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

no way. its so good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUleDpA3DLE

I'll forever love YO/POB, Fly, and AIU though.

Feeling the Space definitely deserves a listen. the band is pretty nice and has a 70's soul vibe to it. "Growing Pain" w that beat and that flute and some lovely early 70s space r&b. "Woman of Salem" is devastating, vividly re-telling the story of the morning of a witch hanging, like a folk thing Johnny Cash or Nick Cave would do. "Run Run Run" i like a lot because it is a nice breezy pop song with a great catchy chorus about "Run run run run run for your life" almost like on a Pink Floyd satirical tip or something. her style for this album is more political & concrete, less abstract/conceptual. a lot of the album is about the women's struggle, she is confronting an ages old thing that weighs heavy on the world. the music is pretty rad.

John is only performing on a 2 songs here tho, as the album as a whole is mostly her statement, thus outside the rules of this poll.

i dig the vibraphone jazz pop of "Yellow girl (Stand by for life)"

Both songs john plays on from that album were listed as eligible fwiw

Xpip

yes that list is well put together!

This is nuts, and unheard until recent CD reissues i believe? Genuinely amazing and sounds more like a late 80s proto acid-y thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w40MUrFq3xM

I love it.

I like McCartney II and the rest of the stuff that didn't make the album, but it is a touch overrated by people who consider themselves to be too cool to listen to 'Once Upon a Long Ago' or 'My Brave Face' ...

'Dark Room' is another great one from McCartney II ...

dope lists shakey. i'll dig through tomorrow and hype some fave tracks.

"come and get it" is .... okay. i love the "SON-ny! If.. you..." hook. but it's badly underwritten, with basically a verse and a chorus ad nauseum iirc. that's the real impresario sin - the recording is great and it was a top-tenner in the UK and US both. otherwise i'm not sure he did anything worse there than any other producer of a bubblegum single in that period.

"secret friend" was a b-side on the "temporary secretary" 12" single, and would burble up periodically as a "woah, this is the mccartney track for people who hate mccartney" (much like the album as a whole was always slightly on the cusp of cool cred for weirdos) - i remember blount repping for it circa 2005/2006. naturally it's never done a ton for me but it's a good stoner trip thing. as far as castoffs from the mccartney ii sessions go (it was originally conceived, insanely, as a double ablum) i prefer the shorter, one-idea songs like "mr. h. atom" and "you know i'll get you babe," which i knew from mp3s of bootleg albums. not things i would put on a ballot, though one of the "coming up"s has to place. "waterspout" though is the true lost gem of that period.

woah i guess "waterspout" is actually a few years earlier! i'm seeing it on "london town sessions" lists. weird, it feels so mccartney-ii to me.

McCartney II, which I've lived with 25 years, is mostly crap.

"Waterfalls"? Yeah. It was a UK top ten!

"waterfalls" is lovely also!

McCartney II, whichwho I've lived with 25 38 years, is mostly crap.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

fixed

Where is the mccartney list?

I might put Temporary Secretary on number one and fill the rest with Ringo songs.

ha I was thinking of doing an all-Ringo ballot just to narrow the field but shakey’s lists are great, will definitely be listening to a lot of stuff on there I haven’t heard

I dunno moka, where is your mccartney list

I wrote this about Turrican's beloved Flowers in the Dirt last year when reissued.

McCartney II definitely rules. i love the music video for "Coming Up". i love the drums-and-vocoder breakdown in "Goodnight Tonight". "Waterfalls" is a great song even if inspiring another great song wasn't enough (TLC). there is some great Eno-style ambient stuff on the record too. for the first McCartney he also did some ambient/experimental pop stuff, the instrumental "Junk", the singing crystal glasses, the clipped song "Suicide".

lol moka these lists probably take a shit ton of effort to put together!

also shakey if you can hurry up with the mccartney list, we need it stat

Hahaha I wasn’t pressuring for shakey to post it I was legit looking on mobile and saw the Lennon and Harrison list and thought there was lists for the other two in here but couldn’t find them... thought a link or something was posted upthread and couldn’t find it

McCartney is probably the most daunting one to make a list of so I wont take the herculean task to do it.

I find it incredible that with so many rabid fans of this band there isn’t a site with these sort of lists already arranged. You could set up a website and make money off of these lists you’ve made.

