Really?
― there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages (Jon Lewis), Monday, 4 February 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
lennon is an insane answer
^^^this. his most famous/signature song is not a Beatles tune
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 4 February 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, but that still doesn't excuse the majority of Mind Games and Walls And Bridges...
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 4 February 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
Phil Collins is the really insane answer, not because of the quality of the output but because he's one of the most critically maligned artists I can think of.
― Matt DC, Monday, 4 February 2013 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah he did not get a pass, at all.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 4 February 2013 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
all those people that bought No Jacket Required were really just loyal early Genesis fans dontchaknow
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 4 February 2013 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
Challopy answer ahead:
Ozzy Osbourne. I always think I like those early 80s solo jams, especially the Rhoads ones, more than I actually do. When I hear them, I go all meh. Moving into The Ultimate Sin and beyond, the dude was just living on name recognition alone.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 February 2013 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
Sting is another good example of someone who would qualify for the opposite
― frogbs, Monday, 4 February 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
Alan Vega
― wk, Monday, 4 February 2013 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
iggy was cool up to and including zombie birdhouse (talk about an underrated album, it's so much fun!) and then it was all coasting on name alone. and that's a long time to coast on yer name.
― scott seward, Monday, 4 February 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah sheesh bob mould whenever i've been unlucky enough to hear his solo stuff i have a hard time believing that he was ever a part of something that i loved. and even that love is an old love. i bought candy apple grey when it came out and hated it. and i didn't even listen to flip your wig that much. so, NDR was the last thing i loved. that was a while ago.
― scott seward, Monday, 4 February 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
i think lou reed just got old. and when he got old he got boring. and he's been a solo artist for way longer than he was ever in a band. lots of people only know him as a solo artist. but he has definitely been taken way more seriously for way longer than a lot of people. and often undeservedly. new sensations the last thing i really liked by HIM. and that was long ago for sure.
i'm gonna say nick cave too. in a pretty cool band. got more deadly boring/tedious/lazy with every album and people treat him like an art installation.
― scott seward, Monday, 4 February 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
love New Sensations.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 February 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
wanna be positive and ask: who was once a member of a popular/respected/etc band who made really great solo albums that are underheard/underrated? i guess john cale fans have already spoken here. most people have never heard his solo stuff. in the 70's people listened to him more.
i DO love those early 80's rockabilly alan vega albums. think they're really cool. nobody listens to them.
― scott seward, Monday, 4 February 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
Stewart Copeland's Rumblefish soundtrack comes to mind.
― frogbs, Monday, 4 February 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
Those first three Phil Collins solo albums are still underrated.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 February 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
Nick Cave does do art installations though. heh
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 4 February 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
PAUL MCCARTNEY! Holy shit. That's the best answer to this, and I am astounded that no one has mentioned this.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 4 February 2013 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
wut? I wouldn't call most of McCartney's solo career (at least the first 15-20 years of it) "abysmal" at all.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 February 2013 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
and at their peak Wings fans were too young to know the damn Beatles.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 February 2013 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I don't agree with McCartney whatsoever. The guy was still having BIG hit singles well into the '80s.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 4 February 2013 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
In fact, McCartney is the one "solo Beatle" who I feel doesn't deserve to be in this category.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 4 February 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
Oh hell no. His solo career is full of total crap that no one would be talking about without his Beatles career behind him.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 4 February 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
SIMPLY HAVING A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS TIIIIIIMMEEEEEEE
― Poliopolice, Monday, 4 February 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
I have the two albums John Fogerty did in the '70s, but not the two from the mid-'80s (I know "Centerfield" and a couple of other songs). Not abysmal by any means, but they might count as coasting or getting a pass. Centerfield finished Top 10 in Pazz & Jop, with two double-sided singles in the Top 15. A bit much? "Centerfield" the song is pretty ordinary.
― clemenza, Monday, 4 February 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
His solo catalog is vast enough to contain garbage that's not contingent on Beatlemania.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 February 2013 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
and at their peak Wings fans were too young to know the damn Beatles
Their peak was probably Speed of Sound/Over America...I'm sure they had some really young fans, but just don't think is true at all.
― clemenza, Monday, 4 February 2013 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
If you were the age of the teens in Dazed and Confused listening to "Silly Love Songs" dominate the summer, it was your music in a way The Beatles weren't.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 February 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
That was me: 15 in 1976, a Wings fan. And the Beatles meant a hundred times more.
― clemenza, Monday, 4 February 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
"I've Had Enough" would have sent me scurrying back to my older bro's copy of "Eleanor Rigby" to hear what I missed.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 February 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know enough about The Mars Volta to say "The Mars Volta" but don't even Mars Volta fans old ATDI in higher regard?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 4 February 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
*hold not old
James Jackson Toth
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 4 February 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, February 4, 2013 4:25 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not the nick cave who was in the birthday party...
― 1staethyr, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
wanna be positive and ask: who was once a member of a popular/respected/etc band who made really great solo albums that are underheard/underrated?
Martin Rev. Michael Nesmith.
― wk, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
I said "heh"
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 4 February 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
Johnny Fever otm re Ozzy -- anything after Rhoads is fucking dire, he was just trading on the name.
Chris Cornell belongs here.Euphoria Morning was a fine 'hey guess what I really dig the beatles' album and had a few nice tracks but after that it was just GO THE FUCK AWAY and that billie jean cover should never have been a thing.
Rob Halford - bleh to both Fight and Halford.but I dunno how popular that stuff was or what kind of a pass it got, if any.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 February 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
that billie jean cover
excuse me?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 February 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
159th response hall of fame xpost to AG
― ima go (DJ Mencap), Monday, 4 February 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
What else - Weiland covering "Smooth Criminal"?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 February 2013 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
for better or worse I think The Mars Volta evolved into their own thing
― ima go (DJ Mencap), Monday, 4 February 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
Roger Daltrey's first (Daltrey) is reasonably solid, but also has some of his most amazing vocal moments. I'd listened to the Who for 25 years before I heard Daltrey, and it increased my appreciation of his approach exponentially.
John Entwistle's first two solo records (Smash Your Head Against the Wall and Wistle Rymes) are great, but after that he ran out of ideas. Unfortunately, he still made four more solo records.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, February 4, 2013 5:49 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― clemenza, Monday, February 4, 2013 5:52 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
A good parallel would be Justin Timberlake, no? A lot of the youngs love him, but really don't remember or have purposely forgotten N*Sync as best they could.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
Nothing against 'N Sync, and I know they had a couple of huge albums, but I don't think they quite blanketed the culture the way the Beatles did. The Beatles were still a very immediate presence to me in 1976, and their music was still heard on the radio all the time. (That may have been the year Lorne Michaels made big news with his fake offer to reunite.) Were 'N Sync still a big deal in 2006? Maybe they were, I don't know.
― clemenza, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
Just remembering that the first (of countless) Beatles revivals happened in the mid-'70s. The Red and Blue albums came out in '73, then Rock 'n' Roll Music in '76 (in conjunction with "Got to Get You Into My Life" making it into the Top 10). They were anything but a distant memory.
― clemenza, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
shorter list would be people whose solo careers eclipse their band careers, methinks
neil youngvan morrisonmichael jacksonbrian enopaul simon
+ Peter Hammill
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, February 4, 2013 6:00 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hardy har har. I'll never top The Blood Group I guess. ;)
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
This probably makes your point for you, but what band was Peter Hammill in?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
Van der Graaf Generator
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 4 February 2013 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
xpost in 1976 less time had passed since the last new Beatles album was released than has now since the last Timberlake album.
― President Keyes, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:46 (eleven years ago) link