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Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll Audio CD

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Ryan Adams Band: Ryan Adams
Title: Rock N Roll
Rating:
Release Date: 2003-11-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: This Is It 2: Shallow 3: 1974 4: Wish You Were Here 5: So Alive 6: Luminol 7: Burning Photographs 8: She's Lost Total Control 9: Note to Self: Don't Die 10: Rock N Roll 11: Anybody Wanna Take Me Home 12: Do Miss America 13: Boys 14: Drugs Not Working 15: Hypnotixed [*]

RA's Very worst
Steer clear of this messy slop rock, its Chuck Berry on heavy drugs. I have most of his albums but this one was the biggest dissapointment. You can't even guess that this is Ryan Adams if you heard it. Cold Roses and Cardinology are highly recomended, this ones going back to BB. .


kick butt rock n roll
I picked up Gold and this. I don't know Ryan Adams' work that well. The guy is a musical chameleon, which is not a bad thing. And he is mega-talented. So I put this in the cd player and wonder why there were so many one star reviews. I hear this album and I read the poor reviews and scratch my head. Ok so it is not the album of the century. But the band cook and you can swing from Nirvana through ACDC and Green Day and Radio Head to the Smiths and so on. So it's not that original? But this is obviously the point with this guy. He loves music and he is thanking those he loves by the greatest compliment he can give - copying them - if pushed I bet he could come up with a Chuck Berry by breakfast, a Hank Williams by lunch and a Bartok symphony in an afternoon. And the songs have balls. .


Nice addition
While not in my top 3 Ryan Adams/Cardinals favorite CDs, it is certainly a welcome addition to any fans collection. I must confess that I am an unapologetic Ryan Adams fan. .


Rock N Roll
Rock N Roll is Ryan Adams homage to well, Rock N Roll. Ryan Adams-Rock N Roll ****

Far from his most prolific release both lyrically and musically though it is by far Adams' most adventurous effort to date. It's raunchy like New York's seedy underbelly, self deprecating like all of rocks greats, and impassioned like all of Adams' great body of work.

The lead track 'This Is It' is one of his most inspired pieces even though the lyrics are less than stellar in places you can feel he is really trying to convey something. '1974' is almost autobiographical yet just fictional enough to feel like a Jack Kerouac novel. 'Wish You Were Here' marks his greatest achievement on this album, and as one of his all time best tracks. Simply brilliant. Both angry and vulnerable at the same time. 'Note To Self' is borderline novelty but succeeds because of the conviction. 'Do Miss America' suffers just the same.

Some of the tracks are forgettable while most of it is unforgettable. Far from his best album Rock N Roll is merely a way for Adams to play guitar, something he says he likes doing more than writing songs. It shows, because where the song as a whole suffers the guitar takes flight in a way Adams' never sailed before or after.


Musically solid, Lyrically ... what happened?
Adams has ever needed help with his lyrics, this is it. If Mr. Geeez, what a mess (on the ladder of success), if you can call Mr Adams' career a success. "Demolition" and "Gold" are far better albums. Any lyrics Paul Westerburg has written blows this completely out of the water. The real pity is, I believe, Adams could have done a whole lot better and indeed, he has. In spite of the great music and execution, I won't recommend this recording, especially to the young and impressionable.


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