10 great solo Beatles albums

my 10 greatest solo studio albums:
1 - Plastic Ono Band
2 - All Things Must Pass
3 - McCartney II
4 - Band on the Run
5 - Imagine
6 - Ram
7 - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
8 - Cloud Nine
9 - Back to the Egg
10 - Ringo

 

I agree. And also, it's the only post-beatle album with participation of the four (although not in the same song).

 

Very strange comments to me on some of this. The Beatles albums weren't "great" to me they were "fantastic," so with that as a reference point then many many solo albums were great with some being nearly as fantastic as a Beatles album.

My list thought 10 is hardly enough.

John Lennon Plastic Ono Band
Imagine
All things must pass
Ram
Ringo
Band on the run
Double Fantasy
Tug of war
Cloud 9
NEW

 

Was thinking about this a bit more. My "great" list (POB, Imagine, Ram, BOTR, Ringo, ATMP) hasn't changed at all, but I keep thinking about the other ones I love that aren't objectively great (IMO, of course):

Walls & Bridges
Chaos and Creation
33 1/3
McCartney

 

IMO, there are only two GREAT Beatles solo records: All Things and POB.

 

Very pleasantly surprised to see Ringo's Time Takes Time on the list. Pretty good list, although I definitely would have picked New over Memory Almost Full.

 

Just Imagine for me.

...and Electric Arguments if that counts.

 

Oh yeah? How about a top 10 Ringo albums? Or top 10 albums by 60's drummers who played Ludwig drums and wore a lot of rings?

 

McCartney is in my top 2 or 3 favorites of individual post Beatles albums

 

Three at most, and that's pushing it.

 

Yes Ringo is a great album thanks to J,P & G. It gains greatness status for "Sunshine Life For Me (Sail Away Raymond) alone

 

It really depends on how one defines those terms. To me, an album that's "fantastic" is like one that's "excellent". While that can mean any number of things, it's basically a very solid album of very good , a couple of great, songs, end of story. On the other hand, a "great" album is one that not only contains excellent songs, but also has a transcendent quality about it whose innovation and influence has people talking about it decades after its' release. Based on that criteria, if there are a total of three or four "great" ex-Beatle albums it would be a lot.

 

You've definitely got the 1A list.

I'd add 1B's :Wings Across America, &
Wilburies vol 1

I think venus and mars, mind games, walls and bridges.. all 2nd tier. Heck i might even put wonderwall in that batch.

 

My Top 10 (and Bubbling Under )
50. Gone Troppo (GH), New (PM) & Blast From Your Past (RS)
49. Working Classical (PM)
48. Time Takes Time (RS)
47. Lennon Legend (JL)
46. Press To Play (PM)
45. Bad Boy (RS)
44. Unplugged (The Official Bootleg) (PM)
43. Live In New York City (JL)
42. Some Time In New York City (JL)
41. Live Peace In Toronto (JL / Plastic Ono Band)
40. Early Takes Volume 1 (GH)
39. Electric Arguments (PM / Fireman)
38. Dark Horse (GH)
37. Shaved Fish (JL)
36. Wings Greatest (PM / Wings)
35. Live In Japan (GH)
34. Cloud Nine (GH)
33. Brainwashed (GH)
32. Extra Texture (GH)
31. Wonderwall Music (GH)
30. Wings At The Speed Of Sound (PM / Wings)
29. Tug Of War (PM)
28. Flowers In The Dirt (PM)
27. Flaming Pie (PM)
26. Goodnight Vienna (RS)
25. Chaos And Creation In The Backyard (PM)
24. Mind Games (JL)
23. London Town (PM / Wings)
22. Back To The Egg (PM / Wings)
21. Red Rose Speedway (PM)
20. Thirty Three & 1/3 (GH)
19. Wings Over America (PM / Wings)
18. Best Of Dark Horse 1976-1989 (GH)
17. Beaucoups Of Blues (RS)
16. George Harrison (GH)
15. Somewhere In England (GH)
14. Double Fantasy (JL)
13. Rock’n’Roll (JL)
12. Living In The Material World (GH)
11. McCartney II (PM)
10. The Concert For Bangla Desh (GH & Friends)
9. Ringo (RS)
8. Band On The Run (PM)
7. Ram (PM)
6. Venus And Mars (PM / Wings)
5. Walls And Bridges (JL)
4. John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band (JL)
3. McCartney (PM)
2. All Things Must Pass (GH)
1. Imagine (JL)

 

classics ?
POB
Imagine
All Things Must Pass
Ram
Band on the Run
Chaos

For track consistency.
POB & Ram

 

we kind of just did this ... i am not sure why so many folks contend that there were few if any good/great solo albums by beatles members ...
if you hated the beatles, there is little likelyhood that you would love the solo works, and if you were one of the "beatles are the best and only band ever" crew ... just the fact that the albums are solo probably makes you bitter ....
if you just like music, the ex-beatles made many great albums

 

NEW doesn't crack the top 50?

 

It does - see No. 50!

Maybe the reason it isn't higher on my list is the simple fact that I've lived with most of the other albums for many more years...
(There are also about 10 more solo albums that I really, really like, but I didn't want to create a second Bubbling Under chart, didn't want to push it too far.)

 

These are the 10 I go to the most:
All Things Must Pass
Living in the Material World
Ringo
JL POB
Imagine
Walls and Bridges
Ram
Band on the Run
Wings over America
Venus & Mars

 

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McCartney is my favorite McCartney album. See my avatar. Love it’s sinplicity.
But my number one post Beatles album would be All Things Must Pass. Nothing any of them did tops it IMO

 

Substitute GEORGE HARRISON for 33 1/3 and you have my list!

 

Excellent Post!

It's absolutely mind blowing, how much of the fantastic music these men have made is just dismissed!

No not every note is Earth shattering, but I hear greatness throughout!

 

There's only one real great album

All Things Must Pass

 

my favorites in no particular order

01 POB
02 Imagine
03 all things must pass
04 Band on the run
05 Ringo 1973 (because it includes his 1970 single)

 

I thought the same thing when I read the thread title