"Heart Of The Country" By Paul McCartney

[smosh435]

I WAS BORN IN VERMONT IM 10

[smosh435]

reminds me of vermont... THANK YOU PAUL!!!

[masterplusmargarita]

The last time I listened to this song was 5 years ago, when I was 13. I still know the lyrics off by heart, and still can't keep myself from singing along to it.

[szarbaugh1]

this is a snappy song with a great bass line, I dare anyone to listen to this and not tap their toes..................

[DISPENSER4HIRE]

Paul was a genius, and so was John, but together they offset any weakness the other had.

[MuccaMuccaMadBoy]

legend



[shaneh1983]

great song

[MrNINTENDOJOE]

dope record the side b is the best

[takethathpgleebeatle]

@MrNINTENDOJOE

dope record???

[Lo271]

Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)

[HappyHelloDay1]

I <333333333333333333333 Paul McCartney!!

[VEGANSAM]

HAPPY 40TH....RAM! 

[ClodaJane]

This is the music I was raised on :)

[MsBkirk]

This was used on ITV's 'Unforgettable Kenny Everett' programme, backing footage of Kenny and his then wife Lee when they lived on a farm in Wales!

[LiberalVoiceTV]

Every McCartney video has piles of redundant comments where people express their love for Paul. I read these comments, thinking they're so pointless, and then eventually a point comes where you join them because you can't help it. Paul McCartney is absolutely amazing.

[aknowneemus]

I think "Ram" is perfection too. I got this album and revolver at the exact same time and put ""revolver" on the shelf til i had this album Ingrained in my DNA , then i got into the Beatles. It was paul, then wings, then Beatles in that order.

[ersharbonda]

"Ram" is pure perfection from beginning to end.

[ersharbonda]

"Ram" is pure perfection from beginning to end.

[ersharbonda]

"Ram" is pure perfection from beginning to end. Well, that's what I think anyway;)

[johnc4870]

am 37 and i think the beatles were one of the best bands to every around john lennon was great and so is paul but paul's solo stuff was better then john's when it comes to post beatles but then again john did not live long enough to put anything that was great out who knows what more he could have donei love both of them

[maybird10]

awooww a meeenee mo woowww boom awooww a meenow woww booop boop deep a doop da ba deebeie do dap

[Tomcaatt]

obvious lack of inspiration on cherries exept for linda, which is fine,

[Tomcaatt]

LOL, any of you dippity do's ever think bout that,?

[Tomcaatt]

i think they wrote together the whole time!

[SirBrianCabrera]

i love this fuckin song, i was looking for mccartney songs ive never heard, and by listening to this the first 5 seconds. i knew i loved it.

[Raelspark]

This sounds more like a song that Ray Davies would have written. This is a lot like a Kinks song.

[freddybearstudio]

In reply to masticaticachicle's idea that 75% of the Beatles work was Paul's is, as Paul or John would say, simply rubbish. The early stuff was actually John & Paul collaborating for the most part. Normally whoever sang the song's lead vocal came up with the song idea and had the most invested in the song. Most of the early pop hits had a stronger Lennon influence, but toward the middle and end Paul was more in charge. There are many good books on the Beatles so you should really read some.

[smeghan1]

John would have mocked this song....and he probably did.....I kinda like it.....

[1worriedman]

What do the "holy "people grow? And what kind of GRASS is Paul inviting us to smell?

[55102]

Ram was probably the best Mac Cartney album

[freddybearstudio]

"Paul McCartney", "Ram" & "Band On The Run" were all very good. I thought most of the rest was mediocre at best. Ram was a very good album indeed. Pau's work after the Beatles was better than either John or George's stuff. "Imagine" and "Cold Turkey" were brilliant, but much of John's stuff left me cold. Too much politics, house husbandtry and Yoko perhaps?

The simple truth is: Paul & John's music in The Beatles was brilliant before John and George burned out. Abbey Road was their swansong!

[greatestxgift]

...and my last comment was directed at you because I thought you were the person that left the comment @masticalcachicle left and that you replying to my comment to him/her. I think we both got a little confused here.

[Ribzypunk]

hmmm, you're right. While replying to a dif thread I saw your challenge of the percentages and thought it was at me. My bad.

You and I seem to agree, sorry 'bout the confusion.

[letosvet1]

I think what happened is that from about the middle of the seventies, he died out creatively and started writing songs only to make a record and not to speak his mind or express his feelings anymore like he did before. He did have some great songs later though (some good stuff in the eighties), but he has never reached his level of past awesomeness. He has never been bad (I'd rather listen to his very worstsong than to the crap we have today) but he has lost a bit of that magic.

[Fumi1602]

I've been Paul's fan for 31 years now and I am a vegetarian like him.

This is absolutely one of my favorites.

