That album cover was often referred to as "A Bowl Of Cherries". The back cover was a pic of Paul with his infant daughter inside his coat, the track listings and "McCartney" is big letters. My favorite songs on this album are "Every Night", "Junk" and "Maybe I'm Amazed". The latter was performed live a lot and the rest of the album was ignored.
The * must listen * McCartney albums are: - Ram - Band on the Run - Tug of War - Flowers in the Dirt - Flaming Pie - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
Great that you are doing this series, keep it up. This album and McCartney 2 and 3 (and another called electric arguments with The fireman) are all experimental type albums. McCartney 2 is more an electronic sounding album!! He gets back to Beatle quality with Ram and Band on the run.
I love this album. My sister bought it when it was new. No reading wiki facts before listening. No Rolling Stone review before listening. We thought it was great then. I think it is great now.
@@stevekaspar1396 That’s fair. I’m no fan of Spector. I meant more in regard to the songwriting than the mixing and production. Song for song, All Things Must Pass is my favorite solo album.
I've always thought this album was more of a miss than a hit. Paul made 3 studio albums that are actually up to the super high standards he himself set: "Ram" (1971), "Band On The Run" (1973) and "Venus And Mars" (1975). Also, consider the awesome live album "Wings Over America" (1976) which includes excellent versions of his best 70's songs not on the above named albums.
We were just trying to get you to listen to the most recent mixes of the albums. Especially because you are wearing headphones. The stereo mixing techniques were poorly understood in the mid 60s, so everything up till white album kinda sounded bad in headphones. Then by abbey road they had figured out how to property Mix stereo and it sounded good in headphones. Gone was the weird panning and drum/bass in one ear and everything else in the other ear. Just always go with the super deluxe mixes. Giles Martin took all the stems from the original master tapes and rearranged them as a modern engineer would do when balancing everything out. Now we can hear the bass through the mush, and little guitar licks we couldn’t hear in the non- super deluxe versions.
To understand where this album was coming from, you probably need to listen to John's first three "experimental" albums, which were released while The Beatles were still together. But there would be no other reason to listen to those. This album is way better and certainly more listenable. When he was making it - certainly when he _began_ making it, Paul probably thought The Beatles would get back together. Indeed, I Me Mine was recorded by George, Paul, and Ringo in January 1970, in the middle of Paul recording this. As a little side project, the album works fine, but unfortunately it ended up being Paul's first statement as a solo artist, and it confused a lot of people. All that said, while I'm not that keen on Teddy Boy, I do really like the album - it's a grower.
The McCartney album is what it is. He’s in a bad place and basically saying “fuck you” to the other three and I suspect he would have put out anything at that point. 2 of the songs were rejected during the White Album sessions, which I imagine was also part of the “fuck you all” narrative. He got his act well and truly together for his next album, RAM. By the way, I’d actually encourage you to listen to all the albums they made whilst John was alive. It won’t take you forever. Post-murder you can be a bit more discerning but I think it’s a good idea so you can accurately compare their output, which only Paul was able to maintain throughout the decade.
When considering other post Beatles albums, may I suggest: George: "Cloud Nine" (1988) and "All Things Must Pass" (1970) which is probably the best of all post Beatles albums. Ringo: "Ringo" (1973). John: "Plastic Ono Band" (1970) which is intense and raw, "Imagine" (1971) and "Walls And Bridges" (1974). There are more good albums from each of them, but the 6 listed above are excellent.
This album was a bit disappointing to me when I first heard it too. I agree with your opinion on it, though I do relisten every once in a while. Some important info on All Things Must Pass: the 2014 remaster is a remaster of the 2001 re-release, which had a different tracklist. One of the songs had two versions, and that version removed one of them, changed the placement of some later tracks to appear earlier on the album, and added a non-album single to the album. The 50th anniversary edition restores the original tracklist, though being a remix it does also make the songs sound different.
One should never read critics reviews before listening to an album for the first time. No matter how unbiased one tries to be, one will be affected by the reviews.
