Blast From Your Past by Ringo Starr (Vinyl record album review)

Record basics

Album name: Blast From Your Past

Artist name: Ringo Starr

Year: 1975

Number of discs: one

Label: Apple Records

Collection: Selman

Distinguishing characteristics: hold drilled through top left

Buy it:

Amazon (Vinyl): $49.99

Amazon (CD): $8.50

My review

Level of familiarity before listening

Ringo Starr was (and remains) the greatest Beatle, but I’ve definitely never heard of this record.

What I expected

Despite my positive view of Ringo Starr, I’m aware that he doesn’t have a strong reputation as a songwriter or solo recording artist, and I am not optimistic about this record.

What it was actually like

Oh dear. I guess my first question is, Why would Ringo even make a record like this? Was it just for the money? Was he not getting adequate royalties from his Beatles records in the mid 1970s?

Anyway… No No Song sounded eerily like Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, except it was about cocaine. I’m The Greatest struck me as extremely self-conscious about being a post-Beatles song, which is not a good look.

Back Off Boogaloo was quite bad, and it was around the point when the record got to Only You (And You Alone) that I thought the whole thing might be a joke, and that the joke might have been on me.

Grade

2/5: bad, but I was able to listen to the whole thing