Paul McCartneys best song

Yesterday
Hey Jude
Let It Be

These 3 are right up there as well, only very slightly behind Day in the Life and George Harrison's Something, which is my personal favourite.

GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE
AND I LOVE HER
ELEANOR RIGBY
FIXING A HOLE
GETTING BETTER
DAYTRIPPER

These are all McCartney songs with The Beatles.  We've not even touched on the solo stuff yet.

Blackbird, can't believe it hasn't been mentioned.

Lennon said that "After about 1967 we basically became Paul's backing band"

Badjoe

Yes just so many but another goodie whilst not quite my cup of tea.

It was mentioned

Mull of Kintyre is a good song tbf, I think it wa just number 1 forever and people got sick of hearing it at the time.

Live and Let Die, Coming Up his best solo songs I think

Live and Let die a good shout ,as is Band on the run,Jet,Juniors farm ,silly love songs...and many others i cant remember at the moment ,waterfalls ,just remembered another .

tobermory

MAYBE I'M AMAZED
ANOTHER DAY
UNCLE ALBERT
HI HI HI
C MOON
LIVE AND LET DIE
HELEN WHEELS
JET
BAND ON THE RUN
JUNIORS FARM
LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID
SILLY LOVE SONGS

That's just the first five or six years after they split!

LET EM IN
WITH A LITTLE LUCK
MULL OF KINTYRE
WATERFALLS
GOODNIGHT TONIGHT
WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME

Maybe im amazed ,great song ,No more lonely nights i always quite liked too.

i can't believe what i'm reading on this thread

mull of kintyre is terrible

live and let die and the frog chorus are the only listenable songs i've ehard

Lily The Pink

Lily the Pink was his Brother!

"WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME"

this is a wind up surely

No More Lonely Nights was a big hit.

Dave Gilmour does a guitar solo

Yes 'No More Lonely Nights' another great song.  Try singing along to it.  It's ridiculously high!!

Paul McCartney and Wings is the height of bad taste

like listening to Kylie Minogue or Victoria beckham in the 2000s

anyway the beatles stuff is irrelevant because that was a different paul

Lennon said whenever he went to restaraunts in the 70s the manager would have the house musicians play a Beatles song in his honour, and it will always be one Paul had written.

Wings were the Slice Girls of the 70s

"I go to restaurants and the groups always play 'Yesterday.' I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us 'Yesterday.' He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing 'I Am the Walrus.'"

Lennon said whenever he went to restaraunts in the 70s the manager would have the house musicians play a Beatles song in his honour, and it will always be one Paul had written.

Very true.

A little quiz to sort out the Beatles fans ... a Beatles song written by McCartney, sung by Lennon. Most unusual procedure. Macca only sang accompanying BVs on the chorus.

As for my favourite McCartney songs....

Beatles years - 'Eleanor Rigby', 'Hey Jude' would have to be on the list

Post Beatles - The underrated 'Take It Away' never seems to get a mention.

Golden slumbers was decent, and silly love songs too. Wanderlust was nice ballad

i have never met anyone in real life who liked wings or owned a wings album

i don't think anyone born after 1970 likes them

they're like the osmonds or bay city rollers

alun

I Wanna Hold your Hand?

young people still listen to the beatles

NOBODY listens to wings

No Lou, have another guess. IWHYH was a famous co-write.

The suite on Abbey Road (must be around 75% his)
We can work it out

Uncle albert/admiral Halsey
Maybe I'm amazed

Also love New

alun

Without trying to look it up on the internet I don't know.

A clue, early or late Beatles?

It's not 'Daytripper' is it?

Lou, it's this litle gem

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrDikOz8YSU

I was pleased to note George Harrison giving a reverrential little nod to 'Every Little Thing' in the recently broadcast 9 hours  or thereabouts of 'The Beatles Get Back' 3 part documentary film.

I wouldn't have got that, never knew it.  You learn something new .................

