re: Which Beatle had the most meaningful solo career?

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Plastic Ono Band is very good, but I am wondering, in your opinion, why it stands out as best among solo and group albums from the Beatles? Not bashing, just curious.

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Shortly before recording POB John had gone through "Primal Scream" therapy, and he used the album as an outlet for the various feelings the therapy had released. As a result it has an emotional power unmatched by The Beatles, and by few others in popular music.

Not that emotion is enough in itself -- as the saying goes, Technique Without Passion is Decadence, and Passion without Technique is Propaganda. But in my opinion JL on POB was able to channel the various chips on his shoulder -- such as his mother's death -- through his songwriting abilities to create a work that few albums, and certainly none by the other Beatles, can approach for visceral impact.