Paul McCartney & Wings: Wild Life (US Bonus Tracks) CD Track Listing

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Paul McCartney & Wings Wild Life (US Bonus Tracks) (1971)
Wild Life (US Bonus Tracks)\n\nPaul McCartney & Wings\n1999 Toshiba-EMI Limited - Japan\n\nOriginally Released December 7, 1971\nStandard CD Released June 20, 1989\nRemastered CD with Bonus Tracks Released June 8, 1993\nGold CD Released N/A\nJapanese Mini LP Version Released July 28, 1999\nJapanese Version featuring a Limited Edition LP Style Slipcase for Initial Pressing Only.\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: The irony of the first Wings album is that it seems more domesticated than Ram, feeling more like a Paul 'n' Linda effort than that record. Perhaps it's because this album is filled with music that's defiantly lightweight -- not just the cloying cover of "Love Is Strange" but two versions apiece of songs called "Mumbo" and "Bip Bop." If this is a great musician bringing his band up to speed, so be it, but it never seems that way -- it feels like one step removed from coasting, which is wanking. 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 -- it's hard to imagine a record with less substance, especially from an artist who's not just among the most influential of the 20th century, but from one known for precise song and studiocraft. Here, he's thrown it all to the wind, trying to make a record that sounds as pastoral and relaxed as the album's cover photo. He makes something that sounds easy -- easy enough that you and a couple of neighbors who you don't know very well could knock it out in your garage on a lazy Saturday afternoon -- and that's what's frustrating and amazing about it. 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. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nRich, 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 \n\nHalf.com Album Credits\nAlan Parsons, Engineer\nTony Clark, Engineer\nLinda McCartney, Producer\nPaul McCartney, Producer\nPaul McCartney, Producer\n\n\nAlbum Notes\nWings: Paul McCartney (vocals, guitar, bass); Denny Laine (vocals, guitar); Linda McCartney (vocals, keyboards); Denny Seiwell (drums).\n\nMcCartney's third post-Beatles album, and the first credited to his new band Wings, saw the former Beatle continue his exploration of stripped-down, garage-like recording. With Denny Laine on guitar and Denny Seiwell on drums, the overall vibe is similar to that of MCCARTNEY: short repetitive hooks, fuzzed-out electric guitars, mid-tempos, expert ear-candy throwaways. This is all fine and dandy because, except for the title track where Paul and Linda are already on the way towards their eventual revolutionary vegeterianist and pro animal rights views, the lyrics aren't overburdened with meaning. Musically, though, you can already hear McCartney exploring styles his old band didn't touch upon, as on "Wild Life"s downbeat bass line, which has dub written all over it, and the Afro-pop overtones of Laine's guitar melodies.
This rock cd contains 13 tracks and runs 50min 2sec.
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