I Love I Hate The Beatles

The United States Of America managed to combine electronic noise with good tunes. But then again, so did The Beatles (at least to some extent) on "Tomorrow Never Knows" too.

tim OTM, just because fking dave marsh of all ppl (the same dip who thinks that there hasn't been a good british band since culture club) hates an album doesn't mean anyone who differs with him is a revisionist! ATMP would be better without the third disc but it's certainly a respectable piece of work.

my favorite solo beatles album, though, might be mccartney's first (and i'm pretty indifferent to pretty much all his post-'70 stuff, a few fun singles aside): as tossed off as it is, there's a real sense of something sad and lost in all those broken, throwaway tunes - it really does sound like an album made by a guy sitting alone in his house trying to cheer himself up. you can tell how bereft he felt without the other three. and the way the whole record builds up to "maybe i'm amazed" is incredible.

To me, McCartney's first album sounds just like a bunch of sketches throw together by someone who is about to leave a group and needs to release a solo album as a statement. Apart from "Junk" and "Maybe I'm Amazed" nothing on that album was worthy of release. "Ram" was a huge leap in the right direction IMO.

you forgot "every night," easily one of my top 10 mccartney songs (and prob the only solo tune i'd include on that list).

i've always found ram totally unlistenable because of PM's habit of going "do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do" on every single fucking song.