Heartbreaker

we as a society have moved past the need for a Ryan Adams

I have no feelings about this album at all. It exists, I heard it, and I felt nothing. 3/5

Great. Shame about Ryan since then.

Honestly I lost patience at the opening monologue. There are good tracks here, but they are drowned out by the filler.

First half of this was ok second half got really boring

molto carino

Competently done doesn’t really do much for me. I don’t know why but it’s that sort of southern singer songwriter country thing I always feel like it’s a put on, but I guess people actually are from the south so maybe I’m just being dumb.

Abusive cunt. Music also isn't great.

Hard to listen to this without thinking about Phoebe Bridgers. Good record, bad man.

10/23/26. Always knew To Be Young, but the rest of the album is a solid, acoustic driven pop album. Ryan's got a good voice.

I don’t know. Maybe you had to be there.

Weirdly bob dylan-esk, but also not totally. I only realized now that I haven’t listened to Ryan Adam’s

Пресный и безликий альбом, в котором не нашлось ни одной запоминающейся песни. Традиционное сочетание кантри и фолка не вызывает интереса, а простота аранжировок оборачивается однообразием. Возможно, в контексте 2000 года пластинка обладала определённым ностальгическим очарованием, но сегодня она не оставляет желания вернуться к ней.

'Murica ! - Robert Dimery, je suppose ? Alors franchement, la pochette et le nom de l'album ne m'inspiraient pas franchement confiance. Heartbeaker ? Déjà le nom est cliché et en plus, j'apprends dans la description que le mec a choisi au pif parce qu'il avait un poster devant les yeux ? Super, on sent la grosse inspiration. Et pourtant, quand le premier vrai titre après l'introduction a démarré, j'avais un demi-espoir, c'était du rock pas hyper original, mais plutôt sympathique. Sauf que voilà, ça n'est pas du tout représentatif de l'album dans son ensemble, loiiiiin, de là ! Je dirais que 80 % de l'album consiste en des balades et pas franchement du genre original. D'ailleurs, j'ai d'abord pensé que je n'avais jamais entendu Ryan Adams auparavant, mais maintenant, je n'en suis pas sûr du tout. Parce que tous ces titres lents sont rigoureusement dans le même style et m'évoque un chose : les séries télé américaines des années 2000. Si quelqu'un me lit : vous en avez déjà entendu. Vous savez, ces moments dans les séries où un personnage quitte la série pour une raison X ou Y ou tout autre événement tristounet ? Dans ces cas-là, on a forcément un montage de tous les personnages de la série en train de tirer leur tête du "c'est quand même fort triste, tout ça". Et ce montage, il sera forcément accompagné d'une musique. Eh ben maintenant, je pense qu'il y a au moins une chance sur deux que j'ai déjà entendu une ou plusieurs chansons de cet album dans ces circonstances. Et avoir l'impression d'écouter un album de stocks de chansons génériques de séries, c'est pas très plaisant, comme expérience. Et faut voir la gueule des chansons en questions. On en revient à un gros problème de cette sélection : Robert Dimery semble considérer que les artistes américains (et britanniques) sont l'alpha et l’oméga de la musique et que le reste est essentiellement composé d'exotismes sympathiques (sur les 326 albums écoutés jusqu'à présent, je n'ai eu que 3 albums d'Afrique, nom de Dieu). Et le truc, c'est que cet album est très américain. Vraiment. Avec du banjo, de l'harmonica et l'indispensable chanson sur un État (la Caroline du Nord, en l'occurrence). Et vraiment, je crois que ce genre de niaiserie ne parle vraiment qu'aux Américains. Et Robert Dimery n'a pas trop l'air de s'en rendre compte. Ou peut-être qu'il s'en fout des étrangers qui liront son livre, allez savoir. Bref, je me suis bien emmerdé, mais l'album est sauvé par les quelques titres plus énergiques, qui sont pas incroyables, mais qui sont quand même fort sympathiques.

Dull. Not unbearable but dull.

Lowkey awesome lol

While Ryan Adams is an asshole, he is also a good songwriter. To Be Young is a good song, as is To Be the One, but there are a lot, that just bored me.

God, I love the first track but what a slog the rest of this album is. Adams is so horny for his own loneliness that even with first rate collaborators like David Rawlings, Gillian Welch and Emmylou Harris he can’t help but drain the endeavor entirely of energy. I did use to enjoy this record, but the truth is I only ever loved 2-3 songs on it. I knew there was something corny about it, but the immaturity of the artist in question happened to match my own. I will never escape my shame that I wrote the shitty lyrics from this album on my apartment wall (forever apologies to whatever super had to paint over that when I moved out). Still, credit to Ethan Johns- it sounds good.

