by Ryan Adams & the Cardinals List Price:$13.00 Our Price:$11.00 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Product Details
Media: Audio CD
Release Date: Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Label: Lost Highway
Average Customer Review: 4.5 Based on 74 reviews.
Sales Rank: 94
Tracks
1.
Let It Ride
2.
If I Am A Stranger
3.
How Do You Keep Love Alive
4.
Friends
5.
Easy Plateau
6.
Dance All Night
7.
Cold Roses
8.
Cherry Lane
9.
Blossom
10.
Beautiful Sorta
11.
Life Is Beautiful
12.
Magnolia Mountain
13.
Meadowlake Street
14.
Mockingbirdsing
15.
Now That You're Gone
16.
Rosebud
17.
Sweet Illusions
18.
When Will You Come Back Home?
Editorial Review
Sent reeling by the one-two punch Conor Oberst's Bright Eyes delivered with I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash In A Digital Urn, Ryan Adams vowed to strike back in 2005 with three of his own releases. The first--a double album, no less--sees the attention-seeking former Whiskeytown singer casting off both the raucous guitars of 2003's Rock N Roll and the rainy-day ballads of the same year's Love Is Hell in favor of the more introspective moments and rustic textures of 2000's Heartbreaker. He's snuck in at least one epic with "Meadowlake Street" and one potential radio hit with the twangy "Let It Ride," while the rest of the set is mostly packed with bleary-eyed laments that feel all too mannered after spending the last few years revealing his naked pop ambition in full. No doubt Adams will make up for it with the next one. --Aidin Vaziri
Recommended Ryan Adams Discography
Heartbreaker
Gold
Love Is Hell
Whiskeytown, Pneumonia
Whiskeytown, Stranger's Almanac
Whiskeytown, Faithless Street
Top Customer Reviews
Rating:
2 Yes! You can flog a dead horse! This is proof!
Ryan Adams has run out of steam - It took a lot of effort to even give this album one listen. Song after song seemed to go nowhere and did not warrant a second listen. Ok, now before all you Ryan Adams fans start writing me hate mail - have a good long hard think..do you really think this album is that good?Be honest - NO! For all you people that think, I must really dislike this 'GOD' of yours - I was there from day one. I have all the Whiskeytown stuff..(Even the Out Of Print Stuff!) and all his solo CD's as well..I know my Ryan Adams. Yeah sure, I thought he was pretty cool - wrote some good stuff, but his head has now become too big for his own good. One famous record producer, once said "If Glenn Frey and Don Henley 'farted' on tape, they could sell a million copies"! Its sad that it has come to the same point with Ryan Adams. Once poeple are so convinced that you are the 'Best' in your field - you don't actually have to write a good song to sell an Album.. Well Ryan, this one sucks. (So did the 'Long Run' Glenn)I hope the next one is better. Yes I will probably buy it as well (Im in the music retail trade), but rest assured if I don't like it - I will let you know. If this is your 'Good Work', please..don't keep it up. Oh yeah, if you would like to make an offer on the left over copies of your album I have in stock - let me know, cause they ain't sellin' buddy.
Rating:
4 Ryan Adams Best Effort Found Here!
Ryan Adams is a hard musical artist to classify. His style is all over the place. At one second he's a hard driving, rock n roll star complete with outlandish and raw lyrics, and attitude and arrogance to land him in the headlines. He's had that album, Rock n Roll, and he had the ultra depressed, and dark album, the dual disc Love is Hell.Here we get something completely different. We get a little bit of Whiskeytown, and a touch of his Heartbreaker recordings here, but a sound which is much more mature. Here, Ryan defintely seems to have found his niche, and is currently in a very comfortable song writing groove. There really aren't any songs you'll find yourself skipping over when going from disc 1 to 2. Each disc is short, 9 songs apiece totalling no more than about 35 minutes plus per cd. But they're similar sounds. Definite standouts would be Magnolia Mountain, Meadowlake Street, Mockingbird, and When Will You Come Back Home from disc 1. Disc 2: Easy Plateau, Rosebud, and Blossom.I honestly hope Ryan sticks to this kind of recording in his future efforts. From what I've heard, he has 2 more albums coming out this year... that's incredible, and will be all the more incredible if the next 2 are anywhere's near this quality!
Rating:
5 masterpiece
If you gave this album anything lower than 5 stars, then you don't fully understand music and its purpose, but then again that seems to be the trend nowadays. Cold Roses is a modern masterpiece. Each song is beautifully written.
