Ringo Starr - Liverpool 8

Liverpool 8 does indeed feel a bit like a comeback: Stewart's "re-production" -- so named in the liner notes as he gussied up Hudson's original production -- turns the music shiny and sleek and there are several cheerful forays into baby boomer nostalgia, whether it's the outright reference to "It Don't Come Easy" on "Gone Are the Days" or Ringo's stroll through his back pages on "Liverpool 8," reminiscent of Paul McCartney's marveling at his past on "That Was Me," a rollicking number on his 2007 album Memory Almost Full. At times, Liverpool 8 recalls Memory in how it balances nostalgia and mortality -- on "R U Ready" Ringo jovially stares into the great beyond -- which is just enough of a hook to reel in boomers who haven't listened to Ringo in years. Nevertheless, this sentimentality, like the Stewart reproduction, is just window dressing on an album that is essentially not all that different than the three that preceded it.

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TRACK LISTINGS
1 Liverpool 8
2 Think About You
3 For Love
4 Now That She's Gone Away
5 Gone Are the Days
6 Give It a Try
7 Tuff Love
8 Harry's Song
9 Pasodobles
10 If It's Love That You Want
11 Love Is
12 R U Ready