Wings Wild Life [Import]
Track Listings
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1. Mumbo
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2. Bip Bop
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3. Love Is Strange
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4. Wild Life
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5. Some People Never Know
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6. I Am Your Singer
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7. Bip Bop Link
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8. Tomorrow
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9. Dear Friend
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10. Mumbo Link
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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Rich, successful, happily married, and absurdly talented, Paul McCartney had nothing to do, so he recorded Wild Life. That would explain the frippery for which this curious record has long been ridiculed, but it's a perspective that does Wild Life--recorded in a couple of days--a disservice. In every sense it's the work of a still-young man still reeling from the '60s, unsure what to do with himself, in a still-young decade that had the same problem. Once past the thumbs-up inanity of "Bip Bop," much of it is great--like the title track, an ominous, slow-mo blues, showcasing a throat-shredding McCartney vocal and a genuine sense of doom, and the bleak and wistful "Tomorrow." Best is "Dear Friend," a red-raw ballad that throws long shadows over the rest of the album, with McCartney singing of his crushed friendship with John Lennon. --Taylor Parkes
Album Description
Reissue of the 1972 album. It's easy to get irritated by the upfront cutesiness, since it's married to music that's featherweight at best. Then again, that's what makes this record bizarrely fascinating. Yeah, it's possible to call this a terrible record, but it's so strange in its domestic bent and feigned ordinariness that it winds up being a pop album like no other. Packaged in a paper sleeve. EMI. 2005.
Wings Wild Life, Music, Paul Mccartney, Rock/Pop
Average customer rating:
- A real gem unfairly trashed at the time of its release
- Overlooked And Sadly Disparaged Needlessly?
- Bonus tracks kick it up to 4.5*
- McCartney less Lennon
- McCartney's Worst Effort
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Wild Life
Wings
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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Similar Items:
- Red Rose Speedway
- London Town
- At The Speed Of Sound
- Back To The Egg
- McCartney II
ASIN: B000005RPU
Release Date: 1993-06-08 |
Tracks:
- Mumbo
- Bip Bop
- Love Is Strange
- Wild Life
- Some People Never Know
- I Am Your Singer
- Bip Bop Link
- Tomorrow
- Dear Friend
- Mumbo Link
- Give Ireland Back To The Irish
- Mary Had A Little Lamb
- Little Woman Love
- Mama's Little Girl
Amazon.com
Rich, successful, happily married, and absurdly talented, Paul McCartney had nothing to do, so he recorded Wild Life. That would explain the frippery for which this curious record has long been ridiculed, but it's a perspective that does Wild Life--recorded in a couple of days--a disservice. In every sense it's the work of a still-young man still reeling from the '60s, unsure what to do with himself, in a still-young decade that had the same problem. Once past the thumbs-up inanity of "Bip Bop," much of it is great--like the title track, an ominous, slow-mo blues, showcasing a throat-shredding McCartney vocal and a genuine sense of doom, and the bleak and wistful "Tomorrow." Best is "Dear Friend," a red-raw ballad that throws long shadows over the rest of the album, with McCartney singing of his crushed friendship with John Lennon. --Taylor Parkes
Album Details
Digitally Remastered Version of the Album with Bip Bop / Love is Strange / Dear Friend plus Four Bonus Tracks Added: Give Ireland Back to the Irish / Mary Had a Little Lamb / Little Woman Love / Mama's Little Girl.
Customer Reviews:
A real gem unfairly trashed at the time of its release.......2007-03-13
I'm 38, a lifelong Beatle fan and never bought this album due to the horrendous reviews it got in the various Beatles books I read, really ridiculing the album and attacking Paul for failing to "live up to the promise of Abbey Road with his first three solo releases," although 'Wild Life' is technically the first Wings album. "McCartney" (good) and "Ram" (great!) were also harshly reviewed for the same reasons. What a surprise! "Wild Life" is one of Paul's most fun albums. Almost every song was instantly memorable and I enjoy it as much as any solo Beatle album I've ever heard. It may not be as "important" as Band on the Run but sure is a lot of fun. Paul fans, enjoy!! 5 stars for Paul lovers!
Now that time has passed and the world is no longer outraged at the breakup of the Beatles, one can and should enjoy solo Beatle albums as much as Beatles albums. Our heroes never stopped playing music, they just stopped playing music directly with each other. But I believe the music would have come out the same because the Beatles were writing on their own for years prior to the breakup.
Rather than judge this album (and Paul) because of what is expected of him or the Beatles, we can now listen to this stuff objectively, and "Wild Life" has my vote as the most fun Paul album I've heard yet ... and I still have many to go!
