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Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:23 pm
No, it's not,
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Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:24 pm
It's like Albatross meets Neil Young's Harvest Moon being sung by a drunk.
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Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:24 pm
Well, that's ruined it for me.
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Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:25 pm
The album is over. Apart from the last track, that was great. The louder Ringo sang, the better it got.
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Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:25 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
It's like Albatross meets Neil Young's Harvest Moon being sung by a drunk.
A Drunk, not THE drunk.
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Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:25 pm
Subtlety isn't his strong suit.
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Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:26 pm
Anyway, other than interloper at the end, I liked that.
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Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:31 pm
Nightjar wrote:
I don't have this LP.
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Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:31 pm
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Now there's a bit that sounds like Fame.
The Bowie Fame. Not the Irene Cara Fame.
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Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:33 pm
Bette Midler was on the album.
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Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:37 pm
Tony Stark played bass guitar.
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Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:37 pm
Who played drums? Bruce Wayne?
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Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:38 pm
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Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Sun Sep 08, 2019 11:03 am
WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:
Anyway, other than interloper at the end, I liked that.
It was sorta rubbish, but in a good way.
If I see a copy in the £1 bin, I will pick up a copy.
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Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Sun Sep 08, 2019 11:05 am
Wackopedia wrote:
Critical reception[edit] Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic 2/5 stars[10] Christgau's Record Guide D[11] Encyclopedia of Popular Music 2/5 stars[12] The Essential Rock Discography 4/10[13] MusicHound 2/5[14] Rolling Stone (not rated)[15] The Rolling Stone Album Guide 2/5 stars[16] Journalist Peter Palmiere states in his front cover story on Starr for DISCoveries magazine in January 2003 that "The music critics and the record buying public took the album as a joke for Ringo's voice was not suitable for the disco flavored music on Ringo the 4th".[citation needed] Palmiere went on to claim that Ringo the 4th destroyed Starr's career and that he never commercially recovered from it.[citation needed]
Music webzine Drowned in Sound contributor Hayden Woolley commented in 2015 that the disco-flavored album "sees Ringo climb aboard the booty-shaking bandwagon with all the grace of a rhinoceros mounting a swan."[17] Wooley adds that Starr is no "Donna Summer" and that even though the album was a "critical and commercial disaster," it provides "an absolute treasure trove of unintentional comedy."[17] Wooley draws particular attention to "Drowning in the Sea of Love," saying it "bubbles into life with synthesised stabs and a slinky funk bassline, before Ringo falls repeatedly on his face like a drunken man trying to climb down from a trampoline."[17]
PopDose contributor David Allen Jones commented in 2017 that the album's considerable failure did not "seem to bother our boy very much — this was at the height of his LA party animal phase, and he was always seen out and about and drinking copiously and generally loving life."[18] Jones highlighted "Can She Do It Like She Dances?," calling it one of the album's better moments: "the arrangement reminds me a lot of can-can dancing or something, appropriate given the subject matter, in which Ringo drunkenly (and I do mean drunkenly) seems to slobber all over the mike as he wonders if the object of his affection can 'do it' like she dances."[18] Jones adds that Starr sounds "guttural and horny as hell."[18]
In drawing comparisons to Starr's fellow Beatles, Rhino commented that "the idea of a Beatle doing disco didn't pan out nearly as well for Ringo as it did for Paul with 'Goodnight Tonight'."[19]
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Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Mon Sep 09, 2019 3:21 pm
Subject: Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:11 pm
After five years of trying, I've finally managed to register with this forum. Now I can do what everyone wants me to do and do a running commentary on my favourite album of all time. Private Dancer. I can't wait to find out what it sounds like.
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a copy. 
There may be a good reason for that. 