Paul McCartney TUG OF WAR - The Pound Is Sinking 7 of 11 | REACTION
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“Maybe I’m Amazed" is a Rock & Roll tribute to Paul McCartney featuring an all star lineup of world class studio musicians. MIA is dedicated to bringing the feel and sound of a McCartney live show. Their 90 minute show features Paul McCartney hits from The Beatles, Wings and his solo efforts set to a backdrop of multi-media and lighting that leaves the audience…Amazed.
CPO who plays Macca in the show has been playing Paul in national touring acts Beatles vs Stones and Abbey Road for the past 10+ years as well as other Beatles acts across the world including The Liverpool Beatles, Beatles show at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, Hard Days Night, 4 Lads from Liverpool, Sgt Pepper Beatles tribute, Beatlemaniacs and several others. He has also done several Wings and Beatles tribute shows with former Wings guitarist Laurence Juber. In addition, CPO has fronted Boingo Dance Party featuring Johnny Vatos and a rotating cast of former Oingo Boingo band members. CPO has also released several albums as a singer/songwriter including Wonderlove(with MIA drummer Dicki Fliszar), LPFM, Faul!, CPO & Co and several solo albums as Chris Paul Overall.
The Cast:
CPO (Macca) - bass, piano, guitar
Dicki Fliszar (Abe) - drums
Chris Jagich (Wix) - keys, guitar
Cory Clark (Rusty) - guitar
Scott Harrah (Ray) - guitar, bass
To me, this is the most Wings-y song on the album.
I mean, some of the songs that ended up on Tug Of War (Take It Away, Ballroom Dancing and even Ebony And Ivory and its B-side Rainclouds) were previously rehearsed by Wings, but this is most close to the general writing style Paul adopted with the band.
It could've fitted on London Town, for me.
This is a combination of three musical sketches Paul had that, in typical McCartney fashion, were assembled together to create one single track, as Paul has done various times in the past (You Never Give Me Your Money or Little Lamb Dragonfly as examples).
Lyrically the main bulk of the song is a simple chronicle of the stock market put to music (When somebody says that McCartney can sing the phone book they didn't go that far…) and then it enters other sections, called Hear Me Lover and It Didn't Happen, that weren't conceived with that same concept, so it gets lost in a while.
Talking about who plays what on this track we have Paul McCartney on lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, synths and drums. The bass is again played by jazz fusion musician Stanley Clarke, as on Somebody Who Cares. Denny Laine and Eric Stewart are both on this track, the former playing acoustic guitar and the latter performing background vocals along with Linda McCartney
Between 2:50 - 3:00 we hear the very last time Paul was able to scream full voiced as he did on songs like Helter Skelter, Oh Darling etc. It’s one of his greatest vocal performances.
This song is a blend of two songs he wrote: The Pound Is Sinking (Which is about the stock market), and Hear Me Lover (Which is a short love song).
Do we all realize how crazy the time signatures are in this thing? I jotted them down and it's quite the ride:
TIME SIGNATURES (counted from the first guitar entrance)
- 4/4 (2 bars)
- 6/4 or 3/2 (4 bars, starting just before the vocal entrance)
- 4/4 (10 bars, starting at "the MARK")
- 6/4 or 3/2 (3 bars, starting at "well, I FEEL")
- 3/4 (7 bars, starting at "but YOU don't seem")
- 4/4 (8 bars, starting just before "the dollar's moving")
- 12/8 or 4/4 shuffle (8 bars, starting at "HEAR me")
- 9/8 or 3/4 shuffle (6 bars, starting at "OH, it didn't matter")
- 12- 8 or 4/4 shuffle (2 bars, ending before new vocal entrance)
- 6/4 or 3/2 (4 bars, starting just before "the Pound is sinking", if you count the thing starting at "quite apPALling" as a full bar)
You're sooo happy at 2:53 (the shredding "oh it didn't MATTER") and so am I my friend, so am I 😊
During an interview Sir Paul McCartney said that he liked the rhyme among the words, among different values, to sing that... Personally I've always thought about lyrics like: "You know my love, rich people run after money and they don't consider forest or the planet or life very important..."
It’s kind of like an Uncle Albert type song to me, another 3 part song. I love how musical the opening coin sounds turn to chords and the rolling coin at the end.
