Title: McCartney's Worst Album
Review: "Painfully inauspicious" doesn't begin to describe this sloppy debut album by Paul McCartney and Wings. Except for a reggaefied "Love Is Strange," the jaw-dropping banality of "Wild Life" (1971) makes "Ram" sound like a masterwork. Paul's strangely unfinished "Dear Friend" (his conciliatory response to John Lennon's "How Do You Sleep?") needed a rewrite . . . and a few extra takes. "Bip Bop," on the other hand, may be the most irritating song McCartney ever recorded. Sorry, but the revisionist praise for "Wild Life" rings hollow.
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