WTF!? Solo career Beatles really suck!

WTF!? Solo career Beatles really suck!

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*teleports behind you*

nothing personal kid

what are
>Ram
>John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
>All Things Must Pass
>Ringo S/T
also Band on the Run is good

Ringo [Apple, 1973]

This is not a Beatles album but a Ringo album--a likable curiosity. Ringo's droll sincerity was always good for a change of pace; his songs were wonderful in context. Here that context is provided by an occasional harmony (especially John's on "I'm the Greatest") that makes me long for much, much more. It might be different if the songs were all as good as "Photograph," but without a real singer to work with, Richard Perry cannot transmute questionable material into magic. And don't kid yourself--the Beatles could. B-

Ringo the 4th [Atlantic, 1977]

Less than three months after its release, the Ringo fan in me dutifully played this for a third and last time. Whereupon the journalist began to wonder how many people were buying such dreary music just because it was by a Beatle. And was both saddened and pleased to learn that the answer, for all practical purposes, was no one--it never got higher than 199 in Record World, which I'll bet was some statistician paying his respects. D

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What do you make of a guy whose solo debut is a bunch of 1930s tunes he heard after digging his mother's old 78s out of the attic?

Yeah I think of all the Beatles, solo Ringo was the absolute worst. RTF dynamited his career so badly he never recovered.

Band on the Run and Double Fantasy are both good albums though.

kek

Fuck this hack for unironically giving an A to Yoko Ono albums.

Paul definitely made the most money of the four.

bump

The early solo Beatles efforts like POB and ATMP were the best, when the inspiration was fresh and they were all still young. By the mid-70s as they were approaching middle age, they lost a lot of their edge and so the albums slackened.

George's S/T was actually not terrible but it would have been more successful in 1971, not 1978 when all attention was focused on the young, rising punk bands.

Paul definitely hit his peak on BOTR and never wrote songs as good as those again.

Ringo, he was just lulz.

John, well, he gets unfair points as a martyred hero, but still, POB had a real, raw emotional power to it that not a lot of artists can pull off. Some of his later efforts like "Rock & Roll" were bad.

Yoko has good albums though

Press To Play is definitely unique. Paul never did anything else like this album.

Sentimental Journey [Apple, 1970]

For Ringomaniacs and over-fiftys only--the story that he wanted to record an album of his mum's favorite songs seems to be true. C-

Ringo's Rotogravure [Atlantic, 1976]

This fellow sounds like he could use a band--wonder if Leon Russell can drum one up? C+

Ringo's solo efforts failed because the guy just can't sing, especially for the kinds of material he was trying esp. Tin Pan Alley standards and disco.

>current year
>taking Christgau seriously
kek

^this.

Christgau and Scaruffi are just Sup Forums trolls with their own websites.

And let's face it, Christgau's website is utter shit
robertchristgau.com/

Ringo Starr had the misconstrued image as the joker of the Beatles, the guy who sang silly nursery rhymes like "Octopus's Garden". This was far from true; he could more than match John Lennon for edginess and sarcasm. The oldest Beatle, he was also financially comfortable before he joined the band, having had successful gigs before, and he was driving a sports car when the others were counting their pennies for bus fare, and he'd sported his trademark beard from the time he was 20.

His reputation as a drummer suffered during the arena metal excesses of the 70s-80s, when everyone masturbated to the likes of John Bonham, Neil Pert, and Dave Lombardo. Ringo's minimalistic style was derided as primitive, simple, and outmoded. But only by the general public; rock drummers always had enormous respect for him. Eventually during the 90s-2000s, the revival of alternative/indie rock saw a renewed appreciation of Ringo.

Christgau won in the end. Alternative/indie triumphed and stadium buttmetal of the Van Halen school is extinct.