| Product Summary | | Label: Universal Music Group | | UPC: 00888072303485 | | Release Date: 6/5/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 204543764 | | Item#: M3LY4S | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Dance Tonight ~ Paul McCartney |  | | 2. Ever Present Past ~ Paul McCartney | | | 3. See Your Sunshine ~ Paul McCartney | | | 4. Only Mama Knows ~ Paul McCartney | | | 5. You Tell Me ~ Paul McCartney | | | 6. Mr. Bellamy ~ Paul McCartney | | | 7. Gratitude ~ Paul McCartney | | | 8. Vintage Clothes ~ Paul McCartney | | | 9. That Was Me ~ Paul McCartney | | | 10. Feet In The Clouds ~ Paul McCartney | | | 11. House Of Wax ~ Paul McCartney | | | 12. End Of The End, The ~ Paul McCartney | | | 13. Nod Your Head ~ Paul McCartney | |
(P) 2007 MPL Communications Ltd. under exclusive licence to Starcon, LLC
(C) 2007 MPL Communications Ltd. under exclusive licence to Starcon, LLC
| From the artist:
The first recording session was back in the autumn of 2003 at Abbey Road with my touring band and producer David Kahne. I was right in the middle of it when I began talking with Nigel Godrich about a brand new project (which became Chaos And Creation In The Backyard).
When I was just finishing up everything concerned with Chaos and had just got the Grammy nominations (2006) I realized I had this album to go back to and finish off. So I got it out to listen to it again, wondering if I would enjoy it, but actually I really loved it. All I did at first was just listen to a couple of things and then I began to think, ‘OK, I like that track – now, what is wrong with it?’ And it might be something like a drum sound, so then I would re-drum and see where we would get to.
I took it from there and built it up. I went through, track by track, making changes as I went along. I fixed things I wasn’t too keen on and it just evolved from there. Without me knowing, or really trying, it started to get its own theme, a sort of thread that holds it all together. So I suppose it’s about half new stuff and half old stuff from 2003.
In places it’s a very personal record and a lot of it is retrospective, drawing from memory, like memories from being a kid, from Liverpool and from summers gone. The album is evocative, emotional, rocking, but I can’t really sum it up in one sentence.
There is a medley of 5 songs towards the end and that was purposefully retrospective. I thought this might be because I’m at this point in my life, but then I think about the times I was writing with John and a lot of that was also looking back. It’s like me with ‘Penny Lane’ and ‘Eleanor Rigby’ - I’m still up to the same tricks!
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Rusty Anderson (guitar); Paul "Wix" Wickens (keyboards); Brian Ray (bass guitar); Abe Laboriel, Jr. (drums). | | The first release from the Starbucks-backed Hear Music label, 2007's MEMORY ALMOST FULL, is a significant point in Paul McCartney's long and legendary career. Not only does it mark the end of his decades-long relationship with Capitol Records, MEMORY is easily one of McCartney's most Beatlesque solo outings, a notion particularly reinforced by the album's ABBEY ROAD-styled closing suite. | | Even before that dynamic medley, however, McCartney offers up some of his most vibrant songs in years--most notably the jangly opener, "Dance Tonight," and "Ever Present Past," a wonderfully catchy ode to memory--and these tracks contrast well with the largely subdued numbers on CHAOS AND CREATION IN THE BACKYARD. As with that preceding pop-oriented outing, Macca plays almost all instruments himself, although instead of working with producer Nigel Godrich again, he goes back to working with David Kahne for a more muscular, straight-ahead sound. By the time the upbeat "That Was Me" signals the record's closing sequence, it is abundantly clear that this is top-shelf McCartney, and listeners can almost hear a hearty round of applause as "Nod Your Head" brings MEMORY to its majestic end. |
Producer: David Kahne |
Engineer: David Kahne; Geoff Emerick; Steve Orchard; Paul Hicks; Adam Noble |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full - CD By: Josh Hathaway - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 6/5/2007 10:51 AM | | Memory Almost Full, the title of Paul McCartney's new album, is a good summation for the music presented on the record. This is an album of compact, ornate sketches detailed with a full palette of standard and unusual instruments. Most of the songs on MAF settle on a single pattern or idea and explore it quickly; only two of the 13 tracks extend beyond the four-minute mark. Where his previous album, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard had a grander, more sweeping feel to it, MAF has a comparatively simpler and sunnier feel....read the full review |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 06/05/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : HMCD-30348 | | Label : Hear Music (Starbucks) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 41m : 59s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00888072303485 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.100)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Vintage Clothes' and 'Feet in the Clouds' incarnate his nostalgia and whimsy with some wit and considerable musical invention."Rolling Stone (p.111)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Top Albums of the Year 2007" -- "[A]t once briskly modern and obsessively retrospective." Entertainment Weekly (p.80)
- "It's his version of Bob Dylan's TIME OUT OF MIND...if TIME OUT OF MIND had cutthroat pop instincts and whistling solos....MEMORY is beautifully elegiac..." -- Grade: A- Uncut (p.106)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- [W]ith a breezy determination not to take itself too seriously....He downloads random memories in his journey from Speke to superstardom with warmth and more than a dash of wry humour." |
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