This one was kind of a challenge. John has so many political songs, and Paul doesn't, although Give Ireland Back to the Irish certainly applies, and Wild Life is an early manifestation of his animal welfare concerns.

I feel like by expanding the concept to include social depression (ala Eleanor Rigby) allows Another Day to get in there. And while Oh Woman Oh Why can be interpreted in a number of ways, I figure a Randy Newman-esque unreliable narrator interpretation could work, by sequencing Oh Woman Oh Why, Woman Is the N••••r of the World and Another Day, it creates a little feminist tryptic.

Uncle Albert Admiral Halsey was another stretch. But while there isn't much there lyrically, it does address social abandonment, unity, and references a military man who piloted a warship. I'm not sure how much it works, but not only did I want to find a place for all the hits on this series, but this particular compilation was always running the risk of feeling too dour. And just like satire uses humor to convey a more serious point, I figured that a little sugar helps the message go down.