Ringo Rama

Ringo Starr - Ringo Rama

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Artist: Ringo Starr
Edition: Music CD
Published: 2003
CD Release Date: 2003-03-25
Music Label: Koch Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Eye To Eye
  2. Missouri Loves Company
  3. Instant Amnesia (features David Gilmour)
  4. Memphis In Your Mind
  5. Never Without You (features Eric Clapton)
  6. Imagine Me There (features Charlie Hayden)
  7. I Think, Therefore I Rock 'N' Roll (features David Gilmour)
  8. Trippin On My Own Tears (features Shawn Colvin)
  9. Write One For Me (features Willie Nelson)
  10. What Love Wants To Be
  11. Love First
  12. Elizabeth Reigns (features Van Dyke Parks)
  13. English Garden

Free Music Notes for Ringo Rama

Free Music Review: MAN!!! This ROCKS! blows Paul out of the water
Hit: 5 Stars

The next Ringo studio album can't get here soon enough if he keeps on this course. "Time Takes Time" and "Vertical Man" (and even the Christmas album) were surprisingly good solid enjoyable albums. He has been releasing better studio work than Paul has--who would have thought? This one tops them all, I would dare say even better than "Ringo". Of course that one will always have the special topping Beatles reunion aspect, but this one ROCKS like no other. There are still a couple tracks here I don't care for that much style-wise, but that doesn't mean they are bad (and they don't make me cringe like Paul sometimes does). There are several songs here that derserve more than 5 stars. "Ringo Rama" is much, much better than "Driving Rain", "Run Devil Run" and "Flaming Pie". I played it more times in three days than all of Paul's since 1980 combined in the years since they were released. Basically, it's better than, or equal to, all of Paul's releases.

Everyone including Ringo is talking about/pushing "Never Without You" which is a good sentimental song about George, but it isn't even one of the top three best on this collection! What should be released as singles that could actually find rock radio airplay are "Eye To Eye" and one of the best songs recorded EVER--"Instant Amnesia"! I can't stop playing those two, over and over. Talk about inspired drumming too, he hasn't sounded that good since "Rain".

A funny side story, I love "Instant Amnesia" so much I took it into work to play as a "mystery artist" to a group of co-workers in their twenties who all own at least a couple Beatles cds each. Two of them had even mentioned to me earlier in the day of seeing Ringo on TV in the last couple days. Their first consensus guess was King Diamond (yeah, I don't know them either). When I said older person/group than that, they came up with King Crimson, Bowie, and Queen. Bottom line is, they were impressed too, and wanted to hear more of the cd.

But wait, there IS more! The initial pressings also come with a decent length DVD shot durring the recording sessions. Very enjoyable in its own right, it shows just how much fun went into these tracks. The songs sound like a great time was had, but here is the visual proof to go with it. While you are at it, there is an "easter egg" clip hidden under the heart in the upper right of the menu too.

It is a huge travesty that radio, and people in general, will quickly pass this over because of the lingering stigma of that long ago 15 year stretch of lousy Ringo albums. It is a huge travesty that Paul CDs out-sell this too. Maybe if Ringo did a few Roundhead tours instead of All-Starr tours it would help overcome the has-been perception with the public.

If "Ringo Rama" only had "Instant Amnesia" and "Eye to Eye" it would be well worth owning, but it also has a whole bunch of great songs besides those. "Ringo Rama" goes way beyond the loyal Beatle fan crowd, this is a great cd for anyone. Keep it up Ringo, let's have lots more like this!

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Japanese edition of the Beatles' twelfth proper studio album includes one bonus track, 'Blink' (The Movie Mix). Guests include Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Shawn Colvin, & Van Dyke Parks. 14 tracks in all. Koch Records. 2003.
Ringo Starr's post-Beatles music has relied on allusions to his legendary past. Indeed, the very first line of "Eye to Eye," the melodic hard rocker that opens Ringorama, asks, "Remember when I said 'it don't come easy'?" On the country-tinged "Write One for Me," guest vocalist Willie Nelson name checks the Fabs' "Yesterday." And, strangely, "English Garden," the final track, very obviously borrows from "Let ?Em In," the 1976 Paul McCartney & Wings hit. But the Beatles reference that will undoubtedly touch the most fans is "Never Without You," a tribute to George Harrison that features some nice '60s pop flourishes and a familiar-sounding Eric Clapton guitar solo. In its own way, it's as fine a tribute to George as the latter?s "All Those Years Ago" was to John Lennon. Most of Starr?s songwriting today is done with producer Mark Hudson, who also cowrote his last solo effort, 1998's Vertical Man, and who?s always acknowledged a strong Beatles influence in his own material. Pink Floyd's David Gilmour manages to get the great rock drummer mighty revved up on "I Think, Therefore I Rock & Roll," while the catchy "Missouri Loves Company" and "Memphis in Your Mind" should remind all doubtful listeners that Ringo?s had some classic pop moments of his own over the years. --Bill Holdship

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