McCartney

It’s ok. With “maybe I’m amazed” tucked in as the 84th song of the album

This was really frustrating. Many ideas for good Beatles songs. Just one completed one. Everything but Maybe I’m Amazed and Kreen Akrore is fine; just not finished.

Nothing that really sticks with me, here, but pleasant to listen to all the same. I do like the lofi-ness of it and knowing that this is post-Beatles breakup gives it a little bit of heft. I'd listen again.

A pleasant but strangely inconsequential journey into McCartneydom. There are at least two albums in his catalogue that are nearing five star status - this isn't one of them. Nonetheless, nothing objectionable here. I like it well enough.

Yeah, this is kind of surprisingly low-key isn't it? Not at all what I was expecting. While nothing quite stood out in memory aside from "Maybe I'm Amazed," I have the suspicion that this is one of those albums that could reveal itself to be really rewarding once you've listened to it three or four times. Or not! Never can tell and who the hell does this McCartney bloke think he is anyway?

This feels like a collection of demos. It seems very simple, direct and, in places, unfinished. No doubt this was an artistic choice by McCartney. I liked it. It's interesting to have an insight interesting the workings of one of the all time great song writers. Rating: 3.5/5 Playlist track: Maybe I'm Amazed Date listened: 27/05/23

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Very charming and quaint listen. I've always been a fan of the McCartney sound and Junk and Teddy Boy are great examples of it. There's a lot of love and heart in these simple songs.

Suspect this is included more because of who they are, rather than the music

Better than I thought it was going to be!

I absolutely LOVE McCartney. He is possibly my favorite musician of all time. But I'm shocked to see this album make the list. It is far from his best output. In fact, this album has often felt like a collection of outtakes to me. There are some gems here to be sure -- "Maybe I'm Amazed" is one of his best tracks, "Every Night" is lovely, and it's fun to see old Beatles castoffs like "Junk" and "Teddy Boy" finally released. But as a whole, the album just doesn't come together all that well.

Un manifest a l'alçada d'un geni. Fotos familiars, so lo-fi i cançons que van des la magnificiència de 'Maybe I'm Amazed' a la solvència de 'Teddy Boy', passant per exercicis inacabats, esbossos i experiments. Res més allunyat de la grandiloqüència de 'All Things Must Pass' o l'ambició de 'Plastic Ono Band'. Demostra la seguretat en les capacitats d'un mateix i el compromís només amb la pròpia creativitat

I’ll start with the good - and it won’t take long. Maybe I’m Amazed is a really good song. Apparently Paul plays all the instruments so he lays down the solo which is really good. Every Night is a cute little meaningless love song and Paul typically knows how to do those since he has the voice for it and can write simple melodies for ballads. This one is a good example; the music is written in a key that works perfectly with his voice. The problem: he didn’t finish writing the song so the chorus is just some: woo woo woo woo’s. Really? I would think a professional song writer could come up with a chorus for a ballad especially when he specializes is weenie songs. The rest of the album is drivel.

When I first heard “Maybe I’m Amazed” at the age of 11, I thought, wow what a stinker. Maybe it was the first time I realized there was such a thing as songs for girls. So, I didn’t have high hopes for this album, and it delivered. Things got off to a bad start (due to human error): I accidently had Shuffle turned on, so after listening to the “The Lovely Linda” which sounds like it was composed on the spot and whose greatest attribute is its 47 second running time, Spotify sent me to the last song on the album “Kreen Acrore” which sounds like they grabbed someone off the street and had them play drums in a song that showcases drumming. As a side note the drumming on the album is banal, especially on songs like “Oo you” where a drum set is featured. I would not include this instrument among the many that PC can play well. I like some of the songs. “Everynight” is okay, as is “Junk” (both versions) but they sound like songs that didn’t make the cut on The White Album, and “Momma Miss America” laid the foundations for future songs like 1984. Overall the album sounds like a bunch of ideas, not fully developed songs. I would give this an extra point if it was from someone I had never heard of, but it isn't.

