Wait why don't you like John Lennon? Also have you heard Happiness is a warm gun? Simple?

Wow, I have Alzheimer's.

@@AlexHaitz 😂 I think you might have done the same with Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud

He called me three times that day in eager anticipation of my thoughts.

RAM is Paul’s best album

@@ewest14 Ermm, I'd say RAM is the most conceptual, a lowfi folksy homemade album, but the individual songs are not that strong. Also it's not very representative of McCartney's work in the 70s.That was with the Wings and they're a band of hit singles not so much albums.

⁠​⁠@@justaguy1451Wings WERE a band of hit albums. Every Wings album charted at #1 or top 5 except for Wild Life and Back to the Egg which charted in top 10

I think that often Paul did write "granny" music, however, I wouldn't conflate that with being simple. I guess by "granny music" John meant Pauls songs in the Music Hall, Jazz, Tin Pan Alley, or Musical styles. These styles, when you look at them though, aren't simple but are actually usually harmonically much more complex and sophisticated than the majority of simpler Pop or Rock music.

People always say McCartney is simple. At times, lyrically but musically he is a stone cold killer!

As a musician I can confirm that most McCartney music is NOT simple at all. And the songs that are “simple” are elegantly so.

John said Paul took his songs like Strawberry Fields Forever and made them experimental which he didn’t like. Yes John had good lyrics but it was mostly Paul, George Martin, and their engineers who made John’s songs experimental. That’s why John doesn’t have many sonically experimental songs in his solo career. They’re all mostly just back to basics rock and roll and pop songs which isn’t a bad thing. Just tired of the myth that Paul was simple and John was experimental

Also the chord sequence is genius.

Except Paul was also dark as he wrote the two darkest and saddest songs in the catalogue with For No One and Eleanor Rigby. It’s also just a fact that John’s solo music is simpler than Paul’s. John didn’t experiment much at all with sounds in his solo career while Paul’s constantly did

'I don't want to be a soldier mumma... simple?

It’s funny you say that because John was actually the least experimental in his solo career. I think you’ve got the wrong idea about who was the most experimental as it has been a myth for years. In the Beatles, many of John’s experimental songs were spearheaded by Paul and/or George Martin. For example, Paul was the one who found out how to make tape loops for Tomorrow Never Knows. He removed the eraser head of his tape machine which allowed him to make loops and then brought in those ideas for the song. Paul played a lot of the experimental instruments on John’s songs and was responsible for most of the experimental arrangements. John even blamed Paul for this later on and said he didn’t appreciate Paul’s experimentation on his songs and how Paul would take over the arrangements. The difference between them is perfectly shown in their solo careers. I like John’s solo career but he didn’t really experiment much at all. He mostly stuck to blues, rock, and pop. Paul on the other hand has been experimenting with genres and sounds his whole career. McCartney (1970) has been cited as an influence on indie, lofi, and DIY artists. Ram is arguable the first indie pop album and has been very influential to indie musicians. McCartney II has been hugely influential to indie, DIY, lofi, electronica, and bedroom pop artists. John is an amazing songwriter, but Paul was responsibly for many of the experimental ideas in the Beatles and he continued to show his experimentation in his solo career