Glad to be here Beatley Tone and your new series on McCartney and his solo career so much to cover Paul has so much variety i just love all Paul's songs except one Freedom it's to week and no good blazing rock guitar Freedom songs are more in john lennon's qualifications and Paul's love in song is awsome! Nice your doing some Paul deep cuts diffinatly Soily is a good deep cut just love it! Junior's farm good be a deep cut possibility If Paul wants to rock out he can do with the best of them! The song To You is a true deep cut and one of his best Great series Tone! Happy New Year to all! Beatley Tone just a thought Paul needs to play the song To You live in concert this is a killer track!!!
I have always loved Love In Song. What a gorgeous melody & I always get shivers down my spine when singing along to it. The production & arrangement, along with the lyrics and that melody. Gorgeous.
Hi Tony! Thanks for a very enjoyable video! There are many hidden treasures on Paul McCartney's solo and Wings albums. Single Pigeon, Cafe On the Left Bank and Dear Friend are among my deep cut favourites. I have enclosed the Wings setlist from Oslo August 9th 1972. Here you will find both Mumbo and Soily. This was my first rock concert. An unforgettable experience! Ivar Eat At Home Smile Away Bip Bop Mumbo Give Ireland Back To The Irish 1882 I Would Only Smile (Denny Laine) Blue Moon Of Kentucky The Mess Best Friend Soily I Am Your Singer Henry’s Blues (Henry McCullough) Say You Don’t Mind (Denny Laine) Seaside Woman (Linda McCartney) Wild Life My Love Mary Had A Little Lamb Maybe I’m Amazed Hi Hi Hi Long Tall Sally
What a fantastic set list Ivar and an amazing first gig experience . I think maybe the only song that you didnt get that was on that tour was Big Barn Bed otherwise pretty much the same set list as the tour.Thanks for sharing and im glad you enjoyed the video
I have always been abashed that more people don’t like or mention “Love in Song.” I once heard someone deride it as a typical McCartney lovey-dovey song, when it is actually a bit more mysterioso than that, with some very evocative lyrics that are not blandly straightforward. Absolutely one of my favorite Macca creations.
Hey. I've warmed up to Wildlife, but only listen to it once in awhile. Unlike Ram or BOTR I can listen to several times. It's so good to be a fan of the solo Beatles -Tone!!
The Note You Never Wrote is probably the best composition on the whole Wings At The Speed Of Sound album. So refined, so wonderfully arranged. Perfect pick
I probably would go that far personally but everyone has choice etc but it is a song that I have always thought is excellent and unfairly overlooked - maybe because Denny sings rather than Paul, I dunno. Glad you really like it too
Completely agree on it being the best song on the album. Denny did a great vocal but I sure wish there were a version somewhere with Paul singing it. I also think San Ferry Anne is a hidden gem on that album
I ditto you on the hidden gems, bought and listened to Wings upon release and played a lot. Genius crafted Single Pigeon. big rock Mambo, my friend and I just talked recently about Love in Song, I used to get chills on the chorus, Venus and Mars is the best album. my wife and I just fell in love with The Note you Never Wrote, well crafted song and the bottle on the waves is effective. Good words about Soily, , I love Cafe on the Left Bank as the deep cut on London Town, I never liked To You song, like you, but it's great now, I appreciate you expressing great tracks ! Thanks !
Hi Tonei think the whole of wildlife is one big deep cut its so overlooked but ilove it im gonna go for the title track i think pauls vocals on this album are great on red rose ilove one more kiss get on the right thing and yes single pigeon is lovely this is a great album one of my faves on venus and mars my deep cut would be call me back again again pauls vocals are brill and this song rocks a great album speed of sound warm and beautiful and shes my baby are a couple of gems the latter maybe a throwaway but i like it and thats all that matters london town id go for im carrying lovely song maybe ive had enough dont let it bring you down as for back to the egg arrow through me love awake winter rose luvly stuff pauls best stuff was the 70s in my humble opinion anther great video tone keep well and happy new year
Hi Timothy, yes I said that pretty much the whole of the Wild Life album can be treated as a deep cut. . Also really love Call me Back Again which will feature in another video later in the series. Some nice picks here an watch out for Deep Cuts part 2 as one of your picks will be featured in that video. Glad you enjoyed the video and Happy New Year too you too mate
Thanks mate. I always enjoy the thoughtful way that you pick a topic & structure your conversational message. GAZ (Melbourne/Australia) PS I have a funny pesonal memory about Red Rose Speedway.. I was about 13 years of age in 1974 & was starting to really get into the Beatles & anything solo. I rode my pushbike down to my local record store. I came across Red Rose Speedway & was intrigued by the cover/artwork. On my way home having bought the record & trying to ride my bike & carry it, simultaneously, I hit a bump & went over the handlebars of my bike. But somehow I managed to fall off without damaging the record. I played it when I got home & was spellbound by the sound of it all. I still have the LP & still enjoy thinking about that story whenever I play it. All the best.
Happy New Year Gaz, Seems like we are the same age - I was also 13 in 74. Isn't it funny how we can forget so much but memories that are associated with buying records seem to stick forever. That is the power of pop music. thanks for sharing your story - always great to hear this sort of thing from other fans
Im of a similar vintage as well, slightly younger born in 62...my brother was a little older than me and worked in the local record shop so brought home stacks of albums and singles...so i was always discovering new albums...i used to play Venus and mars and Band on the run religiously not really taking notice of who the group or singers were at the time...became a Beatles fan october ish 1980...Obviously 2 months late what happened and i then started this obsession with listening to collecting all and reading up on this great band...So when id finished buying up Beatles albums i started on the solo...too my surprise id got 2 of Maccas already...apologies for my punctuation & grandma 😊
Happy New Year Tone, Mrs BT and viewers. Another great video and 100% agree on Love in Song and Note You Never Wrote, always wanted the guitar solo to go on longer. Like you, Wings Over America was my first album I bought which got me into Wings, looks like I made a great choice. Lonely People off Venus and Mars another favourite but depending on which mood we are in, there's always a Macca song to suit. Looking forward to next video.
Happy New year to you and yours Steve. Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing your thoughts. More to come on Lonely old people in part 2 of the deep cuts video
Great choices Tone! And some that make this Macca Geek scratch my head! But we'll sort all that out soon! Looking forward to Episode 2 mate! "Do you need a pal for a minute or two"? Nice one! Andy
Thanks very much Andy, glad you enjoyed it. Yes maybe some head-scratchers here but that's half the fun. We're all Macca geeks and scratching our heads at vary velocities 😂Looking forward to chewing over the fat with you. Maybe do it after part 2 has dropped?
Hello Tone, I enjoyed the video as always. I am looking forward to hearing which McCartney songs you can't stand, as I have a number of those too. Many of my favorite McCartney deep cuts are the B-sides to his singles, such as Sally G, Country Dreamer, Ode to a Koala Bear, and Rainclouds. Here are my favourite deep tracks from the Wings albums: Wild Life: Tomorrow Red Rose Spreedway: Only One More Kiss Venus and Mars: Call Me Back Again Wings at the Speed of Sound: Must Do Something About It (Joe English sings it very well) London Town: Café on the Left Bank Back to the Egg: Baby's Request
I've always thought that Must Do Something About it was a marvellous track and very well sung by Joe. To me, it sounds like The Eagles, and that is high praise. Definitely an under-rated gem.
Hi Seamus , glad you enjoyed the video and are looking forward to some of the other videos in the series . Nice picks I also love Call me Back Again, Must DIO Something and Cafe
Happy New Year to you and Mrs Beatley Tone! GREAT VIDEO! A very cool new series ! You have a great variety of video topics! Year 2025 is starting with a BANG ! And we thank you!
Thank you so much for doing this video series- it’s so great to see people loving Paul’s solo work as opposed to dismissing it- and I like mumbo as well- just think if he refined the lyrics more it could have been a hit- but Paul tends to follow his muse and not overthink words even if his arrangements are unbelievably good (example magneto and titanium man has a backing that stands up to just about anything by anyone in the 70s)
Thanks very much Shawn, glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing your thoughts. Im hoping this series is going to highlight that there are great things in every decade of paul's solo career
Love your choices Tony. Love in song is a under rated ballad. Famous Groupies is a gem. Also To You is one of my favourite tracks from Back to the Egg. Looking forward to Part 2.
Greetings Beatley Tone a happy new year to you and your family, a great video as always a great idea for a series on Deepcuts, I'm looking forward to the up and coming projects take care of yourself. Regards Sean
Hi Tone. Happy NY to you and yours. Video was grest and looking forward to next installment. With you completely on Love in Song and Single Pigeon...both beautiful pieces. Have listened to recent shms and all terrific...Strangely enough, the stand out is Thrillington...i know, but it sounds bloody marvellous .
Happy New year Jim, Glad you enjoyed the video. Glad you are enjoying the SHMs/ UDiuscover music in the US were selling these half price up until 6th January so $12 each. I was tempted but didnt pull the trigger in time
"Soily people!" (Are we!) yes indeed! What a great song! And i've always been a big fan of 'The note you never wrote' understated, atmospheric and a really good song. Cool picks man.... 'Famous groupies' has grown on me so much through the years - "Those magnificent examples of female pulchritude and luminosity" - brilliant!
Hi Tone , Great idea to start off 2025 With the solo stuff including wings & Paul McCartney . I look forward to the rest of the series to come , I love the Album wings wild life , it’s a daft album yes , but it does have some good songs on it , I also like Mumbo , red rose speedway , that album gets my vote , great album , great arrangements , and also great songs , I love also single pigeon , I love the the story about how single pigeon came about , the lyrics are brilliant . I agree with you about love in song from venues & mars it’s a beautiful song from start to finish. Anyway I look forward to the rest of the series .
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel sorry Tone , I totally forgot to wish you and mrs Beatley a very happy new year , I hope. 2025 is a good beatley year & that includes solo stuff as well 👍
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel I’m in cloud cuckoo land today . But thanks for a very interesting video & I’m looking forward to the next one in the series & also ones which are not connected with the series . 👍
Firstly Tone, Happy New Year mate.I hope you and yours are doing well, and looking forward to a more healthy 2025.That goes for everyone.I honestly was ready to pass on this video, and would have, had been anyone else, but so glad I didn’t. I have few Macca solo albums, and so the deep cuts as you described them was a nice introduction, and in some cases re introduction to some tracks.The first one did not melt my butter, but a few of the ballads did.Especially the one that Denny L sang on.As for “Soily” always like that one.Has great energy, and for me would just a great opener or closer to any live show.I do like the live version on OHC but yes this one has added spice with it’s long intro for sure.Look forward now to part two, and rediscovering some more Macca gems.Stay well. P.S. glad to hear you back playing again.Music can be such a healer.
Happy new year to you too Mac. Well im glad you didnt give this one the swerve and enjoyed it. I hope this series will re-introduce to some great stuff
I don't get the concept of To You being the only song "exclusive" of Back To The Egg. What do you mean? That it wasn't released on a single? In case both Love In Song and Soily have been released as B-sides as well. For me Back To The Egg is a treasure trove of deep cuts, as is London Town
Well as I mentioned in the video a lot of the songs (6) have been played live, there are 3 singles , I a double A side so these aren't really deep cuts for me. Some songs are throwaways like Reception and the Broadcast, some are half finished songs grouped together so although these are deep cuts not good enough for me to include here, Rochestra songs are not really Wings songs so it didnt give me a lot to play with. But look, if you love BTTE thats cool there are no wrong or right answers here just opinions.
Same Time Next Year is probably my favorite Wings song - it's up there with my favorite Paul songs, up there with Let It Be, Too Many People, Happy With You and On My Way to Work.
👍 think that was the first song the final wings line up worked on if im remembering right but for reasons stated in the video intro was excluded from the remit of this video. On My Way To Work is such a underrated gem Christopher
Welcome to 2025 Tone, hope you and Mrs Beatley have had a terrific Christmas and new year. I am looking forward to this Macca Project series and really enjoyed your discussion of the album deep cuts - after listening to it i immediately wanted to go and listen to Soily 😂. I reckon all of your choices are worthy, with the possible exception of Famous Groupies which could be my least favourite London Town track 🤨 My alternative choice would be a toss up between I’m Carrying and Don’t Let It Bring You Down (because apparently Im not supposed to mention Cafe on the Left Bank 😂) I might also have chosen So Glad To See You Here over To You from Egg. I know it’s not top shelf Macca but it’s catchy as hell and rocks nicely. No argument with Love In Song though, I agree 100% it is an underrated gem. Cheers mate.
Great to know that others have love for London Town too - it is in my top 3 Wings albums. I'm Carrying is beautiful and should be better known, but my deep cut from the album is Morse Moose and the Grey Goose (I wonder what video Tone will feature it in?) - there's an extended fan mix on YT that's well worth seeking out. Famous Groupies is a bit too seaside postcard for me.
Happy new year too you and yours Jason. Glad you enjoyed the video and are liking the way this mi ni series might shape up. I'm pretty excited about it especially now as I wasnt expecting this opening episode to be so well received so quickly. Im not sure Im counting So Glad as a bone fide Wings track. Yoiu'll be hearing from Cafe and Dont Let it Bring You Down later in the series
I think the chair banging on Mumbo is that splashing sound that you hear rhythmically along with the drums and tambourine. On Mumbo Link is maybe even more noticeable
Great video, I really enjoyed it. I also like "Love in Song" It got heavy air play here (As did almost every song from Venus & Mars") on FM radio back in 1975. I know you skipped any songs from "Band on the Run", but "No Words" is one for me. One of my favorites is "Get on the Right Thing" from Red Rose Speedway. Again, great vide I look forward to part 2.
Great video, love your choices and your enthusiasm for Wings. What a great band they were. Seven classic studio albums and a brilliant triple live album. Personally I love Back to the Egg, their final album. A truly under-appreciated album. Love In Song is one of my favourite McCartney tracks of all time. I first heard it as the B-side to the Listen To What the Man Said single. Btw you can make a case for Ram being the first Wings album as it featured 3/5ths of the initial Wings lineup - Paul, Linda and Denny Seiwell on drums.
Thanks very much Charles , glad you enjoyed the video. Ahh Ram as a Wings album is a bit of a stretch for me . But yes Wings great band in all their various guises
Happy New Year, Tone! Great idea for a video, and I have to agree with your choices. Mumbo played loud is totally awesome. My own deep cut choice from Wildlife would be Some People Never Know. It took me years to discover the album, as I was stupidly put off by the opinion of Carr and Tyler in their Beatles: An Illustrated Record book. I love Single Pigeon too, especially the Regent's Park Canal line, it's so London, almost Mary Poppins/Oliver like!
Happy new Year Dave, glad you enjoyed the video. I read An Illustrated Record cover to to cover so many times when I was first discovering all this music. loved the book, totally disagreed with the opinions once I got to hear the music ( wonder what they would have made of Driving Rain ! ) but Wild Life also took a long while to drop with me. Totally get the Mary Poppins thing - great shout
Interesting! Great posting, Tone! And very promising - what's to come. A bit long intro, but you know. Mumbo rocks alright. The note ... f fantastick track. And of course Soily. Our favourite, Helter Skelter oart 2. Famous Groupies was my favourite the first time I heard the album and it's still one of my favs. AND To You is THE main and best track off BTTE!! Thanks!
Yes I almost bored myself in the intro - I need to work on this but had to tell everyone about what was going to be included in the new series but glad you enjoyed the rest off the video anyway and agreed with most if the picks
Happy New Year, my Beatle brother! A little tidbit about Venus & Mars, it was the first Macca LP that I bought on day of release. BOtR was the first Macca solo LP that I bought, but it was about 3 months after day of release and it was already a hit by then. Soily....is just a flat out belter and was such a great song live on the Wings Over America tour. It might just be my absolute favorite Macca deep-cut, although Girls School was pretty close (but probably wouldn't fit into this list). Cheers mate!
Happy new Year Richard . Ahh Venus & Mars, my favourite Macca album. I think I picked that up in 1977 or 1978. London Town was the first I could buy as it came out
Happy New Year! And yes Santa 🧑🎄 did bring me Legacy Vol 2!! Only at the Nashville sessions but just a fantastic book! I love Mumbo ! Love your selections!
Ha Tone, you got me going on this one. I wouldn't change a word till Speed of sound. Perfectly said. My own choice ? Bip Bop (some people find it dull or heavy, how could they never know) / Single P (as dear to me as My Love) / Love In Song (THE gem) / Warm & / Soily (but it came out as a single) / Café / Arrow Anyway, you seem to be waiting for a decent Over America remix ? That was done in the Archive series (the most feeble effort in the series IMO), wasn't it ? Again, what a pleasure to hear & see you. More, more, more please...
Thanks very much Jean-Jacques, glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing your thoughts here. I teally love Bip Bop too and Cafe is in my top 10 Wings songs of all time. Yes i would really like to see a remix of WOA , the archive series is a remaster rather than a remix whichvis very different.,i believe there is a lot to come from WOA thatca remix would give us
Great song choices there………I love the deep cuts…….a lot of the much lesser know songs such as…………Suicide, Waterspout, Did We Meet Somewhere Before, Seems Like Old Times, Lindiana, Your School, Same Love…………Just to name a few…….. COYS
Thanks very much Alex, glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing your favourites although most of those fall outside of the remit for inclusion of this video. COYI 😂
A superb video Tone, love all your choices, especially Single Pigeon and Love In Song. A few of my faves are: I'm Carrying; We're Open Tonight (both of these have simple but beautiful guitar picking); Lonely Old People (which reminds me of when my parents were alive) Warm and Beautiful (which I still think is one of Macca's best ballads) and finally, Don't Let It Bring You Down (this could have been a Fairport Convention song). Happy New Year to you!
Thanks very much , glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing 'some others that got away'. Watch out for part 2 of the deep cuts video as a couple of your picks appear and for for the same reasons. Happy new year to you mate
Happy 2025 to you Tone! this is a great idea for a mini-series, and I'm already looking ahead to the next part. I've always loved "To You" myself, but I don't think there's any disputing "Soily" as my all-time favorite deep cut from the Wings era, for all the reasons you mentioned (the horn section, the thundering drums, and Macca's unreal vocals). Cheers!
I've always loved Single Pigeon. For me, the singer has been tossed out by his partner, sees a pigeon, and projects his own story on the bird. Would fit right in on Side 2 of the White Album. I agree on Love in Song, and nearly all of your choices. I'd go with Warm and Beautiful from Speed of Sound, with such unexpected chord changes, my personal favorite "Macca song that nobody knows about". Thanks again, and be well.
Looking forward to this 'project'. I'm currently reading The McCartney Legacy Volume 1 and am up to Wild Life at the moment, so this is timely. I will have a go at my deep cut choices but will wait for your second part before detailing them. Should be an entertaining series, so no need to apologise for straying off Beatle-centric subject matter. Keep up the good work.
Never could get past that 3 album run of Red Rose Speedway, Band On The Run and Venus and Mars..to me that was his peak and never bettered..I can understand your thoughts on Band On The Run but for me No Words has always been the track I like the most but not too many people rate that highly..takes me back to memories of going to work on a sunny day in a friends car as he had the cassette. Love it.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Peter. No Words would probably qualify as a deep cut and Im glad you have such strong memories of it. It probably wouldnt make my list of top deep cuts but we all have our own favourites which is what makes discussing all this stuff fun
Happy new year! Love all the songs mentioned. I would go with One More Kiss though I love Single Pigeon. Little Lamb Dragonfly has maybe been getting more recognition. I remember hearing Love In Song and Soily as their respective b-sides. Both great unappreciated songs. I love the visual in Rock Show at the end of Soily when Paul is singing the oh yeahs each one building up in excitement. Maybe I’m Carrying and Spin It On for the other two.
