I pretty much liked most of Queen’s stuff but I thought all Freddie’s solo stuff was poor.

 

Likewise with Mick Jagger, good in the Stones but as a solo artist. :(

 

What members of bands that went solo, dissapointed you?

ive never liked stings or paul wellers solo material...

I have to agree with Brian in that I was never very keen on Freddie Mercury's solo stuff, but will disagree with Rob in that I personally think Paul Weller has produced some terrific stuff since he went solo. Albums like Wild Wood, Stanley Road. I've seen him live many times and he's improved with age!

Sting is an obvious one. I would add Ozzy here.

Freddie easily - Hard to believe the same guy that bought us Tie Your Mother Down, Liar, We Are The Champions etc bought out such drivel as Barcelona, Living On My Own and Great Pretender

 

Sting is an obvious one. I would add Ozzy here.

 

Depends what you class as "Solo" in terms of Ozzy

 

Would you consider Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard Of Oz to be solo work with a backing band or would you describe as a band project ? for me I preferred the stuff he did with Randy Rhoads to his Sabbath work so if that is counted as "solo" no way can I put Ozzy on that list

I will probably get flamed for this but I will throw into the ring

 

Paul McCartney - While I was never a fan of the Beatles stuff till White Album and Sgt Pepper and I liked Wings I lost a lot of respect for him over Mull Of Kintytre (awful awful record :( ) Frog Chorus (a crime against humanity) and c**p like Pipes of Peace

 

I hated the majority of solo John Lennon stuff too

Sabbath were waaaay better than anything Ozzy produced afterwards.

Definately DUSTBIN TIMBERLAKE

c**p since the split of 'N Sync

 

Another one has to be Gwen Stefani. Brilliant with No Doubt. Don't like any of her solo stuff

I also agree about Paul Weller and Sting

Edited July 24, 200816 yr by Euro Music

I will probably get flamed for this but I will throw into the ring

 

Paul McCartney - While I was never a fan of the Beatles stuff till White Album and Sgt Pepper and I liked Wings I lost a lot of respect for him over Mull Of Kintytre (awful awful record :( ) Frog Chorus (a crime against humanity) and c**p like Pipes of Peace

 

Not by me you wont... Post-Beatles McCartney is pretty pish-poor IMO..... Lennon fares a bit better, but that's really only by virtue of the fact that he died in 1980.... I reckon solo Lennon would've just gone downhill more and more as time went on....

 

Eric Clapton... Cream were fantastic, but on his own.....Not so great.... Gary Moore's (Thin Lizzy) solo stuff wasn't that hot either... Black Francis/Frank Black (Pixies) solo stuff was rather hit-and-miss too....

 

Sabbath were waaaay better than anything Ozzy produced afterwards.

 

I'd agree with that up to a point... Ozzy's stuff with Randy Rhodes is really quite superb though, "Mr Crowley" is as good a tune as anything he did with Sabbath IMO... After Randy, it gets a bit hit and miss though, I'd agree... For every "No More Tears" there's about two or three "Dreamer".... Nowadays, he's just plain embarrassing....

I thought Sting's mid to late 80s solo stuff was fine, especially The Dream Of The Blue Turtles from 1985. However, I bought Soul Cages in 1991 and was disappointed by it. I think there's only the Fields Of Gold single since then that I've liked.

 

I'm a big Paul Weller fan and, his later Style Council releases, from mid 1985 onwards to his early solo material (1991 to 1992) aside, I've liked much of what he has done.

 

I don't think Freddie Mercury really took his solo career seriously, it was more or less a little diversion for him away from Queen. At least I don't think he took it seriously...

 

My one big disappointment is John Lennon. There's only two songs by him that I like - Imagine and No. 9 Dream. I've not heard any album tracks, just the singles, but on the whole they just disappoint. I didn't like Starting Over when he was still alive and didn't change my mind when he died either, it's a rather insipid track, as is Woman, although the latter is slightly better. I preferred McCartney's Wings material, up to the abomination that was Mull Of Kintyre. After that, he just lost his way.

 

I think that Morrissey has been somewhat of a disappointment since the break up of The Smiths. One or two decentish singles doesn't make for the hero worship that he still seems to get. Again, I haven't heard much of his album material (I only own You Are the Quarry).

I think that Morrissey has been somewhat of a disappointment since the break up of The Smiths. One or two decentish singles doesn't make for the hero worship that he still seems to get. Again, I haven't heard much of his album material (I only own You Are the Quarry).

