The Gizmotron had been invented by members of 10cc. It has been reproduced in recent years in better form.

A wonderful song. Completely overlooked and forgotten.

You can see how bored the hosts were as the song played...

Excellent album!!!

I love this track! Sounds like a blend of INXS & Thompson Twins. ✨️

One Hand Clapping is a good idea so that you can hear Geoff Britton. But I would also like to put my vote in for Tripping the Live Fantastic.

Well I've heard of Oingo Boingo and I know Dead Man's Party... I didn't realize they did Weird Science. I love that song.

Ou est le soleil? Dans la tete Travaillez! Where is the sun? In the head Work! Although I could swear that I hear Paul singing "my head" rather than "the head" while the overseer character (Trevor?) exhorting everyone to work.

Here's Paul returning in his Mad Scientist laboratory after quite a while since the McCartney II album. This song definitely retains the quirkiness and fun nature of the 1980 album, and it's a nice and welcoming return in Macca's discography (Well, maybe we can also count 1984's Playout Version of No More Lonely Nights as another freaky McCartney II "son"). The incredible thing about this is that Ou Est Le Soleil is actually the oldest song in this record, having been written as far back as 1975, as this demo recorded in Paul's Rude Studios in Scotland proves: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sLOpm7aJ0rG9e40.htmlsi=kNlS6fBGWFPYyebr I really like the playfulness in the released session, especially the idea of Paul using an actual saw in the studio for the rhythm track. The saw also appears in the music video for this track (Around the end of it we see Linda sawing Paul and all the other McCartney Band members, as a magician). Yes, a video was made for this track, as it wasn't a B-side (As Cory incorrectly said in this video), but an actual Paul McCartney single! Isn't it great? The video, based on a videogame of the times, is here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pb93qs5q3rmxoJ8.htmlsi=T-PYL5uaTLFigh9d Pretty psychedelic in a way 😀

very simple song but I kinda like the lush production, especially the vocal harmonies

OMG I love this song

He actually toured this album and as it was no longer Wings, there were heaps more Beatles song. A great double CD came out for the concert. Looking forward to on the ground (finally came to Australia to tour in 93 an DC went to those concerts .

This is the only song on the album that I would say sounds dated. I do like its bones though. You'd think that a song about the engine that powers love would be more of a power ballad or rocker than a song this smooth and layered.

This is Paul's spin on "Relax" by Franky Goes to Hollywood.

Love Oingo Boingo

Why you need to do a video on Trippin’ the Live Fantastic and its associated singles. Otherwise these are the songs you will miss, and some of these are gems. I am too lazy to write where they all come from. 1. Back On My Feet (An exception B-side from Once Upon a Long Ago). Note: You my have covered this if so I apologise. 2. Flying to My Home 3. Good Sign 4. The First Stone 5. I Wanna Cry 6. I'm in Love Again 7. Mama's Little Girl 8. Same Time Next Year 9. I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday 10. Loveliest Thing 11. Party Party 12. All My Trials Studio single 13. C Moon New cover 14. Mull Of Kintyre Live 15. All My Trials - Milan 27/10/89 16. C Moon - Milan 26/10/89 17. Strawberry Fields Forever/Help Give Peace A Chance - Liverpool 28/6/90 19. Birthday - Live at Knebworth 30/06/90 2:43 19. Good Day Sunshine - Live at Montreal Forum 20. P.S. Love Me Do - Live at Maracanã Stadium Plus, the Beatles Songs played live for the first time since the breakup. So, I will not include those played on any Wings or official live releases or on singles already mentioned.. 21. The Fool On the Hill 22. Can’t Buy Me Love 23. Things We Said Today 24. Back in the USSR 25. I Saw Her Standing There (Yes I’m cheating as I think Wings did this in 77 or 79 but an not confident it was recorded on any official release) 26. Hey Jude 27. Get Back 28. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band There are about half a dozen more that were played with Wings. Plus, new songs. 29. Together 30. Inner city Madness 31. Don’t Let the Sun Catch Youn Crying (Cover version) That's a lot of great material. I hope you consider it. Cheers.

The record in the graphic is the Russian Album, not Flowers in the Dirt…

"Ou est le soleil dans la tete?" literally means "Where is the sun in your head." That's a French idiom for "Where are your senses?" "Travailler" means "work" (which is why there are sounds of sawing and hammering in the song). The song is saying: "Where are your senses? Work!"

You had talked yesterday about Flowers in the Dirt being an "eclectic" mix of songs, all very different from one another. That's exactly why Paul McCartney is the most popular composer of all time. Paul never settled on a formula, and then just reworked it over and over again. Paul loves all kinds of music. And if you listen to all of Paul's albums, you will hear songs that are going to be outside of your personal tastes, because he writes every kind of song. This is the man who wrote Helter Skelter AND Mother Nature's Son. He is the man who wrote Honey Pie AND Back in the USSR, and those are all on the same album! Talk about eclectic! The amazing variety of songs that Paul can compose, play and sing, is the reason why he is my favorite artist and songwriter. I love his songs with The Beatles, I love his songs with Wings, I love his songs as a solo artist, and I love his new stuff, still writing songs as a grandpa and an octogenarian. I'm truly Amazed by Paul McCartney, there's no Maybe about it.

Long club version is good

They were working on Anthology during the middle of the 90s and Paul’s record company told him they didn’t need a solo album from him, which is kind of an insane thing to say, but that’s what Paul says happened.

