Gold

Boring, alt-rock album. Very generic, not much substance at all

Nee, het spreekt me niet aan.

Ryan is alleen leuk als ie een 'taylor-tje pulled' en voor de rest een retesaaie baas!

Too "Hey There Delilah" for me

I've never listened to him or this record before. I mostly hated it, but... kinda liked it, by the end? Extremely E A S Y . L I S T E N I N G .

big bag of meh

finding a good and worthwhile song in this album was harder than it should be. cant even remember what I just listened to.

The music is fine, he has a nice voice, and I can definitely see how it might have influenced others like Phoebe Bridgers. There's probably good stuff to learn from a closer look. But it doesn't really wow me and he's a bad person, so the balance is against it.

Was an alright album, though don’t think I would listen again

Meah

Not really my thing but some good songs.

This made me sleepy. Too long and middle of the road

2001. Key Songs: New York, New York, When The Stars Go Blue

... It's okay? Bit bland. Sounds older than 2001 Kind of into the harmonica use? Very lowkey, easy listening. Lot of slow songs, slower ones are a bit dull. Too long! Also the last few songs try too hard to be fun, would be better if they were shorter and vocals improved Faves - Firecracker, Answering Bell, Enemy Fire No songs saved or added to playlists Overall - okay! Not really for me. Some fun instrumentals but also pretty dull in parts Rating - 2/5

Dull

Honestly, I kept losing interest - just not a fan.

7.9.26 this cover was giving emo so imagine my shocked when i pressed play on this country rock pop album. rather unremarkable while still pleasant enough to let play through. am i shocked this is on the list? yeah kinda. even other albums ive not liked have had more going for them but whatever. its boring and so long. ive decided i hate this album Favorite Song: NA Rating: 1/5

Three songs in and turned it off. Why has this album been selected? It's not interesting, Ryan Adams is a cry baby, it wasn't even that well reviewed on release..? Country music for vehemently Christian Church yard sales. Inoffensive and tedious. I hope Adams reads this and cries himself to sleep for being a cunt.

Feels like it goes on forever

Never heard of him. This album is a slog 8 or 9 songs could have stuck it. 16 songs of him being a misery guts. Reading he wanted this even longer he really dosent like his fans. What has this eegit got to say that 8 songs wouldn't do it. I hate this album.

I never really listened to this guy, so I never realized how pale he looks on the cover, or that the flag is upside down. Anyway, I never really listened to this guy. One star for incredible songs, minus a bunch for all the rest.

Never understood why Ryan Adams was "the guy" for a small period of the early 2000s, and this does nothing to explain whatsoever. This is only compounded by the fact that he is, by all accounts, an emotionally manipulative and abusive man child. No thanks.

No

I face towards the flag

not for me

pretty bad i can't lie, didn't have a good feeling when i saw the album cover

This album is incredible, and he is an incredible musician (and one of the best live performers I've personally seen). This should have been 5* at a canter, but fuck Ryan Adams for what he did to Phoebe Bridgers (and others). Side note, why are there so many shitty human beings on this list?

Noooooo hahahahaha

I get why people would enjoy some of this album, but fuck Ryan Adams. Also, very country-fusion and county sucks.

Can't do this. Alternative country is just country music that's pretending it's not country. The saxophone solo in the opening track is really great.

16 tracks of this coffeehouse-Springsteen, self-important, edgeless, humorless sensitive white boy horseshit Ryan Adams suck my ass!!!

incredible. they invented an AI slop album 25 years before the invention of AI slop music

MIERDA ABSOLUTA YANKEE

Dreadful. Just... no. If I could give 0 stars, I would.

Any white guy with a guitar can put his mouth to a harmonica and call himself a rockstar. Any middling white guy can pose as a rockstar by writing hackneyed songs about such varied and untapped ideas like how fun it is to have casual sex, New York, girls, Hollywood Boulevard, flowers, and how sad it is to have casual sex. Any middling white guy can abuse and exploit young women who are smarter and more talented than he is by pretending to be a rockstar. Ryan Adams innovates on this Grammy nominated (!) album by checking all three of these boxes at once. It's oppressive, in the way a shitty bar-band is. Overstuffed with instruments, no silence or intimacy, just shitty songs about girls and suffocating organs. It would be interesting (in a sick way) to close your eyes and play house listening to this album (imagine your shitty, cigarette stench boyfriend coming in and playing these songs for you...) if it weren't for the fact that not a lick of it is interesting. For over an hour, this Ephebophilic shitbag pushes you through song after song of meandering, suicidal notebook poetry. (Not suicidal in the sense that the songs are about suicide, but suicidal in the sense that it made me want to find a sharp edge and rub my neck against it.) In a world where arguments about separating the art from the artist happen constantly, I believe it would do the world good to cut out the artists that aren't worth keeping around and then getting onto the musicians that matter. I'm not sure if Ryan Adams is in the first draft of people we should collectively remove from our minds (Marilyn Manson, Gary Glitter, that tattooed fuck from Falling in Reverse) but he's certainly among those musical talents.

I gave up halfway through. This was everything terrible about Springsteen and the evolution of pop country put in to one long as hell turd that won’t pinch off.

This album could have been left on the shelf and everyone would have been just fine without hearing it.

I have to admire the audacity of Adams in blatantly ripping off two of the biggest names in 20th century music, Dylan & Springsteen, without an ounce of their talent. The first two tracks are bearable, after which this descends into a soup of the most awful countrified, soft-rock shmaltz imaginable. I'm 110 albums in and this is the worst I've heard so far, a soulless, cynical corporate cash in of the worst kind.

Not a fan

music: ok. vocals: meh. overall: boring.

God this is boring. The whole album is the guy at the party who inexplicably brought his guitar with him got to record an album. He’s like a dime store Bruce Springsteen, but far less eloquent. The album sits just a bit shorter than 1.5 hours. Far too long to sit with songs that don’t really have hooks to differentiate them.

I got very bored 4 songs in.

Truly dreadful. The Rescue Blues is a proper misnomer. Honestly embarrassing

It was a 2, but it takes 30 seconds of further reading about this guy to realise it's a 1

Vanilla, over-produced, lifeless, boring, gross.... were the first words that came to mind...

🤔

not my thang

When to listen: I wouldn't, because... other, better versions exist. I found this derivative and boring. Way too much harmonica for my liking. Kiiinda liked "Touch, Feel, and Lose" but that's it. Forgettable.

Nope, really pretentious somehow. I know a 100s local artists like this that made it. Ones who made it does pretty much the same thing, average albums. I just can't look at this seriously :(. 1.3

He’s a douche canoe

Insufferable. A sappy crybaby dirge.

Boring

Vähän väsynyttä musiikkia, nykykorvaan kuulostaa tekoälyn tekemältä geneerisyydeltä.

It would be 2 stars if it was 30 minutes shorter

No way should this be on this list.

Pretty dull and dreary, and this album feels like it goes on forever. Wild Flowers wasn't awful, though.

Really... I just don't understand why this kind of music is held in such high regard. 70 minutes too !!! Nope, 4 tracks and several skipped. Dreadful shit. Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ some Revisit ❌️ Boring ★☆☆☆☆ (2/10) Total reviewed : 239 Already owned : 54 Purchased : 12 To buy list : 3 Nope : 170

I don’t even like Bruce Springsteen and I think his albums are better than this

most boring uninteresting album so far

The stories about RA in the Wiki are hilarious because, of course, he's a self-involved asshole. The released version is an hour and he wanted it to be longer. Fuck you, dude.

Un album muy US White boy. giving boy nextdoor make it big. Canciones que pegan otras que se disipan, not my cup of tea.

Used to love this album. Too bad he’s a fucking creep.

The lyrics are corny as hell and the super bright and clean production does nothing to make the sentiments feel genuine. I've heard better lines on a Lenny Kravitz record. Honestly I've heard better lines on a Taylor Swift record! Listen to Lucinda Williams if you want some cozy Americana, not this Billy Joel for hipsters crap.

Whatever

1.5

Yank shite.

Not really my style for music. It made me sleepy.

Fuck this sex pest

This was just about as bad as I expected. Clinical, professional lowest common denominator stuff. There are no failed attempts because nothing has been attempted. It's not unlistenable but there's nothing worth listening to. The last song was a bit stripped back, showed he had a decent voice and I didn't mind it. Otherwise it's the platonic ideal of beige.

The chap has a nice voice, quite liked some of When The Stars Go Blue, but the whole album is so boring and bland otherwise. Middle-of-the-road to the point of being maddening.

I don't want to listen to C&W and as such chose not to.

I hate this

Odd, I'm pretty sure I like Ryan Adams but this album is not it.

Nope! Who is this music for?! I think I owe Neil Young an apology, at least Crazy Horse plays good music.

No man, no. His most popular song is a cover, 20 year sentence to the dungeon Will I listen to again: 0%

Very middle of the road and at least twice as long as it needs to be. Don’t see how or why this is considered at all essential.

DNF. I tried. I got to maybe track 4. Springsteen Lite. And I couldn't find anything to latch onto. I heard no authenticity.

Not Listening to country

FUCK RYAN ADAMS

This is another album that greatly overstates the importance of all of the songs on it. There are one or two songs that are reasonably fun and catchy to listen to, however, most of the songs just have melodies or other elements that make you wish you were listening to a better song. There were multiple times, listening to this album where I thought of a different song or album that I’d like to be listening to because of a song that was currently playing. I don’t mean that in a positive way, it feels like this album is watered down versions of songs that you might like. I can’t recommend it, and probably won’t listen to it again.

Trash

Douchebag emotional abuser writes songs about emotions. Listened to it drunk enough times. One star. However La Cienega is a great fucking song

Oh look at that, the internet confirmed that this dude is exactly what he looks like in the album cover. Listened until nobody girl and then realized what a twat this dude is. No thanks.

Guitar is cool. His voice is kind of annoying. Took me a while to understand some of the lyrics. Not something I would listen to. Would probably turn off. His voice aggravates me. Some of it is better and more chill (mostly when he isn't singing). Very generic. I thought giving this a one would be harsh but it wouldn't.

This album felt like it had no identity, is it meant to be a rock album? a country album? If so it failed at both. All the songs felt incredibly generic and had no personality as well as not being that great vocally or instrumentally. I don't want to give this one star as I didn't find it egregious, but I certainly didn't find any enjoyment in listening to it so it's a decently low two. I am surprised by the inclusion of this in '1001 albums you must listen to' and even more so that it got three Grammy nominations. 30/100 Score and Rating edited 28/01/26

With the three first songs you get the overall idea of this album. Alt-country tracks that sound all the same. For anyone who likes the record, maybe this album is very good. The production is quite clear, it has a lot of instrumentation and he doesn't have a bad voice, I'll give it that. However, to me, this feels very soulless and dull. Most of the melodies are incredibly predictable and generic, with maybe an exception here an there, like the chorus of the song 'Nobody Girl' which is nice (but it even gets a bit draining after a while...), or the more upbeat "Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues". But the worst offense is the runtime being one hour and ten minutes. I have to listen to 'Mellon Collin and The Infinite Sadness', which lasts two whole hours, and somehow, it feels way shorter than this album. Would give it a higher score if it was 40 minutes shorter.