[tomslackdotcom]

I love this. Ram was his all-time best album.

[9Iamthewalrus]

were does he live now?



[jba2323]

AND HE DID

[Michaelwaters123]

I <3 this song pretty catchy! xD

[Watersmith53]

My first cassette -- when I moved up from the world of vinyl -- was RAM. I loved this album.  It brings back memories to hear the songs again.

[KenfromCT]

My brother gave me Wingspan 5 years ago. I wasn't familiar with many of the songs on the 2nd CD, but there are wonderful tunes on both CDs!

[keymankeys1960]

i love this song !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[coolclay1]

How many guitars are in on this song? Sounds like 3

[masticaticachicle]

75% of the Beatles songs are all his, music and lyrics. You have to be a total genius song writer to have written Michelle and I'll follow the sun by the age of seventeen. The great majority of us were total idiots at that age.

[Ribzypunk]

@masticaticachicle

I agree only a musical genius could have written this song, Michelle etc, but where do you get that 75% of all Beatle music was written by him? The actual breakdown is :

Paul McCartney- 37%

John Lennon- 34%

George Harrison 12%

Ringo Starr- 3%

Others- 24%

If you take away the first three albums, the first , the "others" column drops to 2%

[Ribzypunk]

@masticaticachicle

Also, Paul was great, but without John he would have been just another Billy Joel or Elton John. Bubble gum with little soul. As a musician, I find Paul's songs very pleasant, but not as hard or interesting to play as Johns.

Besides, Paul wrote Maxwell's Silver hammer, which is almost unforgivable.

[greg944t]

@Ribzypunk uhhhhh Billy Joel and Elton John are awesome

[txeire]

@Ribzypunk did they ever write a song like helter skelter? just asking

[Ribzypunk]

@txeire

NO, because they never had John as a partner, thanks for bringing that up.

I love Paul's music, I have seen him several times live, but I was just pointing out that John helped Paul tap into his soul and the results were usually great. But John would never have written anything as corny as "Maxwell" or "Let em In"

[txeire]

@Ribzypunk dont forget about Silly Love Songs...lol

[letosvet1]

@Ribzypunk For example Helter Skelter was entirely composed by Paul and the idea of making it a heavy shouting rock bit was his too. So the Lennon/McCarteny partnership doesn't have much to do in that one. I don't agree either on the fact that paul had no soul in his songs : most of his greatest beatle songs have been composed alone and they're all masterpieces (i mean the songs that were composed from the period their collaboration wasn't so tight anymore)

[letosvet1]

@Ribzypunk The whole ram album was made without john and i consider it one of the best pop albums of all time. Also about that paul-john collaboration, it was stronger in their early years but from about 1965-1966 on, they started to compose songs alone at home and then bring them to the studio for the band to record it (there are of course exceptions); that's how most of their songs turned out to be composed 100%, 90% or 80% by one of them, the other just adding a little touch.

[Ribzypunk]

@letosvet1

I love this album too, and most of McCartney's Solo work. Of course I know John is not on it, I am old enough to remember waiting for the next Beatle album, and remember the breakup and subsequent albums very well. I just believe the world is fortunate John and Paul met, and that they helped each other evolve as song writers. I never said Paul had no soul, I said John helped him tap into it.

[greatestxgift]

@masticaticachicle Why make up a percentage when you have no idea what you're talking about? Seems foolish to me.

[Ribzypunk]

@greatestxgift

Ha! It would be silly to make percentages, I agree. Why don't you look it up yourself and see who the fool on the hill is?

[Ribzypunk]

@greatestxgift

you tube won't let me send the link, but google "a linguistic analysis of the Beatles" and you will see I was wrong about the percentages. According to the American Psychological Association, of the almost 200 Beatle songs, 78 were written by Lennon, 67 by McCartney, and only a handful of early tunes were written jointly.

[greatestxgift]

@Ribzypunk I know...I'm pretty sure that's why I told you that you didn't know what you were talking about. Your listed percentage of Macca written songs in The Beatles is horribly off. Who is the fool on the hill?

[Ribzypunk]

@greatestxgift It was not horribly off, and I got the stats off another site. When I tried to find it again I found an article that listed Lennon as slightly more prolific. My only point was that Paul did not write 75%, so we seem to agree on that.

I have no hostility towards anyone. My Fool on the Hill comment was in response to you calling me foolish, but I was just being flippant , so Beatle fans unite!

All you need is love brother! Back off Boogaloo....

[greatestxgift]

@Ribzypunk Wait...I didn't even direct my first comment to you...I was commenting on @masticaltiachicle. Why did you reply to me?

