Venus and Mars

Paul McCartney, Wings | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 6, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol/Emi/Sbk/Chrysalis
• ASIN: B00000DQUP
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (62 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,463 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Venus and Mars

2. Rock Show

3. Love in Song

4. You Gave Me the Answer

5. Magneto and Titanium Man

6. Letting Go

7. Venus and Mars (Reprise)

8. Spirits of Ancient Egypt

9. Medicine Jar

10. Call Me Back Again

11. Listen to What the Man Said

12. Treat Her Gently/Lonely Old People

13. Crossroads

Editorial Reviews

This CD is an out of print collectible! It is the original UK Parlophone release. Catalog CDP-7-46984-2 (UK:CZ17). The tip of the top right corner of the CD booklet has been cut off.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What the . . . ?, November 21, 2003

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Marshall Boswell (Memphis, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Venus & Mars (Audio CD)

Look, this album is one of McCartney's unsung masterpieces--frivolous perfection from start to finish, pure candy-coated bliss. But the DTS--who did this thing? For starters, the song order has been shuffled, which wouldn't be an issue on other albums but which matters entirely to this album, which was sequenced with the care of Abbey Road and Dark Side of the Moon, the two albums it directly quotes, both visually and musically. Also, the versions of "Letting Go," which appears as track 3 (why?) and "Rock Show" sound like remixes or something. They're not the album versions, that's for sue. FOr all of that, the album's triumph, the linked pair of "Listen to What the Man Said" and "Treat Her Gently," sounds positively magnificent. The latter track particularly benefits from the 5.1 mix: the orchestra plays throughout here, with luscious harps and cellos buried in the original mix. So a precursor to what we can expect when McCartney himself oversees an SACD remix.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Skip the DTS version, September 24, 2003

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This review is from: Venus & Mars (Audio CD)

I won't address the songs themselves, but this DTS version is a novelty item at best. The instruments come through as half bright and half muddy and the DTS recording engineer, no doubt named Todd or Dave, seemed to think it was funny to move the voices around from speaker to speaker to speaker in classic "Hey, watch this; this is cool" mode. Bad call, Ripley. I just hope the remastered CD sounds better than this. I would not buy it again.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Looking for surround? STAY AWAY, October 25, 2005

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David "Foxboy" (Edina, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Venus & Mars (Audio CD)

This sounds like an amateur (maybe Paul) mixed it in his basement. A very very sorry DTS recording! Shame on DTS for letting this one out! First he's behind, then for no reason in front, to the sides, awful! Just AWFUL!! Who do they think they are kidding? If you don't believe me, or want just about the worst surround disc ever made, put this high on your list. It's just AWFUL!!

I love McCartney, and this is one fine album, but get the stereo version, this compressed and uneven disc is DOA!!