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McCartney by Paul McCartney

McCartney

Release Date: 1/13/1988

Recording Date: 4/1970

Tracks: 13

Length: 00:34:25 Hrs

Label: Capitol

Type: CD,CS

Genre/Styles:
Soft Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals, England, Album Rock, AM Pop

Album Tracks (13)

Song Title
Length
1.
The Lovely Linda
00:44
2.
That Would Be Something
02:37
3.
Valentine Day
01:40
4.
Every Night
02:31
5.
Hot as Sun/Glasses
02:07
6.
Junk
01:54
7.
Man We Was Lonely
02:57
8.
Oo You
02:48
9.
Momma Miss America
04:05
10.
Teddy Boy
02:23
11.
Singalong Junk
02:35
12.
Maybe I'm Amazed
03:50
13.
Kreen-Akrore
04:14

What the Critics Say

Paul McCartney retreated from the spotlight of the Beatles by recording his first solo album at his home studio, performing nearly all of the instruments himself. Appropriately, McCartney has an endearingly ragged, homemade quality that makes even its filler -- and there is quite a bit of filler -- rather ingratiating. Only a handful of songs rank as full-fledged McCartney classics, but those songs -- the light folk-pop of "That Would Be Something," the sweet, gentle "Every Night," the ramshackle Beatles leftover "Teddy Boy," and the staggering "Maybe I'm Amazed" (not coincidentally the only rocker on the album) -- are full of all the easy melodic charm that is McCartney's trademark. The rest of the album is charmingly slight, especially if it is read as a way to bring Paul back to earth after the heights of the Beatles. At the time the throwaway nature of much of the material was a shock, but it has become charming in retrospect. Unfortunately, in retrospect it also appears as a harbinger of the nagging mediocrity that would plague McCartney's entire solo career. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

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