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5. Appearance on the Super Furry Animals’ “Receptable for the Respectable,” 2001
Leave it to the Welsh to come up with something as strange and psychedelic as the criminally underrated act the Super Furry Animals, led by the loveably weird Gruff Rhys. On the band’s 2001 album Rings Around the World, Rhys tapped McCartney for the song “Receptacle for the Respectable” — but not to sing. No, if you listen closely, you can hear Macca chomping celery on the track.
4. Liverpool Sound Collage, 2000 album
By 2000, it had already been a few years since Macca had buddied up with the aforementioned Rhys, as well as a fellow called Youth, a producer and original bassist of the amazing Killing Joke. They all collided for this ’00 remix album, which began as a request from the artist Peter Blake. It features a track with the tongue-twisting title “”Real Gone Dub Made In Manifest In The Vortex Of The Eternal Now.” Here’s a clip featuring the more simply named, but no less out-there, track “Plastic Beetle.”
3. “Dance Tonight,” 2007 video
There’s no better way to get points from the cool kids than to get a music video directed by Michel Gondry, as McCartney did so for his 2007 offering “Dance Tonight.” Extra points come from the appearance of the ultimate indie-guy object of desire, and fellow animal product-eschewer, Natalie Portman. She appears here as some kind of flapper ghost haunting McCartney’s quaint kitchen.
2. Twin Freaks, 2005 album with the Freelance Hellraiser
Back in ’05, everyone was about mash-ups, and even Sir Paul got in on the game. Rather than try to beat the copyright skirters, here he joined them, teaming with UK bootleg king the Freelance Hellraiser. Even better for the collector set, this appeared as a double vinyl set. Here’s their percussion-heavy rework of “Live and Let Die.”
Paul McCartney’s appearance this Saturday at the Sun Life Stadium marks the last of just four North American shows in his current, cheekily named “Up and Coming” tour. And while fans should, of course, expect him to perform any number of megahits by the Beatles and even Wings, hardcore Macca followers know that’s not all that will be on offer. McCartney has, refreshingly, never settled into an old-timers’ nostalgia routine, continuing to work on new, even avant-garde artistic projects with some surprising collaborators. Saturday’s set list should include a healthy sampling of it all. Here’s a list of the top 10 hippest, most unexpected McCartney offerings of the past decade.
Paul McCartney. 8 p.m. Saturday, April 3. Sun Life Stadium, 2267 Dan Marino Blvd., Miami Gardens. Remaining tickets cost around $249. Livenation.com
10. The Animation Collection, 2004 DVD
The Beatles together always played around with the marriage of music and animation (Yellow Submarine, anyone?). In the ’00s, McCartney revisited the concept again on his own, composing and voicing a trio of three short animated films by Geoff Dunbar. Singing frogs seem to be a surreally repeating motif here, as seen in this clip of “Rupert and the Frog Song.”
5. Appearance on the Super Furry Animals’ “Receptable for the Respectable,” 2001
Leave it to the Welsh to come up with something as strange and psychedelic as the criminally underrated act the Super Furry Animals, led by the loveably weird Gruff Rhys. On the band’s 2001 album Rings Around the World, Rhys tapped McCartney for the song “Receptacle for the Respectable” — but not to sing. No, if you listen closely, you can hear Macca chomping celery on the track.
4. Liverpool Sound Collage, 2000 album
By 2000, it had already been a few years since Macca had buddied up with the aforementioned Rhys, as well as a fellow called Youth, a producer and original bassist of the amazing Killing Joke. They all collided for this ’00 remix album, which began as a request from the artist Peter Blake. It features a track with the tongue-twisting title “”Real Gone Dub Made In Manifest In The Vortex Of The Eternal Now.” Here’s a clip featuring the more simply named, but no less out-there, track “Plastic Beetle.”
3. “Dance Tonight,” 2007 video
There’s no better way to get points from the cool kids than to get a music video directed by Michel Gondry, as McCartney did so for his 2007 offering “Dance Tonight.” Extra points come from the appearance of the ultimate indie-guy object of desire, and fellow animal product-eschewer, Natalie Portman. She appears here as some kind of flapper ghost haunting McCartney’s quaint kitchen.
2. Twin Freaks, 2005 album with the Freelance Hellraiser
Back in ’05, everyone was about mash-ups, and even Sir Paul got in on the game. Rather than try to beat the copyright skirters, here he joined them, teaming with UK bootleg king the Freelance Hellraiser. Even better for the collector set, this appeared as a double vinyl set. Here’s their percussion-heavy rework of “Live and Let Die.”
