Flaming Pie | 
| Artist: Paul McCartney
Label: Parlophone
Category: Music
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 11211
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 724385650024
EAN: 0724385650024
ASIN: B000002ULO
Release Date: June 1, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Song We Were Singing | | • | World Tonight | | • | If You Wanna | | • | Somedays | | • | Young Boy | | • | Calico Skies | | • | Flaming Pie | | • | Heaven On A Sunday | | • | Used To Be Bad | | • | Souvenir | | • | Little Willow | | • | Really Love You | | • | Beautiful Night | | • | Great Day |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Just when everyone has given up on Sir Paul's ever releasing another decent pop song, he turns around and surprises us all with his best album since the mid-1970s. After working on the Beatles' Anthology series, he was reminded of the standards of music he'd long forgotten and was pressed to meet them. Even Jeff Lynne, who helped on much of it, kept himself very much in the background, and let Mac do the right thing, playing and singing most everything, with some help from Ringo and guitarist Steve Miller, whose presence was a mixed blessing. Even if the songs don't scale the heights of the Glory Years, they remind us of the true talent that was McCartney once again. A pleasure to the ears. --Chris Nickson
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 Perfection March 6, 2010
Mr. W. G. Eatock (UK)
Perfection. Modern songs with hints of old English folk songs. Paul has excelled himself with this album and produced (yet again) something with a totally unique sound.
 Honestly! What is everybody else hearing ? May 26, 2009
Napolean (UK)
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
This album is quite embarrassingly bad. Paul who? I don't believe that any song written on this album was actually written by the same Paul McCartney who used to be in a really big group. Now what was it called? Ah, yes, The Beatles, that's right! I'm sure they wrote dozens of great songs. My word, Lennon must have been a seriously talented bloke to have penned all those classics by himself. I mean it's just not credible that Sir Paul could have had a hand in writing any of them based on this album, largely regarded as his best solo album ever. Hey? Please don't let me hear any more if that's the case.
To convince myself that I'm a lone critic who does simply not understand the genius of McCartney here, I've been forcing myself to listen to (and like) this album over the past few weeks; even to the degree that I play it constantly in the car. It makes me wince, it is so awful. I thought it would stand up as a shining example of how the mighty will fall. Sadly, Bob Dylan has just released a new album that eclipses this disaster (Together Through Life) in the holy wretchedness stakes. Two giants have fallen. And I read that the two superstars are planning a new album together. I can hardly wait!
The lyrics are repetitive and banal and none of the songs really develop or go anywhere. A sure test of how trite and simplistic any lyric can be, is to try and sing a better line to follow each one our hero sings on each song here. The fact that it comes relatively easy to a non-musician or songwriter like myself, is extremely troubling.
Musically the album breaks no new ground and holds few surprises. The guitarist should have been sacked whoever he was? If you've heard any music written before 1980, you'll have almost certainly heard all this before and done much better.
Can they take away knighthoods?
 FLAMING PIE - A SUCCULENT FILLING OF BEATLEY GOODNESS July 28, 2008
Mr. Christopher J. Welch (Essex, Uk)
After The Beatles Anthology project Paul McCartney quickly recorded this album of new compositions with a little help from ELO's Geoff Lynne and Steve Miller. Macca and his collaborators played almost every instrument and subsequently there is a consistency and simplicity to the record that lifts it way above the likes of London Town, Tug Of War and even Flowers In The Dirt.
McCartney was also more than happy to fully embrace his past. Fired up by Anthology he set out to write an album that, at least tried, to replicate the quality of his Beatles years. Geoff Lynne, of course, was more than happy to oblige.
'The World Tonight', 'Flaming Pie' and 'Young Boy' are catchy rockers propelled along by fluid basslines, ringing guitars, lashings of harmonies and typically infectious Macca melodies. 'Little Willow' and 'Calico Skies' are solo accoustic ballads that recall the gorgeous 'Blackbird' from The White Album but are terrific songs in their own right. The Ringo assisted 'Beautiful Night' starts as a slightly too saccarine Macca ballad but then turns into something else midway through as the band come crashing in and an orchestra go crazy. Lynne must have been very pleased.
There are some fillers and a couple of tracks are little more than extended jams, but the good is very good.
 easy going October 17, 2007
WhiteCrow (Cyberia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is no doubt a good record. And if you're a McCartney fan, then, judgung by the other reviews, you will give it 4 or 5 stars. I am not a McCartney fan, and only know a little of his repertoire.
So, for me, the cd has some good songs on it, which can be mainly described as "pleasant", with catchy tunes that can (irritatingly?) linger in your head.
There are no standard-setting songs, but then nowadays(and i mean nowadays!) you don't expect that from PM.
As a previous reviewer said, there are a couple of blues jams on which are completely meaningless and boring - and should not have made it onto the final product.
Contrary to another reviewer i actually quite liked "beautiful nights" which has a strong Jeff Lynne/ELO feel to it; there is another song with Jeff Lynne's mark on it: again, one of the better songs.
Great to have 2 almost purely acoustic songs:Calico skies and Great Day, the latter being my favourite track, it is the last on the album.
Strange, that for me, a non-connoisseur of PM, that from this one record I am unable to determine the Paul McCartney style: different songs remind you of different influences. For instance, one of those bad blues songs seems to me a take on Mick Jagger; I already mentioned ELO; Great Day is vaguely reminiscent of blues players like Stephen Stills.
Probably the title song is most clearly in the Paul McCartney style, a jaunty song with some clever barroom piano and a meaningless lyric.It is probably a compliment to his musical talent (which is undoubted) that he can't be pinned down (but then Bob Dylan has a huge talent and he most certainly can be!).
Good enough to listen to in the car on your way to work.
Macc's best solo album ever June 25, 2007
Phil Latham (Cuddington, Cheshire, UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is Paul McCartney's best post-Beatles album: better than Memory Almost Full; superior to Chaos and Creation in the Backyard; and even an improvement over Band On The Run.
Truthfully, there is not one duff track on it and anyone who is a Macca fan will know that such a statement is very brave!
Yet it is fact: from the upbeat Flaming Pie to the catchy Young Boy to the poignant Somedays to the grand Beautiful Night, this album is a joy; it is the best Macca album ever.
I've got all his others and to be honest most of the Wings stuff and his solo work in 1980s contains two (maybe three) strong songs per album at best. There is a LOT of filler in there and a lot to be avoided.
But Flaming Pie is that rare thing: an album without any duff songs! Yes, some songs are better than others (to be expected), but many albums do you own which you can play from start to finish without feeling the urge to skip at least one annoying track? I have no more than five. Even I skip Revolver (Love You To) and Sgt Pepper tracks (Within You, Without You). Yet Flaming Pie offers fast rockers, ballads, songs to sing along to, songs to make you think - it's all here and more, all bundled up with great vocals, decent lyrics and a great basic rocking sound. Even the Macca ballads are NOT coated in sickening syrup for once.
Given his age, this album could well be Macca's best ever so if you have to buy only one Macca album this is the one. It's just a pity ALL of Macca's albums can't be this good.
Recommended: 9/10
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