I think this albums suffers from paul's insistence that it should be a band effort. at least it suffers way more than V&M did for doing the same thing. letting others sing on it? it was pretty much just you, paul, that people wanted to hear.
Well, I have the bootleg of Paul's original demo of 'Must Do Something About It' (with Macca on lead vocal), and although he does a pretty good job, Joe English in my opinion actually did a far superior vocal on the final studio version. I think he took his chance to run-with-the-ball and did a stellar job.
Another top track on here that didn't get a mention, is Denny Laine's 'Time To Hide'. That song, along with 'Beware My Love', would be my two favourite tracks on this album. A feather in the cap as far as the band democracy strategy goes. And I've always felt 'The Note You Never Wrote' is a damn strong track. That's two for Denny!!
Looking forward to the remastered edition coming out soon, along with Venus and Mars. I've always felt 'Speed of Sound' is a far-better produced album, with a beautiful rich warm bass and mids, compared to the hollow eq-ing on VAM. Nice to see it getting re-released and being shown some retrospective love!