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Surviving Beatles, head to head in the album charts
Posted by Martin Simmonds on 2 February 2012 - 12:00pm.
Both have albums out within a few days of each other.
Both records loaded with covers and novelties
Why didn’t they get together and save us all some bother?
I suspect a combined Ringo and Paul album would have some mileage in the supermarkets and similar outlets.
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The Beatles are like the Spice Girls
Great band spawns several irredeamably awful solo careers.
Try these ...
McCartney
Plastic Ono Band
All Things Must Pass
Ram
Imagine
Ringo
Band on the Run
Back to the Egg
George Harrison
Tug of War
Cloud 9
Flaming Pie
Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard
Wot?
No "Electronic Sounds", "Ocean's Kingdom", "Life With The Lions" or "The Wedding Album"?
That's the Best of the Beatles, surely?
I'd have Beatles' solo over Stones' solo any day....
....with the honourable exception of Brian's LP, of course.
Oh, and 'Performance'.
maybe not ...
,... but add Red Rose Speedway, possibly the mosr underrated solo album. Oh, Mind Games too ...
Wrong on two counts
The Spice Girls a great band!? And The Beatles solo careers were not irredemiably awful. BUT good try.
Eeh
You Beatles devotees are so touchy! I haven't heard a peep out of the Spice Girls fans - they're obviously more broadminded.
Spiceworld
Was a pretty decent film as I recall. Contained a cameo from a certain Mr Costello.
If we were judging Beatles and Spicegirls purely on their cinematic output, it would be a close run thing indeed. (Accepting that a Hard Day's Night is a wonderful film)
I know....
i'm probably guilty of heresy but does a Ringo Starr record have any relevance to anyone beyond the Beatles completists.
His output is pretty awful isn't it?
I suspect even among Beatles completists...
...there's a 10th Dan hard-core who are the only people to religiously acquire Ringo albums.
I once read a review of a Ringo album in a very earnest Beatles fanzine which said 'This will probably only be of interest to Ringo completists'. That, I thought, is surely a very small percentage of the population indeed....
McCartney Solo
Brilliant.
That is all.
Press to Play
As a teenager, I bought this album.
It is not "brilliant".
I'm just so put off
...by the title of Paul's one. It really is witless. Still, i know I'll give it a listen as im interested in anything the man does. Anyone heard it yet?
I won't bother making any snarky remarks about Ringo's but nor do I intend to listen to it.
It's available to stream online
I flicked through a couple of tracks. It was kind of interesting but not the sort of thing you can imagine playing more than once. Dare say it’s the precursor to various TV appearances. Quite who the target audience is, I really cannot say.
I heard the 1 minute bursts of preview on iTunes of Ringo's thing. Perfectly harmless, bit of a pub band feel to it. Heard all I need to hear.