Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie [Japanese Ed.] (1997)

♪ Year: 5 May 1997 (CD Jul 25, 2025)
♪ Label: Universal Music (Japan), UICY-80482
♪ Style: Rock, Soft Rock, Pop Rock
♪ Country: Liverpool, England (18 June 1942)
♪ Time: 53:46
♪ Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
♪ Size: 376 Mb

His first studio album in over four years, it was mostly recorded after McCartney's involvement in the highly successful Beatles Anthology project. The album was recorded in several locations over two years, between 1995 and 1997, featuring two songs dating from 1992.
The album featured several of McCartney's family members and friends, most notably McCartney's son, James McCartney featured on electric guitar. In Flaming Pie's liner notes, McCartney said: "[The Beatles Anthology] reminded me of the Beatles' standards and the standards that we reached with the songs. So in a way it was a refresher course that set the framework for this album."
Flaming Pie peaked at number two in both the UK and the US and was certified gold. The album, which was well received by critics, also reached the top 20 in many other countries. From its release up to mid-2007, the album sold over 1.5 million copies. The album was reissued on 31 July 2020 as a part of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection with bonus tracks, outtakes and demos.
The album is ranked number 988 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's book All-Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Pie)

01. The Song We Were Singing (03:55)
02. The World Tonight (04:05)
03. If You Wanna (04:37)
04. Somedays (04:15)
05. Young Boy (03:54)
06. Calico Skies (02:32)
07. Flaming Pie (02:30)
08. Heaven On A Sunday (04:26)
09. Used To Be Bad (04:12)
10. Souvenir (03:41)
11. Little Willow (02:58)
12. Really Love You (05:18)
13. Beautiful Night (05:08)
14. Great Day (02:09)

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Ringo Starr (The Beatles) - Goodnight Vienna [3 bonus tracks] (1974)

Year: 15 November 1974 (CD 1993)
Label: Capitol Records (US), CDP 0777 7 80378 2 8
Style: Soft Rock, Rock
Country: Liverpool, England (7 July 1940)
Time: 45:11
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 272 Mb

While all three other former Beatles had contributed to Ringo (1973), only John Lennon contributed to Goodnight Vienna. On 17 June 1974, Starr called Lennon, who was about to record his Walls and Bridges album, and asked him to write a song he could include on his next album. Lennon wrote what became the title track, "Goodnight Vienna". A demo of "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna" was recorded by Lennon on 28 June, with the session musicians from Walls & Bridges and sent to Starr in advance of the sessions. Besides writing and playing piano on the title track, Lennon suggested Starr cover The Platters' hit "Only You (And You Alone)" playing acoustic guitar and providing a guide vocal for Starr to follow. Starr's versions of both "Only You (And You Alone)" and "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna" were recorded at a session produced by Lennon. Elton John also contributed a track, "Snookeroo", co-written with Bernie Taupin. Harry Nilsson gave Starr the track "Easy for Me", which he later recorded his own version of for his Duit on Mon Dei album.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Vienna)

01. Goodnight Vienna (02:34)
02. Occapella (02:56)
03. Oo-Wee (03:46)
04. Husbands And Wives (03:36)
05. Snookeroo (03:29)
06. All By Myself (03:24)
07. Call Me (04:08)
08. No No Song (02:34)
09. Only You (And You Alone) (03:27)
10. Easy For Me (02:21)
11. Goodnight Vienna (reprise) (01:21)
12. Back Off Boogaloo (bonus track) (03:22)
13. Blindman (bonus track) (02:44)
14. Six O'Clock (Extended Version) (05:23)

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Paul McCartney - Flowers In The Dirt [Japanese Ed.] (1989)

Year: 5 June 1989 (CD May 23, 2025)
Label: Universal Music (Japan), UICY-80480
Style: Rock, Soft Rock, Pop Rock
Country: Liverpool, England (18 June 1942)
Time: 54:08
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 537 Mb

