The Beatles' Solo Careers Poll - Voting and General Discussion Thread

I'm going through Harrison's now - his is pretty difficult, lots of sideman appearances, one-off singles, etc.

you better include his contribution to Belinda Carlisle's "Leave a Light On."

take this, for example, which I had never heard of before today. George is all over this album, they were signed to his label etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89onN05WG1s

shout out to Lennon's demo of "I'm the Greatest" for Ringo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaKrBsCkGRE

Some of McCartney's tracks from The Family Way are kind of cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d84w9x0FNgo

Good luck with posting a list of everything McCartney's worked on post-Beatles, btw. I don't think he's ever taken much of a break in 50+ years.

GEORGE HARRISON

Solo

Wonderwall Music
Microbes
Red Lady Too
Tabla and Pakavaj
In the Park
Drilling a Home
Guru Vandana
Greasy Legs
Ski-ing
Gat Kirwani
Dream Scene
Party Seacombe
Love Scene
Crying
Cowboy Music
Fantasy Sequins
On the Bed
Glass Box
Wonderwall to Be Here
Singing Om

Electronic Sound
Under the Mersey Wall
No Time or Space

All Things Must Pas
I'd Have You Anytime
My Sweet Lord
Wah-Wah
Isn't It a Pity (Version One)
What Is Life
If Not for You
Behind That Locked Door
Let It Down
Run of the Mill
Beware of Darkness
Apple Scruffs
Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)
Awaiting on You All
All Things Must Pass
I Dig Love
Art of Dying
Isn't It a Pity (Version Two)
Hear Me Lord
Out of the Blue
It's Johnny's Birthday
Plug Me In
I Remember Jeep
Thanks for the Pepperoni
I Live for You

Living in the Material World
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)
Sue Me, Sue You Blues
The Light That Has Lighted the World
Don't Let Me Wait Too Long
Who Can See It
Living in the Material World
The Lord Loves the One (That Loves the Lord)
Be Here Now
Try Some, Buy Some
The Day the World Gets 'Round
That Is All
Deep Blue
Miss O'Dell

Dark Horse
Hari's on Tour (Express)
Simply Shady
So Sad
Bye Bye, Love
Māya Love
Ding Dong, Ding Dong
Dark Horse
Far East Man
It Is 'He' (Jai Sri Krishna)
I Don't Care Anymore

Extra Texture (Read All About It
You
The Answer's at the End
This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)
Ooh Baby (You Know That I Love You)
World of Stone
A Bit More of You
Can't Stop Thinking About You
Tired of Midnight Blue
Grey Cloudy Lies
His Name Is Legs (Ladies and Gentlemen)

Thirty Three & 1/3
Woman Don't You Cry for Me
Dear One
Beautiful Girl
This Song
See Yourself
It's What You Value
True Love
Pure Smokey
Crackerbox Palace
Learning How to Love You
Tears of the World

George Harrison
Love Comes to Everyone
Not Guilty
Here Comes the Moon
Soft-Hearted Hana
Blow Away
Faster
Dark Sweet Lady
Your Love Is Forever
Soft Touch
If You Believe

Somewhere in England
Blood from a Clone
Unconsciousness Rules
Life Itself
All Those Years Ago
Baltimore Oriole
Teardrops
That Which I Have Lost
Writing's on the Wall
Hong Kong Blues
Save the World

Gone Troppo
Wake Up My Love
That's the Way It Goes
I Really Love You
Greece
Gone Troppo
Mystical One
Unknown Delight
Baby Don't Run Away
Dream Away
Circles

Cloud Nine
Cloud 9
That's What It Takes
Fish on the Sand
Just for Today
This Is Love
When We Was Fab
Devil's Radio
Someplace Else
Wreck of the Hesperus
Breath Away from Heaven
Got My Mind Set on You
Shanghai Surprise
Zig Zag

Brainwashed
Any Road
P2 Vatican Blues (Last Saturday Night)
Pisces Fish
Looking for My Life
Rising Sun
Marwa Blues
Stuck Inside a Cloud
Run So Far
Never Get Over You
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Rocking Chair in Hawaii
Brainwashed

