McCartney I: When Paul Broke the Breakup | Vinyl Monday

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Timestamps:
intro - 0:00
McCartney I - 0:53
The Release Date Thing - 10:45
my thoughts - 16:09
thanks for watching! - 32:23
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[@abigaildevoe]

what's your favorite paul song? beatles, wings, and solo are ALL up for grabs: comment below! (mine is monkberry moon delight if you must know)

[@EricMcLovin13]

i'm not entering Beatles territory here, so, my favourite is Magneto and Titanum man from Wings album, Venus and Mars. this one is really special

[@davidellis5141]

Penny Lane

[@dermotmaher7937]

We All Stand Together🐸🐸🐸

[@nvm9040]

Ram is probably his best work plus Linda is pretty good on it But my favorite Paul or wings album is tug war or McCartney and a favorite Paul song is a tough one but I would say another day or lovely Linda

[@alanclayton9277]

1 i'm not playing 2 ok. here today. where the one who is lost and the one who remains feel present in the same moment. almost unbearable in it's conception and beauty. 3 now i feel terrible for playing and for not including i've just seen a face >:(

[@Mrvictorfernandes]

From Jann Wenner's Rolling Stone interview with Bob Dylan, (May, 2007) in which Dylan airs his real thoughts on Paul while understatedly throwing Wenner's McCartney-bashing narrative back at his face: "I'm in awe of McCartney, he's about the only one that I'm in awe of. But I'm in awe of HIM because he can do it all and he's never let up! He's got the gift for melody and rhythm, he can play any instrument. He can scream and shout as good as anybody, he can sing a ballad as good as anybody. "And his melodies are - y'know - effortless!... I'm in awe of him because he's just so damn effortless! Everything that just comes out of his mouth is framed in a melody... I just wish he'd quit, y'know? [laughs] But that's what you have to be in awe of..."

[@7bestthings]

That's a great quote! Thank you!

[@abigaildevoe]

the bard has spoken!

[@Mrvictorfernandes]

@@abigaildevoe Side note: Sometime around 1974, Wenner received an envelope that was addressed to "Johann Weiner" in John Lennon's handwriting. Inside the envelope was a Polaroid pic of John, Paul, Linda, May, and Keith Moon hanging out together at an LA garden. On the white part of the Polaroid were the words, "How do YOU sleep???" scrawled in John's longhand.

[@abigaildevoe]

@@Mrvictorfernandes HAHA

[@stephaneherringtoniowritin4986]

Bet Bob pissed John off with that quote albeit the truth...

[@nickj7335]

Screw the critics, McCartneys early discography is fire

[@moviemaestro800]

Agreed. As pointed out here, much of the critical lambasting came mostly from the baggage surrounding the breakup of the band, and how Paul was easily being painted by the media as the main villain in the affair, at the time. Consequently, McCartney's early solo records were not looked at with much positivity at first. Nowadays though, it seems like most people who listen to Beatles-adjacent music now look at the early McCartney stuff with much fondness. I haven't met many McCartney I or Ram haters out in the wild, for instance, and both Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway definitely are agreed to have their excellent moments these days, even if few would dispute that both albums have plentiful filler. It just is a shame that, in the moment, it took Band on the Run to finally give McCartney's solo career critical praise, as well as good sales numbers.

[@tonyoandkitty]

John’s Lennon’s buddy at Rolling Stone, his “Lennon Remembers” interviewer and RS mag editor Jann Wenner, made sure that the early Mac/Wings albums received terrible, lambasting reviews

[@johntabacco]

Fine review Ms. Devoe. Entertaining as usual. I remember asking my dad (who I never got along with) to buy this record for me when we were walking through a department store. I was 9 at the time. I never asked my dad for anything but surprisingly he bought it for me (must have been the delicious cherries on the cover). I loved the album instantly. Still do. Charming, funky and warm.

[@Jewi7Orchestra]

I really like McCartney I. I regularly take it out of the shelf and give it a spin. What a nice surprise it was, seeing you chose it for this episode. Very well done.

