The "Ram" Remaster Thread
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John Mackintosh:
Now Hear This plays between some of the song selections when going through the DVD menu. In fact, it is this very snippet you posted from Youtube that ends with the bleating sheep.
I need to dig out the old cd to hear them all... http://bootlegzone.com/album.php?name=nht
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oobu24:
John Mackintosh:
Now Hear This plays between some of the song selections when going through the DVD menu. In fact, it is this very snippet you posted from Youtube that ends with the bleating sheep.
I need to dig out the old cd to hear them all... http://bootlegzone.com/album.php?name=nht
Way back in the summer of '71, during my high school yeasrs, I used to hang out at the local radio where a friend of mine had landed a part time job, helping out. The DJ got to know us and we would sit in the booth with him, keeping dead silent when he was on the air. I would love to go back in time and see if that station got a copy of that now ultra-rare Brung to Ewe By promo disc, written up on page 74 of the Ram book. I have no recollection of it but do remember Uncle Albert was hot as hell that summer, played constantly. Also recall that we watched the Billboard charts and Carole King's Tapestry kept Ram out of the top spot here in the U.S.
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I got mine I got mine I got mine! I played with all the packaging and The Little Book of Sheep. I'm going into a Paul coma for a few days. I was going to give my old Ram CD to my BF but now I might keep it. Just for the screwing Beetles on the back.
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garyb1971:
Danish Macca:
Ram has just received its best review ever! On the very respected site Pitchfork, it has received 9.2 out of 10! http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16651-ram/
Cracking review
You just stole my reply! Cracking review!
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John Mackintosh:
oobu24:
John Mackintosh:
Now Hear This plays between some of the song selections when going through the DVD menu. In fact, it is this very snippet you posted from Youtube that ends with the bleating sheep.
I need to dig out the old cd to hear them all... http://bootlegzone.com/album.php?name=nht
Way back in the summer of '71, during my high school yeasrs, I used to hang out at the local radio where a friend of mine had landed a part time job, helping out. The DJ got to know us and we would sit in the booth with him, keeping dead silent when he was on the air. I would love to go back in time and see if that station got a copy of that now ultra-rare Brung to Ewe By promo disc, written up on page 74 of the Ram book. I have no recollection of it but do remember Uncle Albert was hot as hell that summer, played constantly. Also recall that we watched the Billboard charts and Carole King's Tapestry kept Ram out of the top spot here in the U.S.
That's prolly what this cd is that I gave the link for. I just listened to it & it is so cool & sooo 70s Paul & Linda! Ram ON! KO! I did too! Fangirl time!!!
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I'll be trying to get the deluxe version here in australia it does make me think that RAM must be an album close to Paul's heart there are reasons I know. First post Beatle and one with Linda credited even Band on the Run didn't get the special treatment as RAM has got. anyway try to get my box set with goodies
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Loving the Ram reviews. Thanks for the links. Keep em' coming. It's only taken 41 years!!! I'm Ramming On!
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Page 75 of the Ram book has a few words from Jan Wenner's infamous Rolling Stone review of the album, citing especially his description of it as "inconsequential" and "monumentally irrelevant." Time has resulted in the last laugh being on him, as those words perfectly describe the importance of his review! Indeed, perhaps we can now coin a new term for an album that starts off being slagged and ultimately shakes off such verbal arrows and is redeemed by the passage of time. Let's call it RAMDEMPTION! Ram On Everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!
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HMV in Toronto, Canada been playing Ram continuously, they don't usually play Paul's music, they didn't play Kisses album, that tells you something about Ram.
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Beatleship:
HMV in Toronto, Canada been playing Ram continuously, they don't usually play Paul's music, they didn't play Kisses album, that tells you something about Ram.
Toronto struck me as a very "Paul town" when I was up there two years ago for the concert. The pre-concert get together at the Loose Moose was all-Paul, plus a local radio station played side two of Band on the Run that I happened to hear while in the hotel room in the early afternoon before the concert.
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John Mackintosh:
Beatleship:
HMV in Toronto, Canada been playing Ram continuously, they don't usually play Paul's music, they didn't play Kisses album, that tells you something about Ram.
