Every Wings Album Ranked From Worst To Best
3. Back To The Egg
By all accounts Paul McCartney was tiring of the Wings experiment by 1979. Presumably he was fed up of constantly having to recruit new drummers and guitarists. He would soon be experimenting with synthesisers on his own, finding an enjoyable autonomy making the tracks that would become McCartney II.
By rights Back To The Egg should be the last gasp of a band in terminal decline. Instead new guitarist Laurence Juber and some more contemporary sounds breath new life into a band attempting to move with the times.
The band tried to bring a spontaneity to the recording sessions with songs like To You and Getting Closer benefitting from a spiky New Wave inspired energy. Elsewhere McCartney displays his typical stylistic restlessness from the hard rock of Old Siam Sir to the synth soul of Arrow Through You and the ridiculously overblown Rockestra Theme.
Not a bad final statement from a band that for Macca had simply outlived its usefulness.