Memory Almost Full [Deluxe Limited Edition]

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What Customers Say About Memory Almost Full [Deluxe Limited Edition]:

Heavier than Chaos And Creation, it has rockier songs. Just another great record from Pau. Highly recommended. it's just great. so enjoyable

I really only like one song on this whole disc. I got the deluxe set. I have only listened to the first disc once. Paul and the group are just not as good this time around. Very disapointed.

I think Memory Almost Full is one of Paul's best albums ever. It is definitly a worthwhile album for any extreme Paul fan. Disc 2 is very cool. But why would you buy this Limited Edition instead of the regular one. The Audio Commentary is 26 minutes long because Paul talks about every song individually.I would reccommend this album to any McCartney or Beatles fan happily. The product design is beautiful. The songs are simply amazing. I opened this up on Christmas day, and I was SO happy.

It is the size of a DVD case, and everything folds out and there are the CD's. The lyrics are very handy. The extra songs are good, and if you have the time, the Audio Commentary is worth it. --Kari :)

I loved "Chaos" and played it to death. This is a good CD. There's something about this one though. Don't get me wrong. It just hasn't grown on me yet. Not sure what it is. I wish Paul would just put out a CD of his good ol' Rock n Roll style.

There were songs on Flowers in the Dirt and "Off the Ground" that seemed to purpose built for Top 40 radio, yet with the exception of "My Brave Face" in 1989, Top 40 had moved on - with little use for Paul McCartney. But unlike his last several releases, there are no details about who played what - other than a basic list of which songs are Paul-only and which include his band. Plus, again, repeated listenings - especially through headphones - reveal all the layers of instruments built up throughout the song, which keep things interesting musically.I like most of the other songs a lot too (if that sounds lazy, grouping the rest together like that - well, it is). It sounds to me like McCartney trying to be poetic and wordy, yet not really have a point. I can only imagine it must have been disappointing to accept this, watching so many singles crash and burn. The bonus disc has three interesting tracks - all one-man McCartney recordings - and I highly recommend springing for it. He doesn't sing like this very often anymore (although I'm sure many would say that's a good thing) - it's great to hear him going for broke. He really doesn't seem to be trying for the Big Hit anymore, at least not since Flaming Pie.

Since he's been averaging 4 years between releases for the past decade-plus, I was just thrilled beyond belief that he was releasing a new album less than two years later. The sound is slicker and more polished overall than on "Chaos." Highlights for me.I'll start with my favorite two tracks from the album closing song suite: "Vintage Clothes" and "Feet In the Clouds." These are simply pure McCartney (even if Vintage's piano riff sounds borrowed from a Feetwood Mac song I can't remember at the moment). I guess the biggest problem for me is "House of Wax" - I can appreciate the attempt to create a slow-burn epic, but I can't decipher the lyrics. I don't know what I'm trying to say - I just like it.McCartney is in excellent voice - as unpopular as "Gratitude" seems to generally be, I LOVE hearing him push his voice to the very limit. The only real issue I had with 'Chaos' (and I have to emphasize: only a very, very slight issue) was its relative lack of variety in tempo and atmosphere.

This is a very good effort from McCartney. This is not the case with "Memory" - this is easily his most varied album since Off the Ground way back in 1993.The songs had to grow on me, for the most part - but that shouldn't be read as a criticism. Too many cardboard flaps; I'm not the first person to gripe about it and I probably won't be the last.More dismaying to me was the lack of track-specific instrumental credits in the liner notes. There is a sense of sadness in McCartney's voice that adds a lot to the otherwise simple lyrics (what few of them there are). Fine by me, as this approach results in very rewarding repeat listens. (I'm speaking of U.S.

The vocal breakdown on "Feet In the Clouds" is stunning. charts, I realize that some of these singles performed better in other parts of the world).So this new album seems right in line with his last few, in that not much is immediately catchy and stick-in-your-mind right away. Most of the songs were fairly slow and melancholy. Well, I still think it made a bizarre single choice, but I have grown to really love the song. If you're going to sound like you are making a point, it's advisable to actually have one. It's not nearly as bad as, say, "Spinning On an Axis" (which was an absolute embarrassment on Driving Rain). There is a very nice flow to the album - and considering that about half the tracks were recorded with his touring band and the other half all on his own, it could've been a little schizo. The lyrics are all there (not so with the single-disc version, so I've heard).

"In Private" is a short instrumental - could've come right off McCartney. Coming off what I would quite possibly deem his finest hour, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, I didn't expect another masterpiece. He's a great drummer, why bother with all the phoney thunder sounds - Abe should've been wailing by the end of the track. Musically, too, I am annoyed by the song - it's a full band track, but there isn't a full drum sound from Abe Laboriel Jr.

It's worth noting how much better his 'rock voice' is on this album as opposed to back around the late-'80s/early-'90s when he seemed to sound hoarse all the time."Dance Tonight" kind of freaked me out when I first heard it - 'THIS is the advance video and single.' It seemed too simplistic and ready-made for all Paul's detractors to pounce on, i.e half-written, lazy lyrics, etc. "Why So Blue" is another one where I'm not sure what he intended lyrically - but I do enjoy the acoustic-driven sound. By the same token, "Nod Your Head" (which similarly has poloarized fans with many falling in the 'I hate it' catagory) is another case of McCartney just belting out a rock vocal - the kind we just don't hear from him these days (except in concert). In fact, I've come to expect much more subtle hooks from McCartney at this stage of his career. The 'commentary' track isn't as informative as one might think - I listened to it once and never since (it's a single 25-minute track, making it difficult to reference what McCartney said about a specific song).I don't know what type of packaging the upcoming '2 disc plus DVD' will have, but I don't care for the DVD-size cardboard box that the regular 2-disc edition comes in.

The key line is "I know that I'm not a square/As long as they're not around" - sounds a little defensive to me, which is a nice moment of emotional vulnerability. Plus, without the growling vocal, I don't think there'd be all that much to the song. "222" is curiousity, and really the most interesting of the bonus tracks - it's a jazzy near-instrumental, with only a handful of lyrics - with a number of surprising melodic twists. I like to know these things, call me obsessive if you must.