Must Do Something About It (Paul’s Version) Presumably if you spend £80 on the deluxe book some background is given, but you’d expect some essays or notes even on the cheaper version. RT: 5.33 In fact there is no annotation for any of the bonus tracks, they are just ‘there’. Why is Bonham on this? No idea, there is no explanation given on the £15 two-CD version of this reissue. Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham drums on this run-through of this great rocker from Wings at the Speed of Sound. I don’t have a problem with silly snippets like this but really should have been a ‘hidden’ bit of audio. He’s talking to drummer Joe English, hence ‘Message To Joe’. This ‘track’ is 23 seconds of Paul messing around with a vocoder. Again, Macca has worked out most of the lyrics. This is a pleasant enough run through of Paul’s effortlessly catchy album track. Sounds like it could be from the same tape as Silly Love Songs. Lyrics appear to have been worked out and Linda joins in as the couple practise the complicated overlapping vocals. He’s already got the arrangement in his head since he ‘mouths’ the busy bass line line at the beginning. Paul on piano working on his 1976 US number one single. Let’s take a look them: No notes to go with seven bonus audio tracks in 2CD set Given that Paul’s manager, Scott Rodger, stated back in the summer of 2012 that Paul’s company MPL had 10 people working full time digitally archiving every image, every piece of audio and every video footage – and at that point they’d been working for 2 years “with no end in sight” – you have to ask, could they really only find 20 minutes of audio to go with Wings at the Speed of Sound studio album? Or is material being held back for a future rarities box set?Īt least all seven tracks are previously unreleased. Interestingly, all three of those original bonus songs have now moved over to the Venus and Mars reissue ( Walking in the Park with Eloise, Bridge Over The River Suite and Sally G) but nevertheless nearly 30 years after the CD debut we have a net gain of just 11 minutes worth of bonus audio. Hmm.Īlso, lest we forget, the original Wings at the Speed of Sound CD issued in the 1980s already had about 10 minutes worth of bonus material (repeated on the 1993 Paul McCartney Collection reissues). None of the Archive Collection reissues to date have appended any bonus material to the albums, so while this is consistent, it does mean the bonus disc is effectively CD-single length, with little over a quarter of the ‘red book’ CD capacity filled. Given that the album is just 46 minutes long, you don’t need a calculator to realise that all the music could easily fit on one CD. Seven bonus tracks are offered which total 21 minutes. While SuperDeluxeEdition waits for the deluxe book version of Paul McCartney’s newly released Wings at the Speed of Sound reissue to arrive (from Amazon Canada) we thought it would be a good idea to at least have a look at the bonus audio which is included with the two-CD edition.
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