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Paul McCartney: Ocean's Kingdom Image
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60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

  • Summary: The Beatle was commissioned by the New York City Ballet to compose the score for the romance between a water princess and a land-based prince.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 8
  2. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. Oct 6, 2011
    70
    Yet while it's not really great music, comparable to the masterful works of Tchaikovsky or Stravinsky, it has its day by the sea.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Oct 6, 2011
    67
    A little watery. [7 Oct 2011, p.75]
  3. 60
    It's hardly groundbreaking stuff, but McCartney undeniably has an ear for melody.
  4. Oct 6, 2011
    60
    Aided by conductor and arranger John Wilson, who coaxes a first-rate performance from the London Classical Orchestra, Ocean's Kingdom is an accomplished if unremarkable foray into an unfamiliar medium by the ex-Fab Four polymath.
  5. Uncut
    Nov 23, 2011
    60
    Solid, competent stuff, but it's difficult, but it's difficult to imagine anyone wanting to listen to this in isolation. [Dec 2011, p.89]
  6. Oct 6, 2011
    50
    McCartney's music is appropriately romantic, sometimes to the extent that the moments intended to convey creeping tension or sadness bounce with a joyous gait.
  7. Oct 6, 2011
    30
    To use a fishy term, McCartney well and truly floundered with this one.

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  1. Nov 12, 2013
    5
    OK I am a new reviewer and I have reviewing my top cd's of 2013 and so, I felt compelled to review one cd I did not enjoy and I am sad toOK I am a new reviewer and I have reviewing my top cd's of 2013 and so, I felt compelled to review one cd I did not enjoy and I am sad to say it is Paul McCartney's cd I am a huge Beatles fan and I felt so bad about how things went with that tramp one-legged, gold-digging girlfriend he had, and still, this cd came up so short for me so sorry Sir Paul! Expand