In anticipation of ILM’s coming solo Beatle poll, I assembled eighty tracks that I’d save — way too many, but in the surfeit is a certain wisdom. I can scramble these tracks any way and it still derive satisfaction, just not eighty at a time (maybe eight to ten). A couple points:
(1) If Ringo is underrepresented, well, I wasn’t going to listen to Stop and Smell the Roses. I recommend his late nineties comp, though.
(2) The poll allowed solo Beatle-involved projects like Yoko albums and the Wilburys.
(3) McCartney dominates because he lives. But I stopped caring beyond intermittent moments after 1993.
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/user/alfredsoto/playlist/3nrUbUvPdJ9d7lIxqvpX6t
1. Paul McCartney – Take It Away
2. John Lennon – Instant Karma
3. George Harrison – Blow Away
4. Ringo Starr – It Don’t Come Easy
5. Yoko Ono – I Felt Like Smashing My Face in a Clear Glass Window
6. Paul McCartney – Press
7. John Lennon – Well Well Well
8. Ringo Starr – Photograph
9. George Harrison – What is Life
10. Traveling Wilburys – End of the Line
11. Yoko Ono – Why
12. John Lennon – I Don’t Want to Be a Soldier
13. Paul McCartney – No More Lonely Nights
14. Ringo Starr – Snookeroo
15. George Harrison – Fish on the Sand
16. John Lennon – Nobody Told Me
17. Paul McCartney – Every Night
18. Yoko Ono – Death of Samantha
19. George Harrison – Don’t Let Me Wait Too Long
20. Ringo Starr – Early 1970
21. Yoko Ono – Give Me Something
22. Paul and Linda McCartney – Eat at Home
23. George Harrison – Cheer Down
24. John Lennon – #9 Dream
25. Wings – Arrow Through Me
26. Yoko Ono – Peter the Dealer
27. Wings – Jet
28. John Lennon – I Don’t Wanna Face It
29. George Harrison – Sue Me, Sue You Blues
30. Paul McCartney – My Brave Face
31. George Harrison – Awaiting On You All
32. Yoko Ono – Yang Yang
33. Paul McCartney – Secret Friend
34. John Lennon – Cleanup Time
35. Ringo Starr – Back Off Boogaloo
36. Yoko Ono – She Gets Down on Her Knees
37. Paul McCartney – Wanderlust
38. George Harrison – Love Comes to Everyone
39. John Lennon – How Do You Sleep
40. Yoko Ono – Move On Fast
41. Wings – Goodnight Tonight/Daytime Nighttime Suffering
42. George Harrison – Apple Scruffs
43. Yoko Ono – Walking on Thin Ice
44. Paul and Linda McCartney – Another Day
45. John Lennon – Hold On, John
46. Yoko Ono – Mind Train
47. Paul McCartney – This One
48. George Harrison – That’s The Way It Goes
49. Paul McCartney – No Other Baby
50. Ringo Starr – I’m the Greatest
51. Wings – Hi Hi Hi
52. Yoko Ono – Mrs Lennon
53. Paul McCartney – Jenny Wren
54. Traveling Wilburys – Heading for the Light
55. John Lennon – Mother
56. Wings – Let’em In
57. George Harrison – Your Love is Forever
58. Yoko Ono – Kite Song
59. Paul Mccartney – Ever Present Past
60. John Lennon – Stand By Me
61. Wings – Country Dreamer
62. George Harrison – So Sad
63. Paul McCartney – Calico Skies
64. Traveling Wilburys – Inside Out
65. The Fireman – Fluid
66. Nilsson – Don’t Forget Me
67. Wings – Mrs. Vanderbilt
68. John Lennon – Working Class Hero
69. George Harrison – Deep Blue
70. John Lennon and Yoko Ono – New York City
71. Wings – London Town
72. Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson – Say Say Say
73. George Harrison – Beautiful Girl
74. Paul and Linda McCartney – Too Many People
75. George Harrison – Beware of Darkness
76. Paul McCartney – Hope of Deliverance
77. Traveling Wilburys – Handle With Care
78. John Lennon – I Found Out
79. Yoko Ono – I’m Moving On
80. Paul McCartney – Figure of Eight
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Yoko Ono?!?!???? You’re an idiot!
The poll allowed it. I’m delighted to know Yoko hate still festers in the remains of Beatle fan brains.
Strange…very strange. Yoko is a Beatle associate. There were only 4 my friend.
The rest is just opinion. You’ve picked some really strange choices from all they did, that’s for damn sure!
You need to reread the hyperlink, my friend, to understand the allowances of this poll.
Yoko is not and will never be a Beatle
Reread what I wrote.
Happy as hell at the Yoko choices. Good on you for that.
Not that this list needs more Paul, but if you can get to Hope Of Deliverance and Jenny Wren you can find even more top-shelf Paul after 1993. It’s nice to see anyone giving a shit about the last 25 years of his career.
Thanks, Jason. Both of your picks made it!
Good job, bro, especially on recognizing the Yoko relevance considering she was on so many SOLO Lennon albums (I mean, this really isn’t a Beatles playlist, after all. This should be a Spotify playlist, however).
Yet check out the comments. Thanks!
Ridiculous lack of 21st century McCartney. You’re missing out, fella.
He dominates the list. I’m not sure what else I can do.
I love lists like this. Head scratchers? There are some, but it’s all for fun. And whether we like it or not, Yoko was a fellow traveler. And besides, any list that has Beeare of Darkness ( my favorite) can’t be all bad.
I think you purposely set this up as clickbait — by defining the parameters of a Beatles solo song as anything one of them played on. You did that because you wanted to include Yoko to piss off the slice of the Beatles fans (and its only a slice) who will always hate her. Most Beatles fans don’t hate her but also know that she was NEVER a Beatle. So a list of Beatles solo work that includes a bunch of Yoko songs is clickbait. That was intentional on your part — designed to upset people and get them to pay attention to your list. Heck, if you’re going to include anything they played on, why not include the Super Furry Animals track on which Paul McCartney munched celery?
A better (and less clickbait-y) parameter would have been any song a Beatle SANG on, not PLAYED on, but then that wouldn’t have ticked anyone off, would it? Sorry but I feel like the people who want to poke Beatles fans with a stick by forcing Yoko onto a list like this are just as irritating as the Yoko-is-Evil crowd.
If you’d read the hyperlink to the ILM poll thread, you’ll see the list concerns itself with solo Beatles-related PROJECTS.
Well we’ll have to agree to disagree because I don’t think Yoko belongs on a list of the “best of the solo Beatles.” Other than that, though, I think your list is excellent. It’s to see a lot of lesser known McCartney songs that usually go unappreciated. People should just ignore the dross (he couldn’t help himself) and focus on the many many great solo songs he’s produced.
Is there a particular reason to leave off “Band on the Run” and other obvious Wings’ classics?
Boredom. “Jet” and several others Wings classics made the cut.
Hmmm….boredom because they are too obvious?
I’d rather listen to 75 other songs first.
Nothin’ is gonna raise as much of a ruckus as a Beatles poll…esp w Ms Ono onboard.