#run devil run

Paul McCartney Run Devil Run 1999

☠︎︎ 𝚛𝚞𝚗 𝚍𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚕 𝚍𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚕 𝚛𝚞𝚗 𝚛𝚞𝚗… ☠︎︎

Paul McCartney has suffered another huge loss in the 90’s and that one affected his consequent work in the same way as the death of John Lennon did. The departure of his wife caused him to retreat to nostalgia. Yes, Run Devil Run, already profiled here, feels like a record one does after a tragic event. I would suggest his nostalgia was a coping mechanism and the record does betray that as McCartney feels occasionally too reverent towards the tunes he covers. Moreover, his own pieces, he also included them on this disc, lack what he did on the previous album, but should we begrudge him of that? McCartney wished to find a way to make what happened more palatable to him, we should see this platter as his survival.

I did say Chris Thomas sort of reconnected with several of his old coworkers in the period from the late 80’s to the 90’s and that is true. For instance, he even worked with Paul McCartney again on Run Devil Run and I’m sure they both talked of the old times, because that LP was mostly a cover album of McCartney’s favorite rock songs from his youth and … I mean, I appreciate the effort, yet what he did with the original of the tune on the link, for instance, feels off. Rick Nelson doesn’t sound like Roy Orbison on the song McCartney reinterprets, but the latter does try to convince us he did. Then again, one has to applaud a bravery of such a choice, because one get to be reeminds oneself how both Nelson and Orbison were the flip sides of the same coin.

(Maybe with a hint of "Disturbia.") Almost as soon as I heard "Takedown," RDR was going through my head, and it's interesting because RDR is essentially what "Takedown" would be if Rumi wrote it after finding out Jinu lied to her and we had time to see her digest all of this before the end of the film.