I gave it a shot, it's a little cheesy, it's very cliché. Feels like canned 'murica. I attempted to give the extended version a listen, I like going for the vibe the artist wanted. I made it to track 19 before I just gave up. No redeeming historical value or significance as far as I can see. 0.8/5

Wow am I glad to be done this.

Boring. Too long. Didn’t like.

Sorry, this is just utter crud

aribo

#22 Better wait for tomorrow to listen to interesting music 'cause it ain't today...

Country or not country? It’s close enough to country music…blah.

Oof

Gentrification coffeeshop final boss music. It takes about 9 months for a human to gestate, considering what happened 9 months after this album came out well, looks like Ryan impregnated Bin Laden with a hate baby.

Un álbum extremádamente genérico e intrascendente. El estilo musical abarca una mezcla de country, pop y rock bien ejecutado y producido, pero carente de impacto, sobre todo en el trabajo vocal lírico y compositivo. El cantante tiene un rango tímbrico muy reducido y suave. Las partes más enérgicas del álbum pierden fuerza en la voz. Además el álbum es largo, aburrido y olvidable. De hecho lo interesante es que iba a ser un álbum doble, aún más largo, pero la discográfica lo redujo a uno solo (por suerte). Supongo que en parte la popularidad del álbum en su momento tiene su raíz en ser un álbum que se publicó apenas unos días después del atentado a las Torres Gemelas. Es una música amena, generalmente positiva, con mucha identidad norteamericana y con un arte de tapa que ni más ni menos tiene la bandera estadounidense. Rescato nuevamente la calidad en la ejecución de los músicos y del sonido general, pero por lo demás un disco bastante mediocre.

This is really boring Country dancing stuff The songs are acceptable, some good moments of like classic american folk stuff Is this album really an hour long? Stars go blue is like a bad coldplay song, I hate it I get nothing from this The rescue blues was ok I think Harder now thst its over is an alright ballad I skipped a lot of songs after Nobody Girl when they started to annoy me too much, like I get it, this is toooo long

We have two Ryan Adams albums here? I actually never got to listening to the first one I got, but this seems excessive. To me he’s just the guy whose name sounds like Brian Adams. Let’s give it a whirl. WOW, the drop from this guy’s ego to his actual songwriting skills is huge. This album screams “I Am the new American classic”, from the name, cover art, being 90 minutes long, even naming the first song “New York, New York”. He wants to be the new Springsteen or Petty, sing love songs and working class anthems and be the voice of a generation. It’s just not that. The songs are pretty weak and one note. Adams’ vocals are pretty good but it’s just not enough. This is basically two stars but I’m docking it a star for lack of self awareness. So one star.

LOL no.

Another "shame he succumbed to farm equipment" guy.

Yawn

Pass.

This album made me retroactively realize that I am being too nice to some of these albums. Honestly, the last one should have been a 1 too. I’m just so tired of all the random picks on this list. Why? I know Ryan Adams is decently popular, but why is there so much of this dreck on here? And why did nobody take it out in the later editions? I return to this list after a 1yr hiatus and this is what I get? His voice is just so annoying and this album is longer than an hour! I’m so grateful my next album is Throwing Muses. Hopefully I never have to listen to Ryan Adams again.

Never enjoyed any country music, so I struggled listening to the entire album.

Jeg kan ikke forklare hvorfor men det her album føles som traileren for den nye film om Bruce Springsteen. Jeg har aldrig hørt Ryan Adams' musik før, jeg var ret overrasket over hvor country agtigt det er. Jeg hadede den. Kan ikke lide hans stemme og alle sangene er så lange og kedelige. Coveret er også et af de mest anstrengene jeg kan komme i tanker om

Well that was shit. Way too long and generic, insufferable voice. I hope to never hear this American ever again.

This is just OK country-tinged rock in the vein of Bruce Springsteen. It's boring and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay toooooooooooooooooo loooooooooooooooong.

I never liked this guy and I still don't like this guy...banal americanish crap/rock. Wannabe Springsteen....

800+ albums in and I feel like I’ve come across the “final nail” many times however TWO RYAN ADAMS ALBUMS is a fucking joke. There are without doubt HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of albums that could’ve taken the place of this fucking nobody. There is simply no way the author of this list had heard 1001 albums when he started making it. TWO RYAN ADAMS ALBUMS!

Suena yankee promedio de película, música de superación/trabajo duro, etc.

I hated it I’m so sorry Ryan

best tracks summer of '69. run to you. and so on. not really: 1 star.

Bullshit

nah

Fav: New York, New York Least Fav: Somehow, Someday If this was like 30 mins maybe I’d feel something, but it’s so bloated and boring. It scares me that he originally wanted this to be longer

1.0 - Awful

Adams wanted this to be a double album but dude doesn't even have enough decent material for single album. Or an EP. Or a single. Or a ringtone.

1 star too many

I'd been warned this was a slog. And, yes. It was. I didn't hate it. But I didn't finish it. Firstly, Ryan Adams was making a bold call putting him in front of the American flag for this one. Nothing is overtly offensive in this album, it's just not very exciting. It's soft, folky country. Kind of like an updated but less exciting Dylan. Yeah, yeah, he can sing. But it felt like watching a b grade sitcom. I wasn't ready to wait it out for the 'will they, won't they'. And for goodness sake it's a double album. One star. I don't even feel bad for cheating.

offensively bland in an emblematic way for 2001

This might be one of the most boring and forgettable things I've ever heard. Can't believe he does that 1h10.

I'd rather be listening to Bryan Adams!

Wha ???? This is trash yall!

The guy gives me the ick

Should decide who he wants to copy. Dylan? Springsteen? Denver? The Muppets?

