nehm` mir mal das recht und kopier`john´s „review“ hier rein. mag „so alive“ übrigens sehr gerne, auch wenn´s sehr viel eingängiger ist, als seine anderen songs.
Author: megasuperiorgold 9/30/2003 5:51:35 PM
ROCK n‘ F’N ROLL!!!! Reply
Holy Shit!!! So I came into the office today (Universal Music/Boston Branch) and they finally got an advance copy of this album in, and I still cant believe what Im hearing! Im on my fourth listen of „Rock and Roll“ and i have to tell you its incredible! Great party record! Also, for anyone who’s heard the first single – „So Alive“ and is kind of wondering „what the fuck is going on?“, please dont worry, the rest of the album is nothin like it. My two favorite songs are „Note to Self – Please Dont Die“ which actually sounds like somthing that came directly from Nirvana’s „Nevermind“ album – very grungy; and „Shallow“ which is a nice catchy bluesy rocker (i know ive heard this before from a bootleg, but this is much more finished sounding). Ryan’s vocals are incredible from start to finish and there isnt one song on this album that I can say I dont like. In fact i love all of them except for „Luminol“ which i like a little bit. In a little while Im going to have to give this back to the ADR who owns it. Theres anti-copy laws and shit like that written all over it and supposedly they can easily track me down if i did burn it, so Im not going to. Im actually glad I got to hear the whole thing from start to finish rather than just crappy mp3s in no particular order off the internet. The album has a real nice flow to it, with the first 5 songs being really rockin (he could probably open up any show with anyone of these songs), then the next 4 songs are even louder and grungier, then the song „Rock and Roll“ which ranks as one of my favorite Ryan songs – just a simple piano song, followed by „Anybody Wanna Take Me Home“ which has some kinda classic rock feel to it, then comes more rockin stuff! You guys are gonna love this album, I feel like this might be bigger than „Gold“, this is like nothing thats been on radio for like 15 freakin years. The production on the album is great, Ryan’s amazing on it! Think the Pinkhearts but tighter and much more solid! This album touches at times with Nirvana, The Smiths, Oasis, The Replacements, The Beatles, and more. Personally I feel like Lost Highway may be workin the wrong single. And although some of you may be dissapointed, I feel like „Note To Self“ could be a big hit on modern rock radio with other hard rock music out there. But thats not to say that the whole album is a hard rock album. My other current favorites on this album are „1974“, „This is It“, „Rock and Roll“, „Wish You Were Here“, „Burning Photographs“, and „Anybody Wanna Take Me Home“……… You guys are gonna be amazed. hopefully ill get a chance to hear ‚love is hell‘ in the next week or so, so ill let you know abouyt that as well…. alright gotta get back to work, peace! Oh yea i dont know if you guys remember me but i used to have the megasuperiorgold.com Ryan Adams fansite, im gonna be launching my own music website at www.johnnymazcko.com in the next few weeks, so mark it on your favorites and check it out… lata
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Dirty, dirty feet from the concert in the grass / I wanted to believe that freedom there could last (Willy Mason)