Everybody gonna dance tonight
Everybody gonna feel all right
Everybody gonna dance around tonight
They’ve now used this on an iPod commercial and…does it really add anything to the world? I know he’s not that old and it’s hard to say no to a living legend, but ugh. Why bother? Didn’t he put the same song out ten years ago and couldn’t we just dust that one off to hear a happy little ditty?
IMO Paul should have given up when John died, but that’s a minority opinion, I’m afraid.
Paul’s solo output has been uneven over the years, but for every song like that he comes out with an album like “Chaos and Creation,” so no, he shouldn’t give it up.
YMMV, of course.
Without Paul, how would be know when the dancing was going to take place? Or the jumping and shouting? The singing it out?
I thought we took care of that with Wang Chung already - “Everybody have fun tonight, everybody wang chung tonight…”
You’re right. We wouldn’t know that the dancing is at “his place”. :smack: Apparently we can do anything we like there.
It’s true that “Dance Tonight” is one of those little ditties Sir Paul can knock out in about three minutes and earn several million dollars with. He wrote it while watching his three year old daughter dance while he was playing his new mandolin. That said, don’t let it put you off listening to Paul’s new album, Memory Almost Full. I think it is one of his best albums in years. It is a very cohesive and thematic album, IMO, (with the exception of the single). One song seems to flow into the next and there is not a stinker in the bunch. As always, of course, YMMV
He should give it up already only if he wants to quit making gobs of cash.
Why? I don’t know. It seems to me that everybody in the world loves this guys voice but me. It’s to the point where I can no longer enjoy an old Beatle’s tune without my hand automatically shooting towards the off button of whatever device is producing his voice.
And now he’s got that commercial from hell any program that I may be watching.
Little help here please.
I was in a Staples store about a year ago and heard a wonderfully melodic tune that I’m positive was from Sir Paul. I know the Beatles catalogue inside-out-and-backwards. and am intimately familiar with all the “Wings” shit, and I do mean shit.
So, any possible suggestions from which album I heard this very Beatlesque melody?
Without hearing it?
I’ll go further than that, and say that Paul should have jumped in front of John and taken the bullet.
– Ukulele “The Beatles are dying in reverse order of coolness; Ringo’s next” Ike
I personally think it’s a very catchy tune. Does every single song have to be some deep, passionate opus? Of course not – Dance Tonight is just a feel-good, laid-back kind of song.
The day his new album was released I heard* The End of The End* played on the radio. The lyrics are horrible sentimental schoolboy drivel. The song has a whistling passage to underscore it’s jaunty message. After the song had finished the announcer apologised for having played the song and promised that she would never play McCartney again. Too soon I reckon.
So I never tried to listen to any music from that album because the thing that kept getting played:
“It’s a fine line between Chaos and Creation”
seemed to me so trite and pointless that I found myself completely turned off.
But was I wrong? Is the album better than that song? Or maybe, is the song better than that line?
-FrL-
I (mostly) liked his Flaming Pie CD (even if that was a phrase of John’s, not Paul’s).
I haven’t heard his latest.
I find him schmaltzy in lyrics (John was always a better lyricist), but more complex musically. Or at least he was. (not always-I’m no music expert).
I do miss John, though. And George as well…
I get the feeling that the OP is trying to follow the rule that any musical act which has been around for more than 20 years is going to have any new material automatically labeled “shit”, even if it’s still quality music. And if said musical act tries to perform this new material live, they are to be booed, before the audience even gives it a chance.
Last year I saw Iron Maiden live, and they performed their ENTIRE new album live. By the time they were halfway through it, the majority of the audience was ready to riot, and by the time they finished it, a good part of the audience had left early, missing the second set which were all classic songs. Rioting and obnoxious behavior may be the norm at a metal concert, but a couple years before that, I saw Eric Clapton live, and he opened with a 4 song set from his new album Reptile. There were audible screams of “PLAY SOMETHING GOOD/OLD/WE’VE HEARD BEFORE” and “I DIDN’T PAY $150 TO SEE THIS!” when quite frankly, the songs he performed were pretty interesting, and even though I didn’t get his new album yet, I appreciated that he was still trying.
Anyway, no, Paul shouldn’t hang it up, but if you don’t enjoy his new album, just don’t listen to it and go give Revolver a spin.
I agree. I think Paul’s great. Is every song a winner? Of course not. At least he didn’t inflict the Plastic Ono Band on the world, like somebody else did…
I love pretty much all of The Beatles’ post-breakup solo work, at some points, and at others, not so much. But Paul has that ear for a melodic pop song that’s pretty much his greatest gift.
You want names of people who should just give it up already? How about Status Quo? The Rolling Stones?
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I don’t get the “John was a genius, Paul was a hack” line of argument. Both were brilliant songwriters, and both could get their heads up their own arses as well. I certainly miss John but I don’t think he would have been as even in his post-Beatle career as Paul. (Double Fantasy was a fantastic step in the right direction… would he have continued in that vein? Sadly, we’ll never know.) I suspect we might have had a dire P. Diddy/Lennon collaboration had he lived…
After giving us the early McCartney albums, Wings, and killer duets with Jacko and Stevie Wonder, Macca has every right to put out steaming (flaming pies) of poo as long as he likes, I say. (Yes, those duets are schmaltzy, but at the time when they came out, everybody owned the 45s and loved it. I have “Say Say Say” on vinyl somewhere around here.)
Perhaps the OP is suggesting Paul would be better at carpentry. Paul could still become a great surgeon, you never know. I don’t know, what else might Paul be good at? Oh I know, maybe he should sit in a rocking chair and rot till he’s dead, that sounds like fun? Of course he could just continue to write music and not give a damn if people don’t think its as revolutionary as The Beatles. Why should he quit? It’s what he does.
Paul’s no hack. but IMO, he tends to schmaltz in lyrics. John himself said something to the effect that nobody would ever hum one of his songs like they do Paul’s.
I also dislike Paul’s attempts recently in interviews etc to claim most of the Lennon/McCartney output. I understand his concerns about how things are stored in databases, but it seems to me that he is trying to gain more credit for those songs than is due. (we will never know how much accrues to either party, since a jerk took care of that many years ago).
I like some of Paul’s post Beatle stuff. But none of them, with the possible exception of John did anything close to what they did together. YMMV.