Paul McCartney

Submitted by rudolf55 on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 03:14
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  • McCartney (1970)


  • 1. The Lovely Linda: 7.2
  • 2. That Would Be Something: 7.6
  • 3. Valentine Day: 6.6
  • 4. Every Night: 8.0
  • 5. Hot As Sun/Glasses: 7.0
  • 6. Junk: 9.0
  • 7. Man We Was Lonely: 9.1
  • 8. Oo You: 7.9
  • 9. Momma Miss America: 7.2
  • 10. Teddy Boy: 9.1
  • 11. Singalong Junk: 7.8
  • 12. Maybe I'm Amazed: 10
  • 13. Kreen-Akrore: 6.8
  • Song Average: 7.9
  • Score: 76%

  • Ram (1971)


  • 1. Too Many People: 7.8
  • 2. 3 Legs: 7.5
  • 3. Ram On: 8.0
  • 4. Dear Boy: 9.0
  • 5. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey: 9.1
  • 6. Smile Away: 6.8
  • 7. Heart Of The Country: 9.2
  • 8. Monkberry Moon Delight: 9.4
  • 9. Eat At Home: 6.9
  • 10. Long Haired Lady: 7.6
  • 11. Ram On: 6.0
  • 12. Back Seat Of My Car: 8.7
  • Song Average: 8.0
  • Score: 79%

  • McCartney II (1980)


  • 1. Coming Up: 6.6
  • 2. Temporary Secretary: 2.6
  • 3. On The Way: 6.9
  • 4. Waterfalls: 7.0
  • 5. Nobody Knows: 7.2
  • 6. Front Parlour: 2.2
  • 7. Summer's Day Song: 6.8
  • 8. Frozen Jap: 7.2
  • 9. Bogey Music: 6.8
  • 10. Darkroom: 1.7
  • 11. One Of These Days: 9.0
  • Song Average: 5.8
  • Score: 59%

  • Tug Of War (1982)


  • 1. Tug Of War: 9.8
  • 2. Take It Away: 9.5
  • 3. Somebody Who Cares: 9.6
  • 4. What's That You're Doing?: 7.9
  • 5. Here Today: 9.4
  • 6. Ballroom Dancing: 9.2
  • 7. The Pound Is Sinking: 9.5
  • 8. Wanderlust: 9.6
  • 9. Get It: 9.3
  • 10. Be What You See (Link): 6.8
  • 11. Dress Me Up As A Robber: 9.0
  • 12. Ebony And Ivory: 8.3
  • Song Average: 8.9
  • Score: 87%

  • Pipes Of Peace (1983)


  • 1. Pipes Of Peace: 9.4
  • 2. Say Say Say: 9.0
  • 3. The Other Me: 9.2
  • 4. Keep Under Cover: 9.4
  • 5. So Bad: 8.4
  • 6. The Man: 9.0
  • 7. Sweetest Little Show: 9.0
  • 8. Average Person: 9.1
  • 9. Hey Hey: 7.0
  • 10. Tug Of Peace: 7.2
  • 11. Through Our Love: 9.2
  • Song Average: 8.7
  • Score: 85%

  • Press To Play (1986)


  • 1. Stranglehold: 6.9
  • 2. Good Times Coming/Feel The Sun: 6.3
  • 3. Talk More Talk: 5.9
  • 4. Footprints: 6.2
  • 5. Only Love Remains: 6.0
  • 6. Press: 4.8
  • 7. Pretty Little Head: 4.0
  • 8. Move Over Busker: 4.6
  • 9. Angry: 3.9
  • 10. However Absurd: 6.2
  • 11. Write Away: 5.9
  • 12. It's Not True: 6.0
  • 13. Though On A Tightrope: 6.8
  • Song Average: 5.6
  • Score: 51%

  • ????? ? ???? (1988)


  • 1. Kansas City: 5.7
  • 2. Twenty Flight Rock: 4.7
  • 3. Lawdy Miss Clawdy: 4.6
  • 4. I'm In Love Again: 5.2
  • 5. Bring It On Home To Me: 5.4
  • 6. Lucille: 4.9
  • 7. Don't Get Around Much Anymore: 5.8
  • 8. I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Some Day: 4.2
  • 9. That's All Right Mama: 5.0
  • 10. Summertime: 4.0
  • 11. Ain't That A Shame: 4.4
  • 12. Crackin' Up: 5.9
  • 13. Just Because: 6.0
  • 14. Midnight Special: 4.8
  • Song Average: 5.0
  • Score: 46%

