Meanwhile… I'm Still Thinking

All of the post-comeback Ringo records are good ones – nothing on them is bad, and there are usually a couple of standouts.

Keepers:

Vertical Man
La De Da

Vertical Man

Solo Beatle comes back with a vengeance, and it would be the first of a string of RingoRecords that are really good (and at times transcendent).

Keepers:

Weight Of The World
Don’t Go Where The Road Don’t Go

Time Takes Time

Keepers:

Hopeless
Alibi
She’s About A Mover

Old Wave

I’ve read nothing but bad things about the bonus track “You Can’t Fight Lightning”, but it’s a little bit Velvets, a little bit early Roxy Music, a little bit Ry Cooder on a bad day, has a fractured Chilton-esque lurch beat and is quite clearly one of the most amazing things any solo Beatle has ever done.

There… I’ve said it.

Keepers:

You Can’t Fight Lightning

Stop & Smell the Roses

Keepers:

Lipstick Traces

Bad Boy

Keepers:

Living In A Pet Shop

Scouse the Mouse / R. Starr and His All-Starr Band

Not my favorite solo Beatle project… no keepers on this one.

A couple of positives though:

1. Ringo was never this bad again, and we all know that he rises from the ashes at some point.

2. Didn’t try to do a punk album.

Ringo the 4th

Keepers:

A Dose Of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Hey Baby

Ringo’s Rotogravure

Keepers:

Snookeroo
No No Song
Only You (And You Alone)
Back off Boogaloo
Six O’Clock

Goodnight Vienna

Keepers:

Photograph
Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond)
You’re Sixteen (You’re Beautiful and You’re Mine)
Oh, My My
You and Me (Babe)
It Don’t Come Easy [bonus track)

Ringo

Keepers:

Who doesn’t like Ringo? No keepers on this one, though.

Sentimental Journey

Keepers:

Coochy Coochy

Beaucoups of Blues