Doesn't deserve the time it would take me to write a proper review. Creatively bankrupt. I think that rather than Wikipedia snippets provided with each album, there should be some attempted justification for an album's presence on this list. Why does someone think I need to hear this before I die? I have no idea, and I would compel them to explain themselves.

Rosalie Come and Go was the only decent song

I have many issues with this list and the continued inclusion of this album on it is the newest one. There are so many more interesting and innovative albums from this genre that were excluded from the list and many Ryan Adams’ fans admit this is far from his best album so why was it included to begin with? It’s fine but I wouldn’t be going out of my way to put it on let alone recommend it to other people as a “must listen”. The fact that this list gets updated yearly (the newest 20 albums on the list fighting for their spot while the other 981 including this one remain untouched is a joke) - this is the random party guest that just won’t go home.

Just not a fan of his voice.

Now that I've heard this album, I can die in peace. First half of the album was the most generic music I could imagine. Worth a 2, I guess. The second half is rough. What's with this list and too-long albums? Definitely some mistaking of quantity for quality. Since I wanted this to be over 45 minutes ago, it gets a 1.

I thought that I knew and like Ryan Adams, but after listening to this samey-boringness, it turns out that I only like the Ryan Adams album Easy Tiger. this album was so boring, I didn't favorite and couldn't even distinguish a single song even though I love country/folk rock and Americana music.

“New York, New York” being hyped up in the wake of 9/11 is what turned me off of Ryan Adams. And then him skipping NC on tour for subsequent 5(? 10?) years. But listening to that song now reminds me of the Jason Isbell song “Relatively Easy”, except unlike Isbell’s heartfelt and gut wrenching lyrics, Adams’ song makes me feel nothing. Just dreck. Makes me want to listen to the superior artists he’s imitating (current candidate Van Morrison on “Answering Bell”, later, The Faces on “The Rescue Blues”) The fact that David Rawlings and Gillian Welch’s genius get smeared by the association with this is too bad.

My word this is dull. Unremarkable voice, Forgettable songs, turgid arrangements. Hard to fathom the heraldry around this record in 2001. An album to angrily put the bins out or to clean the toilet to.

Gawd I hate Ryan Adam’s

I've managed to ignore this guy up until now. I thought my play back speed was messed up on the first track. Record labels pump out guys that present music like this every minute. "Blending country and a modern sound". I often didn't notice that the song had changed. Which added to the insanity I was going through with the length of these tracks that sounded like they should be under 3 minutes. This is like the Walmart of music. There are probably a handful of people in every city that can do this. Support a local artist.

This is the kind of shit they play at Target lol

Not gold. Whiny, boring dross. I’d never heard of him before and will actively avoid now.

It’s like a Hallmark movie soundtrack

I thought Lauryn Hill yesterday was boring but holy crap that was Abbey Road compared to this. This might be the first album where I question why it is on here. As much as I hate The Butthole Surfers at least there was creativity there. This is remarkably unremarkable in every way.

Milquetoast is a good descriptor for Ryan Adams in my opinion. It’s not that he’s a bad singer or musician; nothing really stands out for me to latch onto. I genuinely don’t like his voice. The songwriting is unimpressive. This is the kind of album that just makes me mad. You’d think it would be something I vehemently hate that would enrage me, but at least the hate would’ve made me feel SOMETHING and that I can respect. This album didn’t evoke anything for me. I knew this was gonna be a rough go, and it’s unfortunately worse than I thought. Gonna Make You Love Me, from Sweet Home Alabama, is the only redeeming song that makes this album deserve at least one star.

I listened to about 30 minutes of this album. Like it was fine but I was getting bored. I could not believe my shock when I discovered there was still like an hour left. I stopped there. Also reading the reviews and his potential allegations put me off wanting to finish this one

dosadno, neoriginalno, predvidivo, blah. možda bih dao i dvojku da ne traje 70 MINUTA. nije nepodnošljivo al jebote, zašto je ovo na popisu

Horrible person, boring music. The world would be a better place without either this sex pest or his creations. Fuck off with that Born In The USA ripoff cover, this cunt isn't fit to lick Springsteen's boots.

I liked one song (Enemy Fire) because it sounded grungy to me. Then googled it and it turned out to be plagiarism. Boring crap.

ew

Derivative

I would put 0.

Made it halfway through the first song and had to bail

This creep. Nope. Apparently he hates being compared with Bryan Adams. I’m not a fan of Bryan, but I can sing ‘Summer of 69’ without needing a prompt. That immediately makes Bryann better. And as far as I know Bryan has never been done for inappropriate behaviour. Get in the bin.

Crap. Being on the list for no reason, there are so many artists that should have taken the spot.

Was going to give it a 2, but it just kept gooiiinnnnnng. So boring. 1/5

Trying to be Bruce Springsteen. Failing spectacularly. Alleged pedophile. Why does he have two albums in the book? Why does he have any albums in the book? Ghastly. Utter tripe.

This album manages to sound like all the mediocre radio stations that I never really want to listen to, but might stop on for a minute while tuning the radio. For a song or two, it's perfectly tolerable. For a double LP, it's a major waste of time.

This is absolutely my least favorite genre of music. Musically dull, there isn't a lot of talent on display. And there are not any standout or beautiful moments that make up for this dullness. Lyrically forced, it lacks any substance and sounds like it's written in a lab. And vocally transparent, you could replace Ryan's voice with any number of singers and the songs wouldn't become any more interesting. It's not country enough to be country pop, and not rock enough to be alt rock, and not poppy enough to be pop. Perfectly forgetable. I did like Sylvia Plath, so it's the survivor for the playlist.

