POLL Those Years Ago: The Beatles Solo Careers Poll Results Thread

felt slightly weird about voting for Junk, sublime as it is, since is it reaaally a post Beatle track? the Anthology/White Album outtake is more or less the same as what Paul put out solo

xps appreciate it. only in a more just world would monkberry moon delight take its rightful place in the top five

and 'Press'!

thanks for runnning a great poll Shakey, rather appreciated all the twists too, kinda like an M. Night Shyamalan poll

in the end I put #9 dream in the #1 slot, perfect sonics, sounds like a dream, feels very contemporary to me, and it's by far the song in this poll I've listened to the most for the past few years

My Mummy's Dead is the highest track on my ballot to not place, closely followed by quite a few great Paul compositions of which some (Great Day) I realize are my idiosyncrasies but others (Bluebird, dammit!) are complete ilm oversights...

here's my full ballot for timellison to peruse:

John Lennon - #9 Dream
Paul McCartney - Band On The Run
John Lennon - Oh Yoko
John Lennon - Watching The Wheels
Paul McCartney - Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
John Lennon - Woman
John Lennon - Jealous Guy
Paul McCartney - Junk
Paul McCartney - Maybe I’m Amazed
John Lennon - Love
George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
John Lennon - Hold On
John Lennon - Mother
John Lennon - Beautiful Boy
John Lennon - Imagine
Paul McCartney - Jet
John Lennon - Mind Games
John Lennon - My Mummy’s Dead
John Lennon - Well Well Well
Paul McCartney - Great Day
Paul McCartney - Heart Of The Country
Paul McCartney - Bluebird
Paul McCartney - Oo You
Paul McCartney - Calico Skies
Paul McCartney - Heaven On A Sunday
Paul McCartney - Long Haired Lady
John Lennon - One Day At A Time
John Lennon - Old Dirt Road
Paul McCartney - The Song We Were Singing
John Lennon - Nobody Told Me
George Harrison - Here Comes The Moon
Paul McCartney - Distractions
John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Through The Night
George Harrison - Simply Shady
Paul McCartney - Arrow Through Me
Paul McCartney - Your Way
George Harrison - I'd Have You Anytime
George Harrison - Don’t Let Me Wait Too Long
Paul McCartney - Another Day
John Lennon - How Do You Sleep
George Harrison - Love Comes To Everyone
George Harrison - Wah-wah
Paul McCartney - Every Night
Paul McCartney - Say Say Say
George Harrison - Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)
George Harrison - Stuch Inside a Cloud
George Harrison - If Not For You
John Lennon - Remember Love
George Harrison - What Is Life
Ringo Starr - Early 1970
Ringo Starr - Occopella
Ringo Starr - No No Song

love Instant Karma. one of the earliest memories i have is waking up early to go to the airport and i remember this song being on the radio and it having that "late evening/early morning" feel to it.

kind of pleased it landed at the top. they wrote and recorded it as fast as possible, part of that improvisational "Capturing the moment" aesthetic that John/Yoko played with so much. it's all about capturing lightning in a bottle, as pure as possible.

Dang I forgot to vote for Spies Like Us, I love that song

felt slightly weird about voting for Junk, sublime as it is, since is it reaaally a post Beatle track? the Anthology/White Album outtake is more or less the same as what Paul put out solo

― niels, Tuesday, June 5, 2018 6:05 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You could say the same about Jealous Guy/Child of Nature (yes, completely different lyrics, but the Anthology demo of Junk doesn't have finished lyrics either, and there are small differences in the music). And obviously all the George songs that ended up on ATMP and even Circles, which was demoed in 1968.

Thanks for a terrific poll and entertaining rollout, Shakey.

how'd you like that "here's the ACTUAL results" fakeout

truly original

yes thanks for doing this! i also did not vote (sorry!) but i enjoy the discussion.

i know the Beatles are old and have been talked about a zillion times but they have a crazy prolific body of work and there is always something new to discover. ive been a Beatles maniac since i was 15-16, collecting all the bootlegs, reading the Lewisohn books with glee, etc. and there is still much i have yet to hear.

