Woman [Import]

Mike McGear | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 25, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Edsel Records UK
• ASIN: B0000011WV
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #622,980 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Woman

2. Witness

3. Jolly Good Show

4. Roamin A Road

5. Sister

6. Wishin

7. Young Man

8. Edward Heath

9. Bored As Butterscotch

10. Uptowndowntown

11. Tiger

Editorial Reviews

Japanese only SHM paper sleeve pressing. The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan discovered through the joint companies' research into LCD display manufacturing* SHM-CDs feature improved transparency on the data side of the disc* allowing for more accurate reading of CD data by the CD player laser head. SHM-CD format CDs are fully compatible with standard CD players. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brillant, obscure album but is missing key bits, October 31, 2007

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B. Margolis (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Woman (Audio CD)

The original Island LP, quite a nice singer-songwriter album, had a number of small bits of linking music and bits of chat from Mike's two daughters:

ORIGINAL ALBUM:
"WOMAN"
"WITNESS"
"JOLLY GOOD SHOW"
benna (missing)
"ROAMIN A ROAD"
benna (missing)
"WISHIN"
young young man (five years ago) (missing)
"YOUNG MAN (Five Years Later)"
"EDWARD HEATH"
"BORED AS BUTTERSCOTCH"
"UPTOWNDOWNTOWN"
black beauty (missing)
"TIGER"
strawberry jam (faces) (included in Tiger)

So....the album as reissued by UK Edsel is incomplete.

Also, Paul McCartney, while not credited, co-wrote "Bored As Butterscotch" and played piano.

The entire album was recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, England, a studio co-owned by 10cc and Peter Tattersall. They were involved in the music.

A very nice, looked over album (in lieu of "McGear", which was also recorded at Strawberry and had active involvement from McCartney and Wings, as well as members of 10cc.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars He's not his brother, May 27, 2003

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Anonymous "Anonymous" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Woman (Audio CD)

OK this probably would have never been recorded if Mike had not been Paul Mccartney's brother but...this album is not too too bad. Problem is that some of the songs sound unpolished and incomplete...going nowhere musically and thematically. Pauls brother has a soft melodic voice - nothing spectacular and he tries too hard to play wordgames . Woman harkens to Paul's Let It Be but its limitations are soon apparent - I mean, what is the song about? Best songs are Wishin' a thumping rocker and Tiger which sounds like something off John Lennon's Imagine album.. But Mike's voice lacks too much emotion and depth to give his attempts at wit any substance or meaning. Still, as the liner notes say, this is better than what Paul was recording at the same time -- "Mary Had a Litle Lamb."

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Mother Mary Comes to Me -- Not, July 20, 2006

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Lady Prudence (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Woman (Audio CD)

The "Woman" on the cover of Woman is a picture of Mary McCartney-Paul and Michael McCartney's mother, but she's all these two seem to have in common. This album was recorded -- God knows why -- in 1971 after Mike McCartney's former comedy group, the Scaffold, disbanded. It's a collection of half-written songs composed by Mike himself, who, aware that he lacks his brother's musical skills, tries to make up for it with word games and puns -- the sort the Scaffold engaged in in the 60s. It's clear that without collaboration (the Scaffold in the 60's and brother Paul in 1974's McGear album), Mike has neither the vocal talent nor songwriting skills needed to carry an album on his own. Buy "McGear" if you are curious as to what he sounds like, or the Scaffold's compilation of hits.