Love Is Hell

Ryan Adams

2004

2.82

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Genres: Rock, Country Styles: Singer Songwriter, Alternative Rock

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Love Is Hell is the fifth studio album by American musician Ryan Adams, released on May 4, 2004, by Lost Highway Records. The album was originally released as two EPs, Love Is Hell pt. 1 and Love Is Hell pt. 2, at the insistence of Lost Highway, who deemed that the album was not commercially viable. A full-length version of the album was released when the EPs proved to be more of a commercial success than anticipated. Love Is Hell features guest contributions from Marianne Faithfull and Greg Leisz, as well as Fabrizio Moretti and Leona Naess on certain bonus tracks.

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Dec 21 2025 Author

Fuck sake I hate Ryan Adams

Jan 23 2026 Author

I wish he wasn’t a problematic artist as a person. I really enjoy his music but with all that has come up I don’t put him on in the way I did in the before times.

Jan 17 2026 Author

Alternative country, alternative rock. Curiosidad: versión de Wonderwall. Ni fu ni fa.

Jan 26 2026 Author

Love Is Hell is the best Ryan Adams album we've had, this is the third one and the only one not on the main list, which is interesting. It's just a lot more refined, better songwriting and composition, not quite as bland although it's still pretty much that sort of stock stuff from him, there's a decent cover of Wonderwall, I liked World War 24, this is a solid 3.

Dec 27 2025 Author

Ryan Adams is hell

Dec 25 2025 Author

Not listened to much of this artist and thought this was very good, solid alt-rock leaning singer/songwriter fare.

Dec 27 2025 Author

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Afraid not scared, This house is not for sale, Love is hell, World war 24

Dec 29 2025 Author

May this be my greatest shame, I enjoy this man’s music!

Jan 04 2026 Author

Nice enough, although I think Ryan Adams is already represented enough on this list.

Dec 17 2025 Author

Ryan is a good songwriter and musician. Good album, but becomes a little too much of the same after a while

Dec 20 2025 Author

Untrue, love is cool

Dec 25 2025 Author

Ryan Adams created great albums with Whiskeytown and his first two solo albums are sublime. After that his albums are unbalanced. Each album contains some great songs, but also several mediocre ones. Love is Hell was originally not one album, but two EP's. As an album he should have removed a few of the weaker compositions and it could have resulted in a good album. Now the inferior tracks drag the album down and it's ok, but nothing more.

Jan 07 2026 Author

Hmm

Jan 07 2026 Author

I like the last album from Ryan but this was a bit bland. Sounds like he's trying out different styles on this album

Dec 22 2025 Author

Hate ragging on someone’s entry, but meh is all I can say. Every song sounded similar to the next.

Jan 02 2026 Author

F this dude.

Jan 05 2026 Author

It was either genius or folly to use your own name when there is someone already established with a very similar name. I’m going to go with folly because doing a version of Wonderwall, that’s someone with high self confidence.

Jan 06 2026 Author

Don’t really love Ryan Adam’s style of music where he just sings things slower and with acoustics but he’s not horrible. The fact he does so many covers too makes me think he just loves hearing his own voice. Either way this is pretty generic coffee shop pop stuff. Not something I’d come back to. 5.6/10

Dec 27 2025 Author

Ew, not listening. Ryan Adams is a mega creep.

Dec 31 2025 Author

Ryan Adams makes derivative, sappy ballads that echo much better artists and have no clear direction. He's also been accused of sexual and mental abuse of 7 women, some when they were teenagers. Not really the guy I would think deserves recognition, especially when he already had one spot too many on the official 1001.

Jan 29 2026 Author

Did you really add an album by a groomer with two other albums already on the list just to tell everyone you think Bruce Springsteen should've sang Jeff Buckley's Grace?