MACCA SOLO ALBUMS!

Tug of War is alright, you know?

I think the very first solo album is my favorite. Ram is really amazing and all and has some nice tricks but also has a few parts that can really grate on your ears if you are not in the mood. McCartney II is the same way -- Temporary Secretary is forever teetering on the edge of being really annoying. First album is just perfect. The songs never go on too long, nothing is overly produced. You don't really get the feeling that Paul is dancing for you, and it is the most natural thing he's ever done.

I sort of wish Paul had never started Wings and just spent the 70s making home DIY records with Linda.

Has There Been Any Discussion Of 'Hope For The Future'

xpost Much as McCartney II has some great aesthetic moments for some reason I don't think I've ever made it all the way through the whole thing in one sitting. Ram is a big fave in my house.

excellent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_kkiIXdkuI

Picked up the Wings at the Speed of Sound reissue and it's not nearly as bad as its reputation. Let'em In, The Note You Never Wrote, Warm and Beautiful, Beware My Love, and Silly Love Songs are all great tunes. Much better than Venus & Mars.

TOW is really damn uneven; some of the fun sounds forced, even musically. But it's tight. It's the next reissue, no?

Tug of War and Pipes of Peace were the upcoming albums in the insert of the latest reissues, but I believe Paul mentioned in an interview around that time that they may not necessarily be next. There's still no Wild Life reissue.

The Family Way (soundtrack for 1966 film McC scored) is on Spotify - never heard it before today. It's not bad!

explanation for its uneveness here! http://www.beatlesbible.com/people/paul-mccartney/albums/tug-of-war/

mad detailed that piece. seems it was recorded as a double album at first; in several studios over more than a year in different countries with multiple session guys. they had 2 different drummers (Ringo! Steve Gadd!), Denny Laine was first 'in' then 'out', both Stevie Wonder AND Micheal Jackson worked on tracks for it, somehow the fella from 10CC gets involved, George Martin ends up producing, Wings officially announce a split, Lennon gets shot in the middle of it all.. as chaotic in its own way as the Band On The Run sessions.

Several of those tunes ended up on Pipes of Peace.

tell you what aside from Say Say Say, Pipes Of Peace sucks so bad. according to that piece George Martin cherry picked the best tracks for Tug Of War and the rest went on ..Broad Street and Pipes..

boring question: does anyone know who played guitar on 'The Man'?

(Pipes Of Peace is maybe a bit more stylistically homogeneous than Tug of War but I think it's just as good, I don't understand this consensus that it was a massive decline)

My favourite bit in Tug Of War is that spooky little 30 second track. wish it had been longer.

I'm listening to TOW now for maybe the first time in 15 years and its actually really great. remarkably consistent compared to how I remember it, especially compared to a lot of other nonsense he was capable.

so other than MC2, BOTR, TOW and Ram, what else shpuld I definitely check out?

for two artists whose careers were getting less and less relevant, What's That You're Doing sounds incredibly vital and funky.

Those are the top tier, but CW is, if you like Ram you might dig aspects of Red Rose Speedway (or, considerably more ramshackle and halfassed, Wild Life), and if you like BOTR you'll probably enjoy Venus and Mars. ILM also has an unusually strong fanbase for Back to the Egg (or at least "Arrow Through Me"). First self-titled is a throwaway but charming and underrated.

Nothing really succeds TOW, though. Flowers in the Dirt has some great tunes and little that's cringeworthy, but it's not as full-sounding or chockablock with 'moments' and bits, which are really what keep me coming back to this dude. Sometime I guess I really should check out his last, like, four albums.

*alfred barges into thread to talk about press to play*

Cheers DC.

One of the only gripes I have with ToW, and later McCartney in general, are his lyrics. It's great that every song is about something. But there are so many songs let down by clunky or embarrassing lines here and there. Here Today, for example, just never rings quite as affecting as it ought to thanks to this.

if he'd replaced Angry with Write Away, Press to Play would be just about perfect

I tried sitting through Run Devil Run earlier today, but just couldn't do it.

"Press" is his best eighties single. Or "Take It Away."

I rep for RDR but it's definitely one where context/narrative give inflection and layers to certain tracks that would otherwise just be ho-hum dad-band performances.