It’s hilarious 2 clowns who’ve written not a single song can criticize any songwriter…great freedom of speech being used ..smh

I remember watching the video of this song, it was so cool!

Paul plays drums, bongos, electric guitar, keyboards and my favorite instrument on this track... the wood saw. In this video you can first hear Paul playing the saw at 2:48 . He is clearly a maestro of the wood saw instrument. ; ) Still hoping to see both of you put on your MC Hammer pants and do the dance in one of these videos. This track would have been a good one for that.

"Tripping The Live Fantastic" was the next Paul McCartney's adventure after "Flowers In The Dirt". Then came "Unplugged" and "Liverpool Oratorio" and ONLY after that he did "Off The Ground".

Yeeessss. I love the next album off the ground...

Here is a link to the short 1975 demo for this song kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ech7bKV8ldvMZ3U.html

Paul wrote two songs about the sun - I'll Follow the Sun and Good Day Sunshine - long before George wrote Here Comes the Sun. This song could just as easily have been a nod to one of his own sun songs.

There're a couple of really good originals on Run Devil Run, so not all covers.

Paul McCartney was indeed just as prolific in the 90's. He only issued 3 solo albums under his name but he composed and released THREE classical pieces of music (Liverpool Oratorio 1991, Standing Stone 1997 and Working Classical 1999). He also recorded and released TWO electronica albums with Youth ( Strawberries, Oceans, Ships, Forests 1993 and Rushes 1998). And don't forget that Linda McCartney was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996 and undergoing a lot of medical treatment and procedures until her death in 1998. AND he did some majoring touring 1989-1993 for the first time since Wings disbanded. (I was reminded by other comments that he also did a live album and Unplugged and the HUGE Beatles Anthology project--there's probably more--he never stops.)

Not "loo sollay" - "ler sollay" would be closer. I used to shrug off this track as filler, but I've gotta say I really enjoyed hearing it just then, so...

One Hand Clapping was taped live in the studio in 1974 for a TV documentary that never aired. The recordings have been reissued and the video has been cleaned up and will be shown in movie theaters beginning September 26, 2024 (tickets go on sale August 16, 2024). I'm hoping it will be shown near me as I'd love to see it on the big screen with great immersive sound--it also will include all of The Backyard Sessions he did on acoustic. This was formally announced on the MPL website.

One of my fave!

Never heard this one before and I'm not big into instrumentals but this was enjoyable.

I highly recommend you guy to tackle the TRIPPING THE LIVE FANTASTIC double live album next. I mean, you also have reacted to the Wings Over America triple live album, so why overlook this equally important release? This album represents the first time Paul has played many Beatles songs live (Many for the first time ever, others since The Beatles touring days), as well as some Wings and solo 80s stuff. That tour (The 1989/1990 World Tour) was basically where Paul created the template of his tours as he's still doing them. Also, many of the Flowers In The Dirt songs played live sound way better than their studio counterpart. So, I highly suggest you guys, especially being a live McCartney band, to study how he played those songs at that time

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE these funky type instrumentals from McCartney!

Excited that Off the Ground is next. Mostly because that means Flaming Pie is up in October. :)

One Hand Clapping is great. I have the video of it from the Band on the Run box set. And the just released CDs. The video was recorded on video tape and transferred to film to edit and then put on video again. So the quality was what kept it off the air. Now it's coming to theaters. Go figure. The Soily video is great, and the CD are too.

A friend put Deadman's Party on a mixtape for me back in the day. I have a dubbed copy on CD-R of their 2-disc greatest hits album. Eh..., it may be copied to cassette.

This is a very fun track, this is where Paul and Trevor go wild. Bonus Round: Flying To My Home The First Stone Good Sign Party Party The Loveliest Thing Figure Of Eight (The Bob Clearmountain Mix)

Off the ground is a much better album also the extra set of songs is pure McCartney

maybe the best dad son ever written. imo.

Romantic melancholy, sad, happy love song. Like "It's not true" on the previous albutm two minutes too long. To me there is nothing special about instrumentation, but a lot of electronic toying around. If it is an insight into himself after the Bealtes' break up and Linda it is very revealing.feel I love your comments, it opens a new perspective on the song to me.

You spoke too soon there at the end Cory lol the esoteric song is coming up next with Ou est le Soleil. But it’s lighthearted and still a lot of fun.

I bought this album 25 years ago. Never once have I said to myself, "I need to hear 'Motor of Love.'"

So do you like it more than Tug of War?

CPO you don’t rate Tug of War ahead of Flowers in the dirt for your best 80’s McCartney album? I like Flowers in the Dirt and listened to it alot when I bought it in 1989. But I still rate Tug of War higher with George Martin’s production and influence!

Motor offff Looooove, Motor of Loooove, Heavenly father......... Sorry, I just never cared for this song. A weeee bit tooo sappy for me. I certainly listened to the song over and over cuz I played the album alot when it came out so I fouind it tolerable. It just goes on way tooo long and there's nothing exciting about the lyrics. I think I read somewhere that Paul was influenced by sound of the vocals on The Cars song "Drive" when writing this song. I could be wrong. Either way, Always felt that the tossed away b-side "Same Love" recorded around this time would have been a better song to place on FITD.

NICE!

The bridge of this song is stunning. (The part that begins "I won't steal anything from you...")