Pipes of Peace

Pipes of Peace Artist: Paul McCartney
Label: Phantom Sound & Vision
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 766484408625
EAN: 0766484408625
ASIN: B000007PEC


Release Date: 2004-01-01

Pipes of Peace


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Tracks:

  1. Pipes Of Peace
  2. Say Say Say
  3. The Other Me
  4. Keep Under Cover
  5. So Bad
  6. The Man
  7. Sweetest Little Show
  8. Average Person
  9. Hey Hey
  10. Tug Of Peace
  11. Through Our Love
  12. Twice In A Lifetime
  13. We All Stand Together
  14. Simple As That

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Released in late 1983, <I>Pipes of Peace</I> peaked at No. 15 on the <I>Billboard</I> album charts, thereby becoming the first Paul McCartney LP to run out of gas before reaching the U.S. top 10. Which is not to say that it deserved better--despite the well-meaning title track and the duet with Michael Jackson on "Say Say Say," <I>Pipes of Peace</I> marked a definite artistic low for Sir Paul. Coming on the heels of 1982's effervescent <I>Tug of War</I>, <I>Pipes of Peace</I> sounded surprisingly sleepy and uninspired, and the few half-decent songs ("Keep Under Cover," the unfortunately titled "So Bad") didn't stand a chance against the album's bland, state-of-the-'80s production values. "Say Say Say," a big improvement over "The Girl Is Mine," Macca and Michael's previous collaboration, easily outclasses the album's other tracks. Happily, you can also find it on <I>All the Best</I>, where it gets the company it deserves. <I>--Dan Epstein</I>

Album Description

Digitally remastered reissue of his top 20 1983 EMI album,produced by George Martin & featuring McCartney's #1 smashduet with Michael Jackson, 'Say Say Say', plus the top 30hit 'So Bad', along with three bonus tracks: 'Twice In ALifetime', 'We All Stand Together' and 'Simple As That'. 14tracks total. 1993 EMI release.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars One of his better solo albums.......2006-12-28

This and McCartney (1970) are his best solo albums IMHO. The album (with bonus tracks) has few bad songs.

The Good: Pipes of Peace, Say Say Say, Keep Under Cover, So Bad, The Man, Sweetest Little Show, Average Person, Hey Hey & We All Stand Together are great tunes.

The man is one of the overlooked songs, also with Michael Jackson and featuring the awesome Steve Gadd on drums, it is a great pounding pop song. Sweetest Little Show & Average Person are kind of a medley as they run together and are great tunes alone or together. We All Stand Together was from the animated Rupert & The Frog Song and is a better song if you have seen the cartoon, otherwise it makes no sense whatsoever!

The Bad: The Other Me is only bad because of the ending weird vocals. Otherwise it is a great tune.

The rest is good, nothing is really bad on the album per se but he did alot better with Wings & The Beatles.

5 out of 5 stars Good One.......2005-01-11

Now if you ask me, and folks interested in nadir and zenith often do, this here album was not Paul McCartney's zenith... but it twern't his nadir neither. This one is kind of middling with a few frilly bits and some interesting musicianship, but nothing that stands out as significant in a very significant catalogue. I guess that might could be why it managed, back in 1983, to get up to the #15 spot and stay there only for a week before slipping down and vanishing in to relative obscurity. This, as they say, was not one of his finer moments in musical history.

Despite this rather negative commencement to my review, he did manage to see three singles lifted off the album, "Say Say Say" and "Pipes of Peace" are memorable, but "So Bad" is kind of forgettable. The mid 80s were not bad for Paul, but they were not as thrilling as the mid to late 70s when he could do no wrong. Plus that, his fan base was getting older and the young folk who were plunking down pocket change for albums in the local record shops were starting to find interest elsewhere and Paul wasn't the ant's pants as far as they were concerned. It was, after all, the era when Michael Jackson was eclipsing everyone in Popdom and Paul McCartney (along with everyone else) was left in the wake.

Me and Mama care for this album like we care for all his mid 80s albums... it feels like a red headed stepchild in the family. You are obligated to care for them, but you don't take to them like your own. They come to the table to eat with you, but you always look at them and see them buck teeth and freckles and tussle of red hair and know that it ain't from your loins even though it might have taken your name. That's kind of how we feel about this here album. Junior, however, loves it because he likes to learn about Indians and Cowboys and Old West stuff and he associates Pipes of Peace with peace pipes... which he counts among the Indian lore of Hollywood Westerns.

This one is for the collectors and die hard fans. If you ain't in either of them groups, then I suggest you start your purchasing elsewhere... maybe with one of his compilation albums or with one that remained up in the charts for a longer period. That's my two cents worth... and with the weakening of the US dollar, two cents ain't worth nearly what it was worth back in 1983 when this thing came out.

3 out of 5 stars better than a poke in the eye..........1998-10-24

Like much of McCartney's solo work, this is appealing music that hints at what could have been "if only"...If only the artist had poured more of himself into these songs...etc. Well, anyway...highlights are, as usual, brilliant. Check out "Average Person" for instance. Could be straight off Sgt. Pepper. "So Bad" is classic McCartney "Wings-style" pop, "Keep Under Cover" is a fun tune, as is the title cut. Contrast this to the crap filler non-jazz funk of "Hey Hey", or the studied blandness of "Through Our Love" and you've got the quintessential mediocre McCartney album. Paul does just enough to get by and it's still better, as in more listenable, than most of his contemporaries. But from the guy who gave the world Tug Of War just one year earlier, this is off the mark.

4 out of 5 stars

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