1. Ram 2. McCartney 3. All Things Must Pass 4. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band 5. Imagine 6. Band on the Run 7. Chaos and Creation in the Backyard 8. Living in the Material World 9. Ringo 10. Double Fantasy 11. Run Devil Run 12. Cloud Nine 13. Walls and Bridges Yes I love Dear Friend! Good to hear someone else who appreciates that song.

Nice video Mazzy, always love your forays back into the world of The Beatles! Take care Matt Street

All things must pass blew me away and still does. This work will never get old and always something to discover. Amazing, beautiful, first solo Beatles album to reach #1.

My Top 15 Solo Beatles Albums 15. Milk And Honey 14. Double Fantasy 13. Wild Life 12. McCartney 11. Living In The Material World 10. 33 1/3 9. Mind Games 8. Ringo 7. Dark Horse 6. Walls And Bridges 5. Band On The Run 4. Imagine 3. Plastic Ono Band 2. RAM 1. All Things Must Pass

Norman.. I wish I had found your channel when you first opened it. Not only am I a Beatles fan but have been loving rock since I was young. I was born in 1960 so I feel very lucky to have been be born just at the right time for the British explosion along with the other huge American rock that came in the 60's. I greatly appreciate your channel and love this video about the Beatles Solo albums. Thank you very much for putting out the video. Regards from Ody Slim

Congratulations, great channel. I like a lot the way you talk about the bands and albums. I love to the Stones, Dylan and Beatles. Best wishes from México City!

thank you Mazz...i love to hear your perspective. you are 2 years older than I. A couple years and a step or two ahead. much of my collection's based on your artists and selection. it really takes me back to high school, and my 8-tracks, and all the awesome road trips. thank you

This is a very interesting, eclectic choice of discs. I enjoyed your description of why you chose each album. Cheers.

Thanks Mazzy, i appreciate listening to your experiences with these albums, I realized how i've overlooked Wild LIfe, and need to get a copy of that one, it slipped under my radar.

Thank you for highlighting many of the lesser known albums - really interesting! I'm going to download 'Wonderwall', because i've always loved eclectic mixtures of genres. Thank you for getting me interested in that. 'Plastic Ono Band' is phenomenal - personal, passionate and unforgiving in its emotion.

Really enjoyed your review. All Things Must Pass is my favorite album of all time and I have (I think) a fairly large music library (over 11,000 tracks) to base that on. So happy to see how appreciation for George Harrison has grown over the years. Man, the Beatles were special and revolutionary, but I doubt ATMP would have ever been recorded had they stayed together.

Thanks for the great review , You got me thinking about about what I’d choose , and I must start getting some more vinyls:-)

Thanks for your take on your 13 favorite solo Beatles. I really enjoyed how you talk through each one with passion. I listen to Wonderwall very often. It doesn't really grow old. One thing I think is funny, when you held up the back cover of Ram, the beetles screwing became very prominent. It's hilarious!! I think that should have taken up more of the back cover of Ram. Anyway, thank you!!!!

great primer...good to see a little ringo love in there....i always also loved ringo's rotogravure...great album....but you hit the nail on the head with your list....good stuff....be well my friend...peace always...rocky

Well done ! All Things Must Pass is definitely the best post Beatles album.

Very tough to choose. As you said, it's personal. I love Paul McCartney Unplugged which I have on CD, bootleg? Egypt Station Flaming Pie Flowers In The Dirt , which had just come out the year I saw Paul. Snuck behind the stage with my friends unnoticed until he played Can't Buy Me Love. We lost it, Beatlemania. The bouncer tapped us on the shoulders and said follow me ladies!

I really enjoyed this video. I have all of these albums, and all of your choices are very good (and some are better than others). Being born in 1963, I was aware of the Beatles from an early age, but really knew them as active musicians when they were releasing their initial solo albums in the 1970s. I recall getting the new "Ringo" album for my 10th birthday in December 1973, and 8-tracks of "Walls and Bridges" and "Band on the Run" the following Christmas. Those 3 albums in particular will always be big favorites of mine. I remember coveting my older cousin's duo 8-tracks of "All Things Must Pass". I'd probably substitute "Wild Life" and "Electric Arguments" with "Tug of War", "Chaos & Creation in the Backyard.", and/or "Venus & Mars", but I must say that I think quite similar to you per the Lennon & Harrison (and single Ringo) selections. I find it hard to rank things like this in numerical order. Keep up the good work!

Great work, insights, and well considered.

