Paul McCartney greatest flaw as an artist ?

So I dispute this. So he and Stevie Wonder put out a catchy ode to race relations at a time MTV wasn't wanting to play black artists that hits #1. I don't really care how it sounds - it may not be your cup of tea, but there are more than a few kids who heard that message and maybe it sunk in a little. I'm good with that.

We All Stand Together was a for a CHILDREN'S cartoon. It was a song written for children. So I guess if an entertainment isn't edgy or cool or rock n roll its invalid?

 

John Lennon loved Coming Up.
Say Say Say is a decent pop song.
Ebony and Ivory is a #1 hit about race relations- more power to him and Stevie I say.

 

He has released two projects that created most of the critical fallout that followed him throughout his career.

Wild Life - After critics wrongly panned Ram, which he put everything he had into, he said F*** you, and went and recorded a record in 6 days. Had he held out a few months, he would have had a fairly stellar Wings debut LP - Soily, Best Friend, Tomorrow, Mama's Little Girl, Get on the Right Thing, The Mess, A Love For You, Some People Never Know, Dear Friend, Little Lamb Dragonfly, I Lie Around... all were recorded and available by mid-1972 and would have given Wings a much better reputation starting out.

Broad Street - A disaster of a movie, distracted Paul from music at a critical time - put the 2 good and 1 great/classic song from Broad Street on Pipes of Peace and its as good as Tug of War. Launching Paul into the 2nd half of the 80s with some quality work and not two half baked disasters.

Oh, and maybe Spies Like Us was a bad idea.

 

13-great when he's focused, he only has a few focused albums

 

McCartney is a human beeing And All human beeings make misstaken down The Road.
We All have or top moments in live And our bad moments.
This makes who we are.
McCartney had So many top moments hè is a great songwriter.
And hè had his bad moments where inspiration had left the building.
This is normal.
So I have no reason to vote.

 

Rotten pool player
Rotten cornet player
Can't speak French
Doesn't pay his debts

Oh, you mean MCCARTNEY'S bad pernts ...

I would go with too much "First idea = Best idea", particularly when it comes to lyrics. I understand his desire to not stand in the way of the muse, but he seems much more intent on applying his craft to the musical side, and recording/production aspects, while the lyrics that first came to him are sometimes nearly sacrosanct.

 

I agree with this -

he is actually quite insecure - so when Ram is panned, he says, fine, I'll just spend no time on a record like Dylan does...and releases Wild Life

he is criticized when he tells a producer "how many #1 hits have you written" - but when he is forced to accept their stupid ideas it lowers the quality of his work.

He has LITERALLY written more #1s than anyone else. So he does get to ask that question.

 

Not at all; neither were entertaining and were, frankly, utter rot in the manner of "We Built This City".

 

too much sappy stuff

and still tries to be too cool

bring in some outside musicians from time to time

 

I assume there will be an indentical thread for John Lennon as well....?

or was John right when he sang;

'everybody loves you when your six feet in the ground ?'

 

his greatest flaw is that he is Paul McCartney


no one dares give him any constructive criticism

 

His failure to recognize the importance of Helen Wheels to the Band On The Run LP.

 

I would only say that there ISN'T another collaborator on that level.

 

Definitely #1. A lot of nonsense lyrics, even though most of them are catchy as hell and I like them. That being said, while Mick Jagger was writing "Gimme Shelter" and "Street Fighting Man", the closest Paul could come would maybe be "Blackbird".

 

Before this thread gets too serious...

 

Anyone ever wonder why so many people have such narrow tastes, why they're so picky?

And yes, it's having narrow tastes when you don't like the majority of the music you hear. You like when Paul McCartney--or whoever--plays/writes this way, but not that way or that way or that way.

It's like saying, "Oh, I like creamsicle orange and sherbert orange, but I don't like any of the other oranges." That's narrow taste. But why are so many people so picky? Why are they so hard to please? Why don't they like more stuff?

 

All of them. But I'm retired.

 

He's pretty sacred alright, to most of us here. But we are welcome to critique artists here, but not to bash McCartney or anyone else here. As I understand the rules here.

Nor would I want to, McCartney is a great Artist imo. But I do have critiques of his works, some I like more than than others.

 

To me McCartney's biggest weakness and what I think is a major strike on his legacy, is his reluctance since the 80s to perform a vast majority of his Wings/solo material!

This man has tons of absolutely fantastic songs he should have performed live! Decade after Decade he has basically trotted out the same show, Paul McCartney has been Beatle heavy since the 80s! The 80s!

Such a shame for an artist who easily has the material to basically never repeat himself!

 

Biggest flaw is he's a workaholic. He'll put out an LP even when he has nothing to say. More focus and quality control needed and to wait until he has first rate material before releasing anything.

 

I always said he would be found out eventually.

 

He's released 3 albums in the last 10 years.....

 

Married a vegetarian...

 

I don't like everything he has put out but I am glad he has as there are songs that I love that would never have been released if he was to follow the criteria stated in this thread. I don't think I'd be as big a fan of him if it was not for some of the stuff like Check My Machine, Single Pigeon or Morse Moose and the Grey Goose.