Post-Beatles

Ram is absolutely essential.

>>71719880
McCartney
Ram
Wild Life
Band on the Run
London Town
Back To The Egg
McCartney II

>>71719902
Seconding this. It's the best post-Beatles album without real contest.

>>71719880
>paul
>mediocre
you'll get over your "john is better" phase soon enough

>>71720605
Then after your 'Paul is actually pretty good' phase you'll discover Harrison, and find that he's the best out of the 4

>>71719880
Okay so.

Ram is unironically probably the best of all solo works. It's avant-garde pop with biting sardonism towards Lennon (the back cover has a fucking picture of one beetle humping another, I mean come on)

Plastic is the best John release, Imagine is good for a few songs but ultimately mediocre

All Things Must Pass would probably have been perfect if Spector hadn't produced it. As it is, it's like five hours long and every song sounds the same. George was underrated, but he's not the savior of the band that >>71722288 thinks he is. I went through that phase too

And ringo played on a lot of their albums. "Photograph" is a really good song (it's also half-George)

As far as more recent stuff, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard was Paul's "Sea Change" (produced by Nigel and everything). It's good, but also meh. I heard his one from a few years ago was good

>>71720605
OP here, I don't think that; I feel as if they couldn't work alone

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.

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>>71719880
Ringo's early singles are essential.

>>71723495
Funny AND original!!