McCartney's Best Five Song Album

I'll take the challenge: Press To Play.
I know it's cheating (just a little bit), but I have to include some b-sides:

Stranglehold
Footprints
However Absurd
It's Not True
Tough on a Tightrope

 

I know! I was stoked when I read the title and you can never have enough McCartney threads. Glad you are enjoying them too!

 

.......cough...
"Coming Up"
"Temporary Secretary"
"Nobody Knows"
"Frozen Jap"
"Front Parlour"

NEW WAVE, BABY!!!

 

I suggest these 5 songs from the still-unreleased Cold Cuts:

A Love For You
Waterspout
Momma's Little Girl
Did We Meet Somewhere Before
Best Friend

 

These are the top 5 from my favorite McCartney albums

RAM:
Too Many People
Dear Boy
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
Heart Of The Country
Back Seat Of My Car

TUG OF WAR:
Tug Of War
Wanderlust
Ballroom Dancing
Here Today
Ebony And Ivory

FLAMING PIE:
Calico Skies
Somedays
Little Willow
Young Boy
Beautiful Night

And for the record my BAND ON THE RUN would be:
Band On The Run
Jet
Mrs. Vanderbilt
Picasso's Last Words
1985

 

Excellent!
Actually bonus tracks was an omission I didn't mean to make.
Glad you brought it up.
Thanks.

 

Ooh! Me likey. (That's not an offensive phrase is it?)

But.... Is it a compilation?

I don't know. But I like it.
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Since everybody reads Arnies posts I'll add;

I am really enjoying this thread this morning.It's my baby!!
Thanks everybody!

Now I'm home from work (heh heh) and jus relasxagatin' on

the coach!

Goom nodes eveebone.

 

Precisely what I was going to type! You are a noble person of extraordinary and refined taste, clearly.

It really is Paul's sketch pad for the next Beatles album that never was...would have been classic, but these will do just fine.

 

As Venus and Mars may well be my favorite...

1, 2 Venus and Mars/Rock Show - hard not to think of them as one song
3 Letting Go
4 Medicine Jar
5 Listen to What the Man Said

 

I get exactly what you are saying - for years I have taken the best of back-to-back albums to make one good one.
I have always left McCartney, Band on the Run, Ram and Chaos as complete albums.

The rest are easy to cherry pick the best of two for a great album. I actually like to pilfer non-album singles.

Tug of War/Pipes of Peace
Tug of War
Take it Away
Somebody Who Cares
Wanderlust
Here Today
Pipes of Peace
The Other Me
So Bad
Keep Under Cover
Through Out Love

 

*consecutive

Jeez, I was really sleeping. Anyway, it's too hard to cherry pick from 'Chaos And Creation', so from 'Memory Almost Full' it would be:

Ever Present Past
See Your Sunshine
Only Mama Knows
Feet In The Clouds
House Of Wax

 

Get used to it, babe -- Paul and the other Beatles are phenomenons that will be continually discussed long after you and I are gone!

 

McCartney 2
Coming up
Coming up
Coming up
Coming up
Coming up

 

Flowers In the Dirt- I would say
1. My Brave Face
2. Figure of Eight
3. Put It There
4. That Day Is Done
5. Flying To My Home


now... degree of difficulty... Broad Street...
1. No More Lonely Night
2. No Values
3. Not Such a Bad Boy
4. Wanderlust (cover) - I actually prefer this to the one on TOW
5. Here, There and Everywhere cover - another nice version

 

1. Coming Up
2. Temporary Secretary
3. On the Way
4. Dark Room
5. One of These Days

 

OFF THE GROUND:

Hope of Deliverance
C'mon People
I Owe It All To You
Off The Ground
Winedark Open Sea


DRIVING RAIN:

(Dead Wax)
(Dead Wax)
(Dead Wax)
(Dead Wax)
(Dead Wax)

 

I think Flaming Pie has the strongest set of 5 songs of maybe any album he's done.

Calico Skies
Little Willow
The Song We Were Singing
Somedays
Beautiful Night

I could probably ditch 3 of those songs and replace them with others from the same album and it be just as strong.

 

I could list my five favourite songs from each album. Problem is, I just couldn't then pick a favourite bunch of five. it would just be picking one randomly for the sake of it.

 

Chaos & Creation In the Back Yard

Fine Line
Friends To Go
At the Mercy
Promise To You Girl
This Never Happened Before

This woulda been one helluva EP!

 

From Tripping the Live Fantastic

1. Figure of Eight
2. Put it There
3. We Got Married
4. Things We Said Today
5. Don't let the sun catch you crying

Interestingly for those that worry about Pauls' voice today, I believe he has much more mastery of it now! I like Tripping but he seemed to over-sing much of it....

 

If we're saying what albums could be considered great on the back of only 5 songs, here are my albums:

Tug Of War
Band On The Run
Venus and Mars
Flowers In The Dirt
Off The Ground (just barely)
Flaming Pie
Chaos and Creation
Memory Almost Full
Electric Arguments
New

^thats a pretty damn good amount of albums, haha

 

Replace one of the last two with "How Kind Of You" and I'm all in. How you overlooked that is beyond me. One of the best tracks on the whole album .

 

Actually, I didn't overlook it...it was originally on the list but it was edited out for the others...just too strong of an album to narrow down to five. Believe me, I love that track!!

 

Driving Rain:
Lonely Road
Tiny Bubble
Magic
Your Way
Your Loving Flame
(could easily pick 3 more)

 

it is my very honest opinion that if 'band on the run" can't be included, the only other possibility is "flaming pie" because none of the other albums (other than best of's of greatest hits) have 5 good songs...