What is the worst Ringo Starr solo album?

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I haven't heard the more recent ones, but of the older ones, I'm going to go with this as my order of badness:

1. Ringo the Fourth
2. Bad Boy
3. Ringo's Rotogravure

Questions, questions, questions. Is Bad Boy actually better than Rotogravure? Also, I'd like to hear Old Wave again, the album from '82 or so that he did with Joe Walsh. Does it crack the list? Stop and Smell the Roses, also from around this time period, is, I believe, actually one of his best, possibly second only to the Ringo album.

(This thread inspired by the "I've always had a little thing saying 'Buy the Bob Dylan album called Dylan'" thread. I have personally always had a little thing saying "Buy the Ringo album called Rotogravure," etc. Who is this little sprite saying these things???)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Rotogravuer has all the beatles involved on it again if I remember correctly. At least Paul and George played on it, and maybe John wrote a song? It was one of the first records I ever had for some reason. It sucked although I liked it well enough when I was seven. Ringo the 4th I also owned. I don't remember anything about it. I'm surprised the Stop and Smell the Roses was one of the better ones because I DO remember that one and I hated it. I never heard Old Wave, it was really hard to find. Something gave me the idea that it might be good.

I'm going to go with the 4th being the worst, because I don't remember anything about it, but I do remember some of the songs of Rotograveur. They were dumb but harmless.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 11 September 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

whoa, according to the allmusic review for smell the roses, Lennon wrote Nobody Told Me for this album. I didn't know this! That would have been a great song if Ringo had handled it (it's good by Lennon too).

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 11 September 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

oh wait I do remember Ringo the 4th after seeing the tracklisting. Yes, this is about as bad as records by ex-beatles get. Can She Do It LIke She Dances????

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 11 September 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Bad Boy was like his post-disco album, lounge rock album.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 11 September 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy
You don't have to shout or leap about
You can even play them easy
Please remember peace is how we make it
Here within your reach
If you're big enough to take it

I don't ask for much
I only want trust
And you know it don't come easy
And this love of mine keeps growing all the time
And you know it don't come easy

― Ebony & Ivory, Saturday, 11 September 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I play guitar, A D E
I don't play bass 'cause that's too hard for me
I play the piano if it's in C
And when I go town I wanna see all three

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 12 September 2004 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

*go to town*

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 12 September 2004 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

since when is bass harder than guitar?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 12 September 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ringo means it's too hard when it lands on your head -- ask Krist Novoselic!

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 12 September 2004 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Worst Ringo album? It's too hard to choose just one. Or two. Or three...

A Ringo album is like those of that Spock guy. It exists because he is a celebrity and some people are crazy enough to buy it.

and he is my favorite beatle...

― Elvis is Dead, Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

since when is bass harder than guitar?

Aaron, I 'play' guitar halfway passably, but am hopelessly inept when it comes to bass. My fingers are too weak and too stubby to cope with the further-apart frets and the heavier strings, not to mention the coordination required for deploying the 4-finger "plucking" method.

On the ever-popular scale of 1-10, I rate my guitar skills as 2/10 and bass as -5/10. (Altho I'm surely better than Sid Vicious ever was!)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 13 September 2004 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently, "Sentimental Journey".

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 September 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

Revive!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 10 April 2005 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Only the innermost circle of Beatle fanatics will own enough Ringo albums to even think about anwering this question. Thus I foolishly came to this thread with the express purpose of calling Tim Ellison to thread.

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 10 April 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sentimental Journey" seconded.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 10 April 2005 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

'Peter Criss' vs 'Out of Control' vs 'Let Me Rock You'

― dave q (listerine), Monday, 11 April 2005 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to kind of like Sentimental Journey! Anyone else like it? Surely, it's better than Ringo the Fourth, no???

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 11 April 2005 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I only said "Sentimental Journey" through received wisdom...

Which this whole board is meant to be the opposition of.

I repent my sin(s) (this once)..

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 11 April 2005 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

Spotify, depressingly, doesn't have his four EMI records - so for some reason, I am listening to Bad Boy right now. Boy is it pointless so far. I've always been really curious about Sentimental Journey and Beaucoups of Blues, but apparently tonight's not the night.

I own Goodnight Vienna and while there's some ropey filler, the stronger songs are total charmers - particularly like his take on Roger Miller's "Husbands and Wives."

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 05:21 (thirteen years ago)

seven months pass...

this is gonna sound weird, but i was really enjoying this album. i think every song has an allusion to a beatles song or john or george song. okay, maybe not every song but there is imagine and here comes the sun and instant karma and more probably. i was actually just looking up mark hudson and i didn't know they had done so many albums together. i was just surprised that i was still listening to it after 2 or 3 songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qhL297tASI

― scott seward, Saturday, 21 September 2013 13:38 (twelve years ago)

its an entertaining album!

― scott seward, Saturday, 21 September 2013 13:39 (twelve years ago)

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