New Ryan Adams, "Prisoner" due out February 17, 2017!

Thanks. I posted a few posts back. I had emailed CS also. But what I got today was an email saying something along the lines of "updating" the End of the World Box (or the "excessive box" as I've previously called it in my guiltier post-ordering moments) with the download. Sounds like it must have been some sort of systemic problem now fixed (though some seemed to get the download). I'm not sure I've seen enough people order it to know if it was trend. Maybe with so few orders we will those "golden tickets' for those one of a kind singles ;-).

 

I am blown away by this album. I love it. 3 times through the hi-rez download and it keeps getting better and better.

 

The title track is beautiful. As I said before, VERY Smiths. So great, though.

 

Having had all weekend to digest the album and have listened to it half a dozen times, I have to say that I think it is a good album, rather than a great album in the Ryan Adams catalogue.

As a bit of a RA fanboy I wanted to love the album more than anything he's done before (as I always do when he brings out a new album), but to my taste it's not quite up there. I find the second half of the album to be stronger than the first half.

Don't quite get The Smiths references some have made on this album, in comparison to 1989 which was full of them.

That being said, I'll be right in there for tickets for the Edinburgh show when they go on sale on Friday.

 

I finally got around to playing this Sunday morning and I thoroughly enjoyed the CD. I
will grant you that it is not a great departure to what Adams has been putting out the
last several years. Obviously, if you dig the last few releases you will have a good time
with this one. As an aside, I bought `Heartbreaker' when it was reissued and I have to
say I was initially disappointed. There must be two kinds of Ryan Adams fans....

 

I've tried so hard to enjoy this lp,as a fanboy for RA as well...My favorites from his catalog are Whiskeytown-Pneumonia,29,Love is Hell,JCN,Ashes and Fire and the overlooked Rock and Roll. I think my issues are the placeholder lyrics,the production and that guitar sound...Even the acoustic numbers just aren't up to par with the amazing songs he is capable of....

 

Great stuff! Thanks for providing the links for us!

 

Ah lame. My Amazon copy isn't on red vinyl. I didn't realize there were black copies going around...

 

Agree. IMO this is not even close to the work he did with Whiskeytown and his early solo stuff. Really sounds like he is trying to make a move to the mainstream, whether he is or not. If that's true, I hope he sells millions. He's certainly deserving of that kind of recognition. Glad most are digging it.

 

Never liked Heartbreaker, still don't, but I have about 10 of his other albums. I'm enjoying the new one, no great departure but still a very good Ryan Adams album.

 

Don't think he needs the money, so if it's a mainstream move it's down to what he wants to do.
Although the divorce probably cost him.

 

I think he already made his move to the mainstream with his cover album of Taylor Swift's 1989, an album I avoided listening to for the longest time. My loss because it's quite good and it appears to have re- energized him. I love the new album and I agree he deserves more recognition.

 

I don't fault him. He's in a weird position. A white , guitar-playing singer- songwriter who's not "bro-country" and isn't a household name or a legacy artist like a Tom Petty, Neil Young or Bruce Springsteen. There's not much of a niche for that these days, and I think his decision to cover 1989 --which some dismissed as a novelty or cynical move--will continue to pay dividends.

 

I doubt that album was made with high hopes of going top 40. I think he was trying to be as eclectic as possible by picking as uncool as person as possible to cover.

 

While I'm sure he's not living a pauper's life, he's never had a Bryan Adams, Summer of 69 hit. "Do You Still Love Me" sounds to me exactly like somebody trying to do that. Again, more power to him if it happens.

 

His "When The Stars Turn Blue" was covered by Tim McGraw on his Greatest Hits Vol. 2 which went double platinum. McGraw did a good job on it.
I like this album a lot, the more I listen the better it gets for me. If it pushes him into a mainstream audience, I say good for him.
We all hear stuff differently, that's what makes horse racing.
Personally, I'm waiting for his prog album.

 

Not a big fan of Heartbreaker either.. Although it's considered his finest...I like the dark, brooding sounds of 29 and Love is Hell...

 

Ryan is just following his muse, not trying to score a hit. He's definitely on a (very successful) PR blitz since the divorce, but I don't think it is with profit and only profit in mind. When TMZ leaked his divorce documents, I was actually shocked how wealthy he is. Guess being the sole songwriter on almost two decades of albums will do that. Not to mention his work as a producer. Very much looking forward to contributing to his paycheque when tickets for the Prisoner tour go on sale later this week.

 

Listened to this one 5-6 times through via Apple Music while awaiting my LP in a couple of days.

I have all his stuff, so obviously a fan This one is pretty good, but nothing that strikes me as "really incredible", just yet. Sometimes it takes me a few months, though.

I'm not embarrassed to admit that 1989 is probably in my Top 3 from him

 

I've only played the new on once through so far, so too early to rank it (though it'll definitely the best since Ashes & Fire, to my ears anyway). But here's how I'd rank 'em as of today:

1. Gold
2. Heartbreaker
3. Cold Roses
4. 29
5. Love is Hell
6. Jacksonville City Nights
7. Demolition
8. Cardinology
9. Ashes & Fire
10. Easy Tiger
11. 1989
12. III/IV
13. Rock N Roll
14. Ryan Adams

 

I'll give you credit. There's no way I could have ranked them in order like that! The only one on the list I don't have is III/IV. But I wasn't taken with it when I listened on Spotify. Something is off. But all his albums have some good stuff.

 

I've tried with the new one, but there are only one or two songs I would choose to listen to more than once. I felt the same about the ST album.

FWIW, my rankings

1. Gold
2. Heartbreaker
3. Cold Roses
4. Easy Tiger
5. Ashes and Fire
6. Jacksonville City Nights
7. 29
8. Love is Hell
9. Demolition
10. Cardinology
11. 1989
12. Prisoner
13. Ryan Adams
14. Rock'n'Roll
15. III/IV

 

Here's my list:

1. Gold
2. Heartbreaker
3. Cold Roses
4. Love is hell
6. Jacksonville City Nights

.. The rest

 

Yeah, even as I look at my list now I think of songs I love on the lower ranking albums. In another week that may change drastically. Part of it is also timing. 29 being a great example. It's hard for me to go back to that one now, but when it first came out I was in a rough place and it hit me right there. It was a lifeline of sorts, hence the high ranking even if I don't pull it out as often as others.

 

My vinyl from Amazon arrived yesterday, even though I pre-ordered and it was supposed to arrive on Friday, and I'm happy to report that the vinyl is quiet, flat, and sounds very good. The vinyl was pressed by Pallas USA and Chris Bellman's initials are in the deadwax.

I have had a copy of this album for a while so the music was nothing new but I stand by the fact that this is grower of an album and although certainly not revolutionary is a solid album that I just want to keep listening to.