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

well, OTG is pretty spiritless for the most part

FMWTA kayfabe

? I know what kayfabe is but what is FMWTA

pretty sure i've picked my #1, now to rank all 80 or so other tracks...

get those ballots in kids!

sent!

this was already so fun, thank you shakey

results will be interesting

still have no idea what to do about images, I guess I can just do youtubez

find an image of George hoovering some coke

part of the problem is that this is such a wide swathe of material there's no real unifying set of graphic images or style that's appropriate across all the entries, since they span a sizeable range of eras, artists, etc.

can't go wrong with photos

I might just go with sleeve images from discogs idk

remember that you can't embed discogs images here

? I know what kayfabe is but what is FMWTA

sadly, results cannot be sorted by decade

if you know a bit of graphics design maybe you could use the iconic shots from the white album to show whose song it is and just put text on top and then when more than one fab is on the song you could superimpose the pictures so that for instance Ringo's face is behind John's

best I can come up with

images are a lot of work, ok to skip them imo

agree with this too

18 ballots in so far, not nearly enough!

so far there's not a single song that's made every ballot

shh!

waiting until the last minute as usual, you'll get mine tomorrow

so far there's not a single song that's made every ballot

and there never will be!

i'll have mine tonight! i only made it to 70 or so but i'm trying to do some extra listening to get to a clean 77

^^ a worthy goal

ha haaa:

Sylvia Patterson: Were you aware, back in the ’80s, of the full title that Smash Hits used to give you?

Paul McCartney: Wacky? Thumbs aloft? Macca… Wacky Thumbs Aloft?

SP: “Fab Macca Wacky Thumbs Aloft.”

PM: Is that the full thing? You learned it! I loved that, Thumbs Aloft. And funnily enough it was coined by the guy at the time who looked a bit like me. Mark, the editor. So I thought there was something deep and psychological going on there.

I aimed for 77 but tapped out at 72 or so :(

where my ballots at

They're not due til tomorrow right??

yeah but it's easier on me if I don't get like a dozen ballots at 4:55pm (or later) on a Friday

Sent! Eighty tracks!

Sent. It's been over 40 years since I've willingly listened to any of the Postfabs as much as I did in the past week. In the end only 14 out of 100 songs on my ballot were released after 1979.

if i want to make a list of my top 20 can i do that? how does the point allocation go in that case?

it goes as if you would have filled in the other 80.

kinda wish there was an albums side poll with this one!

i nearly made an albums list anyway but if anything it’s even harder to rank

yeah, i think i'd know my top 5 but have no idea where anything would rank within it

also, just submitted my ballot! only ended up with 70

tbh i could be wrong but i feel like a lot of albums lists would have the same top three

made it 30 seconds into "Temporary Secretary" before bailing. I've heard better production and sound on boombox tapes, dear god. I'll try a few more Wings songs but right now I'm listening to "Mind Games" deep cuts

xpost

ATMP/Imagine/POB?
or maybe Ram or BOTR in there?

yeah basically, feels like it'd be a shuffle of those exact albums

plus me aggressively voting for london town or whatever

me registering nine sock puppets to vote for McCartney II and nothing else

wait, I like a track from Off The Ground ("Golden Earth Girl")

what is happening

16 seconds into "Say Say Say" - NO NO NO

could be a good time to listen to the no song

kiss kiss kiss > wah-wah > well well well > say say say >

the no no song is pretty good imo

I loathe "No No Song."

I love "Say Say Say."

Consensus!

Of the many ways one could chart the general cultural shifts wrought by "The Sixties," the ten years' journey from "she loves you, yeah yeah yeah" to "then she held out a ten-pound bag of cocaine" might be one of the swarthiest but most revealing.

First line of your essay, please.

Sent! 31 songs strong

xpost no no, no no, I can't take it no further

say, say, say what you want