Paul McCartney - Press to Play

Digitally Remastered Reissue of the Original Album with Press and Footprints, plus Two Bonus Tracks Added: Spies Like Us and Once Upon a Long Ago (Long Version). Album Details

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Come on, folks. Four stars? Five? You would give this pathetic effort the same rating as Band on the Run? Press to Play is possibly the worst album McCartney ever unleashed on the public. It was supposed to be one of many "Macca is back" albums, a return to form. Now even Paul himself admits it's rubbish. The melodies are overwhelmingly insipid and forgettable. Even tuneless. We're supposed to be reviewing the CD, not the man. You can love Paul and still be of the opinion that this album is a foul heap. June 19, 2008

This CD

I was very happy with the quickness and quality in which this was received. Thank you again. August 31, 2007

Could have been worse I suppose.

When this album came out, and I remember that Rolling Stone gave it some crazy number of stars and said Paul was back. finally. I was so happy, I guess it had seemed all along like there were just enough signs of life -- a bass line here, a charming song there, that famous and little-changing voice -- that Paul really had the potential to pull himself together and do something good. And I rushed out and bought it.

Unfortunately, Paul was not back. This is yet another disappointing Paul album. He is making an effort not to be quite as treacly as elsewhere (there's even a song called "I'm angry" that attempts to show some edge.) But it has that ineffable pall of laziness and insincerity that keeps it from being actually good, listenable music. Anyway, I keep pulling it out every few years, hoping that somehow it will have aquired a pleasant patina. But no. I always return it to the shelf, freshly disheartened. August 29, 2007

MUCH BETTER THAN I FIRST THOUGHT

i must admit that i slightly misjudged that album, it's actualy quite good, although a bit of annoying 80's beatbox but that's half the charm of it in fact. "good times comin'/feel the sun" is an excellent song, "only love remains" can probably take a tear from my eyes, "press" is a good poppy song and "once upon a long ago" has always been one of my favorites.
plus i love the cover and the bonus tracks are fine. June 4, 2007

One of McCartney's Best

If you're a true McCartney fan, this album is a must own as it is truly unique to the McCartney catalogue. Paul took some risks, did some experimenting, and received a lot of unwarranted criticism for his efforts.

Its certainly not his most commercial work, but that's this album's charm. For decades, critics have chided the man for being too commercial. Here he finally branches out a bit, with song-writing collaboration on several songs for the first time (credited anyway) since Lennon.

This is only his 3rd effort since the disbanding of Wings so what you get is honest McCartney creativity. Taken in context, there isn't really a bad song included. As with many McCartney albums released in the past 20 years or so, the cuts that were remixed and released as singles sound very different than the album versions.










June 23, 2006

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