[freddybearstudio]

As I told you before, get some books, listen and study their music, but stop talking BS. You are ignorrant of what you speak are exagerating at best. Even James Paul McCartney would not agree with you either. Yeah, that's right, Paul was his middle name! That's why he's now known as Sir J. Paul McCartney. They were both incredible songwritters and complimented each other like no other songwritting duo ever did, or ever will. Both John & Paul were smart and talented. You Sir, are neither.

[noahwayne]

@masticaticachicle In fact, Pauls'd contribution was less than 50% and he barely had anything to offer in the early days - Hard Days Night was mostly John. John dominated right up till Revolver when Paul took over.

[qsarpadoh]

@noahwayne Before Hard Days Night The beatles were an average band after Rubber Soul/Revolver is when you can start to call The Beatles best band of the history...(When Paul took over as you said)

[andresihotang]

@masticaticachicle But buddy,...for post Beatle era, it was John Lennon who created wonderful quality songs..Paul's music in the 70's in my opinion were just good except Live and Let Die, Coming Up, Maybe I'm Amazed, and Let Em In..

[JamesTKirkCobain]

@masticaticachicle - 75%?? FIrst off, if it wasn't for Lennon, the Beatles would have never taken off the way they did. The best McCartney has at that point was Love me do. Almost 90% of those early songs were written solely by Lennon. Please Please me, Hard days night, If I fell, Do you wanna know a secret, Happy just to dance with you, Tell me why,I should have known better, This boy, You can't do that, Anytime at all, and you can hear his demos of those songs on Youtube where it is just HIM

[JamesTKirkCobain]

@masticaticachicle - What did McFartney write by then? All my loving, Things we said today, Cant buy me love, And I love her. There is absolutely no comparison. Granted McFartney did all those songs for Srgnt Pepper, but again Lennon blew him away with Lucy in the Sky and a Day in the life. And the White album, Sexy Sadie, Julia, Cry baby Cry, Im so tired, all blow McCartneys la did da garbage out of the water. In Rubber soul Lennon wrote Girl, In my life, all Lennon songs.

[JamesTKirkCobain]

@masticaticachicle - And why when they broke up did Lennon consistently write one mind blowing song after another when McFartney was doing la di da crap like this? Go and compare the tracks for their solo albums, there is no comparison. McCartney had talent but Lennon was a bonafide genius, no question whatsoever.

[JamesTKirkCobain]

@masticaticachicle - Oh yes and tell me one good song this idiot has written in the past 35 years? All we got from him is Ebony and Ivory. Meanwhile Lennon at that point was doing stuff like Beautiful boy, Grow old with me, Woman, Watching the Wheels, on and on and he was just getting started before he was shot down. And he wrote all those songs in one year. 30 years later McFartney hasnt even come close to writing ONE that comes even close

[trophywifefilms]

@JamesTKirkCobain - Grow Old with me, Beautiful Boy & Woman are total sentimental mush... something that McCartney is heavily criticized for.. As for what decent tunes McCartney has produced beyond Ebony and Ivory well where do you start ??!? get educated and listen to his albums. but i dont think you want to. O.K so you're a Lennon fan, big deal, you are entitled to prefer him but if you REALLY think that Lennon was everything and McCartney was nothing, you are truly showing your ignorance

[TheLovelyMC]

@JamesTKirkCobain

John released "Walls & Bridges" in '74. It was a decent album with a couple pretty good singles. Then, apart from a drunk and drugged album of shitty cover tunes the next year, John came up with exactly 1/2 of one album in 5 years. During that time, Paul produced 5 full-length albums and numerous brilliant hit singles. His most recent, at the time of Lennon's death, was "Coming Up," not "Ebony & Ivory," which didn't come until '82.

[TheLovelyMC]

@JamesTKirkCobain

(John spoke highly of "Coming Up," by the way). What has Paul produced since? Well, the "Tug Of War" LP, for one- one of his best. What would John have produced? Well, probably nothing. As brilliant as John was at one time, he was wayyyyyyyyyy past his prime (as was Paul, just not as far past) and had only managed to scrape together 1/2 an album in 5 years (one that was tanking in the charts, by the way, until he was killed).

[TheLovelyMC]

@JamesTKirkCobain

I wonder if young, dumb, know-nothing Nirvana fans should stick to things they know about? Hmmm.....

[MrJohnnybubs]

@masticaticachicle Well clearly You still are cause none of the totally assumed facts you just spouted off are true, not that i deny the genius of Paul McCarteny, but get your facts straight before you start posting bogus shit.

[MrJohnnybubs]

@masticaticachicle Well clearly You still are cause none of the totally assumed facts you just spouted off are true, not that i deny the genius of Paul McCarteny, but get your facts straight before you start posting bogus shit.

[MrJohnnybubs]

Well clearly You still are cause none of the totally assumed facts you just spouted off are true, not that i deny the genius of Paul McCarteny, but get your facts straight before you start posting bogus shit.