I like "I've Just seen a Face", "You won't see Me" and "I'm Looking through you" too.  Don't hear them so much but all great, catchy songs.

"Don't hear them so much"

yes, because they're shyte

Picasso,a last words nice little ditty and Richard Cory strikes a chord

Giuseppe.... I like you and I normally like what you post. But you 'aint half talked some sh1t on this particular thread

Thankfully I can't see a word of what Guiseppe writes as I BLOCKED hIim about 6 months ago.

IN OTHER NEWS ...............

loui

Yes both good songs though 'Richard Corey' is a Paul Simon song that Wings covered live.

Yeah mecca, is right. Powerful message in that one

G is alright .... he can't help it if his taste in music is cr@p..... Hia favourite act is Joe Dolce

mecca, Wings are like Take That

nobody who didn't grow up in that era likes them

compare to Led Zep, the Stones, the beatles, who are still very popular and influential

G is alright .... he can't help it if his taste in music is cr@p..... Hia favourite act is Joe Dolce

Yes well I told him to "Shuddupu his face" months ago!

David Bowie another example

whereas Wngs are like the Boomtown Rats, nobody listens to their music nowadays

somebody tell lou i've just reported him for racism

On ch5 right now 1976 good watch

It's  a Rat Trap.......... and you've been caught

even Pink Floyd still get listened to

there is 10 seconds of good saxophone in Rat Trap and that's it, the rest of teh song is shyte

I Don't Like Mondays

how the **** did that make it to number 1

Anyway, G..... COME ON BENFICA!!

that's fcked it

would usually watch that but chose Serie B then Brazil

might watch the end of it

0-3 Now to Sporting

nice to see Sporting in the ascendancy for a change

they haven't won back to back titles since 1966

LOU MACARIS TARTAN B • December 3, 2021 10:25 PM GMT
G is alright .... he can't help it if his taste in music is cr@p..... Hia favourite act is Joe Dolce

Yes well I told him to "Shuddupu his face" months ago!


spot on imvho

i wish all these racists would **** off

Irish

Yes that was a goodie wasn't it.

He's a complete tossu.  He used to write FULL BANK JOB on one of his tips but then when they lost so in theory he's done his FULL BANK ........... he's just disappear rather than face everyone on here!   so I just BLOCKED him months ago.  It's great, his name comes up but I can't see a word he's saying.  Perfect.

A bit like yourself on the United thread Lou.

Just disappeared once Carrick improved us no end in the last 3 games.

Was about to go to bed but getting the popcorn in now

You can go to bed pop,  he's got me blocked.

He's like ole in a way,  anything negative is blocked out.

Unlike ole he doesn't want to be friends with the world.

Another great McCartney song that he gave away to the band Badfinger was "Come and Get It"  He sang it for the first time in about 45 years when I saw him live in London a few years back.  Great song.

Cilla's 'Step Inside Love' and Mary Hopkins' 'Goodnight' are two more classic tunes.

Cilla Black?

McCartney is a mug who lucked in to John Lennon (hope this helps)...

It's a tug of war
What with one thing and another
It's a tug of war
We expected more
But with one thing and another
We were trying to outdo each other
In a tug of war

genius

brentford

You obviously know nothing about music.  Here's a Lennon offering:

Semolina Pilchard
Climbing up the Eiffel tower
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe
I am the egg man
They are the egg men
I am the walrus
Goo goo g'joob, goo goo goo g'joob
Goo goo g'joob, goo goo goo g'joob, goo
Joob, joob, jooba
Jooba, jooba, jooba
Joob, jooba
Joob, jooba

genius ............ if you're a three year old! 

was prolly off his bits to be fair...

the original post was slightly mischievous anyway Lou ...I just can't stand the cant...who seriously tries to get their name first on song writing credits years after the event and when the other bloke (your mate) is dead...

plus I still haven't forgiven him for his Christmas stuff...