Love the list ! I’ve come to appreciate George’s solo career and I want to dive more into his material, great so far. I am definitely going on a hunt for that ‘Wonderwall Music’ album, looks interesting !

Great video. Love All Things Must Pass. My son at 6 also became a fan.

Большое спасибо за прекрасный и обширный обзор соло альбомов членов группы БИТЛЗ. Я тоже люблю и имею в коллекции все эти виниловые диски. Удачи Вам в коллекционировании хорошей музыки!

I guess All things must pass is definitely up there but I was thrilled to hear your opinion on other solo Beatles albums. Loved the details and I like the way you describe some of the tracks, it’s background to it and how it has held up over the years. But i would place Band on the Run @ No 2 or 3 but it’s a personal choice. Thanks and loved it Mazzy

Love the list Mazzy-some interesting and unexpected picks here for sure, which just makes it all the more fun! I’ve tried getting into Wild Life and it just doesn’t do anything for me. I like some of the tracks just fine but as a whole I just find it somewhat underwhelming. For my list, I’d definitely have Chaos And Creation in the Backyard somewhere on there, I think that might my favorite Paul project just behind RAM. Probably the most unexpected pick that would end up on my list somewhere would be the double album version of Red Rose Speedway that came out in 2018, I find that as a whole to be a really fun listen with a ton of variety and strong songwriting. I’m also a fan of the George Harrison Self-Titled album, I’m not sure if it would’ve cracked my top 10 though.

Back in my hitch hiking days me, a friend and another couple were picked up by German roadies of Wings in Freiburg. Germany Two large vans (not trucks) Crazy fun guys, we slept in one of the empty vans that night. They drove us to the Marseille Airport the next day where they were going to pick up the band (on the run) and the equipement. We stayed a while maybe catch a glimp of Macca, Linda, Denny Laine ... but we decided to catch a train to downtown Marseille. Great times. I was a big Beatles fan had a life size poster of the Fab Four in my room. Should have kept all that stuff. Thanks again. Love your vids. Cheers from Holland.

Nice job. Your top three is spot on in my reckoning.

Love how high you placed Ram. It has aged so well. Still my favorite in his collection post Beatles.

Great rundown Mazzy, pretty sure I watched this at the time you uploaded it but hadn't remembered the list. I recently went to Liverpool and saw the Double Fantasy band live (Earl Slick, Andy Newmark, Tony Levin). They did all the Lennon songs from that album, then a guest vocalist came on and they did Kiss Kiss Kiss.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, new to Bob Dylan and am surprised how much I enjoy his music. Not sure whether or not to buy the 47 CD box set or the 15 CD's you mention. Anyway it is most helpful and appreciated. Some great music you've chosen.

I agree , All Things Must Pass is phenomenal,,, I do find the vocals are muddled in the mix, and I would like to see the anniversary release have more clarity. The first box set for me was also the Donovan “Garden” release,, ( I’m 54 years old) and I think it’s an overlooked classic.

I honestly think Beaucoups of Blues would be in my top 13. In my defense I don't know all of the solo albums all that well. All Things Must Pass is the clear number one for me too. Nice job Mazzy!

An interesting selection with some unexpected curveballs. Certainly agree about the top 2 and also about Spector’s production on ATMP which is a towering achievement. I’d have plumped for George Harrison from ‘79 in my selection and I also really like Red Rose Speedway and McCartney 2. I’ve never been a fan of the production on Cloud 9 though which is one of my least favourite Harrison records. Great video 👍

i'm glad you said all things must pass. an amazing & unexpected album.

My 13: 1 Band on the run, 2 Ram, 3 Plastic Ono Band, 4 Imagine, 5 Flaming Pie, 6 All things Must Pass, 7 Ringo, 8 Tug of War, 9 George Harrison, 10 Back to the Egg, 11 Wings at the Speed of Sound, 12 Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, 13 Mind Games. Albums just missing out: Goodnight Vienna, Electric Arguments, McCartney II

Oh my oh my ... what a great list. Fireman, Wings Wild Life and Wonderwall... you made my night Mazzy.

I will give another chance to the Fireman album. My top 10 at the moment: 10- George Harrison 9- Flaming Pie 8- Red Rose Speedway 7- Band on the Run 6- Walls and Bridges 5- Imagine 4- All things must pass 3- Mind Games 2- Ram 1- Plastic Ono Band

I have to totally agree with you on George Harrison's "Wonderwall". It's a great album and like you, I'm still listening to it today. A lot of people out there will not understand it. But they have to have lived the time when it first came out. No Beatle type songs, but just good music and musicianship! ...By the way....I even liked Harrison's "Electronic Sound" album. Very experimental electronic music that probably no one but a few of us will understand. Very serene and ambient like and I loved it!

