Ronnie Spector - Last of the Rock Stars
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Artist: Ronnie SpectorEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-05-08
Music Label: HIGH COIN
Soundtracks:
- Never Gonna Be Your Baby
- Ode To La
- All I Want
- Hey Sah Lo Ney
- There Is An End
- Work Out Fine
- Here Today Gone Tomorrow
- You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory
- Girl From The Ghetto
- Won't Stop Saying Goodbye
- Out In The Cold Again
Music reviews of Last of the Rock Stars
Music Review: its good but also sad
Rating: 3 Stars
If you are here, you are probably a big Ronnie Spector fan. 40 years past her prime will not attract a general audience. While I find this cd enjoyable I also must recognize that her voice is not even close to what it used to be.
Perfect example "You can't put your arms around a memory" is not new, its off the Joey Ramone produced "She Talks to Rainbows" from 8 years ago. For some reason, its also on this disc. The 8 year old voice is dramatically different from the more recent songs here. "Memory" is in a different league from these songs!
Rather than a knock on Ronnie Spector, its a testament to Johnny Ramone. With only 5 songs, he truly brought the best out of Ronnie Spector.
My spin is this...The Ronnettes were great. Her work with that group is superior to anything else. When she sings today, we (the eccentric Ronnie fans) want to hear something that echos "Be My Baby". We want to hear the trademark vibrato in her voice and classic drum intro. When you hear it on another song, it brings a nostalgic twinkle to your eye.
On Springsteen's/Joel's "Say Goodbye to Hollywood", Money's "Take Me Home Tonight" and Southside Johnny's "You mean so much to me baby" isn't that what they were looking for to give the song its gleam?
Johnny Ramone recognized that and incorporated the Ronnettes' cliches into his 5 song EP. He also knew to not allow any instrumentation to compete with her voice. He knew what to do with her voice.
On this latest cd, it is a hodepodge of many different songs. Any song that rocks out, with loud distorted guitars, does not do Ronnie justice. The first song on this cd does that and fails.
You would think that her version of the Ramones' "Here today, gone tommorow" would be a good choice, but this song fails too. Guitar solos, Ramones song, Ronnie's vibrato...its not a winning mixture.
The best songs are the ones with a familiar 1960s feel to it. It is a more natural vehicle for her voice. "Hey Sah Lo Neh". "Work out fine" and "There is an end" are the best songs.
I saw Ronnie Spector live during the winter of 2006. Her band was made up of, like, teenagers. They were not impressive musicians but, they injected youth, vitality and coolness into her work. Their versions of the classic Ronnettes songs gave them new life. Forget about the guest musicians here (they bring nothing to the cd. You would not even know they were there if they were not on the liner notes) Ronnie should be playing with musicians that are not all nostalgic.
An ideal cd would be a live cd, performing her classic songs, in an intimate setting, with her right-out-of high school bandmates. This is inferior to "She talks to Rainbows" but much better than her 1970s 1980s tacky dance songs.
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Description of Last of the Rock Stars
2006 studio album from the former vocalist with recent Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Ronettes. She sang the lead vocals on Brian Wilson's favorite song ever (''Be My Baby''), she endured a tempestuous marriage to one of the greatest producers (and eccentrics) in pop music, and her voice, whilst maybe not the finest there is, has enough character for many to claim her as their favorite pop vocalist. She has inspired not just musicians of the '60s, but also key bands of the '70s such as Blondie, The Ramones and Patti Smith. To prove her legendary status, this record is crammed full of amazing guest stars, many of whom have showed a big influence of her in their own work: Keith Richards, Patti Smith, Nick Zinner (of The Yeah Yeah Yeah's), the late Joey Ramone (on a great cover of the Johnny Thunders classic `You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory'), The Raveonettes and The Greenhornes. 11 tracks. Laughing Outlaw.Pop CDs
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