【音楽】「ポール・マッカートニーのビートルズ時代のベスト・ソングTOP20」を英Far Out誌が発表

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2020/06/20(土) 14:31

Paul McCartney is undoubtedly one of the most gifted songwriters pop music has ever known. As a solo artist, he made an incredibly large imprint on music, one that can still be seen clearly today. However, it was his work within The Beatles that will likely outlast us all. Below we’ve been through all of McCartney’s songs created with the Fab Four and pulled together 20 of his best.
McCartney and John Lennon may have shared one of the most fruitful songwriting partnerships of all time but, in truth, the pair often worked separately before joining their workings together. Here we have the best of Macca and his notorious ear for a tune.
Paul McCartney joined The Beatles in 1957 and happily played second-fiddle to Lennon for some time before breaking out into the songwriting world of his own. Gifted musically, Macca has one thing that most musicians would kill for but only very few have; a nose for what the public wants.
It has seen the world’s most famous bass player create ballads, rock numbers, songs that make you laugh and songs that send you to the bridge.
Below we’ve got 20 of our favourites.
Paul McCartney’s best Beatles songs:
20. ‘I’m Looking Through You’
Taken from the Rubber Soul album, McCartney wrote this song for his then-girlfriend Jane Asher. It sees Macca use his pen to send shots at the actress whom he believed had let him down by refusing to stay at home and going out on a theatre tour.
Despite the difficult subject matter, like much of Rubber Soul, ‘I’m Looking Through You’ is as close to putting summer down on record as you’re likely to get.
19. ‘We Can Work It Out’
As with a lot of The Beatles’ early-output, ‘We Can Work It Out’ was written quickly and with the knowledge that it was likely destined for the top of the charts. The Fab Four had become a behemoth and by 1965, during the making of Rubber Soul, they were keen to keep the good times rolling in.
That means that despite lots of interpretations suggesting the band wrote the song to oppose the US being involved in the Vietnam War, it’s far more likely it was written as a cash-in single. Still, it’s one of the best pop ballads you’ll ever hear, so there’s that.
18. ‘Paperback Writer’
Credited to the Lennon-McCartney partnership, Lennon would later admit that bar a few words and some inspiration that the song was entirely McCartney’s idea. “I think I might have helped with some of the lyrics. Yes, I did. But it was mainly Paul’s tune,” Lennon told Hit Parade in 1972, later confirming with Playboy that “‘Paperback Writer’ is son of ‘Day Tripper’, but it is Paul’s song.” While that is certainly true, we’d say a fair chunk of credit should also go to Macca’s Auntie Lil.
“The idea’s a bit different,” McCartney recalled. “Years ago, my Auntie Lil said to me, ‘Why do you always write songs about love all the time? Can’t you ever write about a horse or the summit conference or something interesting?’ So, I thought, ‘All right, Auntie Lil.’ And recently, we’ve not been writing all our songs about love.” One such song was ‘Paperback Writer’.
17. ‘I’ve Just Seen A Face’
Having previously gone by the name of ‘Auntie Gin’s Theme’ Macca had originally dedicated the song to his father’s youngest sister. But eventually, the song became known as ‘I’ve Just Seen A Face’ but loses none of its conversational charm.
McCartney has stated, “It was slightly country and western from my point of view… it was faster, though, it was a strange uptempo thing. I was quite pleased with it. The lyric works; it keeps dragging you forward, it keeps pulling you to the next line, there’s an insistent quality to it that I liked.”