John Lennon vs. Paul McCartney

[elperromagico]

Poll question: John Lennon vs. Paul McCartney

It's the Battle of the Feuding Ex-Songwriting Partners!

[commander bunnypants]

1. neither

George Harrison was the most talented of em all

DDQM

[elperromagico]

2. I love George, but these are the choices.

Sorry 'bout that. :D

[calico1]

3. George Harrison! n/t

[HEyHEY]

4. yup

[johnnie]

5. I went with Lennon

I guess looking at my avatar you can see I dig Lennon, I should really change that thing though.
Paul was good in his own way also. George was also very good at what he did. George had some good songs, but he was in no way the songwriter that Paul and John were. He even said that he never considered himself a songwriter because songwriters consider it a craft and he just considered it getting some thoughts down in a song.

[bloodyjack]

6. Erm...Ringo, anyone?

[mrbassman03]

13. Octopus's Garden!

What a rockin' tune!

[bloodyjack]

19. I'd like to be under the sea blah blah blah blah blah blah

Quite a nice tune to carry when you've been drinking

[lightbulb]

7. Paul is icing, John is cake - eom

[NewYorkerfromMass]

8. Music vs. lyrics

I like music, hence Paul.

[orpupilofnature57]

9. LENNON WAS JEFFERSON

McCARTNEY WAS HAMILTON.

[Gothic Sponge]

10. Lennon

[Ivan Sputnik]

11. I prefer Lennon

but I really prefer the combination. They should have stayed together as songwriters, if not as Beatles. The fool on the hill and the nowhere man . . .

[Wat_Tyler]

12. McLennan.

[mac56]

14. John was an artist, Paul is a craftsman.

Both good at their respective roles. John's work appeals to me more.

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. Lennon.

McCartney's post-Beatles work doesn't compare...it's shallow, facile, lacking in depth, all surface. McCartney never wrote anything as good as "Mother" or "Jealous Guy". In fact, McCartney's entire career from 1971 on has been anticlimax.

I WOULD have voted for George, though, but he's not one of the choices...

[bobthedrummer]

16. This will be a Lennon landslide victory.

Ike and Tina-now there's a lot to discuss about that duo...

[Crunchy Frog]

17. Both!

They had a special kind of synergy together. They were each alot better while working together, than either was on his own.

They each brought different sets of qualities into the mix, but I can't say that one set is "superior" to another, just different.

[donheld]

18. they were both

very good in their own way

[bigwillq]

20. Lennon

I thought he was the sexiest of the Beetles.

[Crunchy Frog]

21. I have to give it to Paul...

just to try to even the poll out a little.;-)

[Rooktoven]

22. It's tough

for every In My Life, there's a Yesterday... I think John had the post Beatles edge with until Band on the Run. John did also Somewhere in New York City and pushed awful Ono on us, and Paul also did "Say Say Say..."

I think what would push it to Paul for me (and years ago I would have said John) is Hey Jude and Most of the Side Two of Abbey Road.

But it's tough...