Macca's latest Egypt Station , is quite catchy. Was available in mp3 thread....what you missed it?

I agree about those three albums.

Some McCartney stuff is great. 'My Love' is a memorable track as is 'Let Me Roll It.'

'Flowers In The Dirt' with Elvis Costello is a good album, 'Flaming Pie' with Jeff Lynne also is very good.

I think that Lennon's first couple of albums are absolute classics, and he made a (very)late come back with Double Fantasy.

Yep, I wonder IF there is anyone on Earth who likes those Yoko tracks.

They are used to torture inmates of Guantanamo. That's how they found out where Bin Laden was. I believe she gets the royalties.

Red and Blue Army!

You can just imagine one of the inmates sitting in his cell, "I hope it's waterboarding, hope it's waterboarding.....Oh no, not Yoko, F**K"

Lennon and McCartney were a gift to many of us.

As song writers, while they both are born from the same influences their styles evolved and were obviously shaped by their different characters as is true for any creative expression.

McCartney was always the more productive of the two, the most musically and commercially driven.

He wrote four of the most covered songs in history.

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No 9 Blackbird
No 5 And I love her (Lennon wrote the middle eight 'a love like ours, could never die, as long as I have you near me')
No 3 Eleanor Rigby (Lennon helped with some lyrics)
No 1 Yesterday

Lennon wrote one, 'Imagine' which sits at No 7.

However, personally McCartney had/has a tendency to often be too mawkish for me.......Nothing wrong with the odd overly sentiment song but...frigging hell he wrote a lot of them.

Lennon wasn't as consistently lovey dovey and was darker, which personally I prefer.

My favourite Beatle song is his, 'Hey Bulldog'......I'd say in my personal list of favourite Beatle songs he shades it.

It's also true of their post Beatle stuff....McCartney continued to write all time classics, Band on the Run, Jet, Coming Up, Live and Let Die and of course he went on much longer for obvious reasons but I think that while Lennon wrote less, he shaded it....Imagine, Woman, Working Class Hero, Starting Over, Jealous Guy.

However, choosing between these two giants seems a little trite. They both wrote so many standards.

However, if it came down to who I'd have rather dived under the covers with between Linda and Yoko.....All I can say is 'Lennon, so much thanks for the genius....but you fecking weirdo!'

Edited by Stirlingsays (29 Jun 2019 10.50am)

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