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Touted as a personally curated compilation by Paul McCartney, Pure McCartney is the first McCartney compilation since 2001's Wingspan: Hits and History. A full 15 years separated this and Wingspan, longer than the span between that double-disc set and 1987's All the Best, but the 2001 set also stopped cold in 1984, leaving over 30 years of solo McCartney recordings uncompiled on hits collections. In both its standard two-CD and deluxe four-disc incarnations, Pure McCartney attempts to rectify this, going so far as to include "Hope for the Future," his song for the 2014 video game Destiny. A fair chunk of the compilation rests upon songs heard on Wings Greatest, All the Best, and Wingspan -- "Jet," "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey," "Another Day," "Mull of Kintyre," "Let Em In," "Band on the Run," "No More Lonely Nights," "Live and Let Die," "Say Say Say," "Listen to What the Man Said," and "Silly Love Songs" are all de rigueur -- so the interesting things lie in the margins, or in the music made since 1984. The standard edition contains three selections from Flaming Pie -- the 1997 album that kicked off a latter-day streak of excellent records from McCartney -- and a couple of cuts from both Chaos & Creation in the Backyard and Memory Almost Full, but it bypasses Flowers in the Dirt entirely. Flowers is also entirely absent on the deluxe edition, which nevertheless offers plenty of room for digressions -- here, the new wave future shock of "Temporary Secretary," the rockers "Junior's Farm," the hippie come-on "Big Barn Bed" and "Hi Hi Hi," and the frivolous synth pop of Press can all be heard -- so it paints a much richer portrait of McCartney's solo work, but even then it feels slightly incomplete. Hits are missing, including the brassy Brit-pop of "Take It Away," "My Brave Face," and the seasonal "Wonderful Christmastime," as are electronic risks like "Check My Machine," but their absence only underscores one fact: McCartney made more great music than what can fit on even a four-disc box. Pure McCartney gets closer to capturing the full range of his career than any of his previous compilations, but it's still only an introduction to one of the richest bodies of work in pop music.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer, Recording Producer, MainArtist
℗ 2011 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer, Recording Producer, MainArtist - Linda Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 2011 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer, Recording Producer, MainArtist - Linda Mccartney, Composer, Author - Wings, MainArtist
℗ 2011 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer, Recording Producer - Linda Mccartney, Composer, Author - Wings, MainArtist
℗ 2014 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer - Linda Mccartney, Composer, Author - Wings, MainArtist
℗ 2014 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer, MainArtist - Linda Mccartney, Composer, Author, MainArtist
℗ 2012 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer - Linda Mccartney, Composer, Author - Wings, MainArtist
℗ 2014 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer, MainArtist - Jeff Lynne, Producer
℗ 2016 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Linda Mccartney, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer, MainArtist - Linda Mccartney, Composer, Author, MainArtist
℗ 2012 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer - Youth, Producer - The Fireman, MainArtist
℗ 2008 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, MainArtist - NIGEL GODRICH, Producer
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Paul Mccartney, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Paul Epworth, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2016 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer, MainArtist - Linda Mccartney, Composer, Author - Wings, MainArtist
℗ 2010 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Acoustic Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Denny Laine, Composer, Author, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Linda Mccartney, Percussion, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Wings, MainArtist - The Campbeltown Pipe Band, Bagpipes, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2016 MPL Communications Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer - Linda Mccartney, Composer, Author - Wings, MainArtist
℗ 2014 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer, MainArtist - Linda Mccartney, Composer, Author - Wings, MainArtist
℗ 2010 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, MainArtist - Linda Mccartney, Composer, Author, MainArtist
℗ 2010 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, MainArtist - George Martin, Producer
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Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer, Drums, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals, Synthesizer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, 12-String Acoustic Guitar - Geoff Emerick, Producer - Denny Laine, Electric Guitar, Slide Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Linda Mccartney, Composer, Author, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Wings, MainArtist
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CHRIS THOMAS, Producer - Paul Mccartney, Producer, Piano, Vocals, Synth Bass, Clavichord, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Wings, MainArtist - Steve Holley, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2016 MPL Communications Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer - Linda Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer - Wings, MainArtist
