One thing I like about McCartney is that he writes, records and releases whatever he likes. He doesn’t ask the opinions of others, he deliberately doesn’t overthink and analyze what he’s written. The result is a lot of tracks that don’t measure up to his greatest work. He is a relentless song writer that’s is compelled to create all the time. I’ll take that McCartney any day.
It’s a great record. Coming up, temporary secretary and dark room (especially the twin freaks remixEs) are intriguing tunes I love the one I hadn’t heard before which is secret friend, it goes on forever but it’s just a great groove. I like the bluesy feel of on the way and he plays some really great guitar on that. I’m a fan of throw a tracks like nobody knows and bogey music Which are fun to listen to and the two main ballads waterfalls and one of these days (which sounds like the Jefferson airplanes today at least production wise) make this album stand out for me. The experimental pieces blue sway and check my machineAre also fun. I put it in his top 10. Takes a couple of lessons though.
McCartney II is a weird album. It might not be a great album, but it is interesting and it has influenced many later and current electro-pop and techno-pop artists.
Genuinely my gateway into the Beatles. I grew up hating that shit & it took the eccentricity & humour of McCartney II for me to be bother checking it out
This album was number 1 in UK and number 3 in USA...the single "Coming up live in Gladgow" was number 1 in USA...This album was well received by the fans....i love it since it came...
It's a testament to the enormous talent that is Steven Wilson that he can claim a record by Paul McCartney is 'shit' and not one person comments along the lines of, 'And what would he know' or similar.
Could it be that this record is simply atypical of McCartney and secondly there is an element of humour and the avant-garde with some of the tracks. Temporary Secretary could be a Holger Czukay track, for instance. Steven Wilson seems to be somewhat devoid of humour, in my opinion.
@TheExtremenarcissist Steven is hilarious in this. The other guy was laughing at his jokes. Steven has a dry sense of humor but he is British after all. He admits that the album isn't that bad but it's easy to see how McCartney 2 is an easy target to make fun of, and this is a really light roasting too so there really isn't anything for people to be upset about..
Its all just subjective opinion. For example I think Back to the Egg is a brilliant album and massively underrated in the Wings/McCartney discography, but I still hear quite a few people dump on it (like here).
Steven Wilson must have shit in his ears and between his ears if he thinks McCartney II isn't a great album. It's aged like fine wine. Odd, sure, but excellent.
Some of the songs are sort of “traditional” McCartney songs, such as “One of These Days” and “Summer’s Day Song,” which I enjoy. But I like the crazy stuff on this album. Some of my favs are the outtakes such as “Mr. H Atom.” Funny, last night I was listening to Mc II, thinking about the new one coming up (no pun intended) and my wife made me turn it off. She couldn’t take it! Haha.
Coming Up alone, the original version in its lofi glory, is hugely influential for studio geeks trying to sound that way vs full of production sheen like every recording is today. .
I love McCartney. I hate this album. It should have just been an EP, with waterfalls, summer's day song, one of these days and coming up. The rest should be unreleased or B sides.
@@ryancalhoun2910 lmfao are you kidding? how? for me it's the 3rd best post Beatles McCartney album, the people that hate it aren't McCartney fans, it's one of my favorite albums ever
@@bestmetalandrocklists9120 I personally find the songwriting just awful. Totally unfocused. And the lyrics are horrendous, too. Just a failed experiment in my view. I've tried several times and the album just does nothing for me.
No point discussing this at all - regardless of what Tim says Steven has made his mind up and will never in a million years accept anything Tim says. Everybody has an opinion and obviously Steven is not overly keen on McCartney 2 which is absolutely fine. He had a few points that I agreed with.
