Paul & Linda McCartney – RAM (1971) [Remaster 2012] {UNLIMITED Edition}
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:21:10 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: PaulMcCartney.com | Artwork: Digital booklet | @ Hear Music
RAM, originally released in 1971, is the second post-Beatles album from legendary singer-songwriter Paul McCartney. The only recording to credit both Paul and Linda McCartney, is the latest album from his iconic back catalog, to receive the deluxe archive collection treatment. The album saw overwhelming praise from critics and music fans, topping the UK charts and reaching #2 on Billboard’s Top 200. The album written by the pair featured Wings’ drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarists David Spinozza and Hugh McCracken. The album includes Paul McCartney’s first post-Beatles #1 hit single, “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey,” which won McCartney a GRAMMY® award for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s). Rippling with rock n’ roll melodies and gorgeous arrangements, this quintessential recording is now available with revitalized sonic clarity.
After the breakup, Beatles fans expected major statements from the three chief songwriters in the Fab Four. John and George fulfilled those expectations — Lennon with his lacerating, confessional John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Harrison with his triple-LP All Things Must Pass — but Paul McCartney certainly didn’t, turning toward the modest charms of McCartney, and then crediting his wife Linda as a full-fledged collaborator on its 1971 follow-up, Ram. Where McCartney was homemade, sounding deliberately ragged in parts, Ram had a fuller production yet retained that ramshackle feel, sounding as if it were recorded in a shack out back, not far from the farm where the cover photo of Paul holding the ram by the horns was taken. It’s filled with songs that feel tossed off, filled with songs that are cheerfully, incessantly melodic; it turns the monumental symphonic sweep of Abbey Road into a cheeky slice of whimsy on the two-part suite “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey.” All this made Ram an object of scorn and derision upon its release (and for years afterward, in fact), but in retrospect it looks like nothing so much as the first indie pop album, a record that celebrates small pleasures with big melodies, a record that’s guileless and unembarrassed to be cutesy. But McCartney never was quite the sap of his reputation, and even here, on possibly his most precious record, there’s some ripping rock & roll in the mock-apocalyptic goof “Monkberry Moon Delight,” the joyfully noisy “Smile Away,” where his feet can be smelled a mile away, and “Eat at Home,” a rollicking, winking sex song. All three of these are songs filled with good humor, and their foundation in old-time rock & roll makes it easy to overlook how inventive these productions are, but on the more obviously tuneful and gentle numbers — the ones that are more quintessentially McCartney-esque — it’s plain to see how imaginative and gorgeous the arrangements are, especially on the sad, soaring finale, “Back Seat of My Car,” but even on its humble opposite, the sweet “Heart of the Country.” These songs may not be self-styled major statements, but they are endearing and enduring, as is Ram itself, which seems like a more unique, exquisite pleasure with each passing year.
Tracklist:
CD1 #01 – Too Many People
CD1 #02 – 3 Legs
CD1 #03 – Ram On
CD1 #04 – Dear Boy
CD1 #05 – Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
CD1 #06 – Smile Away
CD1 #07 – Heart of the Country
CD1 #08 – Monkberry Moon Delight
CD1 #09 – Eat at Home
CD1 #10 – Long Haired Lady
CD1 #11 – Ram On (reprise)
CD1 #12 – The Back Seat of My Car
CD2 #13 – Another Day
CD2 #14 – Oh Woman, Oh Why
CD2 #15 – Little Woman Love
CD2 #16 – A Love for You
CD2 #17 – Hey Diddle
CD2 #18 – Great Cock and Seagull Race
CD2 #19 – Rode All Night
CD2 #20 – Sunshine Sometime
CD2 #21 – Eat at Home” / “Smile Away (Live in Groningen, 1972)
CD2 #22 – Uncle Albert Jam
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