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

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

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?

This will not be counted afaiu

"second draft"

lol it went through a lot of permutations! "permutations"

i couldn't leave off maybe i'm amazed. it might be corny, but those chords are fantastic.

I'm getting closer
My salamander

maybe I'm amazed is awesome. I don't think there's anything corny about the song - it's probably McC being his most authentic self.

baffled by the love for it to be honest. the only version I've ever really rated is the Faces cover.

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?

this is technically a live version so it's not eligible

I voted for "maybe I'm amazed" but yeah I was thinking of the Faces cover more than the original tbh

thanks Shakes for informing me of the Faces version but: nah

and it's the worst song on that Faces album too lol

I've never heard this cover until today! It's fantastic!

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

they were just able to do it with more swing and muscle, and Rod's voice is a great match for the sentiment

28 ballots in so far, still waiting on Doc C... anyone else?

I know this is useless fantasy football but without the Beatles Paul might have been a well regarded kinda quirky artist like Randy Newman, John could've still been a rock star

nah he's too much of a ham. not randy newman, elton john tho

has he really got the pathos for that though?

of course!

definitely a ham, and a cutesy showboat w ambition and an uncanny melodic sense so he def would have gone somewhere w out John

heading home now with visions of getting mine sorted!!

you can work it out!

Sent! Sixty songs.

first pass culling from the big lists near the top of the thread - - got it to 174 songs! surely the rest of this won't take too long at all....

lol

I think you might be taking this a little too seriously. maybe.

haha i just cut and pasted in everything from the lists posted to thread and deleted everything i couldn't imagine ever voting for. now i'm just doing the standard quick-pass "assign this to tiers 1-4" deal to discover that, indeed, tiers 1-3 already come to about 100, so there are dozens of things in group 4 that will never have a chance and there's no point trying to rank them. fare thee well, "Wrack My Brain."

aw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVovCtmCmXU

wld listen to a blind YSI just of Dr Casino's ballot

awww

just let go of "I Lie Around" ;_;

listen, having gone through it already, you're going to have to let go of a lot of crucial wings songs

though i regret not voting for "big barn bed" higher, you were right about that one doc casino

is anybody else besides Doc C still working on a ballot?

I tried to put one together, but really struggled. If I did submit one, it'd be 100 songs - I just can't decide which 100.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgmXiTG21yM

we're not awarding nobel prizes here guys, just make a list

Betcha there are voters expecting you to extend the deadline, betcha betcha.

NO

just putting some final polish on and then i can go eat dinner

the ranking is completely insane and i think if i started over there would be almost no correspondence with this list but it's also a list of 100 solo beatles songs i really like so that's fine by me

100 tracks, SENT!

the preponderance of Paul tracks and impossibility of really considering every song in relation to every other means that i had a few big chunks of consecutive and nearly alphabetical Paul surviving from the first round of compiling the list... but i mean generally speaking they're all kinda in the right part of the list so whatever. stoked for the results on this.

I have absolutely no idea what to expect here, especially since there’s been a lot of badmouthing of the most popular and acclaimed tracks going on

*rubs hands gleefully*

#1 "Imagine"

i can think of at least twelve possible no. 1s

crunching stats, will post results monday

you don't know what you got, until you crunch it

“Blow Away” got a shot?

in the end I did not vote for that frog choir song since it is a bad song but I do hope it will place since it made me laugh every time it came on shuffle

hey just sent mine -- meant to send it all afternoon but kept getting distracted by work, hope i made the deadline!