All your life

Fantastic.

I love how Abbey Road always looks so shitty, like a parochial school in Muncie, Indiana.

I should add: “Via [the great] Rob Sheffield” (on Facebook)

Again, as a somewhat older Paul fan, I see the recycled Paul was or is too comfortable opinions in certain eras. Funny, because I thought all of them too comfortable when noted the others recycling their styles. Those dissing now the late eighties and early nineties Paul forget that flowers in the dirt was a popular and good album that got Paul back to touring and off the ground a musically varied album that fans like. By late eighties and early nineties, music industry was album not hit single driven and neither of these albums charted that high but are considered good and hold up with Paul fans.

The old trite….Paul is too happy and can’t do ram type angst art has been recycled since the seventies when he was desperately trying to reinvent himself several times despite set backs. I read where even Paul himself disses some of his wings work but had he not broken through in a big way in seventies as did by band on the way would probably have folded. Solo Beatles had extreme pressure on them to succeed in seventies yet still dominated charts before other three Beatles folded and disco knocked them out. Kudos to the commenter on a different thread about merit of band on run album and 1985 song. Band was wings big break through album and began a US number one streak and the rock critic and fans Paul too comfortable dissing but Paul had to get a generation of younger fans so severely dissed in seventies.

I have been trolling a PIDtard recently who is gleefully pulling up those venomous John fanboy Paul does crap seventies and eighties reviews in an effort to prove Paul is dead and even pulled up the old critic review something missing from solo Paul music to which I responded was what was missing from all solo Beatles music, the other Beatles.

Now I have seen a Paul ruined all later Beatles albums with s crap song, and funny the Paul is dead troll said same thing when later Paul gave Beatles genre variation of pub songs, cabaret songs, broadway sounding songs, Victorian English songs. Paul had cover of Beatles then and I remember those songs being considered ultra cool as only Beatles dared expand their genre range then. No one but Beatles dared do these genre expanded songs, and Paul did them best. Other Beatles began to hate them and displayed some apparent jealousy but group and solo gave Paul widest range. Where I grew up I read lofty rock critics but my friends and siblings missed the memo that evolving wings were uncool, adapting Paul in eighties and nineties was uncool because decades had changed.

Before I discovered his great unreleased eighties techno and nineties reggae I thought Paul was cool as the most evolving adapting solo Beatle and his rock and roll classics late nineties era was sung with guttural soul. When he evolved into mellowed out but excellent stages after 2000, he was still able to perform and play with the young singers. His current album sounds so contemporary the kids like it and it shot to number one.

I see Paul is dead and Beatles fans like dissing Paul and wanting message music of the sixties, Eleanor rigby in 79 and pining over my salamander lyric when trust me no one wanted Eleanor rigby concept rock lyrics in 79. I see folks reviewing stuff who don’t know types of music like Morse goose was a wings seventies prog rock song and melody maker kids way younger than me claiming McCartney missed the mood with London Town in 78 before new wave hit, when this gal remembered disco fading and am and fm radio completely mellow and with a little luck was number one in America and number 5 in England.

I see folks younger than me with no concept of these decades dissing solo Beatles in these decades. Once George finally quit singing like Dylan too high, he got a good number one album, cloud 9, and he had a good super old fart band that got on mtv, the wilburys. Other solo Beatles always had t perform live hidden behind other superstars and George solo, which I saw, with Ravi half the show, but there was old macca with a shifting line up for different reasons wings band, and some songs and albums he did with another, two black singers and Costello FITD album. For those of you thinking these efforts too corny and inferior, eighties were a zany, pop time, Macca was in his forties and Costello and macca had different styles but did some good work together.

I liked all solo Beatles then, rotated my favorite and collected in The Beatles throughout these decades but missed all these cool memos as lived in the south I guess. Early seventies anti Paul reviews so bad I soon learned to enjoy his solo stuff anyway. Like all later Beatles even and solo stuff he did some weaker stuff but was situational to the era and styles then. I have news for you, all solo Beatles did weaker stuff despite John or campaign that he was coolest, he was late to the left wing causes because war winding down and all things must past many songs done with help of later Beatles John and Paul. Other Beatles folded by the time Paul started to break through in 73 and some very good stuff on those albums and folks are buying up and complimenting those expensive box sets.

I had to get on The Beatles blogs and read comments from younger fans and the Paul is dead crowd to see how vastly superior other solo Beatles who were way more stuck in the late sixties rotation mode and ringo who has done a good recent album and an earlier good song with McCartney but these folks had to enlighten me all over again as to how uncool and comfortable Paul was. It was John who did tge middle age man domestic bliss double fantasy and was reviewed that way until he died.

In sixties I was a John fan, solo was a George and John fan but it was Paul’s great solo music that won me over and did not like how solo Beatles, rock press and Beatles fans stacked the deck against him. Despite all of this he survived and thrived, adapted and I began to admire him as much for this as for his music. Once old John and George fanboy stuck in the late sixties retired new critics re-evaluated all of his solo music and vastly upgraded it. Kudos to the commenter on this blog saying band on the run, I would add other strong wings albums and good songs, but for that commenter especially citing McCartney 2 and accompanying singles as ahead of gozilla and ahead of techo house and deep house. Besides George sixties electronic sounds, Paul only Beatle going into it with wings use of mini moog, coming up electronica that got John back to studio, new age ocean, blue and sway and fireman, electric argument and reef, ultra cool music, so sounds like the man always got out of his safe space, his use of auto tune and contemporary recent albums and singles have offended old Beatles and Paul fans. As I eventually like him as the most adaptable contemporary Beatle all along, even when efforts then seen as failures, I am glad I moved past the late sixties and even my favorite Paul and solo Beatles decade, the seventies.