Heartbreaker

Bartering Lines was an interesting tune. Shakedown on 9th had White Stripes vibes

When I was at college, I knew a lot of people - mainly girls I had crushes on - who were really into Ryan Adams, so I spent a lot of time trying to understand what people saw in him. Ultimately I just realized I didn’t like his music because it’s a shallower version of stuff I like better, and this is the epitome of that. It’s shallower takes on the kind of alt-country that bands like Wilco were doing much better at the time. The more energetic rock songs hold up better, and suggest he would have had a more fruitful career if he’d embraced that sense of fun rather than trying to be an artist.

Nothing kills a personal album with a lot of love songs quite like finding out the artist is an abuser. 4/10

Started strong but quickly became boring. Let's go, Willie

Better by a long chalk than Gold. But it's kind of Elliott Smith lite at its best.

Boring

damn i was just gonna write "this sounds like sufjan stevens for straight people" but then i found out this guy actually sucks more than his music does

ryan adams' heartbreaker was a mellow album and unfortunately kind of a boring one. by far from the worst album i've heard, i did enjoy the different kind of country found here. i'm given to understand adams created some early indie folk country sounds, though it's clear to be not my style of music. i did enjoy the lyrics, too, but gosh there was that one song or two that went too heavy on the harmonica.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Not my thing, expected more of it as I heard the name before.

Рот ебал кантри

A dreary dirge of an album, hard to get through.

Starts well, gets dull. Welch and Rawlings are great people to have around as backup but they seem wasted on this project

Album of ballads which was ok, but not my thing at all. Some fun honky tonk at the beginning, but overall was just sort of meh to me. Won’t listen to this again. Ryan Adams I’ve avoided for a long time thinking it wasn’t for me and listening to this album confirmed my opinion that it wasn’t for me.

Coffee shop playlist... music for not listening to.

Not at all memorable. I like Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson. This isn't interesting by comparison. I suppose if you feel that it's nice to have modern topics and modern instrumentation and modern production in country, you might like this, but it did nothing for me.

Today is a dark cloudy rainy day, and this album fits the vibe just right. I've heard of Bryan Adams but not Ryan Adams. Didn't know what kind of music it was. It's a little close to country but not quite. I like the acoustic guitar sound throughout. It's kinda depressing. hahaha Don't think I would ever revisit this. 2 stars.

Didn't love it. Listened twice but barely noticed sorry Ryan

🎶My hair is growing🎶 🎶Growing all the time🎶 🎶Look how sensitive I am🎶 🎶Cause my voice is so fine🎶 🎶Every beer I've ever had🎶 🎶Is on a shelf above my bed🎶 🎶And sometimes I turn my speakers🎶 🎶Facing out my window🎶

I feel like this would be an older album that’d influence musicians in the future, but it’s from 2000. There’s nothing new said here and no new musical approaches. This is the first time, however, that I have heard the singer/songwriter genre contain so much country & rockabilly flavor. Still, this album was nothing special for me. Maybe I didn’t listen to the lyrics hard enough, but who knows. Would rather listen to Bob Dylan or James Taylor any day.

Soppy shit

Kinda mid

nah

I remember liking this when I first heard it years ago. I don’t think it’s just because of what we know about Ryan Adams now, but I didn’t like this as much as I recalled. A couple great songs but a lot of boring stretches.

I never heard of Ryan Adams, but according to the reviews on here, he's not a very nice fellow. Whatever, I don't have any desire or time to read up on him. His music was a competent but unexceptional immitation of some classic blues and americana singer-songwriter ballads from the 50's and 60's. 2 yawns out of 5 🥱🥱

Fairly bland singer songwriter fare. The louder bits are better than the quieter bits. Trying to be Bob Dylan a bit too much in places. Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High) Date listened: 25/07/23

Honestly boring.

Are you kidding me? There's ANOTHER album by this Americana-wannabe who copies Dylan and Springsteen? He blows harder on the harmonica and, wow, suddenly it's a pop hit. Screw off, I'm not in the mood to listen to 52 minutes of pop ballads. Not today, not ever. 2 stars because it's not unlistenable, and there were a few songs I could bare. Doesn't mean I like it... at all.

It's good music but the musician is too problematic.

I'm not a good judge of musical quality, but this is the first album that felt under-competent to me

A bit ... boring? 2/5

HL: "To Be Young", "Bartering Lines", "Amy", "Call Me On Your Way Back Home" 2.5 😪 Kinda bored, which I think is about the worst feeling a record on the 1001 list should give me- but it isn't without some strong moments (see above), and maybe a future revisit would stir up some feelings that were absent from the 1st listen

иногда чутка цепляет, но в целом брухб

He's musically good, what about his misconduct? Hard to say.