Hi Tone, Yes, Joe English is for me was Wings best drummer 🥁 👍 His drumming on Soily is sublime ! Also his incredible drumming during the Spirits Of Ancient Egypt solo has me for years trying to workout what he’s doing !!!
Superb drummer. On Spirits it sounds like lots of tom toms with maybe a click block in there somewhere. maybe played by Linda. Thanks for sharing your thoughts
Hi Tone A very Happy New Year to you and your loved ones. This is a great subject to make videos about. In my humble opinion, Wings Wild Life has only deep cuts, but quality deep cuts. I think it's a terrific album. Single Pigeon from Red Rose Speedway is a very good choice. It shows the McCartney magic.Writing a deep story, like Eleanor Rigby, and writing a superficial story about a pigeon.. Lyrics about nothing, but still a great story. Thanks to your video, I have to listen to Venus And Mars and Wings At The Speed Of Sound again. It's been quite a while since I listened to these albums. Soily........ I definitely agree with you. The only disadvantage is that these kinds of songs ruined Paul's voice. He recorded and played a lot of these songs live where he really " stretches" his vocal chords to the max like he did from early on with The Beatles. Famous Groupies ..... Yes, why not! I'm Carrying or Children, Children could have been good choices as well. Back To The Egg is my least favourite Wings album. I have owned the record for many years, but for me, all the songs on the album are deep cuts. But tonight, I'm gonna listen to Wild Life. In my opinion, a very underrated album. Tale care
Happy new Year Peke to you and yours. Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing your thoughts. BTTE my least favourite Wings album too. Enjoy your evening with Wild Life
Love all of Wildlife album.Has dated so well and i will always defend this record The Wild life song one of Paul's best ever vocal performances.Some people never know also brilliant.
Hi Tone, Great video as always - thank you. I will not give you any of my favourite deep cuts yet as I do not want to jump the gun on part 2. I totally agree with you on "Single Pigeon" (which is my favourite track on RRS) and "Love in Song" - both great songs. I differ with you on the others - especially "Mumbo" and I really really differ with you on "Famous Groupies" which I skip every time (even on vinyl) as I think that the humour sounds very forced and false - it's certainly no "You know my name (look up the number)". I see that you've missed out "One hand clapping" which is a shame as I love the version of "Give me a ring" on that album. I also think that there are some fantastic deep cuts on the b-sides of the Wings era singles - I defy anyone not to love "Daytime Nightime Suffering".
Thanks very much Wayne, glad you enjoyed the video. Try not to think of me missing things, more them not making my list of favourite deep cuts, but I appreciate you sharing you favourites here in the comments as this is always interesting to read other fans favourites .
Hi Tone. Great video, as always. Hate all the choices...my goodness... .lol...j/k ...hope you burst out laughing....love all the choices, btw. Mumbo helped me learn how to play guitar. It's a real rocker that is mostly overlooked by critics and fans alike. Basically, we could/will jam this tune out on acoustic one day in the future ..and it will be fun. Get on the right thing from RRS. Always loved this song. Call me back again - stupendous! a standout on album ....and great live song on wings over usa. Beware my love - You know its a fav rocker of mine. We have discussed before....and see below Beware my love - wings absolutely killed it live on wings over usa. Soily is a superb choice of course its just beware my love took on a much heavier sound live due to Jimmy Mac who seared and soared. Cuff link - much malign thrown this way upon release I always liked this riff song. Funky to a point, it's similar to Robin Trowers somebody's calling riff from 1977. Arrow through me - one of my favorite Paul songs from that era, probably should have been held back for macca 2 with goodnight and daytime nightime taking place on BTTE. Just a thought...an overlooked gem. In closing... you are getting rather famous and I know the masses replying make your job even more time consuming. Thanks as always!
Hi Russ, Happy New Year mate. Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing your deep cut choices. At some point in this series I'm going to be attempting a song ranking video for the 70s so a lot of my big-hitter deep cuts will feature in that and I want to have as little repetition as possible. so the deep cut videos are mainly here to highlight some forgotten gems or songs that dont get a lot of love from fans . Ive never been that crazy about arrow through me - I dont dislike it or anything but I do really like Cuff Link. Obviously Beware my love is going to make my top 20 70s songs. I wont say anymore because part 2 of the deep cuts still to come . Thanks as always for your contribution
Happy New Year Tone! Another great video. I too love Mumbo and always thought Single Pigeon would easily fit on the White Album (especially because of the brass). The Note You Never wrote has a great melody and atmosphere, but I think some of the lyrics are odd ‘ The Mayor of Baltimore’ And the ‘vote/qote’ rhyme is a bit dodgy. I’ve always loved Soily and I hope One Hand Clapping establishes it as a classic. A deep cut favourite of mine is Some People Never Know, love Paul and Linda’s harmonies and the lyrics make a beautiful ballad. This is a great idea for a series and I’m looking forward to your other choices. All the best!
Happy New Year Paul. Glad you enjoyed the video and the idea of this series. Some people Never Know is anther favourite of mine . Like I said in the video, I could pretty much pick any song from Wild Life as a deep cut.
Personally I think in recent years Back to The Egg has been promoted way above its pay grade and im not really sure why. Maybe an Archive release will help me love it more. But We're open tonight it certainly one of its better moments Paul
Happy New Year Tone. Great subject matter to start 2025! I never understood fans of any age that “turn off” the Beatles after 1970. Some of the best “Beatles music” was made after 1970 as solo artists!
I'm listening to Soily from Wings Over America now to refamiliarize myself with it. I've always liked it The riffs are cool. It's got great guitar, wah wah - Jimmy's the best and bass and the middle eight is cool. Very heavy song. Drumming is top tier for Wings. I can't understand the lyrics and I'm not looking them up. What drug did you say you thought influenced it, stimulants? Maybe. Are there overdubs or is it completely live? It's a real powerhouse song for sure. Is that the real crowd? They loved it. Now I'm refamiliarizing myself with To You. It's pretty good. No auto-tune for sure. Two guitar solos in one song. Laurence Juber is superb. The guitar has some sort of effect, almost sounds like twin guitars. Paul is doing a lot of yelling at lover that wronged him? It's refreshing to hear songs that are not part of the McCartney schlock. Who were they competing against on the charts: The Pretenders and the punk rock and new wave bands of the day? Paul, if I remember correctly, was a fan of Squeeze at the time. I bought Cool for Cats after reading about it in Rolling Stone or something, around this time. It's a great record of pop new wave. Very melodic and hooky.
Pretty much every live album has some sort of studio trickery added - how much on this one will be revealed in The McCartney Legacy Vol 2 but I havent got yet Rick, but I suspect very little - maybe some remixing? I love Squeeze and have have most of their albums and have lost count how many time I have seen them live . Some fantatsic Place is an album worth checking out. Thanks for sharing your thoughts
When I was in my early teens, in the little town in Iowa I grew up near, I was at the local pizza place with my best friend and his girlfriend (who hated me!) It was near closing time and I saw "Soily" was on the juke box. "Ya gotta hear this!", I told 'em. As soon as it started (even though he's a big Paul fan) they both looked at me like they had migraine headaches and could barely tolerate me. After about twenty seconds, the waitress -- who looked like she'd just had the most stressful day of her life, asked. "You don't mind if I turn this noise off, do you?" And before I could say anything she actually UNPLUGGED the juke box. Funny, I thought it was a pretty good song!
I do agree with you about “Mumbo@, and the entire album in turn, and for the same reason: the rough, off the cuff ambience. And there are standouts (IMHO); @Dear Friend”, “Tomorrow”, and the great cover “Love Is Strange.” So there… no arguments from this corner. Nice show…
It may be a little ambitious vocally for Paul to do Soily these days. Still, the best version on the live album is a monster, to be sure! Did McCartney ever sound more frantic?
Maybe, although on current form i teckon he could give it a good go, although nowhere near the levels of 76. Frantic is a very good description for his performance on WOA version
Some great picks. For me, from Wildlife, I like Some People Never Know, from Red Rose Speedway I’ve always enjoyed Only One More Kiss, I’m with you on Love In Song, from Speed Of Sound, it’ll be Must Do Something About It, Note You Never Wrote and Sanferry Anne, London Town, Backwards Traveller / Cufflinks and Don’t Let It Bring You Down, and well, to be honest ‘Egg’ is a deep cut in itself to all but firm Macca fans!!
It's OK to like Mumbo. I didn't like it at first, but after a few listens I like it. Not sure why, just like the sound of Paul's shouting voice which goes well with the music.
A ”worst tracks” listing by someone you respect is always painful to listen to. You end up feeling they just don’t appreciate songs in the way you do yourself. That being said, I’d love to hear someone trash Loup on Red Rose Speedway. Always thought that should have been left out, in favour of, say, Denny’s lovely I Would Only Smile. Deep cuts is a nice idea, helping people appreciate forgotten tracks more. I do love Mumbo too! It’s got a great melody, which may be a bit hard to pick up in the rough arrangement on Wild Life. Single Pidgeon is a gem of a tune. Soily is great of course. Famous Groupies not so much, haha - I would rather have picked Don’t Let It Bring You Down from London Town. Likewise I’d choose The Broadcast over To You from Back To The Egg. We have to disagree on at least something sometimes, Tone. 😄
Sure Anders we all have our favourites - I love Loup and cant abide The broadcast but yer know mate we all hear things differently and there are no right or wrong answers
I can't disagree with any of your picks. Love In Song and Famous Groupies are two of my most played Wings tunes. Some People Never Know, One More Kiss, Treat Her Gently/Lonely Old people, Must Do Something About It, Don't Let It Bring You Down and Spin It On would be some of my choices. I prefer the more garage band version of Soily from One Hand Clapping, but the WOA version is still amazing!
