I was in my late teens when John was killed, and when Season of Glass came out, I frequently went to record stores, intending to buy it, but I just felt something painful, so that I never did get around to it. I would go a record store and spend a couple of minutes looking at the cover photo (which I consider quite powerful), and would read what was on the back, but I just could never take the next step to purchase it. I will eventually buy a copy of this album.
@podecrer81Күн бұрын
It is a classic. Anyone alive in the early 1970 knew and loved that album. David Gilmour and Roger Waters often complain about this album not because the music was bad, but because the producer/arranger/composer Ron Geesin added (in their view) too much to their original title track (the choir, the orchestra) and they had problems performing it live. Despite that, the final result is a superb piece of progressive rock, that still sounds relevant and fresh today. Besides, all the tracks on side B are great, especially the wonderful “Summer of 68”.
@CookieMusic43Күн бұрын
Hi John, I'm really pleased you rank the McCartney album so highly. It's such a warm album and has always been my favourite. I'm even more delighted that you plugged the Wombles' Wombling Merry Christmas. It's just a pity it doesn't get the airplay it really desrves. Incidently, myself and Ian did a video on Saturday past ranking our top 10 Wombles songs on his channel "Ranking The Obscure" which was great fun. You should give it a watch (it needs views lol)! Anyway, a very Happy Christmas to you and your family and I look forward to more of your videos in the new year.
@BadfingerBoogieBarb2 күн бұрын
You clearly meant "The Dreamer", not The Winner" from Airwaves. Some of my favorites not mentioned are: "Some Other Time" from Wish You Were Here "Still I Love You" from Return to Memphis "Come Down Hard" from Airwaves "This Time" from Be True To Yourself "Shine" from Be True To Yourself "Christmas Song" from Natural Gas
@mufferrs2 күн бұрын
SRICKY FINGERS...it must have been her rag week
@martinlarsson52542 күн бұрын
A home made recording before home made recordings went popular? (I was born in 75 so I don't really know the times) Anyway I like this better than McCartney II and McCartney III. 😊
@pawelpap93 күн бұрын
Flaming Pie is easily one of the best Paul’s albums and I am not sure he subsequently recorded anything that would match it. Personally, I am not all that curious how some music journalist I never heard about ranks individual songs. Similarly, I do not like people voicing their complaints: thus album is too short, or too long, I don’t like song number five and I would replace it Penny Lane. If you are really so discriminating you can by all tracks in FLAC format, delete those you cannot stand and arrange the rest anyway you want. Or, conversely, you can relax and enjoy the album the way Paul put it together.
@andrewkeeling99353 күн бұрын
WtEF is a great album. Thanks
@sydbaz33 күн бұрын
Excellent work
@peterthomas223 күн бұрын
Good Vid, thanks John.
@davidj34163 күн бұрын
John, you outdid yourself this time. John Pertwee was “My Doctor.” The McCartney album doesn’t have a bad song on it.
@Mr.-J-20243 күн бұрын
My favourite McCartney LP since Band On The Run. In my opinion, the last Great McCartney Album.
@sundance87444 күн бұрын
I definately prefer the content of your speech to its voice presentation , which makes me drowsy. Tough to come to the end .❤
@charleswells84534 күн бұрын
I’ve always thought the McCartney album was a bit overrated as it contains a lot of overindulgent half baked noodling which should never have made the final album. Maybe I’m Amazed of course is one of his greatest songs/vocal performances and Every Night, Junk and Teddy Boy are great tracks, Hot As Sun is the best of the instrumentals but the rest is largely filler in my view. Ram would blow this out of the water a year later.
@podecrer814 күн бұрын
I love this album. It is possibly my favourite, and certainly ranks high in my top 5 desert island McCartney albums. However, I think he could have included one more good song on side B and made Kren Akore a bit shorter. I even prepared a “McCartney enhanced” playlist adding the homemade demo for “Goodbye” (the 1969 song he wrote for Mary Hopkin) to the McCartney album, right between Teddy boy and Singalong Junk. It works perfectly well and enhances the pleasure of listening to that album.
@gkmacca15 күн бұрын
Some of the other Beatles' comments on McCartney's output during the early 70s were so ridiculously negative it's a shame no one pressed them to explain themselves. Take Ringo, claiming that Ram had 'no tunes' on it! Even the chronically sniping George went oddly silent when Band on the Run did so well, but they were pretty classless about those early releases (sorry, in today's tiresome term:' drops'!).
@thermionic12345675 күн бұрын
I think Badfinger’s “Ass” album Was recorded at Morgan. Great album! Under appreciated!
@Arthurpewdy5 күн бұрын
A genius in every way...!!
@robmarshall90265 күн бұрын
Were you at the gig tonight John? Could be the last "Beatles reunion" ever
@jacketjim15 күн бұрын
McCartney is a thoroughly enjoyable album from beginning to end. In its simplicity, it’s a work of genius. And “Maybe I Am Amazed” is the jewel in the crown.
