CC00017: Ringo Starr
Submitted by lbangs on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:24
Tags:
- Beacoups of Blues (7.5)
- Ringo (7)
- Blast from Your Past (6.5)
- Time Takes Time (5.5)
- Sentimental Journey (5)
- Starr Struck: Best of Ringo Starr, Vol. 2 (5)
- All-Starr Band (5)
- Vertical Man (5)
- Goodnight Vienna (4.5)
- Stop & Smell the Roses (4.5)
- Live from Montreux, Vol. 2 (4)
- Ringo's Rotogravure (3.5)
- Ringo the 4th (3)
- Bad Boy (3)
- Old Wave (3)
Author Comments:
This is an entry in a continuing series I call Critical Consensus. I am averaging the opinions of several excellent music critics to produce a list of each artist's albums. The albums will each have a rating between 1 and 10. The albums will be listed in a recommended purchasing order, so new fans will have an idea of where the best place to start buying an artist's work is. These are not my opinions, although, since I have chosen the critics used (and I'm using many), my taste will perhaps seep through a bit.
Terribly nerdy, I know, but maybe this will help people only now beginning to dabble into certain artists' bodies of work.
Hearty congratulations on completing your Beatles Saga - you've done the old geezers proud, and their fans.
"I'll get by with a little help from my friends."
He's no great singer, and was never a great drummer, but somehow he unquestionably carries the Beatles charisma. If anyone ever lucked out in life, Ringo did. Unfair comment?
Not entirely unfair. While I believe Ringo's drumming gets trashed entirely too much (for the style of drumming the Beatles required, he was excellent, and his drum parts are often sadly overlooked when analyzing the Fab Four's sound), his voice is not up to par with the other Beatles'. I think his main weakness, however, is his songwriting skills. While Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison could write some mighty fine tunes, Ringo has zippo talent with crafting a song, and he knows it. As a result, a good number of his albums have a chummy jam feel about them (see his All-Starr Band albums) that restrain them to being slight entertainment at best.
Thanks for the compliments; going through the four's solo work was enlightening and refreshing, if, for the most part, a bit disappointing.
And a lucky little bugger he is...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs