Paul McCartney was the worst Beatle

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Super hot take and I know a bunch of you are going to shit on me for it but I was listening to some old music and it dawned on me that I've never heard a Paul McCartney song that I liked. Except for Say say say, which the one he did with Michael Jackson. And then there are a few Beatles songs I like too, but obviously those were collaborations with the other band members.

But his solo work is shit. Simply having a wonderful Christmas time is one of the most annoying and repetitive songs ever. Live and let die is so bad that I can't even enjoy the guns 'n roses cover of it, even though I love GNR. Band on the run has one good riff during the "if I ever get out of here" part, but then he ruins it by completely changing it into a different song that's very bland. He should've made that one guitar riff into it's own song, but he ruined it.

And I find a play list online of Paul's greatest hits and I listened just looking for one song I like and I can't find it.

Music is subjective and all that but it's strange that everyone thinks he was maybe the best Beatle (although many say it was Lennon), whereas I can't find a single good song.

There are solo songs from the other 3 that I really enjoy, even Ringo. But Paul just doesn't do it for me.

Ok now go ahead, tell me I'm crazy.
 
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Fedorgasm said:
I know a bunch of you are going to shit on me for it
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"A few Beatles songs"...you mean like their greatest song?


Also:







Key:
Blue = Paul McCartney composed
Purple = Paul McCartney & John Lennon composed (or below, Paul McCartney & others)
Emboldened = #1 Hit in US or UK


The Beatles (US Top 100 Charting Hits)
  1. A Day in the Life
  2. A Hard Day’s Night
  3. Act Naturally
  4. Ain't She Sweet
  5. All My Loving
  6. All You Need Is Love
  7. And I Love Her
  8. Baby's in Black
  9. Baby, You're a Rich Man
  10. Back in the USSR
  11. Blackbird
  12. Can’t Buy Me Love
  13. Come Together
  14. Day Tripper
  15. Dear Prudence
  16. Do You Want to Know a Secret
  17. Don’t Let Me Down
  18. Drive My Car
  19. Eight Days a Week
  20. Eleanor Rigby
  21. Free as a Bird
  22. From Me to You
  23. Get Back
  24. Golden Slumbers
  25. Got to Get You Into My Life
  26. Hello, Goodbye
  27. Help!
  28. Here Comes the Sun
  29. Hey Jude
  30. I Am the Walrus
  31. I Call Your Name
  32. I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party
  33. I Feel Fine
  34. If I Fell
  35. I’ll Cry Instead
  36. I'll Follow the Sun
  37. I’m a Loser
  38. I'm Happy Just to Dance with You
  39. I’m Only Sleeping
  40. In My Life
  41. I Saw Her Standing There
  42. I Should Have Known Better
  43. I Wanna Be Your Man
  44. I Want to Hold Your Hand
  45. Lady Madonna
  46. Let It Be
  47. Long Tall Sally
  48. Love Me Do
  49. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
  50. Magical Mystery Tour
  51. Matchbox
  52. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
  53. Michelle
  54. My Bonnie
  55. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
  56. Now and Then [#1 UK]
  57. Nowhere Man
  58. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  59. Octopus's Garden
  60. P.S. I Love You
  61. Paperback Writer
  62. Penny Lane
  63. Please Please Me
  64. Rain
  65. Real Love
  66. Revolution
  67. Roll Over Beethoven
  68. Rocky Raccoon
  69. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band
  70. She's a Woman
  71. She Loves You
  72. She Said She Said
  73. Slow Down
  74. Something
  75. Strawberry Fields Forever
  76. Taxman
  77. Thank You Girl
  78. The Long and Winding Road
  79. Ticket to Ride
  80. Twist and Shout
  81. We Can Work It Out
  82. When I'm Sixty-Four
  83. Why
  84. (I Get High) With a Little Help from My Friends
  85. Yellow Submarine
  86. Yes It Is
  87. Yesterday
  88. You Can't Do That

