What Are Your Top 40 Solo Paul Songs?
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This means anything he did 1970 to present, including Wings! Here’s mine (not in any particular order, but Maybe I’m Amazed is my favorite)
1. Maybe I’m Amazed
2. My Love
3. Calico Skies
4. Beautiful Night
5. No More Lonely Nights
6. Somedays
7. Little Willow
8. Wanderlust
9. Waterfalls
10.Tomorrow
11.Here Today
12.Jenny Wren
13.Every Night
14.With A Little Luck
15.Jet
16.Magneto & Titanium Man
17.Helen Wheels
18.Band On The Run
19.Hi Hi Hi
20.Letting Go
21.Let Me Roll It
22.Mull Of Kintyre
23.Venus & Mars
24.Appreciate
25.I Can Bet
26.The Backseat Of My Car
27.Fuh You
28.New
29.1985
30.Mrs. Vandebilt
31.I’m Carrying
32.Young Boy
33.Heaven On A Sunday
34.Dear Boy
35.Junior’s Farm
36.I’ve Had Enough
37.Junk
38.Take It Away
39.So Bad
40.Not Such A Bad Boy
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I'll do a Top 10 but I'm excluding Wings for the same reason why I'm excluding the Beatles.
In no particular order apart from #1 .1. Waterfalls /
2. Scared /
3. How Kind Of You /
4. Junk /
5. Riding to Vanity Fair /
6. Somedays /
7. You Tell Me /
8. Hosanna /
9. No Values /
10. I Want You To Fly.
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Kestrel wrote:
I'll do a Top 10 but I'm excluding Wings for the same reason why I'm excluding the Beatles.
In no particular order apart from #1 .1. Waterfalls /
2. Scared /
3. How Kind Of You /
4. Junk /
5. Riding to Vanity Fair /
6. Somedays /
7. You Tell Me /
8. Hosanna /
9. No Values /
10. I Want You To Fly.
No “Maybe I’m Amazed?”
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Nancy R wrote:
No “Maybe I’m Amazed?”
If I had done a top 40 then it probably would have been in there somewhere, but not in my top 10. I can understand why its so well liked but its not personally a favourite of mine any more than My Love would be. There are certain songs I can appreciate without actually wanting to listen to them. And "Maybe I'm Amazed" is one of them. At least I like Somedays,Waterfalls & Junk from your top 40.....plus many others had I considered Wings songs as being Solo songs.
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Without a ton of thought, at the moment, here goes (in no order of ranking). I'm excluding covers; otherwise I'd include some from Run Devil Run, one of my favorite Paul albums.
Maybe I'm Amazed
Every Night
Too Many People
Back Seat Of My Car
Tomorrow
Band On The Run
Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five
Junior's Farm
Love In Song
Listen To What The Man Said
Beware My Love
Silly Love Songs
Mull Of Kintyre
Waterfalls
Summer's Day Song
Tug Of War
Here Today
Wanderlust
No More Lonely Nights
Footprints
This One
That Day Is Done
Golden Earth Girl
The Lovers That Never Were
Somedays
Calico Skies
Heaven On A Sunday
Magic
Heather
Rinse The Raindrops
Friends To Go
Too Much Rain
Only Mama Knows
House Of Wax
Traveling Light
Dance 'Till We're High
Alligator
New
Hand In Hand
Dominoes
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One thing I've just noticed is that these listings are staying in the same format as they were originally posted. The last time I created a list it was all squashed up in a series of lines after a few hours.
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Kestrel wrote:
One thing I've just noticed is that these listings are staying in the same format as they were originally posted. The last time I created a list it was all squashed up in a series of lines after a few hours.
True. I wonder if it will last. Another thing that seems to be fixed is when copying links to this site, you don't need to put it in the "link" icon box. It becomes clickable automatically. I would love for the youtube button to work correctly rather than disappearing after an hour.
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To change things up, here are my Top 10 Wings tunes:
10. London Town
9. So Glad To See You Here
8. Old Siam, Sir
7. Girl's School
6. Give Ireland Back To The Irish
5. Red Rose Speedway Medley
4. Band On The Run
3. Silly Love Songs
2. Listen To What The Man Said
1. 1985
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oobu24 wrote:Another thing that seems to be fixed is when copying links to this site, you don't need to put it in the "link" icon box. It becomes clickable automatically.
I hadn't realised that. I'll have to try it the next time I have a link to post.
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Here’s Rolling Stone magazine’s top 40:
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Kestrel wrote:
oobu24 wrote:Another thing that seems to be fixed is when copying links to this site, you don't need to put it in the "link" icon box. It becomes clickable automatically.
I hadn't realised that. I'll have to try it the next time I have a link to post.
It works! I’ve done it 3 times!
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Nancy R wrote:
Kestrel wrote:
oobu24 wrote:Another thing that seems to be fixed is when copying links to this site, you don't need to put it in the "link" icon box. It becomes clickable automatically.
I hadn't realised that. I'll have to try it the next time I have a link to post.
It works! I’ve done it 3 times!
It's a pity the guys who run this message board don't regularly post up news on when they've updated / solved their coding issues and not just let users discover,by accident, that things actually work now.
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Kestrel wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
Kestrel wrote:
oobu24 wrote:Another thing that seems to be fixed is when copying links to this site, you don't need to put it in the "link" icon box. It becomes clickable automatically.
I hadn't realised that. I'll have to try it the next time I have a link to post.
It works! I’ve done it 3 times!
It's a pity the guys who run this message board don't regularly post up news on when they've updated / solved their coding issues and not just let users discover,by accident, that things actually work now.