Hi Mazzy, I like the way you unwrap the vinyl, I like that rustle. My favourite is RAM then Plastic Ono Band, I like Wings " Wild Life" too, I could be the only one who put that album that high on the table! I'm not a great fan of George Harrison solo albums

Enough solo albums to chose from. I am glad that every ex Beatle made music after the break up. My appreciation for an album heavily depends on happy memories.

I loved hearing what your favorites are. I agree with so many of them. I would have to fit Tug Of War in there somewhere. It's so good and sentimental to me. I would love to know where McCartney 3 falls for you. Is it end of the line, middle of the road or a rising star? Great video Mazzy. Have a great weekend.

Sleeping on Living in the Material World. Incredible production value and musicianship from George there

Good choices I’m happy that wild life is there I love that record and glad to se some love for 33&1/3

Wow- Great summary! I like your observations and pretty closely track with your rankings. I’d probably swap in Chaos & Creation for Fireman. I also really like Wonderwall, but would probably rate Mind Games ahead of it. I also think of Mind Games & Walls & Bridges as kindred spirits somehow. Wings Wild Life has many great tunes-Tomorrow has always been high on my list of obscure McCartney gems. I can see I Lie Around fitting in well on that LP (though that’s probably a year or so later). I like your appreciation for 33&1/3- I also loved Woman Don’t You Cry For Me, Beautiful Girl, Pure Smoky, it’s what you Value. MaMunia never bothered me-I especially like when the synths come in and kick it to another level around 4:07 or so. And I’ve always liked No Words. I could do without Bluebird & Picasso’s Last Words. But BOTR, Let Me Roll It, Jet, Helen Wheels and 1985 remain my favorites.

Great rankings. I love Ram. My fav McCartney as well. All Things Must Pass is well deserving of the #1 spot.

I’m with you Mazzy on Phil Spector’s production on “All Things Must Pass”, I think that it greatly enhanced the songs, and that collaboration is big part of what made that album great. -Enjoyed the video.

I admire your guts with some of these choices; I don't necessarily agree with many of them.......but I admire your boldness. Shocking to me that Band on The Run doesn't get more respect but, hey, as you said: its YOUR list. You did nail #1 and #2 however. ATMP is my favorite Beatle solo album of all and JLPOB is right behind it. Thank you!

Funny I, earlier today, had "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts" on the turntable and thought wouldn't "Wonderwall Music" make for a nice follow? One of my favorite George albums and one I've not spun often enough of late. Possibly my favorite solo Beatles album cover too for whatever that's worth. Was surprised, delightedly so, by its appearance in your ranking. Nor do I disagree on your "Wild Life" take, an album I detested once but quite love now. Shocked though that "Ringo the 4th" didn't top the poll but "ATMP" is swell too I suppose. Seriously though, the "Egg's' omission stung somewhat. Interesting, in the best of ways, video.

...anyhow. I love your take on this. Thanks.

Before I watch the video..My top three would be..1/ All Things Must Pass 2/ Plastic Ono Band 3/ Ram..looking forward to your ranking...glad to see Ringo make the top ten..great record..Wonderwall a bit of a pleasant supruse..I will drink to that🍸🍸🍸🍸great video Mazzy..👍👍❤️❤️🍸🍸glen

Cool video. Nice to see someone give "Wild Life" its due. Thanks.

Wonderwall! One of my all-time favorites. Totally unique.

ANOTHER GOOD ONE MAZZY! YOUR LIST IS UNDERSTANDABLE. I LIKE YOKO TOO. WONDERWALL IS VERY NICE. (1) RINGO (2) ALL THINGS MUST PASS (3) RAM (4) IMAGINE (5) LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD (6) WALLS AND BRIDGES (7) MIND GAMES (8) VENUS AND MARS (9) BAND ON THE RUN (10) CLOUD NINE

Great choices. I learned a lot.

Nice to see Ringo making it on to the list! By the way, I so agree with you on ''Wonderwall Music''. I heard it for the first time about 3 weeks ago and it was shocked by its beauty. Why isn't it better known??

Love the inclusion of Electric Arguments - easily Paul’s best album post-Flaming Pie. Your top 3 choices are spot-on.

Great list, agree almost 100%. Surprised by the inclusion of Wild life, but maybe I need to give it another chance!

