McCartney's Best Five Song Album

A couple more albums:

MCCARTNEY
Every Night
Oo You
Junk
Man We Was Lonely
Maybe I'm Amazed

WILD LIFE
Mumbo
Some People Never Know
Tomorrow
Dear Friend
Wild Life

 

NEW:

Save Us
New
Everybody Out There
Queenie Eye
Early Days
Alligator
I Can Bet
Hosanna
On My Way To Work

 

Flowers in the Dirt or Flaming Pie.

This One
Distractions
My Brave Face
You Want Her Too
That Day Is Done

Flaming Pie
Somedays
Beautiful Night
Heaven on a Sunday
Calico Skies

 

NEW:

New
Alligator
Appreciate
Road
On My Way To Work

 

No "Queenie Eye"?

 

O what the heck...

McCartney
Every Night
Junk
Singalong Junk
Maybe I'm Amazed
That Would Be Something

Ram
Ram On
Heart of the Country
Eat at Home
Monkberry Moon Delight
Dear Boy

Wild Life
Wild Life
Love is Strange
Tomorrow
Some People Never Know
Dear Friend

Red Rose Speedway
My Love
When the Night
Single Pigeon
Little Lamb Dragonfly
Only One More Kiss

Venus & Mars
Venus & Mars
Love in Song
Listen to What the Man Said
Magneto & Titanium Man
Letting Go

Wings At the Speed of Sound
Let 'Em In
Silly Love Songs
Warm and Beautiful
She's My Baby
Beware My Love

London Town
London Town
Don't Let it Bring You Down
Backwards Traveller
I've Had Enough
With a Little Luck

Back to the Egg
Getting Closer
We're Open Tonight
Arrow Through Me
Old Siam, Sir
To You

McCartney II
Coming Up
On the Way
Nobody Knows
One of These Days
Summer's Day Song

Press to Play
However Absurd
Pretty Little Head
Talk More Talk
Footprints
Press

Flowers in the Dirt
My Brave Face
Figure of Eight
We Got Married
Put it There
This One

Off the Ground
Off the Ground
Mistress & Maid
Lover That Never Were
Hope of Deliverance
Peace in the Neighbourhood

Flaming Pie
Souvenir
Young Boy
Calico Skies
Flaming Pie
Somedays

Driving Rain
From a Lover to a Friend
Driving Rain
Lonely Road
Your Way
About You

Chaos & Creation
At the Mercy
Follow Me
Friends to Go
How Kind of You
A Certain Softness

Memory Almost Full
Only Mama Knows
Ever Present Past
See Your Sunshine
Mr Bellamy
Dance Tonight

New
New
Appreciate
Alligator
Early Days
Turned Out (bonus track)

 

Rubber Soul:

Drive My Car
You Won't See Me
Michelle
I'm Looking Through You
WTF? Only four McCartney songs on Rubber Soul?

John has seven? Who new?

 

Wow! Impressive, I probably agree with 90% of this!

 

And the last real good trolling and thread-crap certanely was not this lame and predictable attempt

 

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Getting Better
She's Leaving Home
When I'm Sixty-Four
A Day In The Life

 

No worries - I think Paul's portion of writing "In My Life" goes up a percentage point each year.
I think he's now around 60% so you can count that song as well for your 5th.

 

I will never get it. I just listened to "Flaming Pie" yesterday and still find "Driving Rain" to be a much stronger album. I can't narrow it down to 5 favourites as I love most of the tracks!

 

No matter how I slice it, to me Paul's albums that appeal to me the least are:

McCartney II
Pipes of Peace
Broad Street
Off The Ground
Driving Rain

These albums may move up or down within my bottom five, but it's hard to me to imagine any of them moving out of my bottom five, IMHO.

 

Not even close, IMO. Don't hate it, but it's in my bottom 3 tracks on New.

 

and a lot of truly great songs on all of those records.

 

No doubt, but not as many of the tracks speak to me as in Paul's other albums. I think each one has at least one killer track, but I would be taxed to find five per album that I really loved, and that is not an issue for me on Paul's other albums.

 

I did struggle with McCartney II (picking only 5) where I couldn't find space for 'Temporary Secretary', which I like a lot.

 

London Town:
-London Town
-With A Little Luck
-Cafe on the left bank
-I've had Enough
-Girlfriend

 

That's one of my top three on that album along with Comin' Up and the album stand out track One Of These Days, love that song!

Mother, your taste and mine are so similar... If I was going to give a fresh listen to one or two of these albums that I have put in my bottom five, which albums would you suggest?

 

I'm no Mother , but I'd suggest giving Driving Rain and McCartney II fresh spins to see if your opinion shifted.

For Driving Rain, I think most people who vehemently dislike the album are split for their reasons for this, with maybe 90% disliking it because of the Heather factor (which is why many people claim to dislike the song "Heather" as well, even though it's one of Macca's strongest instrumentals - okay, pseudo-instrumentals - EVER), and the other 10% not liking it due to the "Nature is calling me" cover (Paul apparently took a selfie of himself taking a leak on the cover). Whatever. If one can sift out the cover and the Heather factor from their listening experience, I think they'll find one of Paul's stronger and more adventurous albums to date.

As for McCartney II, this seems to be the one album in his catalog that has people the most divided as to whether it's really good or really meh. If you like electronic music and Paul's more experimental side, you might be more inclined to like this album. Then again, there are those who are electronic music aficionados, and claim that Paul's attempts are weak and amateurish, so there's that... As for me, this was the first new Paul album I had bought (as an almost 10-year-old in the summer of 1980), and I loved it then and I love it now!

 

To You needs to be on there. I'd take off Getting Closer. and yes, any record with So Glad To See You Here, Old Siam Sir, and To You should be at #1 or #2 on the list.

 

A couple that comes to mind...

Macca:
Every Night
Junk
Oo You
Momma Miss America
Maybe I'm Amazed

RRS:
Get On The Right Thing
Little Lamb Dragonfly
One More Kiss
Single Pigeon
When The Night
(That's basically the middle stretch of the album).

 

Well, we're in complete agreement, I see.
But that obvious typo-ed question mark should have been edited out of your post.

 

I don't want to speak for Ben but my impression of his view - which I share, hence my joining this little conversation - is that he is (and I am) surprised that there's nothing on there you like. Not one single song. From an album by an artist you really like. That's not to say that I think you're exaggerating or lying, just simply that I'm surprised. I share your healthily robust views of McCartney's work in that I don't think all of it is great but even I can't point to a single album of his and honestly say there's nothing on it I like.

 

As near as I can tell Kisses on the Bottom has been left out.
Soooo.....

"My Valentine"
"Only our Hearts"
"Always"
"Bye Bye Blackbird"
"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive"

I was really looking forward to Kisses, but ...... eh!
So I haven't listened to it as much as I would have.

Has someone done Electric Arguments yet?

Oh, and Twin Freaks or is that more a compilation?
I can't decide, but I'd be safe from doofus status if I say;

"Lalula"
"Really Love You"
"Rinse the Raindrops"
"Oh Woman Oh Why"
and .. geez, mmm boy -- Oh,
okay "Mumboy"