Thanks so much for doing this, Shakey. Truly one of the most fun and entertaining polls/rollouts in some time.

yeah thanks for doing this shakey -- it was a lot of fun listening to a bunch of this stuff over the last few weeks.

Every track from "Electronic Sound" got voted

Sad that no one else voted for Blindman

131. We Love You - The Rolling Stones (feat. John, Paul) (267 points, 5 votes)

Haha, I was wondering how many would vote for this (it made my ballot).

the bootlegs of that are a lot of fun. Brian Jones on mellotron. the Stones sound like Suicide or something!

Nicky Hopkins is the fuckin man

great results (all versions), great poll, bravo shakey. sorry i was at work and then at the movies and thus missed almost all of it but this is a really solid lineup of beatle tracks. good turnout, too!

yeah 34 ballots in the end, forgot to mention that

maybe the highest turnout for a poll I've run, I'm not sure

sad that "So Sad" & "Simply Shady" from George didn't make it

missed the deadline to vote but have thoroughly enjoyed this poll & accompanying spotify. good show fellas.

WE ALL...

...STAND...

...TOGETHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!

Brad, would you add #4 and 5, Maybe I'm Amazed and Jealous Guy, to the revised Spotify list?

no

jk sorry i forgot

great poll, shakey! was awesome discovering things and re-discovering stuff i hadn't listened to in a long time.

- all the Nilsson tracks (was bummed none of those made it into the top 100 tbh)

really surprised by this! Can’t complain cause I didn’t vote but if I had “Mucho Mungo/Mt. Elga” would’ve been my #1

would it be terrible for the casual fan to ask for album totals for further investigation?

That’s tricky because no one included the albums tracks were from with their ballots (and I didnt ask for this info). So tabulating that would require some work.

The obvious albums got the most votes - Lennon’s POB, All Things Must Pass, Ram, Band on the Run, Imagine

Thanks, enjoyed the rollout.

felt slightly weird about voting for Junk, sublime as it is, since is it reaaally a post Beatle track? the Anthology/White Album outtake is more or less the same as what Paul put out solo

Yeah thanks for running this Shakey, lots of fun to vote in, I discovered/re-discovered some great songs from all four Beatles (and Yoko!) putting my ballot together.

aaaaaand here's my ballot.

lol I was the only voter for "Scumbag"
you are all missing out

kinda bummed none of the yoko double fantasy songs placed

for the most part they're much better than john's except maybe "watching the wheels"

the production also suits her better than him

otm

so much so that I can't hear what Phil Spector brought to Season of Glass.

yeah I've never understood what that credit was about. Assumed he was involved with some early tracking or something.

kinda bummed none of the yoko double fantasy songs placed

"Kiss Kiss Kiss" the highest at 118. There was a relatively solid Yoko-voting contingent of about a dozen but there was a lot of vote-splitting.

lol yeah, it was great looking at alfred's ballot and seeing he voted for a bunch of approximately infinite universe tracks but they were all tracks that fell off the end of my ballot

Al’s list helped me figure out where to start and how deep to dig. I ended up creating three tiers of stuff and organizing it mostly that way. Even still, my top twenty was pretty conservative:

1. Maybe I’m Amazed
2. Watching the Wheels
3. Jealous Guy
4. Instant Karma
5. Why
6. Too Many People
7. My Sweet Lord
8. Photograph
9. Nobody Told Me
10. Let Me Roll It
11. Band on the Run
12. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
13. Letting Go
14. Let ‘Em In
15. All Things Must Pass
16. Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp
17. Arrow Through Me
18. Isn’t It a Pity
19. Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
20. Ram On
21. Badge
22. I Don’t Wanna Be a Soldier
23. Mother
24. Dear Boy
25. Oh Yoko!
26. Long Haired Lady
27. I Felt Like Smashing My Face in a Clear Glass Window
28. Magneto and Titanium Man
29. Getting Closer
30. I’m Carrying
31. Summer’s Day Song
32. One of These Days
33. That Is All
34. Handle With Care
35. Jet
36. Save the Last Dance for Me (from Pussycats)
37. #9 Dream
38. How Do You Sleep
39. I Want to Rest My Love Tonight
40. Approximately Infinite Universe
41. Woman Power
42. However Absurd
43. Coming Up
44. Every Night
45. Silly Love Songs
46. Awaiting On You All
47. Beware of Darkness
48. Wah-Wah
49. Imagine
50. Working Class Hero
51. Beautiful Boy
52. Put It There
53. This One
54. Take It Away
55. Wanderlust
56. Singalong Junk
57. London Town
58. Well Well Well
59. Warm and Beautiful
60. Listen to the What the Man Said