The lyrical clunk factor IMO starts rising precipitously after ToW. I don't know if he was smoking less weed or what, but the filler lyrics get less weird or interesting, most particularly where he *tries* to be weird and interesting. His straightforward lyrics on the other hand clearly improve when time and effort are put in (or when he has good collaborators) and he doesn't rationalize it to himself that going with the first crappy line he thinks of makes it spontaneous and Beatles-y.

Best 80s single, I'd have to say ''No More Lonely Nights'' or ''Say Say Say.''

Press
Take It Away
No More Lonely Nights
This One
My Brave Face
Say Say Say

Waterfalls is my favourite 80s single. I like his waistcoat in the video as well

https://40.media.tumblr.com/7ed83edcf76ac9b09b9fa6fcf8b75c75/tumblr_naorvrfARv1r5cmgfo1_500.jpg

I always forget how hairy his arms are

I forget how obnoxious his smile is.

My Brave Face is great. The sound/production kinda distracts for me, but it's a heck of a song, deserved to be bigger.

FITD was my fist McCartney album, so I'm biased. It's not great or essential but "This One," "Figure of Eight," "We Got Married," "Put It There," and "My Brave Face" are worth downloading.

"Figure of Eight" has unexpected chordal shifts; it reminds me a little of the forgotten "Stranglehold," off PTP.

I've never listened to Tug Of War and was kind of curious but then I remember that was the album with Ebony and Ivory on it and I just can't

Easy to skip. I have for 19 years. The other Wondersong is far better.

btw the Stewart-Linda-McCartney harmonies that conclude "Take It Away" while those horns keep sassing might be his greatest eighties moment.

I just realized that I've heard none of these LPs in their entirety.

THIS used to be on YouTube in pieces here and there but seems some genius and friend to humanity has stuck the whole damn feature length thing up in full.
really, SERIOUSLY check this out if you haven't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8oDheFbK-k

I remember thinking about his recent lyric writing in relation to the poetry collection Blackbird that, I think, predates the Driving Rain album a little bit. I think he's really honed in on a new lyrical artistry that can be fairly serious in subject matter.

Oh, Alfred, I'm totally on board with FITD (especially with bonus tracks), just felt in the context of recommending things to someone who digs ToW, it should be noted that it's not quite the same the same kind of thing. Less.... warm, and less varied in sounds/styles. I should pull it out again, it's probably been a decade or more.

haven't heard FITD in 25 years. hm.

Suffers from marketplace anxiety. Four producers, etc.

Flowers In The Dirt is without a doubt my favourite McCartney album of the '80s. Tug Of War I think could have been improved by having a couple of its tracks substituted for Pipes Of Peace tracks, IMO: I would have thrown 'Ballroom Dancing' off immediately and included 'Pipes Of Peace', 'So Bad' or 'Say Say Say'.

btw the Stewart-Linda-McCartney harmonies that conclude "Take It Away" while those horns keep sassing might be his greatest eighties moment.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, February 18, 2015 11:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I agree, it's such a great musical moment and my favourite part of the track!

I would have thrown 'Ballroom Dancing' off immediately

;_;

It's corny as all hell, though, even by McCartney's standards! That and 'Average Person' (from Pipes of Peace) for me is just like... uh, no!!!

Oh, no, totally corny, and the country accent he puts onto "BAWL-ruuuM" is ridiculous, but I'm a sucker for jaunty-tuned, credibility-free McCartney. I would never rate it above "Say Say Say" mind you, but it's part of the 'feel' of the album for me.

Ballroom Dancing and Ebony & Ivory def let down Tug of War.

"Get It" was always the biggest dud for me, but at least it's short. Compared to the equivalent duets on other records (especially the two endless ones on "Flaming Pie") that's pretty tolerable.

Oh yeah, Get It is kind of bad, although I like the way Carl Perkins' laugh segues so eerily into Be What You See

I'm of the mindset that any missing patches in ToW should have been taken up with filled-out recordings of some of the late, weird Wings stuff that never saw the light of day, like "Boil Crisis" or "Robber's Ball." Would have made it way less of a classicist return-to-George-Martin-form record, and maybe kind of a mess, but I like that in a McCartney album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6kHDR7ysD0

'Get It' isn't one of my favourites, but yeah I'll easily take it over the Steve Miller track on Flaming Pie.