Overlooked And Sadly Disparaged Needlessly?.......2007-03-03
My friend in high school was a big Paul McCartney fan; I was the John Lennon fan. He played this album for me one day in 1972 and I had to say most of it went right by me. I was in the hate part of the love hate relationship I had with Ram at the time. I loved McCartney the first time he played it for me. But somehow those buggers reviewing Wings/Wild Life in Rolling Stone vivi-sected it and made it sound like some second hand amaturish pre-garage band crap that McCartney should not have been associated with. I have similar distraught memories hearing Red Rose Speedway for the first time.
Having owned the American version on CD for some years now(why they didn't include "Give Ireland Back To The Irish" I'll never know); That then is the singular reason why I will rebuy this CD. By the way the original Sometime In New York City by John Lennon is worth tracking down if only for the now Ono-ized expunged Zappa/Mothers/Lennon/Ono side that
Yoko Ono deleted? After the fine Zappa/Mothers Playground Pychotics. Yes, "Scumbag" was actually "King Kong."
On to this senselessly maligned first McCartney/Wings offering. Some good reviews here so I will not add to the otherwise expertly deconstructed reviews of this good cracked Meisterwerk. Following Ram how could this album not be denigrated? The good songs are self-evident. I don't need to go into them. Why buy this CD?
The rather self-effacing and in 1972 somewhat embarrising material actually holds up real well against McCartney's early Eighties material: Tug Of War/Pipes Of Peace/Give My Regards To Broadway. It even trumps the early Nineties stuff. I always went for the live albums starting with Tripping The Light Fantastic.
This is the original Denny Laine(ex-Moody Blue)/Denny Siewell and truly learning to play keyboards late Linda McCartney as the band. Ram part two this could be viewed as. First albums always seem to exude a charm and ambience that seems to miss the mark further down the line.`The album that followed is even more than an enigma than this one.
Why buy this CD? This is Paul McCartney And Wings before the train wreck that led to Band On The Run and Lagos; The consequently refined "Wings" sound that had at its apex Back To The Egg. This is the fun, unself-conscious, and searching McCartney. Wings later gets qualified out of existence; McCartney's Beatle legs re-emerge and looseness and spontaneity
dries up after Red Rose Speedway. This is the equivalent to Neil Young's Tonight The Night. Off the cuff, sloppy, out of tune, overtly emotional,
and fractured; but of a piece. cracked, faulted, but somehow- right.
Bonus tracks kick it up to 4.5*.......2007-02-19
Following Beatles' albums like Abbey Road and his own McCartney, this album seemed a bit offhand, self-indulgent. Listening to the entire set many, many years later, I have to say there's some really fine music here; even the opener (which maybe should have been the original) has an infectious beat and a near-classic riff - it's really another tribute to Mr. Richard Penniman - echoes of "Jenny, Jenny" - who at the time this l.p. was released, could have benefitted by a listening, not to assume he didn't hear it - the recent issue of his '72 Country/Soft Rock "Southern Child" should be noted by both PM and LR fans. Did the "Teacher" learn from the "Student", or was it the other way around? Compare Richard's "If You Pick Her Too Hard (She Comes Out Of Tune)" with "Mama's Little Girl" -wait a minute, that's a bonus cut, sorry...
Another couple of musicians who it's presumed were inspired by this l.p. are Steve Forbert and Mike Boldt. Good company, no?
Gettin' back to the subject of this review, this record stands alone as good music, is representative of the artist, and it's fun to listen to. There's everything you'd expect from Sir Paul (maybe when he did "Give Ireland Back To The Irish" he didn't anticipate Knighthood - pardon the facetious sounding statement - wow, another *bonus* track....). Wild Life has some of the lung-annihilating quality of many past aural endeavours; I don't fully understand the lyric, but that's cool. I believe I dig "Dear Friend", a classic McCartney reflection upon a cooled friendship.
"Love Is Strange" is Rock n' Reggae if you will, a great blend of voices.
This is an interesting use of four musicians - perhaps Paul was going back to his own roots. As Jerry Lee might say, Think about it!
McCartney less Lennon.......2007-01-10
A must for any Beatles or Macca fan. Some of the tracks are a bit weak, but I found it very enjoyable listening to Macca trying to find his way musically without John. It had been many years since I had heard "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb", and I found both to be quite enjoyable.
McCartney's Worst Effort.......2007-01-05
Other than the strong tracks on the album (SOME PEOPLE NEVER KNOW, TOMORROW, DEAR FRIEND, all a bit overlong) this album has hardly anything to offer. It was recorded over just a few days with a fresh band and it feels that way. Songs like LOVE IS STRANGE and WILD LIFE are half finished and tunes like MUMBO, BIP BOP and I AM YOUR SINGER are just worthless junk.
The bonus tracks are nice. Give Ireland Back To The Irish is McCartney's best attempt at having a backbone in his solo career. Mary Had A Little Lamb is a garbage response to the BBC banning "Irish". It have no musical value. Little Woman Love is a nice underrated track from that era. Mama's Little Girl is a lovely little acoustic track that remained unreleased until 1989 or 1990 on the Put It There CD single. It very well may be the best track on the disc.
