That reminds me very much of a comment that a young friend of mine made about a new group from England in the mid-1960s:
(I paraphrase)
“I don’t get it. ‘I wanna hold your hand.’ So what?”
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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.
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I’ve only heard one song from the album and I know you’re wrong. The song was called “Dance Tonight”. It couldn’t have stunk more if it tried. I appreciate you might like it, but it’s a stinker.
I have listened to most of his albums, and I could lose all the albums between Band on the Run and Flaming Pie without missing them. And his newest album sounds quite good too, so I think it would be a bad time to give up.
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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.
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All Things Must Pass is a great album – or at least has a great album embedded in it, it didn’t need to be three discs.
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I’ve only heard one song from the album and I know you’re wrong. The song was called “Dance Tonight”. It couldn’t have stunk more if it tried. I appreciate you might like it, but it’s a stinker.
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This is a strange post. The person you’re responding to said the album is good with the possible exception of Dance Tonight.
-FrL-
I loved the last CD (and the one before it). Also like the song. It’s fair to say McCartney’s post-Beatles work has been somewhat uneven, but he has released some brilliant solo work. I hope he lives to a hundred and releases a CD every year. I’ll buy 'em.
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<snip>You want names of people who should just give it up already? How about Status Quo? The Rolling Stones?
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Elton John. No, wait, he’s making a lovely career of Walt Disney movie soundtracks.
I have one response to listening to “Dance Tonight” - “This song is just seven words long” I mean “I Got My Mind Set On You.” Shouldn’t the first release from a new album be its strongest track? If this is the strongest track on “Memory Almost Full,” I am truly not interested.
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Elton John. No, wait, he’s making a lovely career of Walt Disney movie soundtracks.
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Allow me to also add: Phil Collins.
Sting narrowly escaped this fate by doing the lute thing and reforming The Police. I think Collins has Genesis back together as well…
I like the song. 
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I’ll go further than that, and say that Paul should have jumped in front of John and taken the bullet.
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That was a really uncalled-for and despicable thing to say.
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I loved the last CD (and the one before it). Also like the song. It’s fair to say McCartney’s post-Beatles work has been somewhat uneven, but he has released some brilliant solo work. I hope he lives to a hundred and releases a CD every year. I’ll buy 'em.
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Me, too. The guy’s a legend, and you never know what gem you will find on each new release. Every album seems to have at least one or two songs that I love.
I think sometimes Paul suffers in comparison to John because 1) John’s music was a more angst-y, which tends to make people think it’s more “high art,” and 2) John didn’t make too many solo albums before he died, so he didn’t have as many chances to turn out a few bombs. I have no doubt that if he was making music for the past 25 years, as Paul has, he would have made some albums that were pretty bad. For that matter, “Double Fantasy” didn’t age that well, in my opinion. It sure doesn’t compare to the “Imagine” album.
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…does it really add anything to the world?
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You’d think that people would’ve had enough of silly love songs, but I look around me and I see it isn’t so. Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs.
And what’s wrong with that?
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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.
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Maybe. And maybe it’s because I’m already not a fan of him as a solo act (the aforementioned “I’ve Got My Mind Set On You” being a previous low point). But take my favorite act of all time, Springsteen. He’s been putting out more mellow stuff which I honestly don’t like as much as his rock stuff so I don’t listen to it much. But I wouldn’t say he should hang it up because while I don’t enjoy it as much, I still respect the music and I think it makes a contribution to the world.
Not that Paul McCartney should put that much weight on my opinion. 
And, no, everything doesn’t have to be a deep opus, but if you’re putting out a catchy tune at least find some new kind of hook.
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“I’ve Got My Mind Set On You”
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Was George’s.
:o Renames thread “Should Ex-Beatles just give it up already?”
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I’ve only heard one song from the album and I know you’re wrong. The song was called “Dance Tonight”. It couldn’t have stunk more if it tried. I appreciate you might like it, but it’s a stinker.
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I did qualify that by saying “with the exception of the single.”
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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
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It was added to the album at the last minute, and as I said, one of those knock-offs that would earn Paul enough money to buy the Isle of Man. If you get past that (it is the first song on the album) the rest is rather enjoyable.
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Shouldn’t the first release from a new album be its strongest track? If this is the strongest track on “Memory Almost Full,” I am truly not interested.
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Maybe it should, but it often isn’t. Often the first release is the most “radio-friendly” (meaning the catchiest, or the simplest, or the easiest to appreciate on first listen, or the most likely to appeal to the kind of person who listens to the radio). And sometimes, who the hell knows what they were thinking when they decide which song to release?
Relevant thread: Hate the single, love the album
In that vein, I’m fingering you, Finger 11, except I liked the single and was dismayed that the album was nothing like it.