Gold

eh.

Rock suave. En ocasiones sureño, en otras muy tranquilo. Buena guitarra, sin abusar de ella. Agradable de escuchar.

3.3 - The fucking balls on this guy to bitch to his record label about not making this a double album! I mean, this record is not terrible but, as is, certainly its gravest sin is that it’s at least 15 minutes too long. At least! Particularly, the almost 10 minute whine-fest “Nobody Girl” needs to be drowned in a bathtub. And “Sylvia Plath” isn’t much better. At best, he cuts a convincing persona as Dollar Tree Melloncamp, perhaps mixed with a dash of Wilco. I don’t know, Ryan Adams and Robert Dimery both need a reality check

A huge improvement on his first album where the emotion on his songs mostly struck me as affectation. I simply didn't believe him. It's much better on this album, especially when he ups the tempo a bit. Undoubtedly a great songwriter.

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As a Brit, I’d never heard this before. I thought it was pretty good. For a while I even thought maybe 4 stars. But in the end I settled on 3.

This didn't really stand out for me. I expected more.

Another tortured soul... music is really damned good, though. Not sure why the album cover showed an upside down flag... I'm torn because I want to listen to this again and again, but not sure I want to feed his demons.

This one is really close to being higher. I think Firecrack, Answering Bell and La Cienega are awesome. But after that, everything is okay, kinda in the same vein, all pleasant and polite lyrical rock... but nothing that stands out too much. Its fine, but seems very samey.

Eh

while this is goofy long I like it, doesn't overstay its welcome. some great songwriting and doesn't sound at all like its album cover. best tracks: new york new york, la cienega just smiles, harder now that its over

Sometimes good but mostly meh.

I was going to turn this off around track 8, "Nobody Girl", but then heard the song "Sylvia Plath" which I found really fantastic, so I continued listening. The rest of the album is much more soulful folk than the country vibes of the beginning. I ended up being ok with this album, but it's really not my thing except for a few tracks near the end. "Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd." is also quite wonderful.

Nice refreshing catchy singer/song writer album

Noice

Nice sounding background noise but it’s long and already drags by track 5, 3/5.

A couple decent songs here and there, mostly boring and dull. Being a Ryan Adams project bumps it down an extra point too. 2.5/5

I liked it but its just kinda bborin.He's a good singer but just not great.

Laid back, country-infused rock. A likeable and well-executed album, but far too long. Fave songs: Firecracker; When the Stars Go Blue; La Cienega Just Smiled; Answering Bell; New York, New York; Somehow, Someday; Wild Flowers

Like a sadder, more generic Mellencamp/Springsteen/something else. Not bad, just a little emo and eh.

I just do not know what to think of this album. I really like it at times and then a moment later I just couldn't care less. Just mediocre.

Always believe in your soooouuuuull.

When I was watch One Tree Hill in high school I think I listened to various covers of When The Stars Go Blue for months straight... never knew this guy had the original. Some songs are pretty boring but others were very good. 3.5, closer to 3

mixed bag - some god songs but a few shit ones

Decent album

some good Wings on there.

Liked most of the songs on an individual basis but holy shit the album is way too long.

Typical American music. Not really bad but also not really impressive

Very of its time. Some of it ages poorly based on what we know about the guy now. But I enjoy the production and songwriting quite a bit. I have a small sample size but I think I prefer Whiskeytown to Ryan’s solo stuff

Quite puzzled that I own Ryan Adams' first two albums. Anyway. This is ok in an undistinguished sort of way.

I own this album and Heartbreaker. There are some very good songs on both and there's some filler. New York, New York and La Cienega Just Smiled are standouts for me. But I haven't listened to this in years because when I think about Ryan Adams now I think about a guy in his 40s having phone sex with an underage girl. And it's like, fuck, all you have to do, the minimum you have to do, is know the age of someone and they only really need to be, like, 21. You're a famous musician. You're not desperate. All you have to do, if you're going to have phone sex with someone, is know that they are 21. If they're 21 and everyone consented, then I don't even ever have to know about it. And I don't want to know about it. But you can't say "Oh, I saw photos of her and I thought she was older." and expect everything to be okay. If you're a man in your 40s in this country and you're a famous musician and you don't know about underage girls who look older than they are, then fuck you. I really like some of your songs and I need songs that I like. Songs are how we survive this life shit. There are fewer and fewer good songs as time goes on. So you're not allowed to take a shit on them. Just 21. Or, here's an idea - fucking grow up, how about? You're having phone sex with strangers? The fuck is wrong with you? You wrote La Cienega Just Smiled - you don't need anyone's validation. You were married to Mandy Moore. She seems terrific but now she hates you. You wrote Shakedown on 9th Street - why would you do things that make Mandy Moore hate you? Do the dishes, bring her some water at bedtime - it's not complicated. I mean, shit.

okay, didn't blow me away.

Some nice songs here. He seems prolific, and like someone who doesn't overthink things, and that free-ness with the music comes through. Sounds like it comes easy to him. Many of the songs sound like they're going to be really boring, and then some lyric or hook hits, and I'm like, damn that works so well. It seems like I say this about most double albums, but true here as well: too long. There are enough throw-away tunes here that it could have been whittled down.

Some songs are better than others, I know this album has it's fans but it's just alright for me. Nothing bad nothing amazing for my tastes.

Enjoyed

Was not expecting to like this album so much. The instrumentals carry a lot more than most other singer songwriter albums in this exercise though, and I appreciate it. Favorite track: Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues

Like a straight-laced brother to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Gold mines similar territory, but ends up being more traditional and not quite as memorable.

6/10 not bad but not great by any means. i liked some parts of it, but i'm really glad that, as the wiki article states, his record label held him back from making it a double album.

6/10. Decent, but really long. Glad it didn't end up being a full double album.

Not bad and maybe I could’ve liked it if it wasn’t so long. 6/10

2.5

3+

There’s a fair about to like here. I didn’t think I’d be a fan but it’s not a as Country Rock as I was worried it might be. He jumps around styles and genres - a few nice down tempo ballads and a couple of pretty funky track with Chuc-Ka guitar and wailing organs. It all sounds a bit familiar: This is Rolling Stones or Primal Scream, elements of Jack Johnson here, David Gray there, if I was more familiar with heartland YankRock I suspect I’d recognise even more. I’m not sure if he is lifting a lot of ideas from others or maybe just making “obvious choices” when writing songs? I don’t think I can go higher than a 3 as I didn’t make it past the hour mark. Fair play, he’s wrote a lot of decent tracks there, but didn’t pull me in enough to get all the way to the end.

Boring

Great lyrics, some real standouts like the opener and Harder Now That It’s Over, feel like he could have taken some songs out and cut the fat.

Had some range to it. Not too out there. Didn’t excite me or anything, but I enjoyed listening. 3/5

Enjoy his sound.