Average customer rating:
- Get it on itunes
- A nice time is not a crime.
- Paul's Wild Life is his own "Plastic Ono Band" and his most underrated
- Give Paul a Chance
- McCartney Catalogue offers a great texture of sound
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Wild Life
Wings
Manufacturer: Indent Series
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Pop
| Styles
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Soft Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Classic Rock
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| Music
Similar Items:
- Ram
- Red Rose Speedway
- Venus and Mars
- London Town
- McCartney II
ASIN: B000005JJN
Release Date: 1996-07-23 |
Tracks:
- Mumbo
- Bip Bop
- Love Is Strange
- Wild Life
- Some People Never Know
- I Am Your Singer
- Bip Bop Link
- Tomorrow
- Dear Friend
- Mumbo Link
- Oh Woman, Oh Why [*]
- Mary Had A Little Lamb [*]
- Little Woman Love [*]
Amazon.com
Rich, successful, happily married, and absurdly talented, Paul McCartney had nothing to do, so he recorded Wild Life. That would explain the frippery for which this curious record has long been ridiculed, but it's a perspective that does Wild Life--recorded in a couple of days--a disservice. In every sense it's the work of a still-young man still reeling from the '60s, unsure what to do with himself, in a still-young decade that had the same problem. Once past the thumbs-up inanity of "Bip Bop," much of it is great--like the title track, an ominous, slow-mo blues, showcasing a throat-shredding McCartney vocal and a genuine sense of doom, and the bleak and wistful "Tomorrow." Best is "Dear Friend," a red-raw ballad that throws long shadows over the rest of the album, with McCartney singing of his crushed friendship with John Lennon. --Taylor Parkes
Album Description
Reissue of the 1972 album. It's easy to get irritated by the upfront cutesiness, since it's married to music that's featherweight at best. Then again, that's what makes this record bizarrely fascinating. Yeah, it's possible to call this a terrible record, but it's so strange in its domestic bent and feigned ordinariness that it winds up being a pop album like no other. Packaged in a paper sleeve. EMI. 2005.
Album Details
Limited Edition Lp Style Sleeve
Customer Reviews:
Get it on itunes.......2007-06-23
Before you spend $299.00 for a used copy of this rare album, consider buying it on itunes for $9.99. Not McCartney's best (and I was incredibly disappointed when it came out), but listening again, I like the freshness in McCartney's voice--I'd say this is some of his best singing. Also, the fact that this was put together in a couple days actually makes this a better CD or at least more interesting. So, I'd have to say it is worth the cash--that is $9.99
A nice time is not a crime........2007-03-10
Back in the early 70's, McCartneys output was unfairly criticised because he was seen as the man who broke up the Beatles, and then spent his life being a happy family man, instead of a headline grabbing world trotter like Lennon. Due to this, his early albums (up and including Red Rose...) were unfairly attacked. This is still seen in the critisism of his early records today. Allthough it must be said that 'Ram' has gotten a lot of positive press in later years. As Lennon turned out to be an uninspired solo artist, Harrison kept making the same album over and over, and Ringo, well, the novelty wore off, McCartney finally conqoured the World in his own right, again, with Band On The Run.
The prevailing sense of what was hip and what was not in 1971/72 should not keep us from enjoying, in 2007, what is an album of fine, and at times great pop songs. If nothing else, this is a historical first recording, of one of the 70's greatest bands, The Wings.
Paul's Wild Life is his own "Plastic Ono Band" and his most underrated.......2007-02-08
Mumbo - an unfinished song, lyrics are murmured, pre-dating the mumbled lyrics by Michael Stipe R.E.M. by ten years
Bip Bop - Tune written for his children - note the 50's slapback (Gene Vincent) echo on the vocal.
Love is Strange - Strange choice for a cover, done White Reggae style (Linda was a huge reggae fan at the time)
WIld Life - THis is the song that wouldn't sound out of place on Lennons Plastic Ono Band with primal scream singing
Some People Never Know/I am your Singer/Tomorrow - Classic Wings and the blueprint for the next few Wings records
Dear Friend - Pauls open letter to his friend John. They would reconcile soon after this record
Mary Had a Little Lamb - another kids song
The single for this album "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" was banned by the BBC
Give Paul a Chance.......2006-05-14
Sure. When this album was first released, everyone was craving the next "message" from a former Beatle. But, to paraphrase Mr. Lennon, the dream was over. So when "Wings Wild Life" entered our lives it was dismissed as lightweight and disposable.
Well just look at it now.
Simple unassuming yet gorgeous tunes with some of the greatest harmonies this side of Pet Sounds (which this album recalls in spots). McCartney's voice was never better; the deep scream he used so well in the late 60s / early 70's is very much in evidence. The guitars are nice and crunchy. It's a bit more produced than "McCartney" (his solo debut which proved to be the blueprint for every DIY rocker to come after), but, thankfully, LESS produced than some of his overwrought later efforts (I'm pointing my shame-finger directly at "Venus and Mars").
