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Oink Oink...

At first, I was totally negative on Okemah, but repeated listens several months later ignited some interest. While I still think Ipecac is awful and some of the other songs are sub-par lyrically, I'm much MUCH happier with the album now than I was. I also will be looking forward to this new one.

I just listened to this again last week. I seriously consider it Jay's best disc by a mile. There is not a bad song on it and the band just smokes. I love this disc! My most played of '05 by far. A criminally underrated album.

also, rambling or not, if it's authentic, he's got some very valid points:

 

nobody is "better" than anybody else. records arent baseball cards where one is in better condition so its better. they are not fucking speed trial. people aare not erunning laps up and down a tennis court. its not football. its not sports. nobody wins and loses. bright eyes is conor. i am me. starship is starship. its ridiculous to think you could compare and contrast a painter with another or writer or musician. its just pointless. they are locked into their world view and your feelings for art aside, it will never be a collective expierence.

there is no collective consciousness. there is only your view. take it in.

and for the record, (ahem...) i dont like the if "he doesnt OD" bullshit. i do not drink or take drugs thank you and am happy to be who i am doing what i do because i love it. i have never released a record because i was fucked up or because of some drug induced idea. they take months to prepare after they are even mastered so its insulting beyong belief, and to be so blase' about something and heartless is just terribly cruel. how dare you.

everyone should have a chance to better themselves and be who they are and i didnrt see that before it just makes me sick to my stomach personally.

so whatever.

i enyoy sterogum quite alot. i will remember to disregard anything with my name attached to it in the future.

later sktr

 

Posted by: ryan adams at July 15, 2006 06:20 PM

 

now i agree w/ the posts that follow somewhat, but i also have always felt like Ryan does, in that people try and make music into some sort of competition or some tangible/measurable thing, you can't really do that with art, it's all about individual perception.

OK, now I know these aren't Ryan. He says in the above that he doesn't drink or do drugs?! Anyone that has ever seen the guy live knows how full of shit that statement is. That post has to be a troll or something...

Since this is turning into a "rank Ryan's releases" thread...here's mine:

 

1) Heartbreaker

2) Stranger's Almanac

3) Faithless St

4) Pneumonia

5) JCN

6) Gold

Cold Roses 100X> Gold

don't we hate this guy?

I do not hate him at all. I do wish he didn't give such a shit what critics or fans on his message board think. He has some great points in this post but man, what a waste of time responding to his own message board! I'd rather assume my favorite artists are above reading posts about themselves....

link

"crickets"

Didn't necessarily wanna go here, but... I feel like we are going places that we don't really know of by insinuating or stating that Rick Rubin is simply using Johnny as a cash cow. By all accounts of people who really know the two, they became very close friends (some might say 'best friends') over the years they worked together, talking and praying together everyday, sometimes for hours. Maybe Johnny put it to Rick to make sure these songs were released or maybe Rick feels that this is an important artistic statement of a dying friend. My point is, we shouldn't assume...

 

With these records, Rick Rubin has presented Johnny Cash as the most true to the real Cash as anyone Johnny ever worked with. These American Recordings are a Godsend and I can't believe anyone would bash Rubin for this new disc if they really listened to it. It is my disc of the year no matter what else is released.

Johnny did some spectacular recordings in his life, I would personally like to remember him that way.

 

LouieB

Since you seem to be a fan, I can't believe you can listen to this and not enjoy it as a fan. Of course non-Cash fans shouldn't start here. I think that is obvious to anyone that followed Cash's work. And I don't find it depressing in the least. It is a man at the end of his life singing amazingly personal songs to the woman he loves. I find it amazingly inspirational. Who would not want to hear a favorite artist do something like this? AND, I find the vocals to be some of the best of his career, frail or not.

Just listened for the first time and right now this is album of the year material for me. A staggering listen! I'm still speechless.

didn't they have 1 or 2 new songs a few years back on a greatest hits?

Yes and both were God-awful!

Whatever you do, don't add Led Zeppelin tp Pandora. It started playing Whitesnake and Iron Maiden! And Ryan Adams brought up some really shitty stuff too.