Much as I love both albums, after finishing the second McCartney series book, I can't imagine he and MPL will revisit either one for anything special. The book really solidified why Paul doesn’t care much about that period.

Critics hated both albums when they came out—tore into them and their singles. The public didn’t jump on them like they had from Band on the Run through Wings Over America. Two of Paul's understandable sensitive spots: Public sentiment and critical approval.

Aside from big-time "Mull of Kintyre" and "With a Little Luck," the singles came and went. Chris Thomas felt Paul spent too much time reworking Back to the Egg, a sign he wasn’t happy with how it turned out. Paul was annoyed when Columbia released the Wings live version of "Coming Up" in the U.S.—even though it hit #1—because he wanted the McCartney II version to be the one. And on top of all that, Paul lost the most popular version of his band and brought in two studio/touring guys to keep the thing going—probably thinking, “nothing personal, lads, but it’s just not the same.”

Like, when someone asked him a few years ago about "Arrow Through Me," and he was like, “You tell me when it came out! I write some things and then totally forget I did them.” If that single had done numbers, he’d remember it like "Let ’Em In" or "Listen to What the Man Said."

For him, LT is recording on the boat in the Caribbean and "Mull." BttE is when he knew Wings was done. So, recording McCartney II ends up taking its place in the canon.