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Electric Arguments | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Fireman And Youth Paul Mccartney
Label: ATO RECORDS / RED
Category: Music
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Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 71
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 21640
UPC: 880882164027
EAN: 0880882164027
ASIN: B001GKYBXA
Release Date: November 25, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight | | • | Two Magpies | | • | Sing the Changes | | • | Travelling Light | | • | Highway | | • | Light From Your Lighthouse | | • | Sun is Shining | | • | Dance 'til We're Hight | | • | Lifelong Passion | | • | Is This Love? | | • | Lovers in a Dream | | • | Universal Here, Everlasting Now | | • | Don't Stop Running |
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Album Description
Paul McCartney's 2008 album with producer Youth. Each track written,recorded and sung in the space of one day with Paul McCartney, playing all instruments. 'The album's opener is classic rock and an instant attention grabber. A heavy guitar riff with loud drums and souring vocals, it's like nothing The Fireman have ever done before.' The Fireman are back after a ten-year break. Electric Arguments is their third and brand new studio album and it's not the album people might expect from the mysterious duo.'
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 AN ASTOUNDING COMPLETION OF THE McCARTNEY TRIPTYCH! January 6, 2009
The vastly under-rated Chaos and Confusion in the Backyard (accompanied by a shameful lack of promotion by the moribund Capital Records) and classic pop of Memory Almost Full revealed to us that Paul was still capable of churning out melodic pop and rock of the highest order. Both of these CDs showed us that Paulie still had lead in his pencil. So to speak.
Neither disc - nor the excellent, tear inducing Ecce Cor Meum - has prepared us for the revitalized, revivified, and completely re-invented McCartney who teams with Youth to produce this masterpiece.
It is no slight to McCartney to suggest that the only other pop artist who has risen Phoenix-like over the course of his seventh decade is Dylan. And it's no mere coincidence that Dylan himself admitted to Rolling Stone that the only other artist he was truly envirous of, is McCartney. "Man" said Dylan "he can do it all".
Indeed he can. Or so it seems. Has any other artist brought as much joy to as many people throughout the world for as long a period of time? I don't think so. The reason why we all shed a tear at hearing "The End of the End" on Memory Almost Full was precisely for that reason - McCartney has been so thoroughly and completely woven into the fabric of our lives that it is almost impossible to imagine a time when we will not have the opportunity to hear a new McCartney song. Even more shocking, following the divorce of his marriage to Heather Mills, was the thought that we might never hear a new McCartney LOVE song. (Who among us was not shocked to see how haggard and weary Paul looked towards the end of that debacle? Would Paul ever open his heart again, and risk such hurt?)
Foolish thoughts. Still, we contented ourselves with hearing whatever came along. Admittedly, some of the material has been rather banal. (I'm not about to list the man's sins. As George Bush Sr. recently said, "you can look them up on your Google"). But it should be noted - hell, it should be yelled from the rooftops, that Electric Arguments is not one of them. In fact, while not his greatest album (BOTR), Electric Arguments may in fact be McCartney's greatest triumph.
New, yet famiiiar. Strong in voice, yet fragility that reflects his years. Energetic, energetic, energetic. Oh yea, did I say it was energetic? And joyous. Full of happiness, love, joy, and love.
Thanks Paul. Thanks for the decades of music. Thanks for showing our generation - you know who we are - the meaning of love, and the fullest expression of love in your music. (Here again, I must reference Ecce Cor Meum, although it could also be said of Lifelong Passion on Electric Arguments)
So - The Fireman has come in from the pouring rain. And yes, it is a little strange. But in the best possible sense. This music, is new.