Fuck you Ryan Adams

Fuck Ryan Adams

não aguentei terminar de ouvir não ironicamente é uma das piores coisas que eu já tive o desprazer de colocar nos meus fones horrível é um elogio pra essa tempestade de bosta

pau no cu desse mano muito ruim mesmo jesus amado

🖕

Nobody girl might be the worst song ive ever heard

Gold, the album that was or is a social media algorithm before the algorithm became The Algorithm, the Gold Standard in pulling from all you enjoy on the social media hellscape to influence everything you consume. In the case of Gold by Ryan Adams, he manufactured a record that sounds like everyone else without sounding like original music. I'd say Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, Niel Young, and essentially any musician from the late 70s who also used their name to identify their music or band, not Ryan Adams. Not Ryan Adams, because the litany of musicians he sounds like created quality, if not essential, music long before him. Sadly, this record is on the list because it felt necessary given the love the critics had for Ryan Adams, and this is in some way an unsung hero of an album that sounds like hundreds of records that came before. And that cover- I've seen it or a version before. I can't seem to place it, and the other missing thing is my mind following the listen, missplaced emotion... Ryan Algorithm.

Trash, sorry

This was a rough listen. The most vanilla, plain jane, inoffensive music I've listened to. Have never heard of this guy before, but everyone is saying he's a huge douche? I'm just here for the music, and man I don't want to be here for this. This dude moaning in "nobody girl" ????

Ryan's apologies and recent sobriety might help him come off my skip list (you can look his past behavior and decide for yourself) eventually. I used to enjoy this record a good bit, though not as much as Heartbreaker, but since hearing about how he treats other people I'd felt that the flag's upside down for a reason. Since I don't dock every jerk musician stars for misbehaving maybe I should go easy on this guy? I'm fully aware of the conundrum of separating the artist from their art. And, I acknowledge that I often apply my own standards unevenly. I try to not live in a world of absolutes though. I to try to take something of the artist and their context into account on the one hand and ultimately I try to not let that "allowing the person into the discussion" to interfere with the final aesthetic judgments on the other. It really is a case-by-case basis act of balance. I'll also confess that the ones I have the most difficulty with are musicians and artists I personally admired or enjoyed for a long stretch of time, that I somehow felt I "grew up with" along the way only to have that person's transgressions and trespasses revealed. I guess Ryan could take it as a compliment then that I struggle to enjoy his music anymore. He might smile a little knowing that he's as close as he is to Morrissey and Kanye both.

Derivative, bland, annoying harmonica, stock music.

I was disappointed that the two opening tracks weren't Sinatra & YMO covers. And it didn't get any better from there. Yawny generic rock ballads sung in a generic rock ballad voice that add nothing new to music or its enjoyment. Also, was this really 70 minutes long???? I had to bail long before that.

Another baffling inclusion on this list. I'm coming at this completely blind, I am pretty sure I've never heard of this guy, but the pre-9/11 release and the album art predispose me too dislike this. Anyway, this guy sounds like he's ripping off other artists and genres indiscriminately, it sounds very commercial, like he's aiming for maximum appeal by offering a little bit of everything which is tedious and popular, a bit like the musical equivalent of a chain restaurant. Some observations on tracks as I listened to them: New York New York's instrumentation really flat-sounding. Firecracker also really flat, vocals especially. Juxtaposition between title and the content. Everything is bland bland bland. La Cienega Just Smiled sounds like some inauthentic country or a Bruce Springsteen rip-off. The Rescue Blues - cheap gospel backing choir. Nobody Girl and another track which I forget - sounds like he's going for a sort of Bob Dylan vibe, then giving up on it. And why is this nearly ten minutes long!? This is one of those albums which is aggressively safe and dull. I would rather have a thousand weird avant garde or experimental metal albums on this list than anything this suffocatingly boring. I was considering a 2 for this, but when I write this much as a review, the album must have provoked some strong reaction, and it ain't a 5. 1 star.

Sounds so of its time and I just don’t like it lol. Even the songs I didn't hate (firecracker being the only one), I really only liked because it reminded me of being a young kid getting into music and it is the kind of song I would have slurped up at that time... but now?? now I think it's bad. Getting to be needlessly long. songs blurring into the next. feels like dribble. I do not like this man. fighting the urge to turn this off with two more songs.

Not for me

Think I liked the first track but that was about it.

1. neuu york - 0 2. firecracker - 0 3. bell - 0 4. zmiled - 1 5. bluez - 1 6. zomeday - 1 7. ztarz - 1 8. girl - 1 9. plath - 1 10. fire - 1 11. me - 1 12. uuild - 1 13. harder - 1 14. touch - 1.5 15. toledo - 1.5 16. hollyuuood - 1 17. rozalie - 1

If a lyrical trope exists, this chode of a man used it on this record. Not one original moment in an hour and 14 minutes.

Not my thing at all. insipid and boring.

Back when I thought Ryan Adams was a guy with a lot of talent prone to taking artistic missteps I still only listened to Gold once through. Heartbreaker is the only one in the catalogue to hear to track popular music trends in the 00s. I don't think there are any notable hooks in the 21 songs on Gold. In 2025 it seems like a very sad attempt at a pop breakthrough. The scattered attempts at sounding soulful are not good. In 2025 the other thing Ryan Adams playing pop reminds you of is him being gross and coercive to young women who wanted music careers. music industry creeps: hated. (⌐■_■)

Douchebag music

So incredibly bland, and a slog to get through

i don’t think i was ever going to give this a truly fair listen as a phoebe bridgers fan, but i was willing to at least give him a chance and holy shit this was the most annoying album i’ve listened to. it’s an old joke but it really does sound like starbuckscore. i think that all the criticism directed towards male singer songwriter for being vain crybabies can be forwarded to ryan adams.