These guys opinions are worth about as much as their sex life, which is probably non-existent 🤔?! McCartney 2 is a broad, innovative, imaginative, genius body of work. McCartney is never boring, and this album is another gem of Sir Pauls'🤩
@@TheAlibabatree To basically call me a brown- noser, like I expect some reward from McCartney😆?! I wager you simpletons have kissed more 'a*s for money' than me, so stop being the childish little hypocrites you are!! I comment my support for a true Star🤩 in the music industry, a genius, and because my opinions differ from yours you call me a sychophant🤔. A word I had to look up. What geeks you are🤣. It's a pathetic pity that you didn't grow up listening to McCartney like I did in America 🤔. Maybe you would have been more 'mature' in your treatment of his work?! Grow up and educate yourselves before 'trying' to be legitimate critics🤙!
Steve Wilson is a fine remixer, but he’s never written a song half as good as “temporary secretary” or “coming up”, which are basically throwaways for McCartney.
As a life long beatle admirer ( even when it was most unfashionable prior to Lennons death ) I gave up on McCartney’s solo career at the point of the release of this particular album . The musical climate at the time , was still relatively fertile and even the “ die hards” amongst us , basically threw the towel in with this drivel . I’ve gone on to watch McCartney achieve godlike status , himself constantly regurgitating the same scripted interviews for the past forty years and producing at the very least , by his early high standards , some of the most cringeworthy music of the times . For those willing to sieve through the morass , then there are nuggets of beauty to be found “ Love in song / only love remains/ morse moose and a few little toe tappers , but the problem is that it appears that “The knight of the realm” continues to choose to surround himself with those that quite willingly blow smoke up his arse . In my hometown of Liverpool he has even constructed a factory dedicated to the annihilation of creativity , therefore contributing to the situation that we now find ourselves in , a culdesac of nondescript artists producing instantly disposable ditty’s. I was sitting in town the other week and McCartney pulled up in a car . I instantly turned my head the other way should I gain eye contact , thus to insure that I was not about to commit to some trite little encounter or be horrified by the emergence of James corden or some other inbred celeb he chooses to have dangling from his charmless lack of identity bracelet . Apparently , John Lennon was under the impression/ delusion that he was indeed the son of god incarnate , his manager retorted by asking “ isn’t being John Lennon enough when EVERYONE loves you “ to which Lennon replied “ that’s like saying NOBODY loves you .” I always felt that there was a deep longing in all the individual Beatles ( maybe it’s just a Liverpool thing) and none more so than McCartney and it looks like he has long since chosen to feed that vacuum with as much useless substance as he can render possible ( or maybe just GET BACK on the weed , pardon the pun ) .
I prefer McCartney II than almost everything he did with The Wings. Coming Up, Darkroom, On The Way, Temporary Secretary and Waterfall are great songs!
McCartney II is a jumble .Homegrown recording style is fine but there should be a thread of intent in the style. I think a lot of us struggled to measure the good and not so good solo albums from artists who had defined the music we loved and lived for . Certainly McCartney, like so many , has since produced some great and some really awful albums - as have so many other artists who we have loved and still hold out for further gems from . Let us not even start on Neil Youngs's output of albums over the same period....
Being the lifelong Beatle fan, I remember distinctly receiving McCartney II as a Christmas present in the year it came out and playing it over and over on headphones, desperately wanting to like it. I obviously gave up eventually, swapped it at a second hand shop for something else and I would never get another copy. In complete agreement with the eloquent Steven Wilson here and glad he just nonchalantly cites its predecessor of ten years, McCartney I, to be a classic in his preamble. Yep.....you had to be there, I suppose to evolve that fondness (although Wilson seems too young to have been there, surely!!).
Es uno de mis discos favoritos por lo menos desde que lo escuche hace poco mas de un año, desde que escuche a uno de los de Oasis directamente insultar a Brian Wilson deje de tomar en cuenta la opinión de músicos famosos...
@@hannahgarcia8645 I find the songs themselves to be extremely weak. The choruses are completely unmemeorable and the structure of many of the songs is a cluttered mess, too. I like McCartney branching into something new but just don't think it works at all on this album.
@@hannahgarcia8645 Especially Temporary Secretary. Without question, frankly, my least favorite song ever written by an artist I like. I'm not exaggerating. But that's just me.
