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Press To Play [Original recording remastered]

Paul McCartney | Format: Audio CD
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (9 Aug 1993)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: EMI/Parlophone
  • ASIN: B000005RPV
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 30,617 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. Stranglehold
2. Good Times Coming/Feel The Sun
3. Talk More Talk
4. Footprints
5. Only Love Remains
6. Press
7. Pretty Little Head
8. Move Over Busker
9. Angry
10. However Absurd
11. Write Away
12. It's Not True
13. Tough On A Tightrope
14. Spies Like Us Bonus Track
15. Once Upon A Long Ago Bonus Track;(Long Version)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Anyone remember this one? 10 Jun 2001
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Press to Play is probably the least known of McCartney's solo works. He has recently been raising the profile of his 70's work with and without Wings, his early 80's material was very successful, and his work since 89's Flowers In The Dirt has been generally well received. Stuck in the middle of all this is Press To Play, with no big hit singles ('Press' barely made top 20) and no critical reputation.

It is an album reminiscent of the similarly ignored Back To The Egg, in that it is an album where McCartney, sometimes rather clumsily admittedly, takes risks and experiments. You will not hear another track in his back catalogue like Pretty Little Head for example, and whether or not the experiment is successful we should be grateful that someone of Maccas vintage was still prepared to take risks.

There is much here worth revisiting, including the upbeat Stranglehold the rather bizarre Talk More Talk and the rocking Angry where McCartney is joined by guests including Phil Collins and Pete Townshend.

It doesn't all work so well, However Absurd for example has lyrics that strive for the surreality of classic Lennon but end up sounding just nonsensical. And there is something rather strained about the albums 'classic' ballad in Only Love Remains. While none of McCartneys solo albums are perfect, only a few commit the cardinal sin of not being interesting. Press To Play is certainly that, and much more.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Paul at his best 2 Feb 2004
By "drieboom"
Format:Audio CD
My first impression was "my god what has he done" but after listening to it for a couple of times it started to grow on me. Maybe reading IT by Stephen King at that same time had something to do with it. The music was complementary to the book. Weird and sometimes not of this world. Together with Ram, Flaming Pie and Back to the Egg this album shows Paul at his best. Written and performed together with Eric Steward this album is one of the best ever made. Press to Play is just as experimental as Revolver or Sgt Peppers' from his Beatles past. Maybe because there are no commercially attractive songs on it it was written off as bad by the so-called critics. If you only like the Macca of Silly Love Songs this one is not for you but if you want to hear what this guy is capable of buy it, listen to it and enjoy.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Best McCartney solo album 2 Jan 2009
By ippudo
Format:Audio CD
Despite the flak it usually gets, I consider "Press To Play" McCartney's best solo effort, but what do I know. It's the only one of his albums where I don't have to skip tracks since more or less everything is finished off with the same metallic mid-80s production, which makes for a unified sound, and provided you like that sound, you're likely to enjoy the album as a whole. Due to their generally darker and more experimenal nature, the songs are less convoluted and the "silly" factor is reduced to a minimum, the two upbeat rockers "Move Over Busker" and "Angry" excepted. Next to "Only Love Remains", the ingenious ballad that everyone raves about, there are several possibly less obvious gems such as the title track and the Talking Heads related "Talk More Talk". The single b-sides and the reworked "Pretty Little Head" are worth checking out too.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Plenty to commend it
The original cut of this album was simply 10 tracks. I bought the cassette in 1986 on the day of its release! Read more
Published 4 months ago by S. Turner
2.0 out of 5 stars Depressed
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Published on 5 Jun 2010 by Mr. Jelly Bean
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Published on 22 May 2010 by TSM
5.0 out of 5 stars One of his best 3
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Published on 24 Feb 2008 by Paul J. Bagnall
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This is a weird one in a number of ways. Firstly, it tends to excite extreem opinions. Some people herald it as a lost classic with experimentalism Lennon is often praised for and... Read more
Published on 19 Dec 2006 by J. Whitworth
3.0 out of 5 stars pretty good....
When this first came out, in 1986, I was into buying cassettes. Always thought it was a pretty good album, and loved However Absurd in particular. Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2006
4.0 out of 5 stars much better than most of the 80s music
ok, ok, I can understand that, looking back from where we are now in 2005, this album, recorded in 1986 by a man who had his best days in the sixties, sounds a bit silly. Read more
Published on 5 Dec 2005 by Thomas Milz
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When this album was reissued as part of the McCartney Collection it had as a bonus 2 very strong items from singles of the time:Once upon a long ago-sounding more like a Christmas... Read more
Published on 25 Nov 2005 by Richard
4.0 out of 5 stars One of Macca's Forgotten Gems
This mid-1980s album was well received when it first appeared with even the NME giving it a good review. Read more
Published on 7 Oct 2005 by Scott Hart
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