Toronto struck me as a very "Paul town" when I was up there two years ago for the concert. The pre-concert get together at the Loose Moose was all-Paul, plus a local radio station played side two of Band on the Run that I happened to hear while in the hotel room in the early afternoon before the concert.
That happens when He is in town, if you listen to Toronto radio stations they rarely play Paul music, the occasional Band on the run or Jet on the 70s station, so sad, and no posters on the record shop windows when Paul's album is out, imagine HMV here had only one copy of the deluxe set and was sold, I had to ask them to get me one, still don't have it, but they had the vinyl which I got.
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Danish Macca:
Ram has just received its best review ever! On the very respected site Pitchfork, it has received 9.2 out of 10! http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16651-ram/
Why only a 9.2?!? This is unacceptable. Ram deserves a 10/10. It is an A+ album, not an A- album.
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John Mackintosh:
Page 75 of the Ram book has a few words from Jan Wenner's infamous Rolling Stone review of the album, citing especially his description of it as "inconsequential" and "monumentally irrelevant." Time has resulted in the last laugh being on him, as those words perfectly describe the importance of his review! Indeed, perhaps we can now coin a new term for an album that starts off being slagged and ultimately shakes off such verbal arrows and is redeemed by the passage of time. Let's call it RAMDEMPTION! Ram On Everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!
I believe Jon Landau wrote the original Ram RS review, not Wenner.
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My replace deluxe box set arrived today and it isn't bent. About ready to really get in to it.
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Darth_McCartney:
garyb1971:
Danish Macca:
Ram has just received its best review ever! On the very respected site Pitchfork, it has received 9.2 out of 10! http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16651-ram/
Cracking review
You just stole my reply! Cracking review!
I so LOVE the Pitchfork review! It's dead on. That's the one it should have gotten in '71 instead of that Jon Landau, Rolling Stone "pitchfork." What I hate...is myself for letting that scathing Landau review totally affect me. I let him decide if I should like it or not. So....I'm so happy I have this review to finally put in words what I so wished I could have back then...but, I was young and easily influenced. I sort of believed what I read. Now I still believe what I read....if it's written objectively and with credibility. The Pitchfork review of RAM is!!!!! The reviewer so totally got it...as did Rolling Stone this time around. Better late than never.
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JoeySmith:
John Mackintosh:
Page 75 of the Ram book has a few words from Jan Wenner's infamous Rolling Stone review of the album, citing especially his description of it as "inconsequential" and "monumentally irrelevant." Time has resulted in the last laugh being on him, as those words perfectly describe the importance of his review! Indeed, perhaps we can now coin a new term for an album that starts off being slagged and ultimately shakes off such verbal arrows and is redeemed by the passage of time. Let's call it RAMDEMPTION! Ram On Everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!
I believe Jon Landau wrote the original Ram RS review, not Wenner.
You are right...I was confusing him with Wenner who did the very lengthy interview with Lennon that was turned into the paperback Lennon Remembers
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Our deluxe edition arrived today - absolutely brilliant!!! The 8 x 10 photo prints are beautiful!!! LOVE the picture of Paul and Linda seated at the piano, the face on Linda's leg made us smile. Thrilled to see the facsimiles of Paul's original handwritten lyric sheets and notes, what a privilege to have a look at history in the making - delightful!!! Looking at the pictures, one may truly feel the love of family and animals experienced within the McCartney family - incredibly heartwarming!!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this...... "Wherever I went Linda would just be with me. That was one of the amazing things about our relationship actually; a fact that never really seemed to me - or her, I think - to be unusual." ~ Paul McCartney Our favorite release from the Archive Collection thus far - sooooo much LOVE and care found within this presentation, very well done!!!
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Beatles4Ever&Ever:
Darth_McCartney:
garyb1971:
Danish Macca:
Ram has just received its best review ever! On the very respected site Pitchfork, it has received 9.2 out of 10! http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16651-ram/
Cracking review
You just stole my reply! Cracking review!
