Mccartney [Us Import] | ![Mccartney [Us Import]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZX64DTC8L._SL500_.jpg) | Artist: Paul Mccartney
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
Used (2) from £10.99
Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 63055
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 077774661126
EAN: 0077774661126
ASIN: B000002UC5
Release Date: December 23, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Lovely Linda | | • | That Would Be Something | | • | Valentine Day | | • | Every Night | | • | Hot As Sun/Glasses | | • | Junk | | • | Man We Was Lonely | | • | Oo You | | • | Momma Miss America | | • | Teddy Boy | | • | Singalong Junk | | • | Maybe I'm Amazed | | • | Kreen - Akrore |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Paul's first solo outing is very much a home-grown affair with him singing and playing everything (apart from a few harmonies by Linda). The expectations were high, and while not everything clicked, there was enough good stuff for the legend to continue. "That Would Be Something", "Man We Was Lonely", "The Lovely Linda" and "Teddy Boy" all make the grade, but everything is eclipsed by "Maybe I'm Amazed", which remains one of his most enduring songs, up there with anything the Beatles released (and which would have sounded quite at home on Let It Be). --Chris Nickson
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 A pretty lousy effort June 28, 2010
Unsmart
At least considering Paul's actual talent. "Maybe I'm amazed" is a really good song. A few of the other songs are semi-good. But as a whole album, it doesn't really work. Most of the songs could have been fairly interesting as archive material but that's it.
Paul often weren't very keen on waiting until he had material to fill an entire album. And this might be his very best (read: worst) example of this. He really should have released this piece as a 45 containing "Maybe I'm amazed"/"Junk".
Fortunately his next album "Ram" was far better and proved that, although not on par with the Beatles' music, he still could make good albums.
 Brilliant Album September 19, 2009
A. L. Parker
This has to be one of McCartney's best albums and unlike Lennon and Harrison, McCartney made it on his own at home.
The first and possibly (second) best!!! September 14, 2009
Mr. A. D. Procter (Leeds, England)
Anyone who is very much into the Lennon/Harrison side of the Beatles don't often appreciate fully the McCartney side of the group. I am one of those. There's something almost music hall and establishment about many of his songs. Nevertheless, I have grown to think far more of his offerings, brought about by a chance hearing of his Memory Almost Full album. Since then, I have trawled his Seventies output and given it all a good listen. The worst of his tendencies still happen and yet.......
This album is such a little gem. It bristles with cool ideas and at least three great songs, and it sounds just like it was supposed to sound, like a glorified 'bedroom tape'. It was quite a brave move to supplant the elegance of Abbey Road with this rough and ready cobbled-together collection. Maybe I'm Amazed is obviously the most famous and deservedly so. The said Abbey Road would have so benefitted from this instead of, for instance, Maxwell. It is, however, very atypical of this debut. Every Night is such a beautiful little song, as is Junk. Teddy Boy is a little too twee for me (listen to Lennon's asides on the Anthology Beatle version lol) and the rest is basically filler, instrumental or both. Yet the whole adds up to far more than the parts, there's an unspoken lament about it, one of two of the most famous songwriters of all time trying to find his feet and his voice. I think Ram is probably his 70's masterpiece, but this quiet and understated affair is without a doubt his most intimate statement.
Charming and thoroughly likeable April 15, 2009
A. Sweeney (London, England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Paul McCartney's first solo release after leaving The Beatles is a simple, charming, homemade album, with some tracks emitting an unfinished demo-like aura which, strangely enough, is the appeal of this real gem in Paul's back catalogue. I bought this album for the first time nearly 20 years ago and it has been a regular visitor to my CD player ever since. There are many things about this release which make it so likeable - there are classic McCartney compositions such as the gorgeous "Every Night", the beautiful "Junk" and the timeless, impeccable "Maybe I'm Amazed", which remains one of the greatest love songs ever written by any artist. There are also tracks which are the sound of McCartney letting go, jamming and making music for music's sake, such as the fantastic "Momma Miss America" and the catchy, bluesy "Oo You".
Paul raids a couple of his previously written or unfinished compositions such as "Hot As Sun", an instrumental written in the late `50s, and "Teddy Boy" which was written in 1968 but never appeared on a Beatles release (apart from the "Anthology"). The rest are experimental, enjoyable glimpses into Paul's newly found creativity as a solo artist. The whole album is an interesting statement from somebody who has found a new, unwanted artistic license to do anything he pleases - and "McCartney" is his response. I readily admit that I love this album, despite the flaws and the indulgences, but the warmth and playfulness Paul's 1970 release radiates more than compensates for the one or two moments which don't quite work.
This album is probably one of the greatest responses to the people who criticise Paul's post-Beatles output without knowing the depth of his catalogue. Some of the tracks gained exposure thanks to Cameron Crowe's great film, "Jerry Maguire", which featured "Singalong Junk" and "Momma Miss America" but this fantastic slice of McCartney remains one of the best kept secrets in Paul's closet. If you want a real treat, then invest in this album, but be warned - it may make you want to buy everything that Paul has ever released. I know I did - and I didn`t regret it.
 Singalong and Junk March 30, 2008
A. Walker (London)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Appearing just before 'Let It Be', this was McCartney's first solo album which he produced himself and rush-released. The album seems to have been constructed around four real songs which are actually somewhere in the league of The Beatles even if their production isn't. However, these classics are padded out with the most obvious of filler material: half-written doodles, general "experimentation", and no less than five instrumentals. And the instumentals are not a drastic new direction, either; merely jams or tunes too forgettable to merit marriage with words.
The highlights are wonderful, though: 'Every Night' sees McCartney almost fit into the confessional songwriter mode where he explores his directionless malaise following the split of the world's greatest group; 'Junk', virtually unchanged since the "Beatles" version that later appeared on 'Anthology 3', features one of his most beautiful melodies which is really saying something (it reappears later in the album without the vocal as 'Singalong Junk' for no apparent reason); 'Teddy Boy' was also good enough to get tried with The Beatles; and 'Maybe I'm Amazed' is probably the finest composition of his solo career.
Ultimately, the impact of the great songs is lessened when watered-down with such careless junk as 'Kreen-Akrore' or 'Oo You'. But this remains one of McCartney's better albums and would've made an ideal five-star EP, if EPs had not gone out of fashion by the end of the sixties. The lesson here is to leave the experiments off the album and wait until you have a full album's worth of songs as good as 'Every Night' or 'Maybe I'm Amazed'. Now, that would be something.
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