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Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell Audio CD

A fair review of the Ryan Adams "Love Is Hell" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Ryan Adams reviews here, or go back to the Ryan Adams tabs.

Ryan Adams Band: Ryan Adams
Title: Love Is Hell
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Release Date: 2004-05-04
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Political Scientist 2: Afraid Not Scared 3: This House Is Not for Sale 4: Anybody Wanna Take Me Home 5: Love Is Hell 6: Wonderwall 7: Shadowlands 8: World War 24 9: Avalanche 10: My Blue Manhattan 11: Please Do Not Let Me Go 12: City Rain, City Streets 13: I See Monsters 14: English Girls Approximately 15: Thank You Louise 16: Hotel Chelsea Nights

Just Excellent.
Great songs about loss and heartache that defy easy catagorization, Adams is a rarity in today's world of bland radio-friendly popular music. This is Ryan Adams at his best. This is a perfect album for a cold winter day, sitting and watching the rain fall.


"This review is not helpful or insightful..."
. . I just wanted to put my two cents in and say that this "album" is one of the rare American musical masterpieces. Whatever you want to call it (and it does vary from track to track) - folk, pop, rock, the tired "alt-country" tag - it's all heartfelt, heartwarming, heartwrenching brilliance. I will never tire of this recording. Ryan Adams is truly a gifted artist and I love everything he's done (at varying levels of course), but nothing touches Love Is Hell.


Stays with you
However, in my opinion, this is his best work to date. There's a truckload of Ryan Adams' stuff out there, and I own most of it. It lives on my playlist and refuses to come off.


Ryan Adams Sings About Love and Hell.
For one thing, it features a cover of the Oasis single, "Wonderwall," which even "amazed" Noel Gallagher. Although Ryan Adams' record label, Lost Highway Records, originally considered it commercially unviable, there are many things that make Love Is Hell (2004) a great alternative-country album. As a singer-songwriter, Ryan seems to draw his inspiration from the likes of Gram Parsons and Jack Kerouac, evident throughout this brilliant album. It's curious that Adams would release an album called "Love is Hell" at a time when his love interest was actress, Parker Posie, who even sang on Rock N Roll. The album also captured the attention of Dead bassist, Phil Lesh, who invited Adams to perform with the project, Phil Lesh and Friends Complete album tracks include:

1. Political Scientist 4:31
2. Afraid Not Scared 4:13
3. This House Is Not For Sale 3:53
4. Anybody Wanna Take Me Home 5:30
5. Love Is Hell 3:19
6. Wonderwall 4:08
7. The Shadowlands 5:18
8. World War 24 4:15
9. Avalanche 5:06
10. My Blue Manhattan 2:22
11. Please Do Not Let Me Go 3:35
12. City Rain, City Streets 3:47
13. I See Monsters 3:54
14. English Girls Approximately 5:40
15. Thank You Louise 2:50
16. Hotel Chelsea Nights 5:10

G. Merritt.


Strikingly solid
Some of the songwriting is not spectacularly original, but Adams exudes charisma and helps personify a great deal of this diverse session. An album I found myself surprised appreciating. What strikes me is the range of vocals he employs throughout the disc, dabbling in many of rock's sub-genres and channeling their masters with absolute ease. The title track never stopped effecting from my first encounter with that chorus.


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