Back To The Egg Cary NC

Back To The Egg

Paul McCartney & Wings

Capitol, 1979

REVIEW BY: Michael Ehret

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 07/14/2007

No Paul McCartney album can be considered pointless; after all, McCartney is a defining force of rock and roll. But Back To The Egg was certainly a major misstep and is most notable for being Wings’ final album.

McCartney, of course, went on to record many more great records, but aside from the pap that is “Arrow Through Me,” a very minor hit, and “Rockestra Theme,” which won the Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1979 (the competition must have been slim that year), there’s not much on here to recommend.

Supposedly, McCartney wanted a more rock and roll feel about Back To The Egg after his more recent softer record, Londontown. But all of the rock songs sound forced (“Old Siam Sir,” “Getting Closer,” “So Glad To See You Here”), as if the band was merely punching their time cards.

And the ballads? Well, there’s “Arrow Through Me”… and the rest are so faceless (and in many instances, tuneless) that noting them hardly seems worth the effort and remembering them after the CD moves on to the next track, impossible.