# Travelling Wilburys or Wings **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [July 25, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323 "2020-07-25T16:22:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/41 "2020-07-27T16:37:20Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Still waiting to see who will win the tontine. I expect it’ll be Lucky. I dunno; Otis is six years younger, and Lucky has looked like hell for a couple of decades now. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/42 "2020-07-27T16:44:08Z")
\*\*@Putnam6[quote=“BippityBoppityBoo, post:40, topic:916323”] So, thank you all!👏🏼 Keep up the good work. [/quote] So, can I be back in your good graces? You’re back in mine/✌🏼 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/43 "2020-07-27T17:05:38Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > > [@Czarcasm](#): > > > > as a whole I found it to be artificial. > > What?! Next, you’ll be telling us that there never really was a circus owned by a Mr Python. Does that mean the Rutles never existed? ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/44 "2020-07-27T19:03:37Z")
Wings ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/45 "2020-07-27T19:20:45Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Live and Let Die is to me their great song. > “Band on the Run” is one of the good ones. But so much of Wings’ catalog is not good. I worked in a lab one summer where the guy who owned the radio tuned it to an AM station that played “Live and Let Die” every five minutes. Ugh. You always said Live and Let Live You know you did you know you did (in falsettto) This being addressed supposedly to James Fucking Bond. Yech. Band on the Run isn’t bad in limited doses though. But nothing as good as the Wilburys. Five geniuses playing around the kitchen table. That’s the opposite of fake. ---
**Author:** ![putnam6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/putnam6/32/4082_2.png) [@putnam6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/putnam6)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/46 "2020-07-27T20:17:04Z")
I apologize I was out of line and out of character, sometimes we need voices to remind us. My father loved the saying about being kind you never know the battle that person is facing. ✌ ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/47 "2020-07-27T22:52:09Z")
Plastic Ono Band? Ringo Starr And His All Starr Band? Chopped liver? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/48 "2020-07-27T23:06:31Z")
> [@putnam6](#): > > apologize I was out of line and out of character, sometimes we need voices to remind us. My father loved the saying about being kind you never know the battle that person is facing. ✌ We’re good ✌🏼. I love the ‘be kind’ quote. I was curious about it-I was surprised when it was attributed to Plato. At least we won’t have to listen to it being called a ‘liberal dog whistle’. Thank you for being kind. I could have been more so in my initial reaction. Now go out there and find me some more Wilburys quality stuff 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/49 "2020-07-27T23:23:14Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Now go out there and find me some more Wilburys quality stuff Well, there’s only the two albums (plus a few extra tracks that were only released in collector’s editions). But, bearing in mind that the Wilburys spun out of George Harrison and Jeff Lynne deciding to record a song that could be used as a B-side for one of Harrison’s singles from his album Cloud Nine (which Lynne produced), one can look at that album, and four other albums from that same time period that Lynne either recorded, or produced for others members of the Wilburys, as a sort of “Wilburys Extended Catalog” (all of the albums contained cameos from other Wilburys, as well): - _Cloud Nine_, George Harrison, 1987 - _Mystery Girl_, Roy Orbison, 1988 - _Full Moon Fever_, Tom Petty, 1989 - _Armchair Theatre_, Jeff Lynne, 1990 - _Into the Great Wide Open_, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, 1991 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/50 "2020-07-27T23:23:59Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > \*\*Note 2: should be “ies”, but I guess orthography wasn’t their thing. You make joke, yes? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/51 "2020-07-27T23:34:52Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > The _Wilburys_ were great except for when they let Dylan sing. Then they sucked ass. Wrong. The Wilburys give us Dylan at his most approachable. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/52 "2020-07-27T23:46:15Z")
Shoot, in the Wilburys videos he is actually smiling at people. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/53 "2020-07-28T00:40:50Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Wrong. The Wilburys give us Dylan at his most approachable. As long as he doesn’t approach a microphone, it’s all good. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/54 "2020-07-28T07:53:00Z")
I would sooner stab myself in the eardrums with a rusty screwdriver than willingly listen to either Roy Orbison or Bob Dylan, so Wings it is. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/55 "2020-07-28T08:49:51Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > It’s interesting to hear different views. I always thought of Wings as a bland remake of the Beatles–proving that Paul was great, but really needed John as a counterbalance. There is much truth to this. I think Wings succeeded in spite of this to a certain extent. I’m always mindful of the fact that McCartney (and, promotionally, Wings) had a huge hit with “Wonderful Christmastime” which was written by Paul locking himself into a new studio with a new synth and a metric shit-ton of weed for a couple of days. It totally sounds like it, and yet it strangely works. Even though this was technically a solo work for McCartney, this is Wings in a nutshell - songs that “strangely work”. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/56 "2020-07-28T08:55:02Z")
A lot of people badmouth Paul for including Linda in on the fun, but I think he knew exactly what she contributed to the group-He included her because he loved her and wanted her right in the middle of that crazy life right alongside him. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/57 "2020-07-28T09:59:00Z")
Wings. A much larger and broader body of work. Their lows were far lower. But the highs are plentiful, and enough of them to tip the scales for me. I’m surprised that Wings is being trounced in the voting. I like the Wilburys, too. But a number of their songs are borderline ruined by Jeff Lynne’s overbearing production. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/58 "2020-07-28T14:57:58Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I would sooner stab myself in the eardrums with a rusty screwdriver than willingly listen to either Roy Orbison or Bob Dylan, so Wings it is. Roy Orbison? Roy Orbison? I can get why you don’t enjoy Bob Dylan, but Roy Orbison? That’s just wrong! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/59 "2020-07-28T16:13:04Z")
> [@LLCoolL](#): > > I’m surprised that Wings is being trounced in the voting. It was a tough call for me, and on a different day I might easily give a different answer. But I find the Wilburys consistently enjoyable. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323/60 "2020-07-28T16:45:46Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Roy Orbison? Roy Orbison? I can get why you don’t enjoy Bob Dylan, but Roy Orbison? That’s just wrong! Dylan is a poet par excellence. Read his lyrics rather than listen. There is a reason he received the Nobel Prize for literature. Poet laureate for a whole generation (Boomer, need I say?—move over or get out of our way. Not dead yet). I have grown to like his voice but it is an acquired taste. I figured if he is good enough for Joan Baez, he’s good enough for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-wilburys-or-wings/916323.md?page=4)