'New York, New York' is a classic, but you have to wonder if the song and album in general would have the same status in pop culture if not for the timing of the release shortly after 9/11. With harmonica, organ and tight jeans the references to both Bob and Bruce are plentiful. And the music is pleasant enough. Original less so. I start to lose interest around 'Somehow, Someday' - track 6 out of 16. Whew. 'Nobody Girl' has absolutely no business being almost 10(!) minutes long. ‘Touch, Feel, and Lose' is a bright moment on the latter half of the record with Adams channeling his inner Prince, and 'Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd.' ends the album the way it started - on a classic. But man is it long.

ok

Country music. Lekker op de achtergrond. Niks mis mee. ***

A decent singer songwriter album. He’s not the most hardcore singer and is relatively pretty generic and lame but sometimes that music isn’t always bad. A few songs on this album I thought were decent and had styles of 60s folk songs. I could listen to a few songs again but this was a long album and by the end of it the album felt like a lot of repetitive styles. 6.6/10

Only got halfway but I like this guy. Nice voice and great lyrics. Never heard of him but he seems just average comparing all else

For some reason, I have never listened to this album before, or consciously listened to any song by Ryan Adams before - thought I've heard the Bryan Adams story. However a number of the tracks sounded familiar to me, and all in all, I thought this was pretty good

Ryan Adams est le cliché de l'américain moyen: son prénom est des plus banal pour un américain, il pose sur la couverture de l'album devant la bannière étoilée pour rappeler à quel point il est fier d'être américain, il nous propose un rock de qualité extrêmement médiocre comme les américains. En bref Ryan Adams et un connard et toi aussi Robert, je suis à bout de nerfs avec tous tes albums de castor de merde.

Ok

Yeah.... I honestly love this, and I am consciously deciding not to keep listening to it, because I don't wanna be giving money to a sexual predator.

So much American I got fat. But i once had a belt like that. 3/5

This is not bad, there are some good songs here. But it still feels kind of generic.

No está nada mal, pero tampoco se me hizo impresionante. Buenas canciones, apropiadas para soundtrack de película americana y quizá ahí está mi problema, ya que no varía mucho y está bien, plano y cumplidor. 3 estrellas.

Wherein everyone pretends the world didn't once try to anoint this dude as the next Bob Dylan. Those same critics used Ryan Adams' cancel culture moment as an excuse to realize they overrated him, that he wasn't ever going to fulfill all of the broken promises of Jeff Buckley, and that in truth he was just Jack Johnson with cooler fans. His best album is the track for track cover of Taylor Swift's 1989. His best song (When The Skies Go Blue) was covered better by a slew of different artists. Ryan Adams is fine - his music is fine, at least. He just wasn't what the music press (and people like Judd Apatow) wanted him to be.

I was a little skeptical after looking at the cover, but was pleasantly surprised. Some good songwriting on here

If this had been shorter it could have been 4 or 5 stars.

Improves on second listen but too much filler. Really enjoyed the southern blues elements but the bland made for radio songs were dull

some okay songs

Fine to have on in the background but never really rises to the level of anything all that special. Probably deserves a 2, but I'm giving it a 3 because I'll probably be listening to it in the background again soon.

Too long! But some really nice songs

Oh god, two shocking things happened today. The first was that I had to listen to this seventy-minute album by the disgraced Ryan Adams. The second... was that I kind of liked it. "Gold" was Adams' second solo album, his attempt to create a modern classic. It's far from that, but unfortunately it's far from irredeemable. Although it's long and the songs take us down well-trodden paths, they at least put us in comfortable shoes. These are three-chord songs on acoustic or electric guitar, sugary melodies and harmless lyrics and vocals. It's definitely not Dylan, but it's also hardly a challenge to listen to... or dare I say it, enjoy. The more upbeat, rocky tracks were a bit wearing for me- at the start of "New York New York" I was grimacing and preparing for the worst. But where Adams excels is in the slower, melancholy ballads. "Le Cienega Just Smiled", "When the Stars Go Blue", "Wild Flowers" and especially "Sylvia Plath" were all winners for me. As far as upbeat tracks go, I did enjoy "Firecracker" and the lilting swing of "Answering Bell". On a personal note, my girlfriend is angry with me for giving this album a full listen, and she's angry at the list for including Ryan Adams and not Phoebe Bridgers. Even though some of his songs here were good, that knobhead has made this a really awkward day for me, so I won't use up any more words writing about him.

29th April 2022 Listened in the morning while working from home, chilled in the evening watched Time. Weird thing about Ryan Adams, he’s clearly super talented and very good but it feels like he’s trying too hard. I read that with this album he was trying to make a classic which detracts from it for me. Plus he assaults women. Some good tunes though.

Like the music they play in Chili’s, not bad, but really not super good either. A Generic collection of sounds that I’ve heard before done better by other artists- nothing really worth noting here. Good performances and songwriting, just nothing special- sorry.

Its "OK".

A hard worker who earns his goddamn salary. Some real slow burner tracks, and I really like ‘Nobody Girl’ in particular. Other tracks a bit yawn. This one anagrams oddly

Good album just a shame he is a bit of a cunt

I was underwhelmed. This is try-hard and lazy at the same time to me

3.1 - solid rock album. Enjoy “New York, New York”

Pleasant at the beginning, then a bit sad and long winding (Nobody Girl) in the middleish. Most (but not all) of the second half of the album could've been left out IMHO.

Really liked this album. Some of the rock n roll songs are less good than the ballad types. But there’s a lot to like.

I'm gonna put aside the credible allegations against Ryan Adams by Mandy Moore and other women. Those allegations are credible because it wasn't long after learning of Ryan Adams's music that I learned of his self-aggrandizing ego. He's a real dick. But when I first heard Ryan Adams in 2001ish, this record had just come out. A drunken Brian Siers played and sang "New York" at my parents' 25th wedding anniversary party. That was a sight. He must've been drunk because he wasn't a singer and he knew it. I played guitar along with him just so I could have a front row seat to that train wreck. A lot of people don't like him (Ryan Adams) because he seems to hop genres a lot. He has made folk, Americana, country, rock, metal, etc. records. Not all of them are great (haven't listened to everything) but they are all convincing. I think he's a truly talented person who never really found an identity he wanted to settle on. I'm not sure the genre-hopping bothers me. At least until it got extreme in the early 2010s. Gold is a great record with a lot of diversity. I'll bet he had to really keep a lid on how opportune it was to release a record with a song paying tribute to New York just a couple weeks after 9/11. Other than that song (which is fine), the record has a few real gems (Answering Bell, When the Stars go Blue, Sylvia Plath, Harder Now that its Over). It's a great record and he should be proud of making something that immediately felt like a classic. My dad owns and loves this record, and that came at a time when I think he was pretty reluctant to listen to a new record by a non-legacy artist. So, there's that. Just want to give a shout out to Adams' best record (the double LP Cold Roses) in case it doesn't make this list. That record has a more defined sound throughout the entire track list and his band was top notch at that time. Ryan, why did you have to turn out to be an even bigger dick than we thought you were? That was no small feat!

