Blast from Your Past
Blast from Your Past | ||||
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Compilation album by | ||||
Released | 25 November 1975 | |||
Recorded | 1970–1974 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 31:51 | |||
Label | Apple | |||
Producer | ||||
Ringo Starr chronology | ||||
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Singles from Blast from Your Past | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
The Essential Rock Discography | 6/10[4] |
MusicHound | 3/5[5] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [6] |
Blast from Your Past is a compilation album by English rock musician Ringo Starr, released on Apple Records in 1975. It is both Starr's first compilation LP and his final release under his contract with EMI. It was also the last album to be released on the Beatles' Apple label[7] until it was revived in the 1990s.
The album provides an overview of Starr's most successful period as a solo artist. The songs include his
Content
Blast from Your Past provides an overview of Starr's musical achievements as a solo artist during the first half of the 1970s. The album compiles eight singles, one
Release and reception
The album was released in the US on 20 November 1975,[nb 1] and 12 December in the UK.[nb 2][10][11] The latter was issued with a red Apple label.[12] The sleeve for the album was designed by Roy Kohara.[7] In the UK, Apple issued "Oh My My", backed with "No No Song", as a single on 9 January 1976,[13] to promote the compilation and also because both of the songs had appeared there only as album tracks.[14] As with John Lennon's recently released Apple compilation, Shaved Fish,[8] the sales of Blast from Your Past were disappointing.[11] The album failed to chart in the UK and peaked at number 30 in the US.[9]
In his review for the NME, Bob Woffinden wrote that few observers would have expected Starr to have amassed enough hit songs for a greatest hits set five years after the Beatles' break-up, given that he had sung and written little during the band's career. Woffinden criticised the brevity of the album, however, and said that, since only four of the tracks had been significant chart successes in the UK, and many of the songs had not been issued as singles there, "why should [Starr] now consider an album of American 45s a going proposition in Britain?"[15] Writing in their book The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler also commented on its "short weight" nature, saying: "the tracks total no more than half-an-hour. Both sides together, that is."[16]
Blast from Your Past was reissued in the US by Capitol Records in September 1981, while in the UK it was released by the budget label Music for Pleasure on 25 November 1981.[9] The album was issued on compact disc in the UK on 26 May 1987[17] and in the US on 18 January 1988.[18][19]
All the tracks from Blast from Your Past appear on Starr's 2007 career-spanning compilation album Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr.
Track listing
No. | Title | Original Album | Length |
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1. | "You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful and You're Mine)" (Bob Sherman, Richard Sherman) | Ringo | 2:47 |
2. | "No No Song" (Hoyt Axton, David Jackson) | Goodnight Vienna | 2:29 |
3. | "It Don't Come Easy" (Richard Starkey) | Non album single | 3:02 |
4. | "Photograph" (Starkey, George Harrison) | Ringo | 3:55 |
5. | "Back Off Boogaloo" (Starkey) | Non album single | 3:18 |
No. | Title | Original Album | Length |
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6. | "Only You (And You Alone)" (Buck Ram) | Goodnight Vienna | 3:23 |
7. | "Beaucoups of Blues" (Buzz Rabin) | Beaucoups of Blues | 2:32 |
8. | "Oh My My" (Starkey, Vini Poncia) | Ringo | 4:17 |
9. | "Early 1970" (Starkey) | B-side of "It Don't Come Easy" | 2:19 |
10. | "I'm the Greatest" (John Lennon) | Ringo | 3:22 |
Charts
Chart (1975/76) | Position |
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Australian Kent Music Report[20] | 95 |
30 |
See also
References
- Footnotes
- Citations
- AllMusic
- ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 13 March 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
- ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
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- ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.
- ^ ISBN 0-07-055087-5.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.
- ISBN 0-615-11724-4.
- ^ ISBN 0-9662649-5-9.
- ISBN 978-0-7119-8307-6.
- ISBN 978-0-7119-8307-6.
- ISBN 0-615-11724-4.
- ^ Woffinden, Bob (3 January 1976). "Ringo Starr: Blast From Your Past". NME. Available at Rock's Backpages (subscription required).
- ISBN 0-450-04170-0.
- ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.
- ISBN 978-0-7119-8307-6.
- ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.
- ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ "allmusic (((Ringo – Charts & Awards – Billboard Albums)))". allmusic.com. Retrieved 12 February 2012.