Liverpool Sound Collage

Performer: Paul McCartney
Artist: John Lennon; George Harrison; Ringo Starr; Super Furry Animals
Producer: Paul McCartney
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Super Furry Animals. Engineers: Paul Hicks, Lord Doufus, Youth. LIVERPOOL SOUND COLLAGE consists of outtakes recorded by The Beatles between 1965 & 1969 & Paul McCartney on the streets of Liverpool, England. LIVERPOOL SOUND COLLAGE was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. Most think of John Lennon as the most experimental and unpredictable Beatle, but judging from Paul McCartney's millenium release, LIVERPOOL SOUND COLLAGE, Sir Paul has a daring artistic side as well. As the title says, the album is comprised of loops and samples (taken from both Beatles songs and McCartney's solo work) that create a funky musical landscape. While the music is sectioned off into five 'songs,' you should be forewarned that these are not your standard verse-chorus-verse compositions. Still, LIVERPOOL SOUND COLLAGE is an enjoyable and engaging listen, especially on the album opener "Plastic Beetle" and the space age "Real Gone Dub Made in Manifest in the Vortex of the Eternal Now." Not as daring as say, Lou Reed's METAL MACHINE MUSIC, but not exactly what you'd expect from Mr. McCartney.

CMJ (10/23/00, p.19) - "...Finds Macca cutting and dubbing bedroom grooves, Beatles studio banter and outtakes...into 5 pieces of shambling sonic schizophrenia..."

Of all the Beatles, Paul McCartney was by far the most successful as a solo act. While many (including John Lennon) dismissed his post-Beatles output as lightweight pap, Paul's extraordinary popularity spoke for itself. "Mull of Kintyre" was for a time the most successful single ever. In the 1990s, McCartney (now a knight of the British Empire) tried his hand at classical composition and movies, while collaborating with admirers like Elvis Costello. Meanwhile, he continued to produce the kind of rock & roll he helped create, though without the kind of chart-topping success that he enjoyed in previous decades.

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