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Post by DayTripper on Nov 20, 2008 20:54:45 GMT 1
Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and Guns N' Roses are releasing their new albums on MySpace.
MySpace users will be able to listen to Electric Arguments, the new album by McCartney's side-project group The Fireman, and Chinese Democracy, by Guns N' Roses, before the songs are in stores. The tracks can be listened to for free but can't be downloaded
The tracks can be listened to for free but can't be downloaded.
The McCartney and Guns N' Roses albums are to be released in the United States next week.
MySpace has launched a joint music venture with several record labels this year to challenge Apple's iTunes music store.
The site has featured exclusives from other acts, but few as legendary as McCartney and Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose.
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Post by NowhereMan on Nov 21, 2008 20:14:38 GMT 1
A nice offering
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Post by DayTripper on Nov 22, 2008 11:33:06 GMT 1
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Post by girl on Nov 22, 2008 23:34:39 GMT 1
I will be looking out for this!
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Post by restlesswind on Nov 25, 2008 21:45:57 GMT 1
Album review: The Fireman's 'Electric Arguments'The third outing from Paul McCartney's duo project with Killing Joke-Orb producer Youth moves this project, which had mostly been instrumental electronic/ambient exercise, ahead by developing full-fledged songs built around McCartney's ever magical voice. In fact, in several of the 13 songs, that voice is employed almost as just another sonic texture, the meaning of words being less critical to the overall effect than the sheer sound of them. It has the feeling of yet another attempt to alter the latter-day public perception of McCartney as the square Beatle. It's a worthwhile effort. Being song-based, there's less substantive distance between this and McCartney's most recent solo outing, "Memory Almost Full," although he works from a broader musical palette. "Electric Arguments" spans the home-studio spontaneity of his first solo album, "McCartney," in the screaming heavy blues-rocker "Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight" to more elaborately produced tracks such as "Sun Is Shining," a song that wouldn't have sounded out of place on "Band on the Run." Then there's "Is This Love?" a dreamy U2-ish soundscape full of penny whistle, celesta, pinging upper-register bass runs and echoing multi-tracked vocals. That segues into an even loopier workout, "Lovers in a Dream," which opens with bending cries of bowed acoustic bass that sound as if McCartney and Youth invited a few humpback whales into the studio to sing and dance along with them. McCartney's bottomless well of melody ensures that none of it gets too far afield, even as the songs turn more amorphous as the album unfolds. The pair wraps things up (not counting the obligatory hidden track -- replete with a backward-masked whisper at the end!) with "Don't Stop Running," a haunting minimalist rocker in which McCartney repeats the title phrase as if a mantra to himself not to get caught up in the past. Excellent argument. --Randy Lewis
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Post by girl on Nov 26, 2008 17:47:40 GMT 1
Strange cover. is it one of pauls pictures?
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Post by girl on Nov 28, 2008 15:10:51 GMT 1
Has it been relaesed yet on my space?
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Post by NowhereMan on Nov 29, 2008 14:51:51 GMT 1
Gets 4 stars in mojo magazine
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Post by restlesswind on Dec 1, 2008 23:18:05 GMT 1
Has it been relaesed yet on my space? Yes! its already out...
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Post by NowhereMan on Dec 2, 2008 18:08:21 GMT 1
Heard the opening track, sounds good
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