Modern folk sound. Sounds good for what it is. I was digging it in the beginning but that faded after halfway through. I recognized Answering Bell from the Bridesmaid movie.

3. It's quite fine musically, like usual I didn't catch many of the lyrics but they seemed what you'd expect from Ryan Adams. Fine for a few songs but then just blends together since it's not really my jam.

Pretty basic 'pop' album, nothing great nothing too bad. I liked they tried to make it a bit more blues/americana but after a while most of the songs just blend into each other.

Some great stuff on this album. I found it a bit slow at times for my taste, but when he's channeling Dylan via the Allman Brothers it's awesome.

Good but far too long

Clean guitar tones, nice vocals and interesting lyrics. Not entirely my type of music but enjoyable still.

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: When the stars go blue

I really enjoyed the first few tracks - then it got very samey. Very radio 2

My respect for him continues to grow, but the music still doesn’t quite excite me.

3.5/5 I'll have to relisten there were some interesting tracks

The Rescue Blues is a lovely track. And Nobody Girl is also good. I also hear Beatles influences in there. Sylvia Plath is gorgeous. Okay, I despise Country as a balloon genre but I have to say that this guy, with his voice that goes from Elton John to Leo Sayer to something more less-inspiring country-like, has made a great album I have really enjoyed, but don't tell anyone..

I like him but not this album

A wildly eclectic potpourri, Gold sounded almost like the collaboration between a number of different singer-songwriters. From Neil Young to Allman Brothers (6/10) Favourite Songs: When the Stars Go Blue, New York, New York

My flat mate in the first year of uni LOVED Ryan Adams. Like Tom, Ryan Adams sounds old before his time on this album, which is very mature, pleasant and extremely inoffensive. These are great qualities in a random flat mate, but, although enjoyable enough, does not create a particularly engaging listening experience.

3/5 Average album, not bad

Nothing terribly groundbreaking here. Fairly enjoyable, but it seems like an over-earnest rehashing of heartland rock. It's also hard to come to this album as a new listener in the wake of the allegations of sexual abuse. I feel like I've been primed to dislike anything Ryan Adams has put out. I will say that he definitely can write a good song and has a unique voice.

Slightly melancholic, we like it

Won't ever revisit.

Was alright, don’t really remember much but I do remember it being nice background chill music.

Bueh. Country/Folk. Ta bien.

Not bad, but very unexciting, standard American rock music. Pleasant background music during work.

There was some good classic rock sound here, and maybe something to revisit. Upside-down American flags are never my jam.

Kolejna nowosc listowa, bo nazwisko bardzo imieniowe nic mi nie mowi, najwiekszy hicior wedlug lastfma jest coverem oasisowego wonderwalla, wiec tym bardziej nie kojarze, okladka sugerurowala, ze znowu hamerykanski punk, a tutaj takie zaskoczenie gdy uslyszalem cos co mozna zaklasyfikowac jako blend klasycznego rock&rolla z muzyka country w odmianie bardzo alternatywnej, bo plyta jest bardzo rozpieta, zarowno pod wzgledem gatunkowym na skali rokowania, to samo mozna powiedziec o performensie wokalnym Ryana, bo jak kameleon potrafi sie on dopasowac do tego co jest akurat grane i nadac trakowi unikalnego brzmienia, unikalnosc pochodzi takze z szerokiego wachlarza instrumentali ktorego mozna posluchac na krazku, bo sam Adams raz po raz wymienia akustyka na elektryka, przy czym znajdzie sie trak gdzie slychac jego banjo, czy tez pianinko, ladnie wyglada wiki tego albumiku, mozna dokladnie sie dowiedziec co gdzie kto gral, a dzieki temu trzeba pochylic czola przed kunsztem producenta tej plyty, bo wiki pejdz tak opisuje jego kontrybucje instrumentalna w ten material, Ethan Johns – Drums (D1: 1-15; S4: tracks 1, 4), electric guitar (D1: tracks 1, 2, 5, 6; S4: track 1), guitar (D1: track 3), chamberlain strings (D1: tracks 4, 7, 12, 13), lead guitar (D1: tracks 8, 13, 15), Hammond B-3 (D1: tracks 1, 6, 8; S4: track 5), background vocals (D1: tracks 6, 15; S4: track 3), acoustic guitar (D1: tracks 2, 6, 8; S4: track 5), 12-string guitar (D1: tracks 5, 7) mandocello (D1: tracks 6, 7; S4: track 2), vibes (D1: tracks 4, 12), string arrangement (D1: tracks 9, 16), slide guitar (D1: track 15), mandolin (D1: track 13; S4: track 2), bass (D1: track 5), electric piano (D1: track 7), celeste (D1: track 12), harmonium (D1: track 7; S4: track 2), congas (D1: track 1), banjo (S4: track 3), do tego dochodzi dodatkowych muzykow studyjnych, ktory robia robote w chorkowaniu i pozostalych instrumentalach, dobrze wymasterowane zasoby, pomimo kilku slabszych trakow, przekombinowanych instrumentalnie przez co podchodzacych pod popowe rokowanie, to jednak bardziej klasyczne rokowe baladki czy kountrowe brzmienia jak na otwierajacym new yorku sa swieze dla mych uszu, dlatego leci on na plejke, a razem z nim when the stars go blue, chociaz plyta ma 14 trakow i 70 minut, to i tak jeszcze brakuje 4 ktore wytwornia postanowila wyciac i sprzedac jako extra krazek, niestety nie moglem go dorwac na spotifaju, ale i tak chyba nie powinienem ich brac pod uwage oceniajac ten pik, ale jesli bedzie okazja to trzeba przesluchac jeszcze cos z dyskografii pana Aadamsa, zaczynajac od ostatniego albumiku z czornym kocurem na okladce, romanem grubej kosci

Pretty good but I don't like the guy

Pretty solid late 90s early aughts bullshit

Rock. Variado. Algunos buenos temas

This didn't really grab me. It all sounded competent enough but nothing really lit up. Maybe you needed to hear it just after 9/11 to have it in context? The cover invites comparisons to Springsteen's "Born in the USA", but the music doesn't seem to. Fave track - "Enemy Fire" I guess...

This is a good, solid album. 3 stars.

not my cupa

just aight

Not bad not bad. Better than Heartbreaker.

It's a rock album, nothing that blew my mind, but it's ok

3/5. Didn't think I'd like the rock/country album at first, but it's pretty good!

