Time doesn't mar true quality. With music this is particularly true, and looking at Paul (and Linda) McCartney's 1971 record Ram the adage is only reinforced. Big time. Party to a veritable firestorm of wholly unwarranted critical abuse that dubbed it everything from lightweight to banal to "the pinnacle of deterioration of 60s songwriting thus far" or some such rubbish (I paraphrase), Ram has weathered the test of time admirably.