PAUL and LINDA McCARTNEY-RAM-APPLE PAS.10003 1971 EX++ COPY
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PAUL and LINDA McCARTNEY-RAM TYPE SINGLE LP-STEREO LABEL/PRESSING INFO
APPLE- MATRIX NUMBERS YEX 837-1 & YEX 838-1
CATALOGUE NUMBER PAS 10003 YEAR OF RELEASE 1971 COUNTRY OF RELEASE U.K. SLEEVE TYPE GATEFOLD-LAMINATED OUTER BOARDS INSERTS/EXTRAS ORIGINAL EMI INNER GRADING/CONDITION DISC(s)EXCELLENT++ (LOVELY CLEAN record, bright and shiny and not dulled by play with NO EVIDENT playwear and MINIMAL surface handling marks,plays brilliantly throughout )
LABELSEXCELLENT++(CLEAN LABELS with NO writing stickers,rips or tears,and TRACE spindleusage)
SLEEVEFront board and Inner Gatefold EX+ NICE AND CLEAN with NO writing stickers or remains rips or tears or creasing.Laminate is bright and shiny with no ring or rubbing wear or creasing.INNER GATEFOLD is clean and unmarked with no wear Rear board EX+ AS front,clean and unmarked with VERY LIGHT wear Flipbacks N/A N/A Spine EX+ Complete and uncrushed with only very light wear and NO laminate cracking or creases and nice clear lettering Edges EX+ Top and bottom edges have minimal wear only Opening EX+ VERY LIGHT wear and minimal usage Corners EX+ ALL 4 corners VERY LIGHT wear only INNER /EXTRAS
INNER SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+ (CLEAN with no rip tears edge splits or repairs and very light wear)
DETAILSAfter 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.
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