℗ 2016 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, MainArtist - George Martin, Producer - Linda Mccartney, Composer, Author - Wings, MainArtist
℗ 2016 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, MainArtist - NIGEL GODRICH, Producer
℗ 2005 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Producer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Denny Laine, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Laurence Juber, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Wings, MainArtist - Steve Holley, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer
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Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, MainArtist - George Martin, Producer, Recording Producer - Michael Jackson, Composer, Author, MainArtist
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Tommy Lipuma, Producer - Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, MainArtist
℗ 2012 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer, MainArtist - Jeff Lynne, Producer
℗ 2016 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, MainArtist - George Martin, Producer
℗ 2015 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
David Kahne, Producer - Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, MainArtist
℗ 2007 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, MainArtist - George Martin, Producer
℗ 2015 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, MainArtist - George Martin, Producer
℗ 2015 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer, MainArtist - George Martin, Producer
℗ 2016 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 2011 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Herbie Flowers, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Mccartney, Piano, Vocals, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - George Martin, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - David Gilmour, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Linda Mccartney, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Anne Dudley, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Stewart, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Stuart Elliott, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2016 MPL Communications Ltd, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Kahne, Producer - Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, MainArtist
℗ 2007 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, Bass, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Denny Laine, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Linda Mccartney, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Joe English, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Wings, MainArtist
℗ 2016 MPL Communications, Inc
Giles Martin, Producer - Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, MainArtist
℗ 2014 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
Paul Mccartney, Composer, Author, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 2011 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Touted as a personally curated compilation by Paul McCartney, Pure McCartney is the first McCartney compilation since 2001's Wingspan: Hits and History. A full 15 years separated this and Wingspan, longer than the span between that double-disc set and 1987's All the Best, but the 2001 set also stopped cold in 1984, leaving over 30 years of solo McCartney recordings uncompiled on hits collections. In both its standard two-CD and deluxe four-disc incarnations, Pure McCartney attempts to rectify this, going so far as to include "Hope for the Future," his song for the 2014 video game Destiny. A fair chunk of the compilation rests upon songs heard on Wings Greatest, All the Best, and Wingspan -- "Jet," "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey," "Another Day," "Mull of Kintyre," "Let Em In," "Band on the Run," "No More Lonely Nights," "Live and Let Die," "Say Say Say," "Listen to What the Man Said," and "Silly Love Songs" are all de rigueur -- so the interesting things lie in the margins, or in the music made since 1984. The standard edition contains three selections from Flaming Pie -- the 1997 album that kicked off a latter-day streak of excellent records from McCartney -- and a couple of cuts from both Chaos & Creation in the Backyard and Memory Almost Full, but it bypasses Flowers in the Dirt entirely. Flowers is also entirely absent on the deluxe edition, which nevertheless offers plenty of room for digressions -- here, the new wave future shock of "Temporary Secretary," the rockers "Junior's Farm," the hippie come-on "Big Barn Bed" and "Hi Hi Hi," and the frivolous synth pop of Press can all be heard -- so it paints a much richer portrait of McCartney's solo work, but even then it feels slightly incomplete. Hits are missing, including the brassy Brit-pop of "Take It Away," "My Brave Face," and the seasonal "Wonderful Christmastime," as are electronic risks like "Check My Machine," but their absence only underscores one fact: McCartney made more great music than what can fit on even a four-disc box. Pure McCartney gets closer to capturing the full range of his career than any of his previous compilations, but it's still only an introduction to one of the richest bodies of work in pop music.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 39 track(s)
- Total length: 02:30:20
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Paul McCartney
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Paul McCartney Catalog
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2016 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd This Compilation ℗ 2016 MPL Communications Inc/Ltd
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