But then, it was probably never intended to be anything else. 'Oo You' is a piece of messing around bluesy feel kind of thing, very loose, very loose indeed.
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It's a nice song - that's the real point. But as I said right at the start of this review, that really. Not hard to imagine it performed by different muscians, produced differently. Sorry!! 'Man We Was Lonely' shares both the simplicity of this entire solo Paul debut proper and also shares characteristics of his writing for his, a-hem, previous group. Maybe he didn't know what to do following the break-up of The Beatles, so just decided to be himself? Still, 'Junk' is a proper, heartbreaking and achingly beautiful song - Paul tugs at your heartstrings and emotions and this is Beatle quality, but why the hell are we even talking about them, anyway? Oh, yeah - right. Recorded a bunch of songs with seemingly little thought as to how it would even be perceived - it really does just come across as a bunch of songs, simply played, for the heck of it. Well, he lost Ringo, John, George and the other George. The blues guitar of 'Valentine Day' sounds like a demo, and it probably was. Delightfully simple in every way imaginable, very late at night camp-fire type of thing. A brief sing-a-long saying how lovely Linda his wife was, then moving into the very simple folky 'That Would Be Something'. 'McCartney' is a real home-produced effort, no Phil Spector production for Paul! Ah, there's a dig at John!! Not meant to sound like one, by the way. Who even plays on this album, for example? Well, Paul himself plays pretty much everything.
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It's hard to imagine too many of these songs as Beatle songs, but that's really to miss the point altogether. The Lovely Linda / That Would Be Something / Valentine Day / Every Night / Hot as Sun-Glasses / Junk / Man We Was Lonely / Oo You / Momma Miss America / Teddy Boy / Singalong Junk / Maybe I'm Amazed / Kreen-Akrore