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

"Ski-ing" is my jam from that one but I am looking forward to revisiting the whole thing

Goodbye - Adam Faith (synthesizer)
Never Say Goodbye - Adam Faith (synthesizer)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgzWqfZo8fY

i love this slowcore take on "Many Rivers to Cross". Nilsson is such a great singer, he shares that raspy rock quality that Lennon has too. they sound great together.

There's a lot of tracks missing from that McCartney list ... a lot of B-sides and offcuts like 'Rainclouds', 'Big Boys Bickering' etc.

It's a crap song, but 'Freedom' is missing... 'Love Comes Tumbling Down' is missing... 'Cosmically Conscious' ... this is just off the top of my head.

really, really enjoying "In the Park", from Wonderwall Music, especially the section near the end that sounds like Laraaji.

― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Tuesday, May 15, 2018 2:11 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark

the soundtrack is really great and i like the movie as well. the psychedelic art collective The Fool was in the movie as well, and they have a bit of a history of collaboration with the Beatles. they designed the insert sleeve for Sgt. Pepper and they were commissioned to paint guitars and cars and all sorts of things for the band. The Fool has a record of their own from 1968 that is pretty cool in a poppy Incredible String Band sort of way.

https://www.discogs.com/The-Fool-The-Fool/release/3647799

mccartney's live albums are all p much garbage. wings over america is kind of a decent one-stop shop if you want a lot of that period of wings in slightly less tight and polished performances. it is really only noteworthy for spawning the actual hit version of "Maybe I'm Amazed," which is terrific. you also get denny laine doing "richard cory," some forgettable beatles covers, and the "keeps the live crowd grooving but not worth putting on an album" number "soily." the cat in the satin trousers said it's oily. see also "the mess" (live cut b-side to "my love"). actually... imma go head and type up some mccartney b-sides and released-on-the-expensive-bonus-import-album cuts. a couple of these really are ballot-worthy, trust me!

RINGO STARR

Solo

Sentimental Journey
Beaucoups of Blues
Ringo
Goodnight Vienna
Ringo's Rotogravure
Ringo the 4th
Bad Boy
Stop and Smell the Roses
Old Wave
Time Takes Time
Vertical Man
I Wanna Be Santa Claus
Ringo Rama
Choose Love
Liverpool
Y Not
Ringo 2012
Postcards from Paradise
Give More Love

non-album singles
Coochy Coochy
Early 1970
Blindman
Down and Out
The Official BBC Children In Need Medley
You Never Know
I Wish I Was a Powerpuff Girl
When You Wish Upon a Star

With Other Artists

Scouse the Mouse (vocals)
Living in a Pet Shop
Scouse's Dream
Running Free
Boat Ride
Scouse the Mouse
I Know a Place
S.O.S.
A Mouse Like Me

Wonderwall Music - George Harrison (drums)
Microbes
Red Lady Too
Tabla and Pakavaj
In the Park
Drilling a Home
Guru Vandana
Greasy Legs
Ski-ing
Gat Kirwani
Dream Scene
Party Seacombe
Love Scene
Crying
Cowboy Music
Fantasy Sequins
On the Bed
Glass Box
Wonderwall to Be Here
Singing Om

Is This What You Want? - Jackie Lomax (drums)
Speak To Me
Is This What You Want?
How Can You Say Goodbye
Sunset
Sour Milk Sea
Fall Inside Your Eyes
Little Yellow Pills
Take My Word
The Eagle Laughs At You
Baby You're A Lover
You've Got Me Thinking
I Just Don't Know

Doris Troy - Doris Troy (drums)
Ain't That Cute
Special Care
Give Me Back My Dynamite
You Tore Me Up Inside
Games People Play
Gonna Get My Baby Back
I've Got To Be Strong
Hurry
So Far
Exactly Like You
You Give Me Joy Joy
Don't Call Me No More
Jacob's Ladder

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (drums)
Mother
Hold On
I Found Out
Working Class Hero
Isolation
Remember
Love
Well Well Well
Look at Me
God
My Mummy's Dead

Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band (drums)
Why
Why Not
Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City
AOS
Touch Me
Paper Shoes

All Things Must Pass - George Harrison (drums)
I'd Have You Anytime
My Sweet Lord
Wah-Wah
Isn't It a Pity (Version One)
What Is Life
If Not for You
Behind That Locked Door
Let It Down
Run of the Mill
Beware of Darkness
Apple Scruffs
Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)
Awaiting on You All
All Things Must Pass
I Dig Love
Art of Dying
Isn't It a Pity (Version Two)
Hear Me Lord
Out of the Blue
It's Johnny's Birthday
Plug Me In
I Remember Jeep
Thanks for the Pepperoni
I Live for You

