Paul McCartney: Tug Of War

Macca only got rubbish around about "Pipes Of Peace" when he stopped doing EXACTLY what he felt like doing

But wasn't "We All Stand Together" a perfect example of this?

I don't think I really like Band On The Run, though I don't own it.

I've just been discovering Ram - it does have some OK material including 'Back Seat Of My Car' which N loves so much.

Chaos & Creation I think must be the best since Flowers In The Dirt. It seems strong to me, for late McCartney. But then I think Memory Almost Full may be underrated! That song 'at the end of the end' is quite moving!

"Memory Almost Full" is not a bad album, but it suffers from way too much compression. Typical 00s problem.

How is everybody ignoring the shocking, beautiful, intense, and unique "Plastic Ono Band" album if you're going to talk about the best post-Beatles' solo album? For that matter, how can you call "Tug of War" better than "Venus and Mars," "Band On The Run," or "Ram?" Or yes, as others have noted, "All Things Must Pass?" I agree completely with the compression problem on "Memory Almost Full," it wrecks the enjoyment that one could derive from the album which must be played at very low volume to be tolerated. This is the wrong thread, but it appears that there is actually a remastered version of "A Bigger Bang" out now! I wonder if its even more compressed that the original release from 2000tenminutesago.

The world's waited for it.

God, this is a well-produced record. I called it "shockingly listenable" upthread and I think it takes me by surprise every time I put it on just how lovely the sounds coming out of the speaker are. Very strong songwriting, too; the lyrics are iffy in places but the melodies are some of his best ever. "Wanderlust"!

This was probably among the very first few CDs I ever bought. Still holds up really well. And can I say that I love the cover? The saturation, the red and the blue, on a mint condition sleeve it just glows.

OK, "Get It" is maybe a little hokey but that's sort of inevitable yeah? Carl Perkins has a nice voice though and I like the line "A life of Cadillac and ultra for sure."

helter skelter is the most hilariously unrocking while trying to be rocking song i've ever heard

Love "Take It Away."