smoe.org mailing lists
ivan@stellysee.de
| From | The Suggestions <tigerpop1@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Ryan Adams, aged journalists. |
| Date | Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:50:30 -0800 (PST) |
[Part 1 text/plain us-ascii (1.8 kilobytes)]
(View Text in a separate window)
Age ain't nothin' but a number, just ask Robert
Christgau at the Village Voice. That guy must be about
100 years old by now...
The Adams thing is hilarious. Although I liked his
latest record (lloR n kocR), and he's done some really
good stuff in the past (Heartbreaker, for one, is a
wonderful LP), what Deregotis says of him is fairly
accurate: the guy thinks that everything that he
writes is worth hearing. From a songwriter's point of
view, I can say for sure that this is not the case.
Odds are you'll write one good song for every 10 bad
ones, and you'll probably nail less than five
"classic" or "defining" songs in an entire career.
Adams has one of the most waterlogged, bloated
repetoires in modern music, and he's not even 30 yet.
(Add to list: Ani DiFranco, who one day may make a
brilliant record, but seems to be too concerned with
putting everything she scribbles on a napkin to
music). I can't speak from personal experience--hell,
I'm not even 30 myself--but let's look at one of my
former favorite artists: PRINCE. He made amazing music
right on through the early 90's (Most stop at "Sign o'
the Times," I'm giving him a little extra credit), but
after he was set free from Warner Bros, after that
whole debacle over not being able to release as much
music as he wanted to, he just hit a long span of suck
that continues to this day. Three-CD sets with four or
five good songs, over and over... It's like my momma
said, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't
say anything at all"...
jb
np: Clem Snide "Soft SAot"
=====
John Brodeur
THE SUGGESTIONS
http://www.thesuggestions.com
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/
For assistance, please contact
the smoe.org administrators.