TVD is delighted to have been selected by the team behind the Paul McCartney Archive Collection to exclusively spotlight the meticulous work Paul has supervised personally with the reissue series from his stellar catalog—all newly re-mastered at Abbey Road Studios, and each featuring a bonus disc of rare and previously unreleased tracks.
In the spirit of the season, the entire Paul McCartney Archive Collection to date, as well as 2012’s Kisses on the Bottom will be available to TVD readers through a series of special giveaways during the month of December, courtesy of Sir Paul and his team. We’ll be selecting five winners for each 180 gram vinyl reissue package.
Today, the next LP we’re making available from the Archive Collection is 1980’s McCartney II.
“…McCartney II, made while Wings were on hiatus, was another purely solo effort. “Waterfalls” is a Rhodes-driven ballad that would make a great Adele cover, but what’s striking is a kooky experimentalism — see the leering, Kraftwerk-y “Temporary Secretary” — that foreshadows the current era of the laptop dance-pop auteur,” Rolling Stone wrote with its review upon McCartney II’s rerelease in June, 2011.
“For someone who could write perfect pop songs with the effort it takes most folks to assemble a sandwich, these freewheeling records must’ve been fun to make. They sound like it.”
McCartney II originally issued in May of 1980, was McCartney’s return to solo work after nine years touring and having released several massively successful albums with Wings. Reaching #1 in the UK, and #3 in the U.S., the album produced enduring classics such as “Coming Up,” “Waterfalls,” and “Temporary Secretary.”
• Two disc, 180 gram audiophile vinyl edition remastered at Abbey Road Studios
• Includes rare and previously unreleased tracks
• Downloadable audio of the original album and bonus tracks included
Remastered Album:
1. Coming Up
2. Temporary Secretary
3. On The Way
4. Waterfalls
5. Nobody Knows
6. Front Parlour
7. Summer’s Day Song
8. Frozen Jap
9. Bogey Music
10. Darkroom
11. One Of These Days
Bonus audio CD Featuring rare tracks:
1. Blue Sway [With Richard Niles Orchestration]
2. Coming Up [Live at Glasgow, 1979]
3. Check My Machine [Edit]
4. Bogey Wobble
5. Secret Friend [Full Length Version]
6. Mr H Atom / You Know I’ll Get You Baby
7. Wonderful Christmastime [Edited Version]
8. All You Horse Riders / Blue Sway
Enter to win McCartney II from the Paul McCartney Archive Collection by telling us in the comments below what this LP has meant to you over the years—briefly!—and why perhaps your well-worn LP could use a remastered upgrade.
Each contest among this special series will last a full calendar week. Five entrants with a North American mailing address will be selected as winners a week from today, 12/13.
