Ryan Adams

komischerweise finde ich eher die rockigen stücke (’new york‘ z.b.) langweilig und ’nobody girl‘ und ’sylvia plath‘ ziemlich toll.

komisch, ich auch. Sylvia Plath ist der Grund, wieso ich die Platte gekauft hab.

>http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2003/01/13hornby.html
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>“ O H M Y
>S W E E T C A R O L I N A “
>B Y
>R Y A N A D A M S .
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>BY NICK HORNBY
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>[In celebration of the release of Nick Hornby’s Songbook, we will be
>publishing brand-new essays all this week on the subject of favorite songs.
>Today’s is from Mr. Hornby, and does not appear in his book, or anywhere
>else that we know of. We hope you enjoy it.]
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>A long time ago, when I was still teaching English to foreign students in a
>London language school, I gave private conversation lessons to an unhappy
>man who called himself Edward, even though that wasn’t his name. Edward was
>an African living in Rome, where he was a foreign correspondent for his
>home-town newspaper, and he was unhappy because he was going through a
>divorce. But he was lucid in his unhappiness: he talked with regret, of
>course, but also with insight, and enormous intelligence, and his melancholy
>took him off to all sorts of interesting conversational places — places I
>never normally got to visit in the normal run of things. I remember the
>concentration our talks required, and the stillness and intensity they
>engendered; I knew that he was in pain, but when our fifty minutes were over
>I felt invigorated and inspired. When it was time for him to return to Rome,
>he asked me to go and stay with him, and I accepted the invitation.
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>But when I got there, a few weeks later, he wasn’t unhappy any more. He was
>revelling in his status as a single man, a status that, apparently, required
>very little self-reflection or intelligence: on the night I arrived, I found
>that he’d fixed us up with a couple of call-girls. I copped out, in my
>prissy English way, but he disappeared for forty-eight hours (leaving me
>with sole use of a beautiful apartment in the centre of Rome); when he came
>back, he told me he was engaged.
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>Some people are at their best when they’re miserable. Ryan Adams’s beautiful
>Heartbreaker album is, I suspect, the product of a great deal of pain, and
>“Oh My Sweet Carolina“ is its perfect, still centre, its faint heartbeat, a
>song so quiet that you don’t want to breathe throughout its duration. (It
>helps that Adams got Emmylou Harris, the best harmony vocalist in the
>history of pop music, to sing with him on it.) On Adams’s next album, Gold,
>he seems to have cheered up, and though that’s good news for him, it’s bad
>news for me, just as it was when Edward stopped being miserable. His upbeat
>songs are fine, but they sound a lot like other people’s upbeat songs (you
>can hear the cheeriest incarnations of the Stones, Dylan and Van Morrison
>all over Gold); his blues gave him distinction.
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>What rights do we have here? Are we entitled to ask other people to be
>unhappy for our benefit? After all, there are loads of us, and only one of
>them. And how can you be happy, really, if you are only ordinary in your
>happiness, but extraordinary in your grief? Is it really worth it? It sounds
>harsh, I know, but if you are currently romantically involved with someone
>with a real talent — especially a talent for songwriting — then do us all a
>favour and dump them. There might be a Heartbreaker — or a Blood On The
>Tracks or a Layla — in it for all of us. Thanks.

Stimme dem Fazit vollkommen zu.
Was spornt schon jemanden, der rundum glücklich ist, an, kreative Höchstleistungen zu vollbringen?
Beispiele dafür gibt’s ja auch nicht nur in der Musik, sondern auch Literatur (Poe, Kafka, oder auch J.K. Rowling – die fing ja auch aus Geldmangel an und jetzt kriegt sie nix mehr hin).

werde nichts ändern, aber noch was hinzufügen…

„FELL INTO THAT ONE AND CANT SEEM TO GET OUT OF THE SUN. BEAUTIFUL DARLING GENIUS SHE IS.“

das hat ryan vor einigen wochen (tagen?) im forum auf der amerikanischen seite gepostet. finde`s einheimlich schön, wie er über leona spricht.

denke, es steckt auch ein bisschen (oder sogar `ne ganze menge?!) ironie in hornby`s theorie… ironie?! ist das der richtige ansatz?! hm, werde noch mal drüber nachdenken…

echt, in der süddeutschen stand das?

im original hieß es: „yeah, i`m at war with bryan adams and i`ll win because i`ve got my black flag records and he´s got his white trousers.“

und ryan hat noch einen größeren vorsprung.

während einer live-show: „i`m dressed like a complete fucking nerd. my hair is all fucked up. and i`m obviously loaded. and that`s how you can get me as bryan adams?? fuck off!… i`m only kidding. i don`t really care.. my ass is twenty times cuter than his has ever been!“

Was würdet ihr denn sagen welches das beste Album von Ryan Adams ist? Ich habe bisher nur Gold mal gehört und mir als erste CD die neue geholt. Habe aber schon gelesen, dass die Heartbreaker wohl auch genial sein soll… Am besten alle haben, oder? :lol:

Die Gold wird ja auch im neuen RS im Vergleich zu der Heartbraker als etwas glatt beschrieben. Aber die Umfrage würde mich mal interessieren, werde ich gleich mal nach suchen. Kennts du die neue auch schon, nihil?

Ich habe gerade in der Umfrage gesehen, dass es noch drei Alben vor Heartbreaker gab. Was ist mit denen auf Ryans Liste?