McCartney's way with melody is as reliable as sunrise "Waterfalls" is gorgeous, and "One Of These Days" stands with his best Beatles era tunes. This second one is more pop, starting with the very first tune, "Coming Up." McCartney had settled into being a solo artist, and he was using a lot of synths, keyboards and drum machines, so it's very much a 1980s style record.
He didn't set out to make a record, he was just fooling around, playing with sound and music. He recorded this one entirely on his own at home, with the mics hooked up directly to the tape recorder, with no mixer, EQ or anything inbetween. "McCartney II" was released in 1980, when Paul wanted to get away from working in studios. McCartney and II are two very different albums. McCartney and McCartney II are available on LP, CD, or download. The newly remastered "McCartney" sounds clearer and more immediate than the previous versions. The best tune, "Maybe I'm Amazed" comes late on the record, but I still think the album as a whole is very listenable from beginning to end. Song sequencing in the analog era was part of the art of making records, and the flow of one tune to the next on "McCartney" was perfect. The album has a stripped-down, return-to-basics feel a real contrast to his work with the Beatles in the late 1960s. Yeah, he co-wrote a ton of hits for that band, but he really got a chance to spread his wings in 1970 with the release of his first solo record, the one with the catchy title, "McCartney." Forty-one years after its initial release "McCartney" still sounds very Beatles-esque, you might even think at times that Ringo's in there playing the drums, but in fact McCartney plays every instrument himself.
Paul McCartney has been a solo artist for a lot longer time than he was the Beatles' bass player.
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