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kelicopter said
Ram is better than McCartney I. There, I said it.

There are a few standout tracks on McCartney I, but Ram has a perfect tracklist from start to finish.

  

Does anyone think ‘McCartney’ is better than ‘Ram ‘, I always thought the latter was deemed superior by the vast majority? ‘McCartney’ is a mixture of many forms verging from nothing home playabouts (‘Lovely Linda) to classics (‘Maybe I’m Amazed ) via boring unintersting crap (‘Kreen-Akrore’) and all in-betweens whereas ‘Ram ‘ is far more formed and thought thru (tho I find the album to be tiresome, mainly due to over-running song durations).

My unpopular opinions are that ‘Penny Lane ‘ and ‘Nowhere Man ‘ are quite boring songs that I find very difficult to care about.

The plus to ‘McCartney’ is you have the classics of ‘Every Night ‘ and ‘Maybe I’m Amazed ‘ to pull listeners in and, retrospectively, the one man doing almost everything at home approach is now seen as very future focused when everyone can make an album in their own bedroom. I like ‘Man We We Were Lonely’ as well but at least half of the album could be forgotten – or released 50 years down the line as bonus tracks and ‘Teddy Boy ‘ and ‘Junk’ get folks excited as they are marketed as unheard solo Beatle songs (until heard).

‘Double Fantasy ‘ was John dipping his toes back into music aged 40 after five years away at a time when he was finally at peace with where he was in life as well as what had gone before. It’s not the same as what he was doing in 1970 but that wasn’t the same John, same goes for ’72 or ’74. Who knows where he would have gone in the 80’s as John never went where people thought he would but tragically he never got the chance. 

John made a comeback and everyone had and has these ideas of what he should have given, and I doubt whatever he had released would have met those. For me, ‘I’m Losing You ‘ is as rocking as most of John’s similar tracks, and one of my favourite solo tracks from any of the four – it’s definitely not Granny s**t.  I also love ‘Watching The Wheels ‘ which sums up perfectly were John was. I skip ‘Dear Yoko’ and ‘Woman ‘ is badly let down by the production, but so many other solo tracks by all four are so that’s nothing new. 

I get why it failed, and continues to fail to meet expectations, but it was almost an inevitable outcome. There was so much expectation back in 1980, possibly more than any album release by any artist before or since (maybe not, who knows – The Beatles in ’95 for one). And all John did was say hello again alongside his wife. I think that’s quite cool. If more albums had followed (I don’t mean like ‘Milk And Honey ‘ which was posthumously finished by Yoko and co) the continuing reaction to ‘Double Fantasy ‘ would be very different. But they didn’t so it isn’t.

Unpopular opinion. 

I don’t listen to anything of Paul’s from post ‘Flaming Pie ‘. I could never get into ‘Chaos and Creation’ and his voice for about now 15 years is something I can’t be listening to. ‘New’ might have been OK but I hated the album title more than anything else that’s been released (it is such a dreadful joke that cannot get worse due to how bad it was) and I did listen to ‘McCartney 3’ but thought it was like listening to Dylan nowadays (please, no). I watched the Glastonbury show last year (may be wrong on that) and some of it was ok but there were moments of

Many millions swear he’s still awesome and that’s fine. I’m quite happy to be wrong. They can listen and I don’t have to.