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. 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. The only album credited to both Paul and Linda McCartney, RAMreached Number 1 in the UK and stayed in the US Top 10 for five months. Released in 1971, Ram was the only album credited to Paul and Linda McCartney. 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. 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.
In the previous work, McCartney played all the instruments, but in this work, many outside musicians also participate. Unlike his home-spun simple predecessor McCartney, the new album was recorded in New York with top-flight session musicians and featured elaborate instrumentation and arrangements. LP 1 contains the re-mastered album LP 2 is a bonus audio disc. Special LP Edition is a 2 disc 180 gram gatefold vinyl. Released with joint credits by Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney. Paul McCartney just released the much anticipated remastered and deluxe editions of Ram, his second album after leaving the Beatles. RAM ALBUM CHORDS by Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney Ultimate-Guitar. RAM, originally released in 1971, is the only album to be credited to both Paul and Linda McCartney and has gone down in music history as one of the most revered in McCartney's catalog.
After the breakup, Beatles fans expected major statements from the three chief songwriters in the Fab Four. It is a 3-disc set that collects all the items currently available mast RAM was announced in 1971.
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