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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Ryan Adams, aged journalists. |
| Date | Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:24:31 -0500 |
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Just for the record-- and this is not a fundamental disagreement with you at
all-- I think Prince has remained consistently good. Its just that, as you
say, he puts out so MUCH that the body of work suffers from lack of editing.
If, for example, he had been forced to take Emancipation-- a 3-CD set from
'96 which I actually really like-- and cut it down to one disc, that disc
would have been killer. Every single Prince album has at least one or two
or three total keepers. But when he could only put out 10-12 songs a year,
those 12 songs (on one album) were all top-rate for the most part.
For what its worth, I thought that Rainbow Children was quite good-- better
the first half than the second-- and that the '02 live album was very, VERY
good.
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Suggestions" <tigerpop1@yahoo.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: Ryan Adams, aged journalists.
> 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"
>
>
>
>
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