Just sit back and enjoy "Wings Wild Life." The big message is there is no message. What? You gotta have a message all the time?
McCartney Catalogue offers a great texture of sound.......2006-02-25
Wings Wild Life...
You can listen to the reviews which echo the original sentiments when this album was released and believe this album doesn't live up to "some critic's" idea of McCartney standards. If you do, you'll be the one missing out, not the reviewer who has had the pleasure to listen to the music and already has a copy (free copy) of this album. Instead think of the music created as a Beatle and as solo artists by all four men.
If you take the Beatles recordings in terms of years you can package many of their albums into double record sets without blinking an eye. You can easily mistake their first two albums (and respective singles) and make a CD or album from those tracks and never know they were released as separate albums. But they did record 2 albums a year which is so ridiculous to keep up that pace and quality, which no other band has ever done.
So You can take (for ease of discussion using the British titles) Please Please Me and With the Beatles and make one album out of them and never know the difference because the sound was basically the same over the same 12 month period they recorded those albums.
The same could be said of A Hard Day's Night and Beatles For Sale. You can easily make a set out of Rubber Soul and Revolver and the American albums prove me right as they mixed many of these songs on different albums as well as making Yesterday and Today using some left over Help! album tracks. WHich means you can eliminate Help! and take some tracks and use them with the Hard Day's Night / Beatles For Sale set, and use the rest with the Rubber Soul / Revolver set...bonus tracks if you will.
You can package up Sgt. Pepper's and Magial Mystery Tour along with tracks recorded during that time from Yellow Submarine sndtrk. and make one album from them. The Beatles (white album) is already a 2 record set missing a tune recorded later for Yellow Sub, Hey Bulldog which would fit nicely near Bungalow Bill, Martha My Dear, Piggies or Blackbird in the animal section of the album. ;-) Perhaps if they polished the recordings at that time for Let it Be they could manage to make them fit with Abbey Road. But perhaps they could stand on their own given the vastly different sound between the two albums they'd be the only ones recorded within a 12 month period to stand alone.
Now, what does this have to do with Wild Life? SImply put, this album is not like anything else McCartney ever did, but it's not so far away it sounds foriegn to McCartney. Wilde Life is more complete than McCartney which was always panned for being a "home recording" sound. It took me a while to grow to like McCartney, but now it fits in nicely with everything else. But why? It's simple actually. If McCartney or Lennon or Harrison were to repeat themselves musically with what they did as Beatles, what point would that serve? They'd sell records I suppose, but would they still be recording artists? Would they be panned for repeating themselves? Would they be trashed by fans for not growing musically or finding their own voice as writers and musicans?
I find that McCartney unlike the others offers a much more varied listening pleasure over Lennon or Harrison and maybe many other artists. He takes chances others won't take. I know Lennon fans (me being a fan as well) might think I am pushing Macca over him, but remember, John places Yoko on his albums and thus there are songs that just need to be skipped. If Paul just recorded perfect songs all the time and not a varied texture, we could easily take out his greatest hits compilations. John Lennon arguably sounds the same in almost every album. The exceptions are Plastic Ono Band, (the sparsist of sounds with the simplest of instrumentation); Walls and Bridges, (the most produced sound to my ears); and the biggest exception, though I don't know what new ground he broke, would be Double Fantasy, which is really only half a John Lennon album given Yoko has every other track. So really it was an EP of Lennon unless you finish off those tracks with his tracks from Milk and Honey.
So when people trash Wild Life, keep in mind, it is not like any other album McCartney put together. Very few of Paul's albums can be linked by a common sound. Even now you can't place Flaming Pie with Off the Ground or Flowers in the Dirt. He keeps trying to give you something new and different to listen to as part of the soundtrack of your life. For me, I like all of it with some rare exceptions when I just am not in the mood for that particular sound at a given time. But you can almost dismiss whole albums by John like Sometime in New York City or even Rock and Roll which has less than inspired renditions (see Beatles at the BBC or McCartney Unplugged or Choba B CCCP) of old rock songs he liked. Not that I don't like it, but was it really his best when he was admittedly drunk much of that time when recording it?
Wild Life...give it a listen and maybe even listen on a summer's day while driving to a vacation destination or a pleasure drive with the windows down and the wind rustling in your hair to tunes like Mumbo blaring out your speakers. It's a fun album with soulful feel thanks to songs like Bip Bop and Dear Friend as well as thought provoking tracks like Wild Life itself. Since I didn't discover much of these albums from any of the band until after they had been out there a while (I was born in 1965 and really didn't "discover" the Beatles solo work outside of Band on the Run until 1978 when I bought a yard sale copy of London Town and got hooked for life to such a rich tapestry of musical sounds provided by these wonderfully talented artists, John, Paul, George and of course the ever fun Ringo...check out his Christmas CD if you just want a fun CD to hear start to finish at the Holiday season.