Very slow and boring. One good song.

very boring, i didn’t like it

Folk estadounidense con demasiadas canciones lentas. Ni fu ni fa. Pues no, al final un 2. Muuuchas canciones lentas.

Was familiar with To Be Young but nothing else by RA. I liked a few songs here, bored by a few. Oh My Sweet Carolina and Shakedown on 9th Street were good but every time the album seems like it’s getting interesting, it just plummets to average again.

Not my type...

slow and sad. Ya, not worth my time to finish this.

Harmoni-can you not

Dunno who this guy is but the first song is really famous. There ya go eh? Otherwise sounds a bit too much like Bob Dylan for me. Update: was gonna be a 3 but this got super fuckin long. 2/5.

Back when this came out, a couple of guys at work cited this as a masterpiece. I never got it. I thought his band Whiskeytown was overrated, too. Plus, I remember thinking Ryan Adams was an asshole. I can't remember what stories I heard about him but I just hated this fucker. Give me Old 97's over this dude any day. Anyway, now I see stories about what a sexual predator this guy is, and I'm glad I hated him. I didn't make it through all of this, but I begrudgingly admit that the song "Amy" is kind of good. Perhaps the rest of it is good, too. But I don't care. And I know that this high ground of mine is rich and all, considering I'm a Kanye fan, but I think perhaps if I like Adams' music before learning what a douche he was it would be different.

My first foray into Ryan Adams. Very Lumineers-ish on some songs. But just not enough OOMPH for me. I had enough by the halfway point. I’m hoping to hear an electric guitar at some point this week in this group. Also, albums should be 12 songs MAX.

They say never meet your heroes, which is great because I’ve never met Ryan Adams, nor is he my hero. This album is great for burning cigarette marks into your XS denim jacket to look cooler and more badass than you actually are. Oh for me to be young again and get distracted by an acoustic guitar and a decent voice. Almost as young as the girls this guy likes. Big time loser. Some of it had some redeeming qualities, but I found the lyrics pretty whiny and those of a “sad boi”. Maybe those are my preconceived notions at work tho. By half way through the album, I was ready to go home, so come pick me up. Talented, I guess. But….meh.

Some good musicianship here. The guitar, piano and harmonica are good, and he has a decent voice as well. That being said, this album falls pretty flat for me. There are just way too many slow songs all over this album and it drags me down to sleep. When I do pay attention to the glut of slow songs they are pretty decently made, I just find that putting them all in a row makes for a rough listen. A highlight is To Be Young, it's a fun and upbeat start to the album. I don't even mind the throwaway intro track since it kind of sounds like a conversation I would have with some buds over some beers.

little boring

Very forgettable

Another case of ending up in a situation where I’m left evaluating whether an artist's shortcomings as a person invalidate their art. But in this case, I kind of felt indifferent overall. Truth be told, a few of these songs in the beginning of the album are okay but there's such a commitment to keeping any one quality or song from standing out. Sorry, but I don't think I'll be revisiting.

Very soft and calm, I don't think I'd listen again because the songs all sounded the same to me, apart from the couple times they got upbeat

🤷🏻‍♂️

Yeah not really for me, To Be Young is a banger but the rest of it was a bit too down/moody for where I was at.

On one hand the fifty minutes pass quickly; On the other there's nothing sticky in the second half. On balance promising roots-songwriting that I'm unlikely to revisit.

Easy background listen Might be an overrating from me because I didnt really pay attention because i had it on in the background whilst working so if you wanna send for me at a later date and use this as ammunition suck ya mom ya illiterate fook

Couple of good songs but nothing I thought was exciting or new

So much sincere longing needs the right recipient in the right mood. But there‘s slight chance this all comes off too tacky. 2.2

Bob Dylan for Urban Outfitter shoppers.

Boring music for boring people.

Your average generic folk-rock album bought at Wal-Mart because de guy was looking nice and cool on the cover.

Some of it sounds nice but it's too sappy for me.

I like the album but the guy is a fuck-wit

This is somehow an improvement of Gold, the first Ryan Adams album to appear on this list. Note; Heartbreaker is not good. At all. But there are a few excellent songs such as “Amy”. Ryan Adams is nonetheless still the epitome of quantity over quality and quite the shitty singer. But I’ll hand this a 2, simply because I wasn’t as angry as I was the last time he was here. I sure hope this was the last of Ryan Adams, though.

Singer/songwriter, list rock, lidt country

Aside from his personal issues, this is mostly just boring. Stunned to recognize the first song though. I had only known him by Mandy and by his 1989 cover, which admittedly was solid.

wtf, where is "summer of 69"

this wasn't, like. bad. but i wasn't really into it lyrics seemed extremely trite and they bothered me so i tried to ignore them. some of the music was okay tho. amy was decent

definitely not my genre. 2.

