Friday, August 01, 2008

A McCartney playlist

I recently found a Beatles blog which had a George Harrison playlist by someone who used the same rules that I recently used to make a couple of setlists so I thought I'd post mine and see what people think.

So here is my Post-Beatles McCartney setlist. There aren't many rules – it just needs to be able to fit onto one CD. That's the tricky part because that forces you to trim it down quite a bit. I also wanted this to be a good introduction to McCartney's music for someone who wasn't familiar with it and I wanted it to be a good listening experience so the order took some thought. Here's what I came up with.


Name

Album

1

The Lovely Linda

Wingspan: Hits and History

2

Big Barn Bed

Red Rose Speedway

3

Jet

Wingspan: Hits and History

4

English Tea

Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

5

Pipes Of Peace

Wingspan: Hits and History

6

Live And Let Die

Wingspan: Hits and History

7

Motor Of Love

Flowers in the Dirt

8

Band On The Run

Wingspan: Hits and History

9

Ever Present Past

Memory Almost Full

10

Another Day

Wingspan: Hits and History

11

Mull Of Kintyre

Wingspan: Hits and History

12

Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey

Wingspan: Hits and History

13

Only Mama Knows

Memory Almost Full

14

Beautiful Night

Flaming Pie

15

Venus And Mars / Rockshow (Single Edit)

Wingspan: Hits and History

16

Dance Tonight

Memory Almost Full

17

Maybe I'm Amazed

Wingspan: Hits and History

18

Every Night

Wingspan: Hits and History

19

Tug Of War

Wingspan: Hits and History

20

My Brave Face

Flowers in the Dirt

21

Your Loving Flame

Driving Rain


There are three big ballads on here – McCartney often ends his album with one of these – and I like them a lot but I needed to somehow put them on here in a way that made sense. So I split the 21 songs into three parts and ended each part with one of the ballads – that helped me give the list some flow. My daughter Bethany questioned the inclusion of "English Tea." Feel free to suggest other options.

3 comments:

Martin Lane said...

"Dear Boy" is a really lovely song and deserves to be included. Just my opinion, of course.

Bob K said...

Thanks, Martin - so, if I were to add "Dear Boy" what should I leave off?

Isorski said...

Wow, interesting list! I probably would have chosen 75 percent different songs. Which just goes to show how awesome McCartney's output has been.

Ones I'd have on my disc include Junk (unplugged version), Back Seat of My Car, Let Me Roll It, London Town, Getting Closer, Rockestra Theme, No Words, Call Me Back Again, Take It Away, Ballroom Dancing, Put It There...