Paul McCartney's RAM album reissued!

[Indiana Joe]

Paul and Linda McCartney's RAM album is being reissued on 21st May (UK) / 22nd May (USA / Rest Of World).


Paul and Linda McCartney - RAM reissue - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QdoxN0Hiw)

The 1971 album will be released across a variety of formats with new and exclusive content including a beautifully packaged Deluxe Edition Box Set - the ultimate collectible.

The remastered Apple LP will get the deluxe treatment in a number of formats, ranging from a single-disc package to vinyl to a box set with four CDs, a documentary DVD and a slew of extras. A two-CD digipak will feature B-sides and “Another Day,” McCartney’s debut solo single that was included in a 1993 reissue of Ram.

“This is an album from a long, long time ago, when the world was different,” McCartney says in the press notes. “It reminds me of my hippie days and the free attitude with which it was created. I hope you're going to like it, because I do!"

It’s the fourth in the ongoing reissues of McCartney’s post-Fab Four career, following McCartney, McCartney II and Band on the Run. Ram topped the U.K. chart but peaked at No. 2 in the States, where it was denied the top spot by Carole King's landmark Tapestry. It spawned the singer-songwriter-bassist’s first No. 1 single sans Beatles in the sound effects-laden “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey,” which won a Grammy.

This is one of my top 3 favorite solo-paul albums! check it out!

[Indiana Joe]

Awareness bump

[Headman]

Who? Wasn't Ram the guy who died in Tron?

[Indiana Joe]

Who? Wasn't RAM the guy who died in Tron?

I believe it was ROM.

[Headman]

I believe it was ROM.

Nope. Ram.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20071114182058/tron/images/thumb/2/20/Ram_closeup.png/250px-Ram_closeup.png

[Headman]

that album needs to be RAMmed in to the nearest bin.

Discount bin or trash bin?

[sharky]

A Dollar General exclusive?

[Indiana Joe]

Paul McCartney has been described by Guinness World Records as "The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100 million albums, 100 million singles, and a writer's credit on forty-three songs that have sold over one million copies each.

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Top 100 Songwriters of All Time
by Dave's Music Database on Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 1:55am ·
Originally posted 7/1/2010. This list was updated 3/9/2012 on the DMDB blog (The Top 100 Songwriters of the Rock Era).

23 lists (see all the sources at the links page at the DMDB) of the all-time best songwriters were aggregated to create this list.Admittedly, that doesn’t render the list flawless. Even the conglomeration of multiple lists fails to overcome the strong bias toward rock artists and the rock era. In addition, those who write for others are often overlooked in favor of those who record their own material. This is especially apparent when looking at the lowly rankings of some of Broadway’s most famed teams: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Lerner & Loewe, and Gershwin & Gershwin.

Still, those names do stand among some of the giants of rock, not to mention classic R&B songwriting teams, country legends, and folk heroes. The result is a list in which diverse genres and eras are more accurately represented here than on any other list out there. So here are the results:

1. Bob Dylan
2. John Lennon/ Paul McCartney

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Rolling Stone Readers Pick the Top 10 Songwriters of All Time

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2. John Lennon/Paul McCartney
Every Beatles song written by either John Lennon or Paul McCartney is credited to Lennon/McCartney, even though they stopped writing together very early in their careers. "It ended around 1962," Lennon told Rolling Stone in 1970. "All our best work–apart from the early days [was written together], like 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.'" In a 2001 interview with Rolling Stone Paul McCartney said that the he feels the arrangement has made people under-value his role in the band. "The minute John died, there started to be a revisionism," he said. "There were some strange quotes, like, 'John was the only one in the Beatles.' Or 'Paul booked the studio' — I don't want to get into who said what, but that was attributed to someone who very much knew better. 'John was the Mozart; Paul was the Salieri.' Like, John was the real genius, and I was just the guy who sang 'Yesterday.' If this revisionism gets around, a lot of kids will be like, 'Did he have a group before Wings?' There may come a time when people won't know."