Glad you enjoyed the video James and for sharing some of your favourites . Stay tuned for part 2 of the deep cuts video as one of your picks is in there
Totally agree with "Love in Song" and "Note." "Some People" and "Dear Friend" are my Wildlife picks. There are boots of the 76 tour that actually sound MUCH better than the official WOA album. When I brought up the sound of this album on the Steve Hoffman Forum, Steve himself responded that when he heard the original tapes for WOA, they strangely had no midrange. I always wondered why it sounded so lifeless. The CD issues haven't really improved it much either. Fortunately, the audio on Rockshow is very good.
I agree the remastering of WOA hadn't really done much to improve it , in fact I still prefer the analogue original . I dont think its awful but a remix could do wonders for it Stephen
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel I'd love a good remix as well, but Hoffman said there isn't any midrange on the tapes to improve. There was nothing he could do to fix it. He thought it was really weird.
@@stephenrostkoski837 Does sound very weird as pretty much every instrument apart from bass and kick drum is part of the mid range somewhere on the spectrum
@@anthonygreen7063 Its a song that has been played live so didnt quite fit my criteria but to be honest its not one of my favourites so probably wouldnt make me list even if it did
“Famous Groupies” - another song I enjoy while others basically ignore it or run from it in horror. It’s a lot of fun… Is it silly and pointless. Yep… proudly so. Music can be “merely” entertaining. Good pick. Also, in addition to “pulchritude” we get “proscenium arch.”
I’d also add that famous groupies is a perfect example of how Paul can’t win- the people that ignore this one and knock Paul for being so “calculated” and then there’s the camp that knock Paul for releasing tossed off songs and not finishing them - I love famous groupies
I think you dismiss Back to the Egg to quickly. Almost every song on the entire album qualifies as a deep cut. 'Arrow Through Me' is a great jazzy number that goes over the top when the funky New Orleans horns kick in. "Spin it On' is a great rocker with its quickly delivered wordplay and almost punky attitude. 'Old Siam Sir' has Macca turning up the volume for a near metal-like effect only for the sheer fun of making loud music, despite the fact that the song is mediocre at best. 'After the Ball/Million Miles' and the other medley, 'Winter Rose/Love Awake' both have wonderful melodies and powerful performance and production. I don't think these were throaways; I think Paul really worked on this album but the arrest in Japan made him walk away from both the album and the band.
I never dismiss anything too quickly, everything gets considered thoroughly . I have done a full deep dive review of the album on the channel so it has been well considered. I saw 4 shows on the 1979 tour and 6 songs from the album were played live and in the video where I describe what I consider to be a deep cut - im looking from songs that only appear on their mother albums, havent been played live and were not singles. When you take out these , the thow away songs like the Broadcast which is not really a wings song, Rockestra songs which are also not Wings songs and minute long songs that are segued together which may well count as deep cuts but are not good enough to be included in my best deep cuts list it doesnt leave me much to play with. Basically BTTE has been elevated by fans to an album that is punching way above its pay grade and I cant cant work out why. however , there there are many many who like you thinks its a great album that is cool , there are not any right or wrong answers here just opinions
Any song on an album is a deep cut if you treat all the songs the same. How about a return to 'album tracks'? That is the what they all are after all and how more inclusive can that be?
Yes, nonsense. Look at all those Beatles deep cuts: Here Comes The Sun, Girl, Eight Days A Week, Twist and Shout... the list goes on... obscure, unheeded tracks that no-one has heard of! I think we know what you mean Tone!
@@davehealey2397 Perhaps I was not clear. There is no deep cut on an album if you look at all the songs as separate adventures within the LP format. Would you say that Zeppelin had deep cuts considering they never released singles? Why not treat the songs as simply pieces of the catalogue, some good, some not so good but all a part of a hefty ouvere or whatever. If you play a 'deep cut' enough times and everybody gets to hear it, it ceases to be one. I doubt if many in the UK call Elton John's 'Tiny Dancer', for example, a deep cut anymore, simply because it became familiar when played a lot.
Not really intending to cause a dispute here on one side or the other but I do think that the concept of a deep cut is a valid one. In an ideal world all compositions would receive equal attention, but I don't really think that is the case. It may differ from person to person but some tracks do tend to, shall we say, 'hide' on albums. Some people perhaps tune out instrumentals, others perhaps acoustic songs, but it can just be that they do not stick in the memory by having a memorable melody or lyric. Sometimes you can scan through a tracklist of an album and be unable to bring to mind a song by its title. Some tracks on albums are ignored in terms of radio play. Some just get a reputation for being not worthy for whatever reason or become those that are 'skipped'. Let's go to The Beatles again for examples. So maybe we are talking about Revolution 9, Flying, Dig It, Within You, Without You perhaps. As much as it would be nice if everything had an equal impact, in the real world that is not really the case. One of Tone's picks here, for example, I have no memory of at all and so am going to have to check it out. And I do have the album, so I have no excuse!
As I said in the video Im not including bonus audio from Archive collections so the choices are inclusive to everyone. If you prefer the Antwerp version of Mumbo, that's cool. No right or wrong answers here just opinions
8 minute introduction Tone, I'm a long term viewer and fan, and I almost got bored and left. IMO, you need to keep that down. You're gonna bore new guys to death before you get into it.
I know, i know , i almost bored myself. I know i need to work on this but when you’re introducing a new series for the first time you have explain what its about and how it works and just hope that people have a greater attention span than 8 minutes
I don't think I've ever told you this. My favorite McCartney song from this century is THIS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. I remember hearing it when I was on hold at a department store. A new it was mccartney, I just didn't know where to find it. I only heard 20 or 30 seconds of it. It actually took me 2 years to figure that out. That song has everything you could want in a farm cardi song. His composition, bass, and piano playing. I like to think he'd maybe somewhere in his mind written that song for linda. That was when he was having all those troubles with Heather mills. I think she's the least redeemable of all the Fab four wives. Just not a good person God
I don't like that elongated guitar intro that you talk about that much, to be fair. I personally prefer the One Hand Clapping arrangement over the Wings Over America one
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Great video! Single Pigeon is an absolute gem and one of my all-time favourites. Great choice.
Thanks very much glad you enjoyed the video. Yes Single Pigeon great song and much overlooked
Glad to be here Beatley Tone and your new series on McCartney and his solo career so much to cover Paul has so much variety i just love all Paul's songs except one Freedom it's to week and no good blazing rock guitar Freedom songs are more in john lennon's qualifications and Paul's love in song is awsome! Nice your doing some Paul deep cuts diffinatly Soily is a good deep cut just love it! Junior's farm good be a deep cut possibility If Paul wants to rock out he can do with the best of them! The song To You is a true deep cut and one of his best Great series Tone! Happy New Year to all! Beatley Tone just a thought Paul needs to play the song To You live in concert this is a killer track!!!
It is John Too You is a great track and it took me a long time to love it. Glad you are enjoying the series
I have always loved Love In Song. What a gorgeous melody & I always get shivers down my spine when singing along to it. The production & arrangement, along with the lyrics and that melody. Gorgeous.
yes such a hidden gem Mark . Love it
Hi Tony!
Thanks for a very enjoyable video! There are many hidden treasures on Paul McCartney's solo and Wings albums. Single Pigeon, Cafe On the Left Bank and Dear Friend are among my deep cut favourites. I have enclosed the Wings setlist from Oslo August 9th 1972. Here you will find both Mumbo and Soily. This was my first rock concert. An unforgettable experience!
Ivar
Eat At Home
Smile Away
Bip Bop
Mumbo
Give Ireland Back To The Irish
1882
I Would Only Smile (Denny Laine)
Blue Moon Of Kentucky
The Mess
Best Friend
Soily
I Am Your Singer
Henry’s Blues (Henry McCullough)
Say You Don’t Mind (Denny Laine)
Seaside Woman (Linda McCartney)
Wild Life
My Love
Mary Had A Little Lamb
Maybe I’m Amazed
Hi Hi Hi
Long Tall Sally
What a fantastic set list Ivar and an amazing first gig experience . I think maybe the only song that you didnt get that was on that tour was Big Barn Bed otherwise pretty much the same set list as the tour.Thanks for sharing and im glad you enjoyed the video
I have always been abashed that more people don’t like or mention “Love in Song.” I once heard someone deride it as a typical McCartney lovey-dovey song, when it is actually a bit more mysterioso than that, with some very evocative lyrics that are not blandly straightforward. Absolutely one of my favorite Macca creations.
Hey. I've warmed up to Wildlife, but only listen to it once in awhile. Unlike Ram or BOTR I can listen to several times. It's so good to be a fan of the solo Beatles -Tone!!
A very 'Indian' sounding melody. I've always liked it.
Love in song is fantastic.
Love In Song is a fantastic track - one of the standouts on an otherwise slightly disappointing Venus and Mars.
Sucha hidden gem Dale. Love it
The Note You Never Wrote is probably the best composition on the whole Wings At The Speed Of Sound album.
So refined, so wonderfully arranged.
Perfect pick
I probably would go that far personally but everyone has choice etc but it is a song that I have always thought is excellent and unfairly overlooked - maybe because Denny sings rather than Paul, I dunno. Glad you really like it too
I’ve always loved it - it has a Pink Floyd feel to it that I like.
Completely agree on it being the best song on the album. Denny did a great vocal but I sure wish there were a version somewhere with Paul singing it. I also think San Ferry Anne is a hidden gem on that album
I ditto you on the hidden gems, bought and listened to Wings upon release and played a lot. Genius crafted Single Pigeon. big rock Mambo, my friend and I just talked recently about Love in Song, I used to get chills on the chorus, Venus and Mars is the best album. my wife and I just fell in love with The Note you Never Wrote, well crafted song and the bottle on the waves is effective. Good words about Soily, , I love Cafe on the Left Bank as the deep cut on London Town, I never liked To You song, like you, but it's great now, I appreciate you expressing great tracks ! Thanks !
