I've been a big Paul McCartney fan since the Beatles came out. Paul McCartney continued on after the break up of the Fab Four and had quite a successful career as a solo artist and with Wings. This compilation only covers a few of their songs and each one a gem. When Wingspan came out a couple years ago, it blew Wings Greatest Hits right out of the water. Despite that, this is still a very good compilation. Another Day is featured on this compilation, Paul's first solo single. Unfortunately the B side of this single was not included on here or on any other Paul McCartney album to date. The B side, Woman Oh Why, is on the American pressing of one of Paul's albums as a bonus track but I can't see getting this again just for one song. Maybe Mr. McCartney will put together a box set and include all the A and B sides in the set. We can only hope.
May 13, 2008 |  | not totally a wings package--but worthwhile |  |
WINGS GREATEST contains' two songs that are not Wings tracks "Another Day," and "Uncle Albert." And for some reason Paul left off "Listen To What The Man Said," a 1975 Wings # 1 hit, (he did include it on later compilations). He also left off two more USA top ten hits "Helen Wheels," and the live 1977 version of "Maybe I'm Amazed-(which can only be found on the pricey "WINGS OVER AMERICA" live album). Paul must consider all 1970-1985 singles to be wings--even though technically Wings recorded from 1971-1981, for on his Wingspan collection from the late 1990s, he also mixes solo and wings tracks. Regardless, this is a worthwhile collection, there is not a "Hey Jude," or "Yesterday," in this collection, but in fairness to Paul--the 1970s were quite different from the 1960s. And Paul come in 2nd only to Elton John, for the most top 40 hits on Billbard during the 1970s.
February 8, 2007Wings are another great project of Paul McCartney, you need to have this one.
January 10, 2007 | | Don't buy this CD or LP.... | |
I love the songs in this collection. I just can't stand the recordings. The songs sound distant and thin. They lack any kind of depth. I like to feel as if I am right there in the studio on the original take, with each of the instruments jumping out in clear detail. GH collections seem to fall into this pitfall. Re-recordings often seem to loose that extra something in the process. You'll do better buying the original tracts.
September 26, 2006 | | Great except for that statue woman.... | |
Now if you axe me, and plenty of folk what have a striking interest (as opposed to a passing fancy) in compilation albums do now and again, then I am quick to admit that this here Wings Greatest Hits album is quite possibly the greatest Greatest Hits album ever pressed on to a disc of plastic. I say that unabashedly because the sum total of all the hits lined up end to end would probably represent at least, and clearly, eleventy zillion singles sold. That. My fab four fan friend, if quite impressive.
The year was 1978, the Disco Era was quickly burning itself in to oblivion, and Wings was still churning out the monster hits one after another (almost as much as Abba) and we were all thinner, our hair was thicker, and the world was our clam... or oyster, whichever the case may be for each person who reads this of their own free will. If you are being forced to read this under duress, then no oysters or clams for you. McCartney was still steamrolling right along and we were all paying attention to what he had to say... unlike these days when his voice is sadly lost in the growing number of younger (less talented) individuals being fronted by record companies.
Me and Mama like to put this one on any time the Huckabees are getting ready to let loose with some good ole' style home fun, i.e. a greased pig chasing contest or a spring cleaning, or a tree trimming bonanza, or a cemetery cleaning and all day dinner on the ground. Whenever we got us work to do, we put this on and it puts us in the best mood possible to get the work done. The songs are all hits, even the one the mildly-retarded record executives decided to not release in the US (i.e. Mull of Kyntire) even though it was the biggest thing McCartney ever did on the other side of the pond. Their mamas must have hit them one too many times over the head with a rolling pen or some such. How can anybody make a bonehead move like that at the peak of a musical odyssey like Paul McCartney's?
The only bad thing about this here album is that it is only 12 tracks in length and fails to include "Maybe I'm Amazed" which, if you ask me, and as you already know - lots of folks do - it obviously should have been included because it was one of the biggest hits.
Another thing I gots to warn you about is that odd lookin' cover art. See, if you get this here album and take it home and have a good long look at the cover art, then you are going top have dreams about that photograph. I did for years. That statue woman kept popping up in dreams when I least expected it and pestered me in my sleep. I sure enough wish they had used a different image because there is something about that particular image what disturbs me to no end.... But the music is great. Buy it, listen, rave with the rest of us.
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