I was always amazed that an artist with the talent of McCartney put out a turkey like "Temporary Secretary" as a single. Probably THE low point in his career. Even the "Just about okay when you first hear, it but all downhill from there" song "Dance Tonight" is better.
The best 80s one man band album has to be Arc of A Diver. Coming Up was a great pop song but the rest of the album falls flat for me compared to everything else he'd done up to this point. I do have a certain place in my heart for Tug Of War though.
Honestly, who cares what this guy thinks. I like it, many others like it, and within McCartney’s discography it represents a more experimental side to his material, which provides a great deal of variety, and provides depth to his output. If you don’t like it, don’t ever play it.
This album was number1 in Uk and number 3 in USa...The single "Coming up live in Glasgow)" was number 1 in USA...it was a very well received by the fans...
Not McCartney I...just McCartney. Like the Godfather...or Led Zeppelin...it's just the name. No numerical suffix required. Subsequent numbers tell you the running order...it's kind of why they used them... McCartney didn't "embrace" DIY in the 80's. With his first album recorded on a portable 4 track, he practically invented DIY....McCartney and Rundgren are the progenitors of the one artist band/project.
The only thing Steven Wilson has vs Paul McCartney, is a bloated and arrogant attitude. Steven may have done some pretty solid records, but he is not as inventive and innovative as he believe himself to be, most of the albums pale in comparison to acts like Radiohead, and classic prog releases like Close to the Edge and Dark side of the moon. Real innovators, like Paul McCartney!
@@snuppssynthchannel Is he not? With albums like The Raven produced by Himself and Alan Parsons was a dark King Crimson yet classic sounding Genesis/Yes album with the darkness of SW. Hand. Cannot. Erase. Is a great example of pure 70s and 80s prog, but then you get to earlier work, In Absentia, a great way of having SW's Space rock and Prog influence take in Crosby Stills and Nash like tracks, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, among others. We get the Alternative sound of Stupid Dream, the full space rock of The Sky Moves Sideways. In recent years, To The Bone is Prog Pop with Soft Rock, The Future Bites, a concept album with Dream Pop and Synth Pop influence and his natural tone of writing. He is an extraordinarily gifted writer with a ton of range, and he makes (at the bare minimum) listenable songs of each genre he tries, but more or less succeeds in making great tunes in every album he makes.
I agree. I'm a big McCartney fan, and have developed a liking and respect for about all the albums I once thought were 2nd rate, such as "Off The Ground" which I now like a lot. But McCartney 2 is really a poor collection.
Back to the egg was fkn amazing...good god steven i love 90% of your music but even you have a couple bad albums solo wise...londontown is a hard album to get into but to place it as better than back to the egg...ehhh i dont get it...but thats ok music tastes are subjective but to the younger generation that hasnt heard back to the egg...it should be listened to
Except for maybe three songs, for me McCartney II is one of the absolute worse albums of McCartney's entire career! That's just me, for those who like it, great!
Stupid and naive. If he is not the "real" Paul bring him to court. Just as simple. He would be in JAIL for many many years. So have a little spine instead of doing defamation.
huge BEATLE fan ,,but this album is horrible,,he then lost me with the Stevie Wonder M.J, fiascos,,,his return was TUG of WAR but most deffinetly FLAMING PIE thats the one thar brought me back to him,,,bu MACCA2 is terrible.
Calling two top 5 hits actually i think say say say and ebony and ivory each hit number 1 a fiasco is not entirely accurate. As a mccartney fan they are the pop dribble he often gets accused of , but someone liked them if they hit number 1. Then when he does a homespun obscure album he gets grilled as well . Damned if you do damned if you dont.
@@joebloggs4754 his stuff in the early 80s was tough on me as a big fan lol. I loved tug of War although I think it is a bit overrated. Take it away was a phenomenal song and there was some others such as wanderlust that were good, but the album is not a mastepiece.pipes of piece is like a worse version of that album ..i like some album cuts on it , but it is far from prime mccartney...press to play, flowers in the dirt, and off the ground (early 90s) to me were just mccartney light. Even the band he played with on his tours during that era played it safe, and i much prefer his recent configuration of a touring band. Flaming pie is a great mccartney album in my opinion. That was a return to form.. now, I do like some songs from his 80s and early 90s era, but the albums were weak on the whole. Sorry to go on about the topic, but I am a huge fan of his and enjoy the banter.
