I don't really see a campaign here to lionize McCartney at Lennon's expense. After all, in recent years, the AV Club has published essays about how terrible the Give My Regard to Broad Street movie was, and also one hating on Wonderful Christmastime. Hating on that song is practically an AV Club holiday tradition. …

Sorry but I find Pitchfork to be about 10 times more thoughtful and informative than NME, which spends far too much time blathering on about the Gallagher brothers and obsessing about what's "cool" rather than offering real insights about music.

I'm not sure Yoko is any more greedy than John was. They both liked money. Most people do. Whatever your views about Yoko or her music, she is a very successful businesswoman just as Paul has been a very successful businessman.

Ram is my favorite Paul album too and I listen to it regularly. I don't listen to BOTR that often but I like it and the story behind it. It's an album that emerged from such chaos, it shouldn't work as well as it does. Paul dragged his family to Nigeria, for god's sake. He was robbed shortly after he arrived, then he…

Well, I see those 3 songs as more about the Beatles breakup and the band's legacy. Paul's not seeking an escape from the Beatles in those tracks, he's mourning his world falling apart around him ("once there was a way … to get back homeward") and predicting that the Beatles will be carrying that weight for a very very…

Last year Pitchfork gave fairly strong reviews to Bowie's The Next Day (7.6) and to McCartney's New album (7.8). So they don't always hate on the old guys.

But BOTR is more than linking unrelated segments. There is a common theme of escape that runs throughout the tracks.

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BoTR is a terrific listen start to finish, and doesn't sound dated either, production-wise, like Lennon's solo albums often do. But if you hate the title track of BOTR, then I doubt you'll like the album. I don't see how anyone can hate that track or hate Live and Let Die but it'd be dull going if we all liked the…

They're on the reissue of McCartney II as bonus tracks. And before that, people were listening to those tracks on bootlegs.

I read somewhere that Venus and Mars may be the next album Paul reissues. There are multiple Paul albums I hope he never reissues (they're best forgotten) but I like Venus & Mars quite a bit. I agree it's not as strong as BOTR but it's definitely both weird and under-rated.

Actually the article here says Paul DID deepen the medley idea on Band on the Run: "Lennon refused to let McCartney and George Martin turn the entire album into a suite of thematically related songs. Now solo, McCartney could turn his songs into journeys, and follow themes throughout an entire album." Band on the Run…

A lot of Bruce fans will be unhappy with this review. But I think it's right. And Pitchfork savaged the album too, giving it only 4.0 out of 10. In the process, Pitchfork savaged most of Bruce's albums for the past 10 years, calling them "garish" and "melodramatic," filled with "studio gimmicks" and "maximalist in all…

Warren: That's not really the case, though. All Things Must Pass is 2 albums and an unlistenable third jam album. But when you add up the actual music on the first two albums of ATMP it's only 60 minutes of music. It could all fit on one CD. It's not really as much music as people think.

The more distance we get from the 60s and 70s, the more it becomes clear that the answer to the question at the end of this essay, "Who, then, was more in need of the other?" is that Lennon was far more in need of McCartney (musically) than Paul was in need of John. Musically, John's solo career is stuck in classic…

McCartney's solo work runs circles around either Harrison's or Lennon's. George had one great solo album and spent the rest of his career recreating it in increasingly mediocre ways. John Lennon produced the excellent Plastic Ono Band and then he, too, turned out increasingly mediocre fare, paying far too much…

I do like Ringo's Photograph song but I think George helped him write it.

I liked Haim's album a lot but I have to admit, having heard them sing live a couple times, they were absolutely dreadful and crazily out of tune. Not sure what to think about that but I still like the record.

Like what? If you you're going to use this list for target practice, give us your top 10 we all should be listening to.

My top 9 (in no particular order)