@wretchro1005 күн бұрын
bob is my favorite artist, but i am also a huge fan of music from the 30s, 40s and 50s...the music that informed this album and for me this has been a problem because while i think that bob sounds refreshed lyrically on this record, the music sounds too slick and stale compared to the old records that he borrowed from....in the early days, he took the old elements and created something truly original, but on love and theft (and modern times) its all too rote, which is ironic because he brings more creativity into rearranging his own songs than he does to rewriting these classics.... i guess that the music is just a catalyst for his lyricism, but as a fan of that old music i can't get past the "bar band" vibe of this record.... i know this is a very unpopular opinion, but i frequently try to go back to it and give it another chance and i'm always left with the same feeling..... i do really love RARW though, so i'm not saying that he fell off..... i just disagree with most of the commentary around this album and modern times..... my 2 cents....
@davidskidmore41895 күн бұрын
I was a wee kid when that came out, and I got obsessed with the Beatles years so it was a while before I got around to solo stuff. I remember seeing the first McCartney album in the shops and thought the cover was gorgeous. When I got got out of college I started through the early solo stuff. I love that album. Sure, it is just Paul tossing off a few acoustic numbers, but who can do that better? I love Junk, gorgeous melody, and find myself humming it in the shops. It is amongst the top 5 in count of McCartney discs.
@marcyfan-tz4wj5 күн бұрын
great xmas song by the wombles: a video of you dancing in the snow to it should be released before the 24th!
@harrydance19695 күн бұрын
This album is the album Let it be wanted to be. It’s beautiful the way we eavesdrop in on an album being made. A memorable misstep from Lennon being unimpressed by this album - it’s the type of artistic statement he always wanted to make with his music.
@heygringo75 күн бұрын
Excellent album, very avant garde when it came out. One of the top 3 Talking Heads albums along with Remain in Light and '77.
@theroves6 күн бұрын
that is a pretty shit dylan cover imho
@rogerbell26 күн бұрын
A great album - thanks for the review which I really enjoyed watching
@skee196 күн бұрын
one of my favorites! Great job !
@mp-dd7pn6 күн бұрын
I love the album as a whole - but seriously: only 3 songs are really great, Maybe Im Amazed, Every Night, Junk - That Would Be Something has a very good start, but is no complete song, as is The Lovely Linda Man We was Lonely, Hot As Sun and Oo You are lukewarm. I cannot stand Teddy Boy, it's strenuous listening like Rocky Racoon, no surprise that the other 3 didn't like it. No words about the instrumentals - dispensable, fortunately not too long ... I still like the album, but song by song it's a mixed success, period
@djreid6 күн бұрын
I enjoyed the comments and readings. I also read those stories and rumours, and in Canada for me buying the Let it Be album and McCartney album at the same time, we, after school, came to a home and played the records, and we really loved the McCartney album. It was a Sunday night and I don't know if it was Ed Sullivan Show, but they played the Maybe I'm Amazed song. That was the great moment when I realized how great that song was now in McCartney's music throughout the 1970's, even better than many of his Beatles songs he had written with John. Every Night was truly a masterpiece and the Singalong Junk was so delightful music and the songs were consistent Paul, his voice better than the Beatles stuff and the bass, drums, electric guitar in a sense it was a Beatles album, because Paul did all those instruments on many of the Beatles albums anyway. I did not take serious the bad vibes that was happening with so many against Paul. I just felt that with this album, he will grow and develop into having hit records. And when I heard songs like Another Day and Uncle Albert, I just knew Paul going to have a great collection of hit songs and many good album songs. But it was the McCartney solo album on first listening, really sparked our interest when gathered with friends my same age after school, that we knew for certain it was a phenomenal work.
@rdsieben6 күн бұрын
Me too. Plastic Ono Band was too pessimistic
@joegordon29156 күн бұрын
I can totally understand Pauls anger. John wasnt being truthful when he said they asked Paul to change the date. They TOLD him it had already been changed. Also, he had dragged an unwilling John and George through the Get Back sessions and they were never very supportive. then, when Pauls solo is about to come out, all of a sudden they are quite eager to push Let It Be. He had every right to be mad.
@RonaldBrown596 күн бұрын
I always enjoyed the under-produced sound of this album, many great songs on this one. I even enjoyed most of the instrumentals. Under-rated and over looked album from Paul. Anyone looking for higher production values from Paul can just listen to Ram instead. Great review John, thanks for sharing.
@pawelpap96 күн бұрын
I loved this album when it appeared as back then I saw it as an extension of The Beatles music. However, it was difficult not to notice almost all songs were in various stages of incompleteness. While one may enjoy the homely feel of the album, it is obvious that with additional effort Paul could have turned it into a masterpiece. Finish the songs, trim some unnecessary instrumentals, polish production and you would have accomplished something impossible to beat. Finally, it is quite obvious why Paul needed John as a partner. Couple of John’s biting remarks would have forced Paul to up his game. Curiously, I do not remember listening to John’s and George’s first albums and thinking “if only there was Paul playing here”.