Not bad, but didn't leave a lasting impression on me. 2,5/5

No one needs to hear this. This is just knockoff Robin Hitchcock.

10/25/22 Too slow for today honestly. Didn’t have much desire to finish the end.

Its just not engaging, his voice is quite average and bland and really most of the album put me to sleep. The only song that I enjoyed was track 2 "To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is To Be High) Track 1 (Argument with David Rawlings Concerning Morrisy) - Shouldn't be on the album, its just rubbish. I can enjoy sleepy slow songs but his voice isn't engaging enough - unless the intention of the album is to help the listener get to sleep - but it even fails at that because of Track 1 - wtf, and track 2 just wakes you up.

"To Be Young" has a bit of twang to it and overall the album it's a wee bit more raw than the bucket of blandness he sent us last time.

I feel bad that David Rawlings is associated with this chode.

Wisselend. Heb het bij het enelaatste nummer stopgezet, vond het wel mooi geweest.

Got time for a lot of Americana, but this leaves me mostly cold.

Hoping for upbeat Canadian eighties rock but ended up with ownbeat audlin ccoustic uzak.

The Winter of '69.

Initial thoughts: amazing vocals, okay lyrics, but generally slow and empty sounding instrumentally. Final thoughts: boring. Sounds like it was made for early 2000’s southern teenage girls crying over a boy who just drove away in his Ford pick-up truck. Most songs are just quiet vocals, a little bit of acoustic guitar, and off-key harmonica. There are 2 interesting songs, they completely carry the album. Every other song sounds the same, and ends extremely abruptly. Best song: Shakedown on 9th Street Worst song: Call Me on Your Way Back Home

Meh too much harmonica, kinda boring

meh

Some decent songs from a less than decent person.

Heeft goede nummers maar niet zo speciaal imo

Ik vond er niets speciaals aan

Dull, and he seems like a bellend. The album starts with wankers arguing about who loves a prick more, and gets worse from there. Musically ok, but lyrically and in terms of the flow of the album, it is crap.

Some decent songs from a less than decent person.

Whether it's true or fair, Adams has always struck me as the kind of trust fund baby who affects a Southern accent so he can sing faux-country and then stops by his favorite artisanal froyo shop on his way back to his Manhattan apartment, which he calls a flat. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's just not something I want to listen to. Best track: Oh My Sweet Carolina

il a ecrit sa propre histoire ou jsp

Not a fan.

Meh at best.

Singer songwriter country-inspired fare - not my cup of tea.

Some pretty neat harmonica here. But overall, this ain't for me. Faves: Damn Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains), Come Pick Me Up

A couple good singles, but it’s hard to listen back without ignoring the context of his shtiness as a person.

Need to hear it again. 2.5/5

4/09/2022 Today's Album: "Heartbreaker" by Ryan Adams - This album was pretty mid. I think going into it, I expected it to be pretty bad, being an album from the year 2000 with the title Heartbreaker and although there are a few break out tracks that really shine, a lot of the folk-country displayed on this record just sounds like John Denver could have done it and so much better. I appreciate the production of this album and on the songs that have a lot of views, there are really great ideas being presented like in the track My Sweet Carolina where the vocals are really clear and present in the mix. However, the only times this album really sounds good outside of that is when the song has a sad tone to it, which gets really old after a while. I think My Winding Wheel is a really great track on it's own and Amy really tugs at the heart strings, but after you hear the good tracks on this album the effort feels like it was really soaked up and the rest of this is just a bunch of filler. I enjoyed it to some extent, but I really think I would just recommend listening to the tracks under the Highlights section and leaving the rest as a bunch of uninteresting and cliché'd country folk. Score: 4/10 Very little value in most of the tracks. Highlights: My Winding Wheel, Amy, Oh My Sweet Carolina

Just like a squirrel trying to fuck a dead girl on the abandoned railway tracks.

Swoon. ... then vomit. Ugh, not in the mood for this drippy whiny-achiness. I suppose there's a time and a place, but not on my watch!

Broke nothing

No.

I thought it was so dull, not an original note on there. I looked up some reviews afterwards to work out why it's on the list and apparently everyone rates it but me! I warmed to it slightly by the end

2.9

Folk estadounidense con demasiadas canciones lentas. Ni fu ni fa. Pues no, al final un 2. Muuuchas canciones lentas.

Un rollo. Un 2. Casi le pongo un 3. Pero en mi lista individual le había puesto un 2. Lo que me ha hecho recular y confirmar mi 2. Si tuviera una B, estaría mejor...:P

A shame this LP can't live up to the wonders of uptempo tracks like 'To Be Young' - while the pace is significantly too slow across the rest of the album, Adams' lightheartedness and genuine delivery do at least make the slower tracks tolerable.