Non-album singles
Bangla Desh
I Don't Want to Do It
Cheer Down
Shanghai Surprise
Poor Little Girl
Ride Rajbun
Mo

with other artists
In the First Place - the Remo Four (backing vocals, producer)
Carolina On My Mind - James Taylor (backing vocals)
Badge - Cream (guitar)
Hare Krishna Mantra - Radha Krishna Temple (guitars, harmonium and bass, producer)
Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune - Jack Bruce (guitar)
All That I've Got (I'm Gonna Give It To You) - Billy Preston (guitar, producer)
Instant Karma - Plastic Ono Band (guitars, backing vocals)
How the Web Was Woven - Jackie Lomax (producer)
Govinda - Radha Krishna Temple (guitars, harmonium, bass, producer)
Roll It Over - Derek and the Dominos (slide guitar)
I'm Your Spiritual Breadman - Ashton, Gardner & Dyke (guitar)
Went to See the Gypsy - Bob Dylan (guitar)
Sign on the Window - Bob Dylan (guitar)
If Not For You - Bob Dylan (guitar, demo version)
It Don't Come Easy - Ringo Starr (guitar, producer)
Early 1970 - Ringo Starr (slide guitar, piano, acoustic guitar, dobro and bass)
Try Some, Buy Some - Ronnie Spector (guitars, producer)
Tandoori Chicken - Ronnie Spector (guitars, producer)
How Do You Sleep? - John Lennon (guitar)
Gimme Some Truth - John Lennon (guitar)
I Don't Want to Be a Soldier - John Lennon (guitar)
I Wrote a Simple Song - Billy Preston (dobro)
Day After Day - Badfinger (guitar, co-producer)
I'd Die, Baby - Badfinger (guitars, co-producer)
Suitcase - Badfinger (co-producer)
Name of the Game - Badfinger (co-producer)
The Holdup - David Bromberg (guitar)
Sweet Music - Lon and Derrek Van Eaton (producer)
Back Off Boogaloo - Ringo Starr (guitars, producer)
Where There's a Will - Bobby Whitlock (guitar)
A Day Without Jesus - Bobby Whitlock (guitar)
Back in My Life Again - Bobby Whitlock (guitar)
Cold Turkey - John Lennon/Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band (guitar - Some Time in New York City live version)
Don't Worry Kyoko - John Lennon/Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band (guitar - Some Time in New York City live version)
You're Breakin' My Heart - Harry Nilsson (guitar)
Goodbye Sunday - Gary Wright (guitar)
Basketball Jones - Cheech & Chong (guitar)
Photograph - Ringo Starr (guitars, backing vocals)
I'm the Greatest - Ringo Starr (guitars, backing vocals)
Sunshine Life for Me - Ringo Starr (guitars, backing vocals)
You and Me Babe - Ringo Starr (guitars, backing vocals)
Down and Out - Ringo Starr (guitars, co-producer)
I Need You - Don Nix (guitar)
If You've Got Love - Dave Mason (guitar)
So Sad (No Love of His Own) - Alvin Lee and Mylon LeFevre (guitar, dobro, bass, vocal)
Daybreak - Harry Nilsson (percussion)
Far East Man - Ronnie Wood (guitar, backing vocals)
That's Life - Billy Preston (guitar)
Make Love Not War - Peter Skellern (guitar)
The Lumberjack Song - Monty Python (producer)
Appolonia (Foxtrata) - Tom Scott (guitar)
Direct Me - Larry Hosford (dobro)
Wishing I Could - Larry Hosford (backing vocals)
Round and Round - Splinter (guitars)
Motions of Love - Splinter (guitars)
The Last Time - Hall and Oates (guitar)
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python (backing vocal, mixing)
Walk a Thin Line - Mick Fleetwood (guitars)
Mineral Man - Gary Brooker (guitar)
Focus of Attention - Jimmy Helms (guitar)
Celebration - Jimmy Helms (guitar)
Exchange and Mart - Blind Faith (guitar)
Talk Don't Bother Me - Alvin Lee (guitar)
Children of the Sky - Mike Batt (guitar, backing vocals)
The Trembler - Duane Eddy (guitar, producer)
Theme for Something Really Important - Duane Eddy (guitar, producer)
Tana Mana - the Ravi Shankar Project (vocals)
Friar Park - the Ravi Shankar Project (autoharp, synthesizer)
Love's a State of Mind - Sylvia Griffin (guitar)
(I Don't Wanna) Hold Back - Gary Wright (guitar)
A Love So Beautiful - Roy Orbison (guitar)
I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty (guitar, backing vocals)
Oh Lord, Why Lord - Jim Capaldi (guitar)
Leave a Light On - Belinda Carlisle (guitar)
Deep Deep Ocean - Belinda Carlisle (guitar, bass)
Run So Far - Eric Clapton (guitar, backing vocals)
Lu Le La - Vicki Brown (guitar)
That Kind of Woman - Gary Moore (guitar)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Jeff Healey Band (guitar, backing vocals)
Take Away the Sadness - Jim Horn (guitar)
Every Little Thing - Jeff Lynne (guitar, backing vocals)
Lift Me Up - Jeff Lynne (guitar, backing vocals)
September Song - Jeff Lynne (guitar, backing vocals)
Stormy Weather - Jeff Lynne (guitar, backing vocals)
Homeward Bound - Paul SImon (guitar, vocals, 1990 version)
Under the Red Sky - Bob Dylan (guitar)
Hot Love - Del Shannon (backing vocals)
Real Love - Jimmy Nail (guitar)
Real Life Blues - Alvin Lee (guitar)
The Bluest Blues - Alvin Lee (guitar)
This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying) - Platinum Weird (vocals, guitar)
I Want You (She's So Heavy) - Alvin Lee (guitar)
Don't Try to Own Me - Gary Wright (backing vocals)
Distance Makes no Difference with Love - Carl Perkins (guitar,s piano, synthesizer, bass, backing vocals, producer)
King of Broken Hearts - Ringo Starr (guitar)
I'll Be Fine Anywhere - Ringo Starr (guitar)
Punchdrunk - Rubyhorse (guitar)
A Long Time Gone - ELO (guitar)
All She Wanted - ELO (guitar)
Anna Julia - Jim Capaldi (guitar)
Horse to the Water - Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra (vocals)

