Old Enough to Forget

Wings. Not Paul McCartney and Wings. Just Wings. Of course the reality is Wings was Paul's band. End of discussion. Wings at the Speed of Sound , though, is a band effort. To me, this was their best line-up. The core trio of Paul, Linda, and Denny were augmented by Jimmy McCulloch, on stringed things, and Joe English on drums. While the majority of the songs were credited to Paul and Linda, each member got a turn taking lead vocals, which I suspect was Paul's way of emphasizing Wings was a band. As a kid, it was the radio hits I knew, and on occasion a deeper track that would get some play. This is unfortunately the album known for "Silly Love Songs," a song so deeply and truly shitty I want to drag the needle across the record. I don't, though. I persevere and who knows, it's pushing fifty years now, my long held hatred should be softening by now. Why not? I bought a Village People album ... and enjoyed it. I suppose I should just put the record on. I won...

Time for another edition of A Streaming Pile of Hit - where you put the "s" in hit is up to you.  Not sure why I've been going back to the old CCM stuff that I was particularly enamoured with back in the day. Rick Cua had been playing bass in The Outlaws, most notably on a couple of their later albums: Ghost Riders (1980) and Los Hombres Malo (1982), and when he dropped his first solo album, Koo'-ah , in 1982 I found myself really looking forward to hearing it. It's weird that this is listed as being from 1985 on iTunes ... I can't make heads or tails out of where the dates come from. After all, Hughie Thomasson, Billy Jones, as well as Freddie Salem from The Outlaws were playing guitar on the album (and killing it, by the way), and former Wings drummer Joe English was featured on several tracks. If nothing else, there was some pedigree on the album. The songs, though, were mostly middle of the road, with a little extra punch here and there. I remember wan...