What follows is a list of every single in Paul McCartney’s end-of-2022 box set, ranked by the quality of the actual single themselves, rather than each individual song. This elevates, say, “Take it Away” (“I’ll Give You a Ring” is great, and this is also true every time “C Moon” is the b-side), “Live and Let Die” (which remains too showtunes-y, but “I Lie Around” rules), or, most especially, “Ebony and Ivory” (“Rainbird” is so good) and really deflates, say “Silly Love Songs”, which is great, but the b-side to which is the Linda-led “Cook of the House”, which is less than great.
Please to enjoy.
“Jet”/”Let Me Roll It” (I’m only human, guys)
“Maybe I’m Amazed”/”Soily”
“Old Siam Sir”/”Spin it On”
“Arrow Through Me”/”Old Siam Sir” (“Old Siam Sir” really is on two singles)
“Helen Wheels”/”Country Dreamer”
“Hi Hi Hi”/“C Moon”
“Band on the Run”/”Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five”
“Dance Tonight”/”Dance Tonight” (Demo)
“Mrs. Vanderbilt”/”Bluebird”
“Jenny Wren”/”Summer of 59”
“Find My Way”/”Winter Bird/When Winter Comes”
“Birthday” (live)/”Good Day Sunshine” (live)
“Ever Present Past”/”House of Wax”
“Fine Line”/”Growing Up Falling Down”
“I Don’t Know”/”Come On to Me”
“Queenie Eye”/”Save Us”
“Sing the Changes”/”Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight”
“Nod Your Head”/”222”
“I’ve Had Enough”/”Deliver Your Children”
“Hope of Deliverance”/”Long Leather Coat”
“Give Ireland Back to the Irish”/”Give Ireland Back to the Irish (Version)”
“With a Little Luck”/”Backwards Traveller-Cuff Link”
“All My Trials” (live)/”C Moon” (live)
“Young Boy”/”Looking for You”
“The World Tonight”/”Used to Be Bad”
“Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey”/”Too Many People”
“I Want to Go Home”/”I Want to Go Home (Demo)”
“The Back Seat of My Car”/”Heart of the Country”
“Live and Let Die”/”I Lie Around”
“Put it There”/”Mama’s Little Girl”
“Waterfalls”/”Check My Machine”
“Take it Away”/”I’ll Give You a Ring”
“My Brave Face”/”Flying To My Home”
“Beautiful Night”/”Love Come Tumbling Down”
“The Long and Winding Road” (live)/”C Moon” (live)
“Coming Up”/”Coming Up (Live at Glasgow”/”Lunch Box-Odd Sox”
“Silly Love Songs”/”Cook of the House”
“Temporary Secretary”/”Secret Friend”
“No Other Baby”/”Brown Eyed Handsome Man”/”Fabulous”
“Venus & Mars-Rock Show”/”Magneto and Titanium Man”
“Junior’s Farm”/”Sally G”
“New”/”Early Days”
“Love is Strange”/”I Am Your Singer”
“Letting Go”/”You Gave Me The Answer”
“Mull of Kintyre”/”Girls’ School”
“Hope for the Future”/”Hope for the Future (Thrash Version)”
“This One”/”The First Stone”
“Only Love Remains”/”Tough on a Tightrope”
“From a Lover to a Friend”/”Riding into Jaipur”
“Figure of Eight [7” Bob Clearmountain Mix]”/”Où Est le Soleil”
“Once Upon a Long Ago”/”Back on My Feet”
“We All Stand Together”/”We All Stand Together (Humming Version)”
“In the Blink of an Eye”/”Walking in the Park with Eloise”
“Pretty Little Head”/“Write Away”
“Pipes of Peace”/”So Bad”
“Press”/”It’s Not True”
“Who Cares”/”Fuh You”
“C’mon People”/”I Can’t Imagine”
“Ebony and Ivory”/”Rainbird”
“Getting Closer”/”Baby’s Request”
“My Love”/”The Mess”
“Home Tonight”/”In a Hurry”
“Stranglehold”/”Angry”
“Goodnight Tonight”/”Daytime Nighttime Suffering”
“My Valentine”/”Get Yourself Another Fool”
“Mary Had a Little Lamb”/”Little Woman Love”
“Women and Wives”/”Women and Wives (St Vincent Remix)”
“The World You’re Coming Into”/”Tres Conejos”/”Save the Child”/”The Drinking Song (Let’s Find Ourselves a Little Hostelry)” (This is a double single from The Concert for Liverpool, and they’re performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra)
“Let Em In”/”Beware My Love”
“London Town”/”I’m Carrying”
“Listen to What the Man Said”/”Love In Song”
“Say Say Say”/”Ode to a Koala Bear”
“Another Day”/”Oh Woman Oh My”
“Party Party” (the b-side to this was apparently a different mix of this song, but it wasn’t in there)
“No More Lonely Nights”/”No More Lonely Nights (Playout Version)”
“Spies Like Us”/”My Carnival”
“Tropic Island Hum”/”We All Stand Together”
“The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)”/”Wonderful Christmastime”
“Wonderful Christmastime [Edited Version]”/”Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reggae”
Ohio Needs a Train 