I don't remember how I found out that it works but I've been trying to spread the word. lol
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great examining the list
thought so "Maybe I am Amazed" would be people's number 1
Paul's vocals were strong then
Some songs never heard of, good surprise e.g."Angry"
thought "Mull of Kintrye" would be higher though
I myself would go for "A little Luck" as my number1
also noticed it took 3 people to comile the Rolling stone list, shows how difficult to make Paul's top 40 list
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Not sure I can make it to 40 without burning out my brain, but here's a list of major faves, in no particular order:
Maybe I'm Amazed
Band on the Run
Somedays
Here Today
Wanderlust
The Pound Is Sinking
Friends to Go
Too Much Rain
Little Willow
The World Tonight
Only Mama Knows
The End of The End
Mr. Bellamy
Feet in the Clouds
Hand in Hand
Dominoes
Confidante
Do It Now
Old Siam Sir
Silly Love Songs
San Ferry Anne
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Bruce M. wrote:
Not sure I can make it to 40 without burning out my brain, but here's a list of major faves, in no particular order:
Maybe I'm Amazed
Band on the Run
Somedays
Here Today
Wanderlust
The Pound Is Sinking
Friends to Go
Too Much Rain
Little Willow
The World Tonight
Only Mama Knows
The End of The End
Mr. Bellamy
Feet in the Clouds
Hand in Hand
Dominoes
Confidante
Do It Now
Old Siam Sir
Silly Love Songs
San Ferry Anne
I need to Google that last one!
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Nancy R wrote:
Bruce M. wrote:
Not sure I can make it to 40 without burning out my brain, but here's a list of major faves, in no particular order:
Maybe I'm Amazed
Band on the Run
Somedays
Here Today
Wanderlust
The Pound Is Sinking
Friends to Go
Too Much Rain
Little Willow
The World Tonight
Only Mama Knows
The End of The End
Mr. Bellamy
Feet in the Clouds
Hand in Hand
Dominoes
Confidante
Do It Now
Old Siam Sir
Silly Love Songs
San Ferry Anne
I need to Google that last one!
It's from Speed of Sound
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TommyC909 wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
Bruce M. wrote:
Not sure I can make it to 40 without burning out my brain, but here's a list of major faves, in no particular order:
Maybe I'm Amazed
Band on the Run
Somedays
Here Today
Wanderlust
The Pound Is Sinking
Friends to Go
Too Much Rain
Little Willow
The World Tonight
Only Mama Knows
The End of The End
Mr. Bellamy
Feet in the Clouds
Hand in Hand
Dominoes
Confidante
Do It Now
Old Siam Sir
Silly Love Songs
San Ferry Anne
I need to Google that last one!
It's from Speed of Sound
Yeah, I found that out. Haven’t listened to that album since maybe 2013. (whenever the remaster came out) I won the 2-CD set in a Beatles trivia contest on a Beatles cruise.
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wingsoverkc wrote:
To change things up, here are my Top 10 Wings tunes:
10. London Town
9. So Glad To See You Here
8. Old Siam, Sir
7. Girl's School
6. Give Ireland Back To The Irish
5. Red Rose Speedway Medley
4. Band On The Run
3. Silly Love Songs
2. Listen To What The Man Said
1. 1985
Here are my top 10 Wings tracks which I can't place in any real order.
I Lie Around
Jet
Dear Friend
Some People Never Know
The Note You Never Wrote
Love In Song
Little Lamb Dragonfly
Winter Rose / Love Awake
Juniors Fram
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five.
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No doubt I'm a Paul McCartney Nerd so this sort of exercise is right down my alley. Also no doubt that this sort of list is a matter of personal opinion. No one is right and no one is wrong.
Because Macca's musical Post Beatles' Catalog is do diverse and huge, I'm going to set some boundaries for this list. With that in mind, I'm going to stick with Paul's original Post Beatles' Pop-Rock Studio albums and A-sided singles. At another time, it would be easy to do a 40 or even 50 Paul tracklist with just unreleased work, B-sides, rare versions etc. Hard to believe but that would be a very good quality list as well.
But as far as my Paul's Top 40 (or in my case 50) "known" Paul songs, my list is below. There is "no order" here and to make it easy for me, I'm basicallly going in album and/or single order.
1. Maybe I'm Amazed
2. Every Night
3. Too Many People
4. Dear Boy
5. Live and Let Die
6. Single Pigeon
7. Band of the Run
8. Jet
9.. 1985.
10. Love In Song
11. Letting Go
12.. Beware My Love
13. Silly Love Songs
14. With a Little Luck (studio version)
15. Don't Let It Bring You Down
16. Mull of Kintyre
17. Arrow Through Me
18. Winter Rose/Love Awake
19. Coming Up
20. Tug of War (the song)
21. Take it Away
22. Somebody Who Cares
23. Wanderlust
24. Here Today
25. Pipes of Peace
26. The Other Me
27. Footprints
28. Only Love Remains
29. My Brave Face
30. Put It There
31. Distractions
32. Hope Of Deliverance
33. Somedays
34. Calico Skies
35. Little Willow
36. Beutiful Night
37. Lonely Road
38. Jenny Wren
39. Too Much Rain
40. Riding to Vanity Fair
41. Ever Present Past
42. Only Mama Knows
43. Mr. Bellamy
44. Only Our Hearts
45. My Valentine
46. Alligator
47. Early Days
48. I Don't Know
49. Happy With You
50. Dominoes
Wow...it was hard to keep it to 50. There was approximately another 20 that could have easily made this sort of "my best song" list. Just shows that Paul needs a better, more complete Anthology Box Set done by "Decade". The list above covers every decade from the 70's to the present time and there are so many very good to great songs.
