The Fireman (Paul McCartney & Youth) - Electric Arguments (2008)[WV]

The Fireman (Paul McCartney & Youth) - Electric Arguments [2008]



Country: England

Genre: Ambient electronic

Duration: 01:03:05 h.

Format: WavPack (Covers + Log + Cue)

Official Site: http://www.thefiremanmusic.com/







All tracks written by Paul McCartney:

  1. "Nothing Too Much Just out of Sight" – 4:55

         * An edited version premiered on Radio One on 9/29/08.

  2. "Two Magpies" - 2:12

  3. "Sing the Changes" - 3:44

  4. "Travelling Light" - 5:06

  5. "Highway" - 4:17

  6. "Light From Your Lighthouse" - 2:31

  7. "Sun is Shining" - 5:12

  8. "Dance ’Til We’re High" - 3:37

  9. "Lifelong Passion" - 4:49

         * Was available briefly as a charity download for Adopt-A-Minefield.

 10. "Is this Love?" - 5:52

 11. "Lovers in a Dream" - 5:22

 12. "Universal Here, Everlasting Now" - 5:05

 13. "Don’t Stop Running" - 10:31

         * The song ends at 5:54; a bonus track (the style of which resembles earlier works by The Fireman) begins 7:57









Description:



Electric Arguments is the third album by The Fireman, an experimental music duo comprising Paul McCartney and producer Youth. The album was first announced September 29, 2008, on Paul McCartney's Web site, and was released on November 24, 2008 on the duo's website. It is the first Fireman release to be publicly acknowledged by McCartney, and the album cover features both names of the contributors.



The album, unlike the earlier albums, features prominent vocals. Each song on the album was recorded in one day, the album itself done in only thirteen days, spread over the course of a year.



It debuted at #79 on the UK Album Charts, marking the first appearance for The Fireman in the British charts. They also made their inaugural appearance on the Billboard 200, reaching #67.



The duo borrowed the title "Electric Arguments" from the poem "Kansas City to St. Louis" by Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg describes driving along the highway in a "#FF0000 Volkswagen" (i.e., a "beetle"] while listening to music and call-in shows on the radio and looking at signs and billboards:



"Michelle, John Lennon & Paul McCartney / wooing the decade / gaps from the 30s returned / Old earth rolling mile after mile patient / The ground / I roll on / the ground / the music soars above / The ground electric arguments / ray over / The ground dotted with signs"



Thus, "electric arguments" refers both to the radio waves carrying talk-show arguments (and Beatle songs) and also to illuminated billboards and neon signs.



Notably, the album contains songs titled "Traveling Light" and "Highway" (apparently echoing the Ginsberg poem). Also, in the brief few lines at issue, the poem contains a three-time repetition of the phrase "the ground" in the context of "electric arguments" "over" (and Beatles music "soar[ing] above"] the ground; and, indeed, The Fireman's first album consisted solely of variations on McCartney's album Off the Ground. Considering the fact that the poem first appeared over 35 years ago and explicitly mentions McCartney, it is not unreasonable to suspect that McCartney was aware of the poem when he titled the relevant album "Off the Ground."











More info at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fireman

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