[Music] The Beatles - The Black Album

[studio150]

There was a programme on Sky Arts a few weeks back, where an album was put together from the Beatles as solo artists to try and give an impression of what a Beatles album would have looked like in 1971/2.

I think it would be better to open this up to all solo material.

Only rules 12 tracks only ( 6 each side)

1. Band on the Run - Paul
2. Mind Games - John
3.My Sweet Lord - George
4. Photograph - Ringo
5. Give me Love (Give me Peace on Earth) - George
6. #9 Dream - John

7. Live and Let Die - Paul
8. It Don't Come Easy - Ringo
9. Whatever Gets You thru the Night - John
10. Hi Hi Hi - Paul
11. Instant Karma - John
12. Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

No 'Give Ireland back to the Irish'?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Essential for any worthy compilation

 

[happypig]

replace the ringo tracks with Jet and Working Class hero.

I love the Beatles but f..k me Ringo was a dreadful singer

 

[Me and my Monkey]

replace the ringo tracks with Jet and Working Class hero.

I love the Beatles but f..k me Ringo was a dreadful singer

He was, but every Beatles album had its token Ringo track.

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

Essential for any worthy compilation

This track was on the juke box in my local boozer. The landlord really disliked it, so needless to say it was putt on quite a lot to drive him nuts.

 

[LlcoolJ]

https://youtu.be/Yrop_GZsp-U

 

[burnee54]

Wot no Imagine?

 

[GT49er]

He was, but every Beatles album had its token Ringo track.

....................................and 'It Don't Come Easy' was a more than decent single.

 

[Anchorman]

There was a programme on Sky Arts a few weeks back, where an album was put together from the Beatles as solo artists to try and give an impression of what a Beatles album would have looked like in 1971/2.

I think it would be better to open this up to all solo material.

Only rules 12 tracks only ( 6 each side)

1. Band on the Run - Paul
2. Mind Games - John
3.My Sweet Lord - George
4. Photograph - Ringo
5. Give me Love (Give me Peace on Earth) - George
6. #9 Dream - John

7. Live and Let Die - Paul
8. It Don't Come Easy - Ringo
9. Whatever Gets You thru the Night - John
10. Hi Hi Hi - Paul
11. Instant Karma - John
12. Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul

Assuming we're sticking to singles, that's pretty good but I'd make two changes to that. Out go Whatever gets you through the night and Hi Hi Hi (preferred the other side C Moon) and in come George's What is Life and Paul's Another Day.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

He was, but every Beatles album had its token Ringo track.

Except A Hard Day's Night and Let It Be. Although legend has it that Ringo came up with the title of the former.

 

[Jam The Man]

I saw that docu and made a fairly extensive iTunes playlist on the back of it.

To narrow it down to a 2 sided six track album is tricky though, but I’d go with:

1. (Just Like) Startin’ Over - John
2. It Don't Come Easy - Ringo
3. Another Day - Paul
4. All Those Years Ago - George
5. #9 Dream
6. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Paul

7. Listen to what the Man said - Paul
8. Imagine - John
9. Back off Boogaloo - Ringo
10. Band on the Run - Paul
11. Watching the Wheels - John
12. When We Was Fab - George

 

[Brightonfan1983]

He was, but every Beatles album had its token Ringo track.

 

[Si Gull]

I'm sorry, but there's only one Black Album.......https://youtu.be/hYJIm914IBo

 

[Willow]

It's a good question, but I think it only works if you stick to the brief and include tracks released in the immediate aftermath of Let It Be.

Would be amazing if they had actually worked on these tracks together, adding their own touches and embellishments to each others songs and highlighting any weak spots. I think the lack of critical comment from each other was detrimental to their solo careers.

1. Instant Karma! - John
2. Another Day - Paul
3. What is Life - George
4. Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul
5. Hot As Sun / Glasses - Paul
6. Awaiting on You All - George

7. Isolation - John
8. Mother - John
9. Art of Dying - George
10. Beaucoups of Blues - Ringo
11. Oh Woman, Oh Why - Paul
12. God - John

 

[AmexRuislip]

GQ interview with Mecca.

Interesting piece with Macca, together with Beatles group activities.

"That is one of the things that intrigues me about a life. I just have a general sort of feeling of: I'm here now talking to you and this is this bit of life, a little while ago I was getting divorced and that was that weird bit of life,7 and before that I was living 30 years and raising a family with Linda,8 that was that bit of life, I'm now married to an American, Nancy,9 lovely girl, that's this bit of life. And so if you keep rolling back, you go through Wings, you go through the Beatles, and then you get back to this wild territory which is youth, when you weren't famous and you could get stopped in the street, or you're in school and you were being abused—not in a sexual way but just in teachers being the mad nutcases they were and having that control over you and you had to go along with it. So there's so much stuff been going on, and then I roll back before that, and I'm a really little kid


https://www.gq.com/story/the-untold-stories-of-paul-mccartney?mbid=social_twitter

 

[DumLum]

I'm sorry, but there's only one Black Album.......https://youtu.be/hYJIm914IBo

Ummmm

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The younger generation would also suggest a Jay z album.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Ummmm

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The younger generation would also suggest a Jay z album.

Those in between might suggest Prince.

 

[schmunk]

 

[Is it PotG?]