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Title: Jonh lennons solo music or paul mccartneys solo mu
Post by: number14 on August 17, 2004, 05:17:32 PM
Hey guys i was just wondering whos solo music you like better. I like pauls better because uncle albert is such a cool song and live n let die but its sooo close, since i bought lennon legend ive gotten hooked to jonh lennons music. So whats ur input?
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Post by: Sadie4 on August 17, 2004, 06:15:19 PM
 Well, this will depend on who your favourite Beatle is. Mine is JOHN; so of course I go for JOHN's solo music. I think it's much better than Paul's in the sense that JOHN always wrote more about his private feelings, how he felt every time, and Pauls's songs were more commercial.. But Paul's fans will tell you otherwise...
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Post by: Soft_Guitar60 on August 17, 2004, 06:30:00 PM
I like both but if I had to pick one...it would be John. John's solo music is sad and it has more love songs in it. OK, Paul is good too but I just need to pick one of them.
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Post by: Wonderwall on August 17, 2004, 08:03:06 PM
 Though I love alot of Johns solo work I prefer Pauls more because its a bit more melodic.
John wrote many great songs lyrically but I prefer Pauls music for sense of overall production. Maybe Im Amazed and Back Seat Of MY Car are fantastic tracks by Paul. Though John may still have the best Beatles solo song Imagine.
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Post by: number14 on August 18, 2004, 01:45:45 AM
Pauls music is more outgoing , i like it because it isnt as private
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Post by: Mairi on August 18, 2004, 02:42:52 AM
I prefer Paul's music because it has the great lyrics and the great melodies, it has the whole package really. Although John's is a close second!
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Post by: Crazy Diamond on August 18, 2004, 10:08:44 AM
John. George is my fave.
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Post by: Stratford on August 18, 2004, 10:41:17 AM
Paul, really. It might have something to do with how I grew up with Paul's solo music, whereas John's is something I recently discovered. Plus, I like the, er, some might call it "commercialism" of Paul's music.
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Post by: Billy Shears on August 19, 2004, 05:25:19 PM
gotta go with paul, easier listening, feel good music....john's is great, but you have to be in the mood sometimes. john's is more real feelings...paul is pop
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Post by: HFleen on August 19, 2004, 05:50:30 PM
Hmmm...tough choice in this thread...but I vote for Paul -- tho I voted elsewhere for John....


;-)

Herb
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Post by: number14 on August 20, 2004, 02:13:40 AM
wow its tied 6 to 6 preety close
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Post by: Heather_Michele on August 20, 2004, 03:32:48 AM
How to choose.  George is my favorite Beatle, John comes in second there, when he was With the Beatles I enjoyed the his songs better, but solo work is hard to choose.  I feel bad for saying it, but I like Pauls solo work much better, I always loved John for teh way he thought, for who he was, but he just didn't seem that interested in making music after the beatles broke, or at least not as crazy about it as Paul, plus Paul wrote a song named Heather! :P
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Post by: Rowdy on August 20, 2004, 08:02:01 AM
Their 70's work is on par with one another..........but Paul has only had two or three great releases since 1980.....and if you were to take the top thirty or so songs from their solo careers, John would win in a landslide.
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Post by: tkitna on August 20, 2004, 09:12:41 AM
[quote by=Rowdy link=Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1092763052,s=12 date=1092988921]..and if you were to take the top thirty or so songs from their solo careers, John would win in a landslide.[/quote]

I see it in the exact opposite light.

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Post by: number14 on August 20, 2004, 04:23:52 PM
Jonh lennon always sounds sad in his solo music
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Post by: Herecomesyoursun on August 21, 2004, 10:31:35 PM
neck and neck
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Post by: on August 21, 2004, 11:40:50 PM
I can't decide, I love them both equally but in different ways. I guess it's a testimony to John that his relatively small number of solo releases can compete with Macca's huge amount.

I cannot decide.
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Post by: number14 on August 22, 2004, 04:43:56 AM
mccartney has a ton of better songs
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Post by: Sondra on August 23, 2004, 03:39:31 AM
I don't know. Could someone list some of their better solo songs. I need a refresher. I'm more into their Beatles work anyway. And they were always equal then.
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Post by: on August 23, 2004, 06:04:28 AM
John's is my favourite. I like some of Paul's songs but I was never a big fan of his solo music. I also like George's.
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Post by: SieLiebtDich on August 23, 2004, 07:04:50 AM
[quote by=Sadie4 link=Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1092763052,s=1 date=1092766519] Well, this will depend on who your favourite Beatle is. Mine is JOHN; so of course I go for JOHN's solo music. I think it's much better than Paul's in the sense that JOHN always wrote more about his private feelings, how he felt every time, and Pauls's songs were more commercial.. But Paul's fans will tell you otherwise...[/quote



I think the same way John rules!!! \m/ :P \m/
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Post by: number14 on August 24, 2004, 09:01:03 PM
[quote by=Maccalvr link=Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1092763052,s=18 date=1093232371]I don't know. Could someone list some of their better solo songs. I need a refresher. I'm more into their Beatles work anyway. And they were always equal then. [/quote]

paul: Band on the run, Maybe im amazed, Let emin , silly love songs, Live n let die

John : Jealous guy, imagine, watching the wheels, woman

Best song oout of all of these is silly love songs thats what i think at least.
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Post by: luvsthebeatles on August 26, 2004, 04:42:24 PM
I prefer Paul's solo work, even though I don't know too much of either's... yet.  :B It takes me a while to like any of John's songs, but I usually like Paul's songs right off. (If that makes sense)
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Post by: Beatle Ed on September 02, 2004, 12:21:30 AM
11 to 11 now
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Post by: number14 on September 02, 2004, 01:34:50 AM
ya its realy close
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Post by: Crazy Diamond on September 06, 2004, 02:02:55 PM
Maybe I'm Amazed is the only good Paul solo song.
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Post by: on September 06, 2004, 03:40:44 PM
John suffers from lack of product.  Paul wins by the sheer numbers.  George started out great then dipped for a few decades.  Ringo had a few GREAT singles and also dropped out never to recover.

