It's not like I've paid any attention to the competition, but Memory Almost Full is certainly the best McCartney album of original material he's released since the collapse of the Berlin Wall (his best album would be 1999's Run Devil Run, featuring his cover of "No Other Baby," his most moving vocal performance since "Maybe I'm Amazed." It's better than you think, Scott). Now that he's licensed his catalogue to two of the biggest multi-national corporations extant I might be tempted to frolic in it with greater abandon. Incidentally, nothing on MAF moves me like 1989's "My Brave Face," whose soupçon of wit and self-effacement I credit to co-composer Elvis Costello anyway.