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4.4 out of 5.0 stars 7 Ratings (6 Reviews)

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    yay!

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 26, 2003

    WOW! what a GREAT album! He has so much energy! Crazy! I love it!

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    RINGO

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 2, 2003

    NICE ONE
    I LOVED THE TRIBUTE AND I LOVE YOU MAN!!

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    i wish u were here

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 2, 2003

    today my dear lennon!!!!!!!!!!
    the album is actually good enough to be in the top 10 charts but it is not!!!RIGHT?
    PEACE
    LOVE RINGO

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    Ringo

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 30, 2003

    Good RR CD. Tries to be light and hard edge at same time.

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    Ringo Rama Knocked Me Out!

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 28, 2003

    Admittedly I'm a Ringo fan. I play drums because of one fateful Sunday evening in 1964. Having said that let me tell you about this Album er CD called “Ringo Rama” and SURPRISE DVD included in the CD packaging! Just like the last two studio albums ...both Ringo and Mark Hudson creatively produced the music. The wonderful Christmas disc released a couple of years ago was a major hint at what was to come. ‘Rama has 14 songs lots of high energy Rock, old style rock & roll and a few ballads. The songs are both well crafted and clever. There's Country, Jazz, Rock, The Beatles and Pink Floyd, all rolled up into a pleasing music injected with Ringo's ever-fun personality. The wonderful drum groove that often drove the Beatles music is very evident here. There's an incredible list of players and writers: Clapton, David Gilmour, Herb Pederson, Charlie Haden, Van Dyke Parks, Gary Burr, Timothy B. Schmidt, Shawn Colvin, even Willie makes an appearance. Ringo's regular band, the roundheads led by Mark Hudson are impressive. There are thirteen songs listed with a fourteenth tacked on the end where the Ringmeister plays all the instruments. "Eye to Eye" is a message song about getting along with your neighbors. It is timely right now. There's "Missouri Loves Company", a lighthearted love song with Country overtones. I was immediately knocked out by "Instant Amnesia" (no pun intended). It is both sonically powerful, and held together with a great groove and some of Ringo's best and AGGRESSIVE drumming in years. It features a jazz breakdown with great upright bass played by the brilliant Charlie Hayden, capped off with a trick ending which DJs would love if they would only throw away their play lists and spin this record. There's a song about Queen Elizabeth called "Elizabeth Reigns", taken from the initials "ER" which I guess was seen on signs at the recent Queen's Celebration bash. Another tune, "Never Without You" is a beautiful tribute to old chum and musical partner George Harrison. For me there are 5 standout cuts and the other 9 are quite pleasing. I’m now on my third or fourth spin of the CD and it’s more like 10 stand out cuts. For drummers and docu-fans, the DVD is the treat. It's a documentary on Ringo and company working on the CD. Neato Keen as we used to say. Ringo makes you feel like a long awaited guest at his home and studio. I got a thrill watching Ringo playing these FAST explosive triplets and paradiddles from snare to toms and back again. Did I say the CD is filled with plenty of tasty grooves and impressive fills? As far as I can tell this is the first Ringo album/cd in a long time where he is THE ONLY drummer and percussionist. As much as I like Jim Keltner, it's clear Ringo doesn't need him here. His technique is fun to watch, and he is as lovable as ever. I've watched quite a few documentaries about how a record was made, this one was fun! You'll dig the record too! Matt Josephson, Ashland City, TN onemat2000@yahoo.com Read more Less

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    Ringo delivers solid LP

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 27, 2003

    Picked up the album today (3/27) and I'm quite impressed. Ringo turns in his best album since "Time Takes Time." Ringo seems to have come up with a great working relationship with co-producer of the album Mark Hudson. Hudson seems to have a good s...ense for how to use Ringo's vocal abilites the same way Richard Perry did back in the mid-seventies. The result is an extremely solid album with about four or five very catchy tracks and no real embarrasing ones. The only drawback, per se, is that there isn't any potential breakout track that could garner any radio support, possibly the only one being "I think therefore I rock n roll." I hope people give the album a chance and just don't dismiss it because it's a Ringo Starr album. I would put it third in his overall discography behind 'Ringo' and 'Time Takes Time.' The fact that Ringo is still out there doing it is deserves some applause. Ringo co-wrote all of the songs with Hudson and various other musicians and while he's no McCartney as a songwriter, this gives the album more of a personality than some of his late seventies material that could have been made by anyone. Will Ringo ever have dramatic chart success again? Probably not, but "Ringorama" proves he still deserves to be making records. Read more Less

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