ryan adams: the lack of effect ny has on his musick

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so why the feh does ryan adams make that wish washy country poop when he lives in new yawk? this city is driving me crazy. i am contemplating dressing up as ikue mori and make impromptu no wave dances in the subway.

― helenfordsdale, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ignore if ya will. NY is just driving me nutsos.

― helenfordsdale, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

S'got to do with his meeting one of the future members of Whiskeytown in a bar one time, who turned him on to George Jones, New Riders of the Purple Sage and Gram Parsons. Previously he had been rocking out in The Patty Duke Syndrome (Husker Du, Black Flag blah blah). I guess the "wishy washy country poop" just stuck. Probably something to do with his up-bringing in Jacksonville, North Carolina as well. But his latest (and probably his most NY and LA influence) offering is his least country to date. Maybe location has a big influence on the Adams boy.

― David, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ah, there's his problem. What if he had met up with a guy who turned him onto Visage, John Foxx and Depeche?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ned, you're evil.

― Sean, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

yeah his latest cd is kinda wishy washy but the last whiskeytown album was not bad IMHO

― g, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

anyway, the US of A dirves me crazy most of the time

― g, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ned, you're evil.

And a goth and...

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I remember him saying that NY, NY had a 'Lou Reed kinda vibe going...' which offended me greatly.

― JM, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That most recent Ryan Adams record sounds like John Mellencamp. Which can be a good thing--John Mellencamp may be America's greatest songwriter. Fuck Stephen Merritt.

― adam, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't think Adams's songwriting style is like Mellencamp's, but their singing style is similar. I don't know if Mellencamp is America's greatest songwriter, but he is damn solid, and very undervalued. And he's way sexier than Stephen Merritt. Also, Adams and Mellencamp are both short.

― Sean, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's the sax solo. Clearly.

― Keiko, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Country poop is really the thing in big metro cities these days, ain't it? Dressing up like a South Carolina college student and making half ass attempts at the Flying Burrito Brothers... NOT what I expected the big music thing to be in the 2000s when I was a wee one.

― Brian MacDonald, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Brian's OTM. Fake country is big in NY.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

L.A., too. I escaped SoCal just in time before the B**CHW**D SP**KS ruled the town... It was a narrow escape, too.

― Brian MacDonald, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ryan Adams' sound owes precious fuck-all to anything happening in New York City.

― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"The sweetest winds they blow across the south." (RA)

Yeh, you're right.

― David, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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