A micro reprise of the RAM's critical reception over time.  As referenced in Episodes 2 &3.

VOCAL TALENT
'71 REVIEWS:  Mike B & Duncan D
CURRENT REVIEWS:  Tanya C; Jeff H, and me (Diana E)
Thanks to all for your brilliant vocal work!

Thanks also to  THRILLINGTON

CURRENT REVIEWS OF RAM—As referenced in the episode

Pitchfork

“...Paul McCartney's Ram is a domestic-bliss album, one of the weirdest, earthiest, and most honest ever made. What 2012's ears can find is a rock icon inventing an approach to pop music that would eventually become someone else's indie pop.”

ALL MUSIC

“This made Ram an object of scorn and derision upon its release —and for years afterward in fact — but in retrospect, it looks like nothing so much as the first indie-pop album. Ram has a fuller production yet retained that ramshackle feel, sounding as if it were recorded in a shack out back, not far from the farm where the cover photo of Paul holding the ram by the horns was taken. It's filled with songs that feel tossed off, filled with songs that are cheerfully, incessantly melodic; it turns the monumental symphonic sweep of Abbey Road into a cheeky slice of whimsy on the two-part suite "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey."... These songs may not be self-styled major statements, but they are endearing and enduring, as is Ram itself, which seems like a more unique, exquisite pleasure with each passing year.”

LOUDER THAN WAR

“Cool is the most overrated component of rock roll. It blinds the fools and sends the insecure up grubby back alleys of music taste.  ...Maybe it’s a measure of the times but what people ragged on about Paul at the time was the good bloke/family man/simple things in life/not very rock n roll personae that are now seen as assets and that brings us to Ram. At the time the album was buried by the media but now sounds forward-thinking and full of that buoyant pop imagination that the supremely talented Macca seems to effortlessly ooze. With the luxury of history, the album now sounds like a decades too early precursor to lo-fi indie with all the post-late sixties bombast stripped away.

Of course, this simplicity is deceptive. The precociously brilliant McCartney is playing many instruments and he’s great at anything he picks up, dealing out guitar licks, bass runs or pastoral acoustics with ease for his perfect pop voice to fly over with those cascading and exquisite melodies.”

SUPER DELUXE EDITION

‘Ram has McCartney’s DNA all over it. It is endlessly melodic … with a maze of musical ideas; vocal harmonies...