Decent.

2/5 way too lovey for my taste.

Not going to judge the music on the man, as, having just given the Sex Pistols a 5* review and one of them having killed a woman, that would be a bit hypocritical. So I will judge it on the music. Which was pretty dull and depressing. There were a couple of nice songs that I would enjoy in a more soppy moment. But most of it just dragged on.

good modern folk album. Really necessary to be on this list?

I got bored towards the end and stopped listening, maybe I missed out on greatness but I doubt it

I enjoyed To Be Young, but nothing else stood out

We didn’t care for this album. It sounded like the artist was still figuring out their voice, and frequently defaulted to emulating their musical heroes. Occasionally his point of view shone through, and those moments were better.

Apple pie and the fourth of July.

Not sure I'd ever really heard Ryan Adams, only heard "of" him so I was ready to dive in. Instead of a succinct review, here is the timeline of my thoughts as i listened to this album...: "hmm. this seems affected, I'm gonna be annoyed by this..." [1 or 2 songs in] "....you know, this might be pretty good. There are some great melodies in here. I may want to admit it but if we keep going like this I might end up liking it, let's see how the album progresses..." [5 songs in] "....." [after ~7 songs] "...I thought I was listening to Damien Rice for a bit, and I prefer Damien Rice. This is getting a lot more laid-back, slow-paced, and frankly boring..." [after 10 songs] "....sigh...." [a few more] "....." [the album ends depressingly] "yeah, now i want to kill myself. Better yet, I think I'll put on some old Van Halen" 4/10

Why is this on here twice?

Started out ok but went too country and western

I don't really know what to say. Decent songwriting, half-decent voice, music that is as anonymous as the interior decor of a dentist's waiting room

tostonaco

Rollo. Un 2.

I didn’t remember this album being so long and uneventful but here we are. That seems to be my hot take on everything of late. Oh well! Dude’s problematic and all that, but even putting all that aside “Cold Roses” is the only one of his 900 albums I have any interest in revisiting these days. “Look Me Up” is a fine song and the one about NC is pretty enough, but I think trying to intentionally make music that sounds like it came out decades earlier than when you recorded it is a good way for shit not to age well.

Some good blues licks and a few memorable tracks to an otherwise unmemorable album. I didn't hate it, not at all, but felt like the 2 songs, "Bartering Lines" and "Shakedown on 9th Street" are the only tracks I truly enjoyed entirely. True Feelings: 2.5/5

Good album bad person

Not for me

Nothing memorable about this album.... weird lyrics sometimes.

pojken har ju känsla det måste man ge honom. Men det är för tråkiga låtar.

That first song was really kickin' but I grew bored as the album went on.

Second album proposé après 'Gold' que je n'avais pas apprécié (noté 2/5 - pas désagréable mais long et ennuyeux). Ce nouvel album est dans la même veine, tout aussi long et peu intéressant. Il ne mérite pas une meilleure note. Mais là je n'ai pas eu la patience d'aller au bout ... =>1/5

A second record from unremarkable dullard, Ryan "don't call me Bryan" Adams features all of the painful balladry of the other record we heard but this time, with a greaser leather jacket diner sock hop twist. Those words in a row describe to me a hell so fiery, so smouldering with sulphuric smoke that I'm beginning to feel faint. The final song of this record is a "so bad it's good" masterclass as Flyin' Ryan sings the words "L'IL GIRL" repeatedly as though he's trying to avoid waking up his parents in the next room. Another hour wasted in my only hours of consciousness. Thanks 1001. 0 HIGHLIGHTS: Cuts Like a Knife

I hate this album, I hate fake Bob Dylan, I hate real Bob Dylan, I hate Ryan Adams, I hate the mouth organ. I hate I listened too this. I could go on

Did I accidentally listen to the whole thing? Yes. Was it memorable? No.

I actually liked Ryan's music, but he's persona non grata after fucking with my girl Liz. Never again.

Not my thing.

I never "got" Ryan Adams before. Bang average songs with some decent production. Why this appears on this list is a mystery. And there's no "goodwill bonus" for this douche either. Really chuffing boring.

Meh/10 [DROP]

We don't give stars to abusers.

I tried. Everything says he's a singer/songwriter - but this is fucking country music in disguise. I can't do it.

This guy wants to be Dylan, I think as I hear the opening notes. Then it's all downhill. Terribly dull.

Toslow and mellow

Don’t like him

5-star album by a top tier piece of shit person.

Minus 4 points stars for Adams being a shit human.

awful.

