Nothing Is Real S01E07 - Wings 1971-73 Part One: Wings Wild Life

In 1971, Paul McCartney decided his third post-Beatles album would be as a band, and the band was called Wings. He was 29. Through Wings he would live the fantasy he had suggested to The Beatles when they started the Get Back project in January 1969: be a real band, start from scratch and hit the road.
In December 2018 an 11-disc boxset came out celebrating Wings 1971-73. In this two part episode, Steven and Jason start with the debut album, Wild Life, and guess which one is a fan?
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Originally released July 2019

[@TheThunderwings]

Loving these podcasts. Thanks!

[@chriscampanozzi6516]

Very interesting and informative. Thanks.

[@Rkw772]

I really love Wildlife. I have loved Tomorrow since it’s “the one” I had heard. Now having heard the entire album (I was afraid to hear it since it was supposed to be so horrible) I think it’s great. Beautiful harmonies throughout!

[@redscunthorpe5501]

Everyone knew that as time went bye they'd get a little bit older and a little bit slower.......

[@Paul-McCartney]

actually the song tomorrow has the exact same chords as yesterday

[@drummer78]

I think a lot of “Ram” criticism circa 1971 was fueled by Jan Wenner’s Rolling Stone Magazine. It’s clear there was an agenda from their standpoint. “McCartney I” and “Wildlife” definitely were worthy of criticism at the time (especially “Wildlife”), but it is a shame wasn’t viewed as the great album it is until about 30 years later.

[@chrishughes5049]

Being a fan of all the 'lad's and having bought most of the solo albums as they came out, I loved every one in it's own peculiar way, it was all you had to like, and yet I started buying Beatle music, and let's be honest, solo Paul, John, ect. it's all 'beatle' music, in '69 just as the whole thing was drifting apart, so had very little invested in real Beatles as a group-thing. I vaguely remember seeing Hey Jude on T'V in early '69, maybe? Anywho, everyone has their own experience coming to The Beatles, glad I hit 'em when I did and not in the '80s or egads, the '90's. Funny, not a big fan of Macca post '81 with a few caveats here and there. Probably discovered XTC in '78 and musical taste went in a whole different direction. Good show, although I see it totally different....lol. cheers

[@yrlic]

the McCartney paradox

[@markkeyton]

It was bob dylan planet waves

[@christianstough6337]

When listening to McCartney , the first thing I listen to is whether the songs are any good, then I pay attention to his vocals, then I pay attention to his arrangements. He is a great song writer, a tremendous singer, and excellent arranger and that's what I want to hear. Side one of Wild Life is garbage, I rank it with Apple Jam, or Pauls instrumentals on his first solo album. The songs are horrible. It was so bad that it delayed me for years from going a close listen to side 2. Side two is pretty interesting. There are no songs I would put in his top ten or twenty, but there is definitely things I like about each one. The main thing I like is his voice- which is a soft version mix of I will and Get Back. A unique choice I'm not sure he used before or since. But then there is Linda's voice- which I'm not a fan of unless it is closely blended with Paul and Denny. Laine which we hear in the background on Some People and Tomorrow. But then there is Linda's voice, mixed high in harmony- and it almost always sounds flat and wrong to me. Her voice is not horrible, its just doesn't work with Paul's most of the time when featured prominently. A great exception to this is I am Your Singer, which works. It's a nice song, not great, not mediocre. Just sweet and thankfully short. But If they had mixed Linda out, this would be a better album. The Beatles elevated alot of sub par (for the Beatles) songs into very good songs with god vocals and arrangements. This is almost the case with Side 2 of Wild Life. I like that Paul went for a light touch on side 2- it works. And contrary to my criticisms of Linda's voice, this album begins the emergence of the wonderful backing vocals Denny, Linda, and Paul will carry on throughout Wings with greater and greater effect. Those backing vocals, for me, are the only thing that gives credence to Wings being a group. Without these vocals, it's just Paul and his hired guns. So, 5 songs on side two and all are interesting, Dear Friend is the best, but the others are quite nice. So, despite not having a truly great song, I rank this above Red Rose Speedway, London Town, and Back to Egg for his 70's albums. It sounds cleaner and more authentic and is just more interesting than those albums. The said, I'd rank it even with STINYC and Mind Games.

[@TheWalrusWasDanny]

Picasso...not Van Gogh!!! Danny

[@garycritcher3009]

Give Ireland Back To The Irish -- dreadful.