[@Kieop]

I think this is the best synopsis and interpretation of McCartney I have ever seen. So many otherwise competent reviewers (especially journalists and critics) have dismissed Junk as "meaningless", when I have found it to be one of the deepest songs Paul has ever written. It is deeply personal. It is about attachment and disposability. It asks us to examine what we value and how people and things can lose value. It is simple and exquisite. People also dismiss this album as just a self-indulgent retreat into domestic bliss. There is a lot of revelling in the domestic, but this is an album about depression. You're the first reviewer I've seen who's also heard Every Night as a song about the paralysis of depression. He can't leave the house, so he's convinced himself that he just wants to stay home with his wife anyway. And in Maybe I'm Amazed, he sings that he's afraid of the way he leaves her. Sounds like suicidal ideation to me. This album pairs well with Plastic Ono Band for its raw emotion. But John's efforts to deal with anger and trauma is more relatable, I guess, than Paul's efforts to bury his feelings of loss and isolation.

[@buzzbabyjesus]

I was 13 when this came out, and it made me want to play all the instruments, and record my own weird shit. I spent the next 50 years learning how to play and write music. He's my hero, and I'll always love this album. Also, I'm glad he's not stuck with (Lennon-McCartney) attached to "Maybe I'm Amazed".

[@beatmet2355]

McCartney was Anthology before Anthology. Box sets with outtakes and demos are common now, but not in 1970. That’s what this album sounds like, good ideas that haven’t been fully developed, yet. It’s no ATMP, but it’s also interesting in its own way.

[@64north20west]

I love the detailed historical references, the advanced level of music theory, and the passion that goes into the humor, the visually appealing presentation, and the sincerity of your documentaries on these LPs. I wish my vote for you to get a Pulitzer prize would carry weight. Thanks again.

[@TheAgeOfAnalog]

Feisty unapologetic Abby and I’m here for it!

[@spider_reviews2009]

Oh i love this album! I usually put on a record to fall asleep to and this is my default album or at least the first side of it when i don't have a specific album i want to sleep to that night. This is an album i wanted to see you cover ever since i discovered your channel and you finally delivered so thank you for discussing this album in great detail and depth with some humor and charm like you always do!

[@ze4699]

Junk is one of Paul's greatest songs. It's amazing how he accomplishes to communicate so much in so little time, with so little complexity. The Esher version in Anthology 3 is almost the same as the finished one and it hits you just as hard.

[@zsatsfm]

If you've ever tried to play it on guitar, you'll realise that it's more complex than it sounds. It is every bit as great a song as Blackbird or Mother Natures Son.

[@stephaneherringtoniowritin4986]

Junk is a beautiful tune. It's just that it's not sang or written by John that the "critic's " don't regard it as a classic...

[@Kieop]

@@zsatsfm John Denver does a great cover of Junk. I like it even better than his Mother Nature's Son cover.

[@jeffthevideoguy23]

@@zsatsfm It's a totally easy to play

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

Re: Monkberry Moon Delight. In certain parts of Britain there once grew a certain vine, a red form of Rubus Fruticosus, whose delicious berries were best picked under a full moon in July. Monks, during the Middle Ages, were known to cultivate these (now extinct) berries and make various salves, tinctures, cordials and wines from them. The fruit was particularly prized as a filling for pies and tarts, referred to as 'delights' during the high Middle Ages. From their close association with Rubus Fruticosus Britannicus, the vine and its fruit became known as the 'Monk Berry'. Sadly, a fungus affected much of Britain in 1564 and wiped out the one-time ubiquitous vine. Paul McCartney wrote a song commemorating the now lost fruit in an obscure song in his first solo album.

[@patgalvez4563]

I figured it was about wine...🍇🍇🍇

[@AB-rh5yq]

No, it’s about milk. McCartneys kids had trouble pronouncing the word milk, and it sounded like monk. Paul then took that and added a bunch of randomness to make the song monkberry moon delight. This is Paul says at least.

