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Nothing like a messy divorce to get the creative juices flowing, eh? Nothing like being accused of flailing wildly at your ex-missus with a broken wine glass to put decades of whimsical, milkman-tickling, cred-killing songsmithery into sharp relief, wouldn’t you say? Clear the decks, dig deep into those reservoirs of marital pain and vomit out your own Blood On The Tracks for the new millennium. Paul McCartney? Oh that shit’s dark.
Except... he isn’t really, is he? At all. We’d like to think of Sir Paul inwardly seething with untapped rage as he simpers, whistles and generally mugs his way through this tootling, flatulent ditty, but he almost definitely isn’t. The only hint of tragedy is in the video, where he can be found wandering round his deserted mansion with an inexplicable procession of ghosts and Gareth out of The Office (playing a milkman - huzzah!), mandolin nestled somewhere under his aged, cloying puppy-dog features.
As the song fades to a well-deserved close, it’s impossible to shake the lingering image of him sitting crumpled in a lavishly upholstered chair, strings busted on his mandolin from the unbearable strain of having to play out such depth-plumbing inanity, strumming out a few wretched chords, lump rising in his throat as he drunkenly hollers after the memory of his old flame: “Heather! I love you, you fucking whore!!”
The walls of his desolate manor echo back their mocking response.
But yeah, it’s a toe-tapper, alright.
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He's playing a fucking ukelele throughout, but halfway through there's a bloody great distorted guitar coming in. The producer/engineer must have been on crack.
How can a man who was in the best band EVER be so terminally uncool?
The Beatles where pretty plodding anyway.
I wish this song was done on some dirty synths and that he sang "I'm gonna dance tonight/Get fucked up and be all right" instead. Then we'd know that he was dealing and quite cool, actually
This is one of the worst songs
I have ever heard
Awful
Awful Awful.
I haven't heard the full song
but that itunes advert makes me want to headbutt the tv. What I've heard of this song is really dire.
5/10 is about right I think
Yeah the lyrics are cringeworthy but if you look past them and forget any notions of cool, this is actually a pretty strong pop song. I hated it at first but it's grown on me I have to admit.
Hmm
It's very catchy
But so is AIDs
fantastic
review:)
Sounds like
the incidental music from the champions league on ITV
But shit
anyone see him "write a song" during his interview on popworld?
I'm still shivering.
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Sorry dont agree at all. Rubbish review - good song. Nice one Macca.
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then again i guess its not 'cool' to admit you like Macca
you're so right!
everyone likes this song and is just claiming to hate it to look 'cool'.
yeah.
that's a sly trick they're pulling - clever old you, well done for spotting it - I wonder if anyone has ever done that before and had it pointed out by the honest, decent folk like yourself?
well, well, well. i've had a look around DiS and it turns out that people are doing this lying-and-claiming-to-dislike-songs-that-they-actually-like-to-be-cool quite a lot.
Fortunately there are many wise heads such as yourself who refused to get sucked into this 'cool' prattle and can point out the error of everyone else's ways. You should all get together and write a menifesto of musical honesty and rejecting modern notions of 'cool' - that'd be great.
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hehe...
Paul's still making music
for the grannies to dig.
Its not a ukelele
its a mandolin
I know its a bit crap...
...but, seriously, the iPod + iTunes advert, the most cool Macca has looked in decades, no? I think so.
Apparently he chose to record this song
because he was mucking about playing it at Christmas and his 3 1/2 yr old daughter starting dancing. Clearly trying to hard to corner the 'yoof' market there, then...
Do you hear that?
Do you hear that noise?
It's the sound of Lennon spinning in his grave.
If you hooked that fellow up to a dynamo, he would be able to power a city the size of Minneapolis.
Lennon was a cunt.
For fuck's sake, he wrote Beautiful Boy, Whatever Gets You Thru The Night and other such dross shit. He was also a wife-beater, druggie and general all round git. I've never quite understood while such a disgrace for a human being could ever really be considered cool.
perhaps a little harsh but...
...I'm glad someones on my side of the fence for a change. I love Macca, just for getting on with it, managing not to get shot at, and just being a normal old bloke making largely bollocks music and having a bit of a chaotic and tragic personal life dispite having been part of the most important musical group of a century. He's brilliant. He's obviously crap, but he's brilliant. He's my favourite.
Seconded....
... yeah, maybe I was a little harsh back there. But I'm just sick of the cliched Lennon was cool McCartney was a fool (on the hill) argument. It is just rubbish. Lennon, in the very least, did an equal amount of dross and acted just as much of an idiot, if not worse. I'm going to go away and take a few deep breaths now.
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The champs league music on ITV is Primal Scream 'Country Girl' I think.
bad
you know what?
i have always wondered why people like Paul McCartney?
He is so inoffensive. he's supposed to be a rock and roll legend right?
you know what his problem is?
He has no edge? it's just all too nice.
you see, i am a huge bob dylan fan, and say what you will about him, he has edge..and he always have.
McCartney should grow some facial hair and stop pulling faces that make him look like a chimp.
who's with me?
5 is pretty generous
although bang in the middle is kinda right, it's not really anything.
ARFUR IDIOT
HEY DOUCHE-BAG LEARN MUSIC...NOT EVEN CLOSE TO A FUCKING UKELELE LEARN WHAT A MANDOLIN IS, 8 STRINGS TUNED IN TWOS.....G,D,A,E...SO GO SUCK THE TONY BLAIRS NUTS.DONT RIP ON MCCARTNEY YOU'LL NEVER BE COOL NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK!
WATCH THE VIDEO AT THE TOP OF PAGE HE EVEN SAYS MANDOLIN.
FUCKING IGNORANCE
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