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[CRAZY-HORSE]

PAUL McCARTNEY  "mccartney" vinyl/cd 1970.

released prior to the final Beatles album "let it be"...
reason i put it in "alternative" is because all the experts refer to this as the first ever "lo-fi" or "indie" album...
funny how opinions change over the decades because originally the reviewers said things like "and to think he broke up the Beatles for this", "contrived, underproduced and half baked ideas" and "sheer banality"...
modern reviews say "genius in its most simplistic purist form" and "listener friendly pop confectionary to easy the bitter pill of the Beatles break-up"...
anyway, what do i think of it...
well apart from the snide insults aimed at 'the other three' through the "spilt: life is a bowl of cherries" cover art through to the obvious sarcasm aimed at John Lennon in "teddy boy" it is an average Paul McCartney album,
it does however contain his ballad masterpiece "maybe im amazed" and "every night" which became a hit for Phoebe Snow in the mid 1970s.
there are a couple of 'garage rock' type songs, a few catchy pop tunes and little ditties that only he could get away with and be taken seriously for doing so.
and to top it off it was the first album by a rock artist whereby one person played every instrument, every vocal and produced/engineered an album from memory...
all up this is the weakest of the three self titled McCartney albums for me but it is still pretty darn good.
I LIKE THIS ALBUM

1:   the lovely linda  **
2:   that would be something  **
3:   valentine day  **
4:   every night  ***
5:   hot as sun/glasses  **
6:   junk  **
7:   man we was lonely  **
8:   oo you  **
9:   momma miss america  **
10: teddy boy  **
11: singalong junk  **
12: maybe im amazed  ***
13: kreen-akrore  **

3s -  2
2s -  11
1s -  0

rating:  2.1

best for me is "maybe im amazed" but lets go for the other "***' track this time round: