Friday, February 2, 2024

Paul McCartney - Cold Cuts (1987)


Side A:
1. Lindiana (1984) 
2. Boil Crisis (1980) 
3. Cage (1978) 
4. Robber's Ball (1978) 
5. Big Day (1987) 
6. Did We Meet Somewhere Before? (1978)

Side B:
7. Waterspout (1977)
8. The Unbelievable Experience (1980)
9. Give Us a Chord, Roy (1980)
10. Peacocks (1987)
11. Seems Like Old Times (1978)
12. Return to Pepperland (1987) 

In 1987, Paul McCartney had two projects going on, a studio album called Return to Pepperland and a compilation album idea he'd been toying with for the past decade called Cold Cuts. Neither one got released but most tracks got released on other things, and Paul released a compilation album called All the Best! instead. However some tracks remain unreleased. From Cold Cuts, the unreleased tracks are Cage, Did We Meet Somewhere Before?, Robber's Ball, and Waterspout. On Return to Pepperland, the unreleased tracks are Big Day, Lindiana, Return to Pepperland, and Peacocks. Waterspout was supposed to be released on All the Best! but a different song got released instead called Once Upon a Long Ago. 

This is a well-known album in the unreleased album community so I wanted to put a spin on it. I took these 8 tracks and wanted to see what other unreleased Paul songs are out there. The Cold Cuts project was being worked on as early as 1974 but I decided to start at 1977 so the songs would be at least a decade old at that point like Waterspout. The Tug of War sessions gave us a lot of unreleased tracks we could potentially use like Boil Crisis. Some of the tracks would be played on Paul's Oobu Joobu radio show from around the Flaming Pie era. 

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