Thanks very much glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing your thoughts on these songs
Hi Tonei think the whole of wildlife is one big deep cut its so overlooked but ilove it im gonna go for the title track i think pauls vocals on this album are great on red rose ilove one more kiss get on the right thing and yes single pigeon is lovely this is a great album one of my faves on venus and mars my deep cut would be call me back again again pauls vocals are brill and this song rocks a great album speed of sound warm and beautiful and shes my baby are a couple of gems the latter maybe a throwaway but i like it and thats all that matters london town id go for im carrying lovely song maybe ive had enough dont let it bring you down as for back to the egg arrow through me love awake winter rose luvly stuff pauls best stuff was the 70s in my humble opinion anther great video tone keep well and happy new year
Hi Timothy, yes I said that pretty much the whole of the Wild Life album can be treated as a deep cut. . Also really love Call me Back Again which will feature in another video later in the series. Some nice picks here an watch out for Deep Cuts part 2 as one of your picks will be featured in that video. Glad you enjoyed the video and Happy New Year too you too mate
Highly enjoyable review Tone..! Cheers mate.. Hope you're doing OK... xxx
Terrific video - great to hear your thoughts and musical knowledge . I quite like Mumbo 😊
Thanks very much Stuart, glad you enjoyed the video
Love in Song is great. My friend who is half Indian and English really rates it. He's a good pianist.
Thanks mate. I always enjoy the thoughtful way that you pick a topic & structure your conversational message. GAZ (Melbourne/Australia) PS I have a funny pesonal memory about Red Rose Speedway.. I was about 13 years of age in 1974 & was starting to really get into the Beatles & anything solo. I rode my pushbike down to my local record store. I came across Red Rose Speedway & was intrigued by the cover/artwork. On my way home having bought the record & trying to ride my bike & carry it, simultaneously, I hit a bump & went over the handlebars of my bike. But somehow I managed to fall off without damaging the record. I played it when I got home & was spellbound by the sound of it all. I still have the LP & still enjoy thinking about that story whenever I play it. All the best.
Happy New Year Gaz, Seems like we are the same age - I was also 13 in 74. Isn't it funny how we can forget so much but memories that are associated with buying records seem to stick forever. That is the power of pop music. thanks for sharing your story - always great to hear this sort of thing from other fans
Im of a similar vintage as well, slightly younger born in 62...my brother was a little older than me and worked in the local record shop so brought home stacks of albums and singles...so i was always discovering new albums...i used to play Venus and mars and Band on the run religiously not really taking notice of who the group or singers were at the time...became a Beatles fan october ish 1980...Obviously 2 months late what happened and i then started this obsession with listening to collecting all and reading up on this great band...So when id finished buying up Beatles albums i started on the solo...too my surprise id got 2 of Maccas already...apologies for my punctuation & grandma 😊
@John-zg2ze n o apologies needed. thank you for sharing your story
Happy New Year Tone, Mrs BT and viewers.
Another great video and 100% agree on Love in Song and Note You Never Wrote, always wanted the guitar solo to go on longer.
Like you, Wings Over America was my first album I bought which got me into Wings, looks like I made a great choice.
Lonely People off Venus and Mars another favourite but depending on which mood we are in, there's always a Macca song to suit.
Looking forward to next video.
Happy New year to you and yours Steve. Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing your thoughts. More to come on Lonely old people in part 2 of the deep cuts video
Great choices Tone! And some that make this Macca Geek scratch my head! But we'll sort all that out soon! Looking forward to Episode 2 mate!
"Do you need a pal for a minute or two"? Nice one!
Andy
Thanks very much Andy, glad you enjoyed it. Yes maybe some head-scratchers here but that's half the fun. We're all Macca geeks and scratching our heads at vary velocities 😂Looking forward to chewing over the fat with you. Maybe do it after part 2 has dropped?
I agree completely with the first three! they are in my best songs of paul mccartney playlist!
More Paul & Wings era videos are okay by me, lots of great gems that a lot of casual fans don't even know about, great video Tone.
Thanks very much Sam, glad you are enjoying the new series
Hello Tone, I enjoyed the video as always. I am looking forward to hearing which McCartney songs you can't stand, as I have a number of those too. Many of my favorite McCartney deep cuts are the B-sides to his singles, such as Sally G, Country Dreamer, Ode to a Koala Bear, and Rainclouds. Here are my favourite deep tracks from the Wings albums:
Wild Life: Tomorrow
Red Rose Spreedway: Only One More Kiss
Venus and Mars: Call Me Back Again
Wings at the Speed of Sound: Must Do Something About It (Joe English sings it very well)
London Town: Café on the Left Bank
Back to the Egg: Baby's Request
I've always thought that Must Do Something About it was a marvellous track and very well sung by Joe. To me, it sounds like The Eagles, and that is high praise. Definitely an under-rated gem.
Great choices, mate, agree completely
Hi Seamus , glad you enjoyed the video and are looking forward to some of the other videos in the series . Nice picks I also love Call me Back Again, Must DIO Something and Cafe
Happy New Year to you and Mrs Beatley Tone! GREAT VIDEO! A very cool new series ! You have a great variety of video topics! Year 2025 is starting with a BANG ! And we thank you!
Happy New Year to you and yours too Brad. Glad you enjoyed the video and like the idea of the series. You're welcome mate
Thank you so much for doing this video series- it’s so great to see people loving Paul’s solo work as opposed to dismissing it- and I like mumbo as well- just think if he refined the lyrics more it could have been a hit- but Paul tends to follow his muse and not overthink words even if his arrangements are unbelievably good (example magneto and titanium man has a backing that stands up to just about anything by anyone in the 70s)
Thanks very much Shawn, glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing your thoughts. Im hoping this series is going to highlight that there are great things in every decade of paul's solo career
I'm totally not saying that Mumbo is rubbish.
I completely love that track!
"Take it, TONE!"
Love your choices Tony. Love in song is a under rated ballad. Famous Groupies is a gem. Also To You is one of my favourite tracks from Back to the Egg. Looking forward to Part 2.
Thanks very much Linda glad you enjoyed the video and looking forward to part 2. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and Happy New Year
Greetings Beatley Tone a happy new year to you and your family, a great video as always a great idea for a series on Deepcuts, I'm looking forward to the up and coming projects take care of yourself.
Regards
Sean
Happy new year too you and yours Sean, Glad you enjoyed the video and like the idea oƒ the series
Brilliant Tone!! Love it!
Thanks very much Mal. Glad you enjoyed the video
Hi Tone. Happy NY to you and yours. Video was grest and looking forward to next installment. With you completely on Love in Song and Single Pigeon...both beautiful pieces. Have listened to recent shms and all terrific...Strangely enough, the stand out is Thrillington...i know, but it sounds bloody marvellous .
It is indeed a great album that need re-evaluation.
But today's video is centred on Wings material, and Thrillington isn't part of it
Yeah a little off track but I was merely updating Tone that i have listened to the shm cds and was well pleased with what i heard.
Happy New year Jim, Glad you enjoyed the video. Glad you are enjoying the SHMs/ UDiuscover music in the US were selling these half price up until 6th January so $12 each. I was tempted but didnt pull the trigger in time
"Soily people!" (Are we!) yes indeed! What a great song! And i've always been a big fan of 'The note you never wrote' understated, atmospheric and a really good song. Cool picks man.... 'Famous groupies' has grown on me so much through the years - "Those magnificent examples of female pulchritude and luminosity" - brilliant!
Glad you enjoyed my picks Kier. You should see the out takes from this video of my trying to pronounce pulchritude lol
@beatleytonesbeatleschannel upload it! Ha ha.
Hi Tone , Great idea to start off 2025 With the solo stuff including wings & Paul McCartney . I look forward to the rest of the series to come , I love the Album wings wild life , it’s a daft album yes , but it does have some good songs on it , I also like Mumbo , red rose speedway , that album gets my vote , great album , great arrangements , and also great songs , I love also single pigeon , I love the the story about how single pigeon came about , the lyrics are brilliant . I agree with you about love in song from venues & mars it’s a beautiful song from start to finish. Anyway I look forward to the rest of the series .
Happy new Year John and glad you enjoyed the video and like the idea of the series. Thanks for sharing your thoughts
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel sorry Tone , I totally forgot to wish you and mrs Beatley a very happy new year , I hope. 2025 is a good beatley year & that includes solo stuff as well 👍
@@BeatleJohn813 no problem John and thank you
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel I’m in cloud cuckoo land today . But thanks for a very interesting video & I’m looking forward to the next one in the series & also ones which are not connected with the series . 👍
@@BeatleJohn813 No worries John. yes lots to come on this channel. Glad you enjoyed the video and the idea of the series
Firstly Tone, Happy New Year mate.I hope you and yours are doing well, and looking forward to a more healthy 2025.That goes for everyone.I honestly was ready to pass on this video, and would have, had been anyone else, but so glad I didn’t.
I have few Macca solo albums, and so the deep cuts as you described them was a nice introduction, and in some cases re introduction to some tracks.The first one did not melt my butter, but a few of the ballads did.Especially the one that Denny L sang on.As for “Soily” always like that one.Has great energy, and for me would just a great opener or closer to any live show.I do like the live version on OHC but yes this one has added spice with it’s long intro for sure.Look forward now to part two, and rediscovering some more Macca gems.Stay well.
P.S. glad to hear you back playing again.Music can be such a healer.
Happy new year to you too Mac. Well im glad you didnt give this one the swerve and enjoyed it. I hope this series will re-introduce to some great stuff
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel It already has mate. It already has.
@@macdrummer007 great stuff
I don't get the concept of To You being the only song "exclusive" of Back To The Egg.
What do you mean? That it wasn't released on a single?
In case both Love In Song and Soily have been released as B-sides as well.