It’s a shame he turned into a real piece of shit… because the music is good.

daj mi mesa, brate. glas je lijep i glazba je načelno okej, ali ovo je prije svega toliko dosadnooo, fali mi nešto više. nafrljim glazbu i najjače i i dalje mi se spava, ništa mi ne radi. a unatoč objektivnoj vrsnoći ništa mi se na zvukovnoj razini ne sviđa, ne mogu opisati zašto. čak i jedna-dve žešće stvari opet nekako bezvezne i pičkaste. ne znam zašto mi se baš ovo ne sviđa, slušao sam slične lagane i jednostavne albume koji su mi svi bili solidniji, neki su mi se dosta dopali. žao mi je, rajane. prethodno preslušanom njegovu albumu (»gold«) dao sam prestrogo kečinu, tada mi se činio predug (sad shvaćam da je 70 minuta mala beba...), no ne mogu ovomu dati trojku kad mi se apsolutno ništa ne sviđa, jebiga [odslušao i napisao 19/10/26]

Damn it all, I really liked this. For the most part. Side two definitely drags, like a lot. But there are a bunch of seriously beautiful tracks, and Ryan Adams definitely knows how to make country approachable. Liked this a fair amount more than Gold, still don't like this little prick though. Can't in good conscience give this more than a 3, but yes, I will be spinning this one again. Fave tracks: - To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High) - My Winding Wheel - Amy - Bartering Lines - Call Me on Your Way Back Home - Don't Ask for the Water - In My Time of Need - Sweet Lil' gal (23rd/1st)

It's a nice listen but now that I've listened to other folk rock, I can firmly say that it's a little generic. I don't have too much to say about this album other that it was a good listen. Yeah the guy was a piece of shit, but he made some ok music. Highlight: Damn Sam 6/10

Gross qualms about Adams aside, this record is pretty alright. He sings like Mick Jagger and Jeff Tweedy fused into one and plays guitar with a sort of punkish intensity even on these soft alt-country numbers. Good for the sunsets! In good company with Pete Yorn. Vocal mix on My Winding Wheel is the first time in ages, I feel, that I've actually stopped to make note of poor mixing though. Good lord, man.

Some songs good, some not so good. Pretty average album for an album to hear before you die.

4.65

Even if he didn’t suck as a person this wouldn’t be that great.

Love Ryan Adams. One of our greatest songwriters. But this one is way too mellow for me. Giving it a four anyway. 4

This is a good album. It's not one that inspires me to return to it, but I can see why he has a fanbase. I'm between three and four stars, but I'm feeling generous, so I'll give him four. It's nice and rootsy, and easy to listen to.

wthelly no sabía quien era, motion sickness es su culpa no estaré escuchando

Once again, a big ol’ removal of art and artist here. Makes sense the first track is them arguing about Morrissey. This is pretty solid. Reminds me of a more country version of Damien Rice and David Gray. Gets a little bit too slow and patient towards the end. Could have done with losing a couple of tracks. Anyway enjoyed it more than I was expecting, but that’s not the highest bar

1089 - "Here's your juice box and orange slice. Thanks for coming."

Pretty enjoyable

More less.

You know you're in for a treat when the first track (Not a song) is about Morrissey, and somehow Morrissey is the better person in the conversation compared to Adams. Pro-tip for artists. Never name drop a better artist in your music, especially when you're a shitty person who was outed as a predator. Making me defend Morrissey's honor, fuck you. Somehow Adams gets worse. Additionally, this fucker changed San Antonio to "San Antone" for what I assume was a rhyme, and then he proceeds to rhyme it with "what". But aside from all that, this album's fine. Some pretty solid cuts like Oh My Sweet Carolina, Bartering Lines, and Come Pick Me Up. All of this sounds very Jason Isbell, but Isbell is far better. Outside of those solid cuts, the rest of the album is just OK at best. Still... making me defend Morrissey. Unforgivable.

Me gustó el estilo alternativo que sigue Sus canciones se ve que siguen una línea sencilla pero que transmite bastante en su ejecución Disfruté mucho el álbum me externó mucha autenticidad en sus canciones A pesar de la sencillez se vé el esmero técnico en que todo sonará de forma pulida Disfrutable y recomendado

Geez, this dude. His scandals certainly took him down a notch for me -- no one is allowed to mess with Phoebe Bridgers. But encountering this made me remember how much it affected me the first time around. I can't say I hear something that makes me say, "Yes I know he's terrible but you must listen to this." Same kind of flat feeling I had listening to Kanye, just don't want to think about him at all.

