Paul McCartney – Pipes Of Peace (Deluxe Edition) (1983/2015) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Paul McCartney – Pipes Of Peace (Deluxe Edition) (1983/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:55 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Paul McCartney Catalog

Pipes of Peace is the fourth solo studio album by Paul McCartney. The album, released in 1983, was produced by George Martin and includes the hit single Say Say Say, a duet with Michael Jackson that stayed at #1 on the US Chart for 6 weeks. Now, the album is newly remastered at Abbey Road Studios and features bonus audio, includes previously unreleased and rare tracks, plus a new remix of Say Say Say.

Featuring songs initially recorded during sessions for the Tug Of War album, Pipes Of Peacecontinued Paul’s rich vein of song-writing form and included two massive hits, the #1 single with Michael Jackson ‘Say Say Say’ and the title track. The collaboration with Jackson – then the biggest star on the planet thanks to the success of his Thriller album – extended to another track, the breezy ‘The Man’. Lyrically, the album features Paul’s thoughts on love, peace and the future, centred around the symbol of the pipes of peace. In 1993 the album was reissued to include the hit ‘We All Stand Together’ from the Rupert the Bear project, as well as two other previously unreleased songs – ‘Twice In A Lifetime’ and ‘Simple As That’.Styled as a conspicuous companion piece to Tug of War, Pipes of Peace mirrors its 1982 cousin in many ways: its title track holds up a mirror to its forefather — and, if that weren’t enough, Paul McCartney serves up the knowing “Tug of Peace,” an almost-electro collage that twists the songs into McCartney II territory — it serves up two showcases for duets with a former Motown star along with a cameo from fusion superstar Stanley Clarke and, most importantly, it is also produced by former Fab Four ringleader George Martin. Some of that production occurred during the sessions for Tug of War, with roughly half of the record culled from outtakes from that album, but Pipes of Peace has a distinctly different feel than its predecessor, seeming fleet, adventurous, and modern, almost as an accidental riposte to the consciously classical Tug of War. Sometimes that whimsy slides right into silliness — witness “Average Person,” a music hall showstopper inexplicably shoehorned into the middle of the second side — but that lightness allows McCartney to indulge in an instrumental funk collaboration with Clarke (“Hey Hey”), a super-slick bit of yacht pop with Jackson (“The Man”), a bit of confession disguised as a synthesized soft rock lark (“The Other Me”), and a galloping revision of Red Rose Speedway with “Keep Under Cover.” If McCartney gets a little sticky on the ballad “So Bad,” his melody saves him and the album’s other two hits have aged exceptionally well: “Say Say Say” hits hard, sounding as funky as anything on Thriller, and “Pipes of Peace” achieves an earned grace. Perhaps Pipes of Peace doesn’t have the gravitas of Tug of War but it offers something equally valuable: a portrait of an impeccable craftsman at play. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Tracklist:

Original Album – Remastered 2015 (24-96)
01 – Pipes Of Peace
02 – Say Say Say [with Michael Jackson]
03 – The Other Me
04 – Keep Under Cover
05 – So Bad
06 – The Man
07 – Sweetest Little Show
08 – Average Person
09 – Hey Hey
10 – Tug Of Peace
11 – Through Our Love

Bonus Audio – Remastered 2015 (24-44,1)
12 – Average Person (Demo) [Bonus Track]
13 – Keep Under Cover (Demo) [Bonus Track]
14 – Sweetest Little Show (Demo) [Bonus Track]
15 – It’s Not On (Demo) [Bonus Track]
16 – Simple As That (Demo) [Bonus Track]
17 – Say Say Say [with Michael Jackson] (2015 Remix) [Bonus Track]
18 – Ode To A Koala Bear [Bonus Track]
19 – Twice In A Lifetime [Bonus Track]
20 – Christian Bop [Bonus Track]

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