Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney (1970) 96KHz/24bit FLAC HD Video ~MetalGuruMessiah~

"Maybe I'm Amazed" was released on Paul McCartney's debut solo album, titled simply McCartney, in the spring of 1970. I couldn't get any of my in-the-works projects finished, so I jumped in and made this quickie. Most of the work was spent working on the old video clip of Paul and Linda and their family in Scotland in 1970, some effects and adjustment layers and I found a look I liked and that lost the jaggies for full screen.

The album featured a very loose, laid-back recording style of the nature that was always intended for The Beatles's Let It Be album. The record is entirely Paul...he plays all instruments and the only other person featured in any way was his wife Linda, who sang back up vocals.

Audio sourced from Archive Collection Remaster FLAC!

It seems odd, to me at least, that this record doesn't seem to fall prey to the "dated" sound that affects some of Paul's other records....I guess that's in large part due to the fact that it's homespun, patchwork nature was so basic that it resists and remains. I love the record and give in totally to it's charms each time I listen to it.

From Wiki:
McCartney shot to #1 in the US for three weeks, eventually going 2x platinum. This was despite the fact that it had neither an accompanying single released nor a tour to promote it, and that critical reaction was far from positive. In the UK, it was only denied the top spot by the best-selling album of 1970, Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water, which stayed at #1 for 33 (non-consecutive) weeks. There, McCartney debuted straight at #2, where it remained for three weeks.

The album was widely criticised for its "homespun" approach and "half-written" songs, the UK's rock bible Melody Maker declaring that "With this record, his debt to [Beatles producer] George Martin becomes increasingly clear"; the reviewer found "sheer banality" in all the tracks save for "Maybe I'm Amazed". Shortly after the album's release, George Harrison described the same song and "That Would Be Something" as "great", but the rest, he said, "just don't do anything for me". Harrison added that, unlike himself, John Lennon and Starr, McCartney was probably too "isolated" from other musicians: "The only person he's got to tell him if the song's good or bad is Linda." Lennon stated in his 1970 interview with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner that, given McCartney's penchant for demanding perfectionism in the studio from his fellow Beatles, he was surprised at the lack of quality in the album; Lennon also made several remarks comparing McCartney negatively to his own solo album debut, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.

When the new remastered version was released in 2011 as part of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection, the album re-entered the charts in the UK, Netherlands, France and Japan.

It is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

This is my third video from the classic McCartney debut! Check out the other two if you are so inclined:
"Junk"/"Singalong Junk" https://youtu.be/X1jARPv-t-I
"Every Night" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKbqv6QtWnM
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[Lyrics]
Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time
Maybe I'm afraid of the way I love you
Maybe I'm amazed at the the way you pulled me out of time
And hung me on a line
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you
Maybe I'm a man and maybe I'm a lonely man
Who's in the middle of something
That he doesn't really understand
Maybe I'm a man and maybe you're the only woman
Who could ever help me
Baby won't you help me understand
Maybe I'm a man and maybe I'm a lonely man
Who's in the middle of something
That he doesn't really understand
Maybe I'm a man and maybe you're the only woman
Who could ever help me
Baby won't you help me understand
Maybe I'm amazed at the way you're with me all the time
Maybe I'm afraid of the way I leave you
Maybe I'm amazed at the way you help me sing my song
Right me when I'm wrong
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you