@@michaelfrazia4569 no ...i agree %100,,,i have been a fan since i was a kid but while HARRISON was playing with CLATON DELANEY and BONNIE,,RINGO popping up everywhere,paul was "doing duets wth MJ,,give me a break,,the one guy said the songs he did with him and STEVIE were big hits,,no kidding,,thats the whole point,,,he probably is a huge AMERICAN IDOL fan,,,something that sickens me,,,thats why i said what i said,,AND i am right!
@@michaelfrazia4569 btw,,i saw him 3 years ago and its the best concert i have ever seen and trust me being a "child of the 60s" i have seen them all,,thankfully he did NOT do those two 'pop crap'..
You said it loud! Huge Beatles fan, not a McCartney fan! A real McCartney fan loves this album! Go and hear the sad with the world Lennon because mummy left him or the preachy religious Harrison! We Real Macca fans love ALL kinds of music!
You're saying Steven Wilson is a nobody? In addition he isn't telling you anything it's a podcast for musical opinions his opinion is it ain't great and he explains very well why he thinks that
McCartney just tweeted that he will make an official response with a diss track featuring rice gum and ksi
And Ringo will be doing ba dum tss in the background lol
Surely Mccartney just needs to cover the future bites
I hope Sir Paul does lower himself to reply to this nobody.
McCartney Two is one of my favorite Paul albums. Loved it since day one!!
One thing I like about McCartney is that he writes, records and releases whatever he likes. He doesn’t ask the opinions of others, he deliberately doesn’t overthink and analyze what he’s written. The result is a lot of tracks that don’t measure up to his greatest work. He is a relentless song writer that’s is compelled to create all the time. I’ll take that McCartney any day.
Indeed, I think that courageous approach was the key to his astounding output of classics; you can't have one without the other.
“Temporary secretary is like Squarepusher 15 years earlier” “No, it’s like your dad trying to be Kraftwerk” I’M LOSING IT
Temporary Secretary is Paul being naughty.The rest is dross,though.Still love him,though.
yeah that was funny tbh ☠️
It’s a great record. Coming up, temporary secretary and dark room (especially the twin freaks remixEs) are intriguing tunes I love the one I hadn’t heard before which is secret friend, it goes on forever but it’s just a great groove. I like the bluesy feel of on the way and he plays some really great guitar on that. I’m a fan of throw a tracks like nobody knows and bogey music Which are fun to listen to and the two main ballads waterfalls and one of these days (which sounds like the Jefferson airplanes today at least production wise) make this album stand out for me. The experimental pieces blue sway and check my machineAre also fun. I put it in his top 10. Takes a couple of lessons though.
Incredible that McCartney didn't get credit for TLC's waterfalls but still didn't sue when it was one of the most blatant examples of plagiarism.
i always wondered that too.
It’s a vastly underrated album that was not what people expected. Brilliant album that covers a lot of ground.
McCartney II is a weird album. It might not be a great album, but it is interesting and it has influenced many later and current electro-pop and techno-pop artists.
Personally, I always loved McCartney II and also Wings' Back to the Egg!
Despite what people say and think Coming Up is a very well crafted and structured song.
MCCARTNEY II fits well in 2020 Covid 19 lockdown. I can listen to this album in isolation all day
Genuinely my gateway into the Beatles. I grew up hating that shit & it took the eccentricity & humour of McCartney II for me to be bother checking it out
This album was number 1 in UK and number 3 in USA...the single "Coming up live in Gladgow" was number 1 in USA...This album was well received by the fans....i love it since it came...
Coming up, waterfalls, summers day song, one of this days 4 great tracks for an excellent album
Any album which includes Waterfalls is a classic.
I love this album
It's a testament to the enormous talent that is Steven Wilson that he can claim a record by Paul McCartney is 'shit' and not one person comments along the lines of, 'And what would he know' or similar.
