The Art of McCartney Tracklist: 

  01. Billy Joel – “Maybe I’m Amazed”
  02. Bob Dylan – “Things We Said Today”
  03. Heart – “Band on the Run”
  04. Steve Miller – “Junior’s Farm”
  05. Yusuf Islam – “The Long and Winding Road”
  06. Harry Connick, Jr. – “My Love”
  07. Brian Wilson – “Wanderlust”
  08. Corinne Bailey Rae – “Bluebird”
  09. Willie Nelson – “Yesterday”
  10. Jeff Lynne – “Junk”
  11. Barry Gibb – “When I’m 64″
  12. Jamie Cullum – “Every Night”
  13. Kiss – “Venus and Mars”/”Rock Show”
  14. Paul Rodgers – “Let Me Roll It”
  15. Roger Daltrey – “Helter Skelter”
  16. Def Leppard – “Helen Wheels”
  17. The Cure, featuring James McCartney – “Hello Goodbye”
  18. Billy Joel – “Live and Let Die”
  19. Chrissie Hynde – “Let It Be”
  20. Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander and Rick Nielsen – “Jet”
  21. Joe Elliott – “Hi Hi Hi”
  22. Heart – “Letting Go”
  23. Steve Miller – “Hey Jude”
  24. Owl City – “Listen to What the Man Said”
  25. Perry Farrell – “Got to Get You Into My Life”
  26. Dion – “Drive My Car”
  27. Allen Toussaint – “Lady Madonna”
  28. Dr. John – “Let ‘Em In”
  29. Smokey Robinson – “So Bad”
  30. The Airborne Toxic Event – “No More Lonely Nights”
  31. Alice Cooper – “Eleanor Rigby”
  32. Toots Hibbert with Sly & Robbie – “Come and Get It”
  33. B.B. King – “On the Way”
  34. Sammy Hagar – “Birthday”
The Art of McCartney Bonus Tracks:

  01. Robert Smith – “C Moon”
  02. Booker T. Jones – “Can’t Buy Me Love”
  03. Ronnie Spector – “P.S. I Love You”
  04. Darlene Love – “All My Loving”
  05. Ian McCulloch – “For No One”
  06. Peter, Bjorn and John – “Put It There”
  07. Wanda Jackson – “Run Devil Run”
  08. Alice Cooper – “Smile Away”


thenewgreen:

Standouts imo:

Yusuf Islam's version of The Long and Winding Road is pretty damn good. I've never liked that song and I like his version.

Brian Wilson's version of Wanderlust

Willie Nelson's Yesterday

-That's as far as I've listened yet...

Okay, Jeff Lynn's Junk was bad ass.

I could do without Barry Gibb's When I'm 64, but then that song could disappear from the earth and I'd be okay. It's one of those songs that John Lennon referred to as "one of Paul's granny songs."

Jamie Cullum? WFT was that?

Kiss just pleasantly surprised me with Venus and Mars/Rock Show. That was awesome! Well done, honestly one of my favorite thus far. They made it theirs.

I think the Cure did a fine job with Hello/Goodbye but I've never liked the song. It's WAY too happy and well, normally they make things seem depressing but not even the Cure can make that song somber.

Then a lot of crap

Then Allen Toussaint does a nice job with Lady Madonna imo. Then Dr. John gets all Dr Johny. Let Me In has some cool moments.

Smokey Robinson is just fun to hear, he has such a great voice, I wish it was on a better song than So Bad.

The Airborne Toxic Event with No More Lonely Nights finally delivers a song that seems vulnerable and unique, not like I'm listening to some karaoke and not way over produced.

I've not heard new music from Alice Cooper in a long time. I actually dug his Eleanor Rigby, even if it's not terribly different. He still has moments of creepiness in his vocal that serve the song well. It's funny that he sounds british, given that he's a Michigan man.

BB King -Man, I hate the Blues. I don't understand how some people love it so much.

And they end it with Sammy Hagar singing Birthday? Odd choice of song and artist.

I like Sammy a lot as a person. I met him years ago while in college and had a somewhat lengthy interaction that left me thinking, "wow, that's one cool cat." But still, this song sucks.

Okay, I'm done.

Not going to buy it. Some nice tracks here and there.


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