The "McCartney" albums (1, 2, and 3) are, for the most part, underdeveloped songs that Paul has done by playing everything himself. This album especially fits that. Paul's biggest albums are Ram, Band on the Run, Venus and Mars, Tug of War, Flowers in the Dirt, Flaming Pie, and Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. He has plenty of other great albums, too, but these are the top ones. John's are Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, Walls and Bridges, and Double Fantasy. George: All Things Must Pass, Living in the Material World, Thirty Three and 1/3, George Harrison, Cloud Nine, Brainwashed Ringo: Ringo, Goodnight Vienna, Ringo's Rotogravure, Stop and Smell the Roses, Time Takes Time, Vertical Man
@@tbeau6663They really aren’t. Paul often says what he wants to say behind what could be seen as meaningless. Don’t forget John was seeing criticisms of him throughout that album. Now Paul has always denied that but just because he isn’t direct like John, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a message to convey. You just have to be able to read between the lines.
This is the only solo beatles album I've listened to so far, granted it has gotten better the more I listen to it, however the first listen , I was very underwhelmed and its put me off listening to the other albums for a little bit lol
1967 January6 MCCARTNEY The Family Way (soundtrack) 1968 November1 HARRISON Wonderwall Music 1968 November29 LENNON Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins 1969 May9 LENNON Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions 1969 May9 HARRISON Electronic Sound 1969 November7 LENNON Wedding Album 1969 December12 LENNON Live Peace in Toronto 1969 1970 March27 STARR Sentimental Journey *Break-up of the Beatles 1970 April10 1970 April17 MCCARTNEY McCartney 1970 September25 STARR Beaucoups of Blues 1970 November27 HARRISON All Things Must Pass 1970 December11 LENNON John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band 1971 May17 MCCARTNEY Ram 1971 September9 LENNON Imagine 1971 December7 MCCARTNEY Wild Life 1971 December20 HARRISON The Concert for Bangladesh 1972 June12 LENNON Some Time in New York City 1973 April30 MCCARTNEY Red Rose Speedway 1973 May30 HARRISON Living in the Material World 1973 July2 MCCARTNEY Live and Let Die (soundtrack) 1973 November2 STARR Ringo 1973 November16 LENNON Mind Games 1973 December5 MCCARTNEY Band on the Run 1974 October4 LENNON Walls and Bridges 1974 November15 STARR Goodnight Vienna 1974 December9 HARRISON Dark Horse 1975 February21 LENNON Rock 'n' Roll 1975 May27 MCCARTNEY Venus & Mars 1975 September22 HARRISON Extra Texture (Read All About It) 1975 October24 LENNON Shaved Fish COMPILATION SINGLES 1975 November29 STARR Blast from Your Past COMPILATION 1976 March25 MCCARTNEY Wings at the Speed of Sound 1976 September17 STARR Ringo's Rotogravure 1976 November8 HARRISON The Best of George Harrison COMPILATION 1976 November19 HARRISON Thirty Three & 1/3 1976 December10 MCCARTNEY Wings over America 1977 April29 MCCARTNEY Thrillington 1977 September20 STARR Ringo the 4th 1977 December9 STARR Scouse the Mouse 1978 March31 MCCARTNEY London Town 1978 April21 STARR Bad Boy 1979 February20 HARRISON George Harrison 1979 June8 MCCARTNEY Back to the Egg 1980 May16 MCCARTNEY McCartney II 1980 November17 LENNON Double Fantasy +Murder of John Lennon 1980 December8
Sorry, but you seem to miss the point in this album which is the musicality. You should listen to it focusing on that and I'm sure that after the second listening this album will grow on you. I'm an avid solo Beatles discography fan and a huge McCartney fan in general, and I still consider this LP my favourite solo Beatles album. Paul desidered to dare and to expose himself with the best weapon he has: His musicality. This album is, in his very personal way, as self-confessing as Plastic Ono Band and as revealing as All Things Must Pass, and in the proceeding invented almost an entire genre by itself, lo-fi. People in the 90s were looking up to this album a lot!
its still much weaker than Johns first and Georges first in every way. Interesting in an indie sense yes. Three absolutely great songs, the rest very mid.
