best macca's solo songs?

edited June 2009 in Chit chat
and solo means even with the wings.
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    Let em' in.
    Every night is curry night!
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    We All Stand Together.
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    Mull of Kintyre
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    The few seconds of silence at the end of the cd... I love the Beatles but all the solo stuff the various members did afterwards is complete wank. Sorry.
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    hypostomus wrote: »
    The few seconds of silence at the end of the cd... I love the Beatles but all the solo stuff the various members did afterwards is complete wank. Sorry.

    You mean you didn't like Macca's "New York - Fuck Yeah!"? (or whatever it was called...)
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    Seriously, Live And Let Die was good, but bettered when it was covered by some band I can't remember the name of. Guns'n'Roses? Gun?
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    NickH wrote: »
    We All Stand Together.

    they say drugs fucks you up, well in maccas case he was great when taking drugs, then turned shit when he stopped

    can i say liverpool sound collage? its classed as related to him...very strange
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    This is probably the one with the most longevity.

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    MULL OF KINTYRE is the ubersong by him, and since i'm also scottish, it's also the more relevant :chortle: but LIVE AND LET DIE is my fav

    and i bet no one says NO MORE LONELY NIGHTS or SPYS LIKE US
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    Say Say Say is good. Shite video, though.
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    Angry, on Press to Play (has Phil Collins on Drums and Pete Townshend on guitar)

    youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUZ_rGMygL0

    oh, and the Coming Up video, where Macca & Linda impersonate various famous musicians (including himself, lol) - some are easy, (Hank! Ron Mael) some are difficult.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr8x8rh4yws
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    Hmmm so many to choose from.


    Distractions from Flowers in the Dirt is quite good.

    However, my favourite is here today from the album Tug of War.



    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY09Wa7z_38&feature=related


    Best album, probably Pipes of Peace.
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    the one with the frogs.
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    I have always liked Coming Up. Here is a YouTube link which is supposedly a remix but it sounds the same as the original to me but has Lennon talking at the beginning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bJBLNHZg6Q
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    Live and Let Die. I also like The Frog Chorus.
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    Since no one has said "Yesterday", then I take it that means that you don't consider Yesterday to be a solo song (since I think it's his best ever song, and a good candidate for the best song ever).

    But didn't he literally dream up the song? Or did he have help with the released version, from Lennon or whoever?

    Anyway, if Yesterday is allowed, then I'll definately say that. Otherwise, I'll probably say Mull of Kintyre or Pipes of Peace.



    hypostomus wrote: »
    The few seconds of silence at the end of the cd... I love the Beatles but all the solo stuff the various members did afterwards is complete wank. Sorry.



    ????? What about Lennon's Woman, So This is Christmas, Just Like Starting Over, or the superlative Imagine (another candidate for the best song ever)?




    Edit: And who hasn't felt exactly the feelings behind Yesterday? The loss, the confusion, the fear of going on with the world seeming colder and emptier. It's a simple song, and forty plus years old, but it captures the feeling of a broken heart so well.
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    Another Day. Take It Away. Silly Love Songs.
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
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    Jet. Band On The Run. Live And Let Die.
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
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    Alan Partridge once said that Wings were the band the Beatles could have been.
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    I'm with Scottie Flowers in the Dirt is a brilliant album, i think it was written with Elvis Costello, its up there with Band on the Run for me.

    Distractions

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    Only live and let die for me.

    Frog song as a kid was 'okay' but now its just embarassing
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    I like Maybe i'm amazed, Live and let die and Band on the run.
    His Flaming Pie album was the best for a long time, i've not heard much off his last couple of albums though.
    His worst was C moon or that stupid Coming up.
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    karingal wrote: »
    Jet. Band On The Run. Live And Let Die.

    What he said.

    Plus Pipes of Peace.
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    ewgf wrote: »
    Since no one has said "Yesterday", then I take it that means that you don't consider Yesterday to be a solo song (since I think it's his best ever song, and a good candidate for the best song ever).

    But didn't he literally dream up the song? Or did he have help with the released version, from Lennon or whoever?

    Anyway, if Yesterday is allowed, then I'll definately say that. Otherwise, I'll probably say Mull of Kintyre or Pipes of Peace.


    ????? What about Lennon's Woman, So This is Christmas, Just Like Starting Over, or the superlative Imagine (another candidate for the best song ever)?

    Edit: And who hasn't felt exactly the feelings behind Yesterday? The loss, the confusion, the fear of going on with the world seeming colder and emptier. It's a simple song, and forty plus years old, but it captures the feeling of a broken heart so well.

    he dreamt the melody, then it took him a year or so to find the right words.

    then george martin suggested to arrange it with a string quartet - martin did most of the arrangement work, with bits by paul.

    no other beatle has contributed, in anyway. john, george & ringo didn't even play in it.

    about the solo careers of the fab four: i think there are good songs and good albums by each one of them (ringo has one or two good tunes too).

    good albums by paul: mccartney, ram, band on the run, venus and mars, flowers in the dirt, chaos and creation in the backyard.

    george: all things must pass, george harrison, cloud nine.

    john: plastic ono band, imagine, walls & bridges.
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    Forgot to mention: Jet was a great song. Another good one was called 'Once upon a long ago' which appeared on a Greatest Hits album.
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  • edited June 2009
    once upon a long ago is an interesting nostalgic ballad, with an interlude of entwined, whispering voices near the end. genius.

    it was his last single to enter the english top ten.
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    Both Paul and George's last top ten single left the charts the same week, oddly enough.

    My favourite Macca solo song is Live and Let Die, and as for unknown ones, Waterfalls was a nice ballad from about 1980.
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    Did you know that Michael Parkinson and Christopher Lee appears on the cover of the Wings album Band on the Run.
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    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    Did you know that Michael Parkinson and Christopher Lee appears on the cover of the Wings album Band on the Run.
    As did Clement Freud...
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