Could it be that this record is simply atypical of McCartney and secondly there is an element of humour and the avant-garde with some of the tracks. Temporary Secretary could be a Holger Czukay track, for instance. Steven Wilson seems to be somewhat devoid of humour, in my opinion.
@TheExtremenarcissist
Steven is hilarious in this. The other guy was laughing at his jokes. Steven has a dry sense of humor but he is British after all. He admits that the album isn't that bad but it's easy to see how McCartney 2 is an easy target to make fun of, and this is a really light roasting too so there really isn't anything for people to be upset about..
Its all just subjective opinion. For example I think Back to the Egg is a brilliant album and massively underrated in the Wings/McCartney discography, but I still hear quite a few people dump on it (like here).
@@TheExtremenarcissist I think it may be you who is devoid of humour. 😂
I haven't listened to this podcast but this clip really makes me want to listen to it now.
Steven Wilson must have shit in his ears and between his ears if he thinks McCartney II isn't a great album. It's aged like fine wine. Odd, sure, but excellent.
It still sounds fresh to my ears
I love the album years!
MCII is a nice record. It´s just his opinion, who cares?
wow, whatever drug steven is on i want some. sounds like he havnt slept in a month
Judging by your comment it’s you who is on drugs and has been deprived of sleep for some time. 😂
Giving it a re-listen now
Summer's Day Song is beautiful.
Some of the songs are sort of “traditional” McCartney songs, such as “One of These Days” and “Summer’s Day Song,” which I enjoy. But I like the crazy stuff on this album. Some of my favs are the outtakes such as “Mr. H Atom.” Funny, last night I was listening to Mc II, thinking about the new one coming up (no pun intended) and my wife made me turn it off. She couldn’t take it! Haha.
Coming Up alone, the original version in its lofi glory, is hugely influential for studio geeks trying to sound that way vs full of production sheen like every recording is today. .
Sorry,I love it...
McCartney II is worth buying for On the Way alone
I tortured my self enough to the point wear I like temporary secretary
I love that song. I never realized how divisive it was.
I love McCartney. I hate this album. It should have just been an EP, with waterfalls, summer's day song, one of these days and coming up. The rest should be unreleased or B sides.
it's an amazing album
Seriously? It's appalling. One of the worst albums ever made.
@@ryancalhoun2910 lmfao are you kidding? how? for me it's the 3rd best post Beatles McCartney album, the people that hate it aren't McCartney fans, it's one of my favorite albums ever
@@bestmetalandrocklists9120 Just my opinion bro. No need to get offended.
@@ryancalhoun2910 not offended, just really confused how a fan could think that of one of his best albums
@@bestmetalandrocklists9120 I personally find the songwriting just awful. Totally unfocused. And the lyrics are horrendous, too. Just a failed experiment in my view. I've tried several times and the album just does nothing for me.
No point discussing this at all - regardless of what Tim says Steven has made his mind up and will never in a million years accept anything Tim says. Everybody has an opinion and obviously Steven is not overly keen on McCartney 2 which is absolutely fine. He had a few points that I agreed with.
These guys opinions are worth about as much as their sex life, which is probably non-existent 🤔?! McCartney 2 is a broad, innovative, imaginative, genius body of work. McCartney is never boring, and this album is another gem of Sir Pauls'🤩
Thanks for your opinion Mr Sychophant
@@TheAlibabatree To basically call me a brown- noser, like I expect some reward from McCartney😆?! I wager you simpletons have kissed more 'a*s for money' than me, so stop being the childish little hypocrites you are!! I comment my support for a true Star🤩 in the music industry, a genius, and because my opinions differ from yours you call me a sychophant🤔. A word I had to look up. What geeks you are🤣. It's a pathetic pity that you didn't grow up listening to McCartney like I did in America 🤔. Maybe you would have been more 'mature' in your treatment of his work?! Grow up and educate yourselves before 'trying' to be legitimate critics🤙!
@@terrydawson8371 Are you a legitimate critic?
