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Interrupting my ranking of Paul McCartney’s albums to insert a quick review of all his singles which didn’t make it onto albums. These have letter grades and are in chronological order instead of being ranked from worst to best. (Just … Continue reading The Day Thread Reviews Paul McCartney’s Singles: Special Edition
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of Paul McCartney’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) Next in line: Flaming Pie WHY IT’S AVERAGE: I think Paul leans too hard into the Beatles … Continue reading The Day Thread Ranks Paul McCartney’s Albums: #17
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of Paul McCartney’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) Next in line: Wings At The Speed Of Sound. WHY IT’S AVERAGE: It’s kind of lightweight, and … Continue reading The Night Thread Ranks Paul McCartney’s Albums: #18
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of Paul McCartney’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) Next in line: Memory Almost Full. WHY IT’S AVERAGE: The songs are pretty good, but the worst … Continue reading The Night Thread Ranks Paul McCartney’s Albums: #19
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of Paul McCartney’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) Next in line: McCartney III WHY IT’S AVERAGE: At this point, Paul’s records stop being bad and … Continue reading The Day Thread Ranks Paul McCartney’s Albums: #20
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of Paul McCartney’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) Next in line: Pipes of Peace. WHY IT’S BAD: It’s the sequel to the far better Tug … Continue reading The Night Thread Ranks Paul McCartney’s Albums: #21
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of Paul McCartney’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) Next in line: Kisses on the Bottom. WHY IT’S BAD: Because it’s the album where I realized … Continue reading The Night Thread Ranks Paul McCartney’s Albums: #22
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of Paul McCartney’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) Next in line: Give My Regards To Broad Street [Movie Soundtrack] WHY IT’S BAD: It’s completely unnecessary. … Continue reading The Day Thread Ranks Paul McCartney’s Albums: #23
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of Paul McCartney’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) Next in line: London Town, Wings. WHY IT’S BAD: It’s just goopy. I don’t like most of … Continue reading The Night Thread Ranks Paul McCartney’s Albums: #24
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of Paul McCartney’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) Next in line: Driving Rain. WHY IT’S BAD: It’s not, really, at least to me. It’s got … Continue reading The Day Thread Ranks Paul McCartney’s Albums: #25
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of Paul McCartney’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) Next in line: NEW. WHY IT’S BAD: I liked it a lot at first; then, one day, … Continue reading The Night Thread Ranks Paul McCartney’s Albums: #26
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of Paul McCartney’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) Now for the second worst McCartney album: Off the Ground. WHY IT’S BAD: Paul decided to be … Continue reading The Night Thread Ranks Paul McCartney’s Albums: #27
This is the first of a series of mini-reviews of Paul McCartney’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) Starting with the very worst McCartney solo album: Wings’ Wild Life, or Wild Life by Wings. … Continue reading The Night Thread Ranks Paul McCartney’s Albums: #28
Happy 84th Birthday, Paul! Continue reading Album Spotlight: Paul McCartney–The Boys of Dungeon Lane
Going fast, coming soon We made love in the afternoon Found a flat, after that We got married Working hard for the dream Scoring goals for the other team Times were bad, we were glad, We got married I love … Continue reading The 10/28 Day Thread Celebrates 35 Years
Fresh off the phenomenal (critically and commercially) success of his last album Band On The Run, Paul McCartney went to Abbey Road and filmed a documentary of his new configuration of Wings playing a collection of songs live in the … Continue reading Album Spotlight: Paul McCartney & Wings—One Hand Clapping
Comparing two versions of The Beatles’ January 1969 sessions, now both streaming on Disney+. Continue reading Get Back vs. Let It Be
Back in 1986, The Police rerecorded one of their biggest hits, Don’t Stand So Close To Me, with a new arrangement and released it as a single. It had a completely different sound from the original; much slower and brooding, … Continue reading The P.S. Love Me Do Night Thread
If you are reading this thread,[footnote]Perhaps more to the point, if I have scheduled this to be published at the correct time…[/footnote] a new single credited to The Beatles called “Now and Then” is now available for public consumption. Based … Continue reading The Beatles – “Now and Then” Discussion Thread
Back To The Egg is such an underrated album. I hope Paul is still considering a boxed set at some point. I think he missed a trick by not doing this song as a medley with We’re Open Tonight from … Continue reading The 8/19 Day Thread Is So Glad To See You Here