This is your best video. I'm with you all the way on all of these. Your top two are indisputable but mentioning the revisionist thinking about Phil Spector's production on All Things Must Pass really needed to be said. Extra points for including Wonderwall too. Anyway, here's my list. All Things Must Pass Plastic Ono Band Brainwashed Cloud 9 Tug of War McCartney II Imagine Band on the Run Walls and Bridges Venus and Mars Memory Almost Full Wonderwall Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

FINALLY. Wings - wildlife gets the VC love it deserves, an amazing record in its time and holds up extremely well today. One of my go to Paul solo LPs for years, along with Ram. I think the reason my preferences for the same records you showed is because we grew up and around these great records when they were first released. They became the soundscape to our youth at that time and are deeply imbedded in us. I believe that early US ( maybe others) releases of Ringo had the extended version of six o’clock.All Things Must Pass is such a great record and also my #1 solo LP and always has been. I have collected every pressing and every format available, just because it’s my favorite LP of all time. Very well done video, thank you. Oh , yeah I’m gonna have to give wonderwall another spin this weekend. !

Nice list and agree on the nr one, marvevlous album and the best solo one!

1. Plastic Ono Band 2. All Things Must Pass 3. Imagine 4. McCartney 5. Living in the Material World 6. George Harrison 7. Walls and Bridges 8. Beaucoups of Blues 9. Flaming Pie 10. Double Fantasy

Very interesting. I am a major fan of The Beatles, living in South Africa. I have everything ever released by The Beatles and by all four Beatles as solo artistes, or (in Paul's case, of course) with Wings. I like your top few places in your ranking, particularly the prominence you give to Ram, which I have always regarded as Paul's best album (ahead of even Band on the Run). My favourite three solo Beatle albums are 1) All Things Must Pass, 2) Ram and 3) John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, so my taste in solo Beatle music is very similar to yours. I also regard Living in the Material World as one of the 20 or so best albums of all time, even though many other music fans may regard that choice as being a bit eccentric.

Great list. I agree with #1, it's my favorite too.

Fantastic list :)

What a GREAT episode. A very enjoyable 41 minutes, 42 seconds with the Mad Maz. I must be the only one who thinks Flowers in the Dirt is a great record. I agree with you on Band on the Run but Let Me Roll It and 1985 are killer! PLEASE more Beatles related videos (I know, everyone does them - but not everyone is MAZ!!!). My Best Dozen All Things Must Pass Plastic Ono Band Imagine Band on the Run Walls and Bridges George Harrison (self-titled) Ram Mind Games Cloud Nine McCartney Flowers in the Dirt Ringo

Loved your choices Mazzy, I'll have to check out Wonderwall Music, I understand there's a hint of the instrumentation from the Inner Light on there. I usually come across a copy from time to time but they're usually beat up. I would have added the George Harrison 1979 album to the mix, a great album imop. You should do a list of the worst solo Beatle albums, I know there are some low points.

Great Review Norman

Love your reviews. Only problem is that I am going broke buying records after each post

I know we're talking about Post-Beatles.... the fact we're debating these musicians in 2021... when they original library of music came out 51 years ago... just goes to show how hard their music hits with modern audiences. How their 60's library survived the ages is amazing all things considered. They're truly the modern Mozart, Chopin, or Beethoven to name a few.

Great video! But I am constantly distracted by that beautiful XTC box set bottom right 🙂

Just subscribed to your channel… ATMP is my #1 with “Ram” being second. I keep alternating between Lennon’s first 2 REAL solo albums. So i kinda have to cheat and put them together…which is the reason why I don’t personally like to rank. And as for Paul’s BOTR album, i love it but this is an album that can’t decide if it wants “Helen Wheels” on it or not. Personally in my own humble opinion its not BOTR without it. I know thats not what Paul himself wanted but… give me a break! He mentions Sailor Sam in there, a character mentioned on the BOTR titletrack! GEESH! 😄 that’s a whole controversy in itself…

love this thx......

Great list. Agree with your choices. The order is always subjective. For me George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" is the best solo Beatle album. I know I might get belted for the next comment, however, as just a fun non complex album, Ringo Starr's Christmas album "I Wanna Be Santa Claus" is a great rocking fun Christmas album. It gets played regularly at Christmas at our place.

I love your list.

Very interesting list. I don't think many such lists would have Wonderwall Music or Electric Arguments in them:) or even Wild Life for that matter. Interesting indeed although I would probably have gone with albums such as London Town and Back To The Egg for Paul, and Living In The Material World or George Harrison for 79 from George:) In addition to some of the classic ones you picked of course.

