Comments on: REVIEW: Paul McCartney’s Fireman “Electronic Arguments.”

By: edmundo

edmundo — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:52:46 +0000

Finalmente alguém para nos tirar do atual limbo em que caiu o rock contemporâneo. Tudo o que ele e ous outros três fazem ou fizeram vale como referencia para estas bandinhas de hoje.

By: Captain Pugwash

Captain Pugwash — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:27:20 +0000

If you’re persistent and clever and don’t mind being illegal, you can break copyright law by downloading the album right now. This is a terrible thing to do, and could get you arrested and thrown into jail, so don’t!
It IS a fantastic album – totally (or nearly totally) unlike the sublime “Rushes”. Varied, great songs, coherent, experimental, noisy, quiet, wistful, angry – absolutely his best album since – ooooooohhhhh – I still rate “Chaos” very highly, so let’s say that.

Worth going to jail for!

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:48:57 +0000

Oh don’t worry. I not only plan to buy myself a copy, but I plan to make it my christmas gift to just about everyone I know. I really want to hear this on vinyl too. This is a must have.

Does anyone know if a deluxe edition is planned?

By: Madelyn Writer

Madelyn Writer — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:29:41 +0000

I’ve nabbed an advance copy of ‘Electric Arguments’ as well – which won’t stop me from buying the proper release – and it’s bizarre, unpredictable and bloody marvellous.

Back in the 1960s, Lennon once remarked, on hearing McCartney’s home recordings, that Paul should do an album called PAUL MCCARTNEY GOES TOO FAR. This is that album.

Never has ol’ Macca been so free, uninhibited, experimental (but not to the detrement of the material, ie, McCartney II), open-voiced and hungry. The instruments, all Macca, are expertly sharp throughout, as is the production. “Light from Your Lighthouse”, a wacky gospel knockoff, is just fun. “Don’t Stop Running” is just hot. “Highway” is just wild rock.

Love it.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:38:19 +0000

I’ve managed to get an advanced copy and I have to say. This is definitely not his best album since Band on the Run.

It’s better.

Or I should say, the following tracks make up his best collections of songs since the beatles era:

Sing the Changes: uplifting, aspiring, mid-tempo rock. Defiantly simple, swelling, beautiful.

Travelling Light: Somber, sung in a style not used by mccartney, darkly beautiful ballad with an unexpected flourish of a coda

Highway: A much better rock track than Nothing Too Much. Would have made a strong single. Simple, chugging, choogling rock, with a rousing break in the middle

Light from your lighthouse: Fun Fun little country/gospel piece. Vocals take a little getting used to. Combination of lower register and falsetto.

Sun is Shining: Mid-tempo pop song. Could fit on a beach-boys record or Ram. Simple again, but aspiring and joyful

Dance til We’re High: The title makes this sound as if it would be slight. It isn’t it starts with a drum intro that reminds me of the Four Seasons percussion sounds. Then there is a flat moment when its very hard to hear the vocals, but after about 30 seconds into the song—Let me put it simply, it’s the best thing he’s written since Maybe I’m Amazed. Joyful, moving, profound. This should be put out as a christmas single. It just needs a tiny bit of remixing.

Lifelong Passion: I don’t like the vocals on this ballad. Paul sounds like he has a bit of a cold. But the song itself builds and builds. And I do find myself humming the melody.

Then we get three mostly intrumental trance/dance tracks that are not bad but nothing memorable.

But they build to another showstopper:

Don’t Stop Running–a mesmerizing, throbbing, dance track. It just pulls you into its groove and will not let you go.

This album is like nothing Paul has done with the beatles or alone and should stand a fulfillment of the promise everyone sees in him.

This is not just a good album.

Its a classic.

Trust me.

By: Sim

Sim — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:08:55 +0000

Hey Joe ( is that not a song?) you need to listen again. I’ve managed to snap along with two hands just fine. Come on you know you like it really…

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:04:53 +0000

First off let me say that it’s great people like this direction from McCartney, but for me it just sounds terrible!

I don’t like the Fireman stuff, it just sounds like a bunch of disjointed, out of place, unstructured noise to me.

Where’s the chorus, the middle eight, the melody, any structure. You can’t snap your fingers to it, you can’t pat your foot to it, you can’t even follow it half the time, just a bunch of sounds thrown together.

This direction doesn’t showcase McCartney’s fantastic songwriting ability! I’ll wait until he gets back to rocking.

Memory Almost Full is still the very best current release by McCartney!

By: Rev. John C. Link

Rev. John C. Link — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:18:37 +0000

There are full album promotional copies of “Electric Arguments” available right now on ebay!!!!!
These are not wait until the release date CDs. You can get your like nowsville man! They are promos that were supposedly printed before the artwork became available, and they are $22 each…OUCH! There have been 4 sales so far, and there are six more available. It says, and I quote, “Advance cds are available now, without artwork as it was not available when these were obtained.”
So…here you go-go… the ebay item # is 250314331818. You can type that number into the search bar, or you can just do a search for “Electric Arguments” and it’s the only item that will come up.
All I ask is if anyone has the extra scoots to purchase this, PLEASE reward me a finders fee by emailing me at “HareDurga@yahoo.com”, and allowing me to pay you for materials, time & shipping costs and burn me off a copy, eh? The very long link is below…Blessings!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Paul-McCartney-The- … 240%3A1318

By: Ulla

Ulla — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:09:37 +0000

Otis, go away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

By: Otis Gates

Otis Gates — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:12:51 +0000

Looking forward to it.

Plus I’m still waiting for the photo I mailed to Paul back in 2006, wonder if I shood boycott the Fireman,

ha ha.