Marcello: http://nobilliards.blogspot.com/2013/07/paul-mccartney-tug-of-war.html

It's not just a lovin' machine
It doesn't work out
If you don't work at it

Listening to Flowers in the Dirt straight through for the first time in ages. The songwriting's really solid, definitely at least Tug of War level. Occasionally let down by the production or performance choices. First three tracks promise a classic but the middle half of the record kinda points up all its strengths and weaknesses. "Put It There" is a wonderful melody and sentiment - doesn't quite need the strings and definitely doesn't need Macca's whispery/"sincere" delivery. "Figure of Eight" and "This One," like a lot of his midtempo 'rockers' from here on out sounds like a wannabe Jeff Lynne production and would have benefited from a straightforward live-band rock sound or maybe even a "new country" approach which might have made a more natural bridge between his throwback rockabilly instincts and the turn of the '90s.

The drums were probably doomed to sound bottled from the beginning, just given the stable of people that would possibly be on McCartney's radar - but a "Cherry Bomb" or "Mixed Emotions" sound would have really suited McCartney and he never seemed to be able to find it. Always a little too clean and precise. "This One" in particular feels like it has the guts of a hit song, lame title aside. Note the filler outro ("some kinda solo or instrumental thing maybe will go here?").

"That Day Is Done" is such a legit kooky idea - ballad from the perspective of a corpse + Fats Domino "prom under the sea" number. Good idea, good songs, doesn't quite work on record. Maybe this one really should have been more of a 50s pastiche. The record kinda falls off after that - "How Many People" is just disposable, "Motor of Love" can't get around its horrid title and wretched Yamaha soft rock ballad sound. It's also a few BPM too slow to let the melody shine. And it's six minutes long! I would probably have a much more negative opinion of this album if I hadn't thought of it as ending with "Ou Est Le Soleil," which is stupid but at least has some kind of energy and the hint of drama on the horizon. All three of the other bonus cuts ("Back On My Feet," "Loveliest Thing" and "Flying To My Home") should have been swapped onto the album, maybe with some re-thinks (wtf is with Paul's singing on the last of those?). "Loveliest Thing" is such an album closer, I mean come on.

new remix of Tug.. is just pointless IMO. whole thing sounds like they just added a bit of reverb here or there. it's on Spotify FYI.

Love "This One," despite the outro.

Me too - Flowers In The Dirt, too, is undoubtedly one of my favourite McCartney solo records.

There was some discussion of the Tug of War project on the Pipes of Peace/Press to Play thread. (OK, it was just me reviving it every couple of weeks plus Turrican posting.) We were talking about the amount of treble on the remastered single edit of "Take It Away." My favorite track on the album is "The Pound Is Sinking," so I listened to that. Can't A/B it currently, but I find the amount of treble on it to be causing me enough listening fatigue that I'm not so inspired to listen to other tracks.

Listened on headphones so I'll try it on the stereo and I think I'm going to see what I think of the title track, too.

I think that Be What You See/Dress Me Up As A Robber might be my favourite solo McCartney track, the lurch in quality from from the penultimate to the final track on this album is really something.

is there anybody who will defend Ebony And Ivory? I get the impression that it was treated as a punchline pretty much from the moment it was released? I guess it might work better if McCartney had rewritten it as one of his woolly, non-specific 'why can't we all get along' type songs rather than trying to make it 'about' racism, but even then I thing that Ebony And Ivory would be unsalvageable and I find some of his songs in that vein kind of poignant despite/because of their sentimentality. did McCartney ever write anything else quite so cloying? it gave us the some funny piss-takes, I suppose, the snl sketch with Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo, the scene from Everybody Hates Chris

did McCartney ever write anything else quite so cloying?

"My Love." Lots of early Wings. "The Long and Winding Road" in any version.