I didn't know this about Walking on Thin Ice:

Lennon's lead guitar work on the track, which he recorded on 4 December 1980, was his final creative act.[2] He used his famous Beatles era 1958 Rickenbacker 325 to record all the guitar parts. This is the first time that he used the guitar on a studio recording since 1964/65.

Great fun to be involved with this with all of you. Let's see some more ballots! I haven't listened to Yoko records in years but used to have POB and Fly - just decided to vote for songs by the four former Beatles because I'm into that stuff. Poll results are heavy for 1970-1973!!!

1. George Harrison – “Dream Away”
2. George Harrison – “Blow Away”
3. Paul McCartney – “The End of the End”
4. Wings – “Single Pigeon”
5. George Harrison – “Awaiting on You All”
6. George Harrison – “Run of the Mill”
7. Paul McCartney – “English Tea”
8. George Harrison – “My Sweet Lord”
9. Wings – “You Gave Me the Answer”
10. John Lennon – “I Know (I Know)”
11. John Lennon – “Mind Games”
12. George Harrison – “What Is Life?”
13. John Lennon – “(Just Like) Starting Over”
14. George Harrison – “All Things Must Pass”
15. Paul McCartney – “Scared”
16. Paul McCartney – “Riding to Vanity Fair”
17. George Harrison – “Crackerbox Palace”
18. Paul and Linda McCartney – “Ram On”
19. Paul and Linda McCartney – “Dear Boy”
20. Wings – “Magneto and Titanium Man”
21. Paul and Linda McCartney – “The Back Seat of My Car”
22. George Harrison – “Faster”
23. Wings – “Listen to What the Man Said”
24. Paul and Linda McCartney – “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey”
25. John Lennon – “#9 Dream”
26. George Harrison – “If You Believe”
27. John Lennon – “Oh Yoko”
28. Wings – “C Moon”
29. George Harrison – “If Not for You”
30. George Harrison – “Wah-Wah”
31. Paul McCartney – “You Tell Me”
32. John Lennon – “Jealous Guy”
33. Paul McCartney – “Friends to Go”
34. Wings – “Love in Song”
35. Paul and Linda McCartney – “Monkberry Moon Delight”
36. John Lennon – “Out the Blue”
37. George Harrison – “That’s the Way It Goes”
38. Paul McCartney – “Junk”
39. George Harrison – “This Song”
40. John Lennon – “How?”
41. Paul McCartney – “Early Days”
42. Paul McCartney – “Mr. Bellamy”
43. Paul McCartney – “House of Wax”
44. John Lennon – “Only People”
45. Paul McCartney – “Jenny Wren”
46. Paul and Linda McCartney – “Long Haired Lady”
47. Paul McCartney – “On My Way to Work”
48. Wings – “Tomorrow”
49. Wings – “San Ferry Anne”
50. George Harrison – “Apple Scruffs”
51. John Lennon – “Aisumasen (I’m Sorry)”
52. Paul McCartney – “She’s Given Up Talking”
53. Paul McCartney – “The Pound Is Sinking”
54. George Harrison – “Dark Horse”
55. George Harrison – “Behind That Locked Door”
56. Paul McCartney - "Somedays"
57. Wings – “Big Barn Bed”
58. Wings – “Band on the Run”
59. Paul McCartney – “Take It Away”
60. Paul and Linda McCartney – “Eat at Home”
61. Paul McCartney – “Heather”
62. Paul and Linda McCartney – “Long Haired Lady”
63. Wings – “Getting Closer”
64. Paul McCartney – “Vintage Clothes”
65. George Harrison – “Love Comes to Everyone”
66. Paul McCartney – “Looking at Her”
67. Paul McCartney – “Road”
68. Paul McCartney – “Hope for the Future”
69. Paul McCartney – “The Inch Worm”
70. Paul McCartney – “Bluejean Bop”
71. Paul McCartney – “We All Stand Together”
72. George Harrison – “Beautiful Girl”
73. George Harrison – “Greece”
74. George Harrison – “Gone Troppo”
75. Ringo Starr – “You and Me (Babe)”
76. John Lennon – “Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him”
77. Paul McCartney – “Promise to You Girl”
78. George Harrison – “Mystical One”
79. John Lennon – “Grow Old with Me”
80. Paul McCartney – “Get Me Out of Here”
81. Paul McCartney – “Movie Magg”
82. Paul McCartney – “From a Lover to a Friend”
83. George Harrison – “Dear One”
84. Wings – “Spin It On”
85. George Harrison – “Soft Touch”
86. George Harrison – “All Those Years Ago”
87. John Lennon – “Cleanup Time”
88. Paul McCartney – “Temporary Secretary”
89. George Harrison – “Wake Up My Love”
90. Paul McCartney – “Secret Friend”
91. Wings – “Old Siam, Sir”
92. George Harrison – “Baby Don’t Run Away”
93. Paul McCartney – “Frozen Jap”
94. George Harrison – “I Really Love You”
95. Ringo Starr – “You Belong to Me”
96. Ringo Starr – “Wrack My Brain”
97. Ringo Starr – “Attention”
98. Wings – “Some People Never Know”
99. Wings – ‘I Am Your Singer”
100. George Harrison – “It’s What You Value”