Is This What You Want? - Jackie Lomax (guitars, producer)
Speak To Me
Is This What You Want?
How Can You Say Goodbye
Sunset
Sour Milk Sea
Fall Inside Your Eyes
Little Yellow Pills
Take My Word
The Eagle Laughs At You
Baby You're A Lover
You've Got Me Thinking
I Just Don't Know

Leon Russell - Leon Russell (electric guitar)
A Song For You
Dixie Lullaby
I Put A Spell On You
Shoot Out On The Plantation
Hummingbird
Delta Lady
Prince Of Peace
Old Masters
Give Peace A Chance
Hurtsome Body
Pisces Apple Lady
Roll Away The Stone

Doris Troy - Doris Troy (guitar, co-producer)
Ain't That Cute
Special Care
Give Me Back My Dynamite
You Tore Me Up Inside
Games People Play
Gonna Get My Baby Back
I've Got To Be Strong
Hurry
So Far
Exactly Like You
You Give Me Joy Joy
Don't Call Me No More
Jacob's Ladder

That's the Way God Planned It - Billy Preston (guitars, moog, sitar, producer)
Do What You Want
I Want To Thank You
Everything's Alright
She Belongs To Me
It Doesn't Matter
Morning Star
Hey Brother
What About You
Let Us All Get Together Right Now
This Is It
Keep It To Yourself
That's The Way God Planned It

