2000 studio album by Paul McCartney
| Liverpool Sound Collage | ||||
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| Studio album by Paul McCartney | ||||
| Released | 21 August 2000 (2000-08-21) | |||
| Recorded | 1999–2000 | |||
| Genre | Electronic, musique concrète, noise, spoken word, avant-garde | |||
| Length | 58:24 | |||
| Label | Hydra (UK) Capitol (US) | |||
| Producer | Paul McCartney | |||
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| Source | Rating |
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| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| NME |  |
| Ultimate-Guitar.com | 2.7/10 |
Liverpool Sound Collage is an album by Paul McCartney released in 2000. The album is also credited to the Beatles, Super Furry Animals and Youth; but because McCartney was so heavily involved in its creation, in addition to his production credit, Liverpool Sound Collage is filed under his name.
Asked by artist Peter Blake to create something musical and with a Liverpool spirit to it, in order to complement his concurrent artwork exhibition, McCartney ended up hearkening back to session chatter by the Beatles (hence their "involvement") and using snippets of his 1991 classical piece Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio to create the tracks for the album. On the track "Made Up" he also can be heard walking the streets and asking various pedestrians to give their impressions of Liverpool and the Beatles. Besides using Musique concrète sounds, the album also incorporates chopped-up beats and digital manipulations of assorted archival sound clips.
Liverpool Sound Collage was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.
In return for being permitted to remix some Beatles music for the album, McCartney was asked to perform on the Super Furry Animals' next album, Rings Around the World, on which he is credited as providing "celery and carrot" on "Receptacle for the Respectable".
In 2017, it was revealed that the chorus of "Free Now" was taken from Take 9 of the Beatles song "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" recorded in early 1967.
Track listing
- "Plastic Beetle" – 8:23
- Paul McCartney, The Beatles
- "Peter Blake 2000" – 16:54
- Super Furry Animals, The Beatles
- "Real Gone Dub Made in Manifest in the Vortex of the Eternal Now" – 16:37
- Youth
- "Made Up" – 12:58
- Paul McCartney, The Beatles
- "Free Now" – 3:29
- Paul McCartney, The Beatles, Super Furry Animals
References
- Ginell, Richard S.. Liverpool Sound Collage at AllMusic
- Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th edn). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 1257. ISBN 0-19-531373-9.
- NME review
- Ultimate-Guitar review
- Sgt Pepper: listen to an unreleased outtake of the Beatles' classic