Great song ..wanderlust...i bet you will like it
Title song is great to....instant classic...
Paul plays acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards (piano?), a Fairlight synth and possibly some drums. And/or Dave Mattacks may have played drums. Bass was Stanley Clarke. Denny Laine plays some acoustic guitar too, and he, with Paul, Linda and Eric Stewart, provides backing vocals.
Paul, Club Sandwich 1982: ". . . the apparent ridiculousness of the money markets, the ups and downs and the indexes and stuff - that little bit that comes in the middle, the funny little conversation, i always imagine like a sort of film where there is one character doing this pound is sinking bit and explaining all the rest, and there is this little inter-cut scene with this other bit about 'Your father was an extraordinary man, but you don't seem to have inherited etc..."
So you can interpret it as the main character accusing the other of not having his/her father's financial nous and making bad investments - 'I fear my dear that you can't see the trees for the forest' and the other later making excuses - 'I can't be held responsible now, for something that didn't happen!" That's how \'ve always heard it, anyway, and it makes a kind of sense.
Or you can go with Paul who shrugs and says "sometimes i just get little jumbles of words that sound nice, and i haven't got a meanign for them, but i know they have a meaning, so I don't really try to resolve that..."
The Rude Studio demo is interesting: ua-cam.com/video/GG9e8NzCbAY/v-deo.html
You can hear the song without the second interlude or bridge, which they recorded separately and dropped in with a tape splice.
Very catchy song, clearly about the ups and downs of the stock markets. Paul found the stock watchers a little ridiculous. // "I see these pictures of all the hundreds of people on the phones saying, ‘Did it go up? Did it go down?’ But I’ve never really been into that. I’m not a big stocks and shares man, just because it all seems so crazy, it’s just a big gamble to me. I think it’s funny how you see how the pound is sinking, no it isn’t, it’s gone up and against the dollar, it’s 2.000003 or whatever. I think it’s funny how everyone gets serious about something that is obviously just going to keep on altering. The song ‘The Pound Is Sinking’ laughs at how everyone gets so serious about it."- Paul McCartney
The lyrics doesn`t make sense at all, but the music is outstanding. This is one of my highlight on "Tug of war" It would be fun to hear Paul do it live. Paul plays, electric guitar, drums, keyboard, and acoustic guitar on this. Stanley Clarke plays bass, Denny Laine plays acoustic guitar, while Eric Stewart joins Paul on background vocals.
Linda also on backing vocals
The lyrics make perfectly sense! It`s like a stock market song, from a brokers point of view. Love it!
@@peterchristiantrapp6927 I love it too. But i`ve never understood the lyrics.. It`s a bit like "Jet" or "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" to me.
"you don't seem to have inherited many of his mannerisms" who else but McCartney could get a line like that to work.
Oh, I didn't happen, only for a minute...Sums up pure McCartney power pop elevation.. Transcendent
Great song. The part with RP English seems like he's ridiculing rich people who keep the eye on exchange rates and the stock exchange.
You HAD a German dad!
Dickie... that was grand-dad joke level (fly in my soup).
Here is some background for you - in regard to the lyrics...
There was a severe economic downturn from July of 1981 to November of 1982... which was the worst downturn in the U.S. between the Great Depression and the big drop of the 2007-09 era. Paul wrote this song which is obviously about the downturn at some level... and George Harrison also wrote a song during this period that mentions these problems titled "That's the Way It Goes" which is on his 1982 album. Here's a link to that song if you want to check it out. ua-cam.com/video/YcdQUlR9Czc/v-deo.html
It's a shame we didn't get to hear what kind of song John Lennon might have come up with (in this vein) from this time period.
Another of the songs on the album I always liked a lot. Nowadays the Euro would have to be included and there is no more Mark (Germany, Finland) and Drachme (Greece) whereas Francs (Switzerland) and Lira (Turkey) and Peso (Mexico et al).still exist somewhere.
Sounds like Paul explaining to his kids why he's not tearing up the charts anymore. 🙂
This one is especially spoiled by the 2015 remix
None of us wanted that damn euro....
after this and two songs after on 'give my regards to Broadstreet'-Paul is dead musically to me for all the years after...
Perhaps one of his few "political" songs that works.😛
Just keep 'em elliptical, Paul.
his last good record