London Town (studio album) by Wings (UK)
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London Town is ranked 3rd best out of 7 albums by Wings (UK) on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Wings (UK) is Venus And Mars which is ranked number 2327 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 692.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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05/17/2024 16:49 | paladisiac | 7,040 | 65/100 | |
05/16/2024 00:32 | javicho07 | 2,991 | 81/100 | |
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Big step up from At the Speed of Sound, in my opinion. There are certain tracks I could do without, such as Cuff Link, Name and Address, and the closer - to name a few. But I think there's a larger number of fantastic tracks than Speed of Sound, which was still an enjoyable album. Denny Laine's two tracks are amazing, keeping pace easily with Paul's: Deliver My Children in particular is just fantastic. Of the rest, I really enjoy the opening title track, the short snippet Backwards Traveller (the only flaw being that it's not longer), the strange Girlfriend written for Michael Jackson and featured about a year later on Off the Wall - but I actually prefer the version here even if it sounds like a perfect fit for the King of Pop; and With a Little Luck, which should be more well-known than it is. I also really like Famous Groupies, silly as it is. It's just a fun track. I suppose this is as inconsistent as Speed of Sound, and the production is noticeably less polished, but I find that there are more high points and the lows are not as low. Again, every McCartney record has at least some flashes of brilliance. I'd say this has more than a few, even if two of those are not even written by Paul!
A tighter selection of songs could have done some good. Not a bad album, but some songs are a bit weird like the last track Moose, it is not a good song. Proggy and experimental
Massively underrated!
Didn't rate it in 1979 but it has grown on me since then. Deliver Your Children, With A Little Luck, I've Had Enough, London Town & Café On The Left Bank are good songs the rest are fillers Back To The Egg would be an improvement.
At the general level of a Ringo album. Not good.
Better than most of his solo (and Wings) work. Underrated.
Underrated album. Lots of cool stuff on here and interesting diversity from Paul, Linda and Denny; along with remnants of their former guitarist Jimmy McCulloch.
This album is a bit weird, filled with different music styles (rock, pop, ballads) and a couple a folk songs (stronger ones in my opinion) that don't match with the album tittle "London Town".
In the time the album was released, punk was taking over the London music scene, and Paul released this album that doesn't sound like London at all (except for a few tracks) is a very weird but genius statement, showing that he doesn't care at all about the trends but also claiming that he'll decide what sounds like what.
For me, it sounds like that melancholia California sort of folk songs, which he does brilliantly.
A good album after all, bit confusing, but very good, I don't think it's better than NEW or Memory almost full though.
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