Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

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The ‘last’ track is Anyway.

(Sings) ‘Anyway, anyway,’ yeah, it started off as the (sings) ‘If you need me,’ the little verse thing, (sings) ‘won’t you call me ?’ which is just about, ‘If you love me will you call me ?’ And then, you know, it was going quite straightforward and for some reason I was getting this feeling, again, why do you get these feelings ? I don’t know, but I was getting this feeling as if it was the deep south of America, like Charlestown, Savannah, something about the chords, I think. There was just something reminding me, almost sort of Randy Newman kind of thing, I thought I was doing. As always it turns out nothing like him but at the time I think I’m doing this thing, so that was going on. Then I got these other chords that sort of happen half way through the verse which were Oooh, really sort of started to inspire me then. (Sings) ‘Only love is strong enough to take it on the chin,’ and that started to move it into a slightly other area which then led up to this, (sings) ‘Anyway, anyway, you can make that call.’ So then it was written and took it, recorded it in Los Angeles and then got our string arranger out there, we use two string people, one’s David Campbell, happens to be Beck’s dad, or Beck happens to be his son, and then we use a guy, Joby Talbot, over here who’s very good too, he’s our English guy, and took it to David and we did a little string arrangement on it and so that kind of sewed it all up, you know, and it was sort of a ballad Anyway.

So, Anyway wasn’t actually the very last track. There’s a hidden 3 part instrumental that ends the album...

We’d done a lot of the album. We were almost finished and we just thought, you know, ‘How about opening the album with just something for nothing, not like a song ? Let’s just open it with like a little jam thing, a noise, just something to get your attention, then we’ll go into the first song,’ so we said, ‘O.K. great,’ and I always like that where you sort of throw away the rule book and you go, ‘O.K. let’s just do something completely different’. It’s not a song, it’s not a thing, you just go and play a bit and Nigel said, ‘Why don’t you just have a couple of ideas, songs, and we’ll make them. They don’t need to be long. We’ll just see which one works,’ so he said, ‘Just go and do two things. While you’re doing one, do two,’ so I thought, ‘O.K. I’ll do three just to show him,’ so I came out here. The piano was set up here and just sort of started doing the first little vibe, second little vibe and I said, ‘O.K. I’ve got a couple of ideas here,’ so he said, ‘That’ll do,’ so we recorded the piano bit first. (Sings) just really nothing, just in your face, sticking your tongue out and erm, we were joking. It was like as if the grown-ups had gone away, you know, they’d left us the studios, so ‘O.K. come on, then,’ and I just got on the drumkit, just thrashed that out and we recorded in the space of like about ten minutes, well, maybe an hour, but we just did all three of them and in the end instead of choosing one of them for the beginning we stuck three of them all together and put them at the end.

What’s the story behind the title of the album ?

You know, you’re always looking for a title when you’ve finished an album. The Beatles album Abbey Road was going to be called Everest and suddenly it didn’t seem like a very good idea and we all came up with Abbey Road and hey, once you’ve got it, you sort of feel good so I was looking around and once we’d finished the album and Promise ToYou Girl says, (sings) ‘Looking through the backyard of my life,’ so I thought, ‘Backyard’. That might be kind of good for an album, just Backyard. Rang Nigel up and said, ‘What do you think about that, Backyard ?’ and he said, ‘It’s O.K., just not very intriguing. It’s kind of catchy and all, it’s just not very intriguing. Why ? What’s it mean ? You know.’ So, ‘O.K.’ So I rang him back the next day and I’d had a thought of maybe then calling it, ‘Looking in the Lyrics’. In Fine Line it says there’s a long way between chaos and creation so I thought, ‘O.K. maybe chaos and creation could be a good title but it sounded a little too monumental, Chaos and Creation, the Book of Ecclesiastes, you know, it was a little bit too sort of posh, so then I thought, ‘In the Backyard’ and that kind of stuck so, and that’s from Promise To You Girl so I just stuck those two little quotes together and that kind of put the tongue in cheek and stopped it being too sort of pretentious and then we were talking about it and he texted me back and said, ‘You know, great, it fits because that’s sort of what this album’s been about, chaos, creation and it’s also home-made, it’s a bit in your backyard, you know,’ so he said, ‘Yeah, that’ll do it then.’ He just texted, ‘Yes, I love it, yes it fits, yes.’ And all that so that was it.

In conclusion, Paul, what have you got from the making of this record ?