In the aftermath of his work with Wings and then a general decline in overall quality that marked his efforts in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, Flowers in the Dirt was greeted with some skepticism by the record-buying public. Paul McCartney was still capable of writing terrific songs, but none seemed to be making the emphatic impression that accompanied early hits like “Band of the Run,” “Jet” and Maybe I’m Amazed.” It was, at a point, all about “Silly Love Songs,” and in the wake of John Lennon’s murder, Macca was looked on as a light-weight, certainly not an artist that still merited serious attention.
Flowers in the Dirt changed all that, and though it didn’t exactly set sales on fire when it was first released, it did provide a sturdy stockpile of songs that McCartney and company could effectively showcase on their landmark 1990 tour. Several of the tracks became staples of his set, and for good reason. The catchy and compelling “My Brave Face,” penned with Elvis Costello, the irrepressible “Figure of Eight” and the tender ballad “Put It There” were but three of the songs that marked this album as one of McCartney’s best.
Listening in retrospect, it’s remarkable how well the album still holds up. Unlike his other albums, the quality is generally consistent throughout, and even some of the secondary songs - “Rough Ride, “This Day Is Done,” “This One,” and the like - do well even under careful scrutiny.
An excellent example of why an album deserves a second look, Flowers in the Dirt can easily be compared with McCartney’s best. Consider it a minor masterpiece.
(glidemagazine.com/183465/paul-mccartney-reissues-1989-number-1-lp-flowers-dirt-album-review/)

01. My Brave Face (03:20)
02. Rough Ride (04:45)
03. You Want Her Too (03:14)
04. Distractions (04:42)
05. We Got Married (04:58)
06. Put It There (02:12)
07. Figure Of Eight (03:27)
08. This One (04:12)
09. Don't Be Careless Love (03:21)
10. That Day Is Done (04:22)
11. How Many People (04:16)
12. Motor Of Love (06:27)
13. Ou Est Le Soleil (04:46)

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Paul McCartney And Wings - Red Rose Speedway [Japanese Ed. SHM-CD] (1973)

Year: 4 May 1973 (CD Sep 20, 2024)
Label: Universal Music (Japan), UICY-80468
Style: Soft Rock, Rock, Classic Rock
Country: Liverpool, England (18 June 1942)
Time: 42:24
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 374 Mb

Red Rose Speedway was McCartney’s fourth solo album, a mere three years after the break-up of The Beatles, and the second Wings release. Unlike 1971’s Wings Wild Life, he thought it would be a good idea to let people know exactly who they were, and thus in 1973 Red Rose Speedway debuted, credited to Paul McCartney and Wings. The idea worked because it became the first to go to number one (McCartney’s second as a solo act). But let’s be clear, it made number one because of the package, not the name on the label. But the name did ensure radio play and brought it to people’s attention.
Red Rose Speedway was a huge hit in 1973, thanks, in part, to the number one hit “My Love”, but it is full of twists and turns. “My Love” was not indicative of what listeners would find on the album as a whole. For example, it opens with one of McCartney and Wings’ greatest rockers, “Big Barn Bed”, with a heavy-rocking sound that would have made a great single in its own right. It is a slice of mid-70s rock, with McCartney’s ear for melody and quirky lyrics. This leads into “My Love”, which is the polar opposite. It features one of guitarist Henry McCullough’s best ever guitar solos, totally improvised mere minutes before the track was recorded live with an orchestra.
Side one ends with one of McCartney’s most underrated and beautiful songs, “Little Lamb/Dragonfly”, an emotional song, featuring some of McCartney’s most painful and beautiful vocals of his career. It is a brilliant medley of two complimentary songs that come together to form a perfect mini rock opera. “I have no answer for you little lamb/I can help you out, but I cannot help you in”, McCartney sings. It was reportedly written when a lamb on his farm was dying. But don’t be fooled, there is much more to this raw masterpiece.
Side two opens with another emotional, albeit short track, “Single Pigeon”. It is one of those songs that McCartney can knock off in his sleep, but it fits perfectly as the side opener. Side two is a heavier side, with an experimental instrumental (“Loup”) and a medley that rivals side two of Abbey Road. Here are four songs that McCartney had left unfinished and he turned them into an amazing medley that ends the album. The medley is composed of lovely love songs, including “Hold Me Tight”, (not the Beatle song) and the almost psychedelic “Lazy Dynamite”. It is an interesting and clever way to bring the album to a close.
(full version: spillmagazine.com/spill-album-review-paul-mccartney-and-wings-red-rose-speedway-50th-anniversary/)

01. Big Barn Bed (03:50)
02. My Love (04:08)
03. Get On The Right Thing (04:17)
04. One More Kiss (02:29)
05. Little Lamb Dragonfly (06:23)
06. Single Pigeon (01:53)
07. When The Night (03:37)
08. Loup (1st Indian On The Moon) (04:23)
09. Medley: Hold Me Tight - Lazy Dynamite - Hands Of Love - Power Cut (11:21)

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Ringo Starr (The Beatles) - Sentimental Journey (1970)

Year: 27 March 1970 (CD 1995)
Label: Capitol Records (US), CDP 0777 7 98615 2 1
Style: Pop Rock, Rock
Country: Liverpool, England (7 July 1940)
Time: 34:01
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 199 Mb