I thought it was terrible

Second album for Brian and still no summer of 69?

Shit music from a turd

If the color beige made an album this would be it. It's so boring and typical. And it goes on forever, a decent guitar part here and there does nothing to help it. And if you're judging by the cover, you know it's trash going in. "Hey photographer did you get my new belt from Hot Topic? I really want people to see the belt." I hate pretty much everything about this. 1/5

I think I am prejudiced against Ryan Adams based on a guy I use to know who loved him and wanted me to listen to this album. The kind of person that likes a 'manic pixie dreamgirl' kind of person. So I have always associated Ryan Adams with that type of person and resisted listening. Walked into another room when listening, came back and it sounded like exactly the same song was playing.

BOOOOO RYAN ADAMS SUCKKSSSSS BOOOOOOOO I’ll listen to this (maybe) but in a way where this man does not see a cent of my change. I stand with the women he harassed. Also he doesn’t get a full in depth review. Also screw what he did to 1989 this man is a terrible person and musician I hope he plays summer of 69 at his next show (iykyk)

I'm on song 5 and this is mind-numbingly bad. I will skip through and try the most popular ones. I suppose it isn't as bad as some other 1/5s so let's say it is a 1.5, but it is borderline unlistenable. Voice is bad.

From what I’ve listened to so far and know about this guy’s missteps…no thanks.

I've never listened to Ryan Adams before (had a flatmate who was a big fan, and that was enough to make me avoid altogether). Bland 2000s soft rock. Hints of van morrison.

I don’t know what this guys appeal is

Wow, what a slog of 70 minutes. I read in the Wiki that Adam's was "attempting to write a modern classic" when making this album. Hate to break it to you man, but that's not exactly how classic albums work. This shit's dryer than Melania.

Generic

more like oh brother another white guy stealing music and making it worse. bad job. 1 star, 5 booos

World of hurt expected. Album cover mixed with some reviews I accidentally saw tells me this is going to be a rough ride. Billy Joe Armstrong in front of the American flag that’s, huh? UPSIDE DOWN????? Whoa. This guy is off his rocker!1!!1!!Guys, this is going to be extreme. Look the fuck out. This is a worse version of counting crows. , sappy pop vocals, TERRIBLE lyrics, annoying cadence, bongos??? This thing BLOWS. Even the saxophone can’t save you. I’m crying. That harmonica hit me as so disingenuous. This is campfire music at a youth church camp. One of the worst lyricists we’ve had to listen to. The harmonica player even sucks. No soul, nothing. Wow we’re off to a flyer here. Oooh now a banjo. Is this that singer that does “bubbly.” Fuck. It’s pop country. Get out of here. You suck. The vocal melody is better and there is a catchy pop chorus (which has been partly ripped off from Steve miller band) but the instruments and his inflections make this completely unlistenable. It’s so unlikeable. Yes, describe the parts of an outfit Bryan er Ryan. This is songwriting camp stuff. It’s so basic. Oh yay, a reference to a “little girl.” Shocker. This is endless. Each song beginning feels like the onset of another heave during vomiting. I am catatonic. Nothing about this is blues. I suppose I am feeling depressed. We’re halfway there. Oh god the gospel inclusion. No. Imagine being this dimwit’s backing band? Fuck. There’s a group in need of rescue. Dude shut up. This is responsible for every moron who headlines the stampede every year. What? Speak up. I somehow haven’t run out of mean things to say. I more than likely never will when given ammunition like this. This feels like a first dance song for a doomed marriage. Doomed marriage feels like this guys overall aesthetic. Listen. I love reading, writing, all that. I don’t claim to be a genius. Look at this writing. It’s rife with errors and bloated prose, but, these lyrics aren’t saying anything, are they? I’m trying focus on anything but this hackneyed bob dylan impersonation mixed with an attempt to sound like the pixies (see: FAILED). I chose the lyrics and they too are approximations of good things half-remembered garbled in a self-importance blender. STOP REPEATING THIS LINE. Another bad guitar solo. Imagine saying “you’re not John Mayer” and meaning it as an insult. Here we are. Oh boy. Here we go. He’s about to propose an open relationship to the barista he’s attempting to leave. Get ready guys. This guy can’t leave well enough alone. There are elements of something that a talented songwriter could assemble into a useable song, but this guy builds Ryan Adam’s’ monster out of mangled pieces of bad ideas. And we get Sylvia Plath rhymed with “Give me a Bath.” 👍🏻 Oh sweet Jesus. The drummer lurched alive like he was being defibrillated. Furrow your brows gentleman. Ryan is getting gruff. This has been the only slightly listenable song thus far. And we’re back. Money can’t buy me love called, and it’s begging for death, everyone is really scared. Somebody call Ringo to talk it down. Yes Ryan, take that stolen melody and add the words “little girl” and a couple references to amphetamines. Perfect. Does someone have a capo and possibly a maraca? Excellent. Let’s call it track 11. Another whisper ballad. His voice is breaking. Hahahahahah oh man. That little instrumental swell. I want to heckle him. I just can’t stand the music on this album. It’s so basic. Good singer/songwriter music I so great but it’s hard to pinpoint exactly why the good stuff is good. This is simple to a fault and just so pop friendly. The country twang is also insufferable with everything else going on. Another clanger. Some more John Mayer lite. This album is making me like John Mayer by proxy. Stockholm Syndrome. Don’t do driving guitars. Ryan wants a ford commercial. Maybe the My name is Earl theme? Well he didn’t get either (to my knowledge, I honestly don’t care.) this is not horrid I guess. Grading on a curve. It’s cheesy and I would never listen to it again unless it’s accompanying the smooth ride of a 2024 ford escape, the most fuel efficient model in the premium series. Ford, Ryan Adams approved. This last song sucked. Fitting end to a pile of lukewarm refuse. This is the music that used to come automatically downloaded on windows Media player. Songs that feel like reproductions of hits filtered through a record executive’s septic tank. We really need to start examining what constitutes a “must listen” album because this ain’t it pal. Painful experience. 0-0.5 HIGHLIGHTS: Enemy Fire (I Guess).