Average customer rating:
- Get it on itunes
- A nice time is not a crime.
- Paul's Wild Life is his own "Plastic Ono Band" and his most underrated
- Give Paul a Chance
- McCartney Catalogue offers a great texture of sound
|
Wings Wild Life
Manufacturer: Toshi
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
Classic Rock
| Imports
| Stores
| Music
Rock
| Imports
| Stores
| Music
Similar Items:
- Ram
- Red Rose Speedway
- Venus and Mars
- London Town
- McCartney II
ASIN: B00001ZTF2
Release Date: 1999-07-28 |
Tracks:
- Mumbo
- Bip Bop
- Love Is Strange
- Wild Life
- Some People Never Know
- I Am Your Singer
- Bip Bop Link
- Tomorrow
- Dear Friend
- Mumbo Link
Amazon.com
Rich, successful, happily married, and absurdly talented, Paul McCartney had nothing to do, so he recorded Wild Life. That would explain the frippery for which this curious record has long been ridiculed, but it's a perspective that does Wild Life--recorded in a couple of days--a disservice. In every sense it's the work of a still-young man still reeling from the '60s, unsure what to do with himself, in a still-young decade that had the same problem. Once past the thumbs-up inanity of "Bip Bop," much of it is great--like the title track, an ominous, slow-mo blues, showcasing a throat-shredding McCartney vocal and a genuine sense of doom, and the bleak and wistful "Tomorrow." Best is "Dear Friend," a red-raw ballad that throws long shadows over the rest of the album, with McCartney singing of his crushed friendship with John Lennon. --Taylor Parkes
Album Description
Reissue of the 1972 album. It's easy to get irritated by the upfront cutesiness, since it's married to music that's featherweight at best. Then again, that's what makes this record bizarrely fascinating. Yeah, it's possible to call this a terrible record, but it's so strange in its domestic bent and feigned ordinariness that it winds up being a pop album like no other. Packaged in a paper sleeve. EMI. 2005.
Album Details
Limited Edition Lp Style Sleeve
Customer Reviews:
Get it on itunes.......2007-06-23
Before you spend $299.00 for a used copy of this rare album, consider buying it on itunes for $9.99. Not McCartney's best (and I was incredibly disappointed when it came out), but listening again, I like the freshness in McCartney's voice--I'd say this is some of his best singing. Also, the fact that this was put together in a couple days actually makes this a better CD or at least more interesting. So, I'd have to say it is worth the cash--that is $9.99
A nice time is not a crime........2007-03-10
Back in the early 70's, McCartneys output was unfairly criticised because he was seen as the man who broke up the Beatles, and then spent his life being a happy family man, instead of a headline grabbing world trotter like Lennon. Due to this, his early albums (up and including Red Rose...) were unfairly attacked. This is still seen in the critisism of his early records today. Allthough it must be said that 'Ram' has gotten a lot of positive press in later years. As Lennon turned out to be an uninspired solo artist, Harrison kept making the same album over and over, and Ringo, well, the novelty wore off, McCartney finally conqoured the World in his own right, again, with Band On The Run.
The prevailing sense of what was hip and what was not in 1971/72 should not keep us from enjoying, in 2007, what is an album of fine, and at times great pop songs. If nothing else, this is a historical first recording, of one of the 70's greatest bands, The Wings.
Paul's Wild Life is his own "Plastic Ono Band" and his most underrated.......2007-02-08
Mumbo - an unfinished song, lyrics are murmured, pre-dating the mumbled lyrics by Michael Stipe R.E.M. by ten years
Bip Bop - Tune written for his children - note the 50's slapback (Gene Vincent) echo on the vocal.
Love is Strange - Strange choice for a cover, done White Reggae style (Linda was a huge reggae fan at the time)
WIld Life - THis is the song that wouldn't sound out of place on Lennons Plastic Ono Band with primal scream singing
Some People Never Know/I am your Singer/Tomorrow - Classic Wings and the blueprint for the next few Wings records
Dear Friend - Pauls open letter to his friend John. They would reconcile soon after this record
Mary Had a Little Lamb - another kids song
The single for this album "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" was banned by the BBC
Give Paul a Chance.......2006-05-14
Sure. When this album was first released, everyone was craving the next "message" from a former Beatle. But, to paraphrase Mr. Lennon, the dream was over. So when "Wings Wild Life" entered our lives it was dismissed as lightweight and disposable.
Well just look at it now.
Simple unassuming yet gorgeous tunes with some of the greatest harmonies this side of Pet Sounds (which this album recalls in spots). McCartney's voice was never better; the deep scream he used so well in the late 60s / early 70's is very much in evidence. The guitars are nice and crunchy. It's a bit more produced than "McCartney" (his solo debut which proved to be the blueprint for every DIY rocker to come after), but, thankfully, LESS produced than some of his overwrought later efforts (I'm pointing my shame-finger directly at "Venus and Mars").
