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

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!

it is technically before 5 PM PST!

(was)

Was out yesterday evening, is it too late to send one in?

I guess i’ll accept it

Sent!

How many ballots in the end?

Was listening to Somewhere in England again last night and glad to have found a new friend. It doesn't have anything as tight as "Blow Away," but is probably about as substantial an album as the self-titled in the end. Not sure that it would have been better in its original form with the four songs that were left off, but glad they're using the original album cover now! Lots to like and I think the two songs that I had probably liked the least before, "Unconsciousness Rules" and "That Which I Have Lost," are both nice in their own way as compositions. The tuba in the latter is a gas.

i didn't realize that almost all of yoko's POB was recorded in one night! from john's 1970 RS interview:

John: Nobody knows there is a point on the first song on Yoko's track where the guitar comes in and even Yoko thought it was her voice, because we did all Yoko's in one night, the whole session. Except for the track with Ornette Coleman from the past that we put on to show people that she wasn't discovered by the Beatles and that she's been around a few years. We got stuff of her with Cage, Ornette Coleman . . . we are going to put out "Oldies But Goldies" next for Yoko. I'll play it again and talk about it later.

I wonder how much (if anything) from the YO/POB session is unreleased, because I’d buy a “complete recordings/sessions” box in a heartbeat.

yo/pob is just a footnote in the classic albums doc about jl/pob but i was thrilled they devoted even a minute to it

Oh crap I didn't get time to do this I'll just send what I have.

I am at a bar with a BONKERS Wings karaoke selection. "Magneto and Titanium Man!" "Hold Me Tight" ffs?!?

Lol waht

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

Affix this to every ILM/ILX poll ever. I will never understand the agony that seems to accompany some of these ballots.

the "agony" is fun for those fussing over their ballots!

they also have "crackerbox palace" and "tear down" and fuckin "arrow through me." poor ringo just gets his usual 4-5 songs tho :(

"junk," "temporary secretary," "we all stand together"

wish y'all were here <3

you cut Junk??????? my #1

??? i definitely voted for "junk"

oh sorry i'm confused i only read the last 4-5 posts

while the votes are being counted up, general question:

what are the best documentaries that dedicate a significant amount of time to the solo, post-beatles years? is scorsese's Living in the Material World good? i thought the two short clips from the 1988 Imagine film i posted above were gripping, so i definitely plan on watching all of that. are there others i should seek out?

You should watch Material World. Clapton has a mordant sense of humor (his reaction to being asked what it would've been like if he'd replaced George in 1968), McCartney speaks affectionately and without smarm, and the Wilburys phase is a joy. The middle stretch is a drag, though, and offers few insights into his solo albums post-ATMP.

thanks! looks like Living in the Material World is up on Netflix, too.

is there anything worth watching that focuses on Paul? or actually, is there anything at all that focuses on him, worthwhile or not? my googling skills are failing me here but i can't seem to come up with much.

There's Wingspan from 2001. I have not seen any of it since it was first broadcast on TV.

There'll not be a decent documentary or book on McCartney until he's long dead, I suspect.

the Barry Miles book is generally well regarded?

It's not bad, but as a book it's very heavy on the Beatles years and I'm tired of reading about that part of McCartney's career, particularly since his post-Beatles career has hardly been uneventful and the Beatles years has been documented in forensic detail so much that there's really nothing new to say about that period anymore. He's had a long post-Beatles career, with a lot of material, and I'd rather hear more about all of that.

agreed