The latest Ryan Adams thread

[Littlebear]

Let's wish Ryan and Bryan Adams a happy birthday!

[stickman]

Ryan's Article about where to eat and things

[HungryHippo]

how'd this thread manage to get to the dreaded 2nd page?!

 

anyways, just got the vinyl in the mail today! anyone else get it? this is one of the coolest vinyl packages of all time with the comic book of lyrics, a 7" of bonus songs and a download coupon.

 

if anyone is interested in getting this, you should act fast. a few online stores have been restocked but who knows how long it'll be before they sell out for good. hopefully soon so this will be worth a pretty penny in the near future.

[nalafej]

What songs ae on the bonus?

[Analogman]

The Color of Pain (iTunes Bonus Track)

Memory Lane (UK Bonus Track)

Heavy Orange (Vinyl bonus Track)

Asteroid (Vinyl bonus Track)

[bigideas]

i've read several people complaining that their copy was warped to the point it affected playback.

[stickman]

Yeah I saw that too. Mine's supposed to come on monday so fingers crossed.

[tangara]

Mine arrived last week. Agreed, lovely packaging and extras. Cardinology t-shirt and sticker, too. My only complaint is that the shirt is white, and I don't wear a lot of white

[Analogman]

ok.

replace 'cancelled' with 'postponed' then.

 

 

Tulsa & Kansas Rescheduled

 

The two engagements that were cancelled due to illness has officially been rescheduled! All tickets from either of these dates will be honored. The rescheduled details are:

 

Feb 27th - Uptown Theater - Kansas City: Buy Tickets

Feb 28th - Brady Theater - Tulsa, OK:Buy Tickets

[myboyblue]

I'm enjoying the hell out of the new album. Pretty solid effort to my ears. Also don't understand all the haterade around Magick.

[nodep5]

I'm enjoying the hell out of the new album. Pretty solid effort to my ears. Also don't understand all the haterade around Magick.

 

 

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 production value is so interesting and the use of to oboe in the third verse is so cool kind of way. No i'm not just going to like any pop song that gets shoved down my throat, but I'm trying to be more open minded. That being said, if U2 would have released Magick I would hate it. I'm a hypocrite, but Ryan Adams never once got under my skin like Bono does.

[stickman]

If you got the 7" try playing it on 33 rather than 45. Sounds way awesome and doomy. I thought that was the actual speed of the song before I realized I forgot to change the rpms.

[tangara]

I will be third row dead center at that Tulsa show. Woohoo!

[cusacker]

I'm enjoying the hell out of the new album. Pretty solid effort to my ears. Also don't understand all the haterade around Magick.

 

Yea, so am I. This album has really grown on me over the past few weeks. To be honest, there isn't a track on this album I would skip. To me, Magick is a very similar track to Halloween Head on Easy Tiger. Neither are trying to be anything serious, rather laid-back, fun tunes!

 

Having heard a lot of the new album in a live setting in Dublin really helped my appreciation for Cardinology. The songs take on a whole new life in a live setting (notably Cobwebs, Born Into a Light, Crossed Out Name and Evergreen). I can't name very many, if any bands, that are capable of replicating such a unique live sound in the studio. Not even the GD were able to...but then again, would you want them to?

[dmait]

Phil Lesh on his appreciation for RA (http://www.jambands.com/Features/content_2008_10_25.10.phtml):

 

MG- You have also been covering Ryan Adams a good deal recently.

 

PL- Ryan

[borracho]

I will be third row dead center at that Tulsa show. Woohoo!

are you who i think you are?

[tangara]

Well, I know you're who I think you are...

 

*high five* for our awesome seats!

[borracho]

woo! that'll be a great weekend...

[tangara]

SO looking forward to it!

[intodeep]

To me, Magick is a very similar track to Halloween Head on Easy Tiger. Neither are trying to be anything serious, rather laid-back, fun tunes!

 

I could not agree more. First time i heard it i said this is the halloween head track for this album.