Leon Russell - Leon Russell (drums)
A Song For You
Dixie Lullaby
I Put A Spell On You
Shoot Out On The Plantation
Hummingbird
Delta Lady
Prince Of Peace
Old Masters
Give Peace A Chance
Hurtsome Body
Pisces Apple Lady
Roll Away The Stone

Bobby Keys - Bobby Keys (drums)
Steal From A King
Smokefoot
Bootleg
Altar Rock
Key West
Command Performance
Crispy Duck
Sand & Foam

Son of Schmilsson - Harry Nilsson (drums)
Take 54
Remember (Christmas)
Joy
Turn on Your Radio
You're Breakin' My Heart
Spaceman
The Lottery Song
At My Front Door
Ambush
I'd Rather Be Dead
The Most Beautiful World in the World
Campo de Encino
It Had To Be You

Living in the Material World – George Harrison (drums)
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)
Sue Me, Sue You Blues
The Light That Has Lighted the World
Don't Let Me Wait Too Long
Who Can See It
Living in the Material World
The Lord Loves the One (That Loves the Lord)
Be Here Now
Try Some, Buy Some
The Day the World Gets 'Round
That Is All
Deep Blue
Miss O'Dell

Pussy Cats - Harry Nilsson (drums)
Many Rivers to Cross
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Don't Forget Me
All My Life
Old Forgotten Soldier
Save the Last Dance for Me
Mucho Mungo/Mt. Elga
Loop De Loop
Black Sails
Rock Around the Clock
Down by the Sea
The Flying Saucer Song
Turn Out the Light
Save the Last Dance for Me

Shankar Family & Friends – Ravi Shankar(drums)
I Am Missing You
Kahān Gayelavā Shyām Saloné
Supané Mé Āyé Preetam Sainyā
I Am Missing You (Reprise)
Jaya Jagadish Haré
Overture
Festivity & Joy
Love-Dance Ecstasy
Lust (Rāga Chandrakauns)
Dispute & Violence
Disillusionment & Frustration
Despair & Sorrow (Rāga Marwā)
Awakening
Peace & Hope (Rāga Bhatiyār)

Dark Horse – George Harrison (drums)
Hari's on Tour (Express)
Simply Shady
So Sad
Bye Bye, Love
Māya Love
Ding Dong, Ding Dong
Dark Horse
Far East Man
It Is 'He' (Jai Sri Krishna)
I Don't Care Anymore

Duit On Mon Dei – Harry Nilsson (drums)
Jesus Christ You're Tall
It's a Jungle Out There
Down by the Sea
Kojak Columbo
Easier for Me
Turn Out the Light
Salmon Falls
Puget Sound
What's Your Sign
Home
Good for Go

I’m In You – Peter Frampton (drums)
I'm in You
(Putting My) Heart on the Line
St. Thomas (Don't You Know How I Feel)
Won't You Be My Friend
You Don't Have to Worry
Tried to Love
Rocky's Hot Club
(I'm a) Road Runner
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)

Flash Harry – Harry Nilsson (drums)
Harry
Cheek to Cheek
Best Move
Old Dirt Road
I Don’t Need You
Rain
I’ve Got It!
It’s So Easy
How Long Can Disco On
Bright Side of Life
Feet
Leave the Rest to Molly
She Drifted Away

Pipes of Peace – Paul McCartney (drums)
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 – Paul McCartney (drums)
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)

Cloud Nine – George Harrison (drums)
Cloud 9
That's What It Takes
Fish on the Sand
Just for Today
This Is Love
When We Was Fab
Devil's Radio
Someplace Else
Wreck of the Hesperus
Breath Away from Heaven
Got My Mind Set on You
Shanghai Surprise
Zig Zag

A Sideman’s Journey – Klaus Voorman (drums)
I’m in Love Again
Blue Suede Shoes
All Things Must Pass
Have You Seen My Baby
My Sweet Lord
The Mighty Quinn
Short People
The Day the World Gets Round
So Far
You’re Sixteen
Such a Night

Connected – Gary Wright (drums)
Satisfied
Get Your Hands Up
Under Your Spell
No One Does It Better
Can't Find No Mercy
Life's Not A Battlefield
Gimme Some Time
Connected
Kirra Layne
You Make Me Feel Better

