McCartney Singles Of The 2010s - Part 2
My top 5 favorite McCartney singles from the 2010s:
5. Cut Me Some Slack
Written in only three hours and another result of a collaboration. Cut Me Some Slack came when Paul was jamming with the former members of Nirvana, David Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear. The song appears in Grohl’s film Sound City and the accompanying sound track album. The four of them played the rocking track live at the 12-12-12 benefit concert, a few days before its release. In 2014 the song won a Grammy award for Best Rock Song.
4. Early Days
McCartney remembering him and John Lennon when they were just two kids, before they’d started The Beatles and before they got on as songwriters. It’s not only nostalgia, Early Days contains a strong statement: The chorus is all about revisionism, a dig at people who say they know the history of the Beatles, without having experienced it by themselves. Paul’s aging voice gives the song an extra charme. Taken from the album NEW and released in 2014.
3. I Don’t Know
This introspective soulful piano ballad is the opening track of the 2018 album Egypt Station and the first song taken from the album as a single, together with Come On To Me. It is a remarkable dark, gloomy track, especially for McCartney’s standards: “I wrote this song after going through a difficult period. Nothing madly serious or anything – just one of those days people have when it’s like: ‘Oh my God what am I doing wrong here?’. And sometimes that’s a good way to write a song”.
2. NEW
The title track and first single of the 2013 eponymous album NEW. This typical cheerful, up-beat McCartney earworm is in my opinion Paul’s most Beatles-sounding song after the group’s split-up in 1970. And therefore alone one of his best solo singles he has ever released.
1. My Valentine
I am convinced that if McCartney had written this song in his Beatles time, that My Valentine would have become evergreen. But the piano ballad is from 2012 and comes from Paul's jazz album Kisses On The Bottom and for that reason it is mainly a song for the connoisseurs.
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5. Cut Me Some Slack
Written in only three hours and another result of a collaboration. Cut Me Some Slack came when Paul was jamming with the former members of Nirvana, David Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear. The song appears in Grohl’s film Sound City and the accompanying sound track album. The four of them played the rocking track live at the 12-12-12 benefit concert, a few days before its release. In 2014 the song won a Grammy award for Best Rock Song.
4. Early Days
McCartney remembering him and John Lennon when they were just two kids, before they’d started The Beatles and before they got on as songwriters. It’s not only nostalgia, Early Days contains a strong statement: The chorus is all about revisionism, a dig at people who say they know the history of the Beatles, without having experienced it by themselves. Paul’s aging voice gives the song an extra charme. Taken from the album NEW and released in 2014.
3. I Don’t Know
This introspective soulful piano ballad is the opening track of the 2018 album Egypt Station and the first song taken from the album as a single, together with Come On To Me. It is a remarkable dark, gloomy track, especially for McCartney’s standards: “I wrote this song after going through a difficult period. Nothing madly serious or anything – just one of those days people have when it’s like: ‘Oh my God what am I doing wrong here?’. And sometimes that’s a good way to write a song”.
2. NEW
The title track and first single of the 2013 eponymous album NEW. This typical cheerful, up-beat McCartney earworm is in my opinion Paul’s most Beatles-sounding song after the group’s split-up in 1970. And therefore alone one of his best solo singles he has ever released.
1. My Valentine
I am convinced that if McCartney had written this song in his Beatles time, that My Valentine would have become evergreen. But the piano ballad is from 2012 and comes from Paul's jazz album Kisses On The Bottom and for that reason it is mainly a song for the connoisseurs.
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