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

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

it's always a good time to reread the 1980 playboy interview

PLAYBOY: "Many people feel that none of the songs Paul has done alone match the songs he did as a Beatle. Do you honestly feel that any of your songs on the Plastic Ono Band records will have the lasting imprint of 'Eleanor Rigby' or 'Strawberry Fields'?"

LENNON: "'Imagine,' 'Love' and those Plastic Ono Band songs stand up to any song that was written when I was a Beatle. Now, it may take you 20 or 30 years to appreciate that, but the fact is, if you check those songs out, you will see that it is as good as any fucking stuff that was ever done."

I love that book

finished a 77 ballot, very enjoyable thread, thank u all

sent an 81-song ballot

Sent my 100 song ballot. Phew. Forgot to double-check if George's instrumental version of The Inner Light from the Wonderwall Music bonus tracks was eligible, being a Beatles track too and all, and this thread is now crashing my browser so couldn't scroll back to look there! Anyway.

Now, it may take you 20 or 30 years to appreciate that, but the fact is, if you check those songs out, you will see that it is as good as any fucking stuff that was ever done."
could not help but read this in the voice of Liam Gallagher

Sent! 40 songs

Thanks to this poll I have It Is 'Him' (Jai Sri Krishna) going round my head on endless repeat. Do earworms count towards the reawakening of original spiritual consciousness?

Dammit, I really want to put Loneliness by Yoko on this list, but Lennon doesn't play on it.

ugh flagging ate my post but: gonna try my best to get home in time to make a ballot today, and I just threw a last dozen tracks onto the playlist, moooostly stuff that's gotten at least partway namechecked here (e.g. second-tier-but-basically-liked-em cuts from my ringo marathon), plus a couple of big ticket items (Mother, original Maybe I'm Amazed). shockingly not on Spotify: Girls' School, and any of the FitD-era b-sides (Loveliest Thing!!).

just sent my ballot, 77 tracks

I'm voting for the Unplugged version of "That Would Be Something" - will you lump that in with the studio version or is it counted separately?

just realized i didn't include "maybe i'm amazed" at all, whoops. i like it enough to include it near the bottom of my ballot, but in general it's my least favorite popular solo paul song

i like that song a lot but it didn’t survive the second draft of my ballot