Give Til It’s Gone – Ben Harper (drums)
Don't Give Up On Me Now
I Will Not Be Broken
Rock N' Roll Is Free
Feel Love
Spilling Faith
Get There From Here
Clearly Severely
Pray That Our Love Sees The Dawn
Waiting On A Sign
Dirty Little Lover
Do It For You, Do It For Us

Individual tracks
Act Naturally - Buck Owens (vocals and drums)
I Ain't Superstitious - Howlin' Wolf (drums)
To a Flame - Stephen Stills (drums)
We Are Not Helpless - Stephen Stills (drums)
Don’t Worry Kyoko - Yoko Ono (drums)
Ghetto Woman - B.B. King (drums)
Wet Hayshark - B.B. King (drums)
Part Time Love - B.B. King (drums)
Alright - Peter Frampton (drums)
The Lodger - Peter Frampton(drums)
Sweet Music - Lon & Derek Van Eaton (drums)
Another Thought - Lon & Derek Van Eaton (drums)
Fiddle About - London Symphony Orchestra (drums)
Tommy’s Holiday Camp - London Symphony Orchestra (drums)
Do Me Good - Keith Moon (vocals, drums)
Move Over Ms. L – Keith Moon (vocals, drums)
Naked Man – Keith Moon (vocals, drums)
Real Emotion – Keith Moon (vocals, drums)
Solid Gold – Keith Moon (vocals, drums)
Together – Keith Moon (vocals, drums)
Together Rap - Keith Moon (vocals, drums)
More and More – Carly Simon (drums)
Stephen Stills – As I Come of Age (drums)
Vera Lynn – Don’t You Remember When (drums)
Zindy Lou – the Manhattan Transfer (drums)
Band of Steel – Guthrie Thomas (vocals and drums)
Good Days Are Rollin’ In – Guthrie Thomas (drums)
Ramblin’ Cocaine Blues – Guthrie Thomas (drums)
Men’s Room, L.A. – Kinky Friedman (drums)
Born in Captivity – The Alpha Band (drums)
You Angel You – The Alpha Band (drums)
Good News – Attitudes (drums)
Ham ‘n’ Eggs – Lonnie Donnegan (drums)
Have a Drink On Me – Lonnie Donnegan (drums)
Hold On – Ian McLagan (drums)
Heart of Mine – Bob Dylan (drums)
All Those Years Ago – George Harrison (drums)
Take It Away – Paul McCartney (drums)
California Calling – The Beach Boys (drums)
Sun City – Artists United Against Apartheid (drums)
You Know It Makes Sense – the Anti-Heroin Project (drums)
Walkin’ Nerve – Nils Lofgren (drums)
Gun and Run – Nils Lofgren (drums)
To Find a Friend – Tom Petty (drums)
Lay Down Your Arms – duet w Stevie Nicks
Hung Up and Overdue – Tom Petty (drums)
Honey Don’t – Carl Perkins (drums and vocals)
Really Love You – Paul McCartney (drums and backing vocals)
Beautiful Night – Paul McCartney (drums and backing vocals)
Moment in Paradise – ELO (drums)
Easy Money – ELO (drums)
Cuz You Do – Liam Lynch (drums)
Try Me – Liam Lyndh (drums)
Boys – Jools Holland (vocals)
My Little Grass Shack – duet with Leon Redbone
Make Believe – Platinum Weird (drums)
If You Believe in Love – Platinum Weird (drums)
Roll Over Beethoven – Jerry Lee Lewis (vocals)
Coochy Coochy – Ray Wylie Hubbard (percussion, guitar, vocals)
Lucky That Way – Joe Walsh (drums)
Funk 50 – Joe Walsh (drums)
One Way Street – Jon Stevens (drums)
Cut You Loose - Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band (drums, vocals)

I have no doubt I missed a bunch of McCartney b-sides Turrican, feel free to list them all

(god yr insufferable btw)