Steve Wilson is a fine remixer, but he’s never written a song half as good as “temporary secretary” or “coming up”, which are basically throwaways for McCartney.
Ok, that just proves you don't know anything about Steven Wilson. Trains, The Raven Who Refused to Sing, Drive Home.
As a life long beatle admirer ( even when it was most unfashionable prior to Lennons death ) I gave up on McCartney’s solo career at the point of the release of this particular album . The musical climate at the time , was still relatively fertile and even the “ die hards” amongst us , basically threw the towel in with this drivel . I’ve gone on to watch McCartney achieve godlike status , himself constantly regurgitating the same scripted interviews for the past forty years and producing at the very least , by his early high standards , some of the most cringeworthy music of the times . For those willing to sieve through the morass , then there are nuggets of beauty to be found “ Love in song / only love remains/ morse moose and a few little toe tappers , but the problem is that it appears that “The knight of the realm” continues to choose to surround himself with those that quite willingly blow smoke up his arse . In my hometown of Liverpool he has even constructed a factory dedicated to the annihilation of creativity , therefore contributing to the situation that we now find ourselves in , a culdesac of nondescript artists producing instantly disposable ditty’s. I was sitting in town the other week and McCartney pulled up in a car . I instantly turned my head the other way should I gain eye contact , thus to insure that I was not about to commit to some trite little encounter or be horrified by the emergence of James corden or some other inbred celeb he chooses to have dangling from his charmless lack of identity bracelet . Apparently , John Lennon was under the impression/ delusion that he was indeed the son of god incarnate , his manager retorted by asking “ isn’t being John Lennon enough when EVERYONE loves you “ to which Lennon replied “ that’s like saying NOBODY loves you .” I always felt that there was a deep longing in all the individual Beatles ( maybe it’s just a Liverpool thing) and none more so than McCartney and it looks like he has long since chosen to feed that vacuum with as much useless substance as he can render possible ( or maybe just GET BACK on the weed , pardon the pun ) .
It was Macca trying to follow the move at the time. Beyond Coming Up, it is at the bottom of the pile.
ain't no way Marc Bolan I love your music!!
I love flaming pie though
I prefer McCartney II than almost everything he did with The Wings.
Coming Up, Darkroom, On The Way, Temporary Secretary and Waterfall are great songs!
OK.
I hear mid-60s Beatles all over Lightbulb Sun and Stupid Dream. I even 'hear' the Beatles influence on C/C.
I'll get me coat.
McCartney II is a jumble .Homegrown recording style is fine but there should be a thread of intent in the style. I think a lot of us struggled to measure the good and not so good solo albums from artists who had defined the music we loved and lived for . Certainly McCartney, like so many , has since produced some great and some really awful albums - as have so many other artists who we have loved and still hold out for further gems from . Let us not even start on Neil Youngs's output of albums over the same period....
McCartney 2 is great in my opinion.
Being the lifelong Beatle fan, I remember distinctly receiving McCartney II as a Christmas present in the year it came out and playing it over and over on headphones, desperately wanting to like it. I obviously gave up eventually, swapped it at a second hand shop for something else and I would never get another copy.
In complete agreement with the eloquent Steven Wilson here and glad he just nonchalantly cites its predecessor of ten years, McCartney I, to be a classic in his preamble. Yep.....you had to be there, I suppose to evolve that fondness (although Wilson seems too young to have been there, surely!!).
agreed!
Haha, yeah I mean Steven just ages really fucking well, he's into his fifties by now
I really like side one of Mccartney 2
Steven Wilson is in his mid fifties and was a teenager when McCartney II came out.
1:01 I lost it here 😂
Es uno de mis discos favoritos por lo menos desde que lo escuche hace poco mas de un año, desde que escuche a uno de los de Oasis directamente insultar a Brian Wilson deje de tomar en cuenta la opinión de músicos famosos...
I'm actually surprised Steve Wilson doesn't see the value of this album.
I agree with Steven in that I like the idea of it, but I think the execution is awful. One of the worst albums ever.
