As promised, I have come up with the final melding of Memory Almost Full and Electric Arguments.
Originally, I saw the project as an update, Paul-style of a sprawling double album, in spirit of the White Album.
Summing that Paul made two great albums in a year, it seemed to make sense of them as one whole, colorful, varied creative piece. I was wrong. It can still be a double album, but with less of the diversity, ecclectic music that the White Album had. Some definite variety, but not as much - not even just counting the "Paul songs" on the White Album.
Though EA has lots of McCartney melody on it, it's still a Firemen album - not just for the latter portion's pure trance, but for the heavy layered music on the front "commercial" side. Admittedly, not a huge layered 2K-era music fan, the infectious melodies pull you in. On the first popular cuts, it's done very effectively in many places. The songs themselves are FABULOUS!! Love to hear them in skeletel form (ala McCartney I) or stripped live in concert with current band.
By combining the themes of the songs, the SOUND of the songs and pure instinct, I have devised a combination of the best of EA with the full (scrambled) MAF menu (plus 1 bonus cut) to give us:Memory Arguement.
(NOTE: Paul save the trees! Un-godly amount of paper used in useless booklet, out- does the MAF card-board calamity.)
Try this sequence and tell me what you think?
Disc 1: Nod Your Head
Sun Is Shining
See Your Sunshine
Ever Present Past
Dance Till We're High
Why So Blue
You Tell Me
Mr.Bellamy
Highway
Only Mama Knows
Two Magpies
Disc 2: Vintage Clothes
That Was Me
Feet In the Clouds
Lifelong Passion
House of Wax
Sing the Changes
The End of the End
Dance Tonight
Light From Your Lighthouse
Is This Love?
BONUS CUTS: Single Release: A-side:Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight
B-side:Grattitude
Thoughts? Your version?
Did anyone "get" the Revolution #9 piano on Universal Here, Everlasting Now? Just whisper: "Number 9, number 9" while it plays............
