Saturday, February 21, 2009

"Choba B CCCP (aka The Russian Album)" by Paul McCartney – ***

First released: 1988

Paul’s first rock and roll tribute album ("Run Devil Run" being the second) was originally not supposed to be released anywhere than in the USSR. Eventually Paul had second thoughts and the album was released onto CD with an extra track not originally found on the original LP, "I'm in Love Again". In fact, there are two versions of the LP, one with "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday" and "Summertime" and one without. The CD contains all the tracks. An additional track ("It’s Now or Never") was recorded for this, but released instead on the Elvis tribute CD compilation, "The Last Temptation of Elvis". Actually, according to Wikipedia, if you want to pronounce the title of this album correctly, you should say: "snova v ess-ess-ess-er".

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