Encouraging Words - Billy Preston (guitars, moog, sitar, backing vocals, co-producer)
Right Now
Little Girl
Use What You've Got
My Sweet Lord
Let The Music Play
The Same Thing Again
I've Got A Feeling
Sing One For The Lord
When You Are Mine
I Don't Want You To Pretend
Encouraging Words
All Things Must Pass
You've Been Acting Strange

The Concert for Bangladesh
Introduction
Bangla Dhun
Wah-Wah
My Sweet Lord
Awaiting On You All
That's The Way God Planned It
It Don't Come Easy
Beware Of Darkness
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Medley:Jumping Jack Flash/Youngblood
Here Comes The Sun
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
It Takes A Lot To Laugh/It Takes A Train to Cry
Blowin' In The Wind
Mr. Tambourine Man
Just Like A Woman
ESomething
Bangla Desh

The Radha Krsna Temple - Radha Krishna Temple (London) (guitars, harmonium, bass, percussion, producer)
Govinda
Sri Gurvastakam
Bhaja Bhakata/Arati
Hare Krsna Mantra
Sri Isopanisad
Bhaja Hunre Mana
Govinda Jai Jai

Joi Bangla EP - Ravi Shankar (producer)
Joi Bangla
Oh Bhaugowan
Raga Mishra-Jhinjhoti

Footprint - Gary Wright (guitar, dobro)
Give Me The Good Earth
Two Faced Man
Love To Survive
Whether It's Right Or Wrong
Stand For Our Rights
Fascinating Things
Forgotten
If You Treat Someone Right

Raga (soundtrack) - Ravi Shankar (producer)
Dawn To Dusk
Vedic Hymns
Baba Teaching
Birth To Death
Vinus House
Gurur Bramha
United Nations
Raga Parameshwari
Rangeswhari
Banaras Ghat
Bombay Studio
Kinnara School
Frenzy And Distortion
Raga Desh

Bobby Keys - Bobby Keys (guitar)
Steal From A King
Smokefoot
Bootleg
Altar Rock
Key West
Command Performance
Crispy Duck
Sand & Foam

In Concert 1972 - Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan (co-producer)
Raga - Hem Bihag
Raga - Manj Khamaj (Part I)
Raga - Manj Khamaj (Part II)
Raga - Sindhi Bhairavi

The Tin Man Was a Dreamer - Nicky Hopkins (guitar)
Sundown In Mexico
Waiting For The Band
Edward
Dolly
Speed On
The Dreamer
Banana Anna
Lawyer's Lament
Shout It Out
Pig's Boogie

The Place I Love - Splinter (guitars, dobro, bass, harmonium, moog, producer)
Gravy Train
Drink All Day (Got To Find Your Own Way Home)
China Light
Somebody's City
Costafine Town
The Place I Love
Situation Vacant
Elly May
Haven't Got Time

Shankar Family & Friends - Ravi Shankar
I Am Missing You
Kahān Gayelavā Shyām Saloné
Supané Mé Āyé Preetam Sainyā
I Am Missing You (Reprise)
Jaya Jagadish Haré
Overture
Festivity & Joy
Love-Dance Ecstasy
Lust (Rāga Chandrakauns)
Dispute & Violence
Disillusionment & Frustration
Despair & Sorrow (Rāga Marwā)
Awakening
Peace & Hope (Rāga Bhatiyār)

Ravi Shankar's Music Festival From India - Ravi Shankar
Vandanna
Dhamar
Tarana
Chaturang
Raga Jait
Kajri
Bhajan
Nanderdani
Dehati

Stop and Smell the Roses - Ringo Starr (guitars, backing vocal, producer)
Private Property
Wrack My Brain
Drumming Is My Madness
Attention
Stop And Take The Time To Smell The Roses
Dead Giveaway
You Belong To Me
Sure To Fall
Nice Way
Back Off Boogaloo

Travelling Wilburys Vol.1 - Travelling Wilburys (guitars, vocal, producer)
Handle With Care
Dirty World
Rattled
Last Night
Not Alone Any More
Congratulations
Heading For The Light
Margarita
Tweeter And The Monkey Man
End Of The Line