By the end of the 1960s, it was no longer a question of if The Beatles would explore solo ventures-it was merely a matter of when. The internal strains were well-documented, and it seemed inevitable that each of the four would begin sketching out their post-Beatle identities. For Lennon, it was political provocation and primal confession. For McCartney, domestic charm and soft experimentation. For Harrison, spiritual depth and guitar-driven grandeur. And for Ringo Starr-arguably the least musically prolific of the quartet-it was... an album of 1940s standards.
Sentimental Journey, released in 1970, was a puzzling choice. While the title and cover (a photograph of the Liverpool pub where Ringo was born above) clearly aimed for nostalgic intimacy, the project felt curiously out of step-not only with the moment, but with Starr’s own emerging post-Beatle persona. It was, by any measure, an odd debut: a collection of big-band-era songs more associated with parental record collections than with the countercultural revolution The Beatles had helped spark.
The decision might have been defensible if it had been framed as kitsch or recontextualization, but Starr approached the material with sincerity. Unfortunately, sincerity could not compensate for vocal limitations. Ringo, always a charming and reliable Beatle, was never a singer of great range or interpretive power. And these songs-iconic, melodically rich, and deeply associated with legendary vocalists-required both.
The arrangements, it must be said, are competently executed. The record enlisted multiple high-profile producers and arrangers, including George Martin, Quincy Jones, and Paul McCartney himself. Each track was tailored to a different musical team, yet the results somehow feel homogenous-pleasant but lifeless. One is left with the impression that the sessions were arranged first, and Ringo’s vocals added later as an afterthought.
The material itself is largely untouchable: Night and Day, Blue, Turning Grey Over You, Stardust. But familiarity is a double-edged sword. These songs carry weight, and unless a singer can bring something revelatory-or at the very least, charmingly idiosyncratic-the risk is that they collapse under their own history. Starr, with his good-natured but flat delivery, simply can’t elevate them. The record, while well-intentioned, feels less like a sentimental journey and more like a polite detour.
(full version: clemsmusicreviews.com/ringostarr/sentimentaljourney.html)

01. Sentimental Journey (03:28)
02. Night And Day (02:26)
03. Whispering Grass (02:39)
04. Bye Bye Blackbird (02:12)
05. I'm A Fool To Care (02:39)
06. Stardust (03:25)
07. Blue Turning Grey over You (03:20)
08. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (03:07)
09. Dream (02:42)
10. You Always Hurt The One You Love (02:20)
11. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You (02:44)
12. Let The Rest Of The World Go By (02:54)

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The Fireman (Paul McCartney & Youth) - Electric Arguments (2008)

Year: 24 November 2008 (CD Nov 24, 2008)
Label: mpl communication ltd. (UK & Europe), tplp1003cd
Style: Experimental Rock, Alternative Rock, New Age
Country: England
Time: 63:11
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 408 Mb

Paul McCartney (vocals, bass guitar) - Liverpool, England (18 June 1942). Youth - Martin Glover (bass, keyboards, vocals), Slough, Buckinghamshire, England (27 December 1960).
Ten years after Paul McCartney and Martin 'Youth' Glover (ex Killing Joke) released their last collaborative 'mystery disc' under the Fireman moniker (the dancey Rushes) they return. Any right-thinking musicologist may balk at the the wisdom of two bassists working together, but the pair's efforts have always borne interesting fruit. However, anyone expecting Electric Arguments to fit under the same 'experimental' or 'electronic' bracket as previous work may be surprised. Only Universal Here, Everlasting Now's collages are really mind-melting. Much like Eno and Byrne's recent reunion, this album defies expectations by featuring not only vocals and lyrics but, gasp, songs! In fact Electric Arguments is nothing less than a rather fine McCartney solo album, perhaps shoved out under the alias to show a certain label who's really boss. Whatever, it's a spry 13-track (and one hidden track) jaunt through styles a-plenty; from psychedelic folk to blues grit.
If there's any argument for calling this truly 'experimental' it's because the duo leave the endings rough as a badger's bottom and have a tendency to throw in some Mellotron, a touch of flanging to the voice, or play stuff...backwards. Wow. But this is Macca and he's on form, seemingly using the freedom of relative anonymity to stretch out, relax, turn on, tune in, drop out and make like a kid in a sonic sandbox, mixing it up and throwing some curveballs. Opener, Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight comes on like Zep meeting Beefheart, full of mealy-mouthed blues harp and Helter Skelter raging. Light From Your Lighthouse comes direct from Dylan and the Band's rootsy basement and Lifelong Passion's raga and synth mix may well be Paul's tribute to George Harrison.
Not everything convinces. Is This Love? meanders dangerously like a b-side. Sun Is Shining drones with bucolic good-naturedness but goes nowhere: Paul gets up sees the sun shining down etc etc. Lovers In A Dream ("...warmer than the sun" repeated over a trance burble) falls down a somewhat featureless hole between early Primal Scream and the Orb, while Dance 'Til We're High misses being Paul Oakenfold and instead ends up like Phil Spector.
No matter, this is a rather tasty little album that reminds us again who was the adventurous one in the Moptops. Thumbs aloft, indeed.
(bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/wjcz/) Review by Chris Jones. 2008

01. Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight (04:55)
02. Two Magpies (02:12)
03. Sing The Changes (03:43)
04. Travelling Light (05:05)
05. Highway (04:16)
06. Light From Your Lighthouse (02:31)
07. Sun Is Shining (05:11)
08. Dance 'Til We're High (03:37)
09. Lifelong Passion (04:48)
10. Is This Love? (05:51)
11. Lovers In A Dream (05:21)
12. Universal Here, Everlasting Now (05:05)
13. Don't Stop Running (10:30)

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The Beatles - Help! (1965)

Year: 6 August 1965 (CD Sep 9, 2009)
Label: EMI Records (Europe), 0946 3 82415 2 2
Style: Rock, Classic Rock
Country: Liverpool, England
Time: 33:55
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 238 Mb

Seven of the fourteen songs, including the singles "Help!" and "Ticket to Ride", appeared in the film and take up the first side of the vinyl album. The second side includes "Yesterday", the most-covered song ever written. The album was met with favourable critical reviews and topped the Australian, German, British and American charts.
During the recording sessions for the album, the Beatles continued to explore the studio's multitracking capabilities to layer their sound. "Yesterday" features a string quartet, the band's first use of Baroque sensibilities, and "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" includes a flute section. The North American release is a true soundtrack album, combining the first seven songs with instrumental music from the film. The omitted tracks are instead spread across the Capitol Records LPs Beatles VI, Rubber Soul and Yesterday and Today.
In the US, Help! marked the start of artistic recognition for the Beatles from mainstream critics, including comparisons to the European art music tradition. It was nominated in the category of Album of the Year at the 1966 Grammys Awards, marking the first time that a rock band had been recognised in this category. In 2000, it was voted 119th in the third edition of Colin Larkin's book All Time Top 1000 Albums. In 2020, it was ranked 266th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In September 2013, after the British Phonographic Industry changed its sales award rules, Help! was certified platinum for recorded sales since 1994.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help!)

01. Help! (02:19)
02. The Night Before (02:34)
03. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (02:09)
04. I Need You (02:28)
05. Another Girl (02:05)
06. You're Going To Lose That Girl (02:18)
07. Ticket To Ride (03:09)
08. Act Naturally (02:30)
09. It's Only Love (01:56)
10. You Like Me Too Much (02:36)
11. Tell Me What You See (02:37)
12. I've Just Seen A Face (02:05)
13. Yesterday (02:05)
14. Dizzy Miss Lizzy (02:56)

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The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)

Year: 26 September 1969 (CD )
Label: EMI Records (Europe), 0946 3 82468 2 4
Style: Rock, Classic Rock
Country: Liverpool, England
Time: 47:29
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 315 Mb

Charts: UK #1, AUS #1, CAN #1, FRA #1, GER #1, NOR #1, US #1. FRA & GER: Platinum; AUS: 3x Platinum; UK: 8x Platinum; CAN & US: Diamond.
After the recording sessions for the proposed Get Back album, Paul McCartney suggested to producer George Martin that the group get together and make an album "the way we used to do it", free of the conflict that had begun during sessions for The Beatles (also known as the "White Album"). Martin agreed, but on the strict condition that all the group—particularly John Lennon—allow him to produce the record in the same manner as earlier albums and that discipline would be adhered to. No one was sure that the work would be the group's last, though George Harrison later recalled that "it felt as if we were reaching the end of the line".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road)

01. Come Together (04:19)
02. Something (03:02)
03. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (03:27)
04. Oh! Darling (03:27)
05. Octopus’s Garden (02:50)
06. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (07:47)
07. Here Comes the Sun (03:05)
08. Because (02:45)
09. You Never Give Me Your Money (04:02)
10. Sun King (02:26)
11. Mean Mr. Mustard (01:06)
12. Polythene Pam (01:12)
13. She Came In Through the Bathroom Window (01:58)
14. Golden Slumbers (01:31)
15. Carry That Weight (01:36)
16. The End (02:21)
17. Her Majesty (00:25)

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