  • Flowers In The Dirt (1989)


  • 1. My Brave Face: 7.8
  • 2. Rough Ride: 5.7
  • 3. You Want Her Too: 5.5
  • 4. Distractions: 6.0
  • 5. We Got Married: 6.2
  • 6. Put It There: 8.5
  • 7. Figure Of Eight: 7.2
  • 8. This One: 6.5
  • 9. Don't be Careless Love: 6.0
  • 10. That Day Is Done: 6.9
  • 11. How Many People: 7.3
  • 12. Motor Of Love: 5.9
  • 13. Ou Est Le Soleil: 4.6
  • Song Average: 6.5
  • Score: 65%

  • Off The Ground (1993)


  • 1. Off The Ground: 7.9
  • 2. Looking For Changes: 8.0
  • 3. Hope Of Deliverance: 9.6
  • 4. Mistress And Maid: 9.1
  • 5. I Owe It All To You: 9.7
  • 6. Biker Like An Icon: 6.7
  • 7. Peace In The Neighbourhood: 7.4
  • 8. Golden Earth Girl: 9.0
  • 9. The Lovers That Never Were: 9.2
  • 10. Get Out Of My Way: 8.0
  • 11. Winedark Open Sea: 8.4
  • 12. C'mon People: 9.6
  • Song Average: 8.6
  • Score: 84%
  • Comment: Why do I always seem to like his critically less acclaimed albums more than his critically acclaimed ones? The same happens here. It wasn't as loved as it's predecessor, Flowers In The Dirt, but I personally think it's far superior to that. I would even go as far as saying as this is as good as solo-McCartney gets.

  • Flaming Pie (1997)


  • 1. The Song We Were Singing: 9.6
  • 2. The World Tonight: 9.7
  • 3. If You Wanna: 9.4
  • 4. Somedays: 10
  • 5. Young Boy: 10
  • 6. Calico Skies: 9.4
  • 7. Flaming Pie: 9.0
  • 8. Heaven On A Sunday: 9.7
  • 9. Used To Be Bad: 8.6
  • 10. Souvenir: 9.2
  • 11. Little Willow: 10
  • 12. Really Love You: 9.0
  • 13. Beautiful Night: 10
  • 14. Great Day: 9.5
  • Song Average: 9.5
  • Score: 95%
  • Comment: Wait a minute, don't artists usually get worse as they get older? Whatever the case, Paul McCartney was 55 (the perfect number and age, duh) when he made this, the best album of his carreer up to this point and the only one so far that could compete with his former collaberator's best. And yes, I mean John Lennon. That's quite a feat for a man who had been writing since his late teens. He shows off he's still got it, producing some of the best songs of his solo career. Congratulations, mister McCartney.

  • Run Devil Run (1999)


  • 1. Blue Jean Bop: 5.9
  • 2. She Said Yeah: 4.7
  • 3. All Shook Up: 5.2
  • 4. Run Devil Run: 4.6
  • 5. No Other Baby: 6.0
  • 6. Lonesome Town: 6.3
  • 7. Try Not To Cry: 5.5
  • 8. Movie Magg: 8.4
  • 9. Brown Eyed Handsome Man: 7.5
  • 10. What It Is: 5.1
  • 11. Coquette: 6.1
  • 12. I Got Stung: 5.7
  • 13. Honey Hush: 4.5
  • 14. Shake A Hand: 4.8
  • 15. Party: 5.0
  • Song Average: 5.7
  • Score: 55%

  • Driving Rain (2001)


  • 1. Lonely Road: 6.8
  • 2. From A Lover To A Friend: 8.1
  • 3. She's Given Up Talking: 5.9
  • 4. Driving Rain: 6.0
  • 5. I Do: 8.2
  • 6. Tiny Bubble: 9.0
  • 7. Magic: 8.2
  • 8. Your Way: 7.5
  • 9. Spinning On An Axis: 5.6
  • 10. About You: 5.9
  • 11. Heather: 7.2
  • 12. Back In The Sunshine Again: 6.9
  • 13. Your Loving Flame: 7.0
  • 14. Riding Into Jaipur: 4.0
  • 15. Rinse The Raindrops: 5.8
  • 16. Freedom: 9.6
  • Song Average: 7.0
  • Score: 67%

