Paul McCartney - Fuh You

Rabs

errrmmmm...    What the Fuh?

Doesnt even sound like him?

octatonic

Yeah it does but that is an exceptionally shit song.

prowla

Is it one of his old songs?

JAYJO

sounds like one of his latest. Voice sounds older to me. Apparently  the idea was I just want it for you. Rolling Stone interview.

munckee

I like to the think of mull of kintyre as his retirement song and pretend he retired gracefully then.

proggy

At least it's an improvement on The Frog Chorus.

TheMarlin

I like a conspiracy theory, but a friend of mine is convinced Paul McCartney died in 1965, and was replaced by a doppelgänger that churns out nothing but disappointment. 

I find this one particularly hard to swallow...

Regardless, never been a fan of Macca’s solo stuff. Not that Ringo’s was much better.  George was always my favourite. 

Philly_Q

TheMarlin said:

I like a conspiracy theory, but a friend of mine is convinced Paul McCartney died in 1965, and was replaced by a doppelgänger that churns out nothing but disappointment. 

I've read some great stuff about that online, comparing loads of photos to show how the shape of his face has supposedly changed and he's got taller (or shorter, I forget which).  They claim the "new" Paul had plastic surgery - not sure how sophisticated that was in the 1960s - to look more like the old one.

The replacement, according to the site I saw, is supposed to be a guy called Billy Shepherd (... Billy Shears...) of Liverpool band Billy Pepper and the Pepperpots.

Thing is, even if it was all true, the "fake" Paul would be the one we've seen for the last 50 years, who did Sgt Pepper and the White Album and Wings and all the sugary bilge of his solo career... in a way he'd be more the "real" McCartney than the real one ever was.

All bollocks, but a fun way to kill a couple of hours on the internet.

Bridgehouse

The real Paul McCartney will be spinning in his grave

gringopig

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Strangefan

Oh jeez  shouldn't he just retire already! We all know wings is the band the beatles could have been. 

gringopig

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SidNewton

proggy said:

At least it's an improvement on The Frog Chorus.

Only just.

Rabs

Heres some more

gringopig

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richardhomer

McCartney has always done ‘throw away’ pop - Oh Bla Di Oh Bla Da, Coming Up, etc. Personally, I think he’s pretty good at it - and I’m just happy he seems fit, well and full of life at 76 - and still working.

ICBM

Utter tosh... makes One Direction sound like the Beatles.

I’d heard Come On To Me on the radio and that’s bad enough, but this is worse. I Don’t Know isn’t quite as awful, but that’s about the best thing I can say about it.

Sad.


And by the way, if you want to see what a man in his mid-70s can write, perform and sound like, go and see Roger Waters. OK he's two years younger than McCartney... but it sounds like 20.

Bridgehouse

gringopig said:

I liked Wings a lot

Right. That’s you on the ignore list then

Teyeplayer

I’ve always felt the guy was horrendously over-rated. Oo-Bla-di, maxwells silver hammer? They should never have made it to record, particularly when he had such moments of brilliant songwriting as Yesterday. It always smacked of a total lock of quality control to me and he has clearly remained as weak over the ensuing decades. 

Philly_Q

Watched the three clips above.  I've never been a fan so I don't feel strongly about them, they're not terrible, they're certainly not great.... my main thought was at 76 years old, with not much more in the tank, he's not exactly challenging himself to go out on a high note.  It's very humdrum.

I quite like the consistent style of the videos though.  Do people do that now, "video versions" of entire albums?

ICBM

Philly_Q said:

I quite like the consistent style of the videos though.  Do people do that now, "video versions" of entire albums?

Blondie did a video version of Eat To The Beat in 1979...