 

Then, I have to ask you, how can you possibly judge an artist who's done something like TEN solo albums..... I wont pretend to have liked everything that they guy has done, but when you look at his whole career, well, frankly, you have an artist with an incredibly formidable body of work that about 99.9999999% of artists out there would quite literally KILL to have.... His status as one of UK's music greats is fukkin' absolutely earned and the fact that he's still without a Lifetime Achievement award is frankly fukkin' disgraceful..... To somehow imply that the bloke is a "disappointing" solo artist when it's based on the ownership of one album is a joke tbh, and it shows your lack of knowledge of the man's work.....

 

I will probably get flamed for this but I will throw into the ring

 

Paul McCartney - While I was never a fan of the Beatles stuff till White Album and Sgt Pepper and I liked Wings I lost a lot of respect for him over Mull Of Kintytre (awful awful record :( ) Frog Chorus (a crime against humanity) and c**p like Pipes of Peace

 

I hated the majority of solo John Lennon stuff too

 

actually, paul mc cartney WAS mentioned but the posts have disappeared... someone noninated him and i replied agreeing... his worst imho was 'figure of eight'.

 

oh it wasnt on this thread :) see 'artists that should have quite whilst ahead'...

Definately DUSTBIN TIMBERLAKE

c**p since the split of 'N Sync

 

couldnt DISAGREE more.... i hated n sync but have been pleasantly surprised by jt's solo material. 'cry me a river' was very good.

..... Lennon fares a bit better, but that's really only by virtue of the fact that he died in 1980.... I reckon solo Lennon would've just gone downhill more and more as time went on....

 

definately... the rot was setting in ... 'woman' was so bloody bland , think he was just getting old.

Then, I have to ask you, how can you possibly judge an artist who's done something like TEN solo albums..... I wont pretend to have liked everything that they guy has done, but when you look at his whole career, well, frankly, you have an artist with an incredibly formidable body of work that about 99.9999999% of artists out there would quite literally KILL to have.... His status as one of UK's music greats is fukkin' absolutely earned and the fact that he's still without a Lifetime Achievement award is frankly fukkin' disgraceful..... To somehow imply that the bloke is a "disappointing" solo artist when it's based on the ownership of one album is a joke tbh, and it shows your lack of knowledge of the man's work.....

fair enough, but i was just going by the singles.

 

definately... the rot was setting in ... 'woman' was so bloody bland , think he was just getting old.

 

I liked very little of Lennon's solo work, even Imagine for me is one of the most grossly overated songs of all time, really have no idea why it has the status that it has

 

George Harrison for me is the only Beatle who I have loved as a solo artist

Edited July 24, 200816 yr by Tim Barnes

I liked very little of Lennon's solo work, even Imagine for me is one of the most grossly overated songs of all time, really have no idea why it has the status that it has

 

George Harrison for me is the only Beatle who I have loved as a solo artist

 

imagine is a classic, though its now ott cheese.. it was pertainent at the time, a good simple message of peace..

I liked very little of Lennon's solo work, even Imagine for me is one of the most grossly overated songs of all time, really have no idea why it has the status that it has

 

George Harrison for me is the only Beatle who I have loved as a solo artist

 

To be honest if you tried to come up with a combined Double CD Best of the former Beatles solo careers, then it would not come close to the Beatles "Red" & "Blue" Best of compilations.

 

As I said in the other similar thread John's career was as good as over after the Imagine album. If you really do want to listen to an awful album then pick up his follow up 1972's Some Time In New York City it is appalling. Whilst his death merely saved him from writing a song as bad as Paul's "Biker Like An Icon".

 

George's All Things Must Pass is a fantastic album, unfortunately it was IMHO fairly slim pickings thereafter. Recording wise the musicianship on the rest of his albums was never nothing less than good, but too many of his songs were too much of a muchness alike to stand out from each other.

 

Paul's post Beatles career was probably the most interesting because his confidence/ego was no longer being reigned in which meant the quality control went a bit hay-wire, and therefore the albums were frequently interesting musically but very erratic/frustrating. Although Band On The Run is a damn fine album (probably like McCartney I & the most recent Memory Almost Full were recorded at a time of personal crisis, which always seems to bring the best out of Macca when he has something to prove). But after the likes of Junior's Farm he too went into a lengthy decline, and once Wings split after his refusal to tour after the murder of John, then he joined the likes of Rod Stewart, David Bowie, Neil Young, Bob Dylan in a decade long slump making Phil Collins/Lionel Richie-esque Adult Contemporary records, before the relative Bowie, Dylan, Springsteen semi-revival over the last couple of albums.

 

Whilst Ringo is err just Ringo bless him. His recent Best of is all/more than enough what you need of his back catalogue.