Re: Your top 3 Ringo Starr studio albums

[GoogaMooga]

Choose 3. Only 3.

[ChrisB]

Choose none, only none.

[ChrisB]

I should have said " Please, choose none."

[GoogaMooga]

Poll's gone?

[Count Machuki]

1. Peace and Love
2. Love and Peace
3. No Autographs

[Artgar]

Poll's gone?

Along with your sense.

[Sneelock]

1. Peace and Love
2. Love and Peace
3. No Autographs

Each heralded as his best since "Ringo"

I like the first two that nobody liked and then throw up the coin between the one everybody liked and the next one.

[GoogaMooga]

There are some decent albums in that run.

[The Slider]

No there are not.
Not one.
Even the one that everybody says is great.

Even his Best Of is mostly unlistenable rubbish.

[The Modernist]

1. Straight Outta Bootle
2. Ringo's Happy Hardkore
3. Family favourites: Ringo plays Stockhausen.

[Samoan]

1. Straight Outta Bootle
2. Ringo's Happy Hardkore
3. Family favourites: Ringo plays Stockhausen.

Hard to argue with those.

[trans-chigley express]

There are some decent albums songs in that run.

Corrected for you


Top three Ringo tracks....possibly the only 3 I need.

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Back Off Boogaloo
It Don't Come Easy

[GoogaMooga]

There are some decent albums songs in that run.

Corrected for you


Top three Ringo tracks....possibly the only 3 I need.

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Back Off Boogaloo
It Don't Come Easy

No, there are quite a few more.

[Quaco]

I like the first two that nobody liked and then throw up the coin between the one everybody liked and the next one.

Pretty much.

Last time I listened to Beaucoups of Blues, I went in thinking "I'm more into C&W now. This is probably a better album than I remember." It really wasn't. The odd thing is, Ringo has absolutely no emotion when he sings. I don't quite understand it. Don't know if he's scared or stoned or he just doesn't know how to do it.

[GoogaMooga]

I like the first two that nobody liked and then throw up the coin between the one everybody liked and the next one.

Pretty much.

Last time I listened to Beaucoups of Blues, I went in thinking "I'm more into C&W now. This is probably a better album than I remember." It really wasn't. The odd thing is, Ringo has absolutely no emotion when he sings. I don't quite understand it. Don't know if he's scared or stoned or he just doesn't know how to do it.

You'll never get impassioned vocals from Ringo, but he's not perfunctory. He cares about those songs. But, true to his character, it's all very laid back and cool. Test: substitute any of the other three on lead for the song, "With a Little Help", it doesn't work.

[C]

Back Off Boogaloo

I think that is the only Ringo track I have ever heard and it is not my cup of Darjeeling.

Sorry, I am unable to contribute further





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[Sneelock]

The odd thing is, Ringo has absolutely no emotion when he sings.

This is a simple statement of fact. Normally, somebody would just stand around and nod when someone makes a simple statement of fact. this is not one of those times.

Ringo has absolutely no emotion when he sings. a simple statement of fact? okay, a show of hands. If someone can think of a time when Ringo sings with emotion then please raise your hand. just raise it right up...
any time now...
uh, huh. I thought so.

well, here's the thing. I agree that Ringo sings with absolutely no emotion but I also happen to think that Ringo is a wonderful singer!. I can think of quite a few singers who sing with more emotion than you can shake a stick at that I don't enjoy listening to as much as I enjoy listening to Ringo.

okay, so this is a "Ringo Solo" thread so maybe it's not fair to bring up Beatles tracks. what the hell, I'll do it anyway. I was living with a guy who didn't like where music was going in the late 70's. He had a big reel to reel made up entirely of Beatles albums in chronological order. He would play this when we had visitors to insure that he would not be subjected to any then current music he did not enjoy. It sounds monotonous but it really wasn't. This was when I started to really appreciate Ringo as a vocalist. His version of "Boys" sends shivers down my spine to this day. Okay, so they aren't all as exciting as that. still, he has an earnest quality to his voice. I understand it's a voice with an "ugly duckling" quality to it but that's a sound that I suppose I enjoy.

it's harder to single out solo era stuff that stands alongside "Boys" but I think this might be why his solo career seems best regarded by highlights. In the context of the Beatles his voice is a surprise or a break. Even his best solo albums get to a point where they could use a break from Ringo and sometimes pretty soon after they start.
Still, I think his voice is distinctive. Eno has a similar voice. Emotion isn't really what either singer is good at. both are good at something else - personality.

[Quaco]

"Boys" is fantastic! I like most of what he did with The Beatles. His solo stuff is strange though. After the first couple singles, he really sounds medicated. I don't really want him to start jumping around, but I feel sort of bad for the guy.

[Sneelock]

I know what you mean. I know Beatles fans who insisted I would love the albums he did with Mark Hudson. Hudson thinks he's Richard Perry and it's going to be lots of gee-whiz fun. the problem is that nobody seemed to tell Ringo. He goes through the motions. I guess it's a living.

[Quaco]

I know what you mean. I know Beatles fans who insisted I would love the albums he did with Mark Hudson. Hudson thinks he's Richard Perry and it's going to be lots of gee-whiz fun. the problem is that nobody seemed to tell Ringo. He goes through the motions.

Maybe they are afraid to tell the great Beatle. Poor thing.