Just not really my style of music

One to revisit

Maybe at a different time I'd feel differently, but I had little to no interest on these songs. Every time I got the idea in about 20 seconds but there was 4-9 minutes of the same every song. All pop, no risk, no edge. Some of it had chill vibes, but too much here doesn't work for me

Det er egentligt ikke som sådan et dårligt album, men lidt som David Gray skuffede det. Der er nogle fine nok numre imellem, men de forsvinder i mængden. Så anken er nok mest, at albummet er for langt og derfor bliver kedeligt. Meget klassisk 00'er-lyd, hvis man vil gerne vil genfinde den stemning.

4/10

I wanted to like this more than I did. The songs seem pretty derivative although played well.

Listens: 1 Standout Tracks: ?? This is the musical equivalent of plain cooked chicken or room temperature water. It has no features. It takes no risks. It evokes no emotion. It's simply a thing that exists for... someone I guess, though not sure who.

Mostly forgettable. I was into it at the time but now i don't remember it and haven't listened since.

This is the most boring, mediocre, vanilla cis white boy shite yet. And the guy is in the Dickhead Hall of Fame and on the highly suspect pedo list. I don't know why we don't get the explanatory blurb from the book (I assume the publisher or author is as kind and understanding about fees as Ryan Adams is about life, the universe, and everything), but someone owes me an explanation for the inclusion of this. And when this blew up after 9/11, did literally no one else notice the flag on the cover is upside down? I don't understand why homie wasn't crucified for that. I've been giving generally unremarkable crap like this a 2. But this is both mediocre and he's a truly terrible person so . . .

Whatever!

Meh

holds up, too bad Ryan Adams is a sleeze these days

Another Ryan Adams album. Slightly better than the other one, but so similar one would wonder why include both of them. Americana-tinged indie singer-songwriter. No revelations here. Key tracks: New York, New York Sylvia Plath

Meh

I tried with this one but just couldn’t get into it. Right when it seemed to be building momentum, he’d drop a dud. A few of these songs seem to have not aged well either, given his history that came to light. And why is Billie Joe Armstrong on the cover?

Perfectly fine. Feels very much like it should soundtrack a WB or CW show. Highlight for me was ‘La Cienega Just Smiled’ and ‘When The Stars Go Blue’ which I recognized from an American Idol cover in 2007. Near the end of the album I could solidly understand how this man has put out 30 albums across not that many years. A case of quantity over quality.

People are being homophobic in the reviews so let me be clear: the vibes here are profoundly heterosexual. This one is on you guys. 💅

Edino kar vem o njem je to, da je the abusive ex-husband od Mandy Moore. In, da sm dons prisiljena poslušat njegov album. Eh. (O moj pofukan bog 16 komadov?! 70 minut? Fak of. In ja, valjda spet na moj najbl busy dan v tem tednu.) Sm se lotila poslušat na način, ki se izkazuje za pravilnega - kot background muska, medtem k delam pomembnejše stvari (kosilo). Painfully average, ampak misli, da je exceptional (pač, need I state the obvious?). Fak, nadležn glas mi ma tud ("Wild Flowers"). Gold this was not.

Needs editing down

Don’t like it

Boring, long and uninspiring and the dude is an ass.

Boring Bland Brunette Bryan. 5/10

Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: La Cienega just Smiled Date listened: 9/06/26 Listen when: Can't think when I would honestly A few songs and it gets a bit jarring sorry. The best parts of the album are 100% thanks to the intermittent string arrangements, which is why La Cienega Just Smiled made the playlist. Otherwise the singing along is pretty tough.

Wow...this is so boring. Really concerned that 1001 is just an arbitrary number..Don't list to this unless you have insomnia

Nothing wrong with it, just not my vibe

2 Ryan Adam’s albums in 5 days, lucky me.

Another album I don't necessarily think I "had" to listen to before I died. I realized I knew "Answering Bell" and liked it! I just feel like this is very put upon.

00’s Country

yeah. no. not even springsteen lite.

bleh

John Cougar Boringcamp Blah Dylan Kill-me Joel Bruce Springsleep

Not bad but not good either. Needs to pick a lane stylistically.

Let's try, if we can, to set aside the fact that Ryan Adams is a giant POS. It's hard, because he undeniably is, and also it is embedded deeply in his lyrics. Ok, we're being objective now, and objectively, this album is boring. It's not bad. There's some passably pleasant “Americana” that is some amalgam of Springsteen and Petty but a very poor imitation of both. Ryan Adams career death was a victory for both women and music fans

in letzterziit grad wider sehr stereotype-cowboy-mundharmondika-american-lastig und keis Album womi mega ahgmacht het zum lose

Yan adams Aka d wish.com version vum kollege Brian dams. Es amerikanieret mir e richtige mid western vorstadt gfühl id huut. Aber uf di schlechti art. Nöd uf die geili art was anderi lüüt besser chönd. Hätsch di wohl besser ‚eil young‘ gnennt.

I don't know how anyone could make it through all 1 hours and 10 minutes of this without falling asleep.

Ryan Adams is a good writer and performer but he doesn't have his own identity. He apes others with a lot of variety and no direction.

It's son descript and boring.

Generic Americana

Ryan Adams is a tool but the One Tree Hill nostalgia for When the Stars Go Blue is *strong*

I am so confused by this album cover. It's like Adams didn't know if he wanted to be pop punk or straight up yeehaw country. Anyway. WAY too damn long for some watered down songs. Any musical flourish is mostly done in a very cautious, 'don't rock the boat too much' way. Simping after Sylvia Plath is unique, at least, and I will give credit to his songwriting. But I have no intention to revisit this drawling, tedious mess.

So this is what a stereotypical american commute sounds like? Truly it sounds inoffensive in all aspects. Adams has a voice that is unrefined in that alternative way, stealing that roughness from the alternative music scene that went before it, but without doing anything profound. All the songs are about some nameless, faceless girl or baby and never make a point or build off the same thread. Which is all the more striking because of its album cover. This album is cynical in its marketing. The upside down flag is a sign of distress, overused in all kinds of media. Especially this album, where no actual state of distress with the country is ever put forth. I don't know how much of this could be deliberately changed in the two weeks after 9/11 back then. But intentional or not, it comes off as the product of a slimy politician: "Never waste a good crisis."

Too mid to be as long as it is

Painfully middle of the road pop, like a sanitised Bruce Springsteen. It's not truly dreadful, but it's so lacking in personality. The banality of it started to wear on me very quickly.

Ryan Adams is the guy that brings the guitar to every party but it doesn't really bother anyone because he sounds good. The only problem is he sounds like dozens of other guys like that too - there's nothing unique. The most glaring example of this is the fact that I thought his original song, When the Stars Go Blue, was just a poor cover of a Tim McGraw song. I was shocked to fi d this out, because it has so much less emotion than the cover. Anyway, not a fan of considering Adams as someone who is "must hear."

