I will never attend a show akin to the one Paul McCartney put on in Kansas City.

The spectacle, the lights and the energy only a former member of the Beatles could extrude delighted the attendants in a way I had not foreseen.

I’ve been to a few concerts in the U.S. and found American audiences tamer and more tranquil in comparison to those in South America. Yet, when McCartney showed up on stage, the deafening screams of hundreds of admirers blasted through the Sprint Center and made their way to the other end of town.

A few months have passed, but the memory of that experience lives within me.

 As I sat in my living room Wednesday and found myself reminiscing on that show, I decided to immerse myself in one of the virtuoso musician’s first post-Beatles efforts, namely “Band on the Run.”

I heard the title song — one of McCartney’s favorites to play live — for the first time on a family trip around Florida about 14 years ago.

Though my dad had already shown me a wide variety of genres, albums, artists and stellar hits from his own childhood, it wasn’t every day that I asked him to turn up the volume so I could listen to a particular song with intense care.

As soon as I heard the first few riffs from “Band of the Run,” I knew I’d found a particular melody I’d looked for throughout my short life, without ever knowing what I searched for.

“Jet,” the second track in the now-legendary album, ranks high amongst my top 10 songs to get up to.

Cheerful and fast-paced, McCartney failed to play it at his concert in KC, along with “Mrs. Vanderbilt,” another essential part of “Band on the Run.”

I’ve heard hundreds of albums, but none of them have featured a track list that consisted entirely of absolute classics.

From the title song to “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five,” this masterpiece is not something you intermittently hear as you read or do homework — it’s something you should actively listen to.