He’s a tool.

Just a tame, insignificant acoustic country album that has absolutely no business being on the list. Plus he's supposedly a cunt, and as someone who shares his first name, I'm giving this a one star accordingly as a show of solidarity for all of the other Ryans out there ensuring this process alongside me.

trash

tout a ete donne dans la pochette

Nope

"Eres arte" 🚬 Es la primera vez que escucho a este artista. Es como si un pésimo imitador del, ya de por sí, cuestionable y aburridísimo Bob Dylan, y un pésimo imitador del sumamente talentoso Elliott Smith, hubieran tenido un hijo trovador neoyorquino. Sin talento (pero que cree que lo tiene). Le doy un 0.5/5 porque la producción me parece ad hoc.

His most streamed song is a shit version of a classic by another band all his own stuff is rubbish.

Fuck this guy.

not a country fan

A song by Led Zeppelin.

Fuck Ryan Adams

Motion sickness is a great song. (And they all sound the same anyway)

Not a fan of miserable music.

bo

Setting aside he is an incredibly shitty human being, this is uninspired and just reeks of his influences. Nothing to stand out on its own.

My GOD this is awful, self-indulgent, schlock. I absolutely abhor this type of music, but if you enjoy it, there are hundreds of artists out there doing it better.

I guess it just isn't my style, but I couldn't enjoy this album at all. Firstly I will say, in general country isn't my thing at all, however I like to try and always remain open minded. I felt too many of the songs here just droned on for my liking and I was just waiting for it to end.

Not my favourite album of his, I prefer Accusations. It's not on streaming services though, but you can find it by googling "Ryan Adams Accusations".

country gross

Will not listen due to his personal choices

Fav: To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High) Least Fav: Bartering Lines First song was alright, so I’m annoyed at Ryan Adam’s for making it sound interesting only have that boring country sound that goes nowhere for the rest of the album

++: Amy, Call Me On Your Way Back Home, Come Pick Me Up +: To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High), My Winding Wheel, Bartering Lines, Don't Ask for the Water, In My Time of Need +-: Damn, Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains), To Be the One, Shakedown on 9th Street, Sweet Lil Gal (23rd/1st) -: Oh My Sweet Carolina, Why Do They Leave? --: (Argument with David Rawlings Concerning Morrissey) 3,6/10

Everything on this album has been done before, much better.

BOOOOOOOO

Multiple BMS on this list for this guy? Overrated.

64/1089 instant Morrissey discussion uh ohhh. Viva Hate too 💀 first song was a dud but Winding Wheel was nice enough. The rest of the album was a massive drag for me and just not my taste in the slightest 19/100

Absolute nonsense. Boring and directionless. There will be buskers up and down the country who can whack out a better set of songs.

This dude kinda sucks and his music isn't good enough to justify it.

Bad man.

2. young - 1.5 3. uuheel - 1 4. amy - 1.5 5. Sweet - 1.5 6. Lines - 2 7. Home - 0 8. Sam - 1 9. Pick - 1.5 10. One - 2 11. Leave - 1.5 12. Street - 0 13. Water - 2 14. Time -2 15. Sweet - 1.5

Honestly couldnt tell I was listening to music for the first 20 minutes. Thats how unimportant it was

Ew nooo

No.

I went through my acoustic phase years ago, getting really into singer-songwriter stuff. I don't get this album. Maybe the lyrics and songwriting is "good" on another listen or two, but at first glance I feel like this offers nothing. I did not enjoy any part of this, and of all the albums listened to during this album thingy, this album made me check the time the most, and check if "this song is the last one" the most. I'm all good on this.

he sucks

This nerd got the strokes addicted to heroin?

#dylandiditbetter

Haven't they missed off the 'B'? Unfortunately not. Though not a fan of Bryan, Ryan has given us a selection of country music at its depressing worst. He has a decent voice, but it's wasted here as the material is just plain awful. 1

Arrrgh. Ryan Adams. And that challenge of separating the art from the artist rears its ugly head again. Thankfully, this is at the rubbish end of his repertoire, so I can dish out a 1 purely on the art, and can save my moral dilemma for if and/when one of the albums I used to think was decent shows up. ‘Come Pick Me Up’ is the only track on here I like. But overall, it’s just too C&W for me.

Middle of the road sort of Country stuff. He became famous for two things; he was some sort of sexual predator, which didn't do his career much good. The other was having a name similar to Bryan. Nothing here for me.

I felt tricked. Some songs start off peppy then quickly move into downer mode.

Tedious country rock pop ballads which grew less and less interesting the longer it went on. Ryan Adams has come up on this list before, but the only thing that I remembered about him was that he once threw an audience member out of one of his concerts for shouting to him to play Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams. Does this guy really need to be in this list twice? No.