Travelling Wilburys Vol.3 - Travelling Wilburys (guitars, vocal, producer)
She's My Baby
Inside Out
If You Belonged To Me
The Devil's Been Busy
Deadly Sins
Poor House
Where Were You Last Night?
Cool Dry Place
New Blue Moon
You Took My Breath Away
Wilbury Twist

Chants of India - Ravi Shankar
Vandanaa Trayee
Omkaaraaya Namaha
Vedic Chanting
Asato Maa
Sahanaa Vavatu
Poornamadah
Gaayatri
Mahaa Mrityunjaya
Veenaa-Murali
Geetaa
Mangalam
Hari Om
Svara Mantra
Vedic Chanting
Prabhujee
Sarve Shaam

lol whoops i thought Crackerbox Palace was on Dark Horse. that's probably my favorite solo George track

damn, you're putting in some work shakey!

hero

The lists gave me a wah-wah!

Good work, Shakey! There's quite a few things in the Harrison list that I haven't yet heard...

McCartney'll be the hardest: solo, plus Wings, Paul McCartney & Wings, Paul & Linda McCartney, The Fireman, Percy "Thrills" Thrillington, his classical stuff, and the number of guest appearances and one-offs and other pseudonyms.

Urban Spaceman at no. 1, obviously

The John list missed "Walking on thin ice"

Oh fuck, I forgot that he'd produced that Bonzo's track! Obviously, there's the stuff with Mary Hopkin and Badfinger etc.

xp no it didn't, it's 10th from the beginning of the list

I almost want to redo my already sent ballot...

Xpost so it is. OK, "It happened" the b-side

As much as I'm tempted to submit a ballot of my 100 favourite McCartney songs, I'd only be lying to myself if I didn't vote for my favourite Lennon and Harrison tracks. I couldn't not vote for 'Cold Turkey', for example.

"It happened" the b-side

John is not on this song

sometimes I think that McCartney's production of "Come and Get It" is one of the shittiest things he ever did. Not that it's a bad song (tbf it's a mediocre song) but just the way he treated the band as little more than a vehicle for finding out if he could put out a song without his name on it and still have it be a hit, it's just a shitty thing to do to a fellow artist, to treat them as less than active participants in their own creative output.

i love "Woman Power", with John on guitar. from the explicitly feminist "Feeling the Space" LP. cool revolutionary lyrics:

Two thousand years of male society
Laying fear and tyranny
Seeking grades and money
Clinging to values vain and phony

Woman power! (woman power!)
Woman power! (woman power!)

Do you know that one day you lost your way, man?
Do you know that some day you have to pay, man?
Have you anything to say, man, except
"make no mistake about it, i'm the president, you hear?
"I wanna make one thing clear, i'm the president, you hear?"

Woman power! (woman power!)
Woman power! (woman power!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kVMp7M0rdE

I think that's the one Lennon-era Yoko album I don't have...? Cool track, def in their proto-krautrock vein.

sometimes I think that McCartney's production of "Come and Get It" is one of the shittiest things he ever did. Not that it's a bad song (tbf it's a mediocre song) but just the way he treated the band as little more than a vehicle for finding out if he could put out a song without his name on it and still have it be a hit, it's just a shitty thing to do to a fellow artist, to treat them as less than active participants in their own creative output.

― Οὖτις, Monday, May 14, 2018 8:39 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I agree with you completely about 'Come and Get It', it's pretty much McCartney on autopilot and wouldn't have really got past the others if it had been put forward as a potential Beatles track. Some of the other things he gave away: 'Goodbye', 'Step Inside Love' etc. were far better.