I had no idea shakey was making these himself. Thought it was a copy paste from other site, that’s why I found it confusing why we only had the Lennon songs in here at first.

No pressure shakey, thanks for posting these really appreciate the effort and had no idea these was all you... sorry.

I find it incredible that with so many rabid fans of this band there isn’t a site with these sort of lists already arranged. You could set up a website and make money off of these lists you’ve made.

same here! i guess maybe they're out there, but maybe hidden away in BBS posts from the late 80s, un-googleable

*cough* Discogs appearance/performance credits

where the nerds truly shine

i don't know, i've found them kind of hit and miss, unless i'm just not looking in the right place. is there a better discogs appearance/performance credit for harrison than this one?

https://www.discogs.com/artist/243955-George-Harrison?sort=year%2Casc&limit=500&filter_anv=0&type=Appearances&page=1

https://www.discogs.com/artist/243955-George-Harrison?filter_anv=0&subtype=Instruments-Performance&type=Credits

maybe? I certainly find it useful for less prolific artists

McCartney II's great, you start hassling that you might as well diss Tusk as well (they were both pretty key uncool but cool records for the cool kids of 2005)

AH, now that's funny - I didn't know George's middle name.

John's being Winston, Paul's being Paul. Tempted to say Ringo didn't have one. But George? Oh.. oh...

Really? WellINever.

I'm in a bit of a quandary about including Macca's classical work, since he doesnt perform on them.

At the same time, they seem like a bit of a different beast from songs he wrote for elvis costello or mary hopkin or whoever

cannot imagine any of them placing so leaving them off might be a kindness to the one or two posters who might otherwise be tempted into wasting their votes. but i've been wrong about things like that before...

The Family Way soundtrack feels very informative to where Macca's creative mind was at in between Revolver & Pepper. I could care less about the 90s stuff.

It's as essential as Wonderwall Music or Two Virgins IMHO

i buy that line. i'm probably biased just from never being curious enough to check that stuff out!

McCartney's involvement in the project was minimal, according to biographer Howard Sounes, who quotes Martin's recollection that he had to "pester Paul for the briefest scrap of a tune" with which to start writing the score. After McCartney had provided "a sweet little fragment of a waltz tune", Martin continued, "I was able to complete the score."[6] But this appears to refer specifically to Martin's last-minute decision that the score needed "a central love theme, something wistful" for which McCartney composed the extra theme "Love In the Open Air" after the bulk of the score had been written. Martin said he had to "go round to his house and literally stand there until he composed something." 

Credited as arranged and conducted by Martin.

So yeah idk I'm inclined to leave this stuff out

i don't envision getting around to coming up with 100 songs, or investigating the hours and hours of paul and ringo i've never heard, in time to vote on all this, but goddamn the 80-second title track to venus and mars is beautiful and should be talked about more often. "rock show," which it's attached to, is great too, obviously, but "venus and mars" is next level and it's way up there in my paul pantheon. (the longer, bowie-esque reprise on side two not quite as good.)

Ok, so I made these a while back - imaginary LPs from Abbey Road up to 1981 (I planned to continue up to the present day but didn't for whatever reason) - I am positive that nobody will 100% agree with my choices, but thought I might as well share / get some feedback on them.

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I agree, but I prefer the reprise of 'Venus and Mars' because of the outro with all the backing vocals and because, like 'Loup', it's an example of Paul getting cosmic.

here's one I'd never heard of before

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGear

I read about it in the late '80s.

I saw a copy in the bins a while back, have always been sorta curious but also figured if it was any good some Beatles obsessives would have let this be known to me by now.