I so LOVE the Pitchfork review! It's dead on. That's the one it should have gotten in '71 instead of that Jon Landau, Rolling Stone "pitchfork." What I hate...is myself for letting that scathing Landau review totally affect me. I let him decide if I should like it or not. So....I'm so happy I have this review to finally put in words what I so wished I could have back then...but, I was young and easily influenced. I sort of believed what I read. Now I still believe what I read....if it's written objectively and with credibility. The Pitchfork review of RAM is!!!!! The reviewer so totally got it...as did Rolling Stone this time around. Better late than never.
The bigger travesty is it probably affected Paul & the direction his music took. If Ram received positive reviews, he might have continued making low-fi, indie, eclectic records. Macca's style definitely turned more pop, bigger production as the decade went on. I much prefer Paul's minimalistic records (1st 3 albums, M2, fireman).
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JoeySmith:
Beatles4Ever&Ever:
Darth_McCartney:
garyb1971:
Danish Macca:
Ram has just received its best review ever! On the very respected site Pitchfork, it has received 9.2 out of 10! http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16651-ram/
Cracking review
You just stole my reply! Cracking review!
I so LOVE the Pitchfork review! It's dead on. That's the one it should have gotten in '71 instead of that Jon Landau, Rolling Stone "pitchfork." What I hate...is myself for letting that scathing Landau review totally affect me. I let him decide if I should like it or not. So....I'm so happy I have this review to finally put in words what I so wished I could have back then...but, I was young and easily influenced. I sort of believed what I read. Now I still believe what I read....if it's written objectively and with credibility. The Pitchfork review of RAM is!!!!! The reviewer so totally got it...as did Rolling Stone this time around. Better late than never.
The bigger travesty is it probably affected Paul & the direction his music took. If Ram received positive reviews, he might have continued making low-fi, indie, eclectic records. Macca's style definitely turned more pop, bigger production as the decade went on. I much prefer Paul's minimalistic records (1st 3 albums, M2, fireman).
You're so right. I guess one can never know for sure what it might have changed. All I know from listeing to the remastered RAM, is that it is superb from beginning to end....not just the sound of it.; You can guess it's my new favorite all time Paul solo album..Love it. It rocks. It's gentle and melodic when necessary; it's everything; and it' answeres John and other issues of the media. incclding howPaul should behave/record...."Smile Away"(all the time), I don't think so...... It's so so much deeper than I thought it was.....and I really hate that I've totally ignored it all these years; hate myself for that and for my influence from Rolling Stone as a pre-teenerager,. Now the "Stone has reversed itself and other critics....(Pitchfork) praise it. I'm so in love with it. Melodically, it's genius. And it has ascerbic Paul lyrics...I mean,......Ketchup, soup and pur'ee, don't get left behind........smile inducing as well as acserbic/supberb. Love this album. It's my newPaul favorite.
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Danish Macca:
Ram has just received its best review ever! On the very respected site Pitchfork, it has received 9.2 out of 10! http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16651-ram/
Well, I don't think that is the best review ever of Ram. Here's the review made by George Starostin for example: http://starling.rinet.ru/music/paul.htm#Ram "This is unquestionably the best pop album of 1971 and one of the best pop albums of the entire decade. A true classic." The allmusic review es nice too...http://www.allmusic.com/album/ram-r12641/review "These songs may not be self-styled major statements, but they are endearing and enduring, as is Ram itself, which seems like a more unique, exquisite pleasure with each passing year." And in spanish there are others good reviews of this album, especially good is this essay, is very very interesting: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftheword.beatlesperu.com%2Fram-un-fantastico-album-en-el-cenit-del-rock%2F " In the scenario of 1971, the only albums which in my opinion would be able to compete with those already named Who's next, Sticky Fingers and Led Zeppelin IV. However, the proposed Ram is definitely more innovative and daring than those of the aforementioned albums the Stones and Zeppelin, which continue the line of his previous works, using as source the catalog of blues and traditional country with few surprises relation to gender (perhaps only Latin jazz in the case of those commanded by Jagger). Who's next oozes only, but from a different proposal, creativity, melodic and harmonic richness and the innovative spirit (if the use of synthesizers), which is in RAM, but it surpasses musical daring." Regards, Guille