I think these are all the non-album Macca cuts I missed

I Want to Walk You Home
Meat Free Monday
It's So Easy
In the Blink of an Eye
Bridge on the River Suite
Check My Machine
Secret Friend
I’ll Give You A Ring
Rainclouds
Ode to a Koala Bear
Hanglide
Back on My Feet
Once Upon a Time Long Ago
The First Stone
Flying to My Home
Good Sign
I Wanna Cry
I’m in Love Again
Loveliest Thing
Big Boys Bickering
Kicked Around No More
Long Leather Coat
Cosmically Conscious
Down to the River
I Can’t Imagine
Keep Coming Back to Love
Soggy Noodle
Style Style
Sweet Sweet Memories
Broomstick
Looking For You
Love Come Tumbling Down
Same Love
Fabulous
All You Horse Riders/Blue Sway
Bogey Wobble
Don’t Cry Baby
Mr H Atom / You Know I'll Get You Baby
Suicide
Woman Kind
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
Out of Sight
Hope for the Future

christ he's made a lot of garbage

I'm insufferable because I pointed your list wasn't complete? Okay! No doubt there's several McCartney tracks that aren't very good, but the best stuff is worth it. Same goes for Lennon and Harrison.

I listened to Liverpool Sound Collage a few years but had forgotten about it -- glad to have the reminder, this is good.

Super Furry Animals were heavily involved with that, iirc.

mccartney's live albums are all p much garbage

i listened to Venus And Mars for the first time recently and got Monster hives: a big-sounding studio record made almost solely for the functional purpose of propping up a worldwide tour extravaganza that sounds totally hollow outside that context (the title squib is nice though)

I disagree. Venus and Mars is top tier Wings record and a worthy follow-up to Band on the Run. Wings at the Speed of Sound (the clue is in the title) was definitely made as an album to justify the tour, and it shows in places, although half the record is classic Wings.

nice work shakey! cross-checking my list against yours, i might have just a few goodies left to add. the big miss is probably Helen Wheels which was only belatedly added to Band on the Run.

oh that is weird! That should definitely be on there. I wonder if I deleted it by mistake or something

I must've been looking at a British track listing or something?

It wasn't on the UK version of Band on the Run, so it's possible!

Okay - I think this really is the last of it, though my knowledge of 90s-00s b-sides and stuff is pretty hazy. I put *** next to ones I think people who like McCartney solo stuff but haven't gone beyond the albums should definitely check out. In general I do think he drew some kind of line between "good enough for album filler" and "not" - - - a lot of these have incredible riffs or main hooks but it's obvious they're missing some element (a bridge, a chord change) that would really make them special.

PAUL MCCARTNEY MISCELLANEY/MOP-UP

1970s

1882
A Love For You ***
Best Friend
Boil Crisis ***
Country Dreamer ***
Did We Meet Somewhere Before?
Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance
The Great Cock and Seagull Race
Helen Wheels ***
Henry’s Blues
Hey Diddle ***
I Would Only Smile
Jazz Street
Lunch Box – Odd Sox
Mama’s Little Girl
Night Out
Robber’s Ball ***
Rode All Night ***
Same Time Next Year ***
Soily ***
Sunshine Sometime
Thank You Darling
The Mess
Tragedy ***
Waterspout ***
Zoo Gang (Theme) ***

1980s

Atlantic Ocean
Blue Sway
Bogey Wobble
Christian Bop
Don't Break the Promise
Hanglide
I Love This House
It’s Not True
Lindiana ***
Love Mix
My Big Day
On The Way
P.S. Love Me Do (the nadir)
Return to Pepperland ***
Squid ***
Tough on a Tightrope
Twenty Fine Fingers aka Twenty-Five Fingers
Twice in a Lifetime
Write Away
Yvonne ***

1990s

All My Trials (trad.)

2000s

I’m Partial To Your Abracadabra (Dury)
Maybe Baby (Holly)
Summer of ‘59 ***

Linda McCartney - Wide Prairie

"i got up" and "the light comes from within" are both fun and would have worked on "white album, vol. 3" if they had stayed together and got around to doing that.

Yeah, I think that's pretty much everything - I can't think of anything else not yet mentioned. There could well be, though!

(xpost)

Good luck, guys.