One I love is 'The Night Before' from 'Help!'

Fair enough but I think to call him a 'Can't' is over the top and I expected better of you as one of the Forum's more reasonable posters.

Surely his Christmas song is a very catchy, very popular one like the many we hear year after year on the radio etc?

life

Yes 'The Night Before' is another winner.  Great tune.

No, I stand by that in it's context Lou but your own reasonableness has been known to slip on occasion regardless...

C Moon, deep and meaningful lyrics right up with BCR Shang-a-Lang.

CMoon is the opposite to being a 'Square'.  If you put a 'C' and a 'Moon' together it makes a Circle thus opposite to a Square.

That was his explanation for it.

hth

Why don't we do it in the long & winding road

Country Dreamer great little track, b-side from the band on the run era.

Sioux

Yes a good track too.  'Sally G' is a little known Wings song but once again a great catchy tune where he explains "What the Letter 'G' stood for" in the final verse.

Monkberry Moon Delight.

There is a terrific video cover of it on YouTube by a Russian group but I can't post a link on this phone.

Yes once again his voice on Monkberry Moon Delight is incredible.  His vocal range really is something else.

Yet he can then do 'My Love' which is right up there with his greatest ever Beatles ballads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdcSFVXd3MU&ab_channel=TheBeatles-Topic

fred over.

C Moon - an absolute stonker!  About sums the guy up.

"CMoon is the opposite to being a 'Square'.  If you put a 'C' and a 'Moon' together it makes a Circle thus opposite to a Square.

That was his explanation for it.

hth"

could also end up with CC

hth

I loved everything he did in the 70s .... Back To The Egg is one of my favourite ever albums and unlike any other he did.

sixtwo

Not quite so keen myself on Back to the Egg if I'm honest though still some great tunes on there "Baby's Request" my personal favourite but yes you're right all of the Wings albums were great.

according to the quotes and links on wikipedia only one of the Wings albums (Band on the Run) got very good reviews, venus and Mars got decent reviews and the other albums were critcally panned

In The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler called the album (Wild Life) "rushed, defensive, badly timed, and over-publicized" and wrote that it showed McCartney's songwriting "at an absolute nadir just when he needed a little respect".[17]

Red Rose Speedway received a mixed response from contemporary music critics,[48][49] many of whom dismissed its songs as mediocre.[15]

Wings at the Speed of Sound was released in late March 1976 to lukewarm critical reviews.

London Town received generally unfavourable reviews from music critics.[20][21]

Back to the Egg received predominantly negative reviews on release;[21] author Alan Clayson writes of the album receiving "a critical mauling as vicious as that for London Town".[70]

redrose speedway was decent imvho

Dragon

Yes another goodie.

I still had my "Red Rose Speedway" frizbee, which conveniently came my way at concert end, up until a year or so ago. It fell victim to a quiet clear-out by SWMBO.    Anyone else?

loyal

I've never heard of that so you learn something new ............

Just looked it up, they go from £200 on ebay apparently!

thought my love was a great tune  i guess he wrote if for linda

Dragon

Yes a really lovely song.  It was for Linda you're correct.  Smashing stuff.

dont think he ever found hapiness in the love dept after she passed .. tragic really

Oh I don't know he seems quite taken by his American wife, must have been with her about 10 - 12 years?

Tragic?!  I'm afraid I couldn't be using that word about Paul McCartney.  Pathetic maybe.  The absolute guff he came out with after Linda died was sickening bearing in mind what he did thereafter.  Then his massive ego got the better of him and he felt he was doing his next wife a favour.  The way he marshalled all his press and media pals to abuse and mistreat her in a press and media hatchet job was nothing short of disgusting.

Talking pathetic, the Jane Asher break up... takes the buscuit! 

I love Paul but he spent 40 years after Ram and BotR knocking out material that, sadly, I consider utterly forgettable. 'Vanilla Sky' was nice enough but I can't think of any others I like