Track Listing

1. Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight
2. Two Magpies
3. Sing The Changes
4. Travelling Light
5. Highway
6. Light From Your Lighthouse
7. Sun Is Shining
8. Dance 'Till We're High
9. Lifelong Passion
10. Is This Love?
11. Lovers In A Dream
12. Universal Here, Everlasting Now
13. Don't Stop Running

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4571 in Music
• Released on: 2008-11-24
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
The Fireman is the electronic side project of Paul McCartney and Martin Glover AKA Youth (the founding member of Killing Joke and 1998 Producer Of The Year for his work on The Verve's 'Urban Hymns'). Their third album, 'Electric Arguments'is their first to feature the former Beatle's distinctive vocals and includes the single 'Lifelong Passion'.

Customer Reviews

Quite Astonishing
Ok...I'll admit I'm a lifelong fan of Macca's output. Biased though I am, I will point to his mistakes, his halfhearted albums and indulgences. (and even when Macca gets it wrong he is never less than listenable - he is incapable of writing a boring tune) but this album - wow! He packs everything in here - soaring melodies, riffs to die for, bass lines heaven sent, and you know what - it's easily one of the most enjoyable albums of the year.

All this, plus Youth's production input give this album the rough around the edges quality of Macca's early solo work, but with the added benefit of keeping the whimsy to a minimum.

By turns frothy, rocky, spaced out, with more than a touch of the blues - this is wholly glorious !

NO ARGUMENTS.FANTASTIC.
What can i say about McCartney's new album but bravo.It's a stunning and unexpectedly brave and compelling listening experience.I'm not known for my hyperbole but this record is as strong a album as he's put out since Ram.The highlights for me are Traveling Light,See The Changes,Highway,Dance 'Til Wer'e High,Lovers In A Dream and Nothing Too Much just Out Of Sight,but the whole album is a joy to be hold.If you are a lapsed Macca fan then this should bring you back to the fold,it's outstanding and all i can say is Band On The What!

Electric...no Arguments!!
Much as others who have already reviewed this album, I am a longtime Paul McCartney afficionado (you could say he's a Lifelong Passion of mine, in fact). I also have the first two Fireman albums in addition to his entire back catalogue.

This album is pretty far removed from his previous Fireman releases. It sounds a bit like the sounds he produced on Twin Freaks, which was remixes of some of his songs. Although there were some vocal sounds in parts of Rushes, this is the first Fireman release to include sung vocals. These are delivered in time to some really funky beats, much as you'd expect to hear in an achingly hip bar or club, and I am confident that this album will actually be played in such premises in the immediate future.

Despite his successes and the adulation and critical acclaim he has received throughout his career, McCartney is very insecure. He has said himself he feels more able to kick back and goof around and noodle with these Fireman projects and so this is Paul McCartney being relaxed, free and himself. Not that his other releases are not true to himself, but he has long been pigeonholed as some soppy balladeer and as such a one trick pony but of late, most notably and recently with Electric Arguments, he has proved this to be anything but the truth.

A highly recommended album which is getting a lot of positive feedback from all quarters, and one I'd recommend to any fans of Paul McCartney, and of ambient and dance music per se.