Meh. 2/5

Listened to a third of so. Don't think I need more.

Unexceptional in every way

Oh my god! Twenty seconds into this I had an intense flashback where I remembered that once upon a time this kind of sound was *cool.* Wow…I had been living in blissful forgetting for like, many years. The jeans! The belt! The wrist straps! The spiky hair! I lived through this. We don’t need to memorialize this, keep it the hell away from this list. More seriously it’s not that bad, there are some good songs, but Adams’ fall from grace really taints his discography, and his whole thing just hasn’t aged all that well. The only reason I’m not giving this one star is it has “Answering Bell,” which I’ve loved since its brilliant appearance in the movie Bridesmaids.

Pleasant enough but very much background music

There’s few reasons in my opinion for an album to have a long runtime, and this doesn’t meet those exceptions. The first few songs were actually pretty enjoyable, nothing special, but good background music that blends together, but it starts to take its toll at When the Stars Go Blue. Likes: New York New York; Firecracker; Answering Bell; The Rescue Blues

Never listened. Expectations: None - Verdict: Not For Me - Despite hearing the name, I know nothing about Ryan Adams. The opening track doesn't do anything for me, it's just a bit bland. I few tracks in and it hasn't got any better. Boring. The Rescue Blues is the best track so far. Nobody Girl isn't too bad either, it seems that stretching out a longer jam suits him. It has picked up a bit. Enemy Fire is alright.

Dnf

Nothing really special about this album couple songs they’re like OK cool I see why it’s made but nothing that will drop me back to it and I don’t know why certain artists think songs should be nine minutes long but I did like a few songs didn’t like all the comparisons in the chat to Bruce Springsteen but hey, I grew up listening to Bruce. I think Bruce is way better, but yeah, definitely some target music. didn’t really get the country comparisons also standard pop music just with some harmonica.

No please no

Boring ass millennial easy-listening written by a sexual predator. Perfect your next blind date at Starbucks.

Probably not relistening to this. Best: Firecracker, Sylvia Plath, Gonna Make You Love Me. Worst: When The Stars Go Blue, Wild Flowers, Touch, Feel & Lose.

Better sounding than the other Adams's album on this list. Too cliché. 2.75 / 5

So fking plodding, a couple of moments but mate fucking cheer up and find your own sound. 2strs

Listening session: april 12th, while solving a puzzle Listened to before: no Thoughts: god I didn’t like the first Ryan Adams album I got on here and now I had to put myself through this again for a really long 89 minutes. Long story short, I’m not a fan Favourite track: Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd.

Its funny to get this after Tommy, because Ryan is absolutely trying to do the Pinball Wizard intro vibe as the album starts. This album from Phoebe Bridgers' ex is prime Frat Boy With A Guitar rock. Highlights are Nobody Girl, which is about 10 minutes long and does not require it, an occasional Neil Young warble, a lot of mediocre white boy "blues", a second attempt at that Pinball wizard vibe... all couched in too many songs that just... are. I was surprised by how much this has clearly influenced dozens of equally uninspired singer songwriters. I don't think it is for the better. Ultimately any one of these songs on its own would be forgettable but fine (though some are definitely memorable for dragging on and on). As a bloated album of temu Black Crowes, it's about a 2*. "La Cienega Just Smiled" was the song I recall making the rounds at the time, and i guess thats as good a representation as anything

I don't mind the slow paced and acoustic guitar songs if I can identify with the lyrics, but I didn't get there with this album.

WXPN loved this album when it came out. I got big 2001 flashbacks listening to it. But that doesn’t make it good.

I felt like I heard his name a lot and even recognized the album cover but wondered why I never heard it. Oh, it's country stuff, no thanks.

C'est ok mais rien de transcendantal

Slightly emo Bruce Springsteen

It's OK, nothing too special. Too long at 70 minutes .

Not as bad as I initially thought, but it’s not something I’d ever choose to listen to

Rock medio country bien yankee. No te digo que está mal pero no me gusta esa onda. Iba a ponerle un tres porque me sonaba mal puntuarlo dos pero fuck it. Es un 2.5.

Billie Joe Armstrong se fosse ruim a primeira música tocaria naqueles programas da MTV que as músicas boas já passaram, e eles deixam qualquer merda - ou seja, uma música básica logo, não irei ouvir o resto - 1 seg já dá pra ver que tem country e rock básico além de parecer coisa de estadunidense racista me espanta nessa lista ter dois álbuns relacionados a pedofilia como não é confirmada a pedofilia e o álbum só é chato, 2/10

Country folk. Like a modern bob dylan. No thanks.

Bad guy

Not terrible but mostly forgettable and seemed to drag on forever

M'n 6e Bruce Springsteen alweer. Oh wacht, dit is iemand anders. Nouja, gelukkig blijven de opnametechnieken uit de jaren 80 daardoor in ieder geval achterwege. Ik heb hier vandaag weinig tot geen geduld voor, dat merk ik al bij track 1 en 2. Ik trek dat Nashville-achtige geluid wat slecht, heb er simpelweg geen zin in. Het klinkt allemaal als één groot cliché, een formule. De nummers waar die geforceerde countrymaniertjes en twang wat achterwege blijven zijn beter te doen, al wordt het dan weer een beetje reli-rock. Het is nooit goed bij mij, zeker niet op maandag. Hij zingt niet slecht (wat je niet over elke artiest in deze lijst kunt zeggen), en qua teksten zal het allemaal een stuk beter zijn dan menig kinderachtig rap-versje, maar ik hou er helemaal niet van. En man wat is het dan met 70 minuten schoon aan de haak een vervelend lang album. Als het korter was had ik er 3 sterren van gemaakt, nu moet ik er één op zak houden.

This is very standard rock, pretty uninspiring and not interesting but not offensive either. It's also way too long, by about 5-6 songs...

I wasn’t really feeling this. Kind of generic sounding.

The last time we got a Ryan Adams album I boycotted on principle, but this time I actually listened. I used to hear him all the time on my aging-hipster radio stations but it has been quite a while since anyone would play him, which is as it should be, but now I remember just how bland and soporific this is. (I actually gave up when I got to a song called Sylvia Plath--that's just heresy.)

Thank God this isn't a double disc

I like some of the Ryan Adams songs, what the fuck does he know about making a consistently enjoyable record? Also this album cover really highlights how much of a dick he is in real life. I feel like when Ryan Adams writes songs, he tells himself "yeah, you go man, you're the best! this is going to be your masterpiece". Then he kisses a picture of his own face. Don't get me wrong, some of these songs I would not mind hearing if they came on a shuffle. It's just that my only question is "what does one get from listening to an entire project by singer-songwriter Ryan Adams?" Do you get more genuinely well-written and played tunes or more reminders that Ryan Adams is one of the lamest musicians you could ever come across? So much for inventing a classic (5/10, 2/5 on this scale)

Too long for what it is

Middle of the middle of the road. No surprises anywhere 2.4

Too long, but surprisingly didnt hate as much as i thought i would, didn’t like it either though.