Booo tomato tomato

Beige rock / country rock with phony, faux-Americana affectations and unremarkable production values, whose peremption date occurred a long time ago by now. And the whole thing is played by a figure whose real personality and supposed unsavory acts with women in the music business has had a few eyebrows raised in the last couple of years. Hard pass. 1/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums. 6/10 for more general purposes (5 + 1) Number of albums left to review: 45 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 411 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 240 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 306 (including this one)

Is this the most anonymous sounding album in the book? I think yes likely l. Music for squares to play at their wedding

What an insufferable collection of ear numbing muzak. I can't believe this charted anywhere in the world. I can't believe how basic and uninspired each individual song was, and what a tedious experience listening to the whole album was. The fact that this was shorter than anticipated and was still 70 minutes of this shit is something else. 1/5

I'd rather listen to Bruce Springsteen, and I hate Bruce Springsteen.

Look, if I skipped every album written by an abuser I would be listening to two albums a month but this one is too close to home. One star on principle, fuck off Ryan.

A collection of uninspired songs that runs for way too long. Has no reason to be on this list.

i can't even finish this saccharine boomer future predator shit 1/10

Boring!!!!!

Lyin' Badams

if i may quote, in its entirety, my previous review of this album: dear lord, i hated that. that is all.

No not at all.

No

More like Fools Gold... Bland uninspired country pop rock.

lol this album cover is so bad. Hmmmm. This feels like a guy who really liked Van Morrison, but decided to just be annoying in a different way. There's a smugness that permeates the album, like this dude's been told he's the voice of a generation when in reality he only speaks for the most milquetoast segment of people who are juuust interesting enough to step outside their comfort zone but without losing sight of comfort. This sucks basically. Writing a song about wanting a Sylvia Plath sure is a choice, and not one I'd make but fuck it I guess that sounds profound and was probably done by this weirdo to get girls. Truly, TRULY thankful the trend of making albums 70+ minutes for no reason other than filling a CD is dead because Christ alive this is unbearably long on top of everything else.

Yeah no .4/5

More like tin, amirite?

This was way too country. When I tuned it out it was good.

I didn't even listen to this album. I'm giving it 1 star for that cover. Fuck you.

This guy loves BBC

Nope

A man worthy of being punted across the field like a golf ball. See, the three things in music that don't quite personally tickle my pickle are: 1. overly long albums, 2. country music, 3. music by people with a college thesis-long Controversies section on Wikipedia. If your album has one of these elements, that's fine, but when you combine all three of them into one, you get a concoction of elements most foul, as if you were a nasty green witch brewing the Potion of the Rot. Want an actually good 2000s country album? Should have been literally anything by Jason Molina instead.

Não entendo como alguém aprende a tocar violão ou guitarra e compõe canções tão sem sal e sem graça. Horrível, sem sal, sem nada. Perdi tempo com esse. Tão ruim quando o "Bryan" Adams...

Bohoring.

Muito, muito, mas muito fraco mesmo, completamente sem personalidade

TWO ryan Adams albums on this list??????

Starts dull and lifeless and somehow goes downhill from there

Second Ryan Adams on my list and my opinion of him and his music hasn’t changed. Blue grass country music isn’t my thing at all. I’m also slightly worried about him has a person. From what our American reviewer’s say about him I cannot listen and feel at ease. Especially when there’s so much music out there I can avoid Ryan Adams and pretend he doesn’t exist. 1/5 19/5/24.

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

My god, day 1, country music, one unhappy camper. I lasted about 15 seconds - nothing new there then!

90 minutes of uninspired, inoffensive middle of the road adult oriented rock. 90 minutes….. Also is it coincidence that he releases a song called New York days after 9/11? I think not. Some people will do anything to shift a few CDs. Wish it had been the album with ‘Summer of 69’ on it. Or the one with the Spice Girl.

Blimey, think Ryan might have a overinflated opinion of himself. Listened on the fast forward as it's so long. Bland country rock, not sure how it got on this list but at least it's not Pere Ubu.

Ryan Adams has put out a ton of albums and dear reader it’s all crap. This is an over stuffed vanilla early aughts piece of garbage. Really not sure of what is appealing about this. His voice is reedy and uninteresting and lyrics are obtuse. The musicianship is fairly decent. All in all not my favorite.

Man, this album was just painfully boring. It's just so flaccid and safe.

Discount Bob Dylan, oh my god I hate this. Right down to the harmonica bullshit, boring ass writing, and annoying voice. Genuinely one of the worst album covers as well. This is the worst thing to happen to the US in the year 2001.

How does one separate the art from the artist? Ryan, a notorious asshole on top of his grooming and abuse allegations (which tracks), has produced some fantastic music...but I don't think this album is it. It has more nostalgia from the release of NY NY post 9/11 than top to bottom quality as an album. He's thin, watered down as an artist here. Separately judging this from the artist here.. there's not much art.

Country - Folk: nichts für mich.

What shite!

Shit Rating: 1.0

This is what I like to call "music for people who don't really like music". Awful, boring, generic, plastic rubbish. How on earth has this made it onto the list? One star is being generous

Generic and insipid pop/country. Has about as much punch as an toddler born without arms. Doesn't offer anything that hadn't been done before in decades previous by other artists, so I'm not sure why it's on this list.

jakiś countrydiscopolo wyjec

Fraco! Deve ter sido colocado na lista por ter algum parente jornalista, tirando isso, não faz nenhum sentido. Disco fraco, fraco, fraco! Cara que disco péssimo

Just not into the mellow acoustic thing.

