Now that Flaming Pie is released, it seems a good time to put out an all-new complete (as of 2020) Paul McCartney discography. Not everyone is into all aspects of Paul, so this is broken into 10 volumes - maybe that makes it easier to download.
I will release a new volume every few weeks once the previous volume is seeded, not necessarily in order. Please bear with me - my internet is often slow and unstable. But I will seed as long as possible. This one is 2.2G, twice as big as the last one I put up, so have a lot of patience.
All constructive feedback is helpful, especially if I left anything out. Enjoy!
Volume 5 - Live Albums =================
All Paul's officially released live albums released on CD, vinyl or digital. Two more official live albums are in Volume 2 - 'Unplugged' and 'Live at Capitol Studios'.
1972 Wings Over Europe - 79 minutes 1-20 from Wings 1971-73 2018 Archive Collection
1976 Live at The Cow Palace - San Francisco, June 13-14 1976 - 55 minutes 1-8 from Deluxe/Best Buy bonus disc for 2013 Wings Over America Archive. This was meant to be a supplement to Wings Over America, so the 8 songs only total 28 minutes. To beef it up, I added 5 songs from the same tour and a live 1972 combo. 01 - Let Me Roll It - 4:18 02 - Maybe I'm Amazed - 5:26 03 - Lady Madonna - 3:22 04 - Live and Let Die - 3:38 05 - Picasso's Last Words - 2:13 06 - Bluebird - 4:28 07 - Blackbird - 2:37 08 - Yesterday - 1:56 09x The Long and Winding Road (Rockshow NYC 5-25-76) - 4:34 10x I've Just Seen a Face (Rockshow L.A. 6-22-76) - 2:04 11x Go Now (Rockshow L.A. June 1976) - 3:38 12x Hi Hi Hi (Rockshow L.A. June 1976) - 3:06 13x Soily (Rockshow L.A. June 1976) - 5:23 14x Eat at Home/Smile Away (Groningen 8-19-72) - 8:20
1976 Wings Over America - 116 minutes 1-28 from 2013 Archive Collection. Recorded May to June 1976 on tour.
1979 Concerts for the People of Kampuchea - London Dec 29 1979 - 34 mins 1-6 Recorded at Hammersmith Odeon. The vinyl charity album was released in 1981. Wings and the one-time-only live team-up Rockestra got just one side of this double vinyl LP, so it's only 21 minutes of music. To beef it up I added the very few relevant bonus cuts I could find, including an edit of Coming Up from the Glasgow concert 2 weeks earlier. 01 - Got To Get You into My Life - 3:03 02 - Every Night - 4:20 03 - Coming Up - 4:14 04 - Lucille (Rockestra) - 3:01 05 - Let It Be (Rockestra) - 4:11 06 - Rockestra Theme (Rockestra) - 2:36 07x I've Had Enough - 3:32 08x Hot As Sun - 2:40 09x Twenty Flight Rock - 2:37 10x Coming Up (live at Glasgow edit) - 3:29
1990 Tripping the Live Fantastic - 169 minutes 1-37 from the 1990 CD master. 38-44 Bonus cuts are ordered by recording date, not setlist or release date. 38x C Moon (soundcheck Milan 10-26-89) - b-side to All My Trials - 3:42 39x All My Trials (Milan 10-27-89) - CD single - 3:25 40x Good Day Sunshine (Montreal 12-9-89) - b-side to Birthday - 2:35 41x Let 'Em In (Tokyo 3-5-90) - b-side to Birthday - 5:39 42x PS Love Me Do (Rio 4-21-90)- b-side to Birthday - 3:32 43x Mull of Kintyre (Glasgow 6-23-90) - b-side to All My Trials - 5:26 44x Strawberry Fields Forever--Help--Give Peace a Chance (6-28-90) - 6:47
1993 - Paul Is Live - 121 minutes 1-24 - from the 2019 remaster. 25-34 from Paul Is Live DVD and the 1993 Fox TV special live in Charlotte. 25x Another Day (Charlotte 6-15-93) - 3:52 26x Off the Ground (Charlotte 6-15-93) - 3:51 27x Can't Buy Me Love (live 6-15-93) - 2:34 28x Every Night (Charlotte 6-15-93) - 3:05 29x Yesterday (Charlotte 6-15-93) - 2:00 30x Let It Be (Parramatta, Australia 3-23-93) - 3:59 31x Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Charlotte 6-15-93) - 6:51 32x Band on the Run (Charlotte 6-15-93) - 5:05 33x I Saw Her Standing There (Charlotte 6-15-93) - 4:03 34x Hey Jude (Charlotte 6-15-93) - 6:15
2002 - Back in the US (Apr-May 2002) / Back in World (Nov 2002) - 138 mins 1-35 from 2002 master. W20-W31 from 2003's Back in the World. Most of the World album is the same as Back in the U.S., but these 5 tracks are unique. W20 - Calico Skies - 2:37 W21 - Michelle - 3:15 W25 - Let 'Em In - 5:23 W27 - She's Leaving Home - 3:52 W31 - Hey Jude (Mexico City) - 7:35
2007 - Amoeba Gig (Los Angeles 6-27-07) - 82 minutes 1-21 from the 2019 remaster. This concert (14 songs) was released in bits and pieces from 2007-2010. The full 21 tracks weren't released until 2019 but I'm keeping the 2007 date. 22x Coming Up (Amoeba Gig soundcheck 6-27-07) - vinyl bonus track - 3:31
