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Best solo Beatles albums to own I have "All Things Must Pass" by George Harrison,but between Paul & John, whose albums are worth buying? "Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish." | |
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COMPUTERBLUE1984 said: I have "All Things Must Pass" by George Harrison,but between Paul & John, whose albums are worth buying?
Mmh... John#s strongest album as an artist would be John Lennon/Plastic One Band. But it's a bit heavy, not exactly commercial. Someone who likes I Want To Hold Your Hand won't like this. A compromise would be the Imagine album. First, everyone loves that song and it's worth getting, second, it has the obvious message songs too, but some nice ballads are thrown. So I'd recommend the Imagine album. Paul... I think RAM is actually underrated, every song as a memorable melody IMO, but Band On the Run is considered his best work from the 70s and indeed it flows niceley. Tug Of War is great as well, including two Stevie Wonder cameos... | |
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graecophilos said: COMPUTERBLUE1984 said: I have "All Things Must Pass" by George Harrison,but between Paul & John, whose albums are worth buying?
Mmh... John#s strongest album as an artist would be John Lennon/Plastic One Band. But it's a bit heavy, not exactly commercial. Someone who likes I Want To Hold Your Hand won't like this. A compromise would be the Imagine album. First, everyone loves that song and it's worth getting, second, it has the obvious message songs too, but some nice ballads are thrown. So I'd recommend the Imagine album. Paul... I think RAM is actually underrated, every song as a memorable melody IMO, but Band On the Run is considered his best work from the 70s and indeed it flows niceley. Tug Of War is great as well, including two Stevie Wonder cameos... Thanks for the info. "Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish." | |
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graecophilos said: COMPUTERBLUE1984 said: I have "All Things Must Pass" by George Harrison,but between Paul & John, whose albums are worth buying?
Mmh... John#s strongest album as an artist would be John Lennon/Plastic One Band. But it's a bit heavy, not exactly commercial. Someone who likes I Want To Hold Your Hand won't like this. A compromise would be the Imagine album. First, everyone loves that song and it's worth getting, second, it has the obvious message songs too, but some nice ballads are thrown. So I'd recommend the Imagine album. Paul... I think RAM is actually underrated, every song as a memorable melody IMO, but Band On the Run is considered his best work from the 70s and indeed it flows niceley. Tug Of War is great as well, including two Stevie Wonder cameos... I'll pretty much 2nd everything here, with the caveat that I don't much care for Imagine - however, it's his most popular album, and it's always been a crowd-pleaser, so that's just my problem. I'll definitely make the case for picking up Plastic Ono Band, though. Even if you don't love it, it'll likely stand as one of the more singular listening experiences you'll ever have. It's raw, primal, open and jaggedly emotional in a way very few records are, and it has some of his finest singing as well. | |
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I'm going to echo the previous recommendations: Plastic Ono Band by John and Band on the Run by Paul. I will say that neither stands up to the juggernaut that is All Things Must Pass IMO. "Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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Apart from the albums mentioned in this thread I would strongly reccommend George Harrison - George Harrison from '79. It got some great melodic tracks on it like Blow Away, Here Comes A Moon and Not Guilty. Very underrated album. And I really love Double Fantasy by John Lennon from '80. I even like some of the Yoko Ono tracks!  | |
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BT11 said: Apart from the albums mentioned in this thread I would strongly reccommend George Harrison - George Harrison from '79. It got some great melodic tracks on it like Blow Away, Here Comes A Moon and Not Guilty. Very underrated album. And I really love Double Fantasy by John Lennon from '80. I even like some of the Yoko Ono tracks!
yeah but this fan wants to have a album for non-experts... I like Double Fantasy, but if he's not keen on Yoko, he shouldn't buy it. I love POB but I hardly listen to it because it brings me down. That's why I recommend the Imagine album. You gotta admit that John's solo stuff is not always what a typical Beatles fan wants. Songs like So Hard and I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier are hardly what I'd want a potential John fan recommend! But Imagine, Jealous Guy, Oh My Love, Oh Yoko, How are songs with a good melody. I mean, Oh My Love and Jealous Guy were actually written in 1968!!! | |
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Actually Imagine is the one John album that has the most songs written during his Beatles days.
Jealous Guy aka Child Of Nature was written in Rishikesh in early 68 Oh My Love was written in late 1968. orginal lyrics were done by Yoko, that's why they both got writer's credits... Gimme Some Truth was party written during the Let it Be sessions in jan 1969 | |
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For Paul I would say "Tug Of War".
For George "Cloud Nine" For John "Imagine" [Edited 1/1/09 16:22pm] "The first time I saw the cover of Dirty Mind in the early 80s I thought, 'Is this some drag queen ripping on Freddie Prinze?'" - Some guy on The Gear Page | |
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