Awful
-
topazthecat1000 — 9 years ago(May 01, 2016 10:24 PM)
Sadly Paul has lost his once great singing voice from singing all of those great rock songs on records and live into his 60's and 70's,it's really depressing he really doesn't have much of even a talking voice anymore.But he did sing great into his 50's and good into his 60's.
-
topazthecat1000 — 9 years ago(May 01, 2016 10:02 PM)
Here are just a few of the many diverse examples of what a great voice and great singer Paul once was.
Here he sings great,the best song,arrow Through Me he wrote on Wings last album Back To The Egg in 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzA-ZuGGJzk
Paul McCartney and wings 1985 One Hand Clapping 1974 TV special Paul amazingly sings this great piano rocker live, from the very good Band On The Run album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_LiEjIMhoc
Here Paul does his great rocking voice as The Beatles perform his great rocking song,I'm Down at the Ed Sullivan Theater August 14,1965 just one night before their Shea stadium concert August 15th.
https://vimeo.com/133531241
Here is their Shea Stadium performance the next night,
https://vimeo.com/146526352
Here The Beatles play the cover song,Kansas City and Paul does a great rock vocal performance as usual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3n19Y5bOs
Here they play Paul's rocking great song I Saw Her Standing There and once again Paul sings great,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqJ-AGY6Qhs
Here is Paul and Wings great performance of Paul's beautiful song Bluebird from Wings 1976 tour.The version on The Band On The Run album is very good,but this live version is so great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16rTnPQDf_8
Here he plays acoustic guitar great, and sings great Yesterday live from Wings 1976 concert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgRG4bY3geU
Here is his 1973 video performance of his great love song for Linda My Love and he sings any style great like love songs including his great rockers and everything in between
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SB3x6KtNi4
'Here is the full great 1975 Wings Over Austraila concert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4T4biiXqvs
Etc,etc,etc!
Here he sings great, his 1984 hit No More Lonely Nights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix7ipodULwQ -
Lola_Bedworthy — 9 years ago(November 16, 2016 05:02 AM)
You can blusb68ter all you want, but no, you do not know what you are talking about. By definition, trolls don't. You can adequately judge Paul McCartney's voice because you started listening to him when you were 10? Oh, please. Go pontificate elsewhere. You've worn out your welcome here, troll.
-
topazthecat1000 — 9 years ago(May 01, 2016 09:16 PM)
What you said is so beyond ignorant,ridiculous and false!
In Mark Lewisohn's excellent book which is a detailed music diary of their amazing only 8 year recording career,The Beatles Recording Sessions where many of their recording engineers and tape operators are interviewed along with George Martin and there is a great 1987 interview with Paul in the beginning of the book,Mark explains that Paul amazingly recorded three totally different types of songs and singing styles in the same day,Yesterday,I've Just Seen A Face and his screaming rocker I'm Down and he basically said how it demonstrated how he impressively could do such different styles like that soon after the other.
Mark says in the 1965 chapter about the recordings on Monday June 14th,that it was a remarkable day's work,dominated by Paul McCartney and perfectly illustrating this young man's mastery of three different styles of musical composition and singing.He says what makes Paul's recording of Yesterday and he said the supreme melodic ballad all the more remarkable is that it directly followed the taping of I'm Down which Mark says is a quasi-soul/rock5b4 and roll song delivered by Paul in the most larynx-tearing,chord-shredding style imaginable.
Paul used to have a great sounding love song voice,an in between love song and rock song voice,and a great rock and even hard rock voice and he many times sang all these styles in the same song great.John was also a great singer and he had an more unique beautiful voice even when he spoke.
Paul sang great into his 50's and still good into his 50's but he sadly barely has a voice left to talk,because he kept singing rock songs live and in the studio into his 60's and now 70's.The Beatles are not only in the Song Writing Hall of Fame but the Vocal Hall of Fame too and for great valid reasons.It's really hard to believe and understand how anyone especially a genuine fan could say such nonsense. -
topazthecat1000 — 9 years ago(May 01, 2016 09:21 PM)
As The All Music Guide says in their excellent Beatles biography "That it's difficult to summarize their career wib68thout restating cliches that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans, to start with the obvious,they were the greatest and most influential act of the rock era and introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century."
"Moreover they were among the few artists of any discipline that were simultaneously the best at what they did and the most popular at what they did." They also say as singers John Lennon and Paul McCartney were among the best and most expressive in rock.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-beatles-mn0000754032/biography
Also on an excellent site,The Evolution of Rock Bass Playing McCartney Style by Dennnis Alstrand,Stanley Clarke,Sting,Will Lee,Billy Sheehan,George Martin and John Lennon are quoted saying what a great,melodic and influential bass player Paul has always been.
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/paulbass.htm
And Wilco's John Stirratt was asked in Bass Player which bass players have had the most impact on his playing and the first thing he said was, Paul McCartney is one of the greatest bass players of all time,if you listen to what he was tracking live in the studio it's unbelievable." "With his tone and musicality he was a huge influence,he covered all of his harmonic responsibilities really well but his baselines were absolutely melodic and inventive."