 

I dig it.

[mfwahl]

I read a review that listed Magick as a standout track. I like Halloweenhead, and I like it more than Magick.

[Golden Smoghead]

I think your feelings toward Halloween Head and Magick are basically a barometer for how much you can stand RA's lower-end lyrics if they're paired with decent music.

 

I find those songs equally meh, and occasionally really annoying if I'm having a bad day.

[Analogman]

Ryan Adams finds groove with band the Cardinals

Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:10pm EDT

 

By Jonathan Cohen

 

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Ryan Adams' music is often overshadowed by his eccentric behavior and the pure volume of his recorded output. But on "Cardinology," due Tuesday (October 28), his songs take center stage.

 

In fact, the alt-country/rock singer-songwriter is so happy with the evolution of his band, the Cardinals, over the course of five albums in the past three years that he says he'd be content if his name was dropped entirely from the packaging. "The stuff we do communally is 10 times better than the stuff I come up with," he says.

 

Adams may be overstating things a little, and such comments should be taken with a grain of salt from a guy who moments earlier was going off on a tangent about '80s pop metal ("Hey, if Def Leppard started a cooking school, they'd be Chef Leppard!"). But there's no question the camaraderie he shares with guitarist Neal Casal, drummer Brad Pemberton, pedal steel player Jon Graboff and bassist Chris Feinstein has helped him create one of the most focused albums of his career.

 

On "Cardinology," which fulfills Adams' contract with Lost Highway, the label for which he has recorded since 2000, the artist details his battles with substance abuse and his struggles to sustain relationships with remarkable clarity, best heard on the anthemic "Cobwebs," the drumless "Crossed Out Name," the harmony-rich "Natural Ghost" ("You make me feel like I'm not here/But I am/More than you think I am") and the soft, Wilco-esque ballad "Evergreen."

 

"We did a really great record that sounds totally like the Cardinals," Adams says with pride. "It's pretty much live on the floor. I think we did it in a really brave way. We did it raw, like we were doing a gig."

 

ALL GROWN UP

 

Adams' newfound clarity is music to the ears of Lost Highway chairman Luke Lewis. "He's acting grown-up right now," he says with a laugh. "I kind of miss the petulant child occasionally."

 

Adams offers an amusingly unfiltered look into his life at Cardinology.com, where he posts everything from set lists and live clips to fan mail, rants about his favorite Sonic Youth albums and corny fake hip-hop songs he wrote on the tour bus while bored.

 

After a Halloween show at Harlem's Apollo Theater, the band begins a short European tour November 8 in Dublin. Eleven December dates opening for Oasis in North America will close out the year, with more headlining shows on tap for February.

 

With "Cardinology" ready to hit the market, Lewis is somewhat wistful about the likely end of his often rocky working relationship with Adams. The pair fought frequently over how much music Adams could -- or should -- release. Through it all, though, Lewis remained the musician's "biggest fan."

 

"We took some pretty harsh criticism for putting out so much music, but we could have put out more," he says. (In 2009, Lost Highway will issue an Adams anthology featuring several new songs.) "As much as we've tried to accommodate him by putting out a lot of records, a major-label deal is probably a bit restrictive for Ryan. My sense is he'd be better served by being independent, and by that I mean totally independent."

 

Indeed, Adams is already looking past "Cardinology" and dreaming about where he and his bandmates will go next. "S--t's going to get weird and awesome," he says. "Because we're into bands like Oasis and Foo Fighters: big, monolithic rock bands who really explore all those areas. That's what Cardinals is. That's the work I want to do."

 

Reuters/Billboard

[bigideas]

so i wonder what the Anthology will be like?

 

2 disc - first disc a 'greatest hits.'

second disc - a 'greatest hits' of the box set of unreleased stuff?

[Analogman]

Like he actually has any hits - ha ha. I looked for the new cd in 4 different stores today, no luck. Looks like Amazon.com is going to be my new cd store.