Best Track On The Post-Beatles ‘Black Album’ From Richard Linklater's ‘Boyhood’

this playlist is nothing like 'if there was another beatles album', how dumb. some of these have appeared on hypothetical next beatles albums i've semi-constructed in my head - 'the back seat of my car', 'photograph', 'it don't come easy', 'oh yoko'.

voted 'instant karma' over 'what is life', 'photograph'

Went with "Jet", but also "It Don't Come Easy", "Instant Karma", "My Sweet Lord" (although my fave George solo is "Crackerbox Palace").

voted What Is Life but could vote for almost all of these tbh

Yeah VG otm this is just a v good solo Beatles comp w abt 10 contenders, so I dunno, Jet

Extremely hard to pick

What Is Life gives me the happies, is my reasoning

That's mine for Jet too actually, and that scene in I'm Alan Partridge

What is Life is so so great

feeling nice to paul today so let me roll it

yeah trying to construct an actual 'just one more beatles album...' from 1970 or 1971 would be a fun exercise but this just reads like a list of songs. that said, most of these are really good. the actual best thing here is 'instant karma!' but i've always loved 'every night' a lot.

everybody hates on Imagine these days so voting that

Hard to choose between "What Is Life," "Instant Karma," and "Maybe I'm Amazed." Never liked "What Is Life" much until I heard it in Goodfellas, for some reason.

.....where is "Coming Up"?

the answer, my friends, is Love.

Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney, “Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey”
John Lennon, Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band, “Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)”
George Harrison, “Not Guilty (2004 Digital Remaster)”
Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney, “Heart of the Country”
John Lennon, “Oh Yoko!”
Wings, “Mull of Kintyre”
Ringo Starr, “It Don’t Come Easy”

^^^^

summarizes the solo Beatles no?

No one needs to try this exercise after the insane Beatles Redux guy

i'd rather have a poll of other songs used in the movie
i mean if there has to be a poll

back seat of my car is an incredible song.

I think it's more fun if you go year-by-year and assemble possible extendo-Beatles albums by combining the available solo tracks per year. the first few years would each produce pretty great albums, but it falls off sharply after that. "What Is Life" is tha nuts!

"Blow away" is my favorite post-ATMP george song

Me too, maybe, but it might be "Dream Away" also.

"If you’ve never delved in very deep with Beatles solo albums"

yet nothing from McCartney II! How does Hawke's character not include "One of These Days?"

back seat of my car is an incredible song.

― akm, Tuesday, July 22, 2014 10:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah

Only 1 song from Tug of War too.

Anyhow, I omitted The Beatles, “Real Love” because it put the poll over 50 and thought I'd keep it to just solo stuff.

Just saw the film recently, saw the track-list and thought this would be fun because so many of these songs are great. Voted Jet.

Should check out more solo-Beatles, especially McCartney's solo-stuff. Voted All Things Must Pass.

Someone start the Boyhood the Movie thread on ILE!

I just saw it yesterday and thought it was really interesting.

Anticipating Linklater's "Boyhood"

^damn my searching (in)capabilities!

thanks!

if the title's in quotes it's unsearchable

I think it's more fun if you go year-by-year and assemble possible extendo-Beatles albums by combining the available solo tracks per year. the first few years would each produce pretty great albums, but it falls off sharply after that. "What Is Life" is tha nuts!

― Paul, Wednesday, July 23, 2014 12:07 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Srsly hunt down the Beatles Redux comps. Dude even did EQ/compression/reverb tweaks to make each "album" sound more consistent

those are p interesting but the production styles vary so wildly (and I of course would have made different track choices). Agree that the material was good enough for there to be some really amazing albums up through '73 or so.

Even the stuff produced by the same producer in the same year don't sound anything alike

Instant Karma in a heartbeat; better than anything on Let It Be or Abbey Road easily.

not much in the way of harrison on this sadly.

went for uncle albert / admiral halsey.

Instant Karma in a heartbeat; better than anything on Let It Be or Abbey Road easily.

some days i blame "instant karma" for the entirety of oasis' career. other days i thank "instant karma" for the same reason.

They missed Wings "Let Em In" which could easily pass as a sonical connection between Magical Mystery Tour and the White Album.

I mean it sounds way more like a Beatles song than songs like 'Silly Love Songs', 'Maybe I'm Amazed' or 'Band on the Run' to name a few. McCartney is, imho, the only Beatle which had a dramatic musical shift in his solo career.

Good call. A Beatles/George Martin arrangement on that would be cool.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ethanhawke/boyhood-the-black-album

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I sometimes imagine the reverse scenario, what if the Beatles broke up in early 1968 and everything from the White Album onward was released on solo albums (and of course there wasn't much collaboration in the last couple of years). Who would would have had the best album in '68 and '69?

George prob, due to years of harsh John/Paul editing

heart of the country by a pretty decent margin

The only work I’ve ever been a part of that I feel any sense of pride for involves something born in a spirit of collaboration — not my idea or his or her idea, but some unforeseeable magic that happens in creativity when energies collide.

lol truly the words of an actor

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