Ryan Adams - Rock n Roll

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2015

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Brian and Bill sit down to talk about Ryan Adam's first foray away from alt-country and into the world of rock and roll with his appropriately titled album Rock n Roll (2003, Lost Highway). Following the success of his previous album and its single "New York, New York," Adams submitted 5 attempts that his label turned down. As a final "screw you," he made this album as, both a wry nod at their desire for something more marketable and a not-so-subtle response to their request for something less alternative. Bill and Brian talk about what makes this album great despite not changing the face of rock and roll, Brian's college years yearning for a certain girls, how the album neatly separates in to 4 distinct parts, and how the tracklist seems to tell a particular story of a crazy night in NYC.

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0:00.0	I'm Today I watch the birds moving through the harbor, your water
0:38.2	in your arms
0:40.0	but stay
0:41.4	forever
0:43.1	if I could
0:45.2	forever
0:46.4	if I may
0:48.3	keep me in your
0:50.2	thoughts
0:50.8	and disappear
0:53.1	I on yourself Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bell.
1:01.4	And I'm Brian.
1:02.4	And this week, we are going to be talking about Ryan Adams' 2003, semi-third or fourth album, depending on how you look at it, rock and roll.
1:14.6	There you go.
1:16.3	If you've never listened to the podcast before, what we're going to do here is talk about what we've deemed a great album.
1:24.4	Talk a little bit about what went into the making of the album, a little bit about
1:29.5	the artist, and we're going to do a track-by-track analysis of the album, and also talk a little
1:34.7	bit about our own personal connections with the music. You know, I realize, because you often,
1:41.0	not every episode, but fairly frequently, you give that descriptor.
1:47.5	We really need to trademark the term track by track.
1:51.1	Yeah, I think so.
1:52.6	So that's because that's like our thing.
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