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" >Reply-To: audities@smoe.org >To: >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" >To: >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 > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ > _________________________________________________________________ High-speed users—be more efficient online with the new MSN Premium Internet Software. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=byoa/prem&ST=1