Critics really let Paul have it for this one. They mostly didn't like anything pre-Band on the Run. Ram was unfairly bashed but Wings Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway were worse than McCartney because at least this one never professed to be anything more than a homemade, humble collection of ditties. Those two were supposed to be pro studio efforts and they really were disappointments. This one certainly pleased those who already found Paul the tritest of them and it wasn't helped when John ripped off two superb albums in the wake of the breakup while George put out one of his own. There's maybe 4 songs here that were good enough for a Beatles album (and one of those- "Junk"- was a White Album leftover). "Teddy Boy" was also a Get Back session reject that made "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" look like Mozart. That's less than two years after he laid down so many unbelievable tracks for The White Album, Get Back/Let It Be and Abbey Road. Plus he was big on arranging and production but then did a very rough, lo-fi sort of one-man band as this LP. A weird, inauspicious debut that sounded more like a string of half-baked demos. But it's tough to be at the top of your game going from writing to impress/top what John and George were putting out to just pleasing the rather non-musical Linda. Craziest part is he put it out a month ahead of Let It Be with a press release stating he was done with the Beatles. Should've just done it with a single of "Maybe I'm Amazed" b/w "Every Night."
Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway are both better than McCartney. Actual songs and producted, some thing strings and orchestra, still with the homemade influence..
Completely disagree about Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway. Both good albums to start a major creative run for McCartney where he completely outshone the other 3.
Can’t disagree about Wild Life but strongly disagree that it’s better than Red Rose Speedway. After giving it enough time to click, I’d go so far as to say that’s a fantastic album. Good comment though, Every Night is my personal favourite off the album.
So when you say the most acclaimed ones what do you mean? I guess to give what my ideal lineup would be for reactions it would be Mccartney 1, 2, 3 Ram Tug Of War Chaos and Creation Memory Almost Full Maybe New and Flaming Pie? I guess that doesn't include Wings which I'm pretty unfamiliar with besides Band on the Run
As a Beatlemaniac, I consider this album as an album full of shit. One of his worst. A single only with "Maybe I'm Amazed' on side one would have been largely enough. I know that Macca fans will always find excuses for praising this album. And i bought it on vinyl back in the day, then on CD, then his lasted remastered version hoping to find the light. It never happened. In fact, 'Maybe I'm Amazed" (one of his best songs) is the oasis in the middle of a desert of creativity, Self-indulgence at his peak..
Or maybe other people have different tastes. I've heard that it's actually possible for different people to like different things. I personally love the album even though I don't really care for Maybe I'm Amazed. Junk is one of McCartney's most incredible melodies, there are lots of cool little creative moments and the whole folky minimalist vibe of the album is great. People hated the album because they assumed McCartney would release something like Abbey Road when he just wanted to make a humble home record. It's great that the album and McCartney's whole solo career during the 70s and early 80s has been reevaluated in recent years. Are his albums as good as the Beatles albums? No but neither are John's or George's solo records, as good as some of them are.
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That album cover was often referred to as "A Bowl Of Cherries". The back cover was a pic of Paul with his infant daughter inside his coat, the track listings and "McCartney" is big letters. My favorite songs on this album are "Every Night", "Junk" and "Maybe I'm Amazed". The latter was performed live a lot and the rest of the album was ignored.
The * must listen * McCartney albums are:
- Ram
- Band on the Run
- Tug of War
- Flowers in the Dirt
- Flaming Pie
- Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
i would switch flowers in the dirt with venus and mars, much better, production is perfect
you have to remember many songs in the early years of their solo work were Beatles demo tracks or written at least during their 1968-70 era.
Great that you are doing this series, keep it up. This album and McCartney 2 and 3 (and another called electric arguments with The fireman) are all experimental type albums.
McCartney 2 is more an electronic sounding album!!
He gets back to Beatle quality with Ram and Band on the run.
I love this album. My sister bought it when it was new. No reading wiki facts before listening. No Rolling Stone review before listening. We thought it was great then. I think it is great now.
All Things Must Pass is my favorite Beatles Solo album, personally.
Too long. Compressed Spector sounds didn't do it favors. My Sweet Lord
@@stevekaspar1396 That’s fair. I’m no fan of Spector. I meant more in regard to the songwriting than the mixing and production. Song for song, All Things Must Pass is my favorite solo album.
@@stevekaspar1396 "Wah-Wah" was the ultimate Phil Spector "Wall Of Sound" production.
