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

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))
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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.

"wah wah" was too low btw

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

― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Tuesday, June 5, 2018 7:49 PM (sixteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I can hear that. It's kinda Lennon does ATMP but a few years later, although it's less bombastic sonically, I think.

lol "#9 Dream" peaked at #9 of the Hot 100.

Dream bigger, Johnny! Number one dream.

millionaire whinge-rock

Is that a good or bad thing?

five songs on my ballot from mind games...

paul mccartney & whinge

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.

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, June 5, 2018 12:49 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

been spending a lot of time in old beatles threads lately and this could be a geir post

i'm more sympathetic to that position than most and even i fuckin voted for "god"

"oh yoko!" for no. 1 if john must win though

This being ILM, thought Walking on Thin Ice may have made number one. Surprised it's outside the top 20.

hey i tried

Anybody else have recent-ish McCartney songs higher than "Jenny Wren?" Had seven and still had if fairly high.

The thing is Brad, Geir hated John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and I don't. Everything I said was correct, though, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is a record that has a cult following (or as much of a cult following as a record can get as a solo record by one of the members of The Beatles), it was made by a millionaire, is a rock album and contains a fair amount of whingeing.

Think there’s another John song coming, was in a hot Nike ad once upon a time iirc

Anybody else have recent-ish McCartney songs higher than "Jenny Wren?" Had seven and still had if fairly high.

― timellison, Tuesday, June 5, 2018 12:58 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i voted for "mr. bellamy" and "anyway"

'Instant Karma!'?

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oh yeah there we go. sorry "no words" :(

I remember reading somewhere that McCartney wanted Thom Yorke to play on 'Mr. Bellamy', but Yorke refused because he wasn't sure if he could perform up to the required standard. I personally don't think he would have been suitable for the track, which I feel is one of McCartney's best late-period songs.

Sad to see that Mind Games got no number one votes and then I remembered it got mine....

oh i also voted for "beautiful night" which i was hoping would place, oh well

Xpost, my #1 was from Driving Rain

The two I had highest were "The End of the End" and "English Tea"

Miles and miles of English garden stretching past the willow trees lines of hollyhocks and roses

that song is amazing

Did you ever hear the demo of 'Beautiful Night', Brad? That song had been kicking around since the late '80s, circa 'Once Upon a Long Ago' ... it was originally part of a proposed album called Return to Pepperland which was supposed to have been the follow-up to Press to Play, but it got scrapped.

oh yeah there's another paul album that's pretty much front to back great, chaos and creation xp

i didn't! i'm gonna look it up now