For me Back To The Egg is a treasure trove of deep cuts, as is London Town
Well as I mentioned in the video a lot of the songs (6) have been played live, there are 3 singles , I a double A side so these aren't really deep cuts for me. Some songs are throwaways like Reception and the Broadcast, some are half finished songs grouped together so although these are deep cuts not good enough for me to include here, Rochestra songs are not really Wings songs so it didnt give me a lot to play with. But look, if you love BTTE thats cool there are no wrong or right answers here just opinions.
Same Time Next Year is probably my favorite Wings song - it's up there with my favorite Paul songs, up there with Let It Be, Too Many People, Happy With You and On My Way to Work.
👍 think that was the first song the final wings line up worked on if im remembering right but for reasons stated in the video intro was excluded from the remit of this video. On My Way To Work is such a underrated gem Christopher
Hi Tone - enjoyed your first podcast of 2025. I have to agree - "Love In Song" from Venus and Mars is an amazing track!!
Thanks very much Tom , glad you enjoyed the video. happy New Year mate
Great to hear Famous Groupies get some love!
That’s what i thought . Love it
Welcome to 2025 Tone, hope you and Mrs Beatley have had a terrific Christmas and new year.
I am looking forward to this Macca Project series and really enjoyed your discussion of the album deep cuts - after listening to it i immediately wanted to go and listen to Soily 😂.
I reckon all of your choices are worthy, with the possible exception of Famous Groupies which could be my least favourite London Town track 🤨 My alternative choice would be a toss up between I’m Carrying and Don’t Let It Bring You Down (because apparently Im not supposed to mention Cafe on the Left Bank 😂)
I might also have chosen So Glad To See You Here over To You from Egg. I know it’s not top shelf Macca but it’s catchy as hell and rocks nicely.
No argument with Love In Song though, I agree 100% it is an underrated gem.
Cheers mate.
Great to know that others have love for London Town too - it is in my top 3 Wings albums. I'm Carrying is beautiful and should be better known, but my deep cut from the album is Morse Moose and the Grey Goose (I wonder what video Tone will feature it in?) - there's an extended fan mix on YT that's well worth seeking out. Famous Groupies is a bit too seaside postcard for me.
Happy new year too you and yours Jason. Glad you enjoyed the video and are liking the way this mi ni series might shape up. I'm pretty excited about it especially now as I wasnt expecting this opening episode to be so well received so quickly. Im not sure Im counting So Glad as a bone fide Wings track. Yoiu'll be hearing from Cafe and Dont Let it Bring You Down later in the series
@@Robutube1 ohh I love a saucy seaside postcard Rob but FG is more Carry on Wings for me. Love London Town too
I think the chair banging on Mumbo is that splashing sound that you hear rhythmically along with the drums and tambourine.
On Mumbo Link is maybe even more noticeable
Great video, I really enjoyed it.
I also like "Love in Song" It got heavy air play here (As did almost every song from Venus & Mars") on FM radio back in 1975.
I know you skipped any songs from "Band on the Run", but "No Words" is one for me.
One of my favorites is "Get on the Right Thing" from Red Rose Speedway.
Again, great vide I look forward to part 2.
Get On The Right Thing is a great pick!
Thanks very much Peter, glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing 'some others that got away '
Great video, love your choices and your enthusiasm for Wings. What a great band they were. Seven classic studio albums and a brilliant triple live album. Personally I love Back to the Egg, their final album. A truly under-appreciated album. Love In Song is one of my favourite McCartney tracks of all time. I first heard it as the B-side to the Listen To What the Man Said single. Btw you can make a case for Ram being the first Wings album as it featured 3/5ths of the initial Wings lineup - Paul, Linda and Denny Seiwell on drums.
Thanks very much Charles , glad you enjoyed the video. Ahh Ram as a Wings album is a bit of a stretch for me . But yes Wings great band in all their various guises
Best wishes for 2025! Nice video to start the year.. Great choices especially, well, each of them.
Happy New Year Nick, glad you enjoyed the video
All in all, great picks there Tone.
I love all of them
Thanks very much . Glad you liked them. Watch out for part 2 of the deep cuts video
Happy New Year, Tone! Great idea for a video, and I have to agree with your choices. Mumbo played loud is totally awesome. My own deep cut choice from Wildlife would be Some People Never Know. It took me years to discover the album, as I was stupidly put off by the opinion of Carr and Tyler in their Beatles: An Illustrated Record book. I love Single Pigeon too, especially the Regent's Park Canal line, it's so London, almost Mary Poppins/Oliver like!
Happy new Year Dave, glad you enjoyed the video. I read An Illustrated Record cover to to cover so many times when I was first discovering all this music. loved the book, totally disagreed with the opinions once I got to hear the music ( wonder what they would have made of Driving Rain ! ) but Wild Life also took a long while to drop with me. Totally get the Mary Poppins thing - great shout
Interesting! Great posting, Tone! And very promising - what's to come. A bit long intro, but you know.
Mumbo rocks alright. The note ... f fantastick track. And of course Soily. Our favourite, Helter Skelter oart 2. Famous Groupies was my favourite the first time I heard the album and it's still one of my favs. AND To You is THE main and best track off BTTE!!
Thanks!
Yes I almost bored myself in the intro - I need to work on this but had to tell everyone about what was going to be included in the new series but glad you enjoyed the rest off the video anyway and agreed with most if the picks
Happy New Year, my Beatle brother! A little tidbit about Venus & Mars, it was the first Macca LP that I bought on day of release. BOtR was the first Macca solo LP that I bought, but it was about 3 months after day of release and it was already a hit by then. Soily....is just a flat out belter and was such a great song live on the Wings Over America tour. It might just be my absolute favorite Macca deep-cut, although Girls School was pretty close (but probably wouldn't fit into this list). Cheers mate!
Happy new Year Richard . Ahh Venus & Mars, my favourite Macca album. I think I picked that up in 1977 or 1978. London Town was the first I could buy as it came out
Happy New Year Tone! Wildlife is a great album pick it up in the bargain bins in the early 80's. Im going with Big Barn Bed!
Happy New Year mate. Big Barn Bed - great choice
Mumbo is brilliant, really. We all just need more people like yourself to tell us it's OK to love it 🙂
That’s my job. Glad im doing it ok and glad you love it too
Happy New Year! And yes Santa 🧑🎄 did bring me Legacy Vol 2!! Only at the Nashville sessions but just a fantastic book! I love Mumbo ! Love your selections!
Happy New Year, glad you hear Santa came up trumps and glad you are enjoying it and liked the selections here. more to come in part 2
@ once that comes out i will make a spotify list of them in your honor
@@skee19 nice
Ha Tone, you got me going on this one. I wouldn't change a word till Speed of sound. Perfectly said.
My own choice ?
Bip Bop (some people find it dull or heavy, how could they never know) / Single P (as dear to me as My Love) / Love In Song (THE gem) / Warm & / Soily (but it came out as a single) / Café / Arrow
Anyway, you seem to be waiting for a decent Over America remix ? That was done in the Archive series (the most feeble effort in the series IMO), wasn't it ?
Again, what a pleasure to hear & see you. More, more, more please...
Thanks very much Jean-Jacques, glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing your thoughts here. I teally love Bip Bop too and Cafe is in my top 10 Wings songs of all time. Yes i would really like to see a remix of WOA , the archive series is a remaster rather than a remix whichvis very different.,i believe there is a lot to come from WOA thatca remix would give us
Happy New Year to you and your family Tone. I like the title song Wild Life.
Same too you and yours too Duncan
Great song choices there………I love the deep cuts…….a lot of the much lesser know songs such as…………Suicide, Waterspout, Did We Meet Somewhere Before, Seems Like Old Times, Lindiana, Your School, Same Love…………Just to name a few…….. COYS
Thanks very much Alex, glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing your favourites although most of those fall outside of the remit for inclusion of this video. COYI 😂
A superb video Tone, love all your choices, especially Single Pigeon and Love In Song. A few of my faves are: I'm Carrying; We're Open Tonight (both of these have simple but beautiful guitar picking); Lonely Old People (which reminds me of when my parents were alive) Warm and Beautiful (which I still think is one of Macca's best ballads) and finally, Don't Let It Bring You Down (this could have been a Fairport Convention song). Happy New Year to you!
I'm Carrying and Warm and Beautiful are absolutely 2 of his best songs.....period.
Thanks very much , glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing 'some others that got away'. Watch out for part 2 of the deep cuts video as a couple of your picks appear and for for the same reasons. Happy new year to you mate
Happy 2025 to you Tone! this is a great idea for a mini-series, and I'm already looking ahead to the next part. I've always loved "To You" myself, but I don't think there's any disputing "Soily" as my all-time favorite deep cut from the Wings era, for all the reasons you mentioned (the horn section, the thundering drums, and Macca's unreal vocals). Cheers!
Happy New Year Gary, glad you like the idea of the mini-series and thanks for sharing your thoughts
I've always loved Single Pigeon. For me, the singer has been tossed out by his partner, sees a pigeon, and projects his own story on the bird. Would fit right in on Side 2 of the White Album. I agree on Love in Song, and nearly all of your choices. I'd go with Warm and Beautiful from Speed of Sound, with such unexpected chord changes, my personal favorite "Macca song that nobody knows about". Thanks again, and be well.
Yes great shout Jake, Single Pigeon would be perfect on the White Album. W&B is included in part 2 of this video
Looking forward to this 'project'. I'm currently reading The McCartney Legacy Volume 1 and am up to Wild Life at the moment, so this is timely.
I will have a go at my deep cut choices but will wait for your second part before detailing them.
