Run Devil Run: Paul Mccartney: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Blue Jean Bop

2. She Said Yeah

3. All Shook Up

4. Run Devil Run

5. No Other Baby

6. Lonesome Town

7. Try Not To Cry

8. Movie Magg

9. Brown Eyed Handsome Man

10. What It Is

11. Coquette

12. I Got Stung

13. Honey Hush

14. Shake A Hand

15. Party

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Whenever Paul McCartney's storied life has hit personal or professional hard times, he's wisely returned--figuratively and literally--to his musical foundations. In the Beatles' final, troubled days, it was Get Back, the aborted return-to-roots project salvaged as Let It Be, and during his late-80s solo doldrums it was the 1950s rave-up CHOBA B CCCP (a.k.a. the "Russian Album"). In the wake of Linda's passing, McCartney "gets back" to a motley dozen 50s hits, B-sides and obscurities and pens three surprising originals that neatly fit their mould. Using a band of seasoned British vets (including Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour and Mick Green from Johnny Kidd & the Pirates on guitars, and Deep Purple's Ian Paice on drums) whose own unbridled affection for this music radiates from every track, McCartney tackles the familiar (Gene Vincent's "Blue Jean Bop," Elvis Presley's "All Shook Up") and unfamiliar (the Vipers' skiffle hit "No Other Baby," Carl Perkins's "Movie Magg") alike with enthusiasm, if not slavish devotion (as witnessed by his nifty zydeco revamp of Chuck Berry's "Brown Eyed Handsome Man"). The Mac originals "Try Not to Cry" and "What It Is" (and the choice of Ricky Nelson's "Lonesome Town") seem to deal not-so-obliquely with his love and loss, yet are delivered with an upbeat confidence that seem to belie his mourning. In the end, Run Devil Run may be as much personal exorcism as it is loving musical recapitulation, and McCartney is in peak vocal form throughout. --Jerry McCulley

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PAUL McCARTNEY Run Devil Run (Scarce Deleted 1999 US limited edition 2-CD set includes 15-track CD album plus BONUS 4-track CD featuring original versions of Blue Jean Bop Lonesome Town Coquette & Lets Have A Party by the original artists. Bonus disc is housed in a in special custom card wallet picture sleeve this set was only ever available at Musicland/Sam Goody stores in the US! - both parts are still sealed together in original stickered shrinkwrap)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Macca's best album in years, July 5 2004

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Terrence J Reardon "Classic rock guru" (Lake Worth, Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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Paul McCartney's first album since 1997's Flaming Pie entitled Run Devil Run was released in October of 1999. The album was Paul's first since the death of wife Linda in 1998. The album was made at the urging of Paul's good friend, Pink Floyd guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour. In March of 1999, both Paul and Dave(whom Macca had been friends with since the recording of Dark Side of the Moon and a huge Floyd fan and predicted that Pink Floyd would become huge back in 1967) got together with Deep Purple skin basher Ian Paice, former Johnny Kidd guitarist Mick Green and 70s one hit wonder Pete Wingfield on keyboards and recorded Run Devil Run at Abbey Road Studios in London. Paul co-produced the album with Chris Thomas(whom worked with Paul on 1979's Back to the Egg and had worked with Dave on Dark Side and The Division Bell). Run Devil Run kicks off with Paul's take of Blue Jean Bop which is at first Paul singing with his bass then Ian comes in with the drums, then Mick comes in with his Fender Strat and lastly Dave using his Fender Esquire Telecaster(the same one that Dave had pictured on his About Face album). She Said Yeah is next and was excellent. The two Elvis covers of All Shook Up and I Got Stung are excellent. The former is sped up with some drums by Dave Mattacks who played drums on this track and Macca's original Try Not to Cry. Other highlights are Lonesome Town with Dave doing a killer guitar solo showing his guitar playing hasn't gone soft in recent years, Little Richard's Shake a Hand, the title cut(a Macca original), What it Is(another Macca original) and the closing Let's Have a Party which had Dave and Mick trading leads in the middle. The album was modestly received hitting #26(not bad considering competing in a N' Sync, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Christina Aguliera music world). This was the best covers album ever and is rivaled by the recently released Rush album Feedback.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic rock, April 28 2011

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Ken Burkholder (Cochrane, ON. Canada) - See all my reviews

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Although most songs are not McCartney originals it is one of my favorite McCartney albums. The songs have a sixties style rock sound that can't be beat.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The King is Dead. . . ., Feb 9 2004

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If you ever loved the Beatles, then you probably already have this album. It won't SOUND like any stereotype of Beatle music because in their recording years THEY never stopped creating and recreating themselves . . . while so often seeming to tower above genre.
This is definitely a self conscious recreation of Paul, but one driven by grief and an equally fierce drive to live on. Paul is often (and often fairly) criticized for being slack or sentimental but the overriding sensation on this album is tautness. The music here is sharp, and very hard. It's as if Paul was recreating the youth who learned to play 7 hours a night in a Hamburg red light Star Club dive - only now he has 40 years of professionalism and accomplishment at his beck and call.
This is music that jabs and slashes. It is tight and metallic. There is a raucusness, but the control with which it is wielded is almost offputting until you realize what is behind it.
The song "No Other Baby" brings it all home. Paul uses this old cover from his youth to remind us how powerful control can be. It would be hypnotic and captivating even if we didn't know about his loss, but Paul's vocals with their calculated mastery can make pauses and hiccups just as emotive as primal screams. If "No Other Baby" takes your breath away, you will not find easy resolution on this album, but you might be grateful that the next number (Lonesome Town) is one of the only two tunes on this disk that could be felt as "relaxed".
I think what offends many about Paul is the often obvious insincerity of some of his glibber efforts. It's here too, but this is the WOUND UP off-hand gumchewing Paul that slugged a reporter in the days after John Lennon died. When Paul sings "Don't make me nervous" in "Honey Hush", I can't help believe that he just might gladly swing that "baseball bat."

When John died, there was only one song that seemed to capture the right feeling for me, and that was Paul's "I'm Down." It's almost a McCartney critic cliche to say that Paul's best music comes out of his episodes of personal adversity. This is not only Paul at his best. This is rockn'roll at its best. Both of them have been around a lot longer than expected, and both of them may one day become passe. But, not just despite Paul's brazen facade of showmanship in the final patter ("I'm not givin' in! I'm gonna party!), but even BECAUSE of it, I am really glad that they are both still around.

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