BEST OF THE SOLO BEATLES album

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Ok folks...let's make an album.  I have a feeling it's gonna have to be a double. ....or not. List a bunch of songs you think should be included on a BEST OF THE SOLO BEATLES compilation album. Somebody good in math,  can add up all the totals and see what we all come up with.  Since I just recently stated that I don't own a lot of solo material, I will sit back and watch for a while.  We can also do as Kyle suggested and do a few different versions...one with hit singles and one without. Either way, I think we will come up with some fine music.

[Paperback Writer]

For the "selected" cuts CD(2?); I'll start with:

George; The Light of The World (from MW)

Ringo; Devil Woman (from RINGO)

John; Gimme Some Truth (from Imagine)

Paul; Venus+Mars/Rockshow (from V+M

Excellent idea, loking forward to seeing other's pics..

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George :  Run of the Mill

Ringo :   I Can Help

John:     I Found Out


Paul :    Ooooh You

[mervap]

JL....I Know (I Know)

PM...Mrs. Vanderbilt

GH...The Art of Dying

RS...Early 1970

[Greg]

R:  Heart On My Sleeve
P:  Single Pigeon (Oh he didn't list 'Single Pigeon'?  Tell me he didn't.  Yep, I'm going 'Single Pigeon' on all your azzes.)
J:  Bring On The Lucie
G:  Awaiting On You All

[Kylenz]

J: Working Class Hero (from Plastic Ono Band), Jealous Guy (from Imagine, everyone knows the Roxy Music version)
P: Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five (from Band on the Run), Too Many People (from Ram)
G: Fish On The Sand (from Cloud 9), Teardrops (from Somewhere In England)
R: If It's Love That You Want (from Liverpool 8), Choose Love (from Choose Love)

Lots of upbeat tracks, curiously the John songs I chose were ballads!

Now for HITS!
J: Imagine, Cold Turkey, Watching The Wheels
P: Jet, Say Say Say, Maybe I'm Amazed (the version from McCartney, has to be there, even though it was never a single)
G: My Sweet Lord, All Those Years Ago, Got My Mind Set On You
R: Photograph, You're Sixteen, Liverpool 8.

Trying to be both predictable and eclectic!

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Interesting Kyle.....I've always felt the Live version of Maybe I'm Amazed was so much more powerful...especially the vocal. The McCartney version does have some sort of "sound" to it though..ethereal I guess is the word. wow, and the spelling is correct ! 

[Greg]

Me too 2 of 3.  I can't think of a bigger difference between a studio and live version or a scenario where I like the live version a lot better.  I am just stuck on that live version as being so much better.

I guess Beware My Love would be one.  Call Me Back live is way better. 

Loved the picks Kylenz.  It's cool that you chose the unexpected on that Mac tune.

[Kylenz]

Yeah I've got that Soily / Maybe I'm Amazed 45, you're right it was a really powerful live version.. it's just nice when you have a studio version and all the nice production touches, the organ sound, the twangy lead guitars, the piano and drums.. like Let It Be's twin brother to me.

It's so hard to sit down and think 'right.. which tracks would you choose if you were to define their career with those songs'.. Say Say Say should be there because he had a string of amazing hit singles in the early 80s period and it's like he's wiped that part of his career away and no longer plays them or acknowledges them. He does 'Here Today' (for John) but that's it. No Take It Away, not even Tug of War or Pipes Of Peace or No More Lonely Nights. He thrashed My Brave Face and Figure of Eight in the 'Tripping the Light Fantastic' tour, but nowadays you never hear them at all. It's like he does Beatles tracks, then skips to Band on the Run era, then straight to Memory Almost Full / Electric Arguments recent stuff. But sweet f.a when it comes to the 1980s. Like a kind of musical amnesia!

[Paperback Writer]

Please add:

J- Nobody Told Me

R-6 O'Clock

G- If Not For You

P- Figure of Eight