Should be an entertaining series, so no need to apologise for straying off Beatle-centric subject matter.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks very much Dave, glad you like the idea of this mini-series. Enjoy the legacy you wont be disappointed
Never could get past that 3 album run of Red Rose Speedway, Band On The Run and Venus and Mars..to me that was his peak and never bettered..I can understand your thoughts on Band On The Run but for me No Words has always been the track I like the most but not too many people rate that highly..takes me back to memories of going to work on a sunny day in a friends car as he had the cassette. Love it.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Peter. No Words would probably qualify as a deep cut and Im glad you have such strong memories of it. It probably wouldnt make my list of top deep cuts but we all have our own favourites which is what makes discussing all this stuff fun
Happy new year! Love all the songs mentioned. I would go with One More Kiss though I love Single Pigeon. Little Lamb Dragonfly has maybe been getting more recognition. I remember hearing Love In Song and Soily as their respective b-sides. Both great unappreciated songs. I love the visual in Rock Show at the end of Soily when Paul is singing the oh yeahs each one building up in excitement. Maybe I’m Carrying and Spin It On for the other two.
Happy New Year Michael, thanks for sharing your picks and glad you enjoyed the video
Hi Tone, Yes, Joe English is for me was Wings best drummer 🥁 👍
His drumming on Soily is sublime ! Also his incredible drumming during the Spirits Of Ancient Egypt solo has me for years trying to workout what he’s doing !!!
Superb drummer. On Spirits it sounds like lots of tom toms with maybe a click block in there somewhere. maybe played by Linda. Thanks for sharing your thoughts
Hi Tone
A very Happy New Year to you and your loved ones.
This is a great subject to make videos about.
In my humble opinion, Wings Wild Life has only deep cuts, but quality deep cuts. I think it's a terrific album.
Single Pigeon from Red Rose Speedway is a very good choice. It shows the McCartney magic.Writing a deep story, like Eleanor Rigby, and writing a superficial story about a pigeon.. Lyrics about nothing, but still a great story.
Thanks to your video, I have to listen to Venus And Mars and Wings At The Speed Of Sound again. It's been quite a while since I listened to these albums.
Soily........ I definitely agree with you. The only disadvantage is that these kinds of songs ruined Paul's voice. He recorded and played a lot of these songs live where he really " stretches" his vocal chords to the max like he did from early on with The Beatles.
Famous Groupies ..... Yes, why not!
I'm Carrying or Children, Children could have been good choices as well.
Back To The Egg is my least favourite Wings album. I have owned the record for many years, but for me, all the songs on the album are deep cuts.
But tonight, I'm gonna listen to Wild Life. In my opinion, a very underrated album.
Tale care
Happy new Year Peke to you and yours. Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing your thoughts. BTTE my least favourite Wings album too. Enjoy your evening with Wild Life
I have always liked the song “Wildlife”, especially when performed by Wings during the 1973 tour!
Me too. Wild Life will be featured in another video in the series
Love all of Wildlife album.Has dated so well and i will always defend this record The Wild life song one of Paul's best ever vocal performances.Some people never know also brilliant.
I also love I Am Your Singer.
Such tenderness and vulnerability
Totally agree about Paul's vocal on the Wild Life track. You'll be hearing more on this later in the series David.
Hi Tone, Great video as always - thank you. I will not give you any of my favourite deep cuts yet as I do not want to jump the gun on part 2. I totally agree with you on "Single Pigeon" (which is my favourite track on RRS) and "Love in Song" - both great songs. I differ with you on the others - especially "Mumbo" and I really really differ with you on "Famous Groupies" which I skip every time (even on vinyl) as I think that the humour sounds very forced and false - it's certainly no "You know my name (look up the number)". I see that you've missed out "One hand clapping" which is a shame as I love the version of "Give me a ring" on that album. I also think that there are some fantastic deep cuts on the b-sides of the Wings era singles - I defy anyone not to love "Daytime Nightime Suffering".
Thanks very much Wayne, glad you enjoyed the video. Try not to think of me missing things, more them not making my list of favourite deep cuts, but I appreciate you sharing you favourites here in the comments as this is always interesting to read other fans favourites .
Hi Tone. Great video, as always.
Hate all the choices...my goodness...
.lol...j/k ...hope you burst out laughing....love all the choices, btw.
Mumbo helped me learn how to play guitar. It's a real rocker that is mostly overlooked by critics and fans alike. Basically, we could/will jam this tune out on acoustic one day in the future ..and it will be fun.
Get on the right thing from RRS. Always loved this song.
Call me back again - stupendous! a standout on album ....and great live song on wings over usa.
Beware my love - You know its a fav rocker of mine. We have discussed before....and see below
Beware my love - wings absolutely killed it live on wings over usa. Soily is a superb choice of course its just beware my love took on a much heavier sound live due to Jimmy Mac who seared and soared.
Cuff link - much malign thrown this way upon release I always liked this riff song. Funky to a point, it's similar to Robin Trowers somebody's calling riff from 1977.
Arrow through me - one of my favorite Paul songs from that era, probably should have been held back for macca 2 with goodnight and daytime nightime taking place on BTTE. Just a thought...an overlooked gem.
In closing... you are getting rather famous and I know the masses replying make your job even more time consuming. Thanks as always!
Hi Russ, Happy New Year mate. Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing your deep cut choices. At some point in this series I'm going to be attempting a song ranking video for the 70s so a lot of my big-hitter deep cuts will feature in that and I want to have as little repetition as possible. so the deep cut videos are mainly here to highlight some forgotten gems or songs that dont get a lot of love from fans . Ive never been that crazy about arrow through me - I dont dislike it or anything but I do really like Cuff Link. Obviously Beware my love is going to make my top 20 70s songs. I wont say anymore because part 2 of the deep cuts still to come . Thanks as always for your contribution
Happy New Year Tone! Another great video. I too love Mumbo and always thought Single Pigeon would easily fit on the White Album (especially because of the brass). The Note You Never wrote has a great melody and atmosphere, but I think some of the lyrics are odd ‘ The Mayor of Baltimore’ And the ‘vote/qote’ rhyme is a bit dodgy. I’ve always loved Soily and I hope One Hand Clapping establishes it as a classic. A deep cut favourite of mine is Some People Never Know, love Paul and Linda’s harmonies and the lyrics make a beautiful ballad. This is a great idea for a series and I’m looking forward to your other choices. All the best!
Happy New Year Paul. Glad you enjoyed the video and the idea of this series. Some people Never Know is anther favourite of mine . Like I said in the video, I could pretty much pick any song from Wild Life as a deep cut.
In his VAN?! Good luck Tone, to you both.
In his Van ? 😂 Nobody saw which way the poor boy ran . Cheers Charles Happy new Year
I LOVE Single Pigeon!!
Back to the Egg is so underrated… it annoys me 😂
I really like ‘We’re Open Tonight’ as a ‘deep cut’ off that album.
Great atmosphere on We're Open Tonight, or should I say "superior atmosphere", quoting The Broadcast 😀
Yea, me too! I also really enjoy After The Ball
@@simonhodgetts6530 Great, and Million Miles even greater, in my opinion
Personally I think in recent years Back to The Egg has been promoted way above its pay grade and im not really sure why. Maybe an Archive release will help me love it more. But We're open tonight it certainly one of its better moments Paul
@ Ha… I think the same about London Town!
Happy New Year Tone. Great subject matter to start 2025! I never understood fans of any age that “turn off” the Beatles after 1970. Some of the best “Beatles music” was made after 1970 as solo artists!
And to you mate. Glad you enjoyed the video 👍
I'm listening to Soily from Wings Over America now to refamiliarize myself with it. I've always liked it The riffs are cool. It's got great guitar, wah wah - Jimmy's the best and bass and the middle eight is cool. Very heavy song. Drumming is top tier for Wings. I can't understand the lyrics and I'm not looking them up. What drug did you say you thought influenced it, stimulants? Maybe. Are there overdubs or is it completely live? It's a real powerhouse song for sure. Is that the real crowd? They loved it.
Now I'm refamiliarizing myself with To You. It's pretty good. No auto-tune for sure. Two guitar solos in one song. Laurence Juber is superb. The guitar has some sort of effect, almost sounds like twin guitars. Paul is doing a lot of yelling at lover that wronged him? It's refreshing to hear songs that are not part of the McCartney schlock. Who were they competing against on the charts: The Pretenders and the punk rock and new wave bands of the day? Paul, if I remember correctly, was a fan of Squeeze at the time. I bought Cool for Cats after reading about it in Rolling Stone or something, around this time. It's a great record of pop new wave. Very melodic and hooky.
Pretty much every live album has some sort of studio trickery added - how much on this one will be revealed in The McCartney Legacy Vol 2 but I havent got yet Rick, but I suspect very little - maybe some remixing? I love Squeeze and have have most of their albums and have lost count how many time I have seen them live . Some fantatsic Place is an album worth checking out. Thanks for sharing your thoughts
When I was in my early teens, in the little town in Iowa I grew up near, I was at the local pizza place with my best friend and his girlfriend (who hated me!) It was near closing time and I saw "Soily" was on the juke box. "Ya gotta hear this!", I told 'em. As soon as it started (even though he's a big Paul fan) they both looked at me like they had migraine headaches and could barely tolerate me. After about twenty seconds, the waitress -- who looked like she'd just had the most stressful day of her life, asked. "You don't mind if I turn this noise off, do you?" And before I could say anything she actually UNPLUGGED the juke box. Funny, I thought it was a pretty good song!
You were in some pretty soily company. 😀✌🏻
How rude ! I would have yes , ive just paid to hear it lol
Reading the McCartney Legacy Vol 2 73-80 definitely his golden period.
Me too. Enjoy it
Agree with you on mumbo , there is also a great live version on the bonus wings over Europe cd with decipherable lyrics
Indeed . I have the big box
I think Soily was played live by Wings as far as 1972, on the Wings Over Europe tour
It was yes
Still waiting for a general release of “Wings Over Europe”.
@@davidrowe7967 Me too!
@@davidrowe7967 long wait I think
I do agree with you about “Mumbo@, and the entire album in turn, and for the same reason: the rough, off the cuff ambience. And there are standouts (IMHO); @Dear Friend”, “Tomorrow”, and the great cover “Love Is Strange.” So there… no arguments from this corner. Nice show…
Thanks very much much Dale. Glad you enjoyed the video. My second pick from Wild Life will be in part 2 and its one of rhe songs you mentioned. Cheers
It may be a little ambitious vocally for Paul to do Soily these days. Still, the best version on the live album is a monster, to be sure! Did McCartney ever sound more frantic?