Should've been a 4 track EP
Agreed.
If you will try Plastic Ono Band, you should listen the Ultimate Mixes ❤
for sure! the ultimate remix greatly improved Lennon's songs.
and the first tunes of disc two, the singles Give Peace A Chance, Cold Turkey and Instant Karma
I've always thought this album was more of a miss than a hit. Paul made 3 studio albums that are actually up to the super high standards he himself set: "Ram" (1971), "Band On The Run" (1973) and "Venus And Mars" (1975). Also, consider the awesome live album "Wings Over America" (1976) which includes excellent versions of his best 70's songs not on the above named albums.
If you want to get deep in the weeds, listen to the cover album he did of his second album, Ram. He used the name Thrillington.
and now:Plastic Ono Band👍
We were just trying to get you to listen to the most recent mixes of the albums. Especially because you are wearing headphones. The stereo mixing techniques were poorly understood in the mid 60s, so everything up till white album kinda sounded bad in headphones. Then by abbey road they had figured out how to property Mix stereo and it sounded good in headphones. Gone was the weird panning and drum/bass in one ear and everything else in the other ear. Just always go with the super deluxe mixes. Giles Martin took all the stems from the original master tapes and rearranged them as a modern engineer would do when balancing everything out. Now we can hear the bass through the mush, and little guitar licks we couldn’t hear in the non- super deluxe versions.
He liberally said it was the only one available on that streaming platform
@@jadebel7006 it’s so easy to find them in other places online. It would take him 5 min of searching to find them elsewhere. Oh well. It’s his loss.
@@jadebel7006for McCartney its the only one on spotify but its the archive remaster so its good.
To understand where this album was coming from, you probably need to listen to John's first three "experimental" albums, which were released while The Beatles were still together. But there would be no other reason to listen to those. This album is way better and certainly more listenable. When he was making it - certainly when he _began_ making it, Paul probably thought The Beatles would get back together. Indeed, I Me Mine was recorded by George, Paul, and Ringo in January 1970, in the middle of Paul recording this. As a little side project, the album works fine, but unfortunately it ended up being Paul's first statement as a solo artist, and it confused a lot of people. All that said, while I'm not that keen on Teddy Boy, I do really like the album - it's a grower.
The McCartney album is what it is. He’s in a bad place and basically saying “fuck you” to the other three and I suspect he would have put out anything at that point. 2 of the songs were rejected during the White Album sessions, which I imagine was also part of the “fuck you all” narrative. He got his act well and truly together for his next album, RAM.
By the way, I’d actually encourage you to listen to all the albums they made whilst John was alive. It won’t take you forever. Post-murder you can be a bit more discerning but I think it’s a good idea so you can accurately compare their output, which only Paul was able to maintain throughout the decade.
When considering other post Beatles albums, may I suggest: George: "Cloud Nine" (1988) and "All Things Must Pass" (1970) which is probably the best of all post Beatles albums. Ringo: "Ringo" (1973). John: "Plastic Ono Band" (1970) which is intense and raw, "Imagine" (1971) and "Walls And Bridges" (1974). There are more good albums from each of them, but the 6 listed above are excellent.
Agree with that list, Add Material World from GH
I think "Ram" and "Tug Of War" are up there too.
@@autistickakarot "Ram", "Band On The Run", "Venus And Mars" and "Wings Over America" were mentioned in a separate comment.
@@dcfan2020 Oh, okay, I did not see that.
Cherries. "life is a bowl of cherries".
This album was a bit disappointing to me when I first heard it too. I agree with your opinion on it, though I do relisten every once in a while.
Some important info on All Things Must Pass: the 2014 remaster is a remaster of the 2001 re-release, which had a different tracklist. One of the songs had two versions, and that version removed one of them, changed the placement of some later tracks to appear earlier on the album, and added a non-album single to the album. The 50th anniversary edition restores the original tracklist, though being a remix it does also make the songs sound different.
One should never read critics reviews before listening to an album for the first time. No matter how unbiased one tries to be, one will be affected by the reviews.
Also, one should never read the lyrics to songs before knowing the songs BY EAR.
@@Anthony-hu3rj Also, never see the video on first listen.
Which is exactly what happened with RAM, which is now considered an absolute classic.
The "McCartney" albums (1, 2, and 3) are, for the most part, underdeveloped songs that Paul has done by playing everything himself. This album especially fits that.
Paul's biggest albums are Ram, Band on the Run, Venus and Mars, Tug of War, Flowers in the Dirt, Flaming Pie, and Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. He has plenty of other great albums, too, but these are the top ones.
John's are Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, Walls and Bridges, and Double Fantasy.
George: All Things Must Pass, Living in the Material World, Thirty Three and 1/3, George Harrison, Cloud Nine, Brainwashed
Ringo: Ringo, Goodnight Vienna, Ringo's Rotogravure, Stop and Smell the Roses, Time Takes Time, Vertical Man
...but every one of those have weak tracks
@@tbeau6663 well yeah, no album is perfect
RAM is McCartney’s best. It’s like Abbey Road level good.
RAM is a good production but most of the songs are meaningless drivel
no
@@tbeau6663You didn’t listen to the lyrics then. All of the songs are saying something and are meaningful except for maybe Monkberry and Uncle Albert
@@tbeau6663They really aren’t. Paul often says what he wants to say behind what could be seen as meaningless. Don’t forget John was seeing criticisms of him throughout that album. Now Paul has always denied that but just because he isn’t direct like John, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a message to convey. You just have to be able to read between the lines.
This is the only solo beatles album I've listened to so far, granted it has gotten better the more I listen to it, however the first listen , I was very underwhelmed and its put me off listening to the other albums for a little bit lol
Try Ram, his second album.
you won’t be underwhelmed with John and Georges first solo album(s), much more finished and produced
@@ricardo_miguel13 I assume you're not talking about Two Virgins and Electronic Music.
@@smashstuff86 nope haha. I am neither talking about Family Way by Paul
1967 January6 MCCARTNEY The Family Way (soundtrack)
1968 November1 HARRISON Wonderwall Music
1968 November29 LENNON Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins
1969 May9 LENNON Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions
1969 May9 HARRISON Electronic Sound
1969 November7 LENNON Wedding Album
1969 December12 LENNON Live Peace in Toronto 1969
1970 March27 STARR Sentimental Journey
*Break-up of the Beatles 1970 April10
1970 April17 MCCARTNEY McCartney
1970 September25 STARR Beaucoups of Blues
1970 November27 HARRISON All Things Must Pass
1970 December11 LENNON John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
1971 May17 MCCARTNEY Ram
1971 September9 LENNON Imagine
1971 December7 MCCARTNEY Wild Life
1971 December20 HARRISON The Concert for Bangladesh
1972 June12 LENNON Some Time in New York City
1973 April30 MCCARTNEY Red Rose Speedway
1973 May30 HARRISON Living in the Material World
1973 July2 MCCARTNEY Live and Let Die (soundtrack)
1973 November2 STARR Ringo
1973 November16 LENNON Mind Games
1973 December5 MCCARTNEY Band on the Run
1974 October4 LENNON Walls and Bridges
1974 November15 STARR Goodnight Vienna
1974 December9 HARRISON Dark Horse
1975 February21 LENNON Rock 'n' Roll
1975 May27 MCCARTNEY Venus & Mars
1975 September22 HARRISON Extra Texture (Read All About It)
1975 October24 LENNON Shaved Fish COMPILATION SINGLES
1975 November29 STARR Blast from Your Past COMPILATION
1976 March25 MCCARTNEY Wings at the Speed of Sound
1976 September17 STARR Ringo's Rotogravure
1976 November8 HARRISON The Best of George Harrison COMPILATION
1976 November19 HARRISON Thirty Three & 1/3
1976 December10 MCCARTNEY Wings over America
1977 April29 MCCARTNEY Thrillington
1977 September20 STARR Ringo the 4th
1977 December9 STARR Scouse the Mouse
1978 March31 MCCARTNEY London Town
1978 April21 STARR Bad Boy
1979 February20 HARRISON George Harrison
1979 June8 MCCARTNEY Back to the Egg
1980 May16 MCCARTNEY McCartney II
1980 November17 LENNON Double Fantasy
+Murder of John Lennon 1980 December8
Then? You really don't consider anything that came up after Lennon's assassination?
