Solo albums you like more than any by the group

[chalkpie]

I dig Bob Drake's solo albums pretty much on par, or in some cases, even moreso than some other projects he has done.

[Progbear]

I dig Bob Drake's solo albums pretty much on par, or in some cases, even moreso than some other projects he has done.

I don't think anything could be better than the two 5uu's albums on which he participated. Hunger's Teeth and Crisis in Clay are classics.

[Rarebird]

Bo Hansson, I think better than Hansson and Karlsson

[rickawakeman]

I would say the same thing about his L.

Me too! In fact, I would say the same regarding much of Hillage's solo output.

[David_D]

I've always liked Wakeman's The Six Wives better than any Yes album.

[Digital_Man]

I've always liked Wakeman's The Six Wives better than any Yes album.

I sometimes feel like I like Jon's Olias of Sunhillow better than any Yes album. At the very least it's tied with relayer. Six Wives is good but nowhere near as good as the best of Yes imo. As far as pure keyboard albums go, however, it's pretty strong. I just feel it's missing something in the compositional department.

[David_D]

I sometimes feel like I like Jon's Olias of Sunhillow better than any Yes album. At the very least it's tied with relayer. Six Wives is good but nowhere near as good as the best of Yes imo. As far as pure keyboard albums go, however, it's pretty strong. I just feel it's missing something in the compositional department.

I can tell as much as, I've loved The Six Wives since 1975 when I bought a copy of it which I btw still have, and which is the record I've had second longest.

[JKL2000]

I like Lou Reed and John Cale's solo albums (and the one they did together) more than Velvet Underground.

[JKL2000]

Has anyone mentioned Todd Rundgren vs. The Nazz and Utopia and anything else he might have done with others vs. his solo albums?

[Czyszy]

Jack Conte kind of fits this criteria for me, because I much prefer his early solo stuff to the material he did with Pomplamoose but generally, I can't recall many of such cases.
EDIT:
There it is! I remembered another example. I enjoy Elect the Dead by Serj Tankian way more than most of SoaD's output.

[Rarebird]

I like Lou Reed and John Cale's solo albums (and the one they did together) more than Velvet Underground.

I prefer John Cale and the album they did together over Lou Reed solo.

[SteveSly]

I like Lou Reed and John Cale's solo albums (and the one they did together) more than Velvet Underground.

That's a good on. Although I like the Velvet Underground album with the Banana cover, some of Lou's albums are better.

[the winter tree]

I was never a Stone Temple Pilots fan but I really like Scott Weiland's solo album 12 Bar Blues. I also really like Geoff Tate's first solo album better than any Queensryche albums.

[llanwydd]

I like most Bob Dylan albums better than anything by The Traveling Wilburys.

[interbellum]

I don't know any My Morning Jacket-albums, but love frontman Jim James' album Regions of Light and Sound of God, especially openingtrack "State of the Art (A.E.I.O.U.)" which I got to know in one of the episodes of The Leftovers.



The string-keyboards reminded me a bit of Original Man by Riff Raff.

[markwoll]

I like Roine Stolt's solo albums The Flower King, Hydrophonia, and Wallstreet Voodoo at least as much as Flower Kings on average.

[Progbear]

Has anyone mentioned Todd Rundgren vs. The Nazz and Utopia and anything else he might have done with others vs. his solo albums?

Todd's solo career kind of eclipses all of his other work as a musician. Not that I dislike Nazz or Utopia, but they really can't hold a candle to his solo work, not even their best stuff.

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

Todd's solo career kind of eclipses all of his other work as a musician. Not that I dislike Nazz or Utopia, but they really can't hold a candle to his solo work, not even their best stuff.

Cannot agree. A couple of Utopia albums -- at minimum Another Live and RA -- stand with anything in his solo career.

[Mt. Pleasant Farm]

Good Morning. There are a lot of really good Stones cd's/lp's. But Keith Richards "Talk Is Cheap" will definitely go to a deserted island with me. Amazing stuff. The name of his band on that cd is The Expensive Winos!!! God love him!

[dropforge]

Cannot agree. A couple of Utopia albums -- at minimum Another Live and RA -- stand with anything in his solo career.

Agree. But don't forget Todd Rundgren's Utopia, which is flat-out awesome.

[Rarebird]

Agree. But don't forget Todd Rundgren's Utopia, which is flat-out awesome.

I have to admit, that album had to grow on me. Listened to it several times in recordstores and everytime decided not to buy it, till I finally bought the CD (I think at Fame in Amsterdam) and it became one of my most played albums.

[dropforge]

I have to admit, that album had to grow on me. Listened to it several times in recordstores and everytime decided not to buy it, till I finally bought the CD (I think at Fame in Amsterdam) and it became one of my most played albums.

Proof it needed to go home with you!

[Rarebird]

Proof it needed to go home with you!

Yeah it did. And now I have 2 editions, because it also came as a double with Another live.

I still don't know why it suddenly clicked, after so many years, I mean I bought the CD in 2008 and have listened to the vinyl version on several occasions since the 70s, or 80s.

[Zeuhlmate]

Nico vs Velvet Underground

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

Agree. But don't forget Todd Rundgren's Utopia, which is flat-out awesome.

That album reminds me of what Rossini said about Wagner: "[He] has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour." Only, well, not awful, just ... "When are they going to get back to the good stuff?" The Utopia theme is all good, but the other songs are just too dragged out for their content. IMO, of course.