Poll: Paul McCartney (Wings) - Band on The Run (1973 Album) - Top 5 songs

I want to know how folks feel about these songs now. What are your 5 or so favorites? As a bonus let us know why you have picked your choices and if your thoughts on any of the songs have changed over time.

 

Here is a great podcast about each track on the album:

Episode 6 – Band on the Run | Take It Away: The Complete Paul McCartney Archive Podcast

 

Here is a link to all of my other Solo Beatle polls:

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1. Band On the Run
2. Jet,
3, Let Me Roll It
4. Helen Wheels
5. 1985

Great album, perfect flow. To pick 5 is pretty easy on the one hand. yet, it seems to devalue the whole of the record. This album would not be the same without the other 5. BTW, I've never considered Country Dreamer part of this record. Solid track, tho.

 

Country Dreamer was the B-Side of the Helen Wheels single, which came out about a month before this album was released.

 

Band on the Run
Mrs. Vandebilt
Mamunia
Picasso's Last Words
1985

Very well-balanced and highly enjoyable album.

 

I was able to cheat and got 6:

1. Band on the Run
2. Jet
3. Bluebird
4. Let Me Roll It
5. Helen Wheels
6. 1985

 

A terrific album from start to finish from McCartney (Wings)
Some of the best music and arrangements he has ever done in his solo career.
Still play it 3-4 times a year.

In no particular order I like these.

Band On the Run
Bluebird
Mrs. Vandebilt
No Words
1985

 

Closest anyone has gotten to my picks. I just didn't cheat and dropped Let Me Roll It from your list to have 5, but it would have been my 6th choice.

 

The voting really shows how solid side one of this album is!

 

Mamunia is my one of the most under-appreciated songs in Paul's vast catalog. I think it is absolutely stunning and never understood why no one else seems to agree with me!

1. Mamunia
2. Mrs. Vandebilt
3. Bluebird
4. Nineteen Hundred Eighty Five

 

Let Me Roll It
Jet
Band On The Run

Those 3 are all great. The rest are just average.

 

Band on the Run
Bluebird
Mamunia
No Words
Country Dreamer

 

Band On The Run
Bluebird
Jet
Let Me Roll It
1985
and of the bonus tracks Helen Wheels

 

Band On the Run
Jet
Mrs. Vandebilt
Let Me Roll It
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five

honorable mention to Bluebird and Helen Wheels

 

Jet
Mrs Vanderbilt
1985
Let Me Roll It
No Words

I only like the song Band On the Run slightly more than all the other big McCartney album singles that I've hated from first listen. Overall that puts it pretty far up the list, but not nearly enough to vote for it.

Jet is a great song, overplayed but still remains a favorite. Vanderbilt has a wonderful bass line. Lots of catchy tracks here. Really the only two tracks I dislike on the album are Helen and the title track, and both for the same reason--too simplistically monotonous.

 

You are a beam of sunshine in an otherwise dismal world!

 

Band
Jet
Mrs.
Words
1985

 

You're right, I probably should have played up what I did vote for. Those songs I do all like really well.

It's just strange to me how many of the main album songs that Paul (and sometimes John) released as the big singles that so many people like for whatever reason, have repelled me from the first times I heard them.

 

here are my 5 on the run:

- Band On The Run
- Jet
- Bluebird
- Mamunia
- Country Dreamer

 

I can't believe the love "Let Me Roll It" gets. Feh-pooey.

 

I can remember I had the Band on The Run single - 1975 or so. I was 13. I used to come home from school and (after any homework) play my entire stack of 45s on a crappy 1 piece, portable stereo. I don't remember all of the 45s, but they included Beach Baby, One & Celebrate (Three Dog Night), You Don't Mess Around With Jim, Uncle Albert, Help!, and a few others I can't remember right now. I'd typically play both sides. Band on the Run and 1985 were both magical and a couple of my favorites (still are); I can sometimes be transported back to that time when I close my eyes and listen.

 

I limited my choices to Let Me Roll It and Mrs V

I'm not really wild about anything else on this album, or the album in general.

 

I think this is perhaps the pinnacle of his solo albums, but it doesnt carry much of an emotional impact.
Guess i feel that way about much of Pauls solo work.

 

No US version.
Nineteen Hundred and eighty five
Jet
Band


Wow..this albums lost its charm.

Wild Life? No!