2000 Great Songs #1483: Silly Love Songs
As I've described ad nauseum both here and in my book , Paul McCartney 's Ram was the first rock album I heard as a kid, standing out from the other 8-track tapes my distinctly non-musically-cool father would play (i.e. The Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, Herb Albert, various soundtracks ). By the time I'd really gotten into music a few years later, at the ripe old age of 9, I'd kinda forgotten about it, a relic of the past which I hadn't heard in some time (the tape was in my dad's car when it was stolen several years earlier, so that was that). Come spring 1976, just a few months into my AM radio obsession, Paul & Wings released Wings At The Speed Of Sound to much fanfare. I'd mostly lost track of McCartney since the disappearance of that Ram tape, and was excited by his first new release since my musical awakening. So I gathered my accumulated allowance, had my parents drag me to the local mall, and picked up a copy, one of the first albums I'd...