Wings wildlife is my fav McC album by far. There is something magical about this entire album that was never recreated on any of his following albums (solo or Wings). There is a sonic atmosphere to it that is so compelling. The song wildlife just knocks me out every time I hear it. Dear Friend is gorgeously haunting. every song is great-lots of fun moments too throughout. It din't get noticed when it came out because of no hits, but then again lots of great albums had no radio hits.

Like your choices, not sure if I agree with all of them. I find it too hard to rank them so I just watch everyone else's rankings. Take care

electric arguments is great., I love "sing the changes".... and many others. but I felt very suprised fierst time I heard Paul with that incredibly modern sound... Totally surprised. one of his best solo albums

Hey Mazzy - great video and thanks for taking this on. BTW, what kind of outer sleeves do you use? Thanks - Eric from KC

Good call on the #7 album ... at the time I was glad to hear Paul could/would still turn it up loud ;-}

Your videos are great. You make me want to listen to music again. The last several years have been numbing and now I’m remembering all the songs that make me feel good. Thanks.

"Wonderwall Music" is great and "All Things Must Pass" is also my favorite Beatles solo record.

Just started getting into The Beatles' solo work after years of being a fan. I so far have listened to Ram, McCartney, Wings at the Speed of Sound, Wild Life, and Band on the Run. Rankings don't bother me. Whatever you like, you like. Do you. 13 is Taylor Swift's most important number and often comes up in her career.

Ah there‘s just no timestamp for Imagine! First thought it wasn‘t even on your list and was wondering why there were no complaints in the comments 😀

I have a few McCartney and Lennon solo albums but only the best of cd of George Harrison which is fantastic anyway, but thanks to you mazzi I am sure to check out more of the the Harrison back catalog especially "all things must pass"

Ok i enjoyed your picks. Agreed with some. Haven’t even heard one and flat out disagree with one. But i gotta ask do you really play Plastic Ono Band more than Ram or McCartney first one? Not that you admire more but actually play? Peace and Love

Just started watching, my top 3 are #1 "All Things Must Pass", #2 "Plastic Ono Band (The Tree Album)", #3 "RAM". Just finished watching - we're definitely in synch!!

I just wanted to say that I finally picked up a copy of George Harrison's Brainwashed on vinyl. I bought the CD when it came out and I played the crap out of it. I really love that one!

I think the Spector production issue was started by George when in the booklet of the reissue in 2001 of All Things Must Pass he said he'd like to "liberate some of the songs from the big production that seemed appropriate at the time, but now seem over the top with the reverb wall of sound", I feel some have jumped on that and it's become normal for fans to criticise the Spectorisation because of George's comment. As for your list mine would differ a little but I wouldn't argue over it. Wild Life's inclusion I was expecting, I can see why you have it there as I do agree the production hasn't dated because there's no gimmicks for it to do so.

"All things must pass." R.I.P. George.

It didn't make your list, but Back To The Egg was another Wings album that didn't get its due. That one tops my list of Wings albums. I know everyone loves All Things Must Pass but my choice for best solo is Ram.

1. John Lennon/ Plastic Ono Band 2. All Things Must Pass 3. Imagine 4. Ram 5. Band On The Run 6. McCartney 7. Walls and Bridges 8. Venus and Mars 9. George Harrison (1979) 10. Flaming Pie

Strong list, can't argue with any of those picks! Just to bust a myth two members of Wings didn't leave the band the night before. It was weeks and months before hand but t makes for a good story! 1 all things must pass 2 ram 3 plastic ono band 4 Tug of war 5 walls and bridges 6 33 and 1/3 7 Ringo 8 band on the run 9 cloud nine 10 mind games 11 bad boy 12 mccartney III 13 george harrison

great to see 33 1/3. great songwriting there

Thank God you chose All Things!

Ram has been my fav Beatles solo album since it came out.

You could make a really cool playlist of Beatles and Beatles solo Acoustic folky songs!

We Love your passion! Good choices! Let us be friends. Cologne calling again. Next to Düsseldorf, where your audiophile friend Michael lives...😉

Good picks ..my #1 George ATMP 1970 2- Ram 3-Imagine

Interesting and different list!

My three favourites are plastic ono band, ram, and all things must pass. I haven't listened to many of there later solo stuff yet and I haven't listened to any Ringo stuff yet either.

You got Number one spot right Mazzy....phew,I was sweating,then sweet relief!!