ARTIST: The Fireman (a.k.a. Paul McCartney)
TITLE: “Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight”
WEB DEBUT: Oct. 6, 2008
ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: The first single from Paul McCartney’s forthcoming album under the guise of The Fireman got some ink for airing out Heather Mills’ dirty laundry, but it should get even more ink for being a scorching rocker that sounds more like a lost Led Zeppelin b-side. It’s almost as if severing ties with his ex-wife and Starbucks’ failed record label at the same time freed McCartney in some way; he sounds pretty liberated here, ready to take on anyone who’s intimated that he’ll be the last Beatle to kick the bucket for cosmic “best to worst”-related reasons. If the rest of Electric Arguements is this, er, argumentative, I may be able to forgive him for “Freedom.” (Maybe.)
WHERE TO FIND IT: Click, click:
Paul McCartney - Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight [MP3 / ATO Records]
I really dig this. It sounds like he’s hitting the Monkberry Moon Delight again. This one’s more Peter Gabriel-y, but I like it okay:
That was way more intense than it had a right to be. I dig.
woah. first glance i saw paul mccartney RIP. i guess i’m glad that’s not the case.
@iantenna: Especially given this jam!
Given how dreadful his early-90’s techno experiments as The Fireman were on “Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest” were, this is rather surprisingly decent.
Not too bad…kind of rambles a bit and is a little formless, but it’s tons better than the coy and cute shit he’s been shoveling out for ages.
I was really hoping this would be a story about Paul farting. Hi, I’m five years old.
@owenmeany: Intentional leak of the day, indeed.
Not bad…
I like the fact that at his age (or at any age) he is taking a chance by doing something that we wouldn’t think of him doing…I like artists that confound expectations…
I really like it when that artist is Paul McCartney…’cause let’s face it…he needs the respect that everybody dishes out to Lennon…
But truth be told…I would WAY listen to to “Ram” then “Imagine”…
or my undervalued favorite off of “Speed of Sound” - “Beware My Love”