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Paul McCartney has been described by Guinness World Records as "The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100 million albums, 100 million singles, and a writer's credit on forty-three songs that have sold over one million copies each.[1] According to Guinness, he is "the most successful songwriter" in UK singles chart history, and has written or co-written "
188 charted records, of which 129 are different songs. Of these records, 91 reached the Top 10 and 33 made it to No.1. In total, the songs have spent 1,662 weeks on the chart (up to the beginning of 2007)."[2]
In 1986 he received acclaim from the Guinness Book of Records Hall of Fame, "as the most successful musician of all-time."[211]

In the US, as a musician, songwriter, or co-writer, he is included on thirty-one number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100; including twenty with the Beatles and nine solo,[212] one as a co-writer on Elton John's cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds",[213] and one as a co-writer of "A World Without Love", a number one single for Peter and Gordon.[214][215][216] As of 2012, he has sold 15.5 million RIAA certified units in the United States.[217]

Although Elvis Presley has achieved the most UK number-ones as a solo artist with eighteen,[218] McCartney has been involved in more number-ones in the UK than any other artist under a variety of credits, totaling twenty-four singles: including seventeen with the Beatles, one solo, and one each with Wings, Stevie Wonder, Ferry Aid, Band Aid, Band Aid 20 and one with "The Christians et all".[219] He is the only artist to reach the UK number one as a soloist ("Pipes of Peace"), duo ("Ebony and Ivory" with Wonder), trio ("Mull of Kintyre", Wings), quartet ("She Loves You", the Beatles), quintet ("Get Back", the Beatles with Billy Preston), and as part of a musical ensemble for charity (Ferry Aid).[220]

His song "Yesterday" is thought to be the most covered in history with more than 2,200 recorded versions,[221] and according to the BBC, "The track is the only one by a UK writer to have been aired more than seven million times on American TV and radio and is third in the all-time list ... [and] is the most played song by a British writer this century in the US."[222] His 1968 Beatles composition, "Hey Jude", is also a career highlight. It achieved the highest sales in the UK that year, and topped the US charts for nine weeks, longer than any other Beatles' single. It was also the longest single ever released by the band, and at seven minutes fifteen seconds was the longest of any number one to that point. Its been covered by several notable artists, including Presley, Bing Crosby, Count Basie, and Wilson Pickett.[223] It is the best-selling Beatles' single of all-time, with sales of over five million copies achieved soon after its release.[224]


McCartney receiving the Gershwin Award from President Obama in the White House, June 2010

He played for the largest stadium audience in history when 184,000 people paid to see him perform at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 21 April 1990,[225] that year the minor planet 4148, was named "McCartney" in his honour.[226] In July 2005 he was involved with the fastest-released single in history, when his performance of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with U2 at Live 8 was released only 45 minutes after it was performed.[227] The single reached number six on the Billboard charts, just hours after the single's release, and hit number one on numerous online download charts across the world.[228]
On 18 June 2006, McCartney celebrated his 64th birthday, a milestone that was the subject of a tune he wrote at the age of sixteen, which would later become the Beatles' song "When I'm Sixty-Four".[229]
Paul Vallely noted in The Independent:
Paul McCartney's 64th birthday is not merely a personal event. It is a cultural milestone for a generation. Such is the nature of celebrity, McCartney is one of those people who has represented the hopes and aspirations of those born in the baby-boom era, which had its awakening in the Sixties.[230]

In 2008 he received a BRIT award for Outstanding Contribution to Music,[231] as well as an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Yale University.[232] In 2012 he became the last of the "Fab Four" to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[233]

[sharky]

Yeah, but what has he done lately. That's the important thing.

In 2012 he became the last of the "Fab Four" to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[233]
All I got from all that was that he was the LAST of the 'Fab Four' to get a star.

[Indiana Joe]

Yeah, but what has he done lately. That's the important thing.


All I got from all that was that he was the LAST of the 'Fab Four' to get a star.


9 October 2011 Sir Paul McCartney has married American heiress Nancy Shevell at a ceremony in London.

New album- Kisses on the Bottom, released on 6 February 2012 in the UK and 7 February in the US, on LP and CD

and

Rereleased RAM yesterday

[sharky]

But, what about today? Today is Wednesday. The fans are fickle I tell you.

[Headman]

Slayer is better.

[Indiana Joe]

Yeah, but what has he done lately. That's the important thing.


All I got from all that was that he was the LAST of the 'Fab Four' to get a star.

