As I'm just leaving the store, I hear a Paul McCartney retrospective 30 second piece before a typically tepid Wings song, and the other big voice guy says in reference to Paul McCartney and Wings, "he made a generation of fans in the 1970s say...the Beatles? Oh yeah, Paul McCartney's old band". I'm taking some creative license here as I'm only 31 and didnt live the 70s, but I have to fucking bet that noone this side of Dah Mahneehhl has ever said anything remotely resembling that statement. Im calling shenanigans.

Paul McCartney was in the Beatles?

Paul McCartney = Worst Beatle

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Beatle Rankings

1. George Harrison
2. Ringo Starr
3. John Lennon
4. George Martin
5. Pete Best
6. Stu Sutcliffe
7. Brian Epstein
8. Yoko Ono
9. Paul McCartney

And yet McCartney's songs were the best ones. But ooh, John Lennon was subversive.

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Yeah really, what a talentless hack McCartney was. Why if it werent for his iron handed, pop sensibility ways, we couldve had more Ringo songs.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Yesterday
Eleanor Rigby
Blackbird
Hey Jude
Here, There, and Everywhere
Abbey Road, Side 2
Let It Be
The Long and Winding Road
Helter Skelter
For No One
The Fool on the Hill


worst Beatle, lol.

Yeah, Paul wrote some cloying garbage, sure, but if we're going to hold bad songs against them, hoo boy, look at some of the crap Lennon wrote.

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Beatle Bailey
Blue Beatle

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I got my mind SET ON YOU

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

1. George Harrison (quality over quanity. RPB, keep that 80's pop bullshit to yourself, all of these guys were garbage post 1980).
2. John Lennon
3. Paul McCartney
4. Ring Starr (He shouldn't even count, so I guess he's the worst Beatle by default).

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Repeat that 35 times and you have the smash hit single, "Got My Mind Set on You" off of his 1987 chart topper "Cloud Nine." Which actually was a pretty good album featuring Ringo Starr, Sir Elton John, Eric Clapton and the like.

It also led off Stroud's "Ten @ 10" this morning on The Drive.

Drive Announcer: "Ten great songs from 1987."

The ironic thing is that Lennon was at his best when he just played it straight. Most of his crap songs were the "subversive" ones. People like to hate on McCartney because Wings sucked.

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

Paul McCartney sounds like he's doing a fucking Catskills routine every time he's getting an award or engaging in onstage patter or whatever. It's annoying. Therefore, he is the Nintieth coolest Beatle, after Esther Rolle, but before Dwight Eisenhower.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

Yeah, he hated "And Your Bird Can Sing," but that's one of my favorite Beatles songs. "Tomorrow Never Knows" is worthless, on the other hand.

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I had the chance to feel really old in a record store (first for being in a record store) a few years ago. I had a 20-something couple ask me if I knew what band Paul McCartney used to be in. Figuring even these two brain donors knew who the Beatles were, I replied sarcastically, "You mean Wings?" The girl replies, "No, that old group before Wings." I told them to go ask the guy in the sharp FYE shirt.

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken

It's understandable. It's also a generation gap, too.

I never saw that video. MTV & VH1 always played the George Harrison one in the chair back in the day.