’ I thought I failed miserably with the idea, but he came back to it and really tried. I think he’s always listening, always absorbing.”

The producer noted that McCartney recorded more than just bass and vocals in the studio. “His touring band is on the album, but I’d say a lot of it is him playing a lot of the instruments,” he said. “He’s a great drummer. He played a lot of the drums on the record. … There was a lot of time where it was just me, Paul and the engineers in the studio, and I would occasionally play here or there. The bass, obviously, is pretty much all Paul. He also played piano a lot of the times and sometimes guitar. There’s a few songs that have his band and there’s a lot where Paul is playing most of the instruments.”

One of Kurstin’s favorite memories is the experience of working in Abbey Road . “I mean, it was amazing,” he said. “He’d tell stories and you could visualize him and John [Lennon] and the band there as kids. … He told countless stories about the echo chamber. He said he’d hide out there with John, kind of giggling and laughing when there would be another session in another studio. If you soloed any of those tracks, you’d probably hear them laughing.

“There were also lots of stories about the console. There’d be a setting for classical and a setting for pop. They’d have the switch set to pop when the Beatles recorded and John and Paul would be like, “Why do they get classical? What do they do that we don’t?” They thought they were getting short-changed or something.”

I’m not sure what to make of this story. I’m conflicted.

Paul McCartney chose concept album over hits collection

No conflict over the picture though. Ahhhhhem…

The Titanic – despite repeated warnings – lol

Anyone else think this song might be about The Beatles/John?

^Why the beetle?