@thermionic12345675 күн бұрын
Excellent points!
@jasonbrooks65626 күн бұрын
Far too many instrumentals for my liking.
@dennisosborne43686 күн бұрын
BTW the best Xmas songs are Fairytale of New York , Elton’s Step into Xmas, Happy Xmas War is over , the Pretenders 2000 miles and maybe best of all Joni,s River. oh …. And Last Christmas by Wham
@Mr.-J-20246 күн бұрын
To me (a first gen fan) this LP came off a a bunch of demos with a hint of some greatness that he still had. After that, Wildlife was really a disappointment ot me and to this day, unlistenable. So glad he got it together with Red Rose, which I loved and continued onward. It was a rough go there for a time but Macca totally redemmed himself with RAM. Loved that album.
@mp-dd7pn6 күн бұрын
Ram is fine, but I'm not happy with Red Rose, the great My Love and 1-2 other ok-songs, the rest is lukewarm. On the other hand I enjoy Wild Life, I love the title song and Dear Friend - and the rest is enjoyable listening, not great but good.
@williamneillgross39266 күн бұрын
5:53 a lot of music was "stripped back" back then. The Beach Boys, stripped way back after Pet Sounds, the first major group to do so that I remember noticing - sonically they were just different after that point after most the the Wrecking Crew dropped out of the process. The Stones, stripped back and that is when they truly blossomed. The Los Angeles scene, already stripped back, even got more so. Cat Stevens, stripped back, James Taylor, stripped back, man even the Monkees got stripped back on Headquarters (then they got crazy on Head). Creedence, Delaney and Bonnie, even Peggy Lee. It was THE major movement back then, we all heard it , we all went with it and I think even though they weren't the VERY first to do it, the White Album and then Let It Be were the most famous points in the process of moving away from the build-up to SGT Pepper and and gradual ebb of that creative wave. At least that is what I remember when I was between the ages of 10 and 13.
@dennisosborne43686 күн бұрын
Maybe I,m amazed is up there with his greatest Beatles ballads. The recording could have been better and it would have sounded great if George Martin had produced. I am not a fan of the guitar solo. Every Night is a nice song, a little over rated maybe. Junk is beautiful if a bit slight and would have fitted superbly on the White Album as intended. As for the rest John was right when he said it was rubbish and he was capable of much better which he was. Don’t get me started on wings wild life which is even worse. There are loads of Macca and Wings albums superior to this
@FlaminpieSpain6 күн бұрын
Nice review John I thought you would slag it off but you are similar in your opinion to the album as I am
@Poverello20016 күн бұрын
I loved the album when it came out and I still love it today. Maybe I’m Amazed is Paul’s best song, in my opinion.
@marcyfan-tz4wj6 күн бұрын
you're as wise as john heaton i think.
@martinmcgrath19856 күн бұрын
Paul’s most underrated album.. junk, maybe im amazed, every night, are great! Boring old narrative let’s attack Paul, let’s praise John from critics.
@rdsieben6 күн бұрын
Good day John. My understanding is that you live in Hungary now. What is it like living there? The country looks very attractive for ex-pats.
@ianfatbudgie6 күн бұрын
Thanks for this video- some if the content was completely new to me after some 45 years of fandom. I particularly liked the George quote at the end which was a lot warmer towards Paul than I thought him capable of at the time. That interviewer asking John about the cover picture was awful. How can people stoop so low. I feel like we can never underestimate the influence of Jan Wenner in hating on McCartney in the 70s. He invented a way of being acerbic and belittling Paul’s output which took more than a decade to get over. Keep going - you’re doing a great job!
@kjeldpedersen6666 күн бұрын
Hi John I consider “McCartney” a decent first album as a solist. Not a masterpiece, but kind of cosy - and Paul didn’t seem to have other aim beyond proving that he could work without The Beatles and George Martin. And, in addition, a little hint here and there about where he was moving as a composer… Don’t consider it strange that he aimed at making a “naked” production. It’s well known that he was furious about the production of some of his tracks on “Let it be”. And in addition it was very convenient for Paul too, having isolated himself in Scotland. In more than one way a very logical step…
@Steven66b6 күн бұрын
Fascinating way to transition away from Beatles with raw complete self-made performances recorded direct into the desk.
@fourthtunz6 күн бұрын
Great review John! I do enjoy that you express that this is your opinion unlike some of the commenters act like it’s a done deal and their opinion is it😅
@shedbythetracks6 күн бұрын
The McCartney album had as much influence on young musicians as the Ed Sullivan appearance. The John and George opinions are petty to say the least.
@stephenpharrison11246 күн бұрын
The first solo albums from John, Paul and George show why the Beatles couldn't remain together as a band. John's and George's songs would have made sense on a Beatles album. Add Paul's and it wouldn't have made any sense. That isn't to the McCartney album isn't great but, given what John and George were up to, it wouldn't have worked.
@davidm78406 күн бұрын
Totally underrated album. People are finally giving it its due now.