I think in a lot of his woolly sentimental songs there is this anxiety and desperation just below the surface which makes them interesting and compelling, there is this dread that something awful will happen that seems to be motivating the desire for ppl to patch thins up/commit to one another etc, something like 'Waterfalls' kind of brings this out and makes it explicit, but it seems to have been more or less smoothed out in Ebony And Ivory

My Love." Lots of early Wings. "The Long and Winding Road" in any version.

aw, I like all of those, though

and so may songs about being left, or full of these obsessive assertions that he won't leave someone, or that they won't leave him, I know this is kind of par for the course wrt popular songs, but it seems to be particularly pronounced with McCartney

Macca is the king of that everyone-bought-it-but-then-everyone-claimed-to-hate-it thing what with Mull.. and ..Ivory and the Frog thing which i swear everyone liked when it was the supporting feature at the Broad Street showings.

"Dress Me up as a Robber" sounds pretty nice. I don't remember the percussion sounding so crisp and live.

so...what's next -- London Town and Red Rose Speedway?

it gave us the some funny piss-takes, I suppose, the snl sketch with Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo, the scene from Everybody Hates Chris

also KRS One made pretty good use of it iirc

Ha, the demo of "Ebony and Ivory" is incomplete, but you can totally imagine it as a McCartney II track.

Man. Basically everything he did in the 1980s would have been better as a McCartney II demo, all hesitant and warm and gentle. It doesn't make "Ebony and Ivory" great, but it at least makes it cozy. The double-disc McCartney II with all the additional fragmentary unfinished ideas is really great too.

What about the weird parts of the video where McCartney dances around with a Stevie Wonder stunt double?

http://i.imgur.com/XEqsPpJ.gif

Which ones supposed to be macca?

Honestly, it goes by so fast in the video, I just assumed the shorter guy.

But now, yes, I notice he's got a pointy beard and wearing a hat...

they should get together with the dancing John Lennon silhouette from the Too Late for Goodbyes video

Course, now that I think about it...

http://i.imgur.com/MqdZM5v.jpg

Pipes of Peace demo tracks "It's Not On" and "Simple as That" have to be heard!

Looking forward to hearing these. Surprised how much I like the new mix of Say Say Say.

Not much to add here but think "Mr Bellamy" from MAF is a great, spooky underrated track with a lovely melody. Reminds me of a slightly less twee Uncle Albert.

so obsessed with "Arrow Through Me" lately. what else is in this vein besides some of McCartney II? Is there more funky Wings??

Kinda no, sadly. At least, that's often sort of a standout Wings track for people who don't really dig Wings. :-/

There's an "Urban Adult Contemporary" station here that'll slip "Arrow" in there between Cameo and Chaka Khan.

so obsessed with "Arrow Through Me" lately. what else is in this vein besides some of McCartney II? Is there more funky Wings??

― Captain Maximus, Friday, November 20, 2015 9:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kinda no, sadly. At least, that's often sort of a standout Wings track for people who don't really dig Wings. :-/

― Frump 'n' Dump (Doctor Casino),

Was this always the case? When a friend and I discovered it about a decade ago we wondered when a hip hop act would sample it. It took Erykah Badu.

'Write Away' from 1985 has a similar sort of feel imo

https://youtu.be/hsRdM8iBHh0

and 'Dress Me Up As A Robber' from Tug Of War which is in more of a McCartney II/Secret Friend style

https://youtu.be/f_kkiIXdkuI

"Was this always the case?" - Hrm, I dunno? I'm going mainly on ILM posts tbh though I feel like I've seen it get shoutouts elsewhere or show up in playlists or whatever.

u guys hear this??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq5KAdWJiWY

there's a clever little tasty surprise waiting if not

Ha. Wasn't expecting Paul to go that far with a "Say Say Say (Naked)".

(this post from 2009 was in the "I hate Paul McCartney so much." thread but it didn't seem appropriate to post what I was about to say there)

A friend of mine was in the same NYC studio while Paul was putting together some of "Memory Almost Full" and his story is Paul was super nice and asked him if he wanted to come downstairs and take a listen to some tracks he was putting down. My friend obliged and once they were in the room Paul proceeded to sit behind the drumkit and overdub some stuff, singing along. After they were done Paul supposedly asked for "your honest opinion" and my friend could only come up with "Yes, Sir Paul, sounds great!" I told my friend he probably wanted to hear "Could use a tighter snare sound" or something.

That is really, really awesome! I'm not sure if François de Roobabe (Capitaine Jay Vee) still posts here, but is this Soundtrack NYC? I've been in that facility and know the layout well because I know people who work there. Last time I was there (probably several years ago), I remember looking through some kind of display they had of album covers, and Memory Almost Full was one of them.

