Over the weekend,I pulled out the 2-CD compilation 'Wingspan:Hits and History' and now I'm going through a Paul McCartney and Wings phase I've been rocking out to these two songs...

"Jet"


"Band On The Run"



I had forgotten how amazing this 2-CD set really is!!

Band on the Run .. and

Silly Love Songs (i picked a video with a cats background)

This is awfully sticky, this song, but it transports me STRAIGHT back to my youth;

Band On The Run
Jet
Bluebird
Live And Let Die
Venus And Mars
Listen To What The Man Said
Silly Love Songs
Arrow Through Me
I'm Carrying
Beware My Love

many... I have all their albums (and of course, Paul's as well).

I just ordered this CD (a special,remastered 2-CD set with bonus tracks)

In 1979,Paul even jumped on the disco bandwagon (slightly) with this cool dance number "Goodnight Tonight"

SoulAlive said:

This is one of those albums that everyone should own..

SoulAlive said:

I always thought this song was about suicide but on a Macca forums they told me I was wrong!!


btw, not by the Wings but the unreleased McCartney song "Suicide" I like as well. It's one of his earliest songs.

IAintTheOne said:

It's a classic 70s album!

SoulAlive said:

I like this

SoulAlive said:

Just for "Helen wheels" alone is worth the price of admission.

IAintTheOne said:

And I certainly do, after my dig

I think I put it in my pile at the start of the day then at the end of the day cuz I ended up with more than one

Harlepolis said:

Me too I love that bassline!

Pretty much all of Band on The Run is decent. They had quite a few decent pop songs throughout the 70's - and some decent filler too. I really like Getting Closer, With A Little Luck, Wildlife, Get on The Right Thing, Venus & Mars/Rock Show, oh and Juniors Farm is great.

I thought Wingspan was really poor - as it drew no distinction between what was solo mcCartney, and what was Wings - so it seemed a bit pointless - particularly that disco mix of No more Lonely nights - awful. I thought it good they collected together Pauls solo stuff from his peak era - but as with most Paul compilations - i didnt think it did a good job of reflecting the quality of some of his output in the 70's. He's never really ahd a definitive greatest Hits collection - not one that didnt include the sometimes silly novelty songs he has been inclined to release. lennon gets a GH repackage every year - yet Macca completely ignores a lot of what he's done.
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I love the 'Wingspan' compilation but I must admit...I mainly listen to Disc One.It has most of my favorite songs by them.

SoulAlive said:

Isn't that the "Hits" disc... the other one is "History" ie. enriched listening for Wings-heads.

HamsterHuey said:

That was #1 in the U.K. when I was born.

Band on the Run
Live and Let Die
Jet
Listen to What the Man Said
Coming Up

This rox!! Love it!

Behind every successful man is a woman..... Linda

goodness.. that would be hard.


I would say a mix disk.. cause there are gems on every album..

IAintTheOne said:

"Let Me Roll It"

AlexdeParis said:

Coming Up ain't the Wings.

Jet
Bluebird
Live and Let Die

united1878 said:

Bluebird is one of my faves as well. I play it every day on my keyboard. Gm-Fm-Bb-Ebm-Abm-Cm7-Dm7-G...

Sdldawn said:

What would you put on that mix disc?

Cinnie said:

You're right.I gotta give that second disc a listen.Interestingly,it includes the 1978 song "Girlfriend" which Michael Jackson covered on 'Off The Wall'.I wonder how many MJ fans have heard the original?

SoulAlive said:

Its one of Macca's few falsetto performances. Cant says i prefer it to MJs version though. The History disc is very good. Obviously NOTHING beats Maybe Im Amazed, but there's Junk, Every night, Too Many People (i loooove this one), Let Me Roll It - hell this CD is by far superior to the Hits disc.

I have a question for people -whats your favourite Wings B-Side? He did some ok b-sides. Id have to say Daytime nightime Suffering from the Goodnight Tonight single. Other cool ones are The Mess & Mamas Little Girl.

Let 'Em In
Junior's Farm
Coming Up
Jet
Listen To What The Man Said
Magneto & Titanium Man
Rock Show

graecophilos said:

They released a live version of it.

AlexdeParis said:

The live version got more airplay than the regular version.I guess some radio programmers thought the regular version was too disco-y? The live version has a fuller sound.