Very dull country rock. I wanna shove his harmonica down his throat.

Meh. Boring album. Not a single song to get excited about. Not terrible music, just…generic.

Este disco me encantaba antes de saber que Ryan Adams era un mierda

Why is this so long Jesus Christ

How does this completely milk toast music make this list? There are 100 albums I could name that would be better than this nonesense.

Overly long, parts of it were alright but I doubt I'd ever choose to listen to this again

I didn’t warm to this. After the first three songs it became repetitive and insipid. Not something I’ll revisit.

I remember when this album came out my senior year of college. I had been a big fan of Heartbreaker, to the embarrassing extent of writing quotes from it on the walls of my windowless bedroom. But even an easy mark like me could see Gold for the calculated play for mainstream superstardom that it was. From the sickly sweet ballads full of dime store hooks, to the Tommy Hilfiger-wannabe cover art to the overly affected vocals, Gold is an exercise in fake feelings from an egomaniac who was convinced he could bend the world to his charms. This album is most at home on the adult contemporary radio station of a budget airline.

I have listened to and liked a lot of Ryan Adams’ stuff before, but apparently none of it was on this particular album. Underwhelming.

Plan white bread album. Nothing offensive, but nothing interesting too. Country rock for people who are not interested in good music. Plus the guy can’t really sing, and is apparently a POS in real life. 3.5/10

My impression of Ryan Adams coming into this is that he's a bland country rock guy. Other than the hilarious constant confusion with successful Canadian man Bryan Adams, I couldn't tell you anything interesting about this guy. And I will be honest with you: incredibly mid. Like a neutered John Mellencamp. I don't like the Springsteen comparisons, this does not feel anywhere near politically charged as Bruce nor does this album have a shred of Bruce Springsteen's energy. Well, there's two songs with a beat which are not surprisingly the two most interesting songs which also have the fewest streams on Spotify vs all the other songs on Gold. Probably an indication I'm not going to like any of Ryan Adams's other music. Enemy Fire and Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues. Everything else ranges from boring to incredibly mid. Just listen to Wilco or Calexico/Iron and Wine for alt country of this period.

New York, New York was a good start but there's a LOT of bland after that. Not particularly objectionable, but I guess I really just don't like country music.

Not that great actually.

When an artist's top two songs are a bad cover of Wonderwall followed by an American sounding song name, you know you're in trouble. Annoyingly catchy beats because the lyrics are bad.

Типичный американский рок. Скука убийственная. Не зацепила и не запомнилась ни одна песня. Как будто ИИ писал

Hell, I Still Love You New York 1001 Albums Generator 224 (2/10/2026) I get what Ryan Adams was going for, and I can appreciate the cultural significance a song like New York, New York must have had right after 9/11. But it's a bit boring innit. The first half is alright, but right around the nearly 10 minute Nobody Girl, my eyes started to glaze over (although I actually kind of like the end of that song). There's a lot of ecentricity here, from the piano balladry of Sylvia Plath to the kind of grunge of Enemy Fire, but I think the album ends up as less than the sum of its parts, in spite of some genuine moments of genius, especially in its first half. 2.5/5, rounded down to 2. Favs: New York, New York Answering Bell When The Stars Go Blue Least Fav: Sylvia Plath

I can see the appeal, especially in the early tracks: Rescue Blues and Firecracker. Definitely not for me tho. Imagine one function where you can pull this out and not be the embarrassment of the party.

This record was definitely not for me. The tracks here mainly me of bland pop-rock. Favourite Track(s): Touch, Feel & Lose Least Favourite Track(s): The Rescue Blues

The milkiest of toast.

Found this fairly bland. It's so middle of the road, which I don't always mind, but this is so middle of the road it detracts. But, there are bits that are quite good, there just isn't enough of them. I can't give it more than 2 though I don't think. The best tracks were the opening track and "La Cienega just smiled". I found most of the rest of it a bit of a slog. It's too long. I feel that the target demographic is American girls, which I am safely outside of. 2.5

Fine album however every song sounds similar. Kind of sleepy.

Generica Americana. Sounds a bit like folk music. Isn't. I think the record company did us all a favour by omitting "side 4". I couldn't be bothered by then anyway.

The whole time I was thinking it was Bryan Adams 2.5

Double albums are generally ambitious - obviously, the double length allows for more of a deep dive into an album’s themes, and normally that results in some “extra” bits: extra long songs, short contextual pieces, and so on. Gold is essentially a double album with no ambition - cut the tracks in half, and you have a bonafide good record! But as-is, it feels more like a deluxe edition with all the B-sides included, and that’s not a good thing. There are some nice songs here, though - New York and Sylvia Plath were highlights for me.

Commercial radio fodder.

Kind of a boring Bruce Springsteen coded album. In no way shape or form did this need to be a double album.

So, I love Strangers Almanac by Whiskeytown, and I expected to like this, too. But I didn’t. Maybe if I had listened to it in my early 20’s? I just didn’t connect with it, it was uninspiring, and he just seemed too earnest here. And I listened without knowledge of Ryan Adams’ personal life, allegations of misconduct, etc. I was not aware of any of that until after I listened to the whole thing and read a couple other reviews here. But separate the art from the artist, anyway. I kind of liked Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd. And I’m going to go listen to Strangers Almanac again. Yep, Whiskeytown still holds up. That’s five stars. Go for that instead of this.

la cover molto emo mi ha cringiato non poco. boh se è del XXI secolo allora in questo momento non mi va. l'ho ascoltato e ci sta, però non me lo riascolterei più. niente contro ma artista archiviato per ora

Not a bad album at all and it was nice to listen to but many of the songs just weren't hitting. Vocals were nice and I love Adams' range and differentiation in his voice which added a lot of flair to the songs. 4/10, Favorite song: Tina Toledo's Street Walking blues'

Completely meh. Felt lacking in sound for me,

I have never understood the hype around this guy to the point of being a little embarrassed for Gillian Welch and David Rawlings that they hung out with him so much. They are head and shoulders above him. The three star review describing him as like a smooth Springsteen not as intelligent as Neil Young made me chuckle. The definition of faint praise.

2/5 I mean it was okay, I did somewhat enjoy listening through it but nothing really stood out to me.

Hated his voice. Album cover corny as hell.

Genuinely enjoyed this album!

Why. Is. It. 70. Minutes. Long.