PAUL MCCARTNEY

Solo and with Wings

McCartney
The Lovely Linda
That Would Be Something
Valentine Day
Every Night
Hot As Sun
Glasses
Junk
Man We Was Lonely
Oo You
Momma Miss America
Teddy Boy
Singalong Junk
Maybe I'm Amazed
Kreen - Akrore

Ram
Too Many People
3 Legs
Ram On
Dear Boy
Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
Smile Away
Heart Of The Country
Monkberry Moon Delight
Eat At Home
Long Haired Lady
Ram On
The Back Seat Of My Car

Wild Life
Mumbo
Bip Bop
Love Is Strange
Wild Life
Some People Never Know
I Am Your Singer
Tomorrow
Dear Friend

Red Rose Speedway
Big Barn Bed
My Love
Get On The Right Thing
One More Kiss
Little Lamb Dragonfly
Single Pigeon
When The Night
Loup (1st Indian On The Moon)
Medley (Hold Me Tight, Lazy Dynamite, Hands Of Love, Power Cut)

Band on the Run
Band On The Run
Jet
Bluebird
Mrs. Vandebilt
Let Me Roll It
Mamunia
No Words
Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me)
Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five

Venus and Mars
Venus And Mars
Rock Show
Love In Song
You Gave Me The Answer
Magneto And Titanium Man
Letting Go
Venus And Mars – Reprise
Spirits Of Ancient Egypt
Medicine Jar
Call Me Back Again
Listen To What The Man Said
Treat Her Gently – Lonely Old People
Crossroads Theme

Wings at the Speed of Sound
Let 'Em In
The Note You Never Wrote
She's My Baby
Beware My Love
Wino Junko
Silly Love Songs
Cook Of The House
Time To Hide
Must Do Something About It
San Ferry Anne
Warm And Beautiful

London Town
London Town
Cafe On The Left Bank
I'm Carrying
Backwards Traveller
Cuff Link
Children Children
Girlfriend
I've Had Enough
With A Little Luck
Famous Groupies
Deliver Your Children
Name And Address
Don't Let It Bring You Down
Morse Moose And The Grey Goose

Back to the Egg
Reception
Getting Closer
We're Open Tonight
Spin It On
Again And Again And Again
Old Siam, Sir
Arrow Through Me
Rockestra Theme
To You
After The Ball / Million Miles
Winter Rose / Love Awake
The Broadcast
So Glad To See You Here
Baby's Request

McCartney II
Coming Up
Temporary Secretary
On The Way
Waterfalls
Nobody Knows
Front Parlour
Summer's Day Song
Frozen Jap
Bogey Music
Darkroom
One Of These Days

Tug of War
Tug Of War
Take It Away
Somebody Who Cares
What's That You're Doing?
Here Today
Ballroom Dancing
The Pound Is Sinking
Wanderlust
Get It
Be What You See (Link)
Dress Me Up As A Robber
Ebony And Ivory

Pipes of Peace
Pipes Of Peace
Say Say Say
The Other Me
Keep Under Cover
So Bad
The Man
Sweetest Little Show
Average Person
Hey Hey
Tug Of Peace
Through Our Love

Give My Regards to Broad Street
No More Lonely Nights (Ballad)
Good Day Sunshine
Corridor Music
Yesterday
Here, There And Everywhere
Wanderlust
Ballroom Dancing
Silly Love Songs
Silly Love Songs (Reprise)
Not Such A Bad Boy
No Values
No More Lonely Nights (Ballad Reprise)
For No-One
Eleanor Rigby
Eleanor's Dream
Long And Winding Road
No More Lonely Nights (Playout Version)

Press to Play
Stranglehold
Good Times Coming / Feel The Sun
Talk More Talk
Footprints
Only Love Remains
Press
Pretty Little Head
Move Over Busker
Angry
However Absurd

Flowers in the Dirt
My Brave Face
Rough Ride
You Want Her Too
Distractions
We Got Married
Put It There
Figure Of Eight
This One
Don't Be Careless Love
That Day Is Done
How Many People
Motor Of Love
Ou Est Le Soleil

Off the Ground
Off The Ground
Looking For Changes
Hope Of Deliverance
Mistress And Maid
I Owe It All To You
Biker Like An Icon
Peace In The Neighbourhood
Golden Earth Girl
The Lovers That Never Were
Get Out Of My Way
Winedark Open Sea
C'mon People

Flaming Pie
The Song We Were Singing
The World Tonight
If You Wanna
Somedays
Young Boy
Calico Skies
Flaming Pie
Heaven On A Sunday
Used To Be Bad
Souvenir
Little Willow
Really Love You
Beautiful Night
Great Day

Run Devil Run
Blue Jean Bop
She Said Yeah
All Shook Up
Run Devil Run
No Other Baby
Lonesome Town
Try Not To Cry
Movie Magg
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
What It Is
Coquette
I Got Stung
Honey Hush
Shake A Hand
Party