Other Works (US Top 100 Charting Hits, or #1 in UK)
  1. Another Day
  2. All Day ft. by Kanye West [a former song sampled]
  3. Band on the Run
  4. Coming Up
  5. Dance Tonight
  6. Ebony & Ivory ft. Stevie Wonder
  7. Getting Closer / Baby's Request
  8. Give Ireland Back to the Irish
  9. Goodnight Tonight
  10. Figure of Eight
  11. FourFiveSeconds ft. by Rihanna
  12. Freedom
  13. Helen Wheels
  14. Hi Hi Hi / C Moon
  15. I've Had Enough
  16. Jet
  17. Junior's Farm
  18. Let 'Em In
  19. Listen to What the Man Said
  20. Live and Let Die
  21. Letting Go
  22. London Town
  23. Maybe I'm Amazed
  24. My Brave Face
  25. My Love
  26. Mull of Kintyre [#1 UK]
  27. No More Lonely Nights
  28. Only One ft. by Kanye West
  29. Pipes of Peace [#1 UK]
  30. Press
  31. Sally G
  32. Say Say Say ft. Michael Jackson
  33. Silly Love Songs
  34. Stranglehold
  35. Take It Away
  36. The Girl is Mine (ft. by Michael Jackson)
  37. The World Tonight
  38. This One
  39. Tug of War
  40. Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey ft. Linda McCartney
  41. Venus & Mars / Rock Show
  42. With a Little Luck
  43. Wonderful Christmastime
 
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I think he wrote both some of the best and worst songs both as a Beatle as well as solo. I hate Listen to What the Man Said but love Coming Up. I hate Long and Winding Road but love Get Back.
 
I can see not liking his solo work, but the worst Beatle? Put the pipe down, bruh.
 
HereticBD said:
I can see not liking his solo work, but the worst Beatle? Put the pipe down, bruh.
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I'm mostly going by what each member did after the break up. There are several Lennon songs I like, several Harrison songs I like, and even a couple Ringo songs I like more than anything Paul did after the breakup.

During his time in the Beatles, I've read that it's hard to judge credit much of the time because Paul even said John was almost always consulted on songs even if his name didn't appear as the songwriter, and vice versa.
 
Fedorgasm said:
I'm mostly going by what each member did after the break up. There are several Lennon songs I like, several Harrison songs I like, and even a couple Ringo songs I like more than anything Paul did after the breakup.

During his time in the Beatles, I've read that it's hard to judge credit much of the time because Paul even said John was almost always consulted on songs even if his name didn't appear as the songwriter, and vice versa.
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I think you would be well served to reword & refile your case, Music Lawyer Man.

Because, c'mon, Harrison was a virtuoso guitarist, and Ringo is now appreciated as an underrated drummer who grooved in the group dynamic, but Lennon and McCartney were the heart & soul of the Beatles. They wrote almost all of the songs, whether individually or in collaboration, and they were the vocalists. McCartney is clearly the more capable singer with the better voice, even John recognized that. That's why Paul sang all of the songs he wrote, and most of the songs they co-wrote, or even some John wrote himself, some of those George or Ringo (co-)wrote, and most other songs they covered. Lennon has a very cool appeal as a singer, with his strange nasally voice, but it isn't controversial to forward this.

To call him the weakest Beatle is untenable. If you want to ignore everything they did as Beatles, cool, but just say, "McCartney has the weakest solo catalog of any of the Beatles." You're still wrong, but at least this isn't a catastrophic faceplant.

Offer up 10 songs for Ringo & George, respectively. I'll do Paul.

(1)


(2)


(3)


(4)


(5)


(6)
 
(7)


(8)


(9) I prefer the second "Admiral Halsey" half of this song-- you may recognize it without recognizing the first half, sometimes the radio plays only the latter portion.


(10)


(11) Oops, I cheated and did 11. Oh well, call this one the Holiday bonus track:
 
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I won't argue that Paul has the highest quantity, but my problem with with his quality. I don't like any of the songs you posted except for the ones where he collaborated with Michael.

