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Band On The Run (Remaster) (Import) (CD)

By: Paul McCartney/Wings (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Band On The Run (Remaster) (Import) (CD) Album By Paul McCartney/Wings (Artist)
1   Band On The Rain - (with Paul McCartney/Wings)  
2   Jet - (with Paul McCartney/Wings)  
3   Bluebird - (with Paul McCartney/Wings)  
4   Mrs Vandebilt - (with Paul McCartney/Wings)  
5   Let Me Roll It - (with Paul McCartney/Wings)  
6   Mamunia - (with Paul McCartney/Wings)  
7   No Words - (with Paul McCartney/Wings)  
8   Picasso's Last Words (Dri - (with Paul McCartney/Wings)  
9   Nineteen Hundred And Eigh - (with Paul McCartney/Wings)  
10   Helen Wheels - (with Paul McCartney/Wings)  
11   Country Dreamer - (with Paul McCartney/Wings)  
 

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Review

Q (6/00, p.64) - Ranked #75 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...A joyous, moving, occasionally daft album, a transatlantic chart-topper which sold over 6 million..."
CMJ (3/20/00, p.28) - "...Even Lennon once called it 'a great album'. Its multi-faceted big-band rock has withstood the test of time, posturing firm like an iceberg of creative brilliance..."
Mojo (Publisher) (7/01, p.64) - "...Acclaimed as Wings' finest...and the title track is unquestionably fine..."

Title Note

This UK edition includes two bonus tracks.

BAND ON THE RUN is generally considered Paul McCartney's strongest solo effort. The album was also his most commercially successful--selling well and spawning two hit singles, the multi-part pop suite of the title track, and the roaring rocker "Jet." On these cuts, and elsewhere, McCartney's penchant for sophisticated, nuanced arrangements and irrepressibly catchy melodic hooks is up to the caliber he displayed in the Beatles, far surpassing the first two Wings releases WILDLIFE and RED ROSE SPEEDWAY.

The focus found in BAND ON THE RUN may have to do with the circumstances of its creation: Two former members quit the band prior to recording, leaving McCartney, wife Linda, and guitarist Denny Laine to complete the album alone (with Paul writing, producing, and playing most of the instruments himself). The album has the majestic, orchestral sweep of McCartney's ABBEY ROAD-era ambition, with a wide range of style-dabbling, from the swaying, acoustic jazz-pop of "Bluebird" to the appealing, straightforward rock of "Helen Wheels" to the wiry blues of "Let Me Roll It" to the swaying, one-off pub singalong "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)"). Though it lacks the emotional resonance of contemporaneous releases by John Lennon and George Harrison, McCartney's infallible instinct for pop craft overflows on this excellent release.

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