The Paul McCartney Discography - Recommended Listens

Since the dissolution of The Beatles in 1970, Paul McCartney has gone on to release over 40 or so albums either under his name alone, under various pseudonyms or with his band Wings.
It would have been nigh on impossible for any of the solo Beatles to come close to the unprecedented quality and success of the band, but all in their own ways made significant contributions to the pop canon, none more so than Paul.
I'd like to highlight a few gems from the Paul McCartney discography which confirm his knack for turning out singles and albums that were not only accessible to the average ear but, on closer listening, were slightly skewed as well.

• Too Many People: a track from the album Ram, released 28 May 1971. A barely disguised poke in John Lennon's chest, resulting in John's far less subtle riposte on the Imagine album, How Do You Sleep. One of the few songs where McCartney comes across as annoyed.
• Little Lamb Dragonfly : a track from the album Red Rose Speedway, released 4 May 1973. A beautiful, meandering structure with some exquisite close harmonies, predicting the return to Beatle level confidence that would manifest itself on Band On The Run.
• Wonderful Christmastime: single released on 16 November 1979. Using splodgy, arpeggiated synth sounds as the main backdrop to a Christmas song shows McCartney's adventurism and willingness to try something off-kilter. Despite this, he still manages to convey a seasonal flavour on a song that is now a staple of Christmas radio playlists.
• The Back Seat Of My Car: a single released in August 1971, backed with another fine song Heart Of The Country, this had been premiered during the Beatles Let It Be sessions in early 1969 but was not that warmly received. It ultimately became the anthemic finale of the Ram album. To my amazement, the single only achieved the lowly position of 99 in the UK charts. How listeners weren't seduced by those horn lines, I do not know.
• Coming Up: the opening cut found on the McCartney II album and released as a single in April 1980, this was the song that reputedly helped inspire Lennon to return to the recording world. It boasted a raucous, variably speeded up vocal, a heavy funk backdrop and some strange, kazoo sounding trumpets parping in between some of the verses. The video was also quite groundbreaking in its inclusion of ten parodic rock music characters, all played by McCartney himself.