What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

RINGO STARR "stop and smell the roses" vinyl, 1981


album chart action: #98 US

singles chart action:
"wrack my brain"..................................#38 US
"stop and take time to smell the roses"....no chart action anywhere
"private property".................................no chart action anywhere

back to the vinyl stack again, and will do so for the next week or so...
Ringo's eighth solo studio set....
album fails to live up to the hype of the likes of Macca,Harrison,Nillson,Stephen Stills,Carl Perkins and Ron Wood all being involved with this one...
all of the above names wrote tracks here, the best of which is the Ronnie Wood one "dead giveaway" which sounds nothing like Ringo's usually dross vocal tones.
interesting to note that Ringo re-wrote his old 1972 hit "back off boogaloo" here and retitled it "back off bugaloo"...he went to see John Lennon just two days before he was shot to work out the new version of this song, John agreed to play guitar on the track, unfortunately, he never lived to provide the finishing touches to the song...
yet, again, another dissapointing Ringo Starr album....
at least he didnt dissapoint me when he narrated "thomas the tank engine and friends" tv show...

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: drumming is my madness
best track: dead giveaway

tracks:

1. private property *
2. wrack my brain **
3. drumming is my madness *
4. attention **
5. stop and take the time to smell the roses **
6. dead giveaway **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plvKeh-HZG0 audio
7. you belong to me **
8. sure to fall(in love with you) *
9. youve got a nice way *
10.back off bugaloo *

3s=0
2s=5
1s=5

rating: 1.5