You know, from making this record I’ve got a record I like and that’s what I set out to do. I wanted to be able to have a record that I wanted to play and then if other people liked it that was a bonus, so, yeah, I’ve got a record that I like.

And what, do you think, will the listener get from it ?

I never really think about what I want people to get from a record because that’s very difficult. You start to want them to give you things they’re not going to give you. So a long time ago I just learned, make it something that I like and then people put their own interpretations on it and that’s fine by me. As long as I like it that’s the main thing, and I like this one.

Thanks for that. Great read.


I love the producer line "and then Nigel with the greatest timing ever says, ‘You know that song we were doing the other day, I think it’s crap".

Thats what Paul needs and has needed throughout his solo career but sadly hasnt got it. As he says himself he's had YES men.

Hi gang i listened it yesterday,the complete album,in exclusive event,in me opinion,is the most greatest album of Paul Mc Cartney never made in his solo carreer,believe me it's great,marvalleus.i think will be a hit on sales, i hope that ya all can hear it very soon.

cheers

Originally Posted by dark horse 1978

Hi gang i listened it yesterday,the complete album,in exclusive event,in me opinion,is the most greatest album of Paul Mc Cartney never made in his solo carreer,believe me it's great,marvalleus.i think will be a hit on sales, i hope that ya all can hear it very soon.

cheers

Where was this event and was Paul at it?
Can you tell us a bit about each song?

Originally Posted by Zimmerman The Gnome

Where was this event and was Paul at it?
Can you tell us a bit about each song?

Hi gnome,unfortunately paul wasn't there,cos the event was in Mexico at the E.M.I offices,well i only can say "ENGLISH TEA" sounds like "for no one" in other sound the music sound like "put it there" george martin's arragments,"JENNY WREN" definetely is "blackbird" dauther,and "friends to go"it seems like paul,and george have been composed it arm to arm.what more can i say?. i hope that you got your own opinion

cheers

In case you didn't notice, there's some pics on Paul's site in his Chaos And Creation section...

The album cover is up as an avatar now...

I have heard very good things about Jenny Wren. Can't wait to hear it.

Does anyone have a larger version of the album cover? I like that it's in black and white; that seems pretty cool. But I can't really see the rest of it.

Originally Posted by Cecilia

In case you didn't notice, there's some pics on Paul's site in his Chaos And Creation section...

These look too exerted to me. He´s trying too hard to look youthful. Embarresing.

this supposedly is the album cover for CACITB from Amazon.com:

Originally Posted by Loka

These look too exerted to me. He´s trying too hard to look youthful. Embarresing.

Agree.

Originally Posted by Loka

He´s trying too hard to look youthful. Embarresing.

Completely disagree with this, but then I'm kind of old, so I don't think that age is embarassing anymore. I guess I should quit riding roller coasters, dancing in public and acting silly because I'm over 40.

Nah.

I really like the 1st one of those photos, actually. I'm not sure what the heck he's doing, but I like the lighting.

Originally Posted by Rellevart

I really like the 1st one of those photos, actually. I'm not sure what the heck he's doing, but I like the lighting.

He's trying to be cool and dance and it's embarrasing.

Originally Posted by Zimmerman The Gnome

He's trying to be cool and dance and it's embarrasing.

It's a little goofy, but he's often a little goofy and I find a little goofiness endearing rather than embarrasing, but I guess it's all in how you look at things.

I agree Rell....Paul was always a goofball....it is part of his charm :)
Besides..I am glad he still is 'youthful'....he needs it being a 'new' dad.

I also like the first photo...nice suit.

Originally Posted by Loka

These look too exerted to me. He´s trying too hard to look youthful. Embarresing.

i am inclined to agree.

looks like the pic on the album cover was one of those that was taken by paul's brother,mike, in the late 1950s.

I am a big Jason Falkner fan. I love and loved Jellyfish.

I bought a lullabye album Jason Falkner did, which is to help mothers put their babies to sleep via beautifully and softly played Beatles songs (Jason arranged and played all of the instruments). His liner notes said something to the effect of how much The Beatles music means to him and that he hoped, if they ever heard it, they would like what he did with their songs......and then added something like, as if they would ever hear his effort - kind of a self-depracating and humble statement referring to their greatness and his relative obscurity. I can only imagine what it must have been like for Mr. Falkner, who is one of the most talented singer songwriters on the planet, to play alongside Mr. McCartney. I always thought those two could blend and play well together, given Mr. McCartney's influence on Jason. Jason learned much in Beatle's school.....oh yes he did!