Label: Toshiba / EMI Records (Japan), TOCP-3137
Style: Soundtrack, Rock, Pop Rock
Country: Liverpool, England (18 June 1942)
Time: 73:51
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 449 Mb
Charts: UK #1, AUS #10, GER #25, NLD #24, NOR #4, NZ #25, SWE #9, US #21. Canada and US: Gold; UK: Platinum.
This
soundtrack to Paul McCartney‘s commercially disastrous film, Give My
Regards to Broad Street, isn’t his most embarrassing solo album - in
fact, it has moments of real spirit. But the LP’s conceptual effect is
as dismaying as anything McCartney has come up with in his
ever-lengthening post-Fab career. There are only three new songs here;
the rest of the record is filled out with pointless Beatles remakes and
even more meaningless reprises of some of McCartney’s own solo fluff.
This is a shame, because the new tunes are pretty good.
"No More
Lonely Nights" is one of the most solid pop tracks McCartney has
recorded in years. With its delicate melody and instant-hook chorus,
it’s a song worthy of the man’s unquestioned talents. And "No Values"
and "Not Such a Bad Boy" are cleverly constructed rockers given crucial
oomph by guitarists Dave Edmunds and Chris Spedding, and by good old
Ringo Starr on drums. Fine. From there on, though, it’s downhill all the
way.
The remakes of the Beatles-era "Yesterday," "Here, There and
Everywhere," "For No One," "Eleanor Rigby" and "Good Day Sunshine" are
simply redundant: McCartney adds nothing to the original versions. "The
Long and Winding Road," burdened with a cocktail-lounge arrangement,
seems aimed at aging Beatles fans whose next stop will be soppy evenings
with a bottle of Scotch and a stack of Sinatra records. His decision to
redo them here smacks of both hubris and professional desperation, as
if he were telling us, "Look what I’m really capable of." His revamped
solo oldies seem similarly unnecessary.
Paul McCartney remains a
puzzle - a gifted musician, singer and songwriter who piddles his gifts
away. His bloodless, homebody persona and oppressive whimsicality are at
fundamental odds with rock’s animating impulses, and his determined
disinclination to exert himself in any meaningful musical direction
seems by now almost to border on arrogance. McCartney’s contempt for his
own talent marks one of the saddest declines in contemporary pop.
(rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/give-my-regards-to-broad-street-sdtk-102267/) Review by Kurt Loder. January 17, 1985
01. No More Lonely Nights (Ballad) (05:12)
02. Good Day Sunshine/Corridor Music (02:33)
03. Yesterday (01:42)
04. Here, There And Everywhere (01:43)
05. Wanderlust (04:07)
06. Ballrooom Dancing (04:50)
07. Silly Love Song/Reprise (05:27)
08. Not Such A Bad Boy (03:28)
09. So Bad (03:24)
10. No Values/No More Lonely Nights (04:12)
11. For No One (02:12)
12. Eleanor Rigby/Eleanor's Dream (09:12)
13. The Long And Winding Road (03:56)
14. No More Lonely Nights (Playout Version) (05:07)
15. Goodnight Princess (04:07)
16. No More Lonely Nights (Extended Version) (08:11)
17. No More Lonely Nights (Special Dance Mix) (04:21)
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