Maybe, although on current form i teckon he could give it a good go, although nowhere near the levels of 76. Frantic is a very good description for his performance on WOA version
Some great picks. For me, from Wildlife, I like Some People Never Know, from Red Rose Speedway I’ve always enjoyed Only One More Kiss, I’m with you on Love In Song, from Speed Of Sound, it’ll be Must Do Something About It, Note You Never Wrote and Sanferry Anne, London Town, Backwards Traveller / Cufflinks and Don’t Let It Bring You Down, and well, to be honest ‘Egg’ is a deep cut in itself to all but firm Macca fans!!
Thanks for sharing your picks Simon
Mumbo live is great!
I like Yvonne the one that was not officially released! I may have got it’s title wrong
It wouldnt have got included here as its not a wings song an and its an out take but I really like it too James
Yvonne would have fit nicely on press to play I think
I'd say No Words is a deep-cut on BOTR. Did Wings ever play it live? It's Denny on vocals, but I always think the melody sounds like a George song.
Did that get played on 79 tour?
Yes maybe it is Anthony . Yes Wings played it like on the 1979 tour . I dont think it would have made my list of favourite deep cuts though
Totally agree Tone, live 76 version Soilly is the ultimate version
absolute belter
LET IT BE, NAKED
Is there only one edition of this album and CD from 2001? Do you know it has been reissued?
CD is easy to pick up. the LP is very expensive and has never been re-issued . It came out in 2003
Backwards Traveler. ✌🏻
It's OK to like Mumbo. I didn't like it at first, but after a few listens I like it. Not sure why, just like the sound of Paul's shouting voice which goes well with the music.
A little belter Ralph
A ”worst tracks” listing by someone you respect is always painful to listen to. You end up feeling they just don’t appreciate songs in the way you do yourself. That being said, I’d love to hear someone trash Loup on Red Rose Speedway. Always thought that should have been left out, in favour of, say, Denny’s lovely I Would Only Smile.
Deep cuts is a nice idea, helping people appreciate forgotten tracks more. I do love Mumbo too! It’s got a great melody, which may be a bit hard to pick up in the rough arrangement on Wild Life. Single Pidgeon is a gem of a tune. Soily is great of course. Famous Groupies not so much, haha - I would rather have picked Don’t Let It Bring You Down from London Town. Likewise I’d choose The Broadcast over To You from Back To The Egg. We have to disagree on at least something sometimes, Tone. 😄
Sure Anders we all have our favourites - I love Loup and cant abide The broadcast but yer know mate we all hear things differently and there are no right or wrong answers
I can't disagree with any of your picks. Love In Song and Famous Groupies are two of my most played Wings tunes. Some People Never Know, One More Kiss, Treat Her Gently/Lonely Old people, Must Do Something About It, Don't Let It Bring You Down and Spin It On would be some of my choices. I prefer the more garage band version of Soily from One Hand Clapping, but the WOA version is still amazing!
Glad you enjoyed the video James and for sharing some of your favourites . Stay tuned for part 2 of the deep cuts video as one of your picks is in there
Totally agree with "Love in Song" and "Note." "Some People" and "Dear Friend" are my Wildlife picks. There are boots of the 76 tour that actually sound MUCH better than the official WOA album. When I brought up the sound of this album on the Steve Hoffman Forum, Steve himself responded that when he heard the original tapes for WOA, they strangely had no midrange. I always wondered why it sounded so lifeless. The CD issues haven't really improved it much either. Fortunately, the audio on Rockshow is very good.
I agree the remastering of WOA hadn't really done much to improve it , in fact I still prefer the analogue original . I dont think its awful but a remix could do wonders for it Stephen
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel I'd love a good remix as well, but Hoffman said there isn't any midrange on the tapes to improve. There was nothing he could do to fix it. He thought it was really weird.
@@stephenrostkoski837 Does sound very weird as pretty much every instrument apart from bass and kick drum is part of the mid range somewhere on the spectrum
From Band on the Run, I would nominate Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mamunia as deep cuts.
👍 i was tempted by Mamounia
What about No Words? Much less well known.
@@anthonygreen7063 Its a song that has been played live so didnt quite fit my criteria but to be honest its not one of my favourites so probably wouldnt make me list even if it did
“Famous Groupies” - another song I enjoy while others basically ignore it or run from it in horror. It’s a lot of fun… Is it silly and pointless. Yep… proudly so. Music can be “merely” entertaining. Good pick. Also, in addition to “pulchritude” we get “proscenium arch.”
we do indeed and I almost included that word in my video too
I’d also add that famous groupies is a perfect example of how Paul can’t win- the people that ignore this one and knock Paul for being so “calculated” and then there’s the camp that knock Paul for releasing tossed off songs and not finishing them - I love famous groupies
Me too - people want their pop music to be so serious sometimes when really it should just be fun. FG is a great example of that
I think you dismiss Back to the Egg to quickly. Almost every song on the entire album qualifies as a deep cut. 'Arrow Through Me' is a great jazzy number that goes over the top when the funky New Orleans horns kick in. "Spin it On' is a great rocker with its quickly delivered wordplay and almost punky attitude. 'Old Siam Sir' has Macca turning up the volume for a near metal-like effect only for the sheer fun of making loud music, despite the fact that the song is mediocre at best. 'After the Ball/Million Miles' and the other medley, 'Winter Rose/Love Awake' both have wonderful melodies and powerful performance and production. I don't think these were throaways; I think Paul really worked on this album but the arrest in Japan made him walk away from both the album and the band.
I never dismiss anything too quickly, everything gets considered thoroughly . I have done a full deep dive review of the album on the channel so it has been well considered. I saw 4 shows on the 1979 tour and 6 songs from the album were played live and in the video where I describe what I consider to be a deep cut - im looking from songs that only appear on their mother albums, havent been played live and were not singles. When you take out these , the thow away songs like the Broadcast which is not really a wings song, Rockestra songs which are also not Wings songs and minute long songs that are segued together which may well count as deep cuts but are not good enough to be included in my best deep cuts list it doesnt leave me much to play with. Basically BTTE has been elevated by fans to an album that is punching way above its pay grade and I cant cant work out why. however , there there are many many who like you thinks its a great album that is cool , there are not any right or wrong answers here just opinions
Any song on an album is a deep cut if you treat all the songs the same. How about a return to 'album tracks'? That is the what they all are after all and how more inclusive can that be?
Missing the point.
Yes, nonsense. Look at all those Beatles deep cuts: Here Comes The Sun, Girl, Eight Days A Week, Twist and Shout... the list goes on... obscure, unheeded tracks that no-one has heard of! I think we know what you mean Tone!
@@davehealey2397 thanks for explaining far more succinctly than i usually do Dave 😎
@@davehealey2397 Perhaps I was not clear. There is no deep cut on an album if you look at all the songs as separate adventures within the LP format. Would you say that Zeppelin had deep cuts considering they never released singles? Why not treat the songs as simply pieces of the catalogue, some good, some not so good but all a part of a hefty ouvere or whatever. If you play a 'deep cut' enough times and everybody gets to hear it, it ceases to be one. I doubt if many in the UK call Elton John's 'Tiny Dancer', for example, a deep cut anymore, simply because it became familiar when played a lot.
Not really intending to cause a dispute here on one side or the other but I do think that the concept of a deep cut is a valid one. In an ideal world all compositions would receive equal attention, but I don't really think that is the case. It may differ from person to person but some tracks do tend to, shall we say, 'hide' on albums. Some people perhaps tune out instrumentals, others perhaps acoustic songs, but it can just be that they do not stick in the memory by having a memorable melody or lyric. Sometimes you can scan through a tracklist of an album and be unable to bring to mind a song by its title. Some tracks on albums are ignored in terms of radio play. Some just get a reputation for being not worthy for whatever reason or become those that are 'skipped'. Let's go to The Beatles again for examples. So maybe we are talking about Revolution 9, Flying, Dig It, Within You, Without You perhaps. As much as it would be nice if everything had an equal impact, in the real world that is not really the case. One of Tone's picks here, for example, I have no memory of at all and so am going to have to check it out. And I do have the album, so I have no excuse!
I prefer the live version of Mumbo on the European tour. Maccas voice is stronger than the studio version imho.
As I said in the video Im not including bonus audio from Archive collections so the choices are inclusive to everyone. If you prefer the Antwerp version of Mumbo, that's cool. No right or wrong answers here just opinions
@ I forgot that the live Mumbo was a bonus cut
@@christophertalbot9064 no worries
8 minute introduction Tone, I'm a long term viewer and fan, and I almost got bored and left. IMO, you need to keep that down. You're gonna bore new guys to death before you get into it.
I know, i know , i almost bored myself. I know i need to work on this but when you’re introducing a new series for the first time you have explain what its about and how it works and just hope that people have a greater attention span than 8 minutes
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel Thanks for the reply and for listening. And it's great to know another Famous Groupies fan!
I don't think I've ever told you this. My favorite McCartney song from this century is THIS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. I remember hearing it when I was on hold at a department store. A new it was mccartney, I just didn't know where to find it. I only heard 20 or 30 seconds of it. It actually took me 2 years to figure that out. That song has everything you could want in a farm cardi song. His composition, bass, and piano playing.
I like to think he'd maybe somewhere in his mind written that song for linda. That was when he was having all those troubles with Heather mills. I think she's the least redeemable of all the Fab four wives. Just not a good person God
Its a great song. Maybe my favourite from Chaos. Can’t stand Mills , her onlt redeeming feature is she worked tirelessly for her charity
I don't like that elongated guitar intro that you talk about that much, to be fair.
I personally prefer the One Hand Clapping arrangement over the Wings Over America one
No worries. Your choice/my choice it doesn’t matter. No right or wrong answers here 😎
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good work Alan