This week in ‘71, Paul and Linda’s Ram LP reached number one on the NME. The album included Paul’s first number one single in America without the Beatles, “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey".

The music critics were as negative as it gets:
“Incredibly inconsequential" and "monumentally irrelevant".
“Paul benefited immensely from collaboration with the Beatles, particularly John Lennon, who held the reins in on McCartney's cutsie-pie, florid attempts at pure rock muzak".
Playboy accused Paul of "substituting facility for any real substance".
“An excursion into almost unrelieved tedium" and "the worst thing Paul McCartney has ever done."
"A bad record, a classic form/content mismatch", and “obscenely producing a style of music meant to be soft and whimsical.”
“Trouble is you expect too much from a man like Paul McCartney."
“It would be naive to have expected the McCartneys to produce anything other than a mediocre record”.

On Sunday, July 10, 2022 at 12:42:47 AM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
> This week in ‘71, Paul and Linda’s Ram LP reached number one on the NME. The album included Paul’s first number one single in America without the Beatles, “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey".
>
> The music critics were as negative as it gets:
> “Incredibly inconsequential" and "monumentally irrelevant".
> “Paul benefited immensely from collaboration with the Beatles, particularly John Lennon, who held the reins in on McCartney's cutsie-pie, florid attempts at pure rock muzak".
> Playboy accused Paul of "substituting facility for any real substance".
> “An excursion into almost unrelieved tedium" and "the worst thing Paul McCartney has ever done."
> "A bad record, a classic form/content mismatch", and “obscenely producing a style of music meant to be soft and whimsical.”
> “Trouble is you expect too much from a man like Paul McCartney."
> “It would be naive to have expected the McCartneys to produce anything other than a mediocre record”.

Some of this had to be backlash for Paul's supposed ending of the Beatles.

In article <7dd31dd8-07eb-44ee-9ce5-96926265fe68n@googlegroups.com>,
Bruce <SavoyBG@aol.com> wrote:

> This week in '71, Paul and Linda's Ram LP reached number one on the NME. The
> album included Paul's first number one single in America without the Beatles,
> "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey".
>
> The music critics were as negative as it gets:
> "Incredibly inconsequential" and "monumentally irrelevant".
> "Paul benefited immensely from collaboration with the Beatles, particularly
> John Lennon, who held the reins in on McCartney's cutsie-pie, florid attempts
> at pure rock muzak".
> Playboy accused Paul of "substituting facility for any real substance".
> "An excursion into almost unrelieved tedium" and "the worst thing Paul
> McCartney has ever done."
> "A bad record, a classic form/content mismatch", and "obscenely producing a
> style of music meant to be soft and whimsical."
> "Trouble is you expect too much from a man like Paul McCartney."
> "It would be naive to have expected the McCartneys to produce anything other
> than a mediocre record".

John gave a backhanded compliment to it one time, saying he liked some
of the songs but he hated -- probably getting ready to say "Monkberry
Moon Delight" -- then said, "well, it doesn't matter."