I Bought The Worst Album In The World...TWICE!

[Gail Simone]

When I was a kid, I was such a WHO fan that I actually bought the DISASTROUS, HORRENDOUS Keith Moon solo album. Legend has it that Keith was bored during a slack time for the who, and a bit envious of the success of Ringo's solo albums.

Ringo can't really sing, and neither can I, thought Keith. Why can't I have a huge hit album?

So they made an incredibly expensive, horrific album with one of Rock's greatest drummers, and he only plays drums on three songs. He can't sing, can't keep a tune, and can't write. And to top it all off, he puts his ass on the cover.


CAMP CLASSIC!

I listened to it a lot when I got it, it was like picking at a scab so it would never heal.
Keith's favorite music is surf music, and he does one of my favorite Beach Boys songs, "Don't Worry Baby" in the most HORRID, muzakal version. Legend has it that when one of the back-up singers, a friend of Brian Wilson, played it for him, Brian CRIED. No shit, I'm not making this up.

It should have been left to die.

But it's been remastered and it's maybe three times as long as it was originally due to bonus tracks and materials that are EVEN WORSE THAN WHAT'S ON THE ALBUM.

INCLUDING a tone-deaf version of Don't Worry Baby an octave up, in a terrible falsetto, that might be one of the most awful things I've ever heard.

So of course I bought it.

It's horrible. It's like pudding gone bad.

You should get it. TWO SIDES OF THE MOON!

Gail

[TCJohnson]

Honey, pudding started out bad!

[Damo]

(Ringo can so sing...)

[Lester C.]

Honey, pudding started out bad!
I now think of Bree or Night Swordsman whenever someone uses the word pudding.

[Gail Simone]

(Ringo can so sing...)


Well...let's put it this way. Ringo has a warm, natural voice, but not much singing skill. Supposedly, during the Beucoup of Blues country sessions, they had to have guide vocals or he'd be off-key constantly.

And I LIKE Ringo.

Gail

[the4thpip]

You mean this one?

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EMSTZ2.01._SS400_SCLZZZZZZZ_V39975948_.jpg

[Damo]

Well...let's put it this way. Ringo has a warm, natural voice, but not much singing skill. Supposedly, during the Beucoup of Blues country sessions, they had to have guide vocals or he'd be off-key constantly.

And I LIKE Ringo.

Gail


But it comes out as such a lovely voice in the final product, even if he needed to have his hand held all the way... =)

[Dr Ray Palmer]

"Don't Worry Baby" (the Beach Boys version, not the Keith Moon version) is one of my favorite songs of all time. So now I'm grotesquely intrigued by the thought of this awful, awful cover.

[Gail Simone]

As I say, if you buy the album, there are two versions, and both are horrible, with the falsetto version being death on vinyl.

Gail