[@AB-rh5yq]

It’s not. It’s about milk. Paul describes what the song is about if you just look it up. @@patgalvez4563

[@7bestthings]

Thank you Abby, that was one of the best deep dives I've seen about McCartney I. I appreciate how you brought out McCartney's depression and vulnerability on this album, a rare glimpse into Paul's raw emotions. You also were able to get across how Linda really was holding everything together when the rest of Paul's world was falling apart, she was an amazing woman. "Junk" is a song that demonstrates McCartney's ability to write a tune that is instantly nostalgic. I love both version on this album. As for "Maybe I'm Amazed," there's not much to say other than it's a masterpiece. Thanks for your hard work.

[@tymime]

I'd say Michael Lindsay-Hogg was the one who truly had no idea what the Get Back project was. The guy pracically wanted the Beatles to play at the gates of heaven.

[@bradparnell614]

"Every Night" is a song that grows ever sweeter with time, especially with the later live recordings. Wings played it in 1979 (Concerts for the People of Kampuchea) which was pretty good, but IMO, the best version of this was when Paul was on Unplugged in 1991. The harmonies sung live on that version kick it up a notch.

[@neilbruce4201]

It remains my absolute favourite McCartney album, Abigail. A top review. Thanx so much.

[@johncollier9280]

I'm not sure this is my favorite McCartney song but I was blown away by it upon discovery. I purchased Flaming Pie, gave it a quick listen, then it disappeared into my collection. Many years later I heard the song Somedays 'n was awestruck. I've listened to it o'er 'n o'er ever since. Without a doubt one o' his best ever compositions in my opinion...

[@goriotv2023]

MCCARTNEY is my favorite Paul's solo album. I never get tired of it

[@BlueSky...]

My parents played this when I was very young and I have a lot of fond memories of it. Kind of a homey and unassuming collection of demos with a few more polished songs. There are some very strong melodies tucked away in this album. If this is the eye of the storm, it's a very calm and pleasant one. Jann Wenner can bite my ass.

[@stefanredelsteinerexperien5957]

This has to be the best (and funniest) review ever of any Beatle or Beatle-solo-Album

[@strathman7501]

What a lovely review of McCartney, Abigail. Thanks,

[@terencestephenmoss2159]

The white strip on the cover of the album which the bowl and cherries are sitting on is actually the top surface of a white wall. There is a full frame photo of the wall in the sun with the surrounding area. On the album the two sides of the wall were blacked out. Brilliant album and a favourite solo beatle album for me. Fantastic review 👏 thank you 😊

[@chrismcgovern1647]

OMG I'm at work Abby, but I luv the title on the thumbnail! It made me lol!

[@davidgezelius4507]

Great and passionate episode ❤

[@pauldaniels2019]

I got it when it came out and was underwhelmed (as I was with Let It Be). I've re-listened to it a few times over the years. . .meh. One thing I read about the album cover (back when the Paul is dead rumors were swirling) is that "Life is a bowl of cherries. . .and his is empty". I enjoyed your take on the album.

[@spiritualarchitect4276]

And the "McCartney 3" cover shows that Paul is STILL playing the "Paul is Dead" gimmick. Look at that album cover and what you see is a DIE. Your are NOT looking at a DICE. It takes 2 DIE to make Dice. But there are not 2, only one. And the DIE does not show the number 4. Symbolically that cover reads "McCartney DIE", with 3 black spots for the other 3 Beatles. It's the most OBVIOUS "Paul is Dead" cover since "Anthology 3". On the "Let It Be" cover - released AFTER the Manson murders exposed the "Paul is Dead" scenario - Paul is the one who looks different. Paul is the only one not surrounded by white. Paul is surrounded by brown/red (dirt/blood), because Paul is the one who is supposed to be dead. On "Anthology 3", Pauls photo is stripped away to reveal the old original Paul, the one that was supposed to have died. Not the New Paul, but the Old Paul.

[@johndillon6705]

What a beautiful review. I actually got emotional.

[@BRIANZ969]

Great Choice -I loved this album -great review----great show Abby

[@michaelshiflett4835]

Another masterpiece, well done 😁

[@maximuskhan2100]

Great channel subscribed. You verbosity is impressive a deluge of information packed in a tight 30 min. container and released upon us like a levee break.