Driving Rain
Lonely Road
From A Lover To A Friend
She's Given Up Talking
Driving Rain
I Do
Tiny Bubble
Magic
Your Way
Spinning On An Axis
About You
Heather
Back In The Sunshine Again
Your Loving Flame
Riding Into Jaipur
Rinse The Raindrops

Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
Fine Line
How Kind Of You
Jenny Wren
At The Mercy
Friends To Go
English Tea
Too Much Rain
A Certain Softness
Riding To Vanity Fair
Follow Me
Promise To You Girl
This Never Happened Before
Anyway
I've Only Got Two Hands

Memory Almost Full
Dance Tonight
Ever Present Past
See Your Sunshine
Only Mama Knows
You Tell Me
Mr Bellamy
Gratitude
Vintage Clothes
That Was Me
Feet In The Clouds
House Of Wax
The End Of The End
Nod Your Head

Kisses on the Bottom
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
Home (When Shadows Fall)
It's Only A Paper Moon
More I Cannot Wish You
The Glory Of Love
We Three (My Echo, My Shadow And Me)
Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
My Valentine
Always
My Very Good Friend The Milkman
Bye Bye Blackbird
Get Yourself Another Fool
The Inch Worm
Only Our Hearts

New
Save Us
Alligator
On My Way To Work
Queenie Eye
Early Days
New
Appreciate
Everybody Out There
Hosanna
I Can Bet
Looking At Her
Road
Scared

Non-album Singles
Another Day
Oh Woman Oh Why
Give Ireland Back to the Irish
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Little Woman Love
Hi, Hi, Hi
C Moon
Live and Let Die
I Lie Around
Junior's Farm
Sally G
Walking in the Park With Eloise
Bridge Over the River Suite
Seaside Woman
B Side to Seaside
Mull of Kintyre
Girls' School
Goodnight Tonight
Daytime Nighttime Suffering
Wonderful Christmastime
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reggae
We All Stand Together
Spies Like Us
My Carnival
Ferry Cross the Mersey
Abide With Me
Vo!ce
Tropic Island Hum
(I Want to) Come Home
Simple As That
It's Now or Never
Hiroshima Sky is Always Blue
A Room with a View
Nova
Maybe Baby
I'm Partial to Your Abracadabra
Vanilla Sky
I Want to Walk You Home
Meat Free Monday
It's So Easy
In the Blink of an Eye

With Other Artists

Mike McGear - McGear (producer, backing vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards)
Sea Breezes
What Do We Really Know?
Norton
Leave It
Have You Got Problems?
The Casket
Rainbow Lady
Simply Love You
Givin' Grease a Ride
The Man Who Found God on the Moon
Dnce the Do
Sweet Baby

Percy "Thrills" Thrillington - Thrillington (producer)
Too Many People
3 Legs
Ram On
Dear Boy
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
Smile Away
Heart Of The Country
Monkberry Moon Delight
Eat At Home
Long Haired Lady
Back Seat Of My Car

Denny Laine - Holly Days (producer, all instruments)
Heartbeat
Moondreams
Rave On
I'm Gonna Love You Too
Fool's Paradise
Lonesome Tears (Instrumental)
It's So Easy"/"Listen to Me"
Look at Me
Take Your Time
I'm Looking for Someone to Love (Instrumental)

Linda McCartney - Wide Prairie (producer, multiple instruments)
Wide Prarie
New Orleans
The White Coated Man
Love's Full Glory
I Got Up
The Light Comes from Within
Mister Sandman
Seaside Woman
Oriental Nightfish
Endless Days
Posion Ivy
Cow
B-Sie to Seaside
Sugartime
Cook of the House
Appaloosa

The Fireman - Strawberry Oceans Ships Forest
Transpiritual Stomp
Trans Lunar Rising
Transcrystaline
Pure Trance
Arizona Light
Celtic Stomp
Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest
4 4 4
Sunrise Mix

The Fireman - Rushes
Watercolour Guitars
Palo Verde
Auraveda
Fluid
Appletree Cinnabar Amber
Bison
7 a.m.
Watercolour Rush