@@ryancalhoun2910 out of curiosity, what idea is it that you like and what about the execution didn't you like?
@@hannahgarcia8645 I find the songs themselves to be extremely weak. The choruses are completely unmemeorable and the structure of many of the songs is a cluttered mess, too. I like McCartney branching into something new but just don't think it works at all on this album.
@@hannahgarcia8645 Especially Temporary Secretary. Without question, frankly, my least favorite song ever written by an artist I like. I'm not exaggerating. But that's just me.
@@ryancalhoun2910 you’re usually always better off seeing the positives in artists you actually like rather than negatives.
I was always amazed that an artist with the talent of McCartney put out a turkey like "Temporary Secretary" as a single. Probably THE low point in his career. Even the "Just about okay when you first hear, it but all downhill from there" song "Dance Tonight" is better.
Memory Almost Full is his masterpiece
I love the album 😍 Paul McCartney ❤
Frankly shit were actually a decent band
The best 80s one man band album has to be Arc of A Diver.
Coming Up was a great pop song but the rest of the album falls flat for me compared to everything else he'd done up to this point.
I do have a certain place in my heart for Tug Of War though.
Arc of a Diver is brilliant.
If someone can’t enjoy McCartney 2 it makes me sad for them. Not angry or argumentative.
Honestly, who cares what this guy thinks. I like it, many others like it, and within McCartney’s discography it represents a more experimental side to his material, which provides a great deal of variety, and provides depth to his output. If you don’t like it, don’t ever play it.
Difference of opinions can be good to hear at times
Agreed
This album was number1 in Uk and number 3 in USa...The single "Coming up live in Glasgow)" was number 1 in USA...it was a very well received by the fans...
Not McCartney I...just McCartney. Like the Godfather...or Led Zeppelin...it's just the name. No numerical suffix required. Subsequent numbers tell you the running order...it's kind of why they used them...
McCartney didn't "embrace" DIY in the 80's. With his first album recorded on a portable 4 track, he practically invented DIY....McCartney and Rundgren are the progenitors of the one artist band/project.
And judging by your thumbnail I'd assume we'd agree that a short song called "The Act of Being Polite" is an all time classic.
@@InsaneCarville When you assume you make an ass of me and Uma Thurman.
But, yes.
Steven Wilson you single-handedly kick the butt of so-called "legends" lol
we are talking about 1 album idiot,,,,you high?
The only thing Steven Wilson has vs Paul McCartney, is a bloated and arrogant attitude. Steven may have done some pretty solid records, but he is not as inventive and innovative as he believe himself to be, most of the albums pale in comparison to acts like Radiohead, and classic prog releases like Close to the Edge and Dark side of the moon. Real innovators, like Paul McCartney!
@@snuppssynthchannel Is he not? With albums like The Raven produced by Himself and Alan Parsons was a dark King Crimson yet classic sounding Genesis/Yes album with the darkness of SW. Hand. Cannot. Erase. Is a great example of pure 70s and 80s prog, but then you get to earlier work, In Absentia, a great way of having SW's Space rock and Prog influence take in Crosby Stills and Nash like tracks, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, among others. We get the Alternative sound of Stupid Dream, the full space rock of The Sky Moves Sideways. In recent years, To The Bone is Prog Pop with Soft Rock, The Future Bites, a concept album with Dream Pop and Synth Pop influence and his natural tone of writing. He is an extraordinarily gifted writer with a ton of range, and he makes (at the bare minimum) listenable songs of each genre he tries, but more or less succeeds in making great tunes in every album he makes.
I agree. I'm a big McCartney fan, and have developed a liking and respect for about all the albums I once thought were 2nd rate, such as "Off The Ground" which I now like a lot. But McCartney 2 is really a poor collection.
Steven Wilson proving he doesn’t know everything
Please make more of these 👍
Anyway, about 'London Town' . . .
MaCartney 2 is great 😃
Steven is a musical genius but I disagree with him. It's a great album!
who's Steven Wilson?
London Town was okay , but things got worse after that .
Hahaha Paul really don't care
So?
