Paul's most underrated songs?

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Oh Woman Oh Why , Whole Life ,Rainclouds,Back On My Feet,My Brave Face...

long list if you put some effort into it

Jenny Wren has been skipped

also have to say some of Paul's more recent songs have been great pieces

however if sang in Paul's younger voice they would be masterpieces.

love2travel:This is going to be a long list...

Calico Skies
Tomorrow
This One
Summers Day
India
Love In Song
Dance Til' We're High /Electric Arguments album
Good Times Coming/Feel the Sun
Whole Life
Ecce Cor Meum album
Hope of Deliverance
Sun Is Shining
Traveling Light
Palo Verde/ Rushes album
Riding Into Jaipur
All of the NEW album

In my mind, the list would be very long because as far as I'm concerned, if was underrated at the time it was released, I will always consider it underrated regardless of whether later generations found whatever was missed the first time around (such as pretty much the entire Ram and Back to the Egg albums)

This is a very appropriate thread for me. Recently I bought a Tablet and have been downloading Macca songs through the MP3 Player Pro. I wanted to focus on Post Beatles Paul and all the songs I had not listened to in a long time. Obviously, they're not played on the radio. The Macca library was quite deep so it was great to hear these songs.

Here's just a few songs that to my ears have aged very well.

*Souvenir - Not the most popular song when Flaming Pie first came out, but I love Paul's Soul voice and the melody. I think if a young soul singer with the right voice covered this song, it could be a massive hit. Combines soul and rock.

*Daytime Nightime Suffering - One of Paul's great B-Sides. He should have put this on Back to the Egg. Great thing about Paul diversity is this is a hard song to define. What genre is it? Sounds different than anything else but is great on its own

*I'm Carrying -- So beautiful...one of the songs from Londontown that George Harrison described as one of his favorite Paul songs. Beautiful guitar

*Little Willow -- One of my all time Paul solo songs...in my estimation, right up there with Paul's greatest Beatle songs. Boy, did Flaming Pie have some great songs. For anyone who has lost someone, the line "always came too soon" always gets to me

*Maybe Baby -- Obviously a Buddy Holly cover and I first heard it on U-Tube. It was on a movie sound track (the actor in the movie had a big TV medical show)..can't think of his name. Love Paul and Jeff Lynn's take on this cover that is decidedly faster than the original.

*Mistress and Maid -- Paul and Elvis Costello's song on Off the Ground. I was surprised how great it sound after not hearing it in a long time.

*My Soul -- Paul teamed with Nitin Sawhney (London Undersound) CD
Love the melody and Paul's older voice works really well. Love the lyrics..."My soul, Your Heart, Two Worlds Apart etc.

*Single Pigeon -- Always loved this piano one from Red Rose Speedway

* Lovers That Never Were -- Another great Paul/Elvis one from Off the Ground

*This Loving Game - I woke up the other morning with this song in my head. Great melody from the Jenny Wren EP

I'll come back with more...There are so many Hidden Gems from his Post Beatles' Career

So many to choose from. One of his best lesser known songs for me is Little Lamb Dragonfly

The Eggman67:Probably every song he wrote after the Beatles... or am I to cynical now?

Maybe a bit, think songs off BOTR were not underrated.

yankeefan7:

The Eggman67:Probably every song he wrote after the Beatles... or am I to cynical now?

Maybe a bit, think songs off BOTR were not underrated.

Oke, too cynical...
But I think that everyone here agrees that the list of underrated songs is very, very long.

Bruce M.:Underrated by whom? If you're talking about critics/the general public, I'd say pretty much anything Paul's done in the last 20 years, plus Silly Love Songs at the very least.

If we're talking about fans, I'd say the most underrated are Feet in the Clouds, Everybody Out There, Looking for Changes and Ebony and Ivory, and most overrated by fans by miles and miles is The Back Seat of My Car.

I suspect some opinions will differ.

I love all those songs you mentioned...why are those songs considered underrated may I ask?

And what do those critics have to say about those songs you mentioned? I normally do not pay any attention to stuff like this much because I love any song Paul has done.