Dennis Wilson v. George Harrison

the 'oh shit that guy can write songs too' of their respective bands.

solo debut albums had similar origins and are the same sorta minor classic.

+ they have the same beard and look on their face on the covers.

oops this was gonna be a poll. oh well.

love ATMP but dennis all the way

Both are the "oh shit that guy who can't sing" from their respective bands.

let me remind you of the members of the beatles:
paul
john
george
RINGO

lol new order fan

love ATMP but dennis all the way

yes.

solo debut albums had similar origins and are the same sorta minor classic.

Uh on what planet is All Things Must Pass a MINOR classic?

lol

love both, this is a tough choice for me

this might be more fair if we pretend like george harrison died in a tragic accident right after ATMP

Uh on what planet is All Things Must Pass a MINOR classic?

the planet where it has like 10 good songs and 500 filler songs

both also involved in some great movies (Life of Brian/Time Bandits vs. Two Lane Blacktop)

Is that also the planet where a triple LP went to #1 for like 10 weeks, and where everybody in the world knows at least one song from it, but like 99% of people couldn't even name a Dennis Wilson song if you asked them?

I don't care, you win, it's as major classic

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love when celebrate the news comes on my iPod, massive song

shoulda been an album track

George Harrison solo career rehab is one of the loudest laughs of the last twenty years. His career is worth a few jewels and his Wilburys collab.

I listened to the Dennis Wilson album a couple of years and couldn't believe that twaddle was compared to Rumours. Fleetwood Mac did a lot more drugs collectively and individually than Wilson ever did, and those guys always sang in tune.

couldn't believe that twaddle was compared to Rumours.

would rather listen to POB than Rumours any day of the week, sorry. do not get ILM's love of the Mac.

u see right thru the hype
xpost

wilson vs. mac doesn't seem like a fair or decent fight, and neither does this one.

anyway I like dennis wilson but harrison wins this even though about half his catalogue is awful

http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/george-wilson.jpg vs http://grfx.cstv.com/schools/vand/graphics/auto/Harison2-250x287.jpg

wilson vs. mac doesn't seem like a fair or decent fight, and neither does this one.

A couple of reviews included Pacific Ocean Blue as one of the best seventies studio-rock albums, which I'd accept if Wilson was actually awake while singing into the mic.

do not get the mac either, or why it matters if someone sings 'in tune.'

uh, george. i love dennis but he doesn't touch a beatle.

if you don't get why people like fleetwood mac i just don't know what to say, go get TUSK

do not get the mac either, or why it matters if someone sings 'in tune.'

If you're a punk band, no; if you believe in studio-rock, yes.

I don't know what's not to "get" about Fleetwood Mac: they recorded tough, blues-based pop songs, sung by three very different singers. It's an unfair polarity, but naturally Dennis Wilson would lose.

Dennis Wilson provided the odd song, but few of them are really among my favourites.
Harrison, on the other hand, was responsible for gems such as "Something", "Here Comes The Sun", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Taxman", "I Want To Tell You", "You Like Me Too Much", "If I Needed Someone", "I Need You", "Within You Without You", "Long Long", "Only a Northern Song" "Love You To", "I Me Mine", "Piggies"... No, this is Harrison all the way. Lots of great solo albums too, whereas Dennis Wilson didn't really release more than one (although that one was good) solo album. So Harrison way ahead in terms of peaks and being much more profilic as well.

C'mon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLdexlhbR4M

tough, blues-based pop songs
yeah if you're talking about the peter green/danny kirwan version

half of you oughta get banned from NB imo

'forever' vs. 'something'

I like "Forever" but it does seem a bit cloying, especially compared to "Something," which I hear as a real stately sort of ballad. Plus the "you're asking me..." bridge is performed with a real emotional charge. In fact, the entire arrangement and performance is brilliant, especially Paul's bass. I never really thought much of the production on "Forever."

ColinO, No

haha

George Harrison is disqualified for the entire Cloud Nine album.

That's the only solo album I can relisten to with pleasure!

Cloud Nine has at least three or four songs on it that are better than pretty much the entirety of Gone Troppo and Somewhere in England combined. I don't hold the Jeff Lynne production against it, because, you know, that's just what people were doing those days. But "Breath Away From Heaven," "Just For Today," "Wreck Of The Hesperus," "Cloud Nine," "Fish On The Sand" and "This Is Love" are all fantastic.