And his Christmas song is one of the most annoying songs ever written.

I know I'm not going to convince you. Music appreciation is subjective. I guess I wanted to discuss it just to see if there was anyone else in this world also thinks Paul is overrated. So far it appears that there's not.
 
Fedorgasm said:
I won't argue that Paul has the highest quantity, but my problem with with his quality. I don't like any of the songs you posted except for the ones where he collaborated with Michael.

And his Christmas song is one of the most annoying songs ever written.

I know I'm not going to convince you. Music appreciation is subjective. I guess I wanted to discuss it just to see if there was anyone else in this world also thinks Paul is overrated. So far it appears that there's not.
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So what is the Harrison solo song you like so much? The Ringo solo song?
 
Madmick said:
So what is the Harrison solo song you like so much? The Ringo solo song?
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I'm not the biggest Harrison fan so I've only heard his big hits. My sweet lord, give me love, got my mind set on you, but I can appreciate those songs. They're pretty good. Especially the first 2.

As for Ringo, the main one I like is "it don't come easy"

He has another that I thought was decent but I don't recall right now.

Then of course with Lennon, imagine and instant karma are great songs. I love them both.
 
The Paul McCartney/Michael Jackson songs are ass, lets just be honest. If we're including collaborations then everything George Harrison did with the Traveling Wilburys is so much better.
 
Beatles are arguably the biggest band ever and McCartney was the most talented one . You may not like him but tough to say hes the worst when he was the best one from a tslent stand point
 
Fedorgasm said:
Super hot take and I know a bunch of you are going to shit on me for it but I was listening to some old music and it dawned on me that I've never heard a Paul McCartney song that I liked. Except for Say say say, which the one he did with Michael Jackson. And then there are a few Beatles songs I like too, but obviously those were collaborations with the other band members.

But his solo work is shit. Simply having a wonderful Christmas time is one of the most annoying and repetitive songs ever. Live and let die is so bad that I can't even enjoy the guns 'n roses cover of it, even though I love GNR. Band on the run has one good riff during the "if I ever get out of here" part, but then he ruins it by completely changing it into a different song that's very bland. He should've made that one guitar riff into it's own song, but he ruined it.

And I find a play list online of Paul's greatest hits and I listened just looking for one song I like and I can't find it.

Music is subjective and all that but it's strange that everyone thinks he was maybe the best Beatle (although many say it was Lennon), whereas I can't find a single good song.

There are solo songs from the other 3 that I really enjoy, even Ringo. But Paul just doesn't do it for me.

Ok now go ahead, tell me I'm crazy.
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I dont know about all that.
But I know that some idiot in here will probably try to claim that Paul invented metal when he made Helter Skelter.
He didnt.
 
Streeter said:
Beatles are arguably the biggest band ever and McCartney was the most talented one . You may not like him but tough to say hes the worst when he was the best one from a tslent stand point
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But talented how? He could play all the instruments but I'm questioning his talent as a songwriter.

I think perhaps Paul had a bunch of bad song ideas and then the other Beatles (mostly John) probably made suggestions that made those songs better. Paul said himself that him and John collaborated too some extent on almost all the Beatles songs, even the ones where one person got sole writing credit.

But then when Paul went on his own, nobody was there to help improve his songs, so he just put out bad song after bad song.
 
Fedorgasm said:
But talented how? He could play all the instruments but I'm questioning his talent as a songwriter.

I think perhaps Paul had a bunch of bad song ideas and then the other Beatles (mostly John) probably made suggestions that made those songs better. Paul said himself that him and John collaborated too some extent on almost all the Beatles songs, even the ones where one person got sole writing credit.

But then when Paul went on his own, nobody was there to help improve his songs, so he just put out bad song after bad song.
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You may not like him and thats fine but he had alot of hits with Wings too . He literally did everything in the Beatles and was the most important member even Lennon got more pub and may of been the better vocalist (ita close him n Paul) Lennon likely the better writer. But Paul wasn't a slouch there either - him.and Lennon writing together made some great stuff
 
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