Man, I thought I was getting a cool album with the first track being dedicated to off the wall filler, but I was in for a surprise. It was so slow and moody/open that I never connected with the music. Ryan is a skilled singer, I can't deny that, but it was so far out of my preference I wanted to turn it off. First time this whole listen through I have wanted to drop the album before completing it, I don't want to go back.

this was so boring it did not hold my interest or attention at all. there wasn’t one redeeming song

💩

Nope......no.....nope!

The Country Music(with a touch of Folk-Rock) deserves a one star on its own. Absolutely boring rural love ballads about breakups, and other nonsense. Then, I found out Ryan Adams is a piece of shit in a Michael Jackson kind of way, so now I wish I could give it a zero. Favorite Track: "Shakedown On 9th Street".

Ganske dritt

Not very good.

My first DNF in the list. Just was not connecting with it at all. Some nice little guitar moments in what I did hear.

I had written actual thoughts about the album, but can easily sum it up with one word: Boring. Then I did a little background research and found out that Adams is a pretty serious sex pest. Dull music, made by a horrible person. Favourite tracks: none of the ones I heard, made it halfway or so through...

Big fan of his ethics, had no idea he made such boring music. I really don't like how boring this one is. Supposedly a great songwriter but this rivals Eversnore in terms of boredom. It finally picked up a little towards the end but it was too little and much too late. For a singer-songwriter he doesn't seem to do a whole lot of songwriting nowadays. All his new releases are just covers of other more interesting songwriters.

I just can't.

I'm not a big fan of this style of country/singer songwriter music. It's very minimalist and quiet but that also comes across as one dimensional and boring to me.

He and his music don't do it for me.

Well, shit. I was dreading this. If we can truly separate the art from the artist, this is one of the most hauntingly beautiful records of all time for me. The songs are deep, introspective and gorgeously written. If we can't, Ryan Adams is a despicable piece of shit. Nope, can’t do it.

Ignoring wonderwall Ryan Adams is a defining voice of american music. Unfortunately that voice isnt very good. this album may have defined a whole generation of aging mid-american parents but everything done here has been done better elsewhere. Folk tracks come off as Bob Dylan written by committee, romance songs sound like parodies of themselves, the country tracks feel like a dark warning of country to come. The lyrics have not a shred of originality, this album feel defined by platitudes. There are some pleasant guitar chords in the background but this is one generic, default, empty nothingburger album overall and ultimately, isnt that the worst thing music can be?.

Well, I started this and liked the songs I heard, but then I was informed that this guy is a major creep, so I stopped listening.

Stephen King is historically a fan of Adams, stating in 2007, "I won't say Adams is the best North American singer songwriter since Neil Young... but I won't say he isn't either" LMFAO Robert Christgau of The Village Voice selected "To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)" as a "choice cut",[15] indicating a "good song on an album that isn't worth your time or money." Imagine living in the day and age where you would have to pay for the privilege to listen to shit like this Highlights: To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)

This is #day212 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... following OK Computer with this one feels downright brutal. Another "alternative" country, an early 2000s country, to be precise. Who cares about country in the new millennium? Damn, I could name a dozen albums that deserve a spot on this list more than this one. Dude should definitely hold his horses—he’s been cranking out 15 albums since 2020. I was ready to bail by Bartering Lines. So I did. What do you mean there's another album by this guy on the list? Looking forward to #day213.

1 - vos yeules 2- ok, oui. Ça y va. Mais ça semble de la pastiche raboutée ensemble, comme Foxygen. 3- je toff pas l’album si il chante avec cette intonation de ti chien qui distortionne 4- du Elliott smith pour pogner avec les filles. Je crois que j’aurais aimé ça en 2004, avant de connaître wilco 5 - toune de cul avec des noms de ville, des bus pis de la poussière qui sonne aussi faux que Céline Dion qui chanterait Fuck da police. Bright eyes a voulu copier ça avec son album folk, jusqu’à engager Emylou Harris lui aussi. J’hais ça. 6 - ouf… Mon père tripperait. C’est le temps de dire que j’hais la pochette. 7 - heille 8 - c’est plate. 9 - pov ti Chou 10 - ok je skippe 11 - WAKE UP ESTI, étouffés toé avec ton harmonica 12 - ok, mais c’est pas vraiment bon. Je pense que le père d’Andrew aimerait ça. Le reste des tounes, c’est plate. J’hais ca.

Boring musician. Everything sounds the same.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

What an asshole

Not bad, I did enjoy but giving it 1 star because Ryan Adams is a creeper.