At this point, it looks like Memory Almost Full was the peak of McCartney's resurgence. I was hoping for more/better, but what we got is still much better than what I would have predicted. I never thought I'd go to a McCartney concert or get into any of his new music, but all that happened in the second half of the '00s.

I didn't think Memory Almost Full was an unqualified success, and after a month or so I started tweaking the album into something I'd enjoy start-to-finish, replacing the four tracks I couldn't like with the only four I liked from Chaos & Creation (which I found overrated if commendable). I hadn't played the CD-R I made in years but I tried it this morning and still enjoy it:

1. Fine Line
2. Ever Present Past
3. Friends to Go
4. Only Mama Knows
5. Jenny Wren
6. Mr. Bellamy
7. Promise to You Girl
8. Vintage Clothes
9. That Was Me
10. Feet in the Clouds
11. House of Wax
12. Nod Your Head
13. Dance Tonight
(hidden track) I've Only Got Two Hands

No, the studio was NY Noise down in the Meatpacking District. Gone now about 10 years. I worked there so the “friend” stuff = my old boss ( RIP Rick). We had lots of great folks come through and record in that small space - was an amazing experience - but, sadly, I had split for the evening the night Paul dropped by.

Oh God y'all, I'm listening to Give My Regards to Broad Street for the first time in probably 20 years, probably for the second or third time ever, and there's so many oddball sonic and production choices all over this thing. The "disco" No More Lonely Nights for example, is SO close to being plausible as the seed for another McCartney II level foray into 80s electro-indie pop. Unfortunately for me, for once I'm not buying Paul's nonsense and it all just sounds distractingly unrealized to my ears.

Like, I LOVE "Ballroom Dancing," always have, but the version here is such a disaster. In theory I'm SO on board for Paul wanting to swerve the song halfway through into the land of 80s studio boogie, but it's just so terribly-executed and uninteresting. On many great Paul albums, his random style exercises feel like they come from a genuine interest in new sounds he's hearing, while this sounds like he's striving to do it but doesn't really have a handle on it. "Not Such A Bad Boy" is much more convincing. Not landing like an instant classic or anything, but gives me a pleasant "Live at Daryl's House" vibe. "No Values," later in the album, is very bland, but maybe kind of pub-rocky if I'm using that term right?

The lows are SO low. But I can imagine an alternate-universe version that's thought of like, "oh yeah Paul McCartney's got this kinda cool early-80s album that's his version of Glossed-Up Roots-Rock With a Hint of New Wave; if you dig Run Devil Run or any of the more rock-type Wings songs, you'll dig it." Instead it's pretty widely considered his worst album, or at least pretty high up there (right?). I guess it might just be a case of "the songs weren't there."

Marcello:

I really didn’t think we could sink any lower after Bowie’s Tonight, but Give My Regards is a far more actively unpleasant record and a far more painful listen, despite (unlike Tonight) having at least one salvageable track. Why? Because Bowie micturating on “God Only Knows” is one thing, but listening to an artist effectively crapping on his own work brings a level of badness which this tale has not previously known. It is not that this record lacks good songs; indeed, some of its songs are among the best ever written...

No doubt the internet is full of Macca fan sites and message boards whose contributors can see the good side of Broad Street and strive to point out its hidden merits. Good luck to them. I tried, and I could not. The one song worth saving was the most prominent new one, and the single: “No More Lonely Nights” was the strongest song McCartney had written in years, and proved that when he could be bothered to pull his finger out, he was more than capable of bringing back the old magic. Eric Stewart and Linda McCartney’s backing vocals remind us of “I’m Not In Love,” Dave Gilmour turns up to play a propulsive, anguished guitar solo, and it’s all very acceptable in a late 1975 kind of a way (and a far more deserving number two single than “The War Song”).

i personally think this album is better than it's given credit for but only if you ignore the utterly pointless covers. the original material is pretty good.

The only time I'd ever favour the Stones over my belov'd McCartney and Bowie is late 1984, and quite drastically too. The Stones released their best ever thing (the Too Much Blood 12" maxi) and Paul and David released their worst ever.

