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Paul McCartney - Rude Studio Demos (Remasters Workshop) (1980)

Track listing:
  1. Ballroom Dancing 2:02
  2. Take It Away 5:33
  3. Keep Under Cover 3:45
  4. Average Person 4:03
  5. Dress Me Up As A Robber 3:41
  6. The Pound Is Sinking 2:34
  7. Sweetest Little Show 3:01
  8. Ebony And Ivory 1:47
  9. Hear Me, Lover 2:18
  10. Wanderlust 1:46
  11. Stop, You Don't Know Where She Came From 1:43
  12. The Unbelievable Experience 1:49
  13. We All Stand Together 4:03
  14. Boil Crisis 4:07
  15. Give Us A Chord, Roy 4:03
  16. Seems Like Old Times 4:13

Notes

Pitch and phase corrected at Remasters Workshop June 2009 from the original 1989 disc on Columbus CD 080 (1989).

There has always been a problem with the material on this CD. It was always very, very out-of-phase due to poor tape transfer. The azimuth was terribly out of alignment, so all the tracks are impaired by wandering phase. This Columbus CD is thought to be the source of these demos. Wherever they are compiled on another CD, it is always from this source, so all instances of these tracks on CD are horribly out-of-phase.

Of these recordings, Chip Madinger & Mark Easter say: "...With the (apparent) help of Denny Laine on some of the songs, (Paul) laid down several demos for a projected new LP project that would reunite him with George Martin. An August 1980 compilation of demos was prepared for George consisting of old and new material for consideration...While some of the songs ("Take It Away," "Ballroom Dancing") were particularly strong, some of the tunes Paul submitted ("The Unbelievable Experience," "Boil Crisis") were bad enough to force George to tell Paul to scrap them and write more; this he did...In 1987, an excellent quality tape of some of this material was released on bootleg as "Rude Studio Demos" (a CD version was issued in 1989 from the same tape)."

Remasters Workshop
June 2009