# Best Post-Beatles Career, who made the music you liked the best? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [August 22, 2024, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045 "2024-08-22T12:20:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/23 "2024-08-22T19:15:46Z")
Being dead does not make you less great. Very many good musicians are dead. Some 100s of years. That’s silly. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/24 "2024-08-22T19:18:33Z")
Having been a Beatles freak since 1964, it’s always surprised me how little of their solo stuff really works for me. George: My Sweet Lord (by far my favorite) Handle With Care (TW) Dirty World (TW) Ringo: It Don’t Come Easy No No Song John: Starting Over Gimme Some Truth Woman Paul: nada And in my even more heretical opinion only one post-Fabs album has ever floated my boat (and still does): George’s **Wonderwall Music**. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/25 "2024-08-22T19:23:03Z")
One of my favorite John songs… “Whatever Gets You Through The Night” with Elton John singing harmony and playing piano. I have the 45. Cool story about the bet Elton made with John about the song. I like “#9 Dream” also. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/26 "2024-08-22T19:35:56Z")
I voted John and George. John because of _Working Class Hero, Imagine, (Just like) Starting Over, Instant Karma, Whatever Gets You Through the Night, Watching the Wheels, Stand by Me_ and some more. George because of _My Sweet Lord_ and the Traveling Wilburys period. But I can’t vote for Paul because all the good-ish stuff he made gets erased by _Ebony and Ivory, Mull of Kintyre_ and similar soppy trash. Ringo seems to be a wonderful person, but we are talking about music here, right? ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/27 "2024-08-22T19:37:06Z")
^^^John’s cover of “Stand By Me” is another great one. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/28 "2024-08-22T19:40:24Z")
We like the same music. Cool😊 The whole Rock ‘N’ Roll album is great. Lots of slurring words and other artists. Raw singing. You know they where partying way too much. The Lost Weekend, much? ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/29 "2024-08-22T19:48:08Z")
The first record I bought was a a Beatles 45 with “Revolution.” The A-side had a pretty good song too 😁, but that one got a lot of radio and tv play, “Revolution” not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/30 "2024-08-22T19:54:22Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Being dead does not make you less great. Uh, yeah, but it stops you making music. I meant that Paul has continued much longer and George continued for longer. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/31 "2024-08-22T19:54:53Z")
Omg. I just pulled _Revolution_ up from my playlist and listened. Kamala needs to have that as her theme song. Why don’t they call me about these things? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/32 "2024-08-22T19:55:56Z")
All Paul ever did was _Yesterday_. Literally. 🤭 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/33 "2024-08-22T21:12:15Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > McCartney hands down. I like a lot of work by the other three but over the last 50+ years Paul’s music has meant more to me than the others combined. Pretty much what I was going to write. I really dig a lot of John and George stuff, but I _love_ a lot of Paul stuff. He’s also the artist I’ve seen in concert the most time. > [@MrDibble](#): > > ultimately really for _We All Stand Together_. Yes!!! 🐸 😃 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/34 "2024-08-22T21:24:28Z")
My favorite version of _Stand By Me_. Paul’s is weak. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/35 "2024-08-22T22:07:00Z")
As a teen I wore out my copies of _Band on the Run_, _All Things Must Pass_, and _Ringo_ (the 1973 album that contained “Photograph” among other at-the-time hits). Never bought a John Lennon album for some reason, despite seeing “Imagine” as one of the greatest songs of all time. I honestly couldn’t say which meant most to me. But I guess I’d have to say that Paul has had the best post-Beatles career for both the longevity and the reach of his hits. He has come up with some lovely melodies over the decades. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/36 "2024-08-22T22:21:24Z")
For me there is no contest - George Harrison. I realize this is subjective - but I like minor key stuff in general. Plus, I think overall he had more, quality songs. Imagine is an amazing song but it is an outlier. Most of John’s post Beatle stuff is crap. A rebelling against years of Paul’s “granny songs”, I’m betting. But mostly I don’t Like post-Beatle John. And I say that as a massive appreciator of John’s Beatle stuff. I believe he was a genius. > [@dirtball](#): > > Paul’s stuff has… too much lightweight pop, or a lightweight pop sensibility, for my liking For me, too. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of a post-Beatle Paul song that matched his Beatle stuff. And, again, I’m a huge Paul fan (I had 5 row seats to a Wings concert). Though I didn’t like Wings music in general. Apparently, nor did Paul: _“Paul McCartney, a former Beatle, has sometimes criticized Wings’ music, calling the band “terrible” and “not a good group”. In 2016, he said he thought Wings’ first album, Wild Life, was a “blow” and that he couldn’t stand their second album, Red Rose Speedway._ ” Ringo’s output was too marginal to be considered, IMHO. So in the end, George. I actually think Bangladesh is one the best post-Beatles songs. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/37 "2024-08-22T22:35:01Z")
If I’d answered this poll 20 years ago, it would have been Paul, easily. Now it’s George, also easily. As I’ve gotten older, and listened to George’s music more often, he’s become my favorite Beatle, as well as my favorite post-Beatle. Even with a lull in his output in the early '80s, many of his songs are among my very favorites, including a lot from _All Things Must Pass_, _Cloud Nine_, and _Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1_. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/38 "2024-08-22T22:55:47Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > All Paul ever did was _Yesterday_. > Literally. Maybe I’m Amazed is such a good song, I can’t believe Paul wrote it. But it’s easily one of the best that any of them came up with, post-Beatles. Other than that, I can only think of Let Me Roll It, in which he does his best John Lennon imitation. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/39 "2024-08-22T23:22:11Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > All Things Must Pass I gave George the top vote just for that album. Well, that triple album. You get the point. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/40 "2024-08-23T00:05:18Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > As I’ve gotten older, and listened to George’s music more often, he’s become my favorite Beatle, as well as my favorite post-Beatle. I’ve gone through phases of liking John or Paul the most. But now that I’m older, I find George’s songs resonate with me the most. It’s purely subjective, of course, but that’s where I’m at and will probably stay. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/41 "2024-08-23T00:23:08Z")
I hate to hear anyone being dismissive of any of them. I have bought, listened to, and enjoyed albums by all four of them. But if I had to pick just one, it’d be Paul, for the quantity, versatility, and range of his body of work. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045/42 "2024-08-23T00:29:33Z")
Close call between John and Paul for me. I narrowly went with Paul because, even though some of his songs aren’t great (“Wonderful Christmastime”, “Silly Love Songs”, etc.), the ones that are good are some of the best pop music ever recorded (“Maybe I’m Amazed”, “Band on the Run”, “Jet” etc.) and bear repeat listening more than John’s, which tend to be more meaningful lyrically but aren’t really songs you can groove to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-post-beatles-career-who-made-the-music-you-liked-the-best/1006045.md?page=3)