This is arguably Paul's "Smile" January 6, 2009
I just purchased this CD and am listening to it as I write. The thought which comes to mind is this music is of similar significance to Brian Wilson's recent completion/updating of SMILE. Like SMILE, the album is a solo adventurous, mature work by one of the most accomplished song writers of the 20th century. Eclectic but familiar, the songs on this set are refreshing in that they are original without sacrificing substance, if that makes sense. The song "traveling Light" is very Brian Wilsony to my ears. The next track, which is playing now, utilizes a variation of the bass riff he played on Lennon's "Come Together". I am sure I will listen to this collection for a long time and it will become part of my permanent collection. In summary, I have the feeling I always did during the '60s when a new Beatles album came out. For that I am eternally grateful, Paul. Adventurous, creative, solid stuff. A real gem and a contender for album of the year.
 Paul is the fireman, goo goo ga joob January 6, 2009
One of Paul McCartney's more inspired collaborations is this CD, his third with instigator 'Youth.' After the delightful return to form on 2007's Memory Almost Full, Paul throws convention to the wind and experiments with expectations. Even with that in mind, the songs here are still vintage Macca. There's even another bird song, as "Two Magpies" joins "Bluebird," "Blackbird" and "Jenny Wren" in McCartney's aviary.
What "Electric Arguments" represents is McCartney working through a clearinghouse of songs and ideas, cutting loose with an abandon the more mannered "Memory" and Chaos and Creation in the Backyard did not have. The opening howl of cacophony "Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight" would not have fit on either album, and the textured rocker "Highway" demands that you listen, because "everybody's wondering 'what's that sound?'" Given that McCartney and Youth recorded each song in one day apiece let the album maintain an edgier quality, too.
There's traces of McCartney's whimsical humor here, as well. "Light From Your Lighthouse" sounds like it could have come from Ram leftovers, with its loose playing and eclectic instrumental sound, then followed as it is by the delightful "Sun Is Shining." There's more than a little Beatles-teasing here with "Two Magpies" and "Dance Till We're High" and the dreamy experimental "Is This Love." It's strange that McCartney seems to think he needs a pseudonym to take creative flight (or as some have suggested, make McCartney III). Should that be the case, one could hope for more frequent trips to the firehouse.
What's That Sound? December 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Paul McCartney has produced an experimental-sounding set with each track focused on its musical ideas. The packaging is unusual with a book with disposable pictures and little information about the recordings. No songwriter credits are listed; although one assumes that since the copyright is by Paul's MPL Communications that he must be the composer. The website announces "Paul is the Fireman." Many of the tracks seem like song sketches, but are very interesting. "Sing the Changes" is one of my favorite tracks with its driving rock beat and echo chamber vocals, "Feel the fire; feel the thunder." "Traveling Light" begins with atmospheric keyboards before Paul's esoteric haunting vocals, "I swim in the blue sea. I walk on the sand. I fly through the blue sky to wherever you land." "Highway" rocks with a chorus of thousands of background vocals, "Everybody's wondering what's that sound!" "Sun Is Shining" bubbles like a cheerful morning. "Lifelong Passion" has Beatlesque echoes on a track that floats in one ear & out the other, "Give me love love love love, Be my lifelong passion." "Is This Love?," "Lovers in a Dream" & "Universal Here, Everlasting Now" seem like sonic experiments. "Electric Arguments" is a good disc because it puts the emphasis on the music, rather than on clever song ideas. Paul shines with much of this effort and is always fascinating. Enjoy!
Definately magic from Sir Paul December 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I recommend this as the BEST cd I have purchased this year of 2008! I bought this on the premise of loving the most recent of 2 of his 3 cds cds "Driving Rain", and "Memeory Almost Full". This is different,of course, but none the less exceptional! Blues, Psychodelia, drony, even a touch of his comrade George H.on track 9,"Lifelong Passion". But I must say for me, Track 8,"Dance 'Til We're High" is the EPIDOMY of a Paul track!. Beautiful melody of chord changes, yet still a straight subtle rocker in 4/4 time. At 66, Sir Paul has lost NOTHING musically!!!, and deserves the accolade of: one of, if not 'THE' songwriter in music history! PLEASE!,just >>>Buy it!
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