It’s not a fantastic Album it’s a good album . A nice surprise in a very patchy catalogue.
Coming up and Waterfalls are great tracks...end of.
End of what?!
Who?
McCartney 3 stinks.
agree 100% with Steven, not a great record AT ALL!
Good on ya Steve for taking the high road!!!
Back to the egg was fkn amazing...good god steven i love 90% of your music but even you have a couple bad albums solo wise...londontown is a hard album to get into but to place it as better than back to the egg...ehhh i dont get it...but thats ok music tastes are subjective but to the younger generation that hasnt heard back to the egg...it should be listened to
Al last, someone agrees with me. McCartney II is awful!
Well, most of us like the album, can't wait for McCartney III
McCartney II is 1000x better than BTS K Pop album
What are you smoking steve? 😅
Except for maybe three songs, for me McCartney II is one of the absolute worse albums of McCartney's entire career! That's just me, for those who like it, great!
Should be called Billy 2...!
mccartney ii is better than mccartney
Not a chance.
Because it is not Paul James McCartney. This is Billy the Scotsman and he is no good.
Stupid and naive. If he is not the "real" Paul bring him to court. Just as simple. He would be in JAIL for many many years. So have a little spine instead of doing defamation.
Even then the so called Billy Shears has better music than the so called dead Paul
On behalf of Faul I endorse this message
huge BEATLE fan ,,but this album is horrible,,he then lost me with the Stevie Wonder M.J, fiascos,,,his return was TUG of WAR but most deffinetly FLAMING PIE thats the one thar brought me back to him,,,bu MACCA2 is terrible.
Calling two top 5 hits actually i think say say say and ebony and ivory each hit number 1 a fiasco is not entirely accurate. As a mccartney fan they are the pop dribble he often gets accused of , but someone liked them if they hit number 1. Then when he does a homespun obscure album he gets grilled as well . Damned if you do damned if you dont.
@@joebloggs4754 his stuff in the early 80s was tough on me as a big fan lol. I loved tug of War although I think it is a bit overrated. Take it away was a phenomenal song and there was some others such as wanderlust that were good, but the album is not a mastepiece.pipes of piece is like a worse version of that album ..i like some album cuts on it , but it is far from prime mccartney...press to play, flowers in the dirt, and off the ground (early 90s) to me were just mccartney light. Even the band he played with on his tours during that era played it safe, and i much prefer his recent configuration of a touring band. Flaming pie is a great mccartney album in my opinion. That was a return to form.. now, I do like some songs from his 80s and early 90s era, but the albums were weak on the whole. Sorry to go on about the topic, but I am a huge fan of his and enjoy the banter.
@@michaelfrazia4569 no ...i agree %100,,,i have been a fan since i was a kid but while HARRISON was playing with CLATON DELANEY and BONNIE,,RINGO popping up everywhere,paul was "doing duets wth MJ,,give me a break,,the one guy said the songs he did with him and STEVIE were big hits,,no kidding,,thats the whole point,,,he probably is a huge AMERICAN IDOL fan,,,something that sickens me,,,thats why i said what i said,,AND i am right!
@@michaelfrazia4569 btw,,i saw him 3 years ago and its the best concert i have ever seen and trust me being a "child of the 60s" i have seen them all,,thankfully he did NOT do those two 'pop crap'..
You said it loud! Huge Beatles fan, not a McCartney fan! A real McCartney fan loves this album! Go and hear the sad with the world Lennon because mummy left him or the preachy religious Harrison! We Real Macca fans love ALL kinds of music!
Ah, more nobodies telling us what’s good or bad!
You're saying Steven Wilson is a nobody? In addition he isn't telling you anything it's a podcast for musical opinions his opinion is it ain't great and he explains very well why he thinks that
No the anonymous random comments like myself are from nobodies 😂
Wilson's peak is WAY below McCartneys worst! And that includes The Frog Chorus! Let's see if hes still selling records at 80! Tosser.
Steve who?
Go learn something bro
McCartney II is awesome, bruh.
bruh!