my ballot:

1. John Lennon -- God
2. John Lennon -- Instant Karma!
3. George Harrison -- What is Life?
4. Paul McCartney -- Every Night
5. George Harrison -- Isn't It a Pity (Version One)
6. Paul McCartney -- Single Pigeon
7. John Lennon -- Hold On
8. John Lennon -- Cold Turkey
9. George Harrison -- I Dig Love
10. John Lennon -- New York City
11. John Lennon - Do The Oz
12. George Harrison -- Cheer Down
13. Paul McCartney -- Dear Friend
14. Paul McCartney -- Mrs. Vandebilt
15. Ringo Starr -- Back Off Boogaloo
16. John Lennon -- (Just Like) Starting Over
17. George Harrison -- Apple Scruffs
18. Paul McCartney -- Jet
19. Paul McCartney -- Junk
20. George Harrison -- Beware of Darkness
21. Ringo Starr -- It Don't Come Easy
22. George Harrison -- Gone Troppo
23. Paul McCartney -- Temporary Secretary
24. Paul McCartney -- Mull of Kintyre
25. John Lennon -- Working Class Hero
26. Yoko Ono -- We're All Water
27. Paul McCartney -- Calico Skies
28. Paul McCartney -- The World Tonight
29. Yoko Ono -- Walking on Thin Ice
30. Paul McCartney -- The Back Seat Of My Car
31. Paul McCartney -- Get On The Right Thing
32. Ringo Starr -- I'm the Greatest
33. Paul McCartney -- Coming Up
34. Paul McCartney -- Wanderlust
35. John Lennon -- Woman
36. George Harrison -- Wake Up My Love
37. George Harrison -- Blow Away
38. John Lennon -- Going Down on Love
39. John Lennon -- Mind Games
40. George Harrison -- Crackerbox Palace

would've voted for more yoko stuff but i honestly don't know her albums really well and didn't really have the time to go through them. also ran out of time to listen to all of paul's stuff -- i listened to tug of war the day after i sent in my ballot and like it a ton more than i used to. with george i relied mostly on my fond memories of that blue "best of dark horse" cd i remember buying around the same time i got flaming pie. didn't hesitate much over my top choice -- lennon's vocal on that is almost absurdly gorgeous. one caveat is that i vaguely regret voting for woman which has some of lennon's dumbest lyrics, but the acoustic version really is nice.