But, what about today? Today is Wednesday. The fans are fickle I tell you.

less than 24 hours ago:
PUBLISHED: 03:52 EST, 23 May 2012 | UPDATED: 05:41 EST, 23 May 2012

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2148585/Ricky-Gervais-Paul-McCartney-Ronnie-Wood-ladies-dinner-Londons-Murano-restaurant.html#ixzz1vj34L4MM

As one of Britain's most popular comedians, Ricky Gervais is certainly not short of famous friends.
So heading out for dinner with Sir Paul McCartney and Ronnie Wood is just a regular occurrence for The Office star.
Last night, Ricky joined Beatles legend Sir Paul and The Rolling Stones' Ronnie, along with their significant others, at London's Murano restaurant.


Read more: Ricky Gervais, Paul McCartney and Ronnie Wood take their ladies out for dinner at London's Murano restaurant | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2148585/Ricky-Gervais-Paul-McCartney-Ronnie-Wood-ladies-dinner-Londons-Murano-restaurant.html#ixzz1vj2VQSmU)

[sharky]

Slayer is better.
Ain't it the truth! I'd kill for a remastered Slayer album.

[sharky]

less than 24 hours ago:
PUBLISHED: 03:52 EST, 23 May 2012 | UPDATED: 05:41 EST, 23 May 2012

Read more: Ricky Gervais, Paul McCartney and Ronnie Wood take their ladies out for dinner at London's Murano restaurant | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2148585/Ricky-Gervais-Paul-McCartney-Ronnie-Wood-ladies-dinner-Londons-Murano-restaurant.html#ixzz1vj34L4MM)

As one of Britain's most popular comedians, Ricky Gervais is certainly not short of famous friends.
So heading out for dinner with Sir Paul McCartney and Ronnie Wood is just a regular occurrence for The Office star.
Last night, Ricky joined Beatles legend Sir Paul and The Rolling Stones' Ronnie, along with their significant others, at London's Murano restaurant.


Read more: Ricky Gervais, Paul McCartney and Ronnie Wood take their ladies out for dinner at London's Murano restaurant | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2148585/Ricky-Gervais-Paul-McCartney-Ronnie-Wood-ladies-dinner-Londons-Murano-restaurant.html#ixzz1vj2VQSmU)
Dude, seriously.
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[Headman]

Slayer should remaster Show No Mercy. It would kill Paul McCartney's tron album.

[sharky]

Slayer should remaster Show No Mercy. It would kill Paul McCartney's tron album.
Hold up! I may have misjudged him. He did the Tron album? Which one is McCartney?
http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac164/therealsharky/tron-legacy-daft-punk-art.jpg

[Indiana Joe]

Dude, seriously.

haha

Slayer should remaster Show No Mercy. It would kill Paul McCartney's tron album.

McCartney II is his "Tron" Album:
Paul McCartney - Temporary Secretary - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehqKpPmVcK4&feature=related)


Paul McCartney - McCartney II: Check My Machine - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAnNgCsNMnk)

[Indiana Joe]

and he is the fireman

Sir Paul McCartney is The Fireman - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z7mjposmzI)

[Indiana Joe]

Paul McCartney "The Fireman" - Celtic Stomp - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yHz_fr6xuQ&feature=related)

[sharky]

and he is the fireman
Hmmm

Sir Paul McCartney is The Fireman - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z7mjposmzI)http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac164/therealsharky/7068682631_25cd37a324.jpg

[Headman]

Hmmm

Sir Paul McCartney is The Fireman - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z7mjposmzI)http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac164/therealsharky/7068682631_25cd37a324.jpg

OMG that raisen pic is dead on!

[Headman]

Tron, Ram, Flynn, Crom... Doesn't matter. Move along program!

[Indiana Joe]

Yeah. But california raisins are cool. So he looks cool. And raisins are old grapes and grapes make wine. So yes he is like a fine wine

[Headman]

I wonder what Slayer is doing right now.

[Indiana Joe]

So you are going to buy it then In order to throw it away
Lennon better maybe. However much less to compare to. The beatles till 1970. Few albums till 1975. And break till 1980. Then killed.
all his albums get rereleased every 5 years or so.
I think yoko has enough of johns money.

[Headman]

So you are going to buy it then In order to throw it away
Lennon better maybe. However much less to compare to. The beatles till 1970. Few albums till 1975. And break till 1980. Then killed.
all his albums get rereleased every 5 years or so.
I think yoko has enough of johns money.

