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I spend most of the time right now watching Doctor Who and listening to Wings
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Going to be objectively hilarious to see the course corrections in real time as they download their new lines to take, and the Tories claim credit for the deal after all
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I genuinely think the fact that he's Sir Keir means Trump thinks he's an aristocrat or is similar evidence of class.
I suspect Starmer didn't use the "son of a toolmaker" line today!
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I was literally just thinking about this yesterday, great to see it's moving forward!
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Yes, obviously he thinks cheese in any form is vile, but pairing it with jam is crossing a line apparently.
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I guess Democracy dies then?
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My Mum got me into this and I still have it regularly. Cheese and fruit is a classic combination. Partner thinks I'm insane.
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Well I just bought tickets to see Pulp, so I'll try to remember to bring pearls to clutch when I'm signing along to Disco 2000.
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Absolutely incredible!
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I feel nauseous just reading the label
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*THIS* is the spin-off Peter Jackson should be making
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London Town/Back to the Egg back in print please! I've given up on an Archive box at this point
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I only discovered that fact because I received the popbitch email.
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The boat called "Accrington Queen" was top drawer.
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Et voila
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I was just thinking that you only got it quite recently, but then realised it's probably at least 11 years
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There should be a term for a film that is both a remake and a sequel, like The Force Awakens and Jurassic World
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I would only use "supper" in the context of fish and chips, which is a thing I picked up in Scotland and confuses any English chippie.
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Quite possible, although the episode 3 reprise was manually colourised for the DVD. Hopefully not too much longer until we find out!
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I did a whole birthday dinner party using the Mowgli cookbook this summer, it's amazing!
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This was an unexpected highlight for me on Sunday! Really feels like it's a *proper* song now.
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Ambassadors 5 wasn't done for the DVD for that reason - it was good enough and wasn't worth the expense.
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They did, but it was the same techniques. It predated all the colour recovery work that allowed for the newer restorations. Terror of the Autons was a compete ground-up restoration for Blu-ray
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Yeah it looked ok, but that restoration essentially dates from the early nineties and things have moved on a lot. Including Colour Recovery! Terror of the Autons and The Daemons from the S8 set are hopefully the quality we could expect
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Oof. Hope Silurians has had a proper clean up
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15. Live and Let Die
Dramatic, explosive, and even a bit funny, perfectly summing up Roger Moore's debut film. This is the best Bond theme, the best Bond theme as a song in itself, and one of the best stadium rock songs ever. An ever-present in Paul's setlist, as it undeniably should be.
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14. On My Way To Work
I like this one a lot. It's the kind of song Paul could have done at any point in his career, and it would not be out of place on any of his solo albums. Reminds me a bit of those quotidian songs like 'Another Day' and 'Average Person'.
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13: Winter Bird/When Winter Comes
The seed from which #McCartney III grew. Recorded in 1992, about 1970, and finished in 2020 just as the world went into lockdown. It's a simple but beautiful melody, and an elegy for simplicity and normality in a frightening and uncertain world. A gift.
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Ha, beat me to it!
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12. Junior's Farm
Another one I'd somehow not really heard much. I probably assumed it was one of Paul's Scottish farmyard ditties rather than a stomping rocker.
As with a lot of Wings, this sounds even better live than the original studio recording, and this One Hand Clapping version is a riot!
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Oh wow!
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11. The Pound is Sinking
Another highlight of 'Tug of War', I love that Paul does his Noel Coward/Admiral Halsey voice again. Oasis based their entire career on the opening bars.
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10. Give Ireland Back to the Irish
Only #PaulMcCartney could write a protest song about Bloody Sunday including the line "Great Britain, you are tremendous!" Still, it did get banned by the BBC. The live versions have a certain "pub closing time" charm.
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9. Heaven on a Sunday
This is just lovely. Mellow and touching, especially given the presence of James on guitar and, for the last time, Linda's backing vocals.
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Manchester United: it belongs in a museum.
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The last time I went to London in the past four (4) years was to see the ABBA show, and although it was very expensive I don't think I spent £1.4bn. Even on Avanti.
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8. Let Me Roll It/Letting Go/Let 'Em In
A Sunday triple bonus! From that middle-period Wings when every album had a song starting with 'Let', and they're all bangers. The absence of a 'Let' song from 'Back to the Egg' is likely a major reason why Wings failed to last into the eighties.
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7. Maybe I’m Amazed (Live)
Wings Over America is the band’s peak, and arguably finds #PaulMcCartney at his zenith. This is his best post-Beatles song, and became his signature as much as Yesterday. This live performance is so good that it was issued as a single.
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6. What's That You're Doing?
The lesser-known of the collabs with Stevie Wonder. Why wasn't this the single? A funky highlight from Tug of War, one of the best #PaulMcCartney solo albums.
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5. Monkberry Moon Delight
Perhaps my favourite track from RAM, this is a completely nuts lyric sung in Screamin' Jay Hawkins style. Piano up my nose, soup and puree, cats and kittens: this rocks.
And the sleazy, speakeasy version on Thrillington is hilarious.
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Is the charge on energy that the plans are "costly" or that they are "watered down"? Seems rather incoherent.
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Glad you made the point that it's fun for long-time fans to experience stories in new ways. I love the omnibus edits on the Blu-rays and The Daleks was fab! I get sad when fans say they would rather these didn't exist at all 😭
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Talk about a glow up!