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Title: Paul McCartney - Listen To What The Man Said
Added: Aug 9, 2009
Author: piggies1
Duration: 3:34
Description:
Venus and Mars is the fourth album by Wings, Paul McCartney's group formed after The Beatles' dissolution. Released as the follow-up to the enormously successful Band on the Run, Venus and Mars continued Wings' string of success and would prove a springboard for a year-long worldwide tourAfter recording Band on the Run as a three-piece with wife Linda and guitarist Denny Laine, McCartney added Jimmy McCulloch on lead guitar and Geoff Britton on drums to the Wings lineup in 1974. Having written several new songs for the next album, McCartney decided upon New Orleans, Louisiana as the recording venue, and Wings headed there in January 1975.[1]As soon as the sessions began, the personality clash that had been evident between McCulloch and Britton during Wings' 1974 sessions in Nashville became more pronounced, and Britton — after a mere six month stay — quit Wings, having only played on three of the new songs. A replacement, American Joe English, was quickly auditioned and hired to finish the album.The sessions themselves proved to be very productive, not only finishing the entire album, but also several additional songs including two future McCartney B-sides: "Lunch Box/Odd Sox" and "My Carnival". McCartney also decided to link the songs together much like The Beatles had on Abbey Road to give the album a more continuous feel.John Lennon, often in a nostalgic mood while in Los Angeles, had told May Pang (his then girlfriend) that he planned to visit the McCartneys during the recording sessions for Venus and Mars, but this was not to be. Lennon's planned visit would be permanently postponed due to his reunion with Yoko Ono.Preceded by the single "Listen to What the Man Said" in May, Venus and Mars appeared two weeks later to decent reviews and brisk sales. The album reached #1 in the US, the UK and worldwide (as did "Listen to What the Man Said" in the US) and sold several million copies, even if the reaction was less than what had greeted Band on the Run a year earlier.Two additional singles, "Letting Go" and "Venus and Mars/Rock Show" were released, though to less success. Although the latter almost reached the US Top 10, it didn't chart at all in the UK.By September, Wings kicked off what would be their year-long Wings Over the World tour in the UK, with Australia, the United States and Canada pencilled in for the coming months; Venus and Mars material would be heavily featured.In 1993, Venus and Mars was remastered and reissued on CD as part of "The Paul McCartney Collection" series with "Zoo Gang" (a UK television theme that was the UK B-side of "Band on the Run" in 1974), "Lunch Box/Odd Sox" (B-side of "Coming Up" in 1980), and "My Carnival" ("Spies Like Us"' B-side in 1985) as bonus tracks. In 2007, Venus and Mars was reissued in digital form on iTunes with these bonus tracks plus the 6-minute-plus "party mix" of "My Carnival".Wings' interpretation of the theme to Crossroads, a British soap opera, was sometimes used to end the show in place of the regular theme tune, usually when there was a cliffhanger ending with a hint of sadness involved
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Youtube Comments: 272
CODclutches Says:
Apr 2, 2012 - You're 100% right.
Sunfried1 Says:
Apr 3, 2012 - This song reminds me of the summer of '75, riding with my cousins and a couple of girls in the back of my buddy's Ford pickup.
dudestr5552 Says:
Apr 11, 2012 - Music was leaps and bounds better in the 1970s than this trite, irreverent banality we have today.
MMRED Says:
Apr 11, 2012 - That's what people in the 70's were saying about the 40's and it's what we'll be saying in 2052.
MrDavidAD1 Says:
Apr 18, 2012 - your an idiot mr moron should be your name. Times and such were better for the most part in the 70s. If it was so bad and if you was there for it then maybe you should not have left it living huh? your as ignorant as your say on here. take a hike and go find yourself a better time zone,
MMRED Says:
Apr 19, 2012 - Looks like somebody watched an episode of that 70's show and started remembering their "golden years" like that. Since you've decided to be an ass about it, how about you go back to elementary school and learn the basics of capitalization and punctuation in order to not look like an idiot? Also, it's you're, not your. As in "You're a dumbass, and your misguided sense of nostalgia is retarded" 90% of everything was crap in the 70's and 90% of everything is crap now, pure and simple.