A lot of this album sounded like it was trying to get used in a montage/narration section in Scrubs. There’s some good songs amongst the chaff but it is very long. I feel I missed the boat with Ryan Adams, and then unfortunately he surrounded himself with controversy. So I never gave him a fair try. having a double album as your second album is ballsy, I will say. 2.7/5.0 Best Song: Nobody Girl/When The Stars Go Blue

Would not buy

Started strong but began to drag. Horrible man.

Before Listening: I haven’t heard of this album or artist so we’ll see! The cover has an upside down flag so I’m expecting it will be political. After Listening: meh

Started a bit bland but alright enough. After the third song however I audibly sighed at the prospect of yet another hour of Wal-Mart Wilco.

Pretty unremarkable for me.

Not a huge fan. I definitely got more into the songs as the album progressed

Disc 1 - 2.5/5 New York, New York - 3/5 Firecracker - 2/5 Answering Bell - 2.5/5 La Cienega Just Smiled - 3/5 The Rescue Blues - 3.5/5 When The Stars Go Blue - 3.5/5 Nobody Girl - 3/5 Sylvia Plath - 2/5 Enemy Fire - 2.5/5 Gonna Make You Love Me - 3/5 Wild Flowers - 2/5 Harder Now That It's Over - 2/5 Touch, Feel & Lose - 2.5/5 Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues - 3/5 Goodnight, Holly Blvd. - 2/5 Disc 2 - 4/5 Rosalie Come And Go - 4/5

Meh. The big shiny classic-rock-esque pop rock sound has already worn off me a bit, and hearing 70 minutes of it from this guy did nothing to warm me up to it. I liked enough of the songs decently enough that I was considering a 6/10, but as a full album experience I couldn't countenance anything more than a 5/10, and I'm demoting it to 4/10 purely because of the ick some of these lyrics give me in light of recent allegations against the guy. Eugh, next.

Listening to this while shaking my head the whole time so people in public know I disagree with Ryan Adams’s personal life. Pretty easy listening for the most part. Nothing really stood out as being amazing; more good songs than bad. Some catchy riffs here and there. But it had no business being as long as it was.

Not a fan.

2.5- fine album

In my opinion, whether is Tom Petty, Steve Earl or others, it feels like there are other artists that do it better, or in a way that resonates more strongly with me than Ryan Interestingly, the most played Ryan song on Spotify is a cover of Oasis' Wonderwall - that sums it up for me Nothing I need to revist here

BORRING

Son, we have Radiohead, Rolling Stones, Natalie Merchant, AND Dido at home…couldn’t wait for this one to be over.

It feels like this album is trying really hard to be something where it ultimately shouldn't have ever been, this isn't abhorrent but utterly boring, nothing to latch onto not even mediocrity

90 minutes of mediocrity. Not awful, just bland and boring, a bit like American culture I suppose.

I'm getting Bono vibes, but indie style.

Genre: Alt-Country Man… 70 minutes of this felt like 5 hours. Maybe this coming out right after 9/11 made this a pick for the book, with its Americana vibes and the American flag (upside down) cover, and its Springsteen-esque vibes. But… for real? This album is just fine, but too long. Nobody Girl was almost 10 minutes, I couldn’t believe that song was still going. Ryan seems like a nice guy, but I don’t know… this seems about as superfluous as it gets. Days of Future Passed is not in this book, mind you. 2/5

Super mid album, but my wife digs it.

Gold is one of those albums that clearly wants to be a big, sprawling Americana statement, but it ends up feeling more like a collection of well-intentioned sketches than something truly cohesive. There is a polished, rootsy charm to the production and Adams slips easily between styles, but the album often feels more like imitation than inspiration. You can hear the influences in almost every track, and sometimes a little too clearly. There are moments that work. A few songs have a nice looseness to them, and the melodic instincts are solid when he is not trying too hard to sound like someone else. But the album is long, and a lot of it blends together into pleasant but forgettable background music. The emotional weight Adams aims for never really lands, partly because so much of the record feels like it is chasing a classic vibe rather than finding its own. Overall, Gold is listenable and occasionally enjoyable, but not something that sticks. It feels safe when it wants to feel timeless, and broad when it wants to feel intimate. A nice enough album to have on, but not one that leaves much behind once it is over.

Before looking at other users' reviews, I assumed I'd liked this less than most. Turns out I liked it more than most. But...that's not saying much.

A couple decent songs here but the album is sooooo long and so dull. Doesn’t help that Ryan Adams himself is awful. Best song: The Rescue Blues

The first album i rate below three stars because it excels in being utterly forgettable. It was far ahead of its time by being the first utter median album without the need for an AI algorithm. Well done Ryan

I watched a singers' roundtable on BBC with Ryan Adams, Janis Ian, and Neil Finn from Crowded House - just three singer-songwriters jamming and singing each other's songs. Except Adams. He'd signed up for this show and just refused being part of the conversation about songwriting. He became animated when they jammed on his own songs but otherwise nothing. What an unprofessional dick. And I think that sums up everything about this album. It should be good but his ego stands in the way of it all. There are pockets of good songwriting here but it gets buried under the weight of Adams' own self-importance. And the production is incredibly anodyne, btw. Adding one star for When The Stars Go Blue but this is a 1.5 star album for me

Very meh, isn't it?

Dès qu'on voit la pochette de l'album c'est 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅. Les premières chansons sont plutôt bien. La fin s'essouffle rapidement. Et c'est autant sa qualité que son défaut d'être aussi américain (états-uniens ?) que ça.

Rating: 5/10 Meh.

Boring and forgettable

I can't give this guy the time of day. He isn't totally untalented, but the size of his ego far outstrips whatever talent he has. Also, he's a twat. Fuck, even the cover irritates me.

How come this douche has 2 albums on the list and Bryan Adams doesn't have any? It doesn't sound exceptional in any way to me. Favorite song: gonna make you love me

Sleepy and boring, with strained patriotic emo bits.

New York, New York - 3/5 Firecracker - 3/5 Answering Bell - 4/5 La Cienega Just Smiled - 1/5 The Rescue Blues - 2/5 Somehow, Someday - 3/5 When the Stars Go Blue - 2/5 Nobody Girl - 1/5 (why is this 9 fucking minutes???) Sylvia Plath - 1/5 Enemy Fire - 4/5 Gonna Make You Love Me - 4/5 Wild Flowers - 3/5 Harder Now That It's Over - 2/5 Touch, Feel & Lose - 2/5 Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues - 1/5 Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd - 2/5 Average score: 2.4/5 ⭐️⭐️ this temu knockoff Bruce Springsteen is considered a must-listen before i die? really?? this was way too long, offensively boring and hard to find the patience to listen to. very upset to learn that there's still one more album of his i have to sit through later on too

It tastes like a glass of water after having 15 rounds of beer. I just heard 90 minutes of a generic rock pop music collection. Totally forgetable. 2 stars.