'orrible wuzzn't it

very fa'kin' funny michael

So yeah I pass on Regards (though the film has its uses), but I am to some degree a Press to Play defender.

come sit by me then

he's a has been at this point along with bob dylan (his last decent record was 'desire')

more caustic opinions plz

More cerebral opinions please

At least one would be a start.

Chat more chat

Oh God y'all, I'm listening to Give My Regards to Broad Street for the first time in probably 20 years, probably for the second or third time ever, and there's so many oddball sonic and production choices all over this thing.

some of these wings albums aren't half bad y'know

is the movie better or worse than the 70s sgt pepper one

better because it's never actually boring except for this bit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3rG4vm06kE - which apparently lasts 12 minutes but feels like 12 years.

Ebert said that when he told Paul his movie was no good, Paul looked like he wanted to kill him.

Magical Mystery Tour is very close to the worst movie of all time with some of the best scenes.

"his movie" i.e. Broad Street

Magical Mystery Tour would've worked out great had they simply cut out the musical sequences and sent those out to Ed Sullivan, the BBC and other television programs, similar to what they had been doing with their other proto-music videos. It probably wasn't economically feasible though - they needed to recoup the cost of making that film and that wasn't going to happen unless they had an hour-long program to sell.

FWIW, I thought Dylan should've done the same with the 1975 tour footage that became Renaldo and Clara - the film was always going to be a mess and he needed to deliver a live show to NBC anyway, so he should've just ditched his ill-conceived narrative film idea and simply cut together a concert film. In that case, it would've been a far better financial decision had he done so - he ended up spending a great deal of money shooting that Colorado show for the NBC broadcast, and then he poured a ton of additional money into Renaldo and Clara as he kept editing it for another two years, leaving himself buried in a ton of debt (which was the main reason he did those awful Budokan shows - to financially right the ship).

Ebert said that when he told Paul his movie was no good, Paul looked like he wanted to kill him.

lol yeah it was Siskel, who said McCartney almost threw a glass of OJ in his face.

McCartney not even the best filmmaker in the Beatles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gk1tnvl8mo

omg that looks so awful.

appreciate the liveblog, NTI.... Wow, I don't think I ever really had a clear sense of what the movie was, just that it looked very uninteresting and uncool, even to a teenage Beatle nerd weighing the VHS box at Blockbuster. I wish I'd been more adventurous, since it does at least sound *memorably* bad. The sheer quantity of dream sequences! He must have thought that the success of MTV was an endorsement for the kind of nigh-structureless MMT model of "there's some songs, and then in between, things happen!" well again: maybe if the songs had been there. but now I'm picturing a 70s version with the Band on the Run tracklist and it still seems pretty wince-worthy.

I saw this movie in the theater, my pick.

My step-brother leaned into my ear the whole time, going "this SUUUUCCCCCKKKKS."

Paul McCartney's new tour is called Got Back:

https://www.paulmccartney.com/live/got-back-tour

It'll be the first tour under his new name, Sir-Macs-a-Lot.

Did you say you wanted 22-minute retrospective on the Broad Street catastrophe with lots of clips of Macca getting into spats with critics and media personalities that include former classmates? I thought you did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yraq4XV7GE

Yay!

I don't know if this clip mentions how Gene Siskel told Paul the film sucked and Paul almost threw a glass of orange juice in his face.

It has that bit! But I couldn’t see it was Siskel.

Whoof, I'd always thought it was a total flop, but figured it was more of a "barely got released and no one even heard of it" affair. Those defensive promo-tour clips... yeesh.

Rock star vanity projects were a big thing in mid-80s cinema … Purple Reign, Rick Springfield’s Hard to Hold (saw that in the theater). Paul was absolutely at a peak in terms of solo popularity around then and routinely cited as the richest man in England (and maybe the world?). The hubris was strong in this one …

It Couldn’t Happen Here too. Better than people remember though, that one.

Surprisingly one of the best ones, The The’s Infected still remains unreleased on DVD/streaming/blu-ray.

The BFI need to get on that one (and From Dusk 'Til Dawn), a bit like they did with Weekender recently. Maybe they'll finally explain why the 1986 video is an 18.

A lot of the more endearing (if not actually that good) ones are straight-to-video, like the Style Council's JerUSAlem, ABC's Mantrap and UB40's Labour of Love.