Track Listing

1. Reception
2. Getting Closer
3. We're Open Tonight
4. Spin It On
5. Again And Again And Again
6. Old Siam Sir
7. Arrow Through Me
8. Rockestra Theme
9. To You
10. After The Ball/Million Miles
11. Winter Rose/Love Awake
12. Broadcast
13. So Glad To See You Here
14. Baby's Request
15. Daytime Nightime Suffering
16. Wonderful Christmas Time
17. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reggae

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7623 in Music
• Released on: 1993-08-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

5 stars for this? Really?
I was surprised to see how many 5-stars and 4-stars reviews there are for this album. In my opinion, the most boring and uninspired album that Wings ever recorded. Even WILD LIFE is a tad more fun to listen to.
The only Wings album I would consider giving 5 stars would be BAND ON THE RUN. And perhaps 4 stars for LONDON TOWN, VENUS AND MARS and WINGS AT THE SPEED OF SOUND. But this album has only got one really good song (Getting closer) and a few half-decent ones.
BACK TO THE EGG is really only worth 2 stars, but because of the bonus tracks here (that are actually pretty good) I guess I can bump it up to 3 stars.

Pretty damn fine
This would be the last album in which McCartney was able to sing in that screeching, throat tearing manner. He's written some simply brilliant rock and roll songs and a clutch of them can be found on Back to the Egg. They aren't just infectious, they are wonderfully dotty. When I say brilliant I mean so far as I can tell fabled bands like Oasis haven't written a single solitary song that compares and yet this work has been consigned to a place outside the regular top albums of all time. Time will re-adjust the balance. The fact is, so far in the short history of pop music, for all his faults, McCartney has written some of the most formidable and catchy rock and roll songs performed with immense power and musicality. And whilst there is a tinge of McCartney banality lyrically (after the ball you were the one, the one in the hall), I really think that he is capable of writing good lyrics (sometimes) and about rejection very well. I've always loved the lyric 'you couldn't have found a more down hero if you'da started at nothing and counted to zero'. Denny Laine shines here too, with his song and Steve Holly's drumming is pretty tasty. If I were to have just two McCartney albums it would be Ram and this one. I think on both McCartney's talent was brimming. Anyway, it's better than Beatles For Sale.

seriously underrated album
This is one of the best Paul McCartney and Wings albums which brings new energy, sound and originality. It does not deserve the criticism it was subjected to by some reviewers.

"I Am Getting Closer", "Spin It On" and "Rochestra Theme" are truely original rock-n-roll tracks. "We're Open Tonight", "Winter Rose" and "Baby's Request" are beautiful ballads. Paul McCartney demonstrates here again what a superb song-writer he is.

In my opinion, his best songs in the post-Beatles era in terms of originality of the sound and melody, were written when he was a part of Wings (except "Tug of War" and "Pipes of Peace").