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Wings - Greatest Hits | 
 enlarge | Artists: Paul Mccartney, Wings
Label: EMI Europe Generic
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 6717
Format: Import, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 789317
UPC: 077778931720
EAN: 0077778931720
ASIN: B00000721P
Release Date: August 16, 1993
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| Tracks:
| • | Another Day | | • | Silly Love Songs | | • | Live and Let Die | | • | Junior's Farm | | • | With a Little Luck | | • | Band on the Run | | • | Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey | | • | Hi, Hi, Hi | | • | Let 'Em In | | • | My Love - Paul McCartney, McCartney, Linda | | • | Jet | | • | Mull of Kintyre - Paul McCartney, Laine, Denny |
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Amazon.com
Paul McCartney might not have been the coolest or most cosmic ex-Beatle, but none of his former bandmates could touch his knack for creating perfect pop singles. Say what you will about their "lack of depth," but the 12 songs on Wings Greatest considerably brightened AM radio playlists during the 1970s, and most of them have actually improved with age. Wings' pure rock power is ably represented by "Band On the Run," "Hi Hi Hi," "Jet," "Live and Let Die" and the underrated non-LP single "Junior's Farm," all of which positively explode from the speakers. Paul's gooey streak shows up on "My Love," "Silly Love Songs," and the bagpipe-infused "Mull of Kintyre," but only "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" still contains a high cringe quotient. Some key tracks are missing--most notably "Maybe I'm Amazed" and "Venus and Mars/Rock Show"--but Wings Greatest is still a thrilling document of Macca at the peak of his pop abilities. --Dan Epstein
Album Description
International edition of this collection originally released in 1978 (domestic version is long out-of-print) after London Town gave McCartney another huge hit, Wings Greatest rounds up McCartney's greatest hits from 1971 to 1978 which means it skips 'Maybe I'm Amazed' but touches on Ram. The main strength of this collection is that it contains many hits that never appeared on any album, and these are among McCartney's very best solo singles, the eccentric domesticity of 'Another Day', 'Junior's Farm', the Bond anthem 'Live and Let Die', the pile driving 'Hi Hi Hi', and 'Mull of Kintyre', a Scottish-styled folk ballad that was his biggest hit in England. And yes, it's fair to peg these as McCartney successes, since some of them were billed as McCartney, not Wings, and as such, this record is a great overview of McCartney's first decade of solo recording, containing many of his very best solo tunes. EMI.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
 Impressive September 17, 2008
I really enjoy my Wings CD - I play it in my car often and I spend a lot of time driving so this CD gets a lot of play!!!!!!!
Excellent May 13, 2008
I've been a big Paul McCartney fan since the Beatles came out. Paul McCartney continued on after the break up of the Fab Four and had quite a successful career as a solo artist and with Wings. This compilation only covers a few of their songs and each one a gem. When Wingspan came out a couple years ago, it blew Wings Greatest Hits right out of the water. Despite that, this is still a very good compilation. Another Day is featured on this compilation, Paul's first solo single. Unfortunately the B side of this single was not included on here or on any other Paul McCartney album to date. The B side, Woman Oh Why, is on the American pressing of one of Paul's albums as a bonus track but I can't see getting this again just for one song. Maybe Mr. McCartney will put together a box set and include all the A and B sides in the set. We can only hope.
not totally a wings package--but worthwhile February 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
WINGS GREATEST contains' two songs that are not Wings tracks "Another Day," and "Uncle Albert." And for some reason Paul left off "Listen To What The Man Said," a 1975 Wings # 1 hit, (he did include it on later compilations). He also left off two more USA top ten hits "Helen Wheels," and the live 1977 version of "Maybe I'm Amazed-(which can only be found on the pricey "WINGS OVER AMERICA" live album). Paul must consider all 1970-1985 singles to be wings--even though technically Wings recorded from 1971-1981, for on his Wingspan collection from the late 1990s, he also mixes solo and wings tracks. Regardless, this is a worthwhile collection, there is not a "Hey Jude," or "Yesterday," in this collection, but in fairness to Paul--the 1970s were quite different from the 1960s. And Paul come in 2nd only to Elton John, for the most top 40 hits on Billbard during the 1970s.
wizard52 January 10, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Wings are another great project of Paul McCartney, you need to have this one.
 Don't buy this CD or LP.... September 26, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love the songs in this collection. I just can't stand the recordings. The songs sound distant and thin. They lack any kind of depth. I like to feel as if I am right there in the studio on the original take, with each of the instruments jumping out in clear detail. GH collections seem to fall into this pitfall. Re-recordings often seem to loose that extra something in the process. You'll do better buying the original tracts.
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