If you only want one McCartney collection get the two disc retrospective Wingspan. That said, All The Best boils things down to a single set very nicely. While many of Paul's solo albums are spotty affairs, he still came up with a long string of classic singles. "Another Day" (a touching English slice-of-life downer) went Top 5 in 1970 and was quickly forgotten, "Junior's Farm" proved Macca could still rock and "Mull of Kintyre" was an enormous, old fashioned folk hit in a Britain grappling with punk rock. Meanwhile, numbers like "Jet," "With a Little Luck," "Live and Let Die" and "Band on the Run" rank up there with the best of the classic rock era.

Of the seven cuts this doesn't share with 1978's twelve-cut, fifty-four-minute Wings Greatest, only the lost 1972 B side "C Moon" and the 1983 M. Jackson duet "Say Say Say" (in its flimsy non-Jellybean mix) are worth anyone's trouble. And "My Love" is among the survivors. Somebody call . . . the Better Business Bureau? (Grade - C+)