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| Electric Arguments | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Fireman, Youth Paul Mccartney
Label: ATO RECORDS / RED
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 2840
Media: LP Record
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 12.4 x 12.1 x 0.5
UPC: 880882164010
EAN: 0880882164010
ASIN: B001GKYBX0
Release Date: January 6, 2009 (New: This Week)
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| Tracks:
| • | Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight | | • | Two Magpies | | • | Sing the Changes | | • | Travelling Light | | • | Highway | | • | Light from Your Lighthouse | | • | Sun Is Shining | | • | Dance 'Til We're High | | • | Lifelong Passion | | • | Is This Love? | | • | Lovers in a Dream | | • | Universal Here, Everlasting Now | | • | Don't Stop Running |
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Album Description
Limited double vinyl LP pressing. The Fireman are back after a ten-year break. Electric Arguments is their third studio album and it's not the album people might expect from the previously mysterious duo. This is Paul McCartney's 2008 album with producer Youth. Each track written,recorded and sung in the space of one day with Paul McCartney, playing all instruments. 'The album's opener is classic rock and an instant attention grabber. A heavy guitar riff with loud drums and souring vocals, it's like nothing The Fireman have ever done before.
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 Didn't like it January 8, 2009
I almost always like what Paul McCartney does. Paul can tap-dance on a buffalo chip, and I'll enjoy it. But, to me, this set of songs was just awful. There were a couple songs that I didn't hate very much, but I mostly hated them a lot.
I'm not a professional critic, so I can't articulate my reasons for my position very well. Basically, it just seemed sloppy, with little thought behind it, and an enormous amount of padding to lengthen the songs.
This is very odd for me. As I said, I almost always like what McCartney does. But for some reason, I didn't connect with this in any good way at all.
 Continued great music January 8, 2009
Paul McCartney can do it all, and he does so on this album, playing all of the instruments and singing the vocals. It is a wide ranging album of new sounds, great vocals, and a slight departure from his last few albums. I recommend tracks 1,3,5,7,8, and 13. Enjoy.
Gemini Fusion January 8, 2009
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm the first to admit McCartney is often difficult to defend. Just when he produces something amazing (and I would consider every album he's put out since "Flaming Pie" amazing), he says or does something dopey that undermines his creative efforts.
He is a true Gemini, persistently torn by oppositional tendencies. It's not an exaggeration for me to state that I think he is the greatest composer and musician (or at least bassist) of any musical form of the past 50 years. Even though much of his solo and Wings-era work embarrassingly strains to retain the middlebrow sensibility that made the Beatles so commercially successful (which of course was only one component of their appeal), there is a certain genius even in his most seemingly conventional songs (I'm thinking "Let 'em In," or "My Love," songs I love in spite of their reputations).
But, because he possesses (or used to possess) a finely tuned ear for what appeals commercially, he's been terribly stigmatized as a lightweight (thanks in no small part to unbearable, pseudo-elitist and pompous critics like Robert Christgau...what a jerk...) to the extent that the "other half" of McCartney is constantly ignored or at least overlooked, often by McCartney himself.
That's why it's such a relief to finally see the critics and the public at least begin to acknowledge McCartney's "other side," and that he is fully capable of producing a work that is so thoroughly resistant to convention. There was always a weirdness to McCartney's mid- to late Beatles work that doesn't get enough attention, and he delves into those long thought lost peculiarities here with a vitality that is peerless.
McCartney's two sides are fused here, really. "Sing the Changes" and "Dance til We're High," for instance, are beautifully textured works of ambient nuance that simultaneously, with very their McCartney-esque melodic hooks, could and should be massive hits.
Of course, considerable credit should be afforded Youth. Their chemistry is such that I hope the collaboration expands into still-greater territories.
 Paul Still Has It January 7, 2009
What a nice surprise this album is! Sure I've been a Beatle fan all my life so I think I "owe" it to Paul to at least check out his albums-and I end up buying them! This project was a little different and I approached it reluctantly..I'm glad I did have a listen to the tracks because they're some of the best things Paul has done for quite a while. There's a freshness and vitality that belies his (slightly) advancing years.let's face it-he just lives and breathes music-and the spontaneous approach of this album works beautifully. Buy it-and play it loud!
AN ASTOUNDING COMPLETION OF THE McCARTNEY TRIPTYCH! January 6, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The vastly under-rated Chaos and Confusion in the Backyard (accompanied by a shameful lack of promotion by the moribund Capital Records) and classic pop of Memory Almost Full revealed to us that Paul was still capable of churning out melodic pop and rock of the highest order. Both of these CDs showed us that Paulie still had lead in his pencil. So to speak.
Neither disc - nor the excellent, tear inducing Ecce Cor Meum - has prepared us for the revitalized, revivified, and completely re-invented McCartney who teams with Youth to produce this masterpiece.
It is no slight to McCartney to suggest that the only other pop artist who has risen Phoenix-like over the course of his seventh decade is Dylan. And it's no mere coincidence that Dylan himself admitted to Rolling Stone that the only other artist he was truly envirous of, is McCartney. "Man" said Dylan "he can do it all".
Indeed he can. Or so it seems. Has any other artist brought as much joy to as many people throughout the world for as long a period of time? I don't think so. The reason why we all shed a tear at hearing "The End of the End" on Memory Almost Full was precisely for that reason - McCartney has been so thoroughly and completely woven into the fabric of our lives that it is almost impossible to imagine a time when we will not have the opportunity to hear a new McCartney song. Even more shocking, following the divorce of his marriage to Heather Mills, was the thought that we might never hear a new McCartney LOVE song. (Who among us was not shocked to see how haggard and weary Paul looked towards the end of that debacle? Would Paul ever open his heart again, and risk such hurt?)
Foolish thoughts. Still, we contented ourselves with hearing whatever came along. Admittedly, some of the material has been rather banal. (I'm not about to list the man's sins. As George Bush Sr. recently said, "you can look them up on your Google"). But it should be noted - hell, it should be yelled from the rooftops, that Electric Arguments is not one of them. In fact, while not his greatest album (BOTR), Electric Arguments may in fact be McCartney's greatest triumph.
New, yet famiiiar. Strong in voice, yet fragility that reflects his years. Energetic, energetic, energetic. Oh yea, did I say it was energetic? And joyous. Full of happiness, love, joy, and love.
Thanks Paul. Thanks for the decades of music. Thanks for showing our generation - you know who we are - the meaning of love, and the fullest expression of love in your music. (Here again, I must reference Ecce Cor Meum, although it could also be said of Lifelong Passion on Electric Arguments)
So - The Fireman has come in from the pouring rain. And yes, it is a little strange. But in the best possible sense. This music, is new.
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