I could barely hear this in my car because of his refusal to do anything instrumentally. His singing is probably fine but he's unwilling to make a hook or chorus. Each of these songs that I heard should have been on a B-side. This whole album feels unfinished and apparently he didn't even have a name for this album and the label gave him 15 seconds to come up with one.

Apparently this guy sucks in real life

This sounds like someone trying to br bob Dylan so much that at times I get a little second hand embarrassment while listening. 51 mins is an awful long time to listen to something that's so derivative. Doesn't help that he's a creep, but you try to look by that when I'm trying to evaluate an album. Cringey like the front cover. Try hard.

Alun rento jutustelu todistaa, että nämä muusikot ovat ammattilaisia. Musiikki? Geneeristä, sentimentaalista. Sanoinko jo geneeristä? 1,5

Day one of a much longer commute, so I was hoping for a set of bangers. I didn’t get them This just washed over me. I can’t imagine why I’d ever want to listen again

I might have liked it if it had more of the fast/bluesy songs... But only 2 or 3 isn't enough.

I listened to this album on a road trip and it was supremely irritating how you'd turn up the quiet parts to hear if anything interesting was happening only to be blasted into oblivion a few seconds later. I'm no producer but feels like the mix was weird. Also all of the songs were insanely boring, and apparently the artist is an abusive jerk. Overall: BAD.

I didn’t know his music but I heard this guy was a massive twat. Turns out music written by a reprehensible nobhead is also shit

Really forgettable. A bit wet.

Too whiney

The longer I take part in this project, the more I come into contact with country music. In the past, I tended to dismiss this type of music, but now I recognize one or two gems in it. Ryan Adams' Heartbreaker is not one of them. I thought the first song was going to be quite interesting. A little later, however, I was so annoyed by the backing vocals in the chorus that I switched to the next track. This happened several times after that. The best thing about the rest of the album was that it didn't interest me. 1/5

This is a garbage album from a garbage human being. Boring ass country music that I hit stop on a handful of songs in because I started to rage at how annoying the music was.

Really enjoyed this but fuck that guy

Did I dislike this album, or am I poisoned by my knowledge of Ryan Adams as human being? At any rate, I really didn't enjoy this listen. It felt like I heard the same song three times. Reading a critique to try and gain some insight just led me to conclude that some people think anyone singing with a bit of a Southern accent is making introspective country music. sadboy pitchfork fodder (derogatory)

Needs salt and pepper and flavour.

SUMMER OF 69!!!!!

F this guy

Not my thing. One Bob Dylan is bad enough.

Oh look at me. I'm so sensitive. Yet I abuse women when I'm not recording faux indie tracks that have as much soul as a corpse. What a turd of an album. Not much better human being.

In a nutshell: Ryan, not Bryan There is not much contemporary country I like, so we are already on the back foot. This sounds manufactured and inauthentic. I can't really hear the background music, mostly Ryan. We don't need Tom Petty, Elliott Smith and Gram Parsons hybrid sounding performers. Be you. Oh, and don't be a dick. Overall: 1/10

Nope

Generic country pop. Not for me.

After listening recently to Ryan Adams' other album on the 1001 list, I wasn't enthused to listen to this one... but I pushed through... and it wasn't going too bad, then the harmonica hits... meh!

Great artists can be pretentious as hell and no one ever cares. This sexual predator is not a great artist. He sucks ass and is among the worst ever. And this album sucks too

I think it's fair to say that singer/songwriter is pretty solidly down there amongst my least favourite genres. Probably second to country and third to shoegaze. So when I see a description of singer songwriter doing country-ish songs, my heart veritably sinks. And it was not lifted at all by this. The best one can hope for from this genre is that you won't want to physically hurt yourself in favour of having to listen to it. And - I'll be fair to him - I actually didn't. But that doesn't make it something I actively want to listen to.

If I would like to design an album that would be a mix of all tropes that I don't like in popular music, Heartbreaker would be very, very close to perfection. It's not a bad record by any meaning, I guess, but I just hated every second of it.

My rating isn't because of this guy's terrible history, I actually just hated the music. It was boring and I couldn't even tell the tracks apart.

Fucking... nah, I'm good.

1 - When the first song started, I thought maybe it wouldn't be so bad, but bleh!!!! It's boring and tonally repetitive and long. And that last song, which might have been my least favourite, was such a downer way to end an album. It ends with a whimper, but I guess it wasn't that good of an album anyway, so who cares. I just don't care about country, for the most part, and this album isn't one of the exceptions to that statement. I am not excited to listen to his other album on the list.

Apparently this guy’s a molester, so I’m skipping.

I first read Bryan Adams and was horrified... Unfortunately, Ryan Adams is somehow worse

I thought this album was bland and unenjoyable

allegations

Mmh

Meh.. heillar ekkert.

