Y Not
Album Description
2010 album from the former Beatle and Rock icon. For the first time in one of popular music’s most enduring and illustrious careers, Ringo Starr has decided to take charge and produce himself. The result is perhaps the most personal and impressive album of this Rock legend’s entire solo career. The joyous result finds Ringo leading a smaller core group of old and new friends including longtime pal and recent brother-in-law Joe Walsh, Dave Stewart and longtime Roundheads member Steve Dudas on guitar, Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on keyboards, Don Was and Mike Bradford on bass. The album also features special guests like Joss Stone, Ben Harper and Richard Marx on vocals, Ann Marie Calhoun on violin and Tina Sugandh on tabla and chanting. Starr’s former bandmate and longstanding mate Paul McCartney, who adds a characteristically brilliant bass part to the inspiring ‘Peace Dream’ and even more notably provides his unmistakably fabulous vocals… More >>
This album is laughable. “The Other Side of Liverpool” sounds like it is being sung by someone off the street. Ringo may have been a good drummer and backup singer with the Beatles, but he is GOD AWFUL as a frontman. DO NOT BUY THIS ALBUM–Unless you want to waste your money on bad music.
Rating: 1 / 5
I know I’m not popular to say it, but Ringo doesn’t sing. His band carries him through, but his lyrics sound forced and his voice is just not great. He needs Paul on every song I’m afraid to make this a worthwhile purchase. If you are a Beatles fan, by all means – buy buy buy everything you see with Ringo or Beatles or whatever, but if you want a decent CD, this one isn’t it.
Rating: 1 / 5
Hello,anyone with musical ears?Nothing really rocks here,except the tittle track “Y Not”,by far the best on the album.Van Dyke tune is unfortunately weak,as sounds the voice of Macca (he sounds so great in “Good Evening New-York City”!),”Peace Dream” really doesn’t match “Peace be With You” in “I Wanna be Santa Claus”,and all the rest is so conventional…Re-listen to “Vertical Man” (yeah,THAT rocks!),”Ringo Rama” or even “Choose Love”,you’ll hear the difference…
Rating: 2 / 5
Well, he has done gone and did it again. This is a solid record by Ringo, I think he is making the best music of his life. Maybe Paul should take notes.
Rating: 5 / 5
Ringo’s put out seven studio albums since 1992, each one not as good as the last one.
The high point of the last seven albums was TIME TAKES TIME, a solid 4 to 5 star effort released in 1992.
The next release, VERTICAL MAN in 1998, was also a good album, also deserving a solid 4 star plus rating, but not quite as good as TIME TAKES TIME.
After that we get the Christmas album, I WANNA BE SANTA CLAUS in 1999, excellent in its own right, but still somewhat of a novelty album deserving no more than 4 stars due to limitations of the material.
We then get RINGO RAMA in 2003, still good but not as good as any of his three prior releases, although also yet another 4 star release.
After that comes the 2005 release, CHOOSE LOVE, that contains several good songs, several quirky ones, and just some plain old goofy stuff. Nonetheless, it is still good overall and worthy, barely, of a 4 star rating, even if, once again, it is not as good as its predecessor.
In 2008 we are inflicted with LIVERPOOL 8, an album of assorted songs that do not mesh well together and none of which is truly memorable. LIVERPOOL 8 is just an average 3-star album that without the name Ringo Starr attached to it probably would never have been released.
Now we get the ever more average Y NOT for 2010. Another dull 3-star album that is not even as good as dull, average LIVERPOOL 8.
Y NOT, as with LIVERPOOL 8, would only appeal to hardcore Ringo fans willing to buy anything Ringo puts out because, Hey, It’s Ringo! It Must Be Good, He’s A Beatle After All!
Rating: 3 / 5