[MrJohnnybubs]

@masticaticachicle Well clearly you still are cause none of the totally assumed facts you just spouted off are true. Not that i deny the genius of Paul McCarteny but get your facts straight before posting bogus shit.

[juanperuya476]

@masticaticachicle idiot,,,, and lennon?????????

[mcrfreak94]

@juanperuya476 That's why they said 75%..not all..

And just because Lennon is the front man doesn't mean he's the only man.

[masticaticachicle]

Paul McCartney is one of the greatest song writers of the 20th century. His songs are included in the books of standards. he is right there in the pantheon with the likes of Porter, Berlin, Gershiwn, Van Heusen, Mancini, etc.

[rgbyboi9999]

an interviewer once asked Paul if he feels he is better than the likes of Beethoven and Mozart, and he very humbly and cleverly said, "all i can say is that i've sold more records than Beethoven."

[macrockettere]

@rgbyboi9999 LOL...gawd, I know that's the BEST comment I've seen yet. I LOVE IT.

[4FabBEATLES]

Paul is in the Guiness Book of World Records as the most sucessful singer/songwriter ever. His osng 'yesterday' is listed as having more covers done of it by various poeple than any other song ever. Paul is amazing! Ushould see him live while he's still alive and touring. His son James McCartney is fairly good too.

[freddybearstudio]

Paul was more into success for successes sake, but that's not to say he was a better songwritter than John. Paul wouldn't be in any book of records had it not been for himself, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. And without a dedicated manager named Brian Epstein and a wonderful classically trained producer, George Martin, their music would have never reached the heights it did.

Happy Christmas, War Is Over is brilliant. Paul's attempt at a Xmas song was pittiful? So what?

[macrockettere]

@masticaticachicle That's right!

[freddybearstudio]

What's the point of this nonsense? Music isn't a compitition. The Beatles were the best popular recording group ever and both John Lennon and Paul McCartney were equially great songwritters.

After John was Assassinated, my siter made the broad statement that John WAS the Beatles! I, of course, corrected her saying something to the affect of, without any of the four they never would have been a success. And that is equally true for John and Paul's songwritting as well!

Give it up already!

[floridajeet]

@freddybearstudio you sir are an idiot. You have no clue as to what the Beatles were. I was there to live through the competition with George Harrisons wife and Eric Clapton

[tomeeeee1]

Ok. What is it about this and beatles songs that sound like a record for young children? its just so harmless sounding or something. I play guitar and i like the beatles but when i hear too much of them i feel like i've eaten too much cotton candy. but john is still the man. Have you seen polythene pam?

[55102]

i heard some people comparing the Beatles with Jonas Brothers, how could that be, the Beatles were not only singers but songwriters, and each one of them could play different instruments

[backbeats100]

you can actually hear how he gets the bass line to create a mood,, rickenbacker bass with flatwounds, great bass..

[Huddiethegreat]

such an underrated song

[eldorado61guy]

Oh, the memories.

[Re08Fu65]

the greatest man? I can´t say, but the greatest songwriter/musician for sure

RIP John and George

[jba2323]

THE GREATEST MAN ON EARTH

[prudence999]

Great song ...from of of the most prolific pop songwriters of all time...(anyway, up to now).

[smokindog]

Ram was the best McCartney LP IMHO. He did lots of awesome music :-)

[Rawego]

+infinity :))

[jordansbaby787]

Paul McCartney is the most amazing man on the planet. and the most beautiful...<3 I love him.

[accordionreid]

I mimed this song at a party once and the people thought I really sang the song. One of Paul's acoustic guitar classics! Love it and the whole album!

[sweeeetemotions]

This is one of my most favorites, but then anything performed by Paul is. Great song, its definately a mood elevator. Nice tune.

[stevecherm]

PAUL. YOUR THE BEST.

[terrycoolerz]

ABSOLUTELY A SPECTACULAR SONG

[jitterbug121]

brillant....

[HoneyLilac]

I wuw Paulie. This song gets my mood up like a charm. =)I love the video of this with him and Linda. Its so cute! No.. thats an understatement.

[HoneyLilac]

This song just makes me so happy!! I listen to it to get my mood up and it works like a charm. =) I wuw you, Paulie.

[pinchefede]

Love, love, love this song. His bass playing is just amazing... and the whole mood... there is definitely a McCartney music style... no one else does this.

[mari8mokkori]

my　best　songs♪

[TheStrokesBaby]

I must say, PAUL MCCARTNEY KICKS ASS!

[Creamtangerine]

Woo! Thank you! I adore this song!

[unsurpasseduploader]

COOL!

[ZZUPLOADER]

awesome!

[Harioom1960]

lol me tooo :D

[Bobashotmace]

Love this song, Thanks.