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Well now I'm going to re-check this one out!

I loved reading those replies.


The question of whether Wings' stuff stands out...


No...my answer would be 'No'.  My views are totally tied to the era in which I heard them.  As a teen all that stuff was coming out, and I just loved it.
It's forever some of my favorite music of my youth.


Off The Ground.  I can't tell you how much I disliked that album, yet there is no reason to believe that it is any less than London Town or something.  However...your comment about your preference for that record has me thinking that I may need to buy that and listen to it more.  I do remember that Hope of Deliverance was a great song to me.  I think I'll buy that record this week if I can get it for under $50.

It was Paul's fondest wish, he said, that he could just be a guy in a band......but unless that band is The Beatles, there's just no way that will work.....I like most of the Wings catalogue, but I tend to like his solo stuff a tick better. The artifice of "just a guy in a band" is stripped away and there's a bit more honesty in that, I think...

I just listened to this album tonight and really enjoyed it again. I love Life Itself and the Lennon tribute, but I hadn't realised that Baltimore Oriole and Hong Kong Blues were covers of Hoagy Carmichael songs, funnily enough I had just recently heard Dani talking about George being a Hoagy fan and being completely ignorant of his work I ordered one of his albums, it hasn't arrived yet, but both of those are good songs.

Once again my impression was of a really good album, sadly maligned.

I don't have the albums Wings at the Speed of Sound or Wild Life and I don't miss them so I don't think they're great although Silly Love Songs is.

Forthe most part I sometimes find Paul's songs ignorable but seldom just bad. The Wings stuff for me doesn't stand out particularly from his solo work. RAM is great as is Red Rose Speedway, I think I prefer Tug og War to Back to the Egg. London Town and Band on the Run are excellent albums but so are Flaming Pie and Off the Ground (I know I'm in a minority on this one) Flaming Pie does have some songs that I think weaken the album "used to be bad" and "really love you".

Do you guys think that Wings work particularly stands out in Paul's catalogue? For me they might just as well be Paul solo albums, that's a good thing though.

I thought there would be a good video on Paekakariki but I couldn't find one;

Here's at at least some good views of it.

I live someway back from the sea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zhZW1z9Cwc

I'd rearrange this now. Moving Dark Horse above Extra Texture, I'll have to give that another listen. Living in the Material World might well rise above Somewhere in England too.

I just played this album, it hasn't been a favourite of mine and the reason for that is the title track where George's voice is so notably hoarse, but it's good realising why, because that's only one song and there is a bonus track on the album of a demo of Dark Horse which I find much better as George's voice is in much better condition. But the album as a whole is very much a musicians album and is quite satisfying in that way. It's also very expressive of a dark patch in George's life and that expressiveness makes me very thankful for it.
Overall I enjoyed it.

I had this on LP and have only just got a CD copy and listened to it again. I have to say I really enjoyed it, I actually find it more coherent than the Ringo album and to me Ringo albums that work get across Ringo's character and this one does. The title track by Lennon is a nice start and finish to the album. All of the songs ooze charm and I like that he included classics like Husbands and Wives. But Snookeroo is a nice biographical song. The NO NO Song came to be meaningful somewhat later, but there is not a song I want to skip and the arrangements are classy and suit Ringo. Ringo doesn't have massive musical talent, but albums like this show that he was at times perfectly able to harvest what he had. Ringo as a solo artist has been a slow grower on me and this is one of his top albums.

Also love the cover with its reference to the Day the Earth Stood still

Interesting question. They made popular music, so they are pop in that way, but is Helter Skelter a pop song? Is when I'm sixty Four? Yellow Submarine is a children's song. For me genres should just be an aid to talking about music,If I say Prog rock you know I'm talking about Yes, early Genesis, ELP et al. But none of those groups set out to make prog rock and they all have very different sensibilities.

The Beatles if they are typified by anything it is the range and variaty of their music, Yesterday, Come Together, Here Comes the Sun, I want to Hold Your Hand, Ob la de ob la da, Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite.

If I think of a perfect pop group, I think of Abba. Their songs all can be described as excellent examples of pop. Try to put a label on the panoply of Beatles music and the label will break.

edit: I just remembered when Paul was talking about Yesterday he made the comment that at that stage they thought of themselves as a little R&B combo.

Labels are only useful to the extent that they help us describe things and pop music doesn't help describe the Beatles, it is the other way round The Beatles extended the bounds of popular music. But popular music in this sense is not a genre, it's not that same as "pop music"