No, Lennon is worse. Much worse. Ringo is better than Lennon.

[Indiana Joe]

And Ringo likes grapes.
The circle is complete.
Poor George is left out again.

Did you know that George is the darkhorse
Also a cool jerk
and a blue moon

[Indiana Joe]

Yes a point.
respect your elders
IM not so impressed with what Hes done recently as much as the songs from the beatles and the 1970s.
Ram is from 1971.

I've just been playing along .

Cheers mate.
Have a laugh
:)

[Headman]

oh...and headman likes to fuck with people for his own amusement,so dont take him to seriously.

While this is true I actually don't like the Beatles at all. For some reason not liking this band or it's members is a crime punishable by nonstop nagging.

[Indiana Joe]

While this is true I actually don't like the Beatles at all. For some reason not liking this band or it's members is a crime punishable by nonstop nagging.

what bands do you like?
(loaded question)

any answer will lead back to the beatles!

because almost every band has direct or indirect influences from the beatles or benefits from the beatles experimentation, blending of multiple genres and thinking outside the box while inside the studio.

[Headman]

what bands do you like?
(loaded question)

any answer will lead back to the beatles!

because almost every band has direct or indirect influences from the beatles or benefits from the beatles experimentation, blending of multiple genres and thinking outside the box while inside the studio.

Howlin Wolf. There, try and say he was inspired by the beatles.

[sharky]

what bands do you like?
(loaded question)

any answer will lead back to the beatles!

because almost every band has direct or indirect influences from the beatles or benefits from the beatles experimentation, blending of multiple genres and thinking outside the box while inside the studio.

You do realize music and bands existed before the Beatles that directly and indirectly influenced them. So, without doing any kind of boring research into it I can feel confident that your answer of leading back to the Beatles actually leads back to something before that. So, your obsession with the Beatles is really missplaced.

[Headman]

It's also funny to think that just because David Vincent of Morbid Angel may have owned two or three Beatles albums as a kid that means I must like the Beatles in order to appreciate Morbid Angel. That's like saying if there were no mud huts there would be no houses. I love living in a house, but living in a mud hut would fucking suck.

[Cobra Terrorist]

While this is true I actually don't like the Beatles at all. For some reason not liking this band or it's members is a crime punishable by nonstop nagging.

What? How can you not like the Beatles???

[Headman]

What? How can you not like the Beatles???

Because they were a boy band from the 60's that got hooked on drugs and became a trippy boy band from the 60's.

[Van Hammer]

I love the Beatles but I do not care for Paul McCartney.

[sharky]

It's also funny to think that just because David Vincent of Morbid Angel may have owned two or three Beatles albums as a kid that means I must like the Beatles in order to appreciate Morbid Angel. That's like saying if there were no mud huts there would be no houses. I love living in a house, but living in a mud hut would fucking suck.
WTF, dude? Why you have to go dissing my mud hut?

[Headman]

WTF, dude? Why you have to go dissing my mud hut?

I'm truly sorry. I forgot about Atlanta's large mud hut community.

[Cobra Terrorist]

Because they were a boy band from the 60's that got hooked on drugs and became a trippy boy band from the 60's.

Haha, I was just nagging you, but that's....actually a somewhat accurate description.


But, c'mon man. They were NOT just a boy band. They actually played instruments! And besides - they made arguably the first Metal song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWuXmfgXVxY&feature=related

Alright...nagging over....

[Headman]

Haha, I was just nagging you, but that's....actually a somewhat accurate description.


But, c'mon man. They were NOT just a boy band. They actually played instruments! And besides - they made arguably the first Metal song!

The Beatles Helter Skelter - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWuXmfgXVxY&feature=related)

Alright...nagging over....



I can name some bands that play their own intruments and still suck.

[Cobra Terrorist]

I can name some bands that play their own intruments and still suck.

Hahahaha - touche'!

[Indiana Joe]

Nothing that could not be settled in the ring.

[Headman]

Nothing that could not be settled in the ring.

That can be arranged.

[Indiana Joe]

That can be rearranged.

so can your body, son.

[Headman]

so can your body, son.

Kinky.

[Indiana Joe]

Kinky.

you would know!