Paul McCartney - Mull of Kintyre - Non-Album Tracks (1977-1978)

Today is the day Paul McCartney released his latest album "Egypt Station." It's been six years since his last studio album. In cerebration of that, here's the next in my series of albums collecting his best stray tracks from his long solo career.

The last album in this series covered the years 1973 to 1975. I couldn't find anything good from 1976, so this covers 1977 and 1978. The song "Mull of Kintyre" was released as a single in 1977 and went on to become one of the biggest hits of all time in Britain. Yet it wasn't even released as an A-side in the US, due to it sounding like a Scottish folk song. The B-side "Girls' School" was flipped to the A-side instead, and was a minor US hit.

Those are the only two officially released songs on this album. Some of the others were going to be released on a rarities compilation called "Cold Cuts," but that never got released, even though it came close several times.

There's one song here by Wings band member Denny Laine, "Find a Way Somehow." That song was released on a Laine solo album in 1973, but I don't like that version, mostly due to a cheesy spoken word segment in the middle of it. This is a longer unreleased version recorded in 1977 that has more musical involvement by McCartney.

Personally, I don't think this is as strong a bunch of songs are the three earlier stray tracks collections I've posted here. I think he just wasn't as musically inspired at the time, as can be seen with the relative disappointments of the "Wings at the Speed of Sound" and "London Town" albums. But it's still 1970s McCartney, which means it's pretty darn good.

01 Mull of Kintyre (Paul McCartney)
02 After You've Gone (Paul McCartney)
03 Find a Way Somehow (Denny Laine with Paul McCartney)
04 Waterspout (Paul McCartney)
05 Cage (Paul McCartney)
06 Girls' School (Paul McCartney)
07 Robber's Ball (Paul McCartney)
08 Rupert Song (Paul McCartney)
09 Sunshine Sometime (Paul McCartney)
10 Did We Meet Somewhere Before (Paul McCartney)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15259157/PaulMcC_1977-1978_MllofKntyre_atse.zip.html

The cover is the cover to the "Mull of Kintrye" single, except "Wings" has been replaced with McCartney's name.