This shit was awful

nee, verstehe nichts und nicht meins

This felt very rambley. Enjoyed the guitars but the lyrics and singing were very mid. Album kind of put me to sleep, like music you'd hear right before going down with anesthesia.

Americana 50s vibe on the first track - To be Young. Then it's even more dowhill to a very morose Bob Dylan style for the rest of the album, with one further Americana track thrown in towards the end - just to check if you're asleep. Absolutely totally boring melancholic music. 1 star

3/10 Why is this on the list?

I guess I get two chances (and hopefully just two) to say fuck Ryan Adams

Ganske dritt

2000s country. Blech.

I specifically told this not to play country and folk so it decides to give me this country folk album by a sexual predator? Fuck this.

Nah. Pass. Not going to give this album a listen. I'm sure it has great production, yada yada. Ryan Adams is a garbage human, and I'm not going to contribute to his bottom line with my listening numbers.

Awful

Big meh for me. Just feels like he's pulling from obscure late 70s folk and not adding anything to it. There are plenty of bands that do what he does of that era that isn't pastiche

This is sad cowboy music

This guy is not a great person. I'm not a fan of this album anyway, so that worked out. Honestly, too whiney/emo for my taste.

fucking yawn, also minus one star for personal reasons

Nothing special

It was too depressing and boring for me.

Is it separate the art from the artist week?

Couldn’t get into to it Not my cup of tea

No

loved the intro thought something really good would be coming. became mediocre while listening, and downright bad after I googled the guy. POS. Doesn't deserve the place on this list, better give it to one of his victims...

Why would you think it is a good idea to have the harmonica on every track. Made my ears bleed and had to stop listening. Album just got worse as it went on.

Enjoyed listening before I researched the artist

Fuck Ryan Adams, all my homies hate Ryan Adams.

After the first few songs, I would have given it a 2.5/5 (but I would have rounded up to 3). As the album progressed that rating slowly went down. Shakedown on 9th street was pretty good. Overall, just a big nope from me.

Don’t really know much about this artist. I know him because of his covers and not because of this original songs. I’ve heard his (Taylor swift’s) album 1989, and his cover of Wonderwall. Not super into this album today. Might just be the genre…

Guy's a jerk!

Boycott Ryan Adam’s!!

The first couple of songs reminded me of The Avett Brothers and other folky stuff of the modern age, so I didn't hate that, but everything else afterwards felt like it dived hard into the the country music part of the genre, and they all blended in together, to the point where I was getting pissed off. Plus, it's way too long, which doesn't help at all. There's also the whole thing surrounding Adams that makes this a pretty easy one star. No clue how there's another album by him on this list.

Fuck this guy in particular.

Boycotting this for Phoebe Bridgers

depresso country

Crap

Rubbish

My mom would love it, therefore I dont..

N/A would rather not give this a listen

Not really my vibe and horrible dude. I got bored of this really quickly. There's nothing really that special about this. Fave track(s): Bartering Lines

Nope

Not gonna do it

I find this wannabe Dylan music rather boring. Bring on Bryan Adams instead!

Abuser, pass.

Ikkje min smak i det heile tatt.

i hate folk music

Ovog sam davno sluša pustit ću ga da čujem s naknadnom pameću. Kako jebeno prigodno da album počinje raspravom o morrisseyevim b stranama. Na stranu sve što je kasnije bilo ali ovo je dobro ali je od starta derivativno. I ima tu neku iritirajuću energiju wannabe dylana. A bome sam i ja ostario i nemam više strpljenja za ovu žene me ne razume muziku. Ne razumiš ti sam sebe stari moj.

he was massive for a bit wasn't he. i'd rather listen to brian. it's like listening to a bob dylan covers band that don't play any of the big hits. i've heard that's what its like watching the real bob dylan so this guy could genuinely be the most true to life cover artist going and i wouldn't even know.

Peso, un po' tutte uguali, un po' tutte senza niente da dire.

NOPE

Nah. 1/5

Artist is an asshole, and the art sucks anyway so why is this here

At the time it came out I did enjoy this album but given Ryan Adams history I thought I would give this a pass. I instead listened to Mandy Moore's Silver Landings and Phoebe Bridges' Punisher, both stellar albums in their own right.

it’s a good album but fuck ryan adams

Ya no me acuerdo si lo escuché, pero estoy seguro que lo escuché. Así de poco me gustó.

No para nada!

megh

Shit

Country. Nope. I only got 30 seconds in before punting the album.

I'd rather die than listen to Ryan adams

Dylanesque. Bit bland.

cancelled

Apparently Ryan Adam’s is a piece of shit and we’re boycotting. 0 stars