  • Chaos And Creation In The Backyard (2005)


  • 1. Fine Line: 9.4
  • 2. How Kind Of You: 8.5
  • 3. Jenny Wren: 9.0
  • 4. At The Mercy: 8.4
  • 5. Friends To Go: 8.3
  • 6. English Tea: 9.5
  • 7. Too Much Rain: 9.2
  • 8. A Certain Softness: 9.0
  • 9. Riding To Vanity Fair: 9.1
  • 10. Follow Me: 9.6
  • 11. Promise To You Girl: 7.8
  • 12. This Never Happened Before: 8.0
  • 13. Anyway: 9.0
  • Song Average: 8.8
  • Score: 87%

  • Memory Almost Full (2007)


  • 1. Dance Tonight: 9.4
  • 2. Ever Present Past: 9.0
  • 3. See Your Sunshine: 9.3
  • 4. Only Mama Knows: 6.8
  • 5. You Tell Me: 7.9
  • 6. Mister Bellamy: 9.5
  • 7. Gratitude: 7.4
  • 8. Vintage Clothes: 6.9
  • 9. That Was Me: 8.0
  • 10. Feet In The Clouds: 9.0
  • 11. House Of Wax: 9.5
  • 12. End Of The End: 9.2
  • 13. Nod Your Head: 6.9
  • Song Average: 8.4
  • Score: 81%
Author Comments: 

Rankings

1. Flaming Pie *****/*****
2. Chaos And Creation In The Backyard ****/*****
3. Tug Of War ****/*****
4. Pipes Of Peace ****/*****
5. Off The Ground ****/*****
6. Memory Almost Full ****/*****
7. Ram ***1/2/*****
8. McCartney ***1/2/*****
9. Driving Rain ***/*****
10. Flowers In The Dirt ***/*****
11. McCartney II **1/2/*****
12. Run Devil Run **1/2/*****
13. Press To Play **1/2/*****
14. ????? ? ???? **/*****

CaptMal01/19/2007

Why does everyone always hate "Cook of the House"? I've always kinda liked it...

rudolf5501/19/2007

I don't remember what I disliked about it. Heh, I forgot the song already. Maybe that's a reason.

sljiva01/20/2007

Can't wait to see how you'll rate Hope Of Deliverance. It's my favourite McCartney's song, but I think that his real fans don't really like it.

rudolf5501/21/2007

Well, apparantly, I'm not a real fan of his solo carreer anyway (since I've been disappointed in all his albums, besides Venus And Mars and Back To The Egg)

So maybe I'll like it as much as you

fanofthefab401/26/2007

I love Venus and Mars too,this and Red Rose Speedway are my two favorite solo/Wings Paul albums although Band On The Run is very good too. The All Music Guide gives Red Rose Speedway a 4 star review but they gave Wildlife a 2! Too Many People is a great Paul Rocker on Ram I would give it a 9 or 10. Also Everynight is such a good song on McCartney.

rudolf5501/26/2007

Venus And Mars is the only Wings album I really like. The others all have good songs, but they just don't really appeal to me.

CaptMal03/29/2007

Yes! I'm glad I've finally found someone who agrees with me that Flaming Pie is far and away Paul's best solo album, and better than anything he did with Wings (though I seem to like them a lot more than you).

rudolf5503/29/2007

Yeah, Flaming Pie just took me by surprise.

CaptMal06/19/2007

I'll be very interested to see what you think of Memory Almost Full.

Me, I don't think it lives up to all the hype. Though the second time it was definitely better, and I'm thinking the third might be the charm. But right now...pretty good, but nothing great.

rudolf5506/19/2007

There's a hype?

I accidentally found out the album even existed. And so far, I've seen no publicity for it, and only read a few reviews, most of which said it wasn't all too good anyway.

CaptMal06/20/2007

Well, I've seen pretty incessant marketing. TV commercials, magazine ads, web ads, etc. It debuted at #3, and the bulk of the reviews are superb.

rudolf5506/20/2007

Heh, there hasn't been a single ad here.

What a silly country I live in.