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Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard (CD)

By: Paul McCartney (Artist)

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Paul McCartney Artist Snapshot:

Of all the Beatles, Paul McCartney was by far the most successful as a solo act. While many (including John Lennon) dismissed his post-Beatles output as lightweight pap, Paul's extraordinary popularity spoke for itself. "Mull of Kintyre" was for a time the most successful single ever. In the 1990s, McCartney (now a knight of the British Empire) tried his hand at classical composition and movies, while collaborating with admirers like Elvis Costello. Meanwhile, he continued to produce the kind of rock & roll he helped create, though without the kind of chart-topping success that he enjoyed in previous decades.

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard (CD) Album By Paul McCartney (Artist)
1   Fine Line  
2   How Kind Of You  
3   Jenny Wren  
4   At The Mercy  
5   Friends To Go  
6   English Tea  
7   Too Much Rain  
8   Certain Softness, A  
9   Riding To Vanity Fair  
10   Follow Me  
11   Promise To You Girl  
12   This Never Happened Before  
13   Anway  
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (No. 983, p.101) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...[T]he freshest-sounding McCartney album in years...."
Entertainment Weekly (No. 840, p.84) - "...[W]hat we're hearing is an artist honestly following his muse..." - Grade: B
Uncut (p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[With] richly layered song patterns that meander with deceptively aimless purpose from beginning to end, often sounding as though they're coalescing on the spot..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.98) - 3 stars out of 5 - "'How Kind Of You' and 'Vanity Fair' cleverly pit Macca's perma-optimistic lilt against mournful, downbeat tapestries."

Title Note

Personnel: Paul McCartney (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, cello, melodica, flugelhorn, piano, Wurlitzer piano, harmonium, Moog synthesizer, glockenspiel, bass guitar, drums, shaker, tambourine, percussion); Nigel Godrich (acoustic guitar, piano, loops); Rusty Anderson, Brian Ray (acoustic guitar); Jason Falkner (electric guitar, classical guitar); Millennia Ensemble, Los Angeles Music Players (strings); Pedro Eustache (duduk); James Gadson (drums); Joey Waronker (bass drum, bongos, shaker); Abe Laboriel Jr. (tambourine, wood block, percussion).

Recording information: Air Studios, London, England; Ocean Way Studios, Los Angeles, CA; RAK Studios, London, England.

That 2005's CHAOS & CREATION IN THE BACKYARD arrived as a dramatic return to form for Paul McCartney is something of an oversimplification. The fact is, dodgy orchestral and electronic side projects aside, solo Macca's only true fallow period was the mid-'80s, and the three albums prior to CHAOS were all solid, not un-Beatlesque affairs. That said, it's impossible to deny that this is one of Paul's finest post-Wings releases. He mines Fabs-friendly melodies and arrangements unabashedly (occasionally with tongue firmly in cheek), and who better to do so?

Part of the reason for the album's resonance is the presence of Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, the first man since George Martin with the gall to make McCartney work for his money. (Paul's basically a one-man band throughout, for the first time since McCARTNEY II.) A deeper reason lies in the obvious emotional depths McCartney plumbs, leaving his trademark happy-face/Silly Love Songs persona far behind and betraying an unprecedented level of melancholy and introspection. Revisionists who claim the spirit of the Beatles died with Mark David Chapman's bullet in 1980 should only wish that, had John Lennon lived, he'd still be making music as aesthetically relevant as this 25 years down the line.

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