Ringo Starr: Bad Boy CD Track Listing

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Ringo Starr Bad Boy (1978)
Originally Released April 21, 1978\nCD Edition Released March 26, 1991\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Leaving Atlantic Records after the sales disaster of Ringo the 4th, Ringo Starr signed to CBS's Portrait label and returned to the record racks after only seven months with Bad Boy. Working again with Vini Poncia and with a largely pseudonymous band (lead guitar by "Push-alone," and bass by "Diesel"), Ringo turned out a competent effort with a few interesting song choices, notably the old Benny Spellman song "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)" (bet it was a favorite back in Liverpool) and Gallagher & Lyle's "Heart on My Sleeve," and some that were beyond him, such as the Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go." But Ringo needed more than competence to reverse his career decline, and Bad Boy sold only to the same hardcore Beatles collectors who had pushed Ringo the 4th into the lower reaches of the charts for half a dozen weeks. -- William Ruhlmann \n\nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nThe second Ringo album in a row to miss the charts completely, 1978's Bad Boy ranks right up there with George Harrison's Gone Troppo as the worst album ever released by a member of the Beatles. Produced by schlockmeister Vini Poncia, the clueless nature of record is best summed up by the stiff disco cover of the Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go," which is actually (and unbelievably) one of Bad Boy's highlights. The other tracks here barely qualify as filler, although Ringo's rendition of the old New Orleans soul classic "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)" does exude some hangdog charm. For the most part, Bad Boy sounds like the work of a man who keeps making records simply because he doesn't know how to do anything else. Poor Ringo. --Dan Epstein \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nYikes! How the mighty have fallen..., March 11, 2004 \nReviewer: Jeffrey Lees (Camp Hill, PA United States) \nWow! This album is...huh...ok, look. Ringo Starr released some fantastic music during his solo career and the work he is currently doing is above reproach, but this album...is ununspired, insipid, trivial, lackluster, directionless and lifeless. I'm a Beatles FANATIC and as such do not regret spending my money on this disc. But, as a word of warning, as big a fan as I am, this album will very possibly live out the rest of its days firmly shelved, unless my cat knocks it onto the floor. I guarantee, however, that it will never again see the inside of a CD player. I hate to write a review this harsh because I LOVE RINGO, but yikes...how the mighty have fallen... \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nShould have been called "Bad, boy!", March 20, 1999\nReviewer: A music fan\nAs much as I love Ringo and his work, this is the absolute nadir of his catalog. As one of the worst albums by any of the ex-beatles, this sad little collection of warmed-over disco beats and hokey scmaltz does not endear itself. Several of the tracks are from Ring's long-forgotten "Ringo" TV special,a version of Twain's "Prince & the Pauper", with Ringo playing both himself as a rock star, and as Ognir Rats (the pauper). As such, these are the most successful tracks ("Heart on My Sleeve", etc.). But songs like "Where Did Our Love Go?" just don't cut the musical mustard. A long and winding road indeed from the multi-smash days of the 1973 "Ringo" album. Luckily, he has since recovered from this fiasco, most recently with the highly recommened "Time Takes Time" and "Vertical Man" albums.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nNot among the best of Ringo Starr's albums, March 17, 1999\nReviewer: just one guy (where high school girls don't look like Joyce Hyser) \nRingo Starr's BAD BOY offers three worthwhile songs: "Hard Times," a solid rocker; "Heart On My Sleeve," a from-the-heart pop tune; and "Tonight," in which Ringo delivers an affecting vocal about new love. Beyond that, it varies from so-so to so-what. The production value on "Who Needs A Heart" and "Monkey-See, Monkey-Do" grew on me through the years, although I wouldn't include either on a best-of collection (and Ringo hasn't asked me to compile one). Ringo Starr's BAD BOY is for the fan who wants to have everything. Those who would like to hear one of his best albums should try TIME TAKES TIME, RINGO, or GOODNIGHT VIENNA; the latter two now include superb CD bonus tracks.\n\nHalf.com Album Credits\nJames Newton Howard, Contributing Artist\nBob Schaper, Engineer\nVini Poncia, Producer\n\nAlbum Notes\nPersonnel: Ringo Starr (vocals, drums); Doug Riley, James Newton Howard (conductor); Git-tar, Push-a-lone (guitar); Hamisch Bisonette (synthesizers); Morris Lane (keyboards); Diesel (bass); Vini Poncia's Peaking Duck Orchestra & Chorus.\n\nDigitally remastered by Victor Anesini (CBS Records Studios, New York, New York).\n\nRealizing that his hard-earned reputation as an important rock & roll artist was rapidly slipping away from him, Ringo made an all-out attempt to revitalize his career in 1978. Hot on the heels of a bizarre, though basically entertaining network TV special, Ringo released BAD BOY, a stripped down album that seemed to be his attempt to get back to some serious music making. Eschewing the all-star approach that Starr had employed so successfully in the mid-seventies, BAD BOY is the work of Ringo and some uncredited session musicians.Starr and his band manage to inject some real rock & roll feeling into the proceedings. The highpoints of BAD BOY are Starr's earnest pop-rock rendition of Gallagher & Llyle's "Heart On My Sleeve" and a fun, good-natured version of The Supremes "Where Did Our Love Go?" Though BAD BOY is one of Ringo's lesser works, it goes down easy and showed that Ringo was on the road back to a full musical recovery.
This rock cd contains 10 tracks and runs 34min 29sec.
Freedb: 6608130a
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