I suppose I should have caught on to that. I was too entranced by the melody. Paul distracted me!

Ha! In fact, a quick check about Lovely Rita on Wikipedia shows: "According to some sources, the song emanates from when a female traffic warden named Meta Davies issued a parking ticket to McCartney outside Abbey Road Studios."

He was still amazing when I saw him in concert this past summer. But a three-hour concert performance is far more forgiving of the occasional vocal struggle than, say, a 10 minute TV performance on SNL. At the concert, there were a few songs where he sounded rough, and many others where he sounded great or good enough.

There's a gorgeous ballad he wrote in the 70s called Wanderlust. You listen to it and would have no idea that it's about weed. But it is. The man was as devoted to his weed then as he is now to his veggies. Given the amount of pressure he was under in the 70s, and given that he had a near nervous breakdown, I think…

OK, so her 70s haircut isn't the most flattering. But there are photos of her with her long blonde hair (before this awkward 70s cut) that prove she was quite lovely. In fact, unlike all of the photoshopped women we see today, those early photos of Linda show someone without a stitch of makeup on and she looks…

What?? Bearded Paul is gorgeous. He rocked the best Beatles beard, by far.

Another good choice. My favorite track off Run Devil Run is "No Other Baby," an old skiffle song he updated. You can hear how much he means it when he's singing that.

Yes, because Savoy Truffle was deep.

I don't know if people dislike it. It is one of those Paul songs that people seem to think of as "fluff" — as if that lovely melody and arrangement wrote itself. I love the song myself. I can't not sing along.

I read that New Yorker post. Laziest piece of music analysis I've read in a long time.

Because LaToya needed a job. Or maybe the video budget was already too high; time to cast the family.

I don't think I've heard Back on My Feet. Off to listen …

Not sure if you actually think that or are going for sarcasm there. But I love the song and think it's got some terrific lyrics.

Good choice. I only realized recently that Paul co-wrote Veronica with Costello. I've always wondered what Paul contributed to that song and how much of it he wrote. My Brave Face is another great track they did together.

Or Every Night. I would think most songwriters would kill to write a song a tenth as beautiful as Every Night.

MJ was nice looking then. How could he not see that?

"Over time, I realized that dismissing McCartney’s songwriting as “fluff” was myopic, if not flat-out incorrect. But most importantly, I realized that I kind of liked even some of the fluffiest fluff that McCartney ever fluffed—including his 1983 duet with Michael Jackson, “Say Say Say.”

Same here. I heard Ram for the first time 3 or 4 years ago. I remember being kind of stunned at how good it was, given everything I'd heard about it being panned. I've played this thing an incredible number of times since then and I have yet to tire of it. It's probably sacrilege to say it, but I'd rather listen to…

See now if your comment had said "a fat man with grass" then I could have given you an up vote.

It's the production on All Things Must Pass that lowers it to No. 3 Best Post-Beatles Album, for me. And George's voice is not that varied. For me its: 1. Ram 2. Plastic Ono Band 3. ATMP.