Yay!!!!!!!!
Sorry, but you seem to miss the point in this album which is the musicality.
You should listen to it focusing on that and I'm sure that after the second listening this album will grow on you.
I'm an avid solo Beatles discography fan and a huge McCartney fan in general, and I still consider this LP my favourite solo Beatles album.
Paul desidered to dare and to expose himself with the best weapon he has: His musicality.
This album is, in his very personal way, as self-confessing as Plastic Ono Band and as revealing as All Things Must Pass, and in the proceeding invented almost an entire genre by itself, lo-fi.
People in the 90s were looking up to this album a lot!
its still much weaker than Johns first and Georges first in every way. Interesting in an indie sense yes. Three absolutely great songs, the rest very mid.
@@ricardo_miguel13 That's your opinion, and that's ok. But I still stand by my opinion
he did all the intruments on this album
Critics really let Paul have it for this one. They mostly didn't like anything pre-Band on the Run. Ram was unfairly bashed but Wings Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway were worse than McCartney because at least this one never professed to be anything more than a homemade, humble collection of ditties. Those two were supposed to be pro studio efforts and they really were disappointments. This one certainly pleased those who already found Paul the tritest of them and it wasn't helped when John ripped off two superb albums in the wake of the breakup while George put out one of his own. There's maybe 4 songs here that were good enough for a Beatles album (and one of those- "Junk"- was a White Album leftover). "Teddy Boy" was also a Get Back session reject that made "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" look like Mozart. That's less than two years after he laid down so many unbelievable tracks for The White Album, Get Back/Let It Be and Abbey Road. Plus he was big on arranging and production but then did a very rough, lo-fi sort of one-man band as this LP. A weird, inauspicious debut that sounded more like a string of half-baked demos. But it's tough to be at the top of your game going from writing to impress/top what John and George were putting out to just pleasing the rather non-musical Linda. Craziest part is he put it out a month ahead of Let It Be with a press release stating he was done with the Beatles. Should've just done it with a single of "Maybe I'm Amazed" b/w "Every Night."
Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway are both better than McCartney. Actual songs and producted, some thing strings and orchestra, still with the homemade influence..
Completely disagree about Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway. Both good albums to start a major creative run for McCartney where he completely outshone the other 3.
Can’t disagree about Wild Life but strongly disagree that it’s better than Red Rose Speedway.
After giving it enough time to click, I’d go so far as to say that’s a fantastic album.
Good comment though, Every Night is my personal favourite off the album.
So when you say the most acclaimed ones what do you mean? I guess to give what my ideal lineup would be for reactions it would be
Mccartney 1, 2, 3
Ram
Tug Of War
Chaos and Creation
Memory Almost Full
Maybe New and Flaming Pie?
I guess that doesn't include Wings which I'm pretty unfamiliar with besides Band on the Run
it surely will include wings..
So that means also Band On The Run, Venus And Mars for sure and maybe a third like Red Rose Speedway or London Town.
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As a Beatlemaniac, I consider this album as an album full of shit. One of his worst. A single only with "Maybe I'm Amazed' on side one would have been largely enough. I know that Macca fans will always find excuses for praising this album. And i bought it on vinyl back in the day, then on CD, then his lasted remastered version hoping to find the light. It never happened. In fact, 'Maybe I'm Amazed" (one of his best songs) is the oasis in the middle of a desert of creativity, Self-indulgence at his peak..
Or maybe other people have different tastes. I've heard that it's actually possible for different people to like different things. I personally love the album even though I don't really care for Maybe I'm Amazed. Junk is one of McCartney's most incredible melodies, there are lots of cool little creative moments and the whole folky minimalist vibe of the album is great. People hated the album because they assumed McCartney would release something like Abbey Road when he just wanted to make a humble home record. It's great that the album and McCartney's whole solo career during the 70s and early 80s has been reevaluated in recent years. Are his albums as good as the Beatles albums? No but neither are John's or George's solo records, as good as some of them are.
Oh please,
you have to remember many songs in the early years of their solo work were Beatles demo tracks or written at least during their 1968-70 era.