2007 - BBC Electric Proms London - October 5, 2007 - 88min 1-22 itunes BBC Electric Proms London - Oct. 5 2007 released Dec 2014 - Feb 2015 only. Itunes had 17 tracks. Seven more (denoted with *) ripped from the broadcast. 01 - Magical Mystery Tour - 2:48 02 - Flaming Pie - 2:52 03 - Got To Get You into My Life - 3:12 04 - Dance Tonight - 3:18 05 - Only Mama Knows - 4:15 06*- C Moon - 3:29 07*- The Long and Winding Road - 3:25 08*- I'll Follow the Sun - 2:36 09* That Was Me - 3:11 10*- Here Today - 2:36 11 - Blackbird - 3:17 12 - Calico Skies - 3:22 13 - Eleanor Rigby - 2:42 14 - Band on the Run - 5:22 15 - Back in the USSR - 3:20 16*- House of Wax - 5:30 17*- I've Got a Feeling - 5:39 18 - Live and Let Die - 3:39 19 - Baby Face - 1:00 20 - Hey Jude - 6:53 21 - Let It Be - 4:00 22 - Lady Madonna - 3:16 23 - I Saw Her Standing There - 3:18 24 - Get Back - 4:09
2009 - Good Evening New York City - 123 minutes 1-33 from 2009 master
Paul McCartney Complete Discography 1970-2020
Goal: Collect ALL of the many Paul McCartney songs that are currently distributed across more than 100 discs, including b-sides, charity singles, collaborations, remixes, soundtracks and everything else. I count over 1,800 unique official music tracks.
Restrictions: I favor legitimate releases over bootlegs (with a few exceptions). I include audio rips from legit DVD, TV and radio (Oobu Joobu mostly) if they are of high quality and important. More than 99% of Volumes 1-8 is legit. Volume 9-10 collects the best bootlegs.
Justification: There are many existing discographies but they have drawbacks of (a) being incomplete, (b) mixing official releases with low quality bootlegs, or (c) redundancy in songs. The same exact song recording might be in half a dozen different places.
Uniqueness: I try to make every song included unique. Some same versions of songs appear on many different compilation albums with only a few unique tracks on the compilation. Now you don't have to sort out what's unique to each release. Every song here is unique.
Quality: Almost all are 320, some 256. Just a few are 128-192 when there was no option.
Source/Thanks: A huge thanks and debt of gratitude to the maker of Paul's Ultimate Archive Editions. Those form the bulk of what is included here, but organized quite differently, and there are dozens more sources as well. The Ultimate Editions are amazing works.
Notation: For any track Paul added after the original release, or I added as a bonus, there is an 'x' for extra after the track number. For short interview pieces tacked onto the end of some albums, I number them 90+, indicating they're mostly or all talking. Most of the time only bonus tracks are listed below, not the whole album which is easy to look up.
CD burning: I doubt people burn CDs now, but just in case, I made most folders under 80 minutes which meant moving a few bonus cuts to other albums, so you'll have to hunt for those. Some albums couldn't fit under 80 minutes (most live albums) so I left those long to preserve album continuity. The goal was folders of 15-30 tracks and 60-80 minutes.
Result: The following compilation of more than 2,500 different music files (including the bootlegs) - 160 hours of Paul. I never guessed Paul had this much material but here it is.
The songs are organized into 10 major volumes:
1) Original Studio Albums All 21 original studio albums from Paul McCartney, and Wings, from 1970-2018. This volume includes only SOME of the Archive Collection bonus tracks. Others are scattered about.
2) Remake/Cover Albums Seven albums when Paul reflected on the past, remaking his or covering others' songs. http://185.238.0.87/description.php?id=36386033
3) Alternate Version albums - Using tracks from the Archive Collection and more, I re-created 19 albums in an alternate form. I only did this for albums where at least half the songs had an official alternate version. I prefer this than, for example, listening to 5 versions of the same song in a row, such as 'Say Say Say' or 'Press'. Flowers in the Dirt and Flaming Pie each had enough tracks to fill TWO alternate versions.
4) Classical and Experimental albums This volume collects Paul's 5 electronica/experimental albums including 3 by The Fireman, and 4 of his 5 forays into classical music.
5) Live Albums All Paul's officially released live albums released on CD, vinyl or digital. Two more official live albums are in Volume 2 - Unplugged and Live at Capitol Records.
6) Live Unofficial These are performances that weren't released on CD but still vital to true fans - all from DVDs, TV appearances, online sources, and radio (mostly 1995's Oobu Joobu radio show).
7) Rarities This volume contains songs that are generally hard to find, most scattered on various b-sides, promo releases and non-McCartney albums.
8) Related albums All these albums are connected to Paul and/or Wings, including documentary albums.
9) Sweet Boots - Live A collection of live bootlegs.
10) Sweet Boots - studio A collection of studio bootlegs