[@TommyHoopercanada]

This record! Just so fun to listen to and one of my favourite records to listen to on road trips..All those filler songs make all the real songs sound even better and those filler songs are great too but as you said just hearing Lovely Linda is just so charming and sunny

[@m_tz19]

Its my favorite album of his.. Im so happy u made a video about it!

[@thomasmcintosh390]

I've pretty much dated only Lindas. So naturally my wife was named Linda. I'm currently working on a song called "The Last is a Long Line of LIndas"

[@jazzzman8050]

My dad bought this album for me when I was 15…he’d encouraged my initial love for The Beatles, but was appalled when rumors of their drug use hit the press. He so loved the back photo of Paul and baby Mary, that he wanted me to see this perspective of my hero. My mom interpreted the front cover photo as “life is like a bowl of cherries, on the straight and narrow path” 🤷‍♂️ Another great episode Abby. I’ve always felt this album was more important than people gave it credit for. Your research has, once again, provided more info and context for an album I’ve had since it was new. Re: Junk…I never fully appreciated it until I heard Chet Atkins solo acoustic guitar rendition…the seemingly effortless beauty that Paul has so often summoned. Which is why a favorite Paul song is kinda impossible, but I’ll mention “Can’t Buy Me Love”, a peak moment in the Beatles live R’n’R band mode. 😺👍

[@risboturbide9396]

I hope you'll also do a "Mccartney 2" video; awesome album!

[@chrismcgovern1647]

Dying to know what Abby's impression of 'Bogey Music' is

[@dennisstevens5100]

Love you Abigail! Love your channel!

[@alanclayton9277]

this video was all i could wish for from a vinyl monday episode and, specifically, from an overview of one of my favourite albums. the delivery of material today to camera was fabulous. there is the weak focus that the album almost, weirdly, aspires to and the quality material that swims around during it's course waving not drowning. your response was candid, warm and inspired just like the music itself. the junk approval was unexpected as i thought you might find it a little pretty. i was terrified for that gentle treasure of a song. I don't think you put 'maybe' in the ring with 'something' without giving it a lot thought. both songs recognize the uncertainty of feeling in the early hours of love though i think paul replicates the incendiary feelings of love in musical form better. one day mccartney 1 is spinning and you think you're still analyzing the all too apparent failures and total highs but the undercurrent is strong: from that point a future enduring love for this plastic and cardboard construct seems possible and desirable.

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

Same here. I was waiting in cringe mode hoping she wouldn't dismiss and throwaway "Junk"(my favorite on the album) like she did "Teddy Boy". Although surprised that she didn't praise "Sing-along Junk" as much, since for me it's a continuation of the same exact song. Just as emotional and tear-jerking.

[@alanclayton9277]

@@sugadelicsavagesoul8623 we cry in unison and we had exactly the same instinct she might not like the song. for me singalong junk matches his love in the open air from the family way music for delicacy?

[@PaulQuintanaJr]

Yeah, I don't understand why this album doesn't get the "indie cred" that Ram has recently received. I actually see this album as more indie than Ram. The fact that it's less cohesive and more ramshackle is the epitome of indie. Either way McCartney's output from 1970 to 1977 is marvelous. Every Beatles fans needs to embrace this stuff. It's so good.

[@mariuspoppFM]

From McCartney to McCartney II

[@craigplanting8804]

You Never Give Me Your Money

[@Toast960]

Loved this review. You hit the nail on the head when you said it's a mess you want to wade through. This, along with Ram, and even Wild Life, serve as a document of an artist finding out who they are while the world is told to hate them. Even more interesting to the point you brought up about how precious Paul regarded this album is that he could have relied on songs of that time that he had given to other artists like "Come and Get It" and "Goodbye." But, instead, he chose to paint as honest a portrait of his life as he could. In a way, this album is his response to John and Yoko's Unfinished Music albums.

[@neilbruce4201]

Love the album. A warm pleasure, as the New Musical Express said on its initial release.

[@abigaildevoe]

it's refreshing to see at least one major music publication of the day giving paulie a shot

[@DannerPlace]

Fascinating.