AshleyTH94 Says:
Apr 23, 2012 - well you're just a ray of sunshine aren't you......on another note...I love this song :)
MMRED Says:
Apr 23, 2012 - Yeah, it's a good song.
MrMarkzuckerberg Says:
Apr 25, 2012 - Hey man, good stuff comes from war too. You know that war is often seen as the mother of invention. Vietnam also brought out a pretty good soundtrack. all the bad shit keeps a balance on the good stuff, it also makes the world more interesting.
MrMarkzuckerberg Says:
Apr 25, 2012 - Only thing good about the 60's and early 70's was the Vietnam War. Peace is boring.
MMRED Says:
Apr 25, 2012 - Well that's not what I'm arguing. I'm arguing that the 70's wasn't a "more innocent time" moreso than any other argument. I'm just trying to point out that people who say that are seeing the 70's through a filter of nostalgia either remembered from their simplified childhoods or vicariously from drivel they've seen and/or heard from OTHER people who remembered the 70's so much more idealistically. I'm just trying to point out that their nostalgic filter of the 70's doesn't ACCURATELY reflect it.
MMRED Says:
Apr 25, 2012 - On a side note, it could be argued that the Vietnam war helped bring people together. In a sadly ironic way, but... still... I mean, I think it's partially what influenced people to rebel against their old ideals and embrace new ones, such as civil rights, feminism, environmentalism, and integration (as part of civil rights. ESPECIALLY starting with the military, in which all races of frontline soldiers seemed to be equally fucked at the time)
DavidMoatMUSIC Says:
Apr 26, 2012 - An amazing track from VENUS AND MARS!
jiggywithit4869 Says:
Apr 29, 2012 - Why did the ending get cut out? That was like the best part of the song!
dragknuckle Says:
May 1, 2012 - Back in the days when you could use sax and flute on a pop song. Also many other real instruments. Humans making music!
eddieg671 Says:
May 3, 2012 - justin beaver and lady gaga are far more dangerous than gangsta rap
BeatleLennon12 Says:
May 5, 2012 - Music is Like candy.You Throw away the rappers.
twnklgirl9 Says:
May 6, 2012 - OMG I found it!! I've been looking for this song since like forever!! I only heard it once half asleep, but the only thing I remember the radio station said was that it's from Paul McCartney, and that it came out in the 1970s <3
hrdstylr Says:
May 12, 2012 - doesnt matter how its made. if it sounds good it sounds good. dont bother with the whole real instruments thing now. has nothing to do with anything. its not so easy making music from a program either. and its not just pushing buttons as most people think.
dragknuckle Says:
May 12, 2012 - First of all, I have been writing MIDI sequences and doing synth sound design for more than 20 years, so I know exactly how hard it is. That doesn't keep me from appreciating that something has been lost along the way.
Pascalmusic Says:
May 15, 2012 - Paul McCartrney is still the best !
AgawaBay Says:
May 20, 2012 - Love It!
ninong2000 Says:
May 22, 2012 - @MMRED:well, let's see:???? hmmm, there were no "drive-bys", there were no crack ho's dumping babies in dumpsters, there wasn't anybody trying to get funding from my paycheck for same-sex marriages, governement will always be corrupt, but the quality of life, and the innocence of childhood was certainly stronger. There were far less "babies having babies" in large, most parents actually "parented" rather than pawning the kids off on daycare, and school, expecting them to raise them.
ninong2000 Says:
May 22, 2012 - music is music, the "quality" is irrelavent. if it makes people feel good, or happy, or dance, its worthwhile. doesn't matter if it was created on a piano, or on a laptop. either way it takes creativity. There are those that are special. lennon/mccartney are two of those.
TheGizzardWizard Says:
Mar 31, 2012 - Well, I mentioned the U.S. because I'm from the U.S. But thank you for saying my points are valid.