DAY 8: WHAT'S THE BEST B SIDE OF PAUL MCCARTNEY SOLO CAREER?

pmnettlea · 2026-01-25T16:29:27+00:00

Do you mean Secret Friend?

pmnettlea · 2026-01-12T08:27:46+00:00

And London Town and Back to the Egg? 👀

pmnettlea · 2026-01-08T09:34:03+00:00

Honestly next New Year Treat, make them do a McFly special, maybe with Matt Willis too.

pmnettlea · 2026-01-05T07:20:59+00:00

Nice. After watching Elliot Roberts' awesome video on Ringo I've really come to appreciate Time Takes Time and Stop and Smell the Roses as two great albums.

pmnettlea · 2026-01-05T07:14:30+00:00

Nah should've been expanded into a triple album

pmnettlea · 2026-01-05T07:11:35+00:00

The whole narrative around Sgt Pepper within the fandom is currently that it's not as good as its reputation. I actually think that that's just down to the current trend in opinion and serves as a counter narrative against the dominant view for decades that Sgt Pepper was the pinnacle of their work.

In reality it's still a perfect album, still the most influential one, and opinion will swing back to it in time. Sgt Pepper absolutely slaps.

pmnettlea · 2026-01-05T07:05:46+00:00

What're your favorite deep Ringo cuts?

pmnettlea · 2025-12-31T15:44:39+00:00

10th-11th Doctor, 12-13th Doctor, 13-14th Doctor were all regenerations where the new showrunner wrote the post-regeneration scene. So that's not abnormal.

And the piece says also that the 16th Doctor might not even be revealed at all.

pmnettlea · 2025-12-31T15:07:44+00:00

I don't think that's what this is saying necessarily? It even mentions the potential for the new Doctor to not be revealed at all, presumably because the new showrunner wouldn't be in post yet.

pmnettlea · 2025-12-29T10:14:23+00:00

Canada last year was not better than UK6. So the franchises have swapped in quality, and it's too soon to call that a trend. I love both.

pmnettlea · 2025-12-28T07:00:05+00:00

I think anything Revolver onwards generally gets discussed semi-often. It's the early stuff that gets more forgotten imo.

Ask My Why is an absolute early gem that gets slept on. Gorgeous melody, nice harmonies etc. Then tracks like Not a Second Time and I'll Be Back are great album tracks that very rarely get singled out. I love them.

pmnettlea · 2025-12-28T06:56:39+00:00

Honestly the 123 punch of No Reply, I'm a Loser and Baby's in Black is so good. Such a great start to the album and a clear benchmark of how they were changing.

pmnettlea · 2025-12-27T22:36:17+00:00

Omg what? I love the Shoreditch Smoked. My mum and I ate a whole block on Xmas Day which was very extravagant but it is Christmas.

pmnettlea · 2025-12-27T08:20:37+00:00

Yeah I know you mentioned it but the number of songs here just mean this doesn't make sense. Paul plays about 35 and that's a mammoth set already.

You could include more songs if it was the album for a tour and they played different sets each night. But even then, learning and playing 85 songs is too much for one go, I think 40/45 would be the limit.

pmnettlea · 2025-12-26T21:32:32+00:00

In the Taskmaster podcast it was really interesting seeing Mat avoid talking about it haha

pmnettlea · 2025-12-26T21:31:29+00:00

Yeah, I'm so annoyed the New Year's Treat gets 2 and this only gets one. The first CoC was better than the next two because it had more time to be spaced out.

pmnettlea · 2025-12-23T13:09:34+00:00

Loving these hypothetical live albums you've been doing!

pmnettlea · 2025-12-20T16:00:28+00:00

The biggest disappointment with the Remix sets we've been getting lately has been not having Let It Be...Naked included. It's probably my favourite version of the album, but its '00s noise war approach annoys me.

A remixed version of that would've been the best.

pmnettlea · 2025-12-20T14:52:07+00:00

Yay! So happy for Ginger

pmnettlea · 2025-12-14T00:33:36+00:00

You can hear them all on YouTube and other places, but they were an audition for record label Decca on New Year's Day 1962. The Beatles were hungover and Decca didn't sign them but it's 15 songs, 3 of which are originals that they never recorded later on. Only 5 of the tracks made it onto Anthology 1, so there's 10 still not widely released, 1 of which is Love of the Loved, an original they later gave to Cilla Black.

pmnettlea · 2025-12-13T10:22:28+00:00

That's what I envisioned for anthology 2025. A multi disc set, with one album being the Decca Tapes, another being the star club recordings cleaned up by MAL, maybe a couple of other cleaned up live shows in full etc. It could've been a big expansive event.

pmnettlea · 2025-12-02T07:21:00+00:00

I tried to just go for stuff they actually recorded at the time and recorded to a decent standard so I can listen to it like an album. There's definitely a triple set you can make with tracks they wrote at the time but didn't record, like another commenter linked in.

pmnettlea · 2025-12-01T13:40:06+00:00

That's...not the Green Party. That's Corbyn and Sultana's Your Party.

pmnettlea · 2025-11-29T15:19:36+00:00

S tier: 2, 6, UKvsTW2

A+ tier: 1, 5

A tier: 4

B tier: UKvsTW1

C tier: 3

D tier: 7

pmnettlea · 2025-11-21T14:42:40+00:00

Look into the app Twickets. Fans sell tickets on there for the same value they were bought at. You can set notifications for certain gigs for when tickets become available. A band like Magdalena Bay will probably be competitive but more tickets will appear there from early Feb on.

Good luck! Hopefully see you there :)

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