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    Somebody needs to explain this to me

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    I think it's unfortunate that Ryan releases so many bad songs along with the good. I find that his records are released too frequently and he doesn't do a very good job of weeding out the crappy songs. I feel his ego tells him that quantity is equally as important as quality, sometimes at the expense of the latter. That said, he still writes some amazing songs. 'Dear Anne' for example.

     

    See, this is something I've heard for years now and it's an argument that's fine for an individual, but on the whole I don't buy it one little bit (no offense!).

     

    If there was a general consensus on what the crap songs were and what the greats were then it would be fine - but that's not the case. You'll have as many people get themselves ready to stand in front of a tank to defend something along the lines of 'Cherry Lane' from Cold Roses - and you'll get others who'll say that it's filler which distracts from the rest of the album.

     

    We hear so many stories about how the record industry is changing, but in reality it's still the conservative, money-driven machine that it's been since the late 70s. In the 60s you had bands releasing two or three albums a year, but you didn't hear complaints of flooding the market back then. Now, because the record companies want to slow down what the public has access to (in order to increase revenue), they've instilled this opinion that it's the way it's supposed to be, but in reality it's only the way they'd like it to be. As for Ryan Adams' ego - I don't think it's 'ego' at all - I think he's just someone who realises that because it's been done a certain way for thirty-odd years, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's the way it should be done.

     

    As it is - I don't think Ryan Adams releases too much music - not in the slightest. In fact, I don't think he releases enough. Why? Because he doesn't release as much as he'd like to - he's constrained by a record company that's been pretty bendable in the past, but still doesn't have the balls to let the artist to release as much work as they would like.

     

    Besides - who are we to tell an artist what they can and can't release? The skip button was invented for a reason.

     

    Anyway, I'd rather an artist like Ryan Adams that releases one or two albums a year where maybe 70% of that work is brilliant, as opposed to someone who takes five years off to deliver masterpiece albums.

    Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac [Deluxe Edition]

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    Here you go;

     

    http://www.nodepression.net/blogs/news/200...hiskeytown.html

     

    Deluxe reissue of Whiskeytown album due in March

     

    Longtime No Depression subscriber Dean Dauphinais asked, and we thought the rest of you might be interested as well, so here are some details about the Deluxe Edition reissue of Whiskeytown's 1997 album Strangers Alamanac, due out March 4 via Geffen/Universal.

     

    Disc One of the two-disc set will feature the original album plus five tracks recorded live on Los Angeles radio station KCRW on September 10, 1997. Three of those tracks are album cuts ("Houses On The Hill", "Turn Around", "Somebody Remembers The Rose") and two were not on the album ("Nurse With The Pills", "I Don't Care What You Think About Me").

     

    The 20 tracks on disc two include outtakes and alternate tracks from the Strangers Almanac recording sessions and demo sessions. A few of them were issued separate from Strangers Almanac at the time: "Theme For A Trucker", "My Heart Is Broken", and alternate versions of "The Strip" (a.k.a. "Dancing With The Women At The Bar") and "Houses On The Hill" comprised a double 7-inch gatefold release by Bloodshot Records in early 1997, and "Ticket Time" and Alejandro Escovedo's "The Rain Won't Help You When It's Over" were on a limited-edition bonus EP packaged with initial pressings of the Strangers Almanac CD.

     

    Aside from "The Rain Won't Help You", other cover songs on Disc Two include Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams", Gram Parsons' "Luxury Liner", and a Ryan Adams solo version of Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone".

     

    Previously unreleased outtakes from the Strangers sessions featured on Disc Two include "Kiss & Make-Up", "Indiana Gown", "Barn's On Fire", "Whispers" (a.k.a. "Streets Of Sirens"), "Breathe", and "10 Seconds Till The End Of The World".

     

    Disc Two also includes alternate studio versions of Strangers tracks "Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight", "16 Days", "Somebody Remembers The Rose", "Avenues", and "Turn Around".

    Biggest Surprises?

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    Not really surprised by too much this year (well, nothing on the level of Lindsey Buckingham's Under the Skin from last year).

     

    Biggest disappointment is an easy one;

     

    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81

     

    After loving Howl to death, this one was just appalling.

    Led Zeppelin Readies Fall Reissues

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    The re-masters from the 90s don't sound all that great to me either. They do sound better than the initial cd releases though. I am lucky enough to own some original pressings of LZ records - and I still think they sound the best. I wish they would do a HDCD makeover and re-release them with demos and live tracks. Even though Jimmy always says there isn't much there - he is full of shit - there is material that could be released.

     

    I always thought Jimmy was referring to full song outtakes. Pretty much every full song recorded by the band has been released. Sure there's a crapload of demos and live tracks that could be used - there's no 'Blind Willie McTell' lying in the vaults waiting to be discovered.

    Perth March 2008 Tour - Update on Perth WA

    in Just A Fan

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    Cheers for trying Sean.

     

    Honestly though, as much as I didn't expect them to be coming back to Australia so soon, my expectations that they'd come back to Perth as well were even less.

     

    But oh well, at least I got to see the show earlier this year (which was about as wonderful as anyone could ever imagine).

    OiNK closed down, admin arrested

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    They can come at me all they want.

     

    I'll invite them around to my house and tell them to bring a list of the stuff I downloaded from Oink. I'll then show them to where I keep my cds and I'll tick every single one of those things off the list as they're albums I've eventually bought anyway. And if the stuff I've downloaded is out of print and unavailable to buy at a reasonable price - I'll tell them to release the bitch and I'll pony up the cash.

     

    Added to that will be the massive amounts of cds I buy that I don't download - and I'll tell them to get down on their knees because it's guys like me that keep them in business.

     

    I'm wondering what they're really pissed at. Is it that people are downloading albums or that people aren't downloading the crappy albums they want people to take an interest in?

    Ryan Adams interview in BlackBook Magazine

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    Wow, thanks. There's a ton of Neal Casal on youtube! I think he's great.

     

    Neal's great. I wasn't too thrilled when JP Bowersock got replaced in The Cardinals - but Neal's really stepped it up a notch. His harmonising with Ryan, along with their guitar interplay is freakin' unreal... Plus, they do Neal songs in the sets sometimes, so it's not like he's in the shadows the whole time.

    Oink

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I was lucky enough to get my invite from someone here. And I'm ashamed to say I didn't use it too well - but only because I realised that I was on a ADSL plan that counted uploads as well as downloads and budgeting for uploads became a real hassle.

     

    Thankfully now I'm on a different plan which doesn't count uploads (like probably 99% of other ISPs), and my ratio is at about 0.96. It's gone up about 0.500 in the past three weeks and will only grow. Hopefully i'll be able to give invites soon.

     

    Hopefully they have their download-free Xmas period again this year - that helped a bit last year.

    Hey everyone, meet my new friend, Ryan Adams

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Ryan's great. I missed out on meeting him by about 5 minutes in 2005 - but such is life.

     

    I just don't get how people rip on him so much. Sure he puts on a bad show in a while, but when he's on, he's really on. The childish stuff may not be completely professional, but sometimes the guy plays a bad gig.

     

    I know that if I'm in a bad mood, my performance at work suffers for it. I don't know we can't give the same leeway to our musicians. Hell, Robert De Niro gets paid $15 million to make terrible films these days, but people still judge him on his great ones. With Ryan (yeah, the De Niro comparison could be a stretch), people focus on "remember the time he fell off the stage and broke his arm?", not "remember that version of 'Why Do They Leave' from Northern Lights in 2005? That was killer."

     

    Obviously all this could change if I ever see a bad gig of his...

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