Paul, by default.
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Post by: number14 on September 06, 2004, 04:31:09 PM
[quote by=Zep_Fan link=Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1092763052,s=25 date=1094479375]Maybe I'm Amazed is the only good Paul solo song.[/quote]
Are you serious?

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Post by: Sadie4 on September 06, 2004, 06:43:35 PM
[quote by=Zep_Fan link=Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1092763052,s=25 date=1094479375]Maybe I'm Amazed is the only good Paul solo song.[/quote]

 Is this the only song of Macca you've listened to?

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Post by: Kiss My Bad Self on September 07, 2004, 08:49:00 AM
pauls music is more commercial and accesable i think, but i prefer johns work because it is always more true to him, and he puts out his feelings more in his music.
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Post by: Frightwolf on September 07, 2004, 09:31:20 PM
Yea, I think Zep's only heard that one song, because there's more than that.

The first time I started hearing Paul's solo work, I was underwhelmed because I was so used to his really amazing works in Eleanor Rigby, She's Leaving Home, Let It Be, Yesterday, and so forth.  But once you really start listening, he really kicks some serious booty! I used to think Jet and Band On The Run were decent, for example.  Now I think they rule!
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Post by: number14 on September 07, 2004, 10:12:59 PM
wow. Its tied again
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Post by: frightenedandscared on September 11, 2004, 11:48:38 PM
I have to say John. His music is deeper. I do like some of Paul's solo work but not all.

Plus both my parents are both John fans. So the first solo music of The Beatles I heard was "Imagine."

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Post by: Carpenter on September 14, 2004, 09:25:21 PM
someone said John sounded sad..............



Because he was.
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Post by: number14 on September 14, 2004, 11:50:15 PM
why was he?
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Post by: Crazy Diamond on September 17, 2004, 01:45:22 PM
I've heard a lot of his songs. I only like MIA.
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Post by: HFleen on September 17, 2004, 02:31:05 PM
I like john's music....imagine what he'd be doing today!!!!

HFleen
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Post by: Sadie4 on September 17, 2004, 03:04:40 PM
 he'd be writing some more controversial songs and love songs. A tour probably. And we would have seen him doing the Anthology series along with the other three.
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Post by: Kiss My Bad Self on September 17, 2004, 03:31:19 PM
yeah its interesting to wonder wat he'd bedoing now. probably not much different to paul or ringo. i'd like to think he would of spoke out against the war in iraq.
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Post by: number14 on September 25, 2004, 05:41:41 PM
"imagine all the world living life at peace"

I bet he would
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Post by: on September 25, 2004, 06:24:47 PM
wow....i couldn't say........

I think probabaly Paul's. I love Wings. But i have to give SOME credit to John, because he's the reason i got hooked on the Beatles in the first place.....

It changes from day to day, depends how i feel i suppose, but i voted for Paul.
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Post by: on September 30, 2004, 06:51:46 AM
Why was George not an option?

I personally, will take most of George's albums over almost any Paul or John album. 

John's lyrics were great with his solo stuff, but his songwriting, with the exception of a few songs was honestly mediocre.  I'm sorry, I just can't listen to most of his songs.  (Dont start throwing out names of songs now...I know he has good ones, but as a whole, I dont think much of his solo career.)  And his blues stuff really did NOT work out well.  There are so many people that do it better.

Paul - ok, he's the most inconsistent SOB out there.  He'll put out a great album and then his next one will be garbage.  Rinse and repeat.  Tug of War, Band on the Run, Ram were all really good albums.  But then listen to Back To The Egg, Wild Life, Pipes of Peace, McCartney II...in fact, a good 80% of his Wings songs were below average.

George - I admit he's had his bad moments as well - Gone Troppo, 33&1/3, Somewhere in England.  But look at All Things Must Pass, Cloud 9, Living in the Material World, Brainwashed (if you havent heard it, buy it.  Its better than anything Paul has put out in the last one or two decades)....I really dont understand why people dont give him the light of day. I honestly believe All Things Must Pass is better than any solo album Lennon or McCartney have ever put out.  Everyone was shocked at George's songwriting when ATMP came out because he basically came out of nowhere - hence the whole Dark Horse thing.  But still, all you hear is Lennon/McCartney.  Even during the Beatles years, I believe George wrote some of their best songs.  Something, While My Guitar..., and Here Comes the Sun are in my top ten Beatles songs; pretty good considering George hardly had the chance to put his songs on albums and how much of a bigger catalog John/Paul had.

Sorry for the rant.  I just can't believe how ignored George is.  I can understand how some people prefer Lennon's solo career to his, but Paul?  Come on...that man is 75% hype.  The level of his songwriting varies so greatly, its ridiculous. 
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Post by: SieLiebtDich on September 30, 2004, 08:56:53 AM
ringo is also missing....:-/