Liverpool Sound Collage
Plastic Beetle
Peter Blake 2000
Real Gone Dub Made in Manifest in the Vortex of the Eternal Now
Made Up
Free Now

Paul McCartney and Freelance Hellraiser - Twin Freaks
Really Love You
Long Haired Lady (Reprise)
Rinse the Raindrops
Darkroom
Live and Let Die
Temporary Secretary
What's That You're Doing
Oh Woman, Oh Why
Mumbo
Lalula
Coming Up
Maybe I'm Amazed

The Fireman - Electric Arguments
Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight
Two Magpies
Sing the Changes
Travelling Light
Highway
Light from Your Lighthouse
Sun Is Shining
Dance 'Til We're High
Lifelong Passion
Is This Love?
Lovers in a Dream
Universal Here, Everlasting No

individual tracks
Vegetables - the Beach Boys (celery)
Sing This All Together - The Rolling Stones (backing vocals, percussion)
We Love You - The Rolling Stones (backing vocals, percussion)
I'm the Urban Spaceman - Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (producer)
Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin (producer)
Carolina in My Mind - James Taylor (bass)
Rosetta - the Fourmost (piano)
Come and Get It - Badfinger (producer)
Rock of All Ages - Badfinger (producer, piano)
Carry On Til Tomorrow - Badfinger (producer)
Sour Milk Sea - Jackie Lomax (bass)
New Day - Jackie Lomax (bass)
My Dark Hour - Steve Miller Band (bass, drums, backing vocals)
Que Sera, Sera - Mary Hopkin (producer)
Night Owl - Carly Simon (backing vovals)
Six O'Clock - Ringo Starr (piano, synth, backing vocal)
You're Sixteen - Ringo Starr (kazoo)
Rock 'n' Roll Music Is Now - James Taylor (backing vocals)
Mine for Me - Rod Stewart (backing vocals)
Change - Adam Faith (synthesizer)
Goodbye - Adam Faith (synthesizer)
Never Say Goodbye - Adam Faith (synthesizer)
Star Song - Adam Faith (backing vocals)
Liverpool Lou - The Scaffold (producer)
Ten Years After on Strawberry Jam - the Scaffold (producer, bass, keyboards)
Pure Gold - Ringo Starr (backing vocals)
One of Those Days in England - Roy Harper (backing vocals)
Send Me the Heart - Denny Laine (bass, keyboards, guitar, percussion, vocals)
Weep for Love - Denny Laine (bass, keyboards, guitar, percussion, vocals)
Maisie - Laurence Juber (bass)
Veronica - Elvis Costello (bass)
...This Town... - Elvis Costello (bass)
Yvonne's the One - 10cc (guitar)
Code of Silence - 10cc (strings, electric piano, frogs, crickets, percussion)
The Ballad of Skeletons - Allen Ginsberg (guitar, drums, organ, maracas)
La De Da - Ringo Starr (bass, backing vocals)
I Was Walking - Ringo Starr (bass, backing vocals)
What in the World - Ringo Starr (bass, backing vocals)
Receptacle for the Respectable - Super Furry Animals (celery)
Hurt Myself - Rusty Anderson (bass, backing vocals, guitar)
A Time to Love - Stevie Wonder (guitar)
Boots and Sand - Yusuf Islam (backing vocals)
Peace Dream - Ringo Starr (bass)
Walk With You - Ringo Starr (backing vocals)
We're on the Road Again - Ringo Starr (backing vocals)
Show Me the Way - Ringo Starr (bass)
Sunday Rain - Foo Fighters (drums)
Songbird in a Cage - Charlotte Gainsbourg (guitar, piano, drums)
The Girl is Mine - Michael Jackson (vocals)
New Moon Over Jamaica - Johnny Cash (vocals)
A Friend Like You - Brian Wilson (vocals)
The Very Thought of You - Tony Bennet (vocals)
Bring It On Home to Me - George Benson and Al Jarreau (vocals)
Heal the Pain - George Michael (vocals)
My Soul - Nitin Sawhney (vocals)
I'm In Love Again - Klaus Voorman (piano, vocals)
All of Me - Eric Clapton (vocals, bass)
Out of Sight - the Bloody Beetroots (?)
Only One - Kanye West (vocals, piano)
FourFiveSeconds - Kanye West and Rihanna (vocals, instruments)