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| From | "Gene Good" <javagene@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Ryan Adams, aged journalists. |
| Date | Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:59:54 +0000 |
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I agree on all points here.I like "Emancipation" alot aswell as "Rave un2
the joy fantastic","Rainbow Children",and the live set.Did not seek out
"News" because I was afraid of it.And I haven't gotten the Vegas dvd yet but
it is on my wish list.So I have stuck with him.I do miss the old days but
still feel there is another killer album coming.
Did you see-he was playing at one of the parties after the Golden Globes?Odd
as it may seem it was the Instyle/Warner Bros. party.All Isaw was a picture
of him with a guitar so I don't know if it was solo or not.Maybe he was
after the Hilton girls.
>From: "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: Ryan Adams, aged journalists.
>Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:24:31 -0500
>
>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"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > =====
> > John Brodeur
> > THE SUGGESTIONS
> > http://www.thesuggestions.com
> >
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