Saturday, December 28, 2013

Paul McCartney's Solo Top 45.

 
 
Being, quite literally, disgusted ("Goodnight Tonight" ?! "Say Say Say" ??!!  "Temporary Secretary" ???!!! - Y'all can't be serious!)  with the recent, so-called "Paul McCartney's 40 Greatest Solo Songs" in Rolling Stone magazine (OK, so it's Jann Wenner and who exactly has taken that guy seriously since the early '70s?), I decided to make my own list.  Except it's a Top 45.  And it's in chronological order, and ballad-heavy during the '80s.  So what else is new?  It's classic Macca!
 
"Maybe I'm Amazed" (1970)
 
"Another Day" (1971)
 
"Too Many People" (1971)
 
"Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" (1971)
 
"Monkberry Moon Delight" (1971)
 
"The Back Seat of My Car" (1971)
 
"Tomorrow" (1971)
 
"Give Ireland Back to the Irish" (1972)
 
"C Moon" (1973)
 
"Get on the Right Thing" + "One More Kiss" (1973)
 
"Live and Let Die" (1973)
 
"Jet" (1973)
 
"Band on the Run" (1973)
 
"Junior's Farm" (1974)
 
"Venus and Mars/Rock Show" (1975)
 
"Magneto and Titanium Man" (1975)
 
"Listen to What the Man Said" (1975)
 
"Silly Love Songs" (1976)
 
"Let 'Em In" (1976)
 
"Beware My Love" (1976)
 
"Girls' School" (1977)
 
"London Town" (1978)
 
"Daytime Nightime Suffering" (1979)
 
"Old Siam Sir" (1979)
 
"Getting Closer" (1979)
 
"Spin it on" (1979)
 
"Waterfalls" (1980)
 
"Take it Away" (1982)
 
"Tug of War" (1982)
 
"Pipes of Peace" (1983)
 
"No More Lonely Nights" (1984)
 
"Once Upon a Long Ago" (1987)
 
"My Brave Face" (1989)
 
"This One" (1989)
 
"Looking for Changes" (1993)
 
"Young Boy" (1997)
 
"Flaming Pie" (1997)
 
"No Other Baby" (1999)
 
"Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (1999)
 
"From a Lover to a Friend" (2001)
 
"Fine Line" (2005)
 
"Ever Present Past" (2007)
 
"Sing the Changes" (The Fireman) (2008)
 
"Queenie Eye" (2013)