![red rose speedway [import]](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00001ZTF3.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg)
| 1. Big Barn Bed |
| 2. My Love |
| 3. Get on the Right Thing |
| 4. One More Kiss |
| 5. Little Lamb Dragonfly |
| 6. Single Pigeon |
| 7. When the Night |
| 8. Loup (1st Indian on the Moon) |
| 9. Medley: Hold Me Tight/Lazy Dynamite/Hands of Love/Power Cut |
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
You could trawl the rock & roll archives all the way back to the start and never find an album quite like Red Rose Speedway. Which is not to say that it's great. Just that it's... weird. Though it's a Wings album, it's entirely irradiated with Paul McCartney's personality--to the extent that virtually the entire band left him while attempting to rehearse for the supporting tour, claiming they couldn't operate in his huge, overbearing shadow. You can see where they were coming from. Red Rose Speedway, right down to the cover shot of Macca with a rose in his mouth, is about Paul McCartney, specifically his unique ability in the '70s to pump up slight, pretty songs to the scale of "Hey Jude," seemingly unaware or unworried that that didn't necessarily make them as good as "Hey Jude." The high spot is the saccharine sauciness of "My Love," a lurching soft-focus ballad about his wife's sexual excellence. The rest of it--lazy, lushly produced rock, sometimes sweet, sometimes just cloying, but always unmistakably Macca--is worth hearing if just to ponder: "What the hell did he think he was doing?" --Taylor Parkes
Product Description
Reissue of the 1973 album. Red Rose Speedway winds up being a really strange record, one that veers toward the schmaltzy AOR MOR (especially on the hit single 'My Love'), yet is thoroughly twisted in its own desire toward domestic art. As a result, this is every bit as insular as the lo-fi records of the early '90s, but considerably more artful, since it was, after all, designed by one of the great pop composers of the century. Yes, the greatest songs here are slight; 'Big Barn Bed', 'One More Kiss', and 'When the Night', but this is a deliberately slight record (slight in the way a snapshot album is important to a family yet glazes the eyes of any outside observer). Work your way into the inner circle, and McCartney's little flourishes are intoxicating; not just the melodies, but the facile production and offhand invention. Packaged in a paper sleeve. EMI. 2005.
You could trawl the rock & roll archives all the way back to the start and never find an album quite like Red Rose Speedway. Which is not to say that it's great. Just that it's... weird. Though it's a Wings album, it's entirely irradiated with Paul McCartney's personality--to the extent that virtually the entire band left him while attempting to rehearse for the supporting tour, claiming they couldn't operate in his huge, overbearing shadow. You can see where they were coming from. Red Rose Speedway, right down to the cover shot of Macca with a rose in his mouth, is about Paul McCartney, specifically his unique ability in the '70s to pump up slight, pretty songs to the scale of "Hey Jude," seemingly unaware or unworried that that didn't necessarily make them as good as "Hey Jude." The high spot is the saccharine sauciness of "My Love," a lurching soft-focus ballad about his wife's sexual excellence. The rest of it--lazy, lushly produced rock, sometimes sweet, sometimes just cloying, but always unmistakably Macca--is worth hearing if just to ponder: "What the hell did he think he was doing?" --Taylor Parkes
Product Description
Reissue of the 1973 album. Red Rose Speedway winds up being a really strange record, one that veers toward the schmaltzy AOR MOR (especially on the hit single 'My Love'), yet is thoroughly twisted in its own desire toward domestic art. As a result, this is every bit as insular as the lo-fi records of the early '90s, but considerably more artful, since it was, after all, designed by one of the great pop composers of the century. Yes, the greatest songs here are slight; 'Big Barn Bed', 'One More Kiss', and 'When the Night', but this is a deliberately slight record (slight in the way a snapshot album is important to a family yet glazes the eyes of any outside observer). Work your way into the inner circle, and McCartney's little flourishes are intoxicating; not just the melodies, but the facile production and offhand invention. Packaged in a paper sleeve. EMI. 2005.
Red Rose Speedway,Paul McCartney & Wings,Album Rock,Pop/Rock,Rock/Pop,Soft Rock
Rock Music:
- Requested Document Live 1980-1983 V.2 [Import]
- Rigor Mortis Sets in [Import]
- Salt in the Wound [CD-single] [Import]
- Samma Vindar Samma Dofter 1968-2004 [Import]
- Single
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- Soul Mover [Limited Edition] [Import]
- Sparkle Shimmer Fade [Enhanced]
- That's What They Tell Me - That's What They Say...
- There's a Kind of Hush All Over the World [Import] [Original recording remastered]
Rock Music
The Original Northwest Sound of Don & The Goodtimes
Beethoven: Violoncelle Et Piano
Buona Sera: The Best, the Wildest [Import]
Charles Wilp Fotografiert Bunny
Bazar de Exitos Con La Banda Sinaloense
Best: Fan's Selection [Import]
Blue Matter/A Step Further [Original recording remastered] [Import]
An Open Letter to NYC Pt.2 [CD-single] [Import]
Couldn't Have Said It Better [SACD] [Import]