It says a lot about McCartney's ego at that time where he basically was like "you have to copy my demo note for note because this is the hit sound" - Badfinger's own material was stronger: 'No Matter What', 'Day After Day', 'Without You' all knock 'Come and Get It' into a cocked hat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Radha_Krsna_Temple_(album)
https://krishna.org/george-harrison-interview-hare-krishna-mantra-theres-nothing-higher-1982/

the Radha Krsna Temple album, produced by George and feature his guitar, should also be included. this is great stuff, a form of pop bhakti. George Harrison plays with the Krishna temple and together they actually produced a hit single with a recording of the "Hare Krishna" mantra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVMgEupff-E

Wall of Vedic Sound on Apple records in 1971

that was listed under George's CV and yeah it's pretty good. A couple of the Ravi Shankar albums he did are better imo.

McCartney's list is making me realize how many songs he wrote and gave away but didn't perform on.

(These songs are not eligible FYI)

I think that's the one Lennon-era Yoko album I don't have...? Cool track, def in their proto-krautrock vein.

― Οὖτις, Monday, May 14, 2018 4:47 PM

Yeah, it's her weakest from this period.

no way. its so good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUleDpA3DLE

I'll forever love YO/POB, Fly, and AIU though.

Feeling the Space definitely deserves a listen. the band is pretty nice and has a 70's soul vibe to it. "Growing Pain" w that beat and that flute and some lovely early 70s space r&b. "Woman of Salem" is devastating, vividly re-telling the story of the morning of a witch hanging, like a folk thing Johnny Cash or Nick Cave would do. "Run Run Run" i like a lot because it is a nice breezy pop song with a great catchy chorus about "Run run run run run for your life" almost like on a Pink Floyd satirical tip or something. her style for this album is more political & concrete, less abstract/conceptual. a lot of the album is about the women's struggle, she is confronting an ages old thing that weighs heavy on the world. the music is pretty rad.

John is only performing on a 2 songs here tho, as the album as a whole is mostly her statement, thus outside the rules of this poll.

i dig the vibraphone jazz pop of "Yellow girl (Stand by for life)"

Both songs john plays on from that album were listed as eligible fwiw

Xpip

yes that list is well put together!

This is nuts, and unheard until recent CD reissues i believe? Genuinely amazing and sounds more like a late 80s proto acid-y thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w40MUrFq3xM

I love it.

I like McCartney II and the rest of the stuff that didn't make the album, but it is a touch overrated by people who consider themselves to be too cool to listen to 'Once Upon a Long Ago' or 'My Brave Face' ...

'Dark Room' is another great one from McCartney II ...

dope lists shakey. i'll dig through tomorrow and hype some fave tracks.

"come and get it" is .... okay. i love the "SON-ny! If.. you..." hook. but it's badly underwritten, with basically a verse and a chorus ad nauseum iirc. that's the real impresario sin - the recording is great and it was a top-tenner in the UK and US both. otherwise i'm not sure he did anything worse there than any other producer of a bubblegum single in that period.

"secret friend" was a b-side on the "temporary secretary" 12" single, and would burble up periodically as a "woah, this is the mccartney track for people who hate mccartney" (much like the album as a whole was always slightly on the cusp of cool cred for weirdos) - i remember blount repping for it circa 2005/2006. naturally it's never done a ton for me but it's a good stoner trip thing. as far as castoffs from the mccartney ii sessions go (it was originally conceived, insanely, as a double ablum) i prefer the shorter, one-idea songs like "mr. h. atom" and "you know i'll get you babe," which i knew from mp3s of bootleg albums. not things i would put on a ballot, though one of the "coming up"s has to place. "waterspout" though is the true lost gem of that period.

woah i guess "waterspout" is actually a few years earlier! i'm seeing it on "london town sessions" lists. weird, it feels so mccartney-ii to me.

McCartney II, which I've lived with 25 years, is mostly crap.

"Waterfalls"? Yeah. It was a UK top ten!

"waterfalls" is lovely also!

McCartney II, whichwho I've lived with 25 38 years, is mostly crap.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

fixed

Where is the mccartney list?

I might put Temporary Secretary on number one and fill the rest with Ringo songs.

ha I was thinking of doing an all-Ringo ballot just to narrow the field but shakey’s lists are great, will definitely be listening to a lot of stuff on there I haven’t heard

I dunno moka, where is your mccartney list