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[HandBanana]

So the Macca thread got me daydreaming a bit, and so ii propose a game for all you music reviewer types.

We can try this with anyones catalogue, but lets kick it off with this one I thought off about Paul....

The story:

There was a band called the Beatles, put it never featured Paul.
He arrives on the scene with RAM, his first solo record, which sells virtually no copies.
Next he puts together Wings, a pleasant enough AM radio staple charting enough hits to hover around for a few years but never really breaking huge.
The apex of his power is with the release of Wings Across America, a live record released as a contractual obligation which gives him the biggest hit of his career with the live version of "Silly Love Songs"
It sells like 8 million copies, and "Silly Love Songs" gets played so much onm the radio that he becomes synonymous with Captain & Tenille style cheeze hitmakers, a comparison that becomes even more apt when he stars in his own awful Variety show for ABC that runs exactly 3 episodes before getting canceled.

He never makes another record and dies penniless in one-hit-wonder-style obscurity in 1983.

The world forgets his name entirely.

Enter the curious hipster set of the new millenia and a 3 disc anthology collection from Rhino.

OK musicologist types, review the catalog (in general) of the fake Paul McCartney I just put up. Or just talk about the (pretend) man's career.

This could be either lame or fun, but I think it sounds fun so there we are.

DIFFICULTY: there never was a McCartney II

[HandBanana]

This game will also feature Pop-O-Matic dice for some reason

[Sid Hartha]

Good game - where can I buy one?

[HandBanana]

Good game - where can I buy one?

Youre playing it.

RIGHT. NOW.

Ok go!

[stignasty]

Peter Frampton sues for stealing his life story. The case gets thrown out because he survived 1983. ... or did he???? I want you oooh oooh, to show me the way....

[HandBanana]

LOL! So its apparent that I cribbed a bit from Frampton.

[Sid Hartha]

I suppose in this bizarro world Hi Hi Hi would be considered a quintessential McCartney single.

[HandBanana]

I suppose in this bizarro world Hi Hi Hi would be considered a quintessential McCartney single.

And his 3rd biggest (yet modest) hit behind "Magneto and Titanium Man", a version of which became a huge novelty hit for The Banana Splits in 1972 but generated little revenue as it was a free flexidisc on specially-marked boxes of Kaboom! Cereal.

[stignasty]

LOL!

So its apparent that I cribbed a bit from Frampton.

However, in an odd turn it has inspired me to search out a download of Comes Alive! High-school flashback time!

[thundering boredom]

Marries beautiful woman who's been horribly disfigured in a land mine accident.

The love song she inspires him to write becomes a surprise hit for another Brit band ...

Come on, Eileen!

[Sid Hartha]

Talk about a sophomore slump - dumbass blew his chance with Wild Life

[Sid Hartha]

The experimental period with Yoko Ono was, eh... interesting.

[HandBanana]

This isnt going at all as I'd hoped. Perhaps I should have started with Mike Reno instead. Mike Reno, legendary frontman for motherfuckin U2 yallllll!

[Sid Hartha]

This isnt going at all as I'd hoped.
Perhaps I should have started with Mike Reno instead.
Mike Reno, legendary frontman for motherfuckin U2 yallllll!

wouldn't be much different

[stignasty]

DIFFICULTY: there never was a McCartney II

I was working in radio when McCartney II came out. The big hit single Coming Up live wasn't even on the album (I think it was the b-side of the studio version). People almost universally loathed this record.

After a few weeks the record companies inserted the live 7" into the album to promote sales. One record store I went to took copies of the 45 and taped it to the albums that didn't have the bonus record inside so they wouldn't get stuck with them.

[DrAftershave]

this thread fucks with my universe.