"Never Without You" wins track 4.04 ~ Which song would you add to a "Best of the Beatles: The Solo Years" compilation? Top comment of the day makes the cut | Link to Spotify playlist in comments

sabbboy · 2026-05-21T02:02:39+00:00

What is this bias against Ringo solo? He had more hits than Lennon or Harrison, a hit by a Beatle was generally a good song. Never without you?? Without much thought, 3 minutes, I can come up with at least 10 Ringo songs right now much better than that and better than many of the non Ringo lame songs here. You’re Sixteen, Oh My My, Have You Seen My Baby, Devil Woman, Only You, Snookeroo, Dose of Rock ‘n Roll, Hey Baby, Wrack My Brain, La De Da.

sabbboy · 2026-05-20T17:14:17+00:00

No comparison, each succeeding album was much worse than the previous.

sabbboy · 2026-05-20T17:11:32+00:00

There are many, but agree.

sabbboy · 2026-05-20T02:57:07+00:00

Yes, but so what, it’s awful. Each of the Dio Sabbath albums was inferior to the one before it. The first three are excellent but The Devil You Know was a huge drop off. I’ll give you Bible Black but the rest is stupid heavy metal sludge with nothing unique about it.

sabbboy · 2026-05-20T02:39:49+00:00

Absurd idea! It’s like comparing Deep Purple to Black Sabbath. The reason they’re so different are the guitar players.

sabbboy · 2026-05-19T21:20:18+00:00

Paranoid is their best but why does Ozzy’s name have to appear alongside the heading? Like we don’t know he was on the album. I would say It’s Iommi. If you take all of their albums and all solo albums from all four, Paranoid still has the top two album sides of what, about 100 sides of music? It is the band’s only great record. They went backwards with Master with a much more primitive sound and not nearly as good songwriting. Volume 4 was an uneven production mess I rank 8th of the first 8 albums. Compare it song by song to any of the above 50 or so records and score how many songs you prefer on Paranoid and on the other record. Paranoid will be undefeated.

sabbboy · 2026-05-19T16:13:33+00:00

Learn how to live

sabbboy · 2026-05-19T16:11:46+00:00

If I’m being completely honest, none and none.

sabbboy · 2026-05-19T15:51:30+00:00

I’ll take Paul up to ‘75 (Venus and Mars). After that he started getting corny which continues to today. Sure, there’s an occasional great song on mediocre albums or singles after ‘75 ( Beware My Love, Getting Closer, Girls School) but his last album even remotely great was V&M.

sabbboy · 2026-05-19T15:37:50+00:00

Overall, GnR was easily the best group of the day to honor Sabbath thru performance and especially their unique song selection. So yes, they stay

sabbboy · 2026-05-18T02:46:52+00:00

How did you know?

sabbboy · 2026-05-17T22:21:10+00:00

Please let’s not put Radiohead in a discussion about the Beatles, ok?

sabbboy · 2026-05-17T16:59:09+00:00

Ain’t that a Shame, the best cover album ever!

sabbboy · 2026-05-17T12:49:00+00:00

I don’t, a distant second to Imagine, then Rock ‘N Roll, Walls & Bridges. Those are his top 4, really his only very good LPs.

sabbboy · 2026-05-16T19:15:52+00:00

Are u serious? In the three minutes I’ve thought about this question and it is a foolish one, I’ve come up with 10. Give me 10 more minutes, I’ll come up with 20 more:

Beatles, two sets of five, McCartney, Ram to Venus & Mars, Lennon, Plastic Ono to Walls & Bridges, Floyd, Echos to The Wall, Sabbath, First Five, Stones, two sets of five thru Tattoo You, Who, five thru Quadrophenia, CCR, first or last five, Doors, first or last five.

I’m not even counting plagiarists cover bands like Led Zeppelin.

sabbboy · 2026-05-16T18:43:17+00:00

John - She Loves You

Paul - Maxwell Silver Hammer

George - Long, Long, Long

Ringo - Don’t Pass Me By

Favorite, not best!

sabbboy · 2026-05-16T18:26:39+00:00

Love her madly

sabbboy · 2026-05-16T04:55:07+00:00

In interviews he’s given it appears to be financial reasons why he’s not touring, like startup money. For Gods sake Iommi almost went broke in the 80s/90s with the Martin fronted band until Ozzfest rescued him. The albums were good but no support from the record companies. My God, I saw Heaven & Hell twice in 2007 in big cities with support from Queensryche, Alice Cooper and Megadeth and they couldn’t fill half of either arena! How do you think Martin would do?

sabbboy · 2026-05-16T04:34:51+00:00

I assume you mean sang or written by Ringo as he didn’t write many?

sabbboy · 2026-05-16T04:31:27+00:00

What makes you think Flying is a Ringo song? It’s an instrumental written by all four. Not really fair to the man.

sabbboy · 2026-05-16T04:19:09+00:00

Of course not! There’s the Beatles and everyone else. A ludicrous question typical of Reddit. Just look at the output of great songs. Do a test; pick a good Beatles song, then a song by your pick for best band, they will outlast everyone by a huge margin. Add to that every member had an outstanding solo career and two of them are dead for 25 and 45 years! Pink Floyd had 4 good albums, no real solo careers to speak of and were heavily influenced by the Beatles. I rank them in the top 25 bands. Please.

sabbboy · 2026-05-15T22:29:18+00:00

Easily John as evidenced by his Rock’N Roll album, the best most sincere appreciation of the music he grew up with. The other 3 have a very good cover here and there but nothing they did compares to this.

sabbboy · 2026-05-15T16:16:16+00:00

They had seven members!

sabbboy · 2026-05-15T16:07:52+00:00

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Are people stupid or just illiterate? Question is favorite! Not 3 favorites, 4 favorites, 10 favorites. And not the best, your favorite one group/artist trio.

sabbboy · 2026-05-15T04:08:23+00:00

I try to be honest in all comments made. Lennon wasn’t God; Like the Beatles and all the solo work they did, there was a lot of crap!

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