The Fireman - Electric Arguments


Electric Arguments. It's the third  The Fireman album, but the first publicly acknowledged by Paul McCartney. The Fireman is Macca and Youth experimenting together. Youth is the stripper name of Martin Glover, the founding bass player from Killing Joke. Wait, say that again? Paul McCartney and the bassist from Killing Joke were just having fun experimenting with writing songs together? Are you sure? Yep, and they included a 1/4 inch thick book of photographs of them painting on the walls with it.


Now, depending on who you like to copy your opinions from, this is either fantastic stuff that fuels the flames of Macca's awesome string of albums from the decade of the naughts, or pretentious crap. You guys all know i have remarkably few thumbs pointed upward when it comes to Paul McCartney solo albums, except for McCartney and Ram, those i love. Collabs are totally different because that's where Macca's actual talent lies. It doesn't matter whether it's his song that someone else is making better or vice versa, what's important is that only half of it is his. 

Electric Arguments isn't supposed to mean anything, by the way. He was more interested in the combination of words itself than their definitions. I'm not gonna lie, none of the lyrics are sticking in my brain at all, good or bad. What is coming across is that this album rocks. This is fantastic. The post punk industrialism and the eclectic pop merge into the most amazingly crazy conglomeration of greatness. As a pure listening experience this album is top notch. It's totally crazy and at the end of every track you're wondering what kind of bonkers thing the next song will be. Where's the actual hate coming from?

Aha! I knew it! Yeah, all the bad reviews are "Paul McCartney's pretending old people are allowed to have fun, and Killing Joke is sooooo passé." Screw you guys. I hate all but 2 of Paul McCartney's albums, but this is awesome. 

Seriously, go listen to Electric Arguments by The Fireman. I don't know what else to say, it's great. Sure, i'm as surprised as you are and i hate McDonald's as much or more than I hate Walmart, but all i can say is i'm lovin' it.

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