[@tomfitzsimmons6535]

I'm now a couple of years past 64 and I must have heard this album hundreds of times. I never heard any of it the way you did and I frankly admiit I missed it. You took the silver hammer and hit the album, and the situation, right on the head. They were the first real musical influence on me and have been since I was six in 1964. The problem in understanding anything about 'The Beatles' was, and still is, seeing throught the glare, the blinding light of all that fabulousness. I respectfully tip my cap to you, and yes, in case you were wondering, I'm still kind of cute. Thank you.

[@BillAdams-fb3jm]

Good story -- this is still the only McCartney solo record I like. The way the story goes sort of reminds me of Dinosaur Jr.'s output and the drama which came with Lou Barlow releasing Sebadoh and Sentridoh recordings. Maybe it's a bassist thing....

[@SWEETFA24]

Awesome show young lady!

[@BadDreamFucker]

I always thought Hot as sun glasses was one song. Lol Didn't realize it's Hot as sun/glasses. 😂

[@abigaildevoe]

lol i bet paul wishes he thought of that pun!

[@chrismcgovern1647]

Paul even managed to sneak one extra song in there at the end with "Suicide"

[@josephmartino9958]

It was Paul's way of answering the question, "Will the Beatles ever get together again?"

[@johnnyalegreworkplace8065]

I love this review.

[@alanclayton9277]

important, for me, to put this down here. after the ATMP video today and with that distance i realize that this episode affected my understanding of mccartney 1. i love the piecemeal structure interspersed with very good songs. my interpretation used to be that this commonly called 'homespun' approach was his choice. he just liked it. this ignores the astonishing pressures of circumstance and emotions he was under at that time. there was an intense creative struggle going on not a carefree one. again it's a case of vinyl monday not just putting some context down alongside the album but of seeing both as inextricably linked. this approach, the correct approach, enriches mccartney 1. creating music happens within a lived experience.

[@mcfontaine]

Another brilliant show.

[@user-gq3ev1ei5w]

Thank you Abby! You cleared something up. But I love this album without context: no matter what year it was, who the Beatles were, or what anyone else did or said. I love the intonations on this album. To me it smells like spring. Long live spring!

[@abigaildevoe]

oooh that's all things must pass for me! smells like fresh air

[@Amadeusthegreat100]

Hee haw! The cherry album. Good review. Junk is a beautiful song. I can't believe youre doing the 'double album plus bonus tracks' next.

[@dennisstevens5100]

You’re so pretty how would I not want to watch your channel? Grew up with the Beatles as well! So what’s not to like? Love your channel!

[@itsmewildbill2296]

Evcellent job as always! Many do refer to it as The Cherry Album, or as most I knew did, The Cherries Album.

[@jbennymusic4181]

TEMPORARY SECRATARY MENTIONED 🤯 (you should do McCartney II if there’s enough history on it)

[@gary6514]

The album does have a homemade feel. Maybe I'm Amazed is for me his greatest song...Beatles included. He had such a huge emotional connection with this album so this album is important. Of course better albums would follow but this has a certain charm. Nice review and astute observations. Well done.

[@MacgyverMike1]

Such a great album maybe im amazed, teddy boy, lovely linda, etc this and ram to me are paul's best albums great video abby ❤❤❤ keep it up

[@thomastimlin1724]

I put a thumbs up 4 minutes in. one of the big reasons I return to your channel, you always look great because your "costumes" or clothing and hats are always interesting, stylish of the 1960's, 70's. But mostly your well researched, well read, and knowledge of the Beatles and solo Beatles which took me a lifetime of experience to acquire as it happened. I am a retired music teacher. I was 14 when Paul's first album came out. I was surprised and still am that Paul NEVER released Maybe I'm Amazed as a single.. the radio stations played as if it WERE a single all the time in 1970. Conflicts with the others and that jerk manager/con artist Allen Klein. They asked/demanded him to change his release date on the solo album because they wanted to release the Let it Be album, as you explain expertly. Well you ARE an expert, very impressive. Good dramaics in your presentatoin as well. difference between you and me I have fond memories of theold days of youth with family etc.with this album as a major soundtrack..the beautiful Junk [both takes], i agree, a t cnetral focus of the album. Outstanding songs like Maybe I'm Amazed. Every Night, Teddy Boy, Man We was Lonely, [the opening chord progression I often use to tune my guitar before doing one of my 220 senior home performances]. Criticism of Paul's melodic feel good songs is totally absurd, metal head attitude crap, trapped in the limited brainwashing of musical preference of the corporate radio control freak playlist to ...it's beautiful music, fun, and there's nothing wrong with that. Lennon's critiique of that was out of pure jealousy and a troubled personality. There is all kinds of beautiful music out there, always look for the beauty in music and your heart will be happy.