Nice voice but impressively bad lyrics

Better than I anticipated. I really enjoyed this

me baja la onda wachoo

If there's one genre of music I consistently don'y like it's country especially male country singers so this album was off to a bad start. Saying that the start wasn't too bad but it didn't improve - its just not my thing

This grated on me, possibly as his reputation as a colossal pillock was in the back of my mind. The generic country rubbish was back (Lucinda Williams all over again)… at times a wannabe Dylan, at others a wannabe Springsteen, but it never even tries to do anything original.

Mixed feelings. At times this was quite a nice listen, at others it was just more generic blues rock fare. I think it worked best when more of the Americana came through and less so when verging too far into country. I’m also mixed as by all accounts he’s a bit of a prick and it kind of sours the listen when you know how much of one he is.

I have mixed feelings of this album, I really liked the songs that were more folky or Indy rock with a country twang and were really enjoyable to listen to and if the album was full of that it would be rated much better for me. However this album has a bit of bloat in the form of plain modern county and I wasn’t a fan of that and skipped a bunch of those songs. Did not realise until halfway through how much of a creep this guy was which is annoying because would not have listened. No good scores for creeps (who are still alive and profit of listens)

I liked the style of this a lot actually.

very sparse. more singer/songwriter than Gold. which is weird because the lyrics are a lot weaker imo. i didn't love it. Shakedown on 9th Street, the only banger after the first two tracks, comes in like a scream and disrupts the flow. Damn, Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains) is pretty annoying too. myeh. deserves to be one of the 1001? i think we only need one of his albums on here, if that. and Gold is a lot better than this.

This guy can be a clown and exceptionally full of himself...but he does make good music. It's a grudging 4 for me

Þessi gaur er creep og platan hans er ekkert spes.

I went in biased thinking Brian Adams, but this is some great somber Americana

This was just uninteresting!

Pretty good standard Ryan Adams sad album with a couple of slightly more upbeat circuit breakers. Nothing particularly profound but nice enough. 3.5 stars.

Sounded more like a coffee shop performer than someone that should be featured on the 1001 project. Not terrible but pretty amateur

It did for me what early Ray Lamontagne albums did for me.

The first song is so great that I am bumping this album up a full point to a 3. Otherwise I like this but it is too long and too similar sounding.

Guy with a bad Rep. Mediocre at best.

Kinda nice, kinda plain, kinda long. Come Pick Me Up has a laughably bad harmonica solo. The rest of the harmonica isn’t any better. I actually kinda like the stripped down sound at times but it’s hit or miss. 5/10

Lovely music in the background of the American-themed steakhouse

There's other music that does this sort of stuff better. Felt pretty generic. Maybe I need to be American to love this. 2.5

Kitara ja mies. Huuliharppunointiakin. Semmosta ihan okei kantria.

Aivan mukavan kuulosta kevyttä kantrirokkia(?). Ei isommin omaa sydäntä lämmitä, mutta ei käynyt ärsyttämään vaan jaksoi kuunnella levyn.

Gun to my head, this sounds like a lizard person pretending to be a human with strong Dylan influences. He's wildly popular so this is something wrong in my brain. May have been poisoned by the Mandy stuff, but some evidence for my point is the opening Morrisey argument. See!!! we're not lizards, lizards don't argue about records! I'm like you (wink wink)

Never understood the hype for this guy. It’s mostly fine, if a little slow and mopey. But it’s all just so derivative I can’t see what there is to get excited about. Seems like in early 2000s people were hanging onto any last hope of a rock revival and so made this guy into something he never was? I dunno. Perplexing. Unrelated but boy does he seem like a world-class prick

Has to be one of the hottest starts for an album that weve encountered I wish they kept it more rock n roll because it gets a teensy weensy bit too slow for me. With that said, this is a great feature and has some cuts to chew on. Vocals are also really solid throughout

Ryan Adams was one of my top artists in college and shortly after. I think I even bought an ex girlfriend “Love Is Hell” on CD for Valentine’s Day - not sure what I was thinking but pretty classic brain dead 23 year old move. Loved and still love Americana (whatever that means) singer songwriter stuff with a little blues and rock to it. This album however isn’t quite as consistent as some others. Easy Tiger might not hold up, but that’s my most played album of his. Or Jacksonville City Nights - such a good honky tonk vibe. Now I guess he’s kind of canceled because he was a shithead to Mandy Moore and Phoebe Bridgers. Can’t do that. Hasn’t had success recently. Still think he’s one of the great song writers of our time.

