Band On The Run
by Paul McCartney & Wings

Band on the run, is quite rightly regarded as Paul McCartney's best album. You may prefer other records but, band on the run, has got to be the best. It's a thoroughly consistent album from start to finish, every song is potentially a highlight. The title track and, jet, are two of McCartney's best solo songs, but, let me roll it, is just as good as those two. Mamunia, is excellent, bluebird, is lovely, and, nineteen hundred and eighty-four, is great. In fact it's all great. Picasso's last words, is a song McCartney wrote after being challenged to write a song on the spot by Dustin Hoffman using those words. No words, the sole McCartney-Laine co-write on the record, is good, and, Mrs. Vanderbilt, is McCartney at his most catchy. McCartney would never make another album as good as this, at least in his Wings incarnation, and quite rightly stands up as a classic.

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This is McCartney's best because it's McCartney at his breezy best, mixing sounds, changing gears, playing with structure, like the genius he is. To me this is a light remake of Abbey Road or the White Album, without the melancholy or deeper tinges that Lennon and Harrison brought to the table.

This is a great album. "Band on the Run" the title track is an outstanding piece of work; the song is easily the best thing Paul ever did either solo or with Wings with "Maybe I'm Amazed" and "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" competing for second. However, the other tracks all range from decent to great as well. "Jet" is an awesome piece of power pop goodness. "Bluebird" has a catchy chorus. "Let Me Roll It" is a sexy and sensual song that evokes McCartney's old pal Lennon. "Nineteen Hundred Eighty Five" is a fantastic closer. The only real dud on this album is "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)" which is unfournate because it's the longest track on the album.

It's not included on the UK version, but the US "Helen Wheels" is a solid track as well.

In my opinion, this is Paul's best album. It's only competition is Ram.

Paul's best solo album for sure. But I don't think it's aged as well as All Things Must Pass or Imagine for it to be given the title of best Beatles solo album.

10/10

Top Tracks: "Bluebird", "Picasso's Last Words", "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five"

Pop perfection, as good as any Beatles album. You can't really complain about the songs being meaningless; it should be expected going into a McCartney solo album. What should always be expected is a great sense of melody and instrumentation, and you get that in abundance here.