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The contrast between the overall "positive" music and the lyrics is definitely striking! A chorus to sing at the top of your lungs, heavy words... how would I manage without you Paul, how would I have done it?

You can't quote all the pieces and not "The natives are restless tonight," which is the coolest of them all!! Aside from these trivialities, the only thing I disagree with is Horace Silver's "anchoring" in hard bop...undoubtedly he was one of its great exponents, but harmonically he was already ahead; he could extract melody and simplicity (in themes and solos) from harmonically complicated and dissonant compositions (Frank Zappa comes to mind, who in a different way also did something similar). Go listen to "Peace," a ballad that’s on Blowin' the blues away...it’s disarmingly beautiful for its simplicity, melodic quality, and harmonic depth at the same time!

Yes, a disc of simple pop compositions, without a particularly evident common thread. But there are those who do it well and those who do it poorly, and Cale does it well.
Wonderful melodies

I haven't listened to it in a long time, but I remember two cathedrals in the desert like Achilles' Last Stand and Nobody's Fault But Mine (among the best of Zeppelin) and the rest, indeed, desert.

It's really him! I also wrote a review of that book, you can always find it under the keyboardist of Pink Floyd (damn homonyms). Personally, I liked this one much more, it's truly an extraordinary book.

I should start by saying that I haven't listened to a single track yet. I’m not in a hurry to do so either; from the moment Paul announced he was releasing an album like this, it was clear it would be the classic "nice album, that adds nothing and takes nothing away." I will listen to it sooner or later, because the Beatles taught me so much about music and continue to do so, and Paul is one of my benchmarks for electric bass.
I love him! He announced his Italian concerts for November, and 10 minutes after discovering it, I already had my ticket for Milan in hand. He performed for 3 hours, delivering an incredible concert at around 70 years old; for me, seeing him was a dream come true, something I never thought I would realize.
Putting aside my personal-sentimental digression, I enjoy Paul’s solo career; of course, not everything is good, I find it’s better to take more singles than entire albums (although there are still some high-level ones). It’s, in my opinion, the most interesting solo career of a Beatle, often sprinkled with flashes of genius.
So this will be getting its turn soon, come on.

p-funk is no longer listened to, if anything...

Why the singer sings that passage from the fifth canto of the Inferno
And she to me: "There is no greater sorrow
than to recall the happy time
in misery; and this your teacher knows."
obviously taken from a very well done English translation!

I was there too at the Mediolanum, standing in the middle of the parterre (who knows, maybe we were close to each other?) and from there, I witnessed something extraordinary - out of the ordinary.
I’m almost 20, and when I say “seeing Paul has always been my dream,” there will be people who laugh in my face, having waited much longer than I have. But what can you do? I never would have believed I could see him, and when I found out he was playing in Milan (thanks to Debaser, by the way), I was completely at a loss.
Everything was just as I expected, and I’m totally fine with it for once. I bounced around like an idiot to "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," I laughed in disbelief at the special effects of "Live and Let Die," I screamed until I was hoarse to "Jet," I ran my hands through my hair when he started with "Hello, Goodbye," and I was almost in tears during the long coda of "Hey Jude," at the bridge of "Something," and on "Yesterday."
As you rightly said, in popular, mass music, Paul McCartney is still unbeaten.
I saw a man who has changed the world with his songs; there aren't many like him.

Inside the tube, there are a few pieces of the study, and none of this record... or have I looked poorly?