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 | Title : Demolition
Author : Adams, Ryan
Release Date : 20020924
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $13.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Former Whiskeytown frontman Ryan Adams claims to have written and recorded enough songs over the past several years to fill a four-CD collection--and that's in addition to his acclaimed 2001 breakthrough Gold. Wisely, Adams decided to skip the box set--hey, he's only 27--and issue a sort of 'best of' compilation comprising 13 unreleased demos. Recorded at four different studio sessions in Nashville, Los Angeles, and Stockholm, with a cast of musicians that includes his road band the Pinkhearts, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Ethan Johns, Chris Stills, Bucky Baxter, and Greg Leisz, Demolition proves that Adams is still a work in progress: brilliant one moment, sloppy the next. When he's good, he's very good: the rousing country-rocker 'Hallelujah,' the brooding acoustic ballads 'Dear Chicago' and 'Tomorrow,' and the jangly power-pop number 'Gimme a Sign' are as fine as anything on Gold. But Adams sometimes lapses into mimicry, as he does on 'Nuclear' and 'Starting to Hurt,' both of which could be outtakes from a U2 album. 'Tennessee Sucks,' a chronicle of a boredom-filled summer day in Nashville, sounds half-baked, while the closing track, 'Jesus (Don't Touch My Baby),' which finds Adams (on synthesizer, guitars, bass, and drum machine) droning on like Leonard Cohen, falls in the 'failed experiment' category. Despite its bright spots, Demolition ultimately comes off as a mixed bag.
Buyer Reviews :
This is the long-rumored 'best of' CD of various recording sessions Ryan collected during 2001, and while it is a mixed bag, and certainly not up to par to either 'Heartbreaker' or 'Gold', it contains enough good stuff to tie us over to the proper follow-up to 'Gold', due Spring 2003.
At 45 min. (compared to the sprawling 'Gold'), this is a more focused serving of Ryan's wandering mind and music. 'Nuclear' (issued as a single in Europe) is a great start. The Ethan Johns-produced and influenced tracks (3 of them) are great and could have fitted nicely on 'Gold', particularly 'Hallelujah'. The best track on the album is the intimate 'Reason to Cry'. Haunting also is the sad 'Tomorrow' (co-written by Carrie Hamilton (Caroll Burnett's daughter), then Ryan's significant other, who subsequently passed away and to whom the album is dedicated). Other great tracks are 'Dear Chicago' and 'Chin Up Cheer Up'. Not good at all is 'Starting to Hurt', with Ryan sounding like a Bryan Adams clone (urrghh), raspy voice and all.
I am really looking forward to the next 'real' Ryan album. Meanwhile we will do with this.
(by Paul Allaer)
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