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

does this one count? not sure about McC's role in the final recording that Cilla Black released:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KyvGnJn5Ms

honestly just going through macca solo is filling out my ballot easily. i am voting for a ronnie spector track tho

that Cilla Black thing is tricky because really you'd have to vote for the demo, I guess? Macca isn't on her released version.

"greenfield morning" is such a cool song

This should get a few votes, George's high quality contribution to the Lethal Weapon II soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YaDExzJxP0

it's on my list. I love the extended demonstration of his slide guitarin'.

"open your box"/"hirake" is just the coolest song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1VQahA0-dA

approximately infinite universe is one of the best double albums i can think of but i'd like to specifically rep for "catman"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YU5rbfx_Fo

song kinda makes me think of kate bush five years before kate bush

I can't stress enough how delighted I am that people have come around on Yoko's stuff so much. I get really irritated when I read people slagging her off and all the implied and/or expressed racism, sexism and rockism that comes along with it.

I'm very much in the camp that feels that Yoko reinvigorated John, opened his mind and - most importantly - made him happy.

i wish, btw, that george had stuck by covers a bit more! his rendition of "If Not For You" is just so lovely.

I always wanted to hear a George version of Patience by G'n'R

many thanks to ppl who've posted Yoko piano-y ballads itt

here's another incredible one that should be high on everyone's ballot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLeZTKEVGVk

yep!!!

also maybe all of her songs on double fantasy are making my ballot

'Give Me Something' rules - New Wave Yoko at her finest.

"walking on thin ice" is the best song ever made by anyone let alone by someone who recorded with the beatles

Kiss Kiss Kiss made my ballot from Double Fantasy. Dirtbombs did a great cover of that.

and from Season of Glass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULZrHWe3aZ0

finishing up lennon's discog today, how good is "old dirt road"?

I'd say it's pretty good. I didn't vote for it though. Nilsson sure liked it.

not sure whose version is better tbh

i'm not sure if i'm voting for it but it's a really nice moment on walls and bridges. def voting for "bless you" i think

"steel and glass" sure is "how do you sleep" but with the guitar riff transposed to to horns

"Bless You" is good. So much of that album ("What You Got") has this smoke-filled singles lounge vibe circa 1975.

I lamed out on Brainwashed, but am digging this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ytCkcYpxCQ

Wow,I had never heard Mrs.Lennon before but Alex Chilton sure did! It's a dead ringer for Holocaust, right?

Chilton acknowledged he lifted it iirc

Did not know that. Thanx.

lmao "secret friend" is like music made just for me

in 1980 paul mccartney invented balearic deep house

"junior's farm" fuckin' rocks

also i really fell in love with "deliver your children" tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMvtzQ8AYPs

what do you mean?
was thinking if I could do a ballot with a weighted top 10 and then the rest unweighted

but I guess artist polls perhaps don't work that way

"Your Way" by McCartney is a very charming little tune

I'm quite enjoying London Town. The ballads ostensibly written for or about children are spooky, while the adult ballads sound as if they were written for or about kids.

lol i think i'm finally done with wings and i just hit 100 tracks

Also: I realized that "With a Little Luck" is the let's-just-spoon-together soft early draft of "Press."

man "how do you sleep?" is such a meeeeeannn slow-burn of a song. marred only by the sense that at least as far as we get on record, the grievance is remarkably petty: you think his songs are kinda cheesy? well, okay, so do i sometimes, but idk if he should really lose any sleep over it...

even the real explanation is kinda silly. who gets their feelings hurt by a song like "too many people"

John Lennon.

i imagine it's possible that a paranoid/drugged-out lennon took macca's barbs as being far deeper than intended - the "piece of cake" suggesting he is a money-grubbing phony and not a Real Committed Activist And Artist. whereas paul was probably just eating cake that day and said "aha, now there's a song in that!"

also i finally got the playlist DL'ed on my phone and man it rules. so great to go from "how do you sleep?" to "love comes to everyone" to "i'll give you a ring."

huh, "ever present past!" this is nice!

listened through Brainwashed again recently, nice album, but the song that really stands out is the devastating "Stuck Inside a Cloud," which is finds George trying to reconcile his spirituality with his deteriorating physical health. i mean, the whole album tries to do that, but "Stuck Inside a Cloud" is the most effective.

huh, "ever present past!" this is nice!

― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino)

He plays every instrument too

paul was probably just eating cake that day and said "aha, now there's a song in that!"
haha idd

"Too Many People" is an ideal example of Addled Paul. Who else would get his wife to help him scream PIECE OF CAKE?

who gets their feelings hurt by a song like "too many people"

maybe he took it as another dig at Yoko. too many people in the studio, one too many

shiiiiit "mindtrain" rules