[@scootinand]

Maybe I'm Amazed is one of those songs that makes me cry when I'm sad. Makes me cry when I'm happy. Soothes me when I'm angry, awakens me when I'm numb. This album does feel like a mess and maybe feels like there's not enough in certain spots and maybe too much in other spots, but it's a reflection of a brilliant mind during a bad time, and it feels like Paul working through his darkness and then putting it out for the whole world to see, even if he's showing his whole ass in the process. A messy album for a messy time for a man who was feeling and acting pretty messy. ...but amongst that mess was Linda. And their family. And capital L Love. Paul McCartney writes about Love in an almost religious way. He's the inverse of Harrison. For Harrison, "God is Love." For Paul, "Love is God." And I love Paul's hokey moments, his stupid Dad Joke songs, just the sound of someone having fun in the most sincere way. And Paul's sincerity is what makes him great to me. And that's why Maybe I'm Amazed is not just my favorite Paul solo song, but I think it's the best of any of the Beatles' solo songs. Even if one could make the argument for George or John having a better album than Paul, I think that "Amazed" is just a singularly perfect song. It's tender and beautiful and shrieking and has a jagged guitar solo and that's life. And that's Love. And that's Paul.

[@abigaildevoe]

i love this tribute to a beautiful song, thank you for blessing this comments section with it! i agree with both paul (love is god) and george (god is all around) could i quote you on the paul is the inverse george bit?

[@buttercup1765]

This album is very close to my heart❤❤❤

[@Cosmican68]

Momma Miss America and Valentines Day are two of my favorite Paul tracks along with Maybe I'm Amazed and Jet.

[@diogo_barros]

Very good 😄👍

[@ght_1]

I’ve been listening to this album for year but I didn’t now how kreen-akrore was pronounced until now

[@abigaildevoe]

haha don't quote me on this pronunciation, it's my best google-assisted stab at it

[@chrismcgovern1647]

@@abigaildevoe It sounds like you said it correctly, I think everybody else says it the same

[@leighfoulkes7297]

I seriously couldn't choice a favorite McCartney song because there is way too many and I love 'em all.

[@drewburns4745]

I first heard "Every Night" when a cover version by Odetta made its way onto a mixtape compilation put out by a local record store. "Maybe I'm Amazed" is still one of my mom's all-time favorite songs. Great review, Abby!

[@Kieop]

I'm not a big fan of Odetta's version, which surprised me, b/c I expected to like it. I just don't like her phrasing choices.

[@refinedrapture_]

You make the drama more dramatic 😌

[@abigaildevoe]

it really isn't hard, the drama does plenty of legwork

[@Cosmican68]

I've loved this album for years. Everything about it suits me when I'm in the mood. Love those instrumentals. Love the album's ramshackle qualities. It never struck me as depressed at all. But then again, when I first heard the album I wasn't aware of the backstory.

[@walterwhitejr.445]

"That Would Be Something" is one of my favorite Paul songs - worked best stripped down and bluesier on "Unplugged".

[@johnkluge3421]

Junk sounded best on the Unplugged record as well

[@walterwhitejr.445]

@@johnkluge3421 Heh - first CD I owned. Didn't even have a CD player. Copied it to tape on a friend's system just so I could enjoy it in the meantime. Phenomenally awesome.

[@NoahSmyth]

Now we need McCartney 2 & 3!

[@abigaildevoe]

when i can keep a straight face through temporary secretary i’ll take a swing at MCII

[@scotternst7803]

I believe Paul liked the cover photograph for the symbolism: His life in the Beatles was a bowl of cherries, and now they've all been spilled.

