Pipes Of Peace - The Paul McCartney Collection

This album is as important to the progession of McCartney's songwriting as Tug Of War was to showing Paul could still write a good song. Paul wanted 'Tug'to be a double album but George Martin wanted a single. Simply put, these are the left overs. What makes this album important is he FINISHED the songs. 'Hey,Hey' is a fragment because Paul wanted it to be. George Martin made Paul finish the songs on 'Pipes' and 'Tug'. They made a good decision seperating these two albums because this album is not as strong. These are left overs and Paul knows it with his silly lyrics and jabs at himself (Keep Undercover,The Other Me). Left overs though can sometimes be quite tasty(So Bad,Pipes of Peace,Sweetest Little Show). By relearning to finish songs and not just leaving tasty fragments of what could have been;Paul gives you a competely cooked meal,even though that meal might be more Turkey TV Dinner than Thanskgiving feast.(2.5-stars)