Comments on: Wild Life

By: shadowjack

shadowjack — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 14:04:26 +0000

I’ve got a copy too, purchased new back on 1974. It’s a bootleg release. I bought mine at a small indecent record store along with a bootleg copy of the Who’s Meaty Beaty Bing and Bouncy.

By: leninandmccarthy

leninandmccarthy — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 18:30:11 +0000

Love is Strange and the short guitar piece are my favorites

By: Steven McKenzie

Steven McKenzie — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 08:26:47 +0000

Oh Paul is very clever. The chords to “Tomorrow” are the same as “Yesterday”. Anyone who plays the guitar will see what I mean. Different tempo of course, but the same. Try it.

By: Caine

Caine — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 17:54:01 +0000

I found a copy of Wings Wild Life. It is a Promo LP it is on “Right On Records” the LP cover is colored like a drawing. Does anyone know anything about this? I cannot find anything online about this Promo Lp. If you can shed any light please do.

By: Amy Godiva

Amy Godiva — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 03:57:01 +0000

It’s always been an underrated album and an unacknowledged influence (as with Ram) on loads of later (and current) indie rock. Sure, Mumbo has no real lyrics or profound statement to make but it feels spontaneous and is powerful – great guitar breaks. Bip Bop is a great rootsy rocker with casual but humorous lyrics. Love Is Strange is a really strong, unique take on reggae as opposed to so many cod reggae songs of that and later eras. Wild Life, again, is simple but powerful and has grown on me over the years owing to the heartfelt lyrics (not always a given for Macca) and vocals. I Am Your Singer received a slagging when released, primarily for Linda’s vocals but, again, has an indie feel to it that works even better today (including LM’s vox). Some People Never Know and Tomorrow, to me, are better than anything on Red Rose Speedway, and arranged differently could have been Beatles tracks. The two “link” pieces feel like they could fit in quite well on McCartney or Ram, and Dear Friend is the true masterpiece of this album – I find it kind of shocking that it didn’t make the final cut on Ram, perhaps in place of Eat At Home or Long Haired Lady. Hey Diddle would have fit well on either this LP or Ram (though written between the two). And why weren’t Sunshine Sometime, A Love For You or Rode All Night included on Ram or Wild Life (let alone RRS)???!!!

I might agree with a previous commenter that a couple of the songs on Wild Life were stretched out a bit longer than they needed to be but not to the point that I skip over them when listening to the album. It’s also a fair criticism that could be applied to songs like I Don’t Want To Be A Soldier or Oh Yoko on Imagine (How Do You Sleep gets a pass because it’s such a remarkable arrangement/performance despite the nasty – though clever – lyric).

By: johnnylivewire

johnnylivewire — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 06:02:21 +0000

I love Side 2 of this album (so from “Some People Never Know” to “Dear Friend”). Side 1 is a bit hit and miss (with the exception of the song “Wild Life” itself). If you flip it and play Side 2 first and then side 1 as an album it works.

By: jon poole

jon poole — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 08:52:52 +0000

It’s crap!…Thats a 2015 reassessment!

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 03:01:32 +0000

WILD LIFE is neither as bad as the critics made it out to be at the time nor as good as revisionist reviewers rate it today. It is a lazy album (or 2/3 of an album). Only 8 songs. Two nonsense songs (one too many: “Mumbo” is fun, but “Bip Bop” is terrible) and a cover tune. In addition, some of the other songs (“Wild Life”, “Some Peolple Never Know”, and “Dear Friend”) aredecent 3 minute songs padded in length to 5 minutes plus to fill out the album. “Tomorrow” is the standout song here. In short, this is an OK album, but McCartney should be making albums that are much more than “OK”. Had he released this as a reduced price double EP or something it might have been charming. As a full fledged album it was a bit of an insult to the record buying public.

By: GK

GK — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:10:34 +0000

I have defended this album since it was released ! At school, I was 13, virtually no one like it , where as Ram was loved ( by most ) eventually ! I love & still do, the rougher side to Paul. Spontaneity was fresh then & it was not supposed to sound over produced ! Had anyone heard or played reggae before ” Love Is Strange ” ? Tomorrow & Some People Never Know are classy songs ! Wild life it self is years ahead of its time ! Dear Friend was the answer to John……………………I even liked the instrumental links ! All the songs apart from I Am Your Singer maybe, are sung superbly !

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:26:05 +0000

I’ve always considered WILD LIFE a solid album, from start to finish. “Some People Never Know” is my favorite track. Though it’s not as well known in the McCartney catalogue. “Mumbo” is an awesome rocking opener… I love the organ part as well as the cranked up guitars. “Tomorrow” could have been a hit single.

By: Rafa Palafox

Rafa Palafox — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:06:29 +0000

Bip Bop is a pun on T.Rex I think,Bolan was all over the place back then

By: Joseph Brush

Joseph Brush — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:04:13 +0000

Maybe tomorrow you’ll get it.

By: Tweeze

Tweeze — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:24:44 +0000

I admit – after 40 years I still can’t get through this collection of semi-music. I was making this kind of crap on my own already and I was still in my mid-teens. I didn’t need this from Paul, too. I can’t even get through ‘Tomorrow’ – it grates – but I think it is more likely the performance that is killing my enthusiasm than the song.

By: Joseph Brush

Joseph Brush — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:56:45 +0000

I love the impromptu feeling of this album. The lack of production and calculation after “Ram” was most welcome to me.
The first two tracks are FUN.
The title track and “Dear Friend”
and especially “Tomorrow” are among my favourite all time Macca songs.