[Hemingway's Ghost]

The man is constitutionally incapable of completing a song. If you listen to his stuff for long, you pick up a pattern, that his "songs" are mostly crazy-quilts of ideas, none of which are sufficient to make a song, but string a bunch of them together and it sort of lasts long enough to be called one.

A pretty decent observation, though there are stand-outs, like Yesterday. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that was one of Paul's most noticeable non-John-involvement achievements.

Paul and John also squashed George Harrison for far too long. Sure, All Things Must Pass has some filler, but the metal of that album would've worked out magnificently under the Beatles brand.

[dayglored]

> there are stand-outs, like Yesterday. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that was one of Paul's most noticeable non-John-involvement achievements.

I agree. "Yesterday" is a monumental song. I've performed it (singing over solo guitar accompaniment) and it affects me tremendously. Very powerful tune.

It's no coincidence that when Lennon tweaked McCartney about the changes in the breakup, he used "Yesterday" as the example of how good Paul used to be.

[dfwgator]

Paul and John also squashed George Harrison for far too long. Sure, All Things Must Pass has some filler, but the metal of that album would've worked out magnificently under the Beatles brand.

George wrote the best of the Post-Beatles songs, "It Don't Come Easy" for Ringo.