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/15716769/windy-city-wingman-john-stirratt-lays-roots-wilco
In this 2010 interview the blogger says that John Stirratt has an affinity for good melodies so it's not surprising that Paul McCartney is one of his musical icons and then he quotes him saying that he's always absolutely in awe of his playing,including Paul's Beatles years.
http://audreeanne.blogspot.com/2010/02/interview-wilcos-john-stirratt-talk.html
And in an online 1977 Eric Clapton interview,Eric Clapton In His Own Words he says that there was always this game between John and George,and he said partly because John was a pretty good guitar player himself http://www.superseventies.com/ssericclapton.html .He played live with John as a member of John's 1969 Plastic Ono Band.
And there is a great online article by musician and song writer Peter Cross,The Beatles Are The Most Creative Band Of All Time and he says that many musicians besides him recognize Paul as one of the best bass guitar players ever.He too says that John and Paul are the greatest song composers and that to say that John and Paul are among 2 of the greatest singers in rock and roll is to state the obvious,and that John,Paul and George were all excellent guitarists and that George is underrated by people not educated about music but that Eric Clapton knew better,he also says that both John5b4 and Paul played great leads as well as innovative rhythm tracks.
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Beatles-are-the-Most-Creative-Band-of-All-Time&id=222245
John Lennon co-wrote,sang and played guitar on one of David Bowie's first hits Fame in 1975 and David invited John to play guitar on his version of John's beautiful Beatles song Across The Universe.Brain May,Ozzy Osbourne,and Liam Gallagher and many more call The Beatles The Greatest Band Ever.'
Also on MusicRadar Tom Petty,Joe Perry and Richie Sambora in What The Beatles Mean To Me all say how cool and great they thought The Beatles were when they first saw them on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 when they were just teen boys,Richie was only 5.Tom Petty said he thought they were really really great.
Robin Zander of Cheap Trick said he's probably one of the biggest Beatles fans on the planet.Brad Whitford of Aerosmith said that a lot of that Beatles influence comes from Steven Tyler's collaborartion with Mark Hudson both whom are absolute Beatles freaks and he said I guess the goal is to try and emulate probably some of the best music of the last 50 years which has to be The Beatles. -
LaZboyfriend — 13 years ago(September 08, 2012 07:36 PM)
So, I'm an @sshole because I consider it reckless for a person who's a singer, by trade, to spend 50 years of his life damaging his voice smoking pot?
The word you're looking for is not "@sshole"; it's "intelligent".
Room for one more, honey. -
willjohn — 13 years ago(November 07, 2012 08:02 PM)
What's the big deal about knighthoods? A conservative premier of the Australian state I live in was selling them for 60 grand each back in the 1970s. A bank clerk before going into politics he died a millionaire.
-
Morbius_Fitzgerald — 13 years ago(November 12, 2012 02:11 PM)
I agree about the 2012 olympics, I didn't see the Diamond Jubilee though. His voice sounds so strained from what it was. There is a clear time when a musician should give up music, Paul has passed that time and no longer has anyone with the balls to tell him "Look, man, you need to give up." because who tells a Beatle that they're beep
I also hate his song choice for London. Hey Jude was ALL he could think of? Penny Lane doesn't exist to him anymore? Helter Skelter(my favourite Beatles song)? She Loves You? Well I suppose if he's only going for Hey Jude instead of a real classic than we should be greatful he's not butchering that.
Goth for LIFE! -
WakenPayne — 13 years ago(November 13, 2012 12:19 AM)
Paul McCartney, although his performance is bad in my opnion, it isn't anywhere near as bad as Meatloaf. That lead singer is awful in his old age, 5b4but then again that is my opinion (and a lot of other peoples).
And Paul isn't as bad as some of these recent pop stars like Rebecca Black.
Kaikki menee jonnekin ja menen kaikkialle -
cbartal — 13 years ago(February 21, 2013 07:22 PM)
This being my first post on this thread, I have to get back to lazyboyz contention that Mccartney is not a great singer.
I have the utmost respect for Sinatra, Martin, Bennett, Presley, and the like, but it is astonishing to me that you cannot see the brilliance of Paul Mccartney's voice. Among his myriad of vocal inflections, he was a crooner, a screamer, a rock and roller, a balladist, a pop singer he originated 100 vocal styles, and perfectly payed homage to and extended 1000 more.
And not only his work as a lead singer, but how about the backup vocals he's done with the Beatles?
On and on. Saying Mccartney is not an absolutely amazing singer is like saying Einstein is a hack wanna be compared to Newton. -
Sugarminx — 9 years ago(April 12, 2016 08:12 PM)
it is astonishing to me that you cannot see the brilliance of Paul Mccartney's voice. Among his myriad of vocal inflections, he was a crooner, a screamer, a rock and roller, a balladist, a pop singer
Agreed. Lazyboy's assertions are just plai238n laughable.
Paul had an absolutely beautiful quality to his voice, the timbre was gorgeous. He could do it all. Anyone who's listened to the different kinds of songs he's sung live over the years knows thatunless they really
don't
have an ear for music
He was extraordinary belting out things like Kansas City and Long Tall Sally - AND he was always on pitch, and then he'd do beautiful soulful tunes like Til There Was You, not to mention the often complex harmonies he did with the other boys.
Do 5b4the P-I-G-E-O-N -
StevePiriczki — 10 years ago(June 30, 2015 09:53 PM)
Wasn't the greatest of performances but then again the other artists struggled as well. There is a reason why television broadcasters loathe covering live music. The sound quality and performances just aren't up to scratch for most artists.