Just sit back and enjoy "Wings Wild Life." The big message is there is no message. What? You gotta have a message all the time?
McCartney Catalogue offers a great texture of sound.......2006-02-25
Wings Wild Life...
You can listen to the reviews which echo the original sentiments when this album was released and believe this album doesn't live up to "some critic's" idea of McCartney standards. If you do, you'll be the one missing out, not the reviewer who has had the pleasure to listen to the music and already has a copy (free copy) of this album. Instead think of the music created as a Beatle and as solo artists by all four men.
If you take the Beatles recordings in terms of years you can package many of their albums into double record sets without blinking an eye. You can easily mistake their first two albums (and respective singles) and make a CD or album from those tracks and never know they were released as separate albums. But they did record 2 albums a year which is so ridiculous to keep up that pace and quality, which no other band has ever done.
So You can take (for ease of discussion using the British titles) Please Please Me and With the Beatles and make one album out of them and never know the difference because the sound was basically the same over the same 12 month period they recorded those albums.
The same could be said of A Hard Day's Night and Beatles For Sale. You can easily make a set out of Rubber Soul and Revolver and the American albums prove me right as they mixed many of these songs on different albums as well as making Yesterday and Today using some left over Help! album tracks. WHich means you can eliminate Help! and take some tracks and use them with the Hard Day's Night / Beatles For Sale set, and use the rest with the Rubber Soul / Revolver set...bonus tracks if you will.
You can package up Sgt. Pepper's and Magial Mystery Tour along with tracks recorded during that time from Yellow Submarine sndtrk. and make one album from them. The Beatles (white album) is already a 2 record set missing a tune recorded later for Yellow Sub, Hey Bulldog which would fit nicely near Bungalow Bill, Martha My Dear, Piggies or Blackbird in the animal section of the album. ;-) Perhaps if they polished the recordings at that time for Let it Be they could manage to make them fit with Abbey Road. But perhaps they could stand on their own given the vastly different sound between the two albums they'd be the only ones recorded within a 12 month period to stand alone.
Now, what does this have to do with Wild Life? SImply put, this album is not like anything else McCartney ever did, but it's not so far away it sounds foriegn to McCartney. Wilde Life is more complete than McCartney which was always panned for being a "home recording" sound. It took me a while to grow to like McCartney, but now it fits in nicely with everything else. But why? It's simple actually. If McCartney or Lennon or Harrison were to repeat themselves musically with what they did as Beatles, what point would that serve? They'd sell records I suppose, but would they still be recording artists? Would they be panned for repeating themselves? Would they be trashed by fans for not growing musically or finding their own voice as writers and musicans?
I find that McCartney unlike the others offers a much more varied listening pleasure over Lennon or Harrison and maybe many other artists. He takes chances others won't take. I know Lennon fans (me being a fan as well) might think I am pushing Macca over him, but remember, John places Yoko on his albums and thus there are songs that just need to be skipped. If Paul just recorded perfect songs all the time and not a varied texture, we could easily take out his greatest hits compilations. John Lennon arguably sounds the same in almost every album. The exceptions are Plastic Ono Band, (the sparsist of sounds with the simplest of instrumentation); Walls and Bridges, (the most produced sound to my ears); and the biggest exception, though I don't know what new ground he broke, would be Double Fantasy, which is really only half a John Lennon album given Yoko has every other track. So really it was an EP of Lennon unless you finish off those tracks with his tracks from Milk and Honey.
So when people trash Wild Life, keep in mind, it is not like any other album McCartney put together. Very few of Paul's albums can be linked by a common sound. Even now you can't place Flaming Pie with Off the Ground or Flowers in the Dirt. He keeps trying to give you something new and different to listen to as part of the soundtrack of your life. For me, I like all of it with some rare exceptions when I just am not in the mood for that particular sound at a given time. But you can almost dismiss whole albums by John like Sometime in New York City or even Rock and Roll which has less than inspired renditions (see Beatles at the BBC or McCartney Unplugged or Choba B CCCP) of old rock songs he liked. Not that I don't like it, but was it really his best when he was admittedly drunk much of that time when recording it?
Wild Life...give it a listen and maybe even listen on a summer's day while driving to a vacation destination or a pleasure drive with the windows down and the wind rustling in your hair to tunes like Mumbo blaring out your speakers. It's a fun album with soulful feel thanks to songs like Bip Bop and Dear Friend as well as thought provoking tracks like Wild Life itself. Since I didn't discover much of these albums from any of the band until after they had been out there a while (I was born in 1965 and really didn't "discover" the Beatles solo work outside of Band on the Run until 1978 when I bought a yard sale copy of London Town and got hooked for life to such a rich tapestry of musical sounds provided by these wonderfully talented artists, John, Paul, George and of course the ever fun Ringo...check out his Christmas CD if you just want a fun CD to hear start to finish at the Holiday season.