2.5

temu bob dylan

Хронометраж цього альбому складно виправдати. 21 пісня на 90 хвилин. Дуже мало кому вдається втримати хороший рівень альбому з такою кількістю матеріалу. Тут цього точно не вдалось. Місцями тут є хороша поп-американа, місцями максимальна нудота. В той же час дуже багато текстів, особливо на любовну тематики, не проходять вайб чек. Текст в пісні про Сільвію Плат - супер кріповий несмак. Я буквально не повірив, що цей чую і довелось спеціально текст відкрити щоб пересвідчитись.

Não é mau, mas sinto que quer muito ser o Bruce… Não chegou lá

Fells somehow even more bland and pandering than the Springsteen he's ripping off, buuuuut I can hear a lot of sounds that probably inspired bands I like today, so he gets a bonus star.

very 90s sounding which is nice but this man gives me rotten vibes and for being so praised the music was idk

2/5

2.5 lowered to 2

Moro moro :D eipä ollu hääppönen levy. Vähän liian contryä mulle. Mukavia rock elementtejä löytyi kyllä jotka oli ihan jees mut ei silti pelastanut albumia.

Tilasin Temusta Stetsonin ja cowboy bootsit, koska aitoja vermeitä tää hubbabubba countryrokki ei ansaitse. Ihan sellasta kelpuutettavaa taustamusiikkia, mutta todella unohdettavaa. Ihan yee, muta haw jää uupumaan. Kaks tähteä ihan vaan siksi, että Rosalie Come and GO, Sweet Black Magic ja Cannonball Days oli oikeesti todella hyviä biisejä ja kaivoin oikeen Stetsonin hyllyltä.

Kyllä tällekin tekeleelle käyttöä keksii, toimii hyvin jos on nukahtamisvaikeuksia.

En pystynyt yhtään tähän. Voi olla, et hetki oli väärä tai mielentila oli väärä, mut jotenkin hengetöntä kamaa mulle. Joteki et näitä on tehty aika paljon jo ja paremmin. Autossa tai taustamusiikkina vois mennä, mut ei aktiivisessa kuuntelussa, ei just nyt. Monipuolinen, kyllä, ja taitava lauluntekijä, mutta melodiat tai kertsit eivät tarttuneet, eivät sit mitenkään. Hävettää sanoa, mut jätin levyn kesken. Ehkä palaan tähän joskus, eri aikana, eri mielentilassa.

Ensivaikutelmana letkeä ja helppo kuunnella, levyn lopussa totesin että tästä ei kyllä jäänyt yhtään mitään päähän. Hajuton ja mauton, vaikkei sen kummemmin "tuskainen" kuunneltava.

Hitto, tämä olikin RYAN Adams, eikä BRYAN Adams. Mietin jo että "Missä on se kesä 69 -biisi?". Selkeästi vaatisi projektilta jonkinlaista introa päivän levyyn. Ryan onnistui aikatauluttamaan New York, New York musavideon juuri oikeaan aikaan. Voisi jopa miettiä oliko se sattumaa?! Itse musasta. Leppoisaa sunnuntaimusaa. Kuitenkin tuntuu etten huomenna muista enää yhtään biisiä tältä(kään) levyltä. Ei sytytä mitään tunnetta.

Meh, asides from what’s known about Ryan Adams over the last several years, this was very meh.

Stale after new York New york

Sure, whatever.

1. This record is so "of its era" I can hardly stand it, but it's pretty good, for that era. 2. Ryan Adams is a pile of trash. 3. I saw Ryan Adams, accidentally, once. I was trying to see a Butch Walker show, but the suckatude of Ryan Adams was so complete, his buffoonery so massive, it made them both suck. And I'll never forgive him for that, so his "perfectly fine for the era" 3 stars is reduced to 2.

This dragged on for a while. I vaguely remember him sounding less dull. Not for me 2/5

Too long, incoherent.

I enjoy Ryan Adams’ subtle, less overbearing take on Americana which makes a palatable form of a type of musical expression that I usually struggle with. New York, New York and La Cienega Just Smiled stand out positively. That said, it's a long, long old album that required a fair bit of commitment from myself to sit all the way through. By the third quarter end any memory of songs that I was digging at the start felt distant as I lulled from one mid tempo song into another.

It’s a high 2 from me, some lovely moments and much of it is unobjectionable but it overstayed its welcome for me by half

Top track: New York, New York / When The Stars Go Blue

Ok, rock demasiado gringo para mi gusto.

We already have Bruce Springsteen

This album is like enjoying a beer at the beach with friends while watching the sunset. Then your friend’s new fedora-wearing boyfriend sits down and is overly friendly. After some generic conversation during which he offers no insight whatsoever into any character traits, he pulls out a guitar. Everyone is awkwardly forced to end their conversations to hear this knob play. He proceeds to perform a medley of generic songs. The ambience of the moment is ruined. You don’t talk to that friend anymore.

There is a story of a going to a Ryan Adams concert and calling out to hear Summer of 69. This album could have done with a bit more Bryan Adams song writing. Its too long, too overly pretentious in parts. Sometimes, less is better, and keeping it simple works. I enjoyed the opening track and a few others, but really I won't be putting this bad boy back on my stereo anytime soon.

Not my jams

I hate this, a full range of dislike. 1 or 2.

Most of this is better than I expected, but there's just so much of it, and most of it is so boring. I really thought "When the Stars Go Blue" was originally by someone else, but after listening to some covers, I can't figure out what I'm imagining in my head as the "original" version. I also enjoyed "Nobody Girl". 2.5?

Teenage core

It’s ok, somewhat nondescript pop/country/rock. Album cover is pure cringe

5.5 out of 10

Everything all at once. This is Adams before he became a guitar shredder so there are lots of variety of song on here. The majority are ok with New York being slightly better and the second to last song being much much worse. This is to me a very overrated album by a talented guy who just never really put it together in my opinion.

The amount of artists who at the very best should have ONE album on this list and who instead get more (sometimes way more) is absolutely ricidulous. Ryan Adams is absolutely somebody who falls into this category. It's not shit as such (fairly annoying fairly quickly, though), but how on earth this is relevant or interesting enough in anyone's book to say one's life would be less complete without having listened to it is absolutely beyond me.

Super poppy. Not horrible. Not wonderful.

Creep

I was disappointed by the opening few tracks. Very safe, country-infused rock; "by numbers" if you like. That's presumably what happens when you openly "try to invent a modern classic". How about some authenticity? It got a bit more miserable part-way in, which I preferred, and there were Stones-esque moments to enjoy (although, why not just listen to the Stones?) Ryan Adams has a nice voice. But the album didn't move me much. He sounds like an angry person in his life outside music, too; someone who abuses their power and struggles to understand that.

It was better than I expected. But still pretty dull.