Went and gave this record a few refresher listens on the basis of this thread...
Ram On is sublime. Great song, perfect execution in performance, arrangement, production.
But there's very little else here to impress me. I guess I just don't like McCartney solo at all. There are some truly awful vocals on many of these tracks -- I wince very time he pushes his voice to that white-boy-soul growl, which he does on most songs here.
I gotta disagree with the people taking the "what seemed deep about Lennon now seems shallow and what seemed shallow about McCartney now seems deep" position. I think I liked JL and PM equally into my teens, but as an adult I've always heard so much genuine emotion in Lennon's voice and so much forced, false (?) emotion in McCartney's.
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Ram On is sublime. Great song, perfect execution in performance, arrangement, production.
But there's very little else here to impress me. I guess I just don't like McCartney solo at all. There are some truly awful vocals on many of these tracks -- I wince very time he pushes his voice to that white-boy-soul growl, which he does on most songs here.
I gotta disagree with the people taking the "what seemed deep about Lennon now seems shallow and what seemed shallow about McCartney now seems deep" position. I think I liked JL and PM equally into my teens, but as an adult I've always heard so much genuine emotion in Lennon's voice and so much forced, false (?) emotion in McCartney's.