I never like these generic singer song writer things. Throw in country and it gets neven worse. This guy definitely seems like the kind of douchebag to cover an entire Taylor Swift album and then get hit with me too allegations. You can't make this stuff up. Will this album ever end? Oh God, I'm only half way through it.

I remember Adams being very hyped at the time this came out, but he always left me cold and it seems nothing has changed. I listened to the first few tracks and then skipped through the rest. So derivative (if I want this kind of music I will listen to The Band, Gram Parsons etc) but without the best elements of its influences. Bland, blaaaand, blaaaaahhhh.

Hard pass. Creep.

No es mi wstilo

The timing of the release along with the cover art and songs like New York, New York lead me to believe he was in on 9/11.

I suspect Ryan thinks he’s better than he is. 🙈 A gaggle of one-dimensional songs here.

Hah, this is definitely white suburban people rock. It fucking sucks.

I don't need this in my life

Boring ...

It all went downhill after Summer of 69

Great album, but fuck Ryan Adams

generiskt skit

Trash human writes boring, generic pop.

Pop com verniz country ou country com pretensões pop?

Auf der einen Seite völlig überproduziert, auf der anderen Seite schreckliche vocals. Weichspülermucke, yeehaw.

Wehleidiges Rockalbum.

Auténtico peñazo infumable.

A country song about New York just sounds weird. Everything else is generic and dull. 🇺🇸

Just awful

This wasn't for me, very basic all around.

"modern" country; just so so bad in every way.

Ugh. It was country and then tried to be rock. It didn't work.

boooring

Insanely bland and obnoxiously long folk/light rock with a twang of country. So bland that I just finished it and couldn't pick out a single musical idea out of the entire hour and thirty minutes

I got maybe 2 songs in. Couldn't do it, not a fan a modern country.

Oh no, not this sexual harassing piece of shit again. Not on my watch! Fuck you, Ryan Adams. Justice for Liz Phair and Mandy Moore. I’m going to listen to their music today instead. I hope your dick rots and falls off.

Absolute trash, waste of 90 minutes of my life. Ooh look at me, I'm so edgy, got my American flag upside-down, blue-jeans with my face looking down and my spiky hair. Please give me a break. Whiny, country music, that doesn't deserve to have any Grammy Nominations in the "Rock" Category. Waste. Of. Time. Best (this was hard to pick): Firecracker Worst: The rest of the album

dipped his toe in noncing this one. the music is shite and i never understood why people bummed him so much, but time has shown they probably said he was good so he didn't do some sort of retaliation bumming or whatever shit it was he did.

I really truly genuinely TRY to make it through the whole album before rating but by track #4 this album had ruined my day and I cannot do it anymore. Go ahead and judge this album by its cover because it is 🇺🇸 a w f u l 🇺🇸

Altogether not great 1.5/5

Well that was a brutal 1.5 hours. Sounded like the worst combination of Speingsteen and Coldplay. Absolute drivel

This album was a real test of strength considering it’s an hour. At first it sounded like that guy at the open mic before mordecai and the rigbys but occasionally I’d be like oh shit is this about to get interesting then it didn’t

This ain't it

Ugh

Shite.

Nahh, easy listening adult contemporary bullshit from a creepy son of a bitch. Pass.

I hate this album so much I'm not even going to talk about the music. Instead I'd like ask a few questions about the album cover. First of all, who stands like that? Were they deliberately trying to capture the most awkward, unnatural stance possible? Also, look at his skin. I would think someone with such a rootsy sound would get a little more sun that that. Is he some kind of weird substrain of folksy Americana Goth?

Yucky Americans. Really couldn’t tolerate it.

Nah I'm good.

I purposely chose not to listen to this because the guy is a cunt.

Shite. Awful, unremarkable shite. Another one from the Black Crowes or the Black Keys school of why am I listening to this, all the influences are already in the book and it's shite at that, nothing new. I don't understand it, there's just nothing here. And then there's all that shit about the man himself. Take it away.

Shiiit detta va fælt

I can’t believe the first song isn’t a Sinatra cover. This guy’s a douche.

Not really my thing, gave it a chance but nothing hooked me

Totalmente olvidable

Este disco no me gustó nada. "Exageradamente estadounidense y muy genérico para el estilo.

New huge meh

not a fan of the album, but we're going all the way to 1/5 for personal conduct: “You’re not a real musician, because you don’t play an instrument.”

Despite nothing being objectively bad about this album, nothing was noteworthy either. I repeatedly zoned out while listening, forgetting that I even had music on.

I’m not a 18 year old girl in 2007

FFS, what music industry exec did Ryan Adams blow to get this massively generic tripe hyped so much? Oh and another thing - if my name was Steven Miller, and I formed a rock band called The Steven Miller Band, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't act like a little bitch every time someone yelled out for "Space Cowboy".

Ryan Adams is a garbage person and I refuse to acknowledge him.

Fuck Ryan Adams

didnt even listen ridiculous recommendation

Sorry no review anything by the pos.

Never ending boringness.... If that word exists. DNF

The mixture of pop and soft country is lethal.

sudas

Wish it was Bryan Adams

Fuck Ryan Adams.

Just a forgettable album, nothing really special about it. 3/10.

dear lord, i hated that.

This album feels like a big bland wet blanket. Couldn't wait for it to end.

I may not have been in the mood to listen to this ( I was looking at buying the new Royal Blood album ) but it was "ok"

primero que me carrrrrrga