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

I know there's a couple of things on Driving Rain that are about Linda - 'From a Lover to a Friend' being one, which is one of my favourites from that record. Run Devil Run, the rock'n'roll covers album, was his first post-Linda album under his own name.

I remember when Run Devil Run first came out that some perceived McCartney delving back into the rock'n'roll stuff that he loved when he was younger as being a form of therapy for him after Linda's death.

For sure I'm voting for RDR's "No Other Baby," one of the greatest vocals of his career and maybe the only time he's ever sounded anguished.

only a couple days before the deadline so get those ballots in folx

i'm nearly done! i can only fit in like three more songs anyway lol

I'll quit dithering and put mine together tonight.

everyone pls vote for the fireman's "fluid" with me

would I vote for it?

idk it's really pretty and 11 minutes long

lol clever dig

lol actually my ballot is exactly at 100 rn. maybe i’ll just turn it in. can’t imagine cutting any of these very important wings songs

Voted for two Run Devil Run tracks, "Bluejean Bop" and "Movie Magg."

lmao twin freaks is AWESOME. lol’d hard at the “live and let die” remix

the definitive "mumbo"

flaming pie is a really nice record, feels like what tug of war wanted to be (idk if that makes any sense)

hey good recommendations y'all, been checked out for a while but thread has delivered

now I gotta relisten to ATMP

Brad

what

also that wasn't a dig earlier, it is hard for me to tell if the fireman is pedestrian ambient techno or legit good ambient techno, all i know is it was perfect desk job music

I like "Fluid"

you know, we tend to forget how solid Flaming Pie is, which got the same good reviews the late 2000s album did and is also forgotten.

wow "Wah-Wah" is awesome, had totally forgotten about it

Voted!

If I'd tried to rank every single song, I'd have been fiddling with it for another week, so I ranked the absolute cream, then broke the rest into tiers and ran each tier through a randomizer.

Flaming Pie is very good, yeah - although I'd cut maybe 3 tracks from it to shorten it a bit. 'Beautiful Night' and 'Calico Skies' (which also sounds great in its live incarnation with full band) are both all-time McCartney for me.

shakey, how important would you say it is that ballot artists are labeled correctly? (say I might confuse Plastic Ono Band with John Lennon or Wings with Paul McCartney...)

I like "Fluid"

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 00:51 (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and fluid if you disagree...

i got really high last night and listened to chaos and creation for the first time. that album is outstanding

can I do a mixed ballot?

what do you mean?

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, May 23, 2018 10:05 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was wondering this too, mixed meaning part-ranked and part-unranked

can i vote for paul’s “black beatles” vine

wait do I have to list the artist as well as the track title? if so, what is the correct format?

Artist - Title

wasn't really feeling driving rain and "freedom" is an atrocity but i had to find room for "rise the raindrops" on my ballot

er rinse*

I've always wanted to like Rinse the Raindrops more than I do... the title line will pop into my head but then I'll put on the full song and it just kinda wears me out.

I can imagine an enthusiastic Paul protest song called "Raise the Raindrops!"

i remember seeing the "lonely road" video on vh1 all the time in 2001/2002

it's really terrible in a specifically 2001/2002 music video way

shakey, how important would you say it is that ballot artists are labeled correctly? (say I might confuse Plastic Ono Band with John Lennon or Wings with Paul McCartney...)

I'm standardizing all the poll entries as part of the vote tabulation process, so as long as you give me some kind of clue as to which artist performed the song I can take it from there.

I was wondering this too, mixed meaning part-ranked and part-unranked

I don't know how to count unranked entries without being prejudicial or arbitrary, so everything should be ranked plz

I ranked the absolute cream, then broke the rest into tiers and ran each tier through a randomizer.

I did exactly the same thing, got a top 7 and then let Excel do the rest, happy with the result!

So I have to disqualify some stuff I listed, since I just noticed a vote for Leon Russell's "A Song For You". I had the whole album that song is from down as featuring George, but it actually looks like he only played on Dixie Lullaby, Shoot Out on the Plantation, and Hurtsome Body. (Ringo only played on Dixie Lullaby and Shoot Out on the Plantation).

Sorry about that

awww, dang

"spinning on an axis" is a really weird song, kinda feels like wings and ram combined

turns out in the end I couldn't not include a few goofy ringo tracks... certainly it's a fool who plays it cool

ballot sent!

Driving Rain - think I voted She’s Given Up Talking and From a Lover to a Friend!

those songs are both really good

sorry to just reiterate what i said earlier but wow chaos and creation is SO good

12 ballots so far, get 'em in people

do Shakes a favor
open the door
and get'em in

kinda lol but mostly sad that How Do You Sleep is on the same album as Imagine

Imagine Paul sleeping peacefully
I wonder if you can

I take it we're just voting for songs rather than specific versions, yes? Apologies if this is answered somewhere already.