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but is it as cool as the My Morning Jacket Evil Urges album cover?

I've said this before and I guess I'm saying it again. When I want stupid fist pumping rock (which is so who I am usually not) I put on ANY KOL album. Why the hell is that so wrong. If I want serious introspection I have 1000 records to fit that bill. I give them credit because they get my toe tapping, but I never feel guilty about it (like if it was a U2 record).

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I don't have time to explain what all is possibly wrong with me, but I've noticed in the last 5 years that I don't get that awesome anticipatory/intensely crazy feeling when i'm at a show (maybe because i no longer rush up to the front). Also I also think live albums are kind of like (it sounds better on the studio album) why do i want a weaker version with poor sound quality. Anyway. I'm a studio album comfort dude. I use to have my mind blown by Wilco live, now I just think this is me an my wife's big night out. This is not as depressing as it sounds!

I haven't been able to stop listening to Cardinology and it was my second favorite record of the year. Once again we'll never agree. I find it optimistic in a sincere way. Which is the weird thing about how I view Ryan Adams. Many critics feel like he is a big poser who just imitates styles. I think he is freaking ball of energy who sincerely feels what he produces and has the ubertalent to back it up musically. He never struck me as insincere just as why I'm drawn to Tweedy. I think Ryan Adams was sincerely a mess and now sincerely is trying to piece himself back together.

I saw Dead Confederate at Sasquatch (Where I also saw/heard Fleet Foxes for the first time). If you want to talk about derivative then Dead Confederate are your band. They came off like a southern Nirvana even in the lead singers way of holding the guitar. But they didn't completely piss me off either. I can do derivative. The Explorer's Club were one of my favorites this past year and they completely rip off the beach boys in every way. That being said, I'm not a huge live music guy, but the fleet foxes at Sasquatch were really swell.

The Grand Archives album is solid, nice to see it get a mention hear.

You forgot to mention how you felt about the Fleet Foxes................................ That was my favorite record (s) this year. I guess we'll never find that common ground.

Not only this performance, but can they please put out the Whiskeytown and Old 97's performances from way back when or any of the Wilco ones. I guess the bands have to agree, but please oh please

"Lie Down in the Light" I was searching the database for a thread on this and couldn't find one. What do you'll think of this album. I've only listened to it once so far, but I really didn't care for it. He is hit or miss for me, and kinda creeps me out, but I love Sings Palace Music and I thought The Letting Go had some realy standout tracks, but this one feels confusing to me. I read all these reviews about the country folk rollicking nature of this album, and i swear they must have only listened to the first song. Anyway, what am I not hearing here?

oh yeah, Kings Of Leon should get an honorable mention (They are who i turn to when I need some stupid fist pumping rock)

These are only the albums that I couldn't stop spinning this year. I think I will like Blitzen Trapper from what I've heard so far, but am waiting till XMAS to ask for a vinyl copy (if subpop has put it out). Anyway, 1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes ( I saw them play two sets at Sasquatch this year and I'm not a huge live music, esp big venue guy, but this was incredible in that setting) I just put this record on again last week after a few months of taking a break from it, and it sounded even better. 2. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cardinology ( nothing amazing here, but easily th

Do You Realize? - The Flaming Lips I think this song is inherently sad at it's core. The line "Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face" ALWAYS gets me. Oh, Oh, Oh, White Daisy Passing- Rocky Votolato amazingly sad

I Called You Back - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy from the Letting Go I only listen to this song once in a blue moon, because I don't want to ever hear it without crying.

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To further show my stupidity. What is a torrent? How does this work, does it download like an mp3 or do you have to do something to get it to work.

OK, I need some information here. I'm a very very upstanding citizen and have downloaded maybe two songs in my life off the internet that I didn't pay for. That being said, I'm a huge Ryan Adams fan, and I love Words from the Elizabethtown soundtrack. So I'm feeling the desire to explore these sessions and I have found them on the internet. How does this work, is it safe for your computer, is it illegal? Am I paranoid? Anyway, if this is standard stuff and I won't catch 1000 viruses let me know

Completely agree about not understanding the hatred for Magick. Let's face it, Ryan can throw out radio friendly rock if he wants. If this doesn't get released as a single then Lost Highway isn't even trying to market him. I don't care about the buisness end, but I'm just saying that song is crazy catchy in a radio rock way. I think the hatred for the song is likely just indie rock too cool stuff. I think i'm right because I'm usually like that and am trying to view music more on a level playing field. You know, like does that make me feel good in some way, and less of a wow the producti

Now granted I only listened to it last night and I had the volume down a bit not to wake my son, but I thought it came off as a last minute idea which I found a little disappointing. That being said I try to never give an opinion after one listen. More over, I'm still just taken aback when I hear the SBS criticism. It was like I was saying about the new Ryan Adams, sometimes straight forward rock is ok. I guess I'm not needing the wheel to be reinvented every time out, I just want songs that connect with me. I got that old Wilco feeling of goosebumps when i first heard "Either way" and "Y

I agree with the singing on the End at the end. Sometimes Ryan goes for it vocally, there are some nice parts on the new album where he lets it fly and they fade it out with the production as the next line starts. Really cool stuff. The boy can sing, sometimes he is so good he begins singing like other people instead of letting his natural voice take over. I'm singing country, no now i'm the smiths, no now i'm paul westerberg, on an on, and he pulls it off.

You know what gets me every time? The first few notes of Jacksonville City Nights. It is like this is the country record I've always wanted. Also while i'm in the mood the verse in Magnolia Mountain : "They burned the cotton fields down in the valley, and ended up with nothing but scars, scars became the lessons they gave to their children after the war" Chills

I had a few other thoughts that no once cares about. 29 is also probably one record of Ryan's that I find challenging. It strikes me as a concept album with the focus on the whole and not individual tracks. I think Ryan is so good at individual tracks that sometimes I don't always want to hear a long story song like Carolina Rain. I appreciate the attempt and really enjoy 29 on vinyl when I have the time and mood and patience, but it is not a get in the car and drive to work album. I mentioned earlier that Cardinology had a few songs I'd rank up with some of his best and for me thos

I was responding to pitchfork, not you, I just used your post as the place to do so. I thought that may get confused. Sorry! But you do bring up another issue that critics always throw out there about Ryan. This whole idea of he should trim his stuff down. Ya know, i never understood that until Cardinology. It was the first time I truly thought 10 songs rather than 12 with two awful songs. Anyway, I can't think of a song on Cold Roses I wouldn't want. But this is nothing new, go back and listen to early Byrds records. I always wish they would have left David Crosby's crap off the record

Ok I have now read the Pitchfork review and I need to get some things off my chest. This is not to defend Ryan or this album, but to just speak to stupid record reviews. First of all, I hate when a reviewer generalizes things like Ryan has "consistently disappointed". I have never felt "disappointed" by a Ryan Adams release and I know people who think Cold Roses is his best album and I personally think Love is Hell is his best album and enjoy every record he has put out there. So please don't speak on behalf of me or anyone else by generalizing your own opinion. Secondly, since when do w