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Wild Life
Paul McCartney , and Wings
Manufacturer: Emd/Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00000DQYR
Release Date: 1989-06-20 |
Tracks:
- Mumbo
- Bip Bop
- Love Is Strange
- Wild Life
- Some People Never Know
- I Am Your Singer
- Bip Bop Link
- Tomorrow
- Dear Friend
- Mumbo Link
- Oh Woman, Oh Why [*]
- Mary Had A Little Lamb [*]
- Little Woman Love [*]
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Rich, successful, happily married, and absurdly talented, Paul McCartney had nothing to do, so he recorded Wild Life. That would explain the frippery for which this curious record has long been ridiculed, but it's a perspective that does Wild Life--recorded in a couple of days--a disservice. In every sense it's the work of a still-young man still reeling from the '60s, unsure what to do with himself, in a still-young decade that had the same problem. Once past the thumbs-up inanity of "Bip Bop," much of it is great--like the title track, an ominous, slow-mo blues, showcasing a throat-shredding McCartney vocal and a genuine sense of doom, and the bleak and wistful "Tomorrow." Best is "Dear Friend," a red-raw ballad that throws long shadows over the rest of the album, with McCartney singing of his crushed friendship with John Lennon. --Taylor Parkes
Album Description
Reissue of the 1972 album. It's easy to get irritated by the upfront cutesiness, since it's married to music that's featherweight at best. Then again, that's what makes this record bizarrely fascinating. Yeah, it's possible to call this a terrible record, but it's so strange in its domestic bent and feigned ordinariness that it winds up being a pop album like no other. Packaged in a paper sleeve. EMI. 2005.
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Customer Reviews:
Get it on itunes.......2007-06-23
Before you spend $299.00 for a used copy of this rare album, consider buying it on itunes for $9.99. Not McCartney's best (and I was incredibly disappointed when it came out), but listening again, I like the freshness in McCartney's voice--I'd say this is some of his best singing. Also, the fact that this was put together in a couple days actually makes this a better CD or at least more interesting. So, I'd have to say it is worth the cash--that is $9.99
A nice time is not a crime........2007-03-10
Back in the early 70's, McCartneys output was unfairly criticised because he was seen as the man who broke up the Beatles, and then spent his life being a happy family man, instead of a headline grabbing world trotter like Lennon. Due to this, his early albums (up and including Red Rose...) were unfairly attacked. This is still seen in the critisism of his early records today. Allthough it must be said that 'Ram' has gotten a lot of positive press in later years. As Lennon turned out to be an uninspired solo artist, Harrison kept making the same album over and over, and Ringo, well, the novelty wore off, McCartney finally conqoured the World in his own right, again, with Band On The Run.
The prevailing sense of what was hip and what was not in 1971/72 should not keep us from enjoying, in 2007, what is an album of fine, and at times great pop songs. If nothing else, this is a historical first recording, of one of the 70's greatest bands, The Wings.
Paul's Wild Life is his own "Plastic Ono Band" and his most underrated.......2007-02-08
Mumbo - an unfinished song, lyrics are murmured, pre-dating the mumbled lyrics by Michael Stipe R.E.M. by ten years
Bip Bop - Tune written for his children - note the 50's slapback (Gene Vincent) echo on the vocal.
Love is Strange - Strange choice for a cover, done White Reggae style (Linda was a huge reggae fan at the time)
WIld Life - THis is the song that wouldn't sound out of place on Lennons Plastic Ono Band with primal scream singing
Some People Never Know/I am your Singer/Tomorrow - Classic Wings and the blueprint for the next few Wings records
Dear Friend - Pauls open letter to his friend John. They would reconcile soon after this record
Mary Had a Little Lamb - another kids song
The single for this album "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" was banned by the BBC
Give Paul a Chance.......2006-05-14
Sure. When this album was first released, everyone was craving the next "message" from a former Beatle. But, to paraphrase Mr. Lennon, the dream was over. So when "Wings Wild Life" entered our lives it was dismissed as lightweight and disposable.
Well just look at it now.
Simple unassuming yet gorgeous tunes with some of the greatest harmonies this side of Pet Sounds (which this album recalls in spots). McCartney's voice was never better; the deep scream he used so well in the late 60s / early 70's is very much in evidence. The guitars are nice and crunchy. It's a bit more produced than "McCartney" (his solo debut which proved to be the blueprint for every DIY rocker to come after), but, thankfully, LESS produced than some of his overwrought later efforts (I'm pointing my shame-finger directly at "Venus and Mars").
Just sit back and enjoy "Wings Wild Life." The big message is there is no message. What? You gotta have a message all the time?
