Reviews (page 8 of 8)
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
I didn’t and won’t listen to this
Nope
Isn’t this guy a rapist? Shouldn’t be on this list
No
Despite some colourful guitar work and vocals that are heartfelt, honest, and gorgeous this album bombed for me. Adams is reaching for an emotion that just feels out of reach driven by simplistic lyrics that are cloying and weak. The lyrics really bring this one down for me. There is music that I can like despite poor lyrics but since Adams work leans so heavily on the writing, it moves front and center and really dont bear the weight of the music around it. The conversation at the start of the album really kicked things off on the wrong foot for me and it never recovered. I'll pass on this one again.
I can't tell if I would have given this 5 stars ten years ago. definitely overall not bad, not good. But more importantly not a great person