Weekend Rock Question: What is the Best Paul McCartney Song of All Time?

Sir Paul McCartney performs at the O2 Arena in London.

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Paul McCartney's latest album, Kisses on the Bottom, finds the rock legend covering some of his favorite rock and soul standards. His own catalog, of course, includes no shortage of songs that have become pop standards in their own right.

Our question for you this week is: What is the best Paul McCartney song of all time? We recently counted down McCartney's finest solo tunes, but this question is open to include his entire body of work, from his solo tunes to his Beatles material to his records with Wings and, hell, even his music as the Fireman.

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Song Stories

“Baby Got Back”

Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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