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17 November 2015
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Still an amazing song, and not one I choose to listen to very often, it’s very raw and powerful.

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17 November 2015
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I actually prefer the version from ‘One Hand Clapping’ that was on the second disc of the ‘McCartney’ Archive remaster.

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17 November 2015
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Yeah, those OHC bonus tracks are fantastic. I had never heard them until I got the remastered disc and was quite pleased with them.

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17 November 2015
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This really is one of Paul’s very best songsa-hard-days-night-paul-8, but I hate the way it ends.ahdn_paul_01  The verse sounds very climactic, so you think it would end with that, but no.  It just sorta ends with a weak fadeout-y thing and goes into the abysmal Kreen-Akrore.  If you can’t tell, I’m not a big fan of the McCartney album.  Good song though!

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12 June 2017
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I love this song, it’s probably my favorite Paul solo song, although i do wish that the other Beatles were on it, i’d like it if Ringo played drums and George played the guitar in the background during the solo, as well as some 3 part harmonies from our favorite 3 part harmonizers John, Paul, and George.

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13 June 2017
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Dark Overlord said
I love this song, it’s probably my favorite Paul solo song, although i do wish that the other Beatles were on it, i’d like it if Ringo played drums and George played the guitar in the background during the solo, as well as some 3 part harmonies from our favorite 3 part harmonizers John, Paul, and George.  

Great idea, I can hear those Paul/John/George harmonies now for that song — and another thing the song lacks, in my opinion, is some input into the lyrics from John: he could always be counted on to inject his acerbic, jaded, world-weary spark of wisdom.  Paul tells the story of how when he was writing Getting Better , with the refrain “It’s getting better all the time” — it was John who came up with the devilishly witty rejoinder “It couldn’t get no worse!” — which Paul probably would never think of.

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16 June 2017
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I’m still amazed 

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16 June 2017
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One of my favorite songs. The vocal performance is just unbelievable. 

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11 November 2019
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Did Maybe I’m Amazed get performed by The Beatles during the Get Back sessions?

11 November 2019
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I cannot find it in my collection (which I’m 90% sure is complete) of the Get Back sessions, so I’d have to say no they didn’t play it.

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11 November 2019
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I must do a ‘Maybe I’m Amazed playlist…….’

You know, listing the one song that stands out head a shoulders above every other on an album………There’s nearly always a knock out power ballad (for me) on every one of Paul’s albums. Songs (which unlike MIA) that are rarely heard these days…….. Dear Friend, Back Seat of My car…….Little Lamb DF…….Through Our Love……Motor of Love etc……Personal choices….

And then do a knockout rocker list called……… Soily  What a song that is!!!!!

Maybe I’m Amazed is total brilliance and agree with everyone who wishes it had come along early enough to have the Beatle treatment. But it didn’t…Still amazing!!

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13 November 2019
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Don’t necessarily agree with your other top choices, but do agree with this one.

Coincidentally, in a New York taxi this morning a Netflix movie “Marriage Story” had MIA playing in the background.

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This is probably Paul’s best post-Beatles song! I first heard it when it came out as a single in 1977 as a live version from ‘Wings Over America ‘ and I thought it was brilliant and bought the single. I really loved it! I later bought the ‘McCartney’ album and initially was disappointed with the version on the album, probably because I had been used to hearing the live version.

Since then though, I would play the studio version far more than the live version and do now prefer it.

What does everyone else think?

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10 May 2020
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I do prefer the way the live versions ended, with that lovely little descending guitar arpeggio, but the studio one has its charms as well. mccartney-shrug_01_gif

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11 May 2020
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I really like that song.  It is second on my lockdown keyboard list to learn after Great Gig in the Sky.  In 2008 I did the acoustic guitar part for a collaboration on youtube.  We never did get a drummer! 

  

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15 May 2020
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I always forget that the single was the WOA version, not the McCartney version.

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16 January 2023
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I heard Maybe I’m Amazed for the first time today. I’ve always stayed loyal to John’s solo music and nobody else. But dammit Paul grabbed me in with this one. It’s so good, I almost cried the first time I heard it. I guess I’m a Paul McCartney fan now and I honestly don’t know how to feel about it.

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16 January 2023
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@Neely 

It’s an amazing song. As you probably know, Paul played all the instruments on that song (and all the other songs of that album). It’s not a song I listen to that much anymore. I probably hadn’t given it a good listen in 20 years, before I just re-listened now. There are other songs on that album I enjoy more so I listen to them more, but that doesn’t mean I don’t consider this a great song. There’s lots of Mozart and Beethoven I recognize is great, but I don’t put them on to listen to that much because they’re not enjoyable to me.
 
In this song, there’s so many cool things he does musically, like the way he screams, the addition of a Hammond B3 organ which neither The Beatles nor his solo career used enough in my opinion, the way he pounds those tomtoms at key points, the arpeggios of the second electric guitar backing up the lead guitar, the scratchy electric guitar strum near the end when he’s reprising the main lyrics in a quieter way, and so much more.

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16 January 2023
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I enjoy the McCartney album as a whole, but I think Maybe I’m Amazed is the best song on there. 

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