McCartney Catalogue offers a great texture of sound.......2006-02-25
Wings Wild Life...
You can listen to the reviews which echo the original sentiments when this album was released and believe this album doesn't live up to "some critic's" idea of McCartney standards. If you do, you'll be the one missing out, not the reviewer who has had the pleasure to listen to the music and already has a copy (free copy) of this album. Instead think of the music created as a Beatle and as solo artists by all four men.
If you take the Beatles recordings in terms of years you can package many of their albums into double record sets without blinking an eye. You can easily mistake their first two albums (and respective singles) and make a CD or album from those tracks and never know they were released as separate albums. But they did record 2 albums a year which is so ridiculous to keep up that pace and quality, which no other band has ever done.
So You can take (for ease of discussion using the British titles) Please Please Me and With the Beatles and make one album out of them and never know the difference because the sound was basically the same over the same 12 month period they recorded those albums.
The same could be said of A Hard Day's Night and Beatles For Sale. You can easily make a set out of Rubber Soul and Revolver and the American albums prove me right as they mixed many of these songs on different albums as well as making Yesterday and Today using some left over Help! album tracks. WHich means you can eliminate Help! and take some tracks and use them with the Hard Day's Night / Beatles For Sale set, and use the rest with the Rubber Soul / Revolver set...bonus tracks if you will.
You can package up Sgt. Pepper's and Magial Mystery Tour along with tracks recorded during that time from Yellow Submarine sndtrk. and make one album from them. The Beatles (white album) is already a 2 record set missing a tune recorded later for Yellow Sub, Hey Bulldog which would fit nicely near Bungalow Bill, Martha My Dear, Piggies or Blackbird in the animal section of the album. ;-) Perhaps if they polished the recordings at that time for Let it Be they could manage to make them fit with Abbey Road. But perhaps they could stand on their own given the vastly different sound between the two albums they'd be the only ones recorded within a 12 month period to stand alone.
Now, what does this have to do with Wild Life? SImply put, this album is not like anything else McCartney ever did, but it's not so far away it sounds foriegn to McCartney. Wilde Life is more complete than McCartney which was always panned for being a "home recording" sound. It took me a while to grow to like McCartney, but now it fits in nicely with everything else. But why? It's simple actually. If McCartney or Lennon or Harrison were to repeat themselves musically with what they did as Beatles, what point would that serve? They'd sell records I suppose, but would they still be recording artists? Would they be panned for repeating themselves? Would they be trashed by fans for not growing musically or finding their own voice as writers and musicans?
I find that McCartney unlike the others offers a much more varied listening pleasure over Lennon or Harrison and maybe many other artists. He takes chances others won't take. I know Lennon fans (me being a fan as well) might think I am pushing Macca over him, but remember, John places Yoko on his albums and thus there are songs that just need to be skipped. If Paul just recorded perfect songs all the time and not a varied texture, we could easily take out his greatest hits compilations. John Lennon arguably sounds the same in almost every album. The exceptions are Plastic Ono Band, (the sparsist of sounds with the simplest of instrumentation); Walls and Bridges, (the most produced sound to my ears); and the biggest exception, though I don't know what new ground he broke, would be Double Fantasy, which is really only half a John Lennon album given Yoko has every other track. So really it was an EP of Lennon unless you finish off those tracks with his tracks from Milk and Honey.
So when people trash Wild Life, keep in mind, it is not like any other album McCartney put together. Very few of Paul's albums can be linked by a common sound. Even now you can't place Flaming Pie with Off the Ground or Flowers in the Dirt. He keeps trying to give you something new and different to listen to as part of the soundtrack of your life. For me, I like all of it with some rare exceptions when I just am not in the mood for that particular sound at a given time. But you can almost dismiss whole albums by John like Sometime in New York City or even Rock and Roll which has less than inspired renditions (see Beatles at the BBC or McCartney Unplugged or Choba B CCCP) of old rock songs he liked. Not that I don't like it, but was it really his best when he was admittedly drunk much of that time when recording it?
Wild Life...give it a listen and maybe even listen on a summer's day while driving to a vacation destination or a pleasure drive with the windows down and the wind rustling in your hair to tunes like Mumbo blaring out your speakers. It's a fun album with soulful feel thanks to songs like Bip Bop and Dear Friend as well as thought provoking tracks like Wild Life itself. Since I didn't discover much of these albums from any of the band until after they had been out there a while (I was born in 1965 and really didn't "discover" the Beatles solo work outside of Band on the Run until 1978 when I bought a yard sale copy of London Town and got hooked for life to such a rich tapestry of musical sounds provided by these wonderfully talented artists, John, Paul, George and of course the ever fun Ringo...check out his Christmas CD if you just want a fun CD to hear start to finish at the Holiday season.
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Wild Life / Venus And Mars
Paul McCartney & Wings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000RA94I2 |
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