December 2010
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“It’s happening baby
They’re putting up the chairs
Taking the money...”
– Couldn’t choose a part of this song to quote because I love it all so much
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Interview: Whiskeytown-era Ryan Adams (10/21/97)
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A: What’s your take on this whole ‘alternative’ or ‘insurgent’ country scene, and you and your band’s place in it?
R: I actually like a lot of the bands, personally, that they’re grouping into that category. What I do think, though, is that all the bands are extremely, extremely different.
A: Sure. A good example is right there - you and...
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Transcript of interview with Ryan Adams of... →
very long and very interesting! check it out!
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likevannotjim:
I just spent 30 minutes on 8tracks.com putting together a pretty bitchin’ 9-track mix of Ryan Adams songs, only to find out you can’t upload more than 2 tracks by the same artist per playlist. The theme was only songs featuring a girl’s name in the title and lyrics. There were 15-20 to choose from, but this is what I ended up with:
1.) Abigail (Q Division Demos) 2.) Amy...
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“There’s so much nobody understands
Don’t live your life in such a...”
– Goodnight Rose
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“Why did I call it Gold? I can hear it already: ‘Adams goes for Gold, ends...”
– Ryan Adams (Rolling Stone, Nov 2001)
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The only real full-time people in this world, it seems to me, are people of faith, like a preacher or a saint, a criminal or an artist, because 24 hours a day, those people are always on to something. We’re so busy being in love with the world that we can’t help but recreate it and keep trying to turn it into our own truth.
Ryan Adams (Interview, Feb 2002)
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On being a Ryan fan
Sometimes I don’t feel like a very good Ryan Adams fan.
I grew up on rock, punk and indie music, encouraged by my mother’s love of David Bowie and T-Rex and my dad’s love of Queen and the Stones. I was 13 when I discovered Britpop, 15 when I got into the Clash and the Sex Pistols and the Stranglers, 16 when I met Mr Rebs and got into Reel Big Fish and Rancid and Irish punk and...
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download: Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Live at St... →
709MB, mp4, 1 hour, very good quality. I came across this while idly googling and unfortunately I’ve no idea who originally uploaded this (though I’m very grateful).
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“Moonlight on the beach, sweet amphetamines
It’s only gonna make you love...”
– Gonna Make You Love Me
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Ryan Adams, “New York, New York”
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what was the first Ryan Adams song you ever heard?
seeing as tumblr won’t let me answer my own question, mine was “New York, New York” sometime in the middle of September 2001. I went and bought Gold a couple of days later.
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“I watch the evening grow old
And I watch the sun grow tired
Collapsing into...”
– Go Easy
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Ryan Adams - Black Clouds
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“By the third Black Flag song, she said, ‘They sure like to hit those cymbals,...”
– Ryan Adams on listening to Black Flag with his grandma (Rolling Stone, 2001)
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“Sitting round thinking ‘bout Keith all day long
Getting stoned thinking ‘bout...”
– Ryan Adams, Song For Keith
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Ryan Adams & Beth Orton, “Brown...
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“If you could give me anything tonight
Just a wink, or even just a sigh...”
– Gimme A Sign
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“Now I play the guitar like I’m touching a girl. I used to play it like I...”
– Ryan Adams (Spin, Feb 2006)
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Ryan Adams, “Wonderwall” (live)
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“You could take me for a walk, wink and hold my hand
You could take me for a...”
– Ryan Adams, You Don’t Know Me