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

I voted for it

Mind Games is the only album from which I drew nothing. What a nattering, unfocused, dull album.

"bring on the lucie" is ok

xp aw I like the title track, appropriately anthemic

i've got a bad memory associated with "mind games" so i didn't vote for it myself

ATMP the track is so gorgeous, was my #6

Mind Games is def unfocused and limp-sounding

16. Photograph - Ringo Starr (feat. Ringo, George) (1302 points, 17 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d3/Ringo_starr_photo.jpg/220px-Ringo_starr_photo.jpg

15. Watching The Wheels - John Lennon (feat. John) (1303 points, 16 votes)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Watching_the_Wheels_%28John_Lennon_single_-_cover_art%29.jpg/220px-Watching_the_Wheels_%28John_Lennon_single_-_cover_art%29.jpg

voted for watching the wheels very highly, even tho i don't like the studio version.

the acoustic version, though...

what a long paulless stretch

"photograph" too low

yea the acoustic version of Watching the Wheels is one of John's highest points

acoustic version of Starting Over is ace, too

yea the acoustic version of Watching the Wheels is one of John's highest points

#9 Dream is gonna place way too fucking high

oh god yeah

rip "bless you"

bobby keys' solo on photograph is some of his best ever work.

The different lyrics always put me off. Also, it’s missing the greatest double-tracked vocal of all time.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, June 5, 2018 2:39 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

true, also that great descending piano riff

idk after hearing the acoustic version, the studio version always sounds overdone to me.

i like the lyrics better in the acoustic version too

it's very thin sounding

I feel like post-Voorman John's stuff is often lacking in the low end/bass dept.

14. Junk - Paul McCartney (feat. Paul) (1308 points, 19 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))
http://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.EL9ViaCaUM1yFggbcUzU8wAAAA

paul's not dead

13. Coming Up - Paul McCartney (feat. Paul) (1346 points, 22 votes)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2e/McCartneyComingUp.jpg/220px-McCartneyComingUp.jpg

aaaaaaaaaa COMING UP

this placing so high is one of those only-on-ILM idiosyncrasies, I would think. Like, nowhere else in the internet or the world would this spring to mind as people's favorite Macca song.

canceled out of course by the massive lol of discovering that after all that, turrican didn't vote.

Indeed, and I've already explained one reason why this was the case - you might have been willing to cobble together a ballot at the last nanosecond with whatever, but I wasn't. Another reason is that, well, for some of us, putting together a list of 100 Beatles solo songs isn't actually number one on their list of priorities. I would have loved to have submitted a ballot, but I didn't - and if that's your idea of humour then fucking hell, get out more.

"Coming Up" nowhere near my list. I didn't know deejays flipped the single over and made the live version the hit; I thought it was always so.

it's the fact that you simultaneously care too much and don't care enough that is funny

xp

^^^

Getting the sinking feeling that Sour Milk Sea isn't gonna make the cut...

12. #9 Dream - John Lennon (feat. John) (1408 points, 18 votes, 2 No. 1 votes))
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7b/LennonNumber9Dream.jpg/220px-LennonNumber9Dream.jpg

11. Band On The Run - Wings (feat. Paul) (1445 points, 20 votes)
https://beatlesblogger.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/mccartney11.jpg

I love the fact that 'Why' and 'Cold Turkey' were a tie, those two songs fit nicely together in my mind!

here is the part of the thread where everyone guesses what the top 10 is

is Denny Laine wearing bellbottoms as a shirt?

beginning to think the track i voted for as #1 has a real shot of being the actual #1

ooh

was it "press"

'Why' is absolutely phenomenal, IMO. A good few years ahead of its time without a doubt. People who slag Yoko are fucking dickheads.

I thought '#9 Dream' would have been in the top ten... While 'Whatever Gets You Through The Night' got to number one in the US, I don't think it deserved it any where near as much as '#9 Dream', which is one of Lennon's finest songs - easily as good as anything he did while in The Beatles.

I really, really hope that 'Press' is in the Top 10!

i personally don't really get "#9 dream" but i'm not mad

In no particular order:

Jet
Maybe I'm Amazed
It Don't Come Easy
Oh Yoko!
Jealous Guy
What is Life
My Sweet Lord
God
Mother
No Words

i had given up on "no words" placing, i didn't know if it was *this* beloved. but if it does i'm thrilled, it's my top paul track

'#9 Dream' is all about the production and the string arrangement and the way the chords change on "I thought I could hear" and etc.

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Those predictions sound about right

#9 Dream is basically a track from All Things Must Pass

I'd be very surprised to see 'No Words', but fully expecting the cult of John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band to help those twin pillars of millionaire whinge-rock climb the uppermost reaches of the chart.