Doc are those all (generally speaking) non-album tracks?

i wonder how long it would take to listen to all of these tracks. i recently had a bunch of long-distance drives i was doing and i ended up listening to every beatles album in order over the course of a few days -- tbh it was kind of startling to realize how little time it took to listen to everything they recorded. (confirmed my old suspicion that revolver is their finest hour.) feel like i'll at least need to try to listen to all the major stuff here to even begin to know what to vote for.

there's some tracks on this posthumous lennon release that i don't think got released anywhere else -- side 2 is all walls & bridges outtakes but i think side 1 might qualify for the poll:

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

huh yeah I got some of those because I think they appeared on other reissues, but was missing:

Here We Go Again (I don't think I've ever heard this? off to youtube...)
Rock 'n' Roll People

this is actually p interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4_6P6Z_acw

Re: my Macca list: a decent number are unreleased, bootleg-only cuts that I meant to keep separate but got tangled in somewhere along the way, maybe once I saw that you were counting never-released things like "Suicide." "Soily" and "The Mess" were live only, but got released on Wings Over America and as the b-side to "My Love," respectively. "P.S. Love Me Do" was concert warm-up background music on some godforsaken tour, which I believe was also the principal purpose of the later Twin Freaks material (obviously better by orders of magnitude). Then there's a sprinkling of b-sides and/or things that were unreleased until they showed up on bonus editions of the albums (e.g. the "Paul McCartney Collection" CDs in the early 90s, and the more recent remasters which rescued a bunch of the Ram through Red Rose Speedway material). Several are soundtrack cuts or attempted soundtrack cuts - "Did We Meet Somewhere Before?" for example, is in Rock 'n' Roll High School (!) but didn't make it to the soundtrack LP. "Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance" is from a TV special; "Zoo Gang" was a TV show theme. A bunch of the 80s ones were from the abortive sessions between Press and Flowers in the Dirt - some of those trickled out as 90s B-sides, for example "Squid" which is a really pretty instrumental.

Freelance Hellraiser toured as opening DJ with Paul, but I don't think Twin Freaks was conceived for him to just put on and have a smoke

I listened to Liverpool Sound Collage a few years but had forgotten about it -- glad to have the reminder, this is good.

― WilliamC, Wednesday, May 16, 2018 5:13 AM (one hour ago)

Super Furry Animals were heavily involved with that, iirc.

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, May 16, 2018 5:20 AM (one hour ago)

one track is SFA remixing unreleased Beatles sessions, and IIUC the last track is Paul remixing what they turned in

also IIUC the Real Gone Dub track is a Youth solo joint, if anyone recompiles a mega-Macca list for voting

I noticed that about the Real Gone Dub track but left it in anyway in case Macca muttered over it at some point or something

I better see fuckin' "Press" on some lists!

my ballot is going to be so boring it'll seem like an AI made it

tragically, the "Paul Mcartney" appearing on Matt Berry's Rain Came Down is a convincing simulacrum played by Peter Serafinowicz, but he should be eligible anyway

tbh with some of these solo guest appearances things it was really hard to determine which tracks the ex-Beatle actually contributed to. Some of those albums Ringo played on for example (Nilsson, etc.), he's not the only drummer on the album, but it's basically impossible to determine which tracks are him and which are, say, Jim Keltner.

^^It's really Bernard Purdie

heh

does anyone want to volunteer to do images for this poll? I have no idea what to do

it's weird, but this album is def better than George's own 1974 album (Dark Horse) and it's almost all him + Keltner, Voorman etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvr9Y75SUVk&list=PLkJpdntodN-7gmwVIBgK77nvIg_pLE3_q&index=0

what's the album? the link is broken, at least for me.

just drafted, read back over, and saved to a .txt a truly dorky twenty-two song spree of blurbs on mccartney obscurities. best left unposted? a 100-song ballot does give one some room, but in a discography with "maybe i'm amazed," "jet," "no more lonely nights," "with a little luck," "say say say," and even "my brave face," "no more lonely nights," "take it away," "junior's farm," etc., etc., does anyone really need to add "morse moose and the grey goose" to their pre-ballot listening?

Splinter "The Place I Love". Splinter is just two vocalists/songwriters that George signed to his label. He produced the whole thing, with his usual cadre of sidemen (Keltner, Voorman, Billy Preston, Willie Weeks, etc.)

xp

best left unposted?

if not here, where

rec.music.beatles in 1998

"No More Lonely Nights" = one of Paul's very best, with Gilmour's best session solo.

but yeah maybe i'll wait til after your "hi hi hi"s and such have gotten their due. wouldn't want someone going "i keep hearing this paul mccartney is supposed to be a big deal, let me check out doctor casino's recommendations" and being instantly turned away by the likes of "mumbo" and "ode to a koala bear."

Hey Mumbo's kinda cool, imo. Also so far as yr list of obscurities goes A Love for You might make my ballot, if I make one. V worth hearing, tho Cold Cuts is mostly pretty middling.

Doctor Casino please post your annotated list, we can handle it, I promise :)