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Released 21 September 1998 (catalog no. And now I come across this genius electronica. That would be OK, in and of itself--not every album has to be one I want to listen to a lot-- but this just isn't interesting or entertaining. We just let go and said – Let’s see what happens and come up with the very best thing we can come up with, and that turned into Electric Arguments.Yes I can. So they all got done in a day, in true Beat poet style. Where’s this ‘First thought, best thought’ thing, then? I don’t think like that.
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A pleasant enough listen to a (sometimes) musical and sound collage. It is quite different from all of McCartney's other works. Your Amazon Music account is currently associated with a different marketplace. He was also a true hippie.
This album is proof of Paul McCartney's wide range as a musician, from a rocker, to his beautifully classical Ecce Cor Meum which speaks to his soul within, his huge melodic pop repetoire, to the Fireman which is a completely different and an unexpectedly pleasing direction, again. But if you're opinion of McCartney needs raising, this is the album to do it. The Fireman understands darsh walls and emerdeen sky. )McCartney using a pseudonym to release an experimental album; it just isn't something I want to hear repeatedly. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. I don’t know really, I never think about it. I might reminisce about meeting Allen Ginsberg or Andy Warhol or someone – the stuff that Youth would be interested in – so we might chat about that sort of thing and it might lead us in a certain direction.
"The Fireman" is composed of McCartney and Youth (producer Martin Glover, one of the members of Killing Joke), and the two seem consistently to bring out the best in each other. In fact, every track we made, we tried to make it different, so there aren’t really two Beatles songs that are the same.Yeah, which seemed to be the point of it really. It seemed to fit the spirit of the album. It’s economic and it’s really cool, but you’re turning me into a Beat poet. I did not know what to expect when I first bought this CD, I was wondering, why the Fireman?! "Rushes" is the second album which Paul McCartney released under the pseudonym of The Fireman.
The Fireman know’s a lemon’s peal. It was a great melting pot.No, well, that’s right.
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I used to have a little studio in Montague Square in the West End of London, and I kept a Revox stereo machine and a microphone there for doing demos. Then we might sort of think, Why don’t we do that?
I used to go to a lot of these things, so you were influenced by them and you were influencing them at the same time. This album has become one of my favorites as I am drawn into the Watercolor landscapes painted with a musical brush, by Paul, Linda & Youth. Nice photo underneath the transparent backing tray! I mean, obviously, you have to have your lulls - but not too many. I haven’t been able to find the Ginsberg poem since, but I’ve got a very big book of his. It is also the first album of his career that has been completely improvised in the studio. This newer venture also recalls McCartney's willingness to experiment and defy expectations when working under a pseudonym. Eventually I suppose you’ve got to say you are spoiled once you’ve worked with John.
The title, when combined with the band name, references a lyric from the McCartney-penned Beatles song Penny Lane : "And then the fireman rushes in / From the pouring rain / … Whoever this so called Fireman is ,I really enjoyed the India piece on the CD L 'Angelo Misterioso would be very proud. This album blew me away when I first heard it - back then I didn't know if it was McCartney or not, it only seemed to be a rumour! It’s not a poem. I haven’t started to think, Oh well, it’s just an amp...oh, it’s just a bass guitar.
Even though it was slightly scary, it was really exciting learning to walk that tightrope.