McCartney

The Beatles解散の引き金になったとも言われる、1970年4月にリリースされたポール・マッカートニー初のソロ・アルバム(全英チャート最高2位 / 全米チャート最高1位)がリマスターで蘇る！「Every Night」「Junk」などのほか永遠の名曲「Maybe I’m Amazed」を収録。この再発は、『Band on The Run』同様ポール本人が全面的にスーパーヴァイズを手掛け、The Beatlesのカタログをリマスターしたチームが、Abbey Road Studioでリマスタリングを施している。

Paul McCartney retreated from the spotlight of the Beatles by recording his first solo album at his home studio, performing nearly all of the instruments himself. Appropriately, McCartney has an endearingly ragged, homemade quality that makes even its filler -- and there is quite a bit of filler -- rather ingratiating. Only a handful of songs rank as full-fledged McCartney classics, but those songs -- the light folk-pop of "That Would Be Something," the sweet, gentle "Every Night," the ramshackle Beatles leftover "Teddy Boy," and the staggering "Maybe I'm Amazed" (not coincidentally the only rocker on the album) -- are full of all the easy melodic charm that is McCartney's trademark. The rest of the album is charmingly slight, especially if it is read as a way to bring Paul back to earth after the heights of the Beatles. At the time the throwaway nature of much of the material was a shock, but it has become charming in retrospect. Unfortunately, in retrospect it also appears as a harbinger of the nagging mediocrity that would plague McCartney's entire solo career. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine|