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Did you ever listen to the album Ram by Paul & Linda McCartney?


Did you ever listen to the album Ram by Paul & Linda McCartney? Did it touch you in a special way like no other album?
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I still have it somewhere. I liked it and songs like “Uncle Albert” and “Too Many People”.
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Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey is easily my favorite track off that record.
ClockworkMustache · 31-35, M
@bijouxbroussard Those songs had a great impact on me when I was younger. I think those two songs may be the most two beautiful songs ever written by Paul McCartney. The arrangement and production helped them greatly, too. Paul's singing voice was his best and smoothest in my opinion. The line "That was your first mistake" was sung in such a haunting manner, juxtaposed with the instruments dropping out and the acoustic guitar strumming that kept going.
@SW-User Mine, too. This one is a close second. Of the Beatles I probably owned more of John Lennon’s records after they split up.
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George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" is my favorite of any post Beatles solo project. George was just sitting on a mountain of material at that point, though.
ClockworkMustache · 31-35, M
@SW-User All Things Must Pass is a very beautiful album.

I'd Have You Anytime, Wah-Wah. Art of Dying. Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) and It's Johnny's Birthday come to mind!
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It's a perfect record, in my opinion, and somehow, Phil Spector managed to help produce it without washing it out in reverb and layering like a lot of his other productions. He really let the performance stand on its own, which I'm guessing was Harrison's input into the production process.

It's also a hard record to find in decent condition, because the box usually got smashed somewhere along the way. The Concert for Bangladesh record was packaged the same way, too. I finally tracked down good copies of both a few years ago.