On Amazon.com, the album is #19 in music and #13 in pop-- and it's not actually released until tomorrow. Yay, Ringo!
All you've got to do is choose love. That's how I live it now. I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden. I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007
For all I know, Ringo might be a yogi disguised as a drummer! - George Harrison
On Amazon.com, the album is #19 in music and #13 in pop-- and it's not actually released until tomorrow. Yay, Ringo!
Oh great! The album will appear on the Billboard 200 next week. I'm pretty sure of that. So funny. Last year we were expecting Paul reaching #1 in the US with Memory Almost Full (it finally did #3....) and now we're hoping Ringo just reaching any place of the entire chart.!
I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't eat trash... I work out hard everyday and have a healthy life. And I'm proud of it.
"Liverpool i left you but i never let you down" what a load of crap anyone who watched tonights jonathan ross show would see how just the sad comments ringo made about liverpool let himself and the city down........his appearance at thecapital of culture opening earlier this week was only a well timed bit of free publicity for his new album....which no doubt will be another under achieving load of drivvle
The Beatle-mad Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusicGuide published his review for the album. He gives 3 STARS to Liverpool 8.
“ For a Beatle, Ringo Starr has had a relatively quiet latter-day solo career. After salvaging his tattered reputation in 1992 with Time Takes Time — his first album in nearly a decade and his first in nearly 20 years to serve his legend well — Starr settled into touring regularly with his ever-changing All-Starr Band, documenting almost every tour with a live album, then turning out a new studio album every three or four years. After Time Takes Time, all these albums were recorded in collaboration with Mark Hudson, best known as one of the '70s popsters the Hudson Brothers but also an L.A. sessionman who slowly became Ringo's right-hand man. Starr's albums with Hudson never grabbed much attention outside the Beatles hardcore — unlike Time Takes Time, they were rarely studded with stars and once he decamped from the majors to the indie Koch in 2003, they never received much of a marketing push, either, so they played solely to the devoted, who were always satisfied by the happily Beatlesque music Starr made with Hudson. This collaboration continued into 2007 as the duo embarked on what would become the Liverpool 8 album, but they had a falling out in the final stages of recording, with former Eurythmic David A. Stewart brought in at the last minute to polish up the album and collaborate on its title song. Stewart helps give Liverpool 8 the gloss the album needs as it's not only Ringo's first major-label album in five years, it's his homecoming to Capitol Records, the label that released the Beatles albums and Starr's first, best solo albums (highlights from which dominated the 2007 hits comp Photograph, released a matter of months before Liverpool .
On the surface, Liverpool 8 does indeed feel a bit like a comeback: Stewart's "re-production" — so named in the liner notes as he gussied up Hudson's original production — turns the music shiny and sleek and there are several cheerful forays into Baby Boomer nostalgia, whether it's the outright reference to "It Don't Come Easy" on "Gone Are the Days" or Ringo's stroll through his back pages on "Liverpool 8," reminiscent of Paul McCartney's marveling at his past on "That Was Me," a rollicking number on his 2007 album Memory Almost Full. At times, Liverpool 8 recalls Memory in how it balances nostalgia and mortality — on "R U Ready" Ringo jovially stares into the great beyond — which is just enough of a hook to reel in Boomers who haven't listened to Ringo in years. Nevertheless, this sentimentality, like the Stewart reproduction, is just window dressing on an album that is essentially not all that different than the three that preceded it. Liverpool 8 is a relaxed, amiable collection of friendly pop tunes: it's nothing too flashy and it has no one tune that calls attention to itself, but it's a well-constructed, casually charming pop record. In a way, the smaller-scale productions of the Koch records served latter-day Ringo better as they were as humble and unpretentious as his music, but even if Liverpool 8 is a little bit too pumped up and slick for its own good, Starr remains eminently likeable, which is enough for those who have enjoyed Ringorama or Choose Love. However, it may not be enough for those hoping for another Ringo or Goodnight Vienna, which is what the big marketing push, complete with the album's release as a USB bracelet, suggests it is. Liverpool 8 is not another Memory Almost Full, an album that offers enough reminders of the past but is about the present; it is merely another good latter-day record for Ringo, filled with songs about love and spiked with a ridiculous novelty number (this time, it's "Pasodobles," where Starr warbles about a Spanish dance). For those who already love Ringo, that's plenty good enough, but for those who often (and often unfairly) run the good man down, this is too light, easygoing, and sometimes unapologetically silly to change their minds. .”
I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't eat trash... I work out hard everyday and have a healthy life. And I'm proud of it.
I just finished listening to Liverpool 8 and I really enjoyed it. I liked Harry's Song alot. That one part sounded just like George (No way of knowing /Just keep on growing). I liked RU Ready too. Ringo is so cute when he thinks he's a cowboy. British people are funny are funny when they try to talk like Americans.
I just finished listening to Liverpool 8 and I really enjoyed it. I liked Harry's Song alot. That one part sounded just like George (No way of knowing /Just keep on growing). I liked RU Ready too. Ringo is so cute when he thinks he's a cowboy. British people are funny are funny when they try to talk like Americans.
I just realized, after a second listening, that Harry's Song is for Harry Nillsson when I heard him say, "Whenever I hear Without You we're still together.
'Liverpool 8' is good (much better than 'Memory Almost Full' imo), but as usual nobody will pay attention to it and will go unnoticed. It really is a shame. Ringo has put out a constant quality product for his last 5 or 6 albums and nobody buys them.
Ouch. So far I've only listened to the title track, but sorry to my ears it's awful. The lyric is cringe-inducingly bad and the whole thing sounds embarrasingly like the Peter Serafinowicz parody "Goldfinger" I posted in the youtube section a while ago. The only charitable thing I can say is that it has a certain amateurish charm (like your kids drawings you hang on the fridge.) Hopefully I'll listen to the rest before I finish tonight.
'Liverpool 8' is good (much better than 'Memory Almost Full' imo), but as usual nobody will pay attention to it and will go unnoticed. It really is a shame. Ringo has put out a constant quality product for his last 5 or 6 albums and nobody buys them.
*high fives Tkitna*
I feel the same. Ringo has put out a solid, happy, feel-good album. I haven't bought it yet, but I plan to. Go, Ringo!
All you've got to do is choose love. That's how I live it now. I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden. I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007
For all I know, Ringo might be a yogi disguised as a drummer! - George Harrison
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