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Ahhh Girl said

Into the Sky with Diamonds said

“Hope of Deliverance” is seriously under-rated – apparently by its author too.

I think anyone whose been in deep trouble can relate to this song.

I was just listening to that song Monday morning and had a very similar thought…what darkness surrounds our BB forum members?

The normal kind, its nighttime and soon i’ll turn out the lights (Ringo was right: i cant tell you what I see but I know its mine).

My ‘Pure McCartney’ which no doubt will have everyone scratching their heads wondering why one song is excluded when another is included. Some I wouldn’t have included if this was all my favourites but as a career retrospective I felt they had to be (so for instance ‘Jet ‘ ‘Ebony And Ivory ‘ and ‘Say Say Say’ are here despite me not liking them), even so its not a matter of collecting every a-side Paul’s released.

• Written by and featuring Paul on at least co-vocals (so no ‘Medicine Jar’ for example).
• Studio recordings (so no live ‘Coming Up ‘ despite it reaching #1 in the US, no ‘Soilly’ from ‘Wings Over America ‘).
• Where possible every commercial album is represented by at least one track (‘Choba B CCCP ‘ was all covers sadly).
• No classical or highly experimental (‘Standing Stone ‘ ‘Rushes’, ‘Liverpool Sound Collage ‘) tho ‘Electrical Arguements’ appears.
• No material that was originally from the Beatle era (one major flaw on the George compilation album ‘Let It Roll’ is the inclusion of ‘Something ‘ etc when there was ample strong material available from the solo years).
• No edits.
• Each album has to fit on a CD (the Beatles ‘1’ was 79:08).

Additionally I’ve tried to limit the number of tracks that already appeared on ‘Wingspan’ as there is no point on duplicating almost all of that again so some numbers that probably should be here are gone (‘Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five’, ‘Daytime Nighttime Sufferer’). Plus I’ve tried to give Paul his balls back as they appear to have been removed on the forthcoming official box set (‘Bip Bop’, ‘Junk’ ‘Girlfriend’ again ). It’s [hopefully chronological] and I am open to suggestions for replacements and/or additions, especially For the ‘Memory Almost Full ‘ and ‘Driving Rain ‘ albums which I dont like and rarely listen to so find hard to figure out which are the better, more important tracks. Ideally after this there would be a box set of live tracks, demo’s, outtakes, rarities hot on its heels.

CD 1 1970 -> 1974 (78:51)

1. The Lovely Linda
2. Maybe I’m Amazed
3. Another Day
4. Too Many People
5. Dear Boy
6. Uncle Albert /Admiral Halsey
7. Monkberry Moon Delight
8. I Am Your Singer
9. Dear Friend
10. Give Ireland Back To The Irish
11. Hi Hi Hi
12. C Moon
13. My Love
14. Little Lamb Dragonfly
15. Live And Let Die
16. Helen Wheels
17. Band On The Run
18. Jet
19. Mrs. Vandebilt
20. No Words

CD 2 1974 -> 1979 (77:52)

1. Junior’s Farm
2. Listen To What The Man Said
3. Love In Song
4. Letting Go
5. Call Me Back Again
6. Let ‘Em In
7. Beware My Love
8. Silly Love Songs
9. San Ferry Anne
10. Mull Of Kintyre
11. Girls’ School
12. With A Little Luck
13. I’ve Had Enough
14. Deliver Your Children
15. Goodnight Tonight
16. Old Siam, Sir
17. Arrow Through Me
18. Baby’s Request

CD 3 1980 -> 1993 (76:05)

1. Coming Up
2. Temporary Secretary
3. One Of These Days
4. Ebony And Ivory
5. Here Today
6. Ballroom Dancing
7. Wanderlust
8. Say Say Say
9. Pipes Of Peace
10. We All Stand Together
11. No More Lonely Nights (Ballad)
12. Stranglehold
13. Angry
14. Once Upon A Long Ago (4:30 Version)
15. My Brave Face
16. Put It There
17. This One
18. Hope Of Deliverance
19. The Lovers That Never Were
20. C’mon People

CD 4 1997 -> 2016 (78:52)

1. Young Boy
2. The World Tonight
3. Somedays
4. Flaming Pie
5. Beautiful Night
6. Run Devil Run
7. Lonely Road
8. From A Lover To A Friend
9. Fine Line
10. Jenny Wren
11. Friends To Go
12. English Tea
13. Dance Tonight
14. Only Mama Knows
15. That Was Me
16. Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight
17. Sing The Changes
18. My Valentine
19. Save Us
20. Early Days
21. Appreciate
22. Cut Me Some Slack

Notes

CD 1

‘The Lovely Linda ‘ – its the first song Paul put down for his post-Beatles career plus Linda overshadowed everything Paul did until her death in 1997. He wasn’t ashamed then and he shouldnt be ashamed now despite it not being anywhere near the strongest track.

‘Too Many People ‘ and ‘Dear Friend’ pretty much open and close the Paul v John feud on Paul’s side of recorded music here both appearing.

‘Dear Boy ‘ was Paul’s  to Linda’s ex.

‘Monkberry Moon Delight ‘ was a track John liked and the vocals are incredible.

‘I am Your Singer’ is one of the very few Paul and Linda duets.

‘Little Lamb Butterfly’ is pure Wings with the harmonies and its a highlight of ‘Red Rose Speedway ‘.

Omitted due to time reasons and/or on ‘Wingspan’: ‘Every Night ‘, ,Tomorrow’, ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’, ‘Nineteen Hundred And Eight-Five’, ‘Big Barn Bed’.

CD2 

Omitted due to time reasons and/or on ‘Wingspan’: ‘Venus And Mars ‘, ‘Rock Show’, ‘Sally G’, ‘Cafe On The Left Bank’.

CD3

‘Temporary Secretary ‘ Paul is now doing live so must have some fondness for it. ‘Waterfalls’ is the obvious choice but it’s on ‘Wingspan’.

time reasons and/or on ‘Wingspan’: ‘Waterfalls’, ‘Press’, ‘Talk More Talk’, ‘Stranglehold’, ‘Spies Like Us’, ‘Figure of Eight’.

CD 4

Omitted due to not being on lead vocals: ‘FourFiveSeconds’. Would have been nice as it brings Paul’s collaborations with modern artists up to date.

It somehow comes to a nice 80 tracks and over 5 hours.  Says so much that a lot more could be included.