Paul & Linda McCartney - RAM (Full LP B-Side) [HiQ]

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***B-Side Tracklist*** - Heart Of the Country (P. McCartney/L. McCartney) [00:00] - Monkberry Moon Delight (P. McCartney/L. McCartney) [02:23] - Eat At Home (P. McCartney/L. McCartney) [07:49] - Long Haired Lady (P. McCartney/L. McCartney) [11:13] - Ram On (P. McCartney) [17:20] - The Back Seat of My Car (P. McCartney) [18:13] Ram is an album by Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney, released in 1971, the only album credited to the pair. Set against the backdrop of the legal action taking place in Britain's High Court with the dissolution of The Beatles partnership, following their break-up the year before, Ram was the second of two albums McCartney released between quitting The Beatles and forming Wings, whose future drummer Denny Seiwell played on the record, alongside the McCartneys and session musicians. Three singles were released from the album: the American number 1 hit "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey", the minor British hit "The Back Seat of My Car", and "Eat at Home", which appeared in Europe, Japan and Australia. The album was reissued on 21 May 2012. "The Back Seat of My Car" was excerpted as a UK single from Ram that August, only reaching number 39, but the US release of the ambitious "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" proved much more successful, giving McCartney his first number 1 single since leaving The Beatles. The album reached number 1 in Britain and number 2 in the US, where it spent over five months in the Top 10 and went platinum. The album has sold over two million copies. At the time of its release, Ram was given a poor critical reception, and Paul was particularly stung by the harsh reviews − especially as he had attempted to address the points raised in criticism of his earlier album, McCartney, by adopting a more professional approach this time around. Jon Landau in Rolling Stone labelled Ram "incredibly inconsequential" and "monumentally irrelevant". Writing some four years later, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler from the New Musical Express explained the situation: "It would be naive to have expected the McCartneys to produce anything other than a mediocre record ... Grisly though this was, McCartney was to sink lower before rescuing his credibility late in 1973." His fellow ex-Beatles, all of whom were riding high in the critics' favour with their recent releases, were likewise vocal in their negativity. Lennon famously hated the album, dismissing his former songwriting partner's efforts as "muzak to my ears" in his song "How Do You Sleep?". Even the affable Starr told Britain's Melody Maker: "I feel sad about Paul's albums ... I don't think there's one [good] tune on the last one, Ram ... he seems to be going strange." In 1977, McCartney supervised the release of an instrumental interpretation of Ram (recorded in June 1971 and arranged by Richard Hewson) with the release of Thrillington under the pseudonym of Percy "Thrills" Thrillington. Thrillington was later released as part of the 2012 remaster of Ram.