[@PsychadelicBananafish]

Then why didn't they use cherries in the photo?

[@SamAronow]

I discovered "Momma Miss America" on an _AVClub_ listicle of classic instrumentals from 2008 (back when _The AVClub_ meant something) and I've loved it ever since.

[@Kieop]

It's been used very effectively on some movie soundtracks.

[@alfredoamezola2929]

You got it girl

[@matthewpicariello8866]

You know if you play Maybe I’m Amazed backwards you get a rip-roaring recipe for lentil soup!

[@moviemaestro800]

Glad someone said it here. I still need to try that recipe out. 😉

[@mariuspoppFM]

I particularly love the instrumentals Momma Miss America and KreenAkrore, very raw and psych.

[@HarvestStore]

Great video.

[@slw59]

I couldn’t agree with you more about the song “Junk”. It’s my favorite song on the album.

[@UnderTheCovers1]

McCartney 1 - Why Don't we do it in the Road: The album. Paul trying to be (all of) The Beatles. * One exception Maybe, I'm amazed, which is exceptional.

[@phosphorescentscotsman]

you and that Berrett! 😍😍

[@ChromeDestiny]

Part of me wishes The Beatles together had done a loose, relaxed casual album like this. About the closest we have as the Esher Demos.

[@abigaildevoe]

get back was supposed to be a looser no-overdubbing thing, instead let it be happened. so you’re right, the closest thing we have is the escher tapes

[@user-mk3vk7kb6b]

I am impressed with your knowledge of the Beatles history and Paul’s first solo effort. Thanks!

[@eggman7527]

She wore a maraschino cherry beret, the kind you find at etc. 🎶

[@1rwjwith]

This album has one GREAT song on it, MAYBE I’M AMAZED…and 3 other very good ones..EVERY NIGHT , JUNK and TEDDY BOY. Which surpasses what is on a lot of his later albums..of course I do love some of his later albums, Band On The Run, Flowers In The Dirt which are better but a lot of this album is ideas and fragments or jamming with himself, lightweight demo level productions.I actually like the album it’s not brilliant but the one masterpiece and 3 other good ones make it very worthwhile.Thanks.

[@debjorgo]

My sister bought McCartney and Let it Be the same day. it was like a double album with the second disc being all Paul songs. McCartney is what Let it Be was supposed to be - Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano/organ and drums. Something the Beatles could play live on stage.

[@notsomagnificentpaul]

Worth a mention .. Linda compilation- Wide Prairie .x

[@markbowen6623]

So many to choose from including Martha My Dear, I Will, Ram On, Junk and Dear Boy but I think I would have to go with Jenny Wren.

[@alisha_1972]

Hearing all this drama over Klein makes me wonder that if the Beatles and the Stones were friends, couldn’t they have just gone to Mick or someone like that and asked them what they thought of Klein? Is that a dumb idea? I don’t know, but all the managerial drama seemed so preventable. But hey, what do I know. Great video as always!

[@abigaildevoe]

i guess mick and keith said something about klein to the guys, but only paul listened. the rest were dazzled by his extensive resume (understandably so, considering the stones firing him and tax evasion stuff wouldn’t happen for another year or 2)

[@scotttaylor7767]

Back in 1969 it would have been very hard to find out any dirt about Klein. He was an expert at keeping his affairs private. And according to Peter Brown (although we only have his account to go on). Back in 1965 after Klein negotiated a big advance from Decca for the Rolling Stones. Paul apparently said to Brian Epstein in an elevator “Yeah Klein got a quarter of million for the Stones what about us !” So it seems even McCartney was bamboozled by him then.

[@reedcoles1215]

I really like jet or mull of kentiry. Also, I hope some day you get to do john denver maybe ??

[@georgemathie8123]

Paul McCartney 1 out of all the Beatles first solo albums of 1970 is a brilliant collection of songs that for being a total solo effort and made in his home studio still sounds fresh and wonderful today and an amazing introduction to a wonderful solo career

[@alanclayton9277]

colour combinations on the thumbnail, fashion and overall image, are just... give me a while.

[@jeffthevideoguy23]

McCartney 1 is a coffehouse album.

