Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Paul McCartney
Chaos And Creation In The Backyard
(Parlophone, 2005)
Nasty divorce and Starbucks defection notwithstanding: Macca’s still got “it”.
Those hoping for something revolutionary from Paul McCartney as he cruises into his 64th year can turn away right now. Enemies of the cloying and facile can likewise hop it. This is a Paul McCartney album after all. If, however, you’re truffling for evidence that the foremost melodicist of the rock era can still squeeze a tune out of a mangle, you’re in luck. Fine Line is a vivid, Get Back-style clatterer, Jenny Wren is an adroit, twangling return to Blackbird territory, while How Kind Of You and Vanity Fair cleverly pit Macca’s perma-optimistic lilt against mournful, downbeat tapestries. There’s an uncluttered, unforced feel that makes C&CITB (ugh!) pleasant company throughout, and producer Nigel Godrich has steered a largely cheese-free course, from which even the Noel Cowardesque English Tea (“Very twee! Very me!” goes the lyric, tweely) proves a tolerable diversion. After the laboured Driving Rain, a welcome return of that definitive, love-it-or-hate-it McCartney effortlessness.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 11/12/2007
Further Listening
Divine Comedy – Promenade (Setanta, 1997)
The Fireman – Rushes (Hydra, 1998)
Paul McCartney – Ram (Parlophone, 1971)
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
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paul macca suck since 1967
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