Fine Line [Single, Import]

Paul McCartney | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 30, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single, Import
• Label: EMI
• ASIN: B000AD1R0O
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #471,131 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fine Line

2. Comfort Of Love

3. Growing Up Falling Down

Editorial Reviews

PAUL MCCARTNEY Fine Line (2005 UK 2-track CD single from including non-album bonus recording Comfort Of Love)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Grows on you...., September 6, 2005

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DukesFan01 (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fine Line (Audio CD)

This might be his best single since 1989's "My Brave Face."

The "Lady Madonna"-style piano is clearly evident throughout the song. The quick shifts in the arrangment are clever, and the use of the strings at the end is quite effective, and harkens back to Beatles-era McCartney. (I know that comparison has been said time after time over the last decade or so, but this time he's really delivering it.)

"Fine Line" features lots of banging on the guitar and piano, but the structure is solid and the vocal strong. I hear remanants of BAND ON THE RUN-era McCartney here, maybe even late era Beatles. I really am hooked on the piano track in this song---and he's playing all the other instruments, too. Honorable mention to the use of the tambourine at the end as well!

It took me 10 listens to really like it, but that is usually the sign of a good tune. Why didn't he focus this much on some of his previous efforts? The samples I've heard from the album this song comes from---CHAOS AND CREATION IN THE BACKYARD---actually feature deep and personal lyrics all with a (non-wimpy) lush arrangement. What took so long, Macca, for you to deliver these goods!?

Worth it.

Honorable mention to the two great b-sides found here, "Comfort of Love" and "Growing Up Falling Down." The former track is a fully realized song that could have been at home on the new album, and the latter track features Paul experimenting with good results...yet another song that could have been placed on the CHAOS album.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great new single, September 6, 2005

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Robert Avery "Self Proclaimed Music Expert" (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fine Line (Audio CD)

Probably his best first single since My Brave Face. Fine Line is quite catchy and actually has pretty good lyrics. It reminds me of a cross between Flaming Pie and something from the Ram album. The other two songs(which won't be on the album) are pretty good as well, Comfort of Love being a nice rocker, and growing up and falling down an interesting experimental acoustic number. It's a shame it is only available as an import in America, as this obviously means the CD will be more expensive. For those who are just casual fans, you should probably just get the album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard when it comes out (if the single was cheaper I'd recommend it to anybody).

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoy now, analyze later, September 9, 2005

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David Rex Ochoa Perez (Monterrey, Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fine Line (Audio CD)

It has to be one of the greatest injustices of all time being Paul McCartney. Not only were you part of the most trascendental bands in all rock history, but also, you are one of the most succesfulls songwriters of all time, and because of that you are your biggest enemy of your own work. People always expect to hear 5 "Yesterday's", 3 "Hey Jude's", 2 "Long and winding road's" and one "Band on the Run".
For me, Paul is just an rock musician who writes in a way that makes me enjoy a greater part of his work. That way I can appreciate his new albums and thus give me the chance to learn to love them. Sometimes he makes deaf albums, and also makes bad single choices. This is not one of these times. "Fine Line" is a great uptempo song, with great melody, simple words and lots of "trinkets" here and there. The B-sides are good and surely will find a place in not few fans preferences.