[@moviemaestro800]

Every Night definitely makes me feel like I am at an intimate open mic show, at a local coffee shop on a rainy day. I can imagine it pretty well with a lot of the rest of the album. Well said.

[@sangminwoo3646]

nice! Love this album! was hoping for this one

[@triplejazzmusicisall1883]

Junk is melodic generous at its best. I don't really focus on the lyrics as much, but they are endearing. But the instrumental is gorgeous (probably why he added it to his Unplugged album). Listen to Paul's piece 'Celebration' and ‘Love in the Open Air' and you have three amazingly beautiful pieces that are quite frankly amazing. At the risk of having my throat slashed I think Maybe I'm Amazed is a much better song than John's mega popular Imagine. Melodically, vocally, and without the deliberately confusing, preachy lyrics I have never understood how Paul as usual is ranked second to Lennon. Seriously where are those anguished power vocals, the piano power on Imagine and the internal pain which usually is better done by John. Most will argue why care. I think for me it is the fact that Jann Wenner began a false narrative that was to con tinue through McCartney's career. When ranking albums, singers, songs and garbage bin liners RS you always knew would put John much higher (as in greater) than Paul. It still happens today. This matters only in regards to honesty and impartiality. These two guys together were the ultimate pop/rock writers of a generation but RS and others would have you believe that McCartney simply played a tune here and there. This then lead Paul into the akward positioj of defending himself which did him nor John any favours. Perhaps one day we may all come to think of ranking lists as a waste of time. That moght be a good thing as we don't do it with painitngs of the great masters. This was a great review of the album. This album is nearly a conundrum and certainly a unique recording.

[@19trebor53]

My favorite solo Paul song is No More Lonely Nights.

[@samborn7120]

I think the timing of McCartney was wrong. As you mentioned it was competing with Abbey Road and the stripped down nature of the production left much to be desired (at the time). Since then, I think we all agree it’s a beautiful record ❤️

[@acethegreat3963]

I just love this channel so much. I've watched all of your vinyl Mondays numerous times because of how engaging and entertaining you are while reviewing. In fact I'm going to go watch you're layla video again to kill my lunch break for the 3rd time.

[@marcusthompson5390]

We already know that you are going to eventually get to an All Things Must Pass album review, but would you ever be interested in reviewing Plastic Ono Band? For me personally, Plastic Ono Band and All Things Must Pass are the two best solo Beatles albums, with Ram being third. So, yeah, I think John’s POB is deserving of an album deep dive

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

Seeing as All Things Must Pass is next week, and she seems to be on a solo Beatles kick; it's not unreasonable to think Plastic Ono Band would be next after that in 2 weeks.

[@TheSupertone1]

Hi Abby & greetings from sunny Scotland. Thanks for another well produced & entertaining video on one of my favourite albums, which I first heard when I borrowed the LP from my local public record library a few months after it's release. If you can please forgive me for nitpicking, but surely "The Family Way" soundtrack (Dec 1966) is the true "McCartney 1", & first musical solo Beatles release? Even though it's effectively a collaboration with George Martin, Macca got the music & publishing credit. Cheers & best wishes x

[@abigaildevoe]

paul (and martin’s) family way is kinda like george’s wonderwall soundtrack. though they were technically their first solo efforts, they never considered it such

[@TheSupertone1]

@@abigaildevoe Thanks for your kind reply, & yes I agree with you. BTW, I also love Ram & it's instrumental version "Thrilington" (recorded 1972, very limited release in 1977) Have you heard it? It's gorgeously fab - took me 40 years to get it on LP (direct from Macca's shop when he eventually re-released it in 2017).

[@Kieop]

Paul is the composer, not the artist -- which is the orchestra, so it doesn't count as a solo effort.

[@BlueSky...]

"And then there were two. . . " What an incredibly sad and scary moment that must have been for Paul. "Is this mighty ship actually going to . . . _sink_ ?!" Linda really was his only answer through that very, very difficult time.

[@spacemissing]

Couldn't care less about the record. Still fascinated by this review.

[@findmusic8797]

That Would Be Something really would be something to meet you in the falling rain mama meet you in the falling rain...