McCartney is definitely talented, but without the synergy of his three other band-members it just doesn't have the same magic of a Beatles record. Even a latter day Beatles album marred by their dysfunctional in-fighting is way superior to this. Maybe I'm amazed is the best song on this album and it's quite good, but the rest just simply isn't very remarkable.

I was going to completely dismiss this as unformed drivel on first listen, with the exception of Maybe I'm Amazed, which we all know and accept for the masterpiece that it is. But on second listen I started to enjoy it a bit more. Third listen was pleasant too. I do still think there are a lot of raw, unformed ideas here that haven't been fully realized. The odd Elvis like affectation of the phrase "mama" as a term of endearment is still a bizarre choice to me. It's been peppered into a few tracks and I have to wonder what that's all about. Is he emulating Elvis? Mocking him? I'm not quite sure. But it's not a colour that suits McCartney. It is a listenable and enjoyable album. But is it impactful? No.

I enjoyed this album a lot! It's impressive how this album really shows how much ahead of his time McCartney was in 1970. His first songs with more experimentalism mixed with some songs that still sounded Beatles-esque but included much more texture, which was really impressive. I hope to see more McCartney in the 1001 list because this is someone that deserves to be listened to.

Hateful, boring, tedious

Ramshackle, melodic beauty from the most melodic of the best band ever.

moglo je i bolje, al opet...moglo je i gore. dobar 3.5.

Not for me. Classic Paul.

The real genius level of Paul McCartney is on display in the fact that Maybe I'm Amazed almost carries this whole album - but not quite. None of the rest of it really stuck for me (though none of itnis bad), and it seems like an odd pick for this already over-represented artist.

Meh already enough Beatles and McCartney on the list, think we could of given this one a miss.

Honnêtement un peu déçu, j'ai trouvé la majorité de l'album très fade, manquait de mordant, les compositions étaient un peu ininspirées. On est loin de Band on the Run. Le seul highlight de l'album est Maybe I'm Amazed. 5/10

His first album post-Beatles could not be more unlike the Beatles if he tried. As a Beatles fan - and a McCartney fan I was looking forward to hearing this album, since I really never heard it before. I was more into the later McCartney stuff. Good? Yes, Different? Definitely. I can see this being a great album, after I get used to it but for now, on this first listen, I'll leave it a 3/5.

Surprisingly I loved this.

Maybe I’m amazed at how some of these songs are so good and some as so pished

Wel oké. Iets minder zweverig dan wat de Beatles zijn. En wat meer bluesrock achtig

No lo acabe de escuchar

As one of the components that make up The Beatles you’d expect a lot from a solo album from Paul McCartney, especially considering the time this was released was just after their critically acclaimed record ‘Abbey Road’. However, you find this album to be nothing like that, as Paul takes on his own approach to an album which ends up feeling pretty muddled. This album is a weird mix of instrumental tracks along with some lyrical tracks. Considering this is a self titled album, it’s strange that it’s confused on what it wants to be. For the first half it seems like McCartney is trying to do his best Elvis impression and it just feels so out of character, this is especially seen in ‘That Would Be Something’ which resembles Elvia’ ‘Kentucky Rain’ with McCartney’s strange vocal inflections added in, which end up being a running theme in this album with him singing along to the instrumentals multiple times which makes this feel like a live recording. The best song here is ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’ by a country mile as you can actually hear Paul put in some soul into this track, plus the guitar is fantastic. It’s then just a shame that the album ends on this unique drum solo and McCartney breathing which I don’t think he has a right to do considering he barely put any effort into the vocals throughout this album. I did just find this album a bit boring, the first couple of tracks put me off so much that the none of the rest of the album really made me feel like I would thoroughly enjoy this album. I’d come back to 1 or 2 songs but for the rest of the album I’d just listen to some Elvis instead. 2/5