Capz que me haya tocado un domingo o lunes lo beneficio, pero me encantó. La armónica generando ambientes totalmente sensitivos, espectacular.

Channeling his inner Bobby D here, and by that I mean Dylan, not Davro

really good

A Noah Kahan inspiration? I quite enjoyed this one

I'm starting to understand that "singer-songwriter" is code for country folk. Hated it. The faster ones I could mostly listen to but they were rare

To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High), My Winding Wheel, Call Me on Your Way Back Home, Come Pick Me Up, Why Do They Leave?, Shakedown on 9th Street 3.5

3/5

Can’t separate the art and the artist. -1 for being sleazy

Love the album, hate the person. Would be 5 stars but downgraded to 4 because Ryan Adams is such a piece of shit.

Musical vomit

I don't think I have ever actually listened to Ryan Adams properly. Good stuff, that first track is a great intro to him.

Crap

Not for me, heard he’s a horrible person too. Doesn’t deserve a good rating then. Harmonica out too is immediate 1 star

I mean, I enjoyed some parts of it, but it also represented a shift towards what country is now.

I was fully expecting to hate this, the last Ryan Adams record I got on this generator has been the lowest rating I've given so far (0.8!), and I'm 400+ records in. Not to say I like this, I still find it forgettable or not particularly suited to my tastes, but it's not nearly as bad as I anticipated. I've given it 3 listens so far, I find it interesting how sometimes things feel a bit like Dylan, but other times the Americana just consumes the composition. Other times it feels like we were trying to get VH1 recognition, that light energy musicianship for the delicate souls. I don't think the positives outweigh the negatives, especially since the positives are mid-tier. I'm genuinely confused why this guy is on the list at all. 2.1/5

Started off really good, got too slow for my taste somewhere in the middle.

Listened on an early September morning. Starts well and finishes well but sags in the middle.

Just not an enjoyer of this one! So dull, I have a hard time understanding why this was included on the 1001 albums generator list. I didn't realise who the hell Ryan Adams was, until I look at his other albums. Then I found that he did the album "Gold" which is a lot more deserving I reckon to be on a must-hear list. This album has a lot of the 'bad' of country on here, while the last handful of 'country' albums I've got have been pretty good, bit of a shame this one wasn't good. Highlight Song/s: "Why Do They Leave"

My level of surprise of surprise when Ryan got cancelled for being a douche; 1/10. This album is still 10/10 though.

Little Bob Dylan vibes. Amy a pretty song...

I wish this guy was worse at music.

Ryan Adams I really liked this. I didn’t realize he was such a great folk singer. I loved the David Rawlings and Gillian Welch contributions.

I love his songwriting, this album is so great and i love how his songwriting evolved after this too. Love gillian welch and david rawlings too

I liked this. It got a bit sleepy at times and I just don’t think his voice is interesting enough for that many songs to be that bare. But great lyrics especially in don’t ask for the water

One Ryan Adams on the list is careless. Two is mental

Had some hopes for this one, but it's mostly the sort of soft, slow country that puts me right to sleep. A couple of up-tempo songs in "To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)" and "Shakedown on 9th Street" show Adams is capable of delivering some scorchers, but that's not the audience for this album and neither am I.

Ik weet niet goed wat ik hier van moet vinden. Het is denk ik een soort country, maar ik ga er vanuit dat de echte country-liefhebber hierop spuugt. Het is een soort kant-en-klare magnetron lasagne. Ik kan me er niet echt aan storen, ik schrijf er ook niet over naar huis. En het is met 15 tracks een flinke bak om nuchter en in je eentje op te eten. Ik zal 3 sterren geven.

White boy has some feelings with a guitar in the back of the room and occasionally plays it with maybe a harmonica

Easy to listen to, though it's really not my preferred style of music.

This one resonated with me more than his other albums, I'll probably find myself returning to this in the future.

Very good album. Shit person. Sigh...

Eh. I liked it, and it has the vibes of something that should be right in my wheelhouse...but it didn't do quite enough to pull me in. I kept waiting for the point in time where it felt like a great album. 3.4

Poor. Awful album. Awful man.

The first track is an argument about the awfully overrated Morrissey, so I have low hopes. "To be young" is at least better than Morrissey.

Snoozefest

Surprisingly decent? Like, I'm not coming back to it again, but it's fine enough country rock. I'd probably like it more if I weren't sick of all the country rock coming out these days.

Its country... booo