Reply #22: I disagree [View All]

[last_texas_dem]

Lennon definitely had the edge with the earlier material; for example, the A Hard Day's Night albums is almost all his in terms of writing the majority of the songs. But McCartney was behind the bulk of the later material, which is the stuff the majority of people are the most enthusiastic about. Albums like Revolver and Sgt. Pepper and especially Abbey Road (I'm thinking of the "suite" on side two) are hard to even imagine without McCartney's contributions. Personally, I tend to like more of Lennon's songs with the Beatles than McCartney's (although I prefer McCartney's solo career pretty substantially over Lennon's) but I think an objective comparison (if that's even possible) would show them to be pretty even in terms of their Beatles contributions.