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Post by Sara on Nov 15, 2008 19:58:47 GMT -1
You got The End? *sigh*
That's a great set!
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Post by Kez on Nov 16, 2008 22:07:41 GMT -1
Did anyone read his little questionnaire thing in the Is This It? section of The Guide with The Guardian yesterday. Was quite funny. I scanned it in but can't seem to upload it onto Flickr so I can put it on here.
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Post by marginwm on Nov 18, 2008 17:41:08 GMT -1
yeah. i agreed with his assessment of rem.
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Post by Kez on Nov 19, 2008 11:09:02 GMT -1
Yeah, although he is one to talk about making a shit album hehehehe Thought the Gary Numan bit was funny too.
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Post by marginwm on Nov 19, 2008 11:23:57 GMT -1
and he's another existentialist. poor lad.
not a big fan meself but enjoyed peter murphy's wee review of his latest album in hotpress. short but sweet. will have a snoop round for it.
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Post by marginwm on Nov 19, 2008 11:41:48 GMT -1
was only dismissing reviews recently, but just goes to show.. chuck in a few neat descriptive phrases, go for the restrained measured persuasion and well.. i might be forced to give it a spin.
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals Cardinology (Lost Highway)
Is it possible to make a great record without sounding remotely original? It’s certainly possible to try. Ryan Adams has cranked out almost a dozen records over the last decade, his considerable songwriting skills not so much indebted as cripplingly mortgaged to the Stones, The Band, Dylan, Neil & Crazy Horse. The stuff of the alt country canon sure, but serrated with a crucial edge from years of listening Black Flag and Minor Threat. And, as anyone will know who caught his band’s sessions on the last season of the Henry Rollins show, Adams has got the fire back in his belly of late.
But even discounting the Cardinals’ wonderfully scuffed sound, the songs themselves are reason enough to praise Cardinology. Every tune here sounds like a secular Saturday night prayer dressed up in western shirt and motorcycle boots. ‘Born Into A Light’ is the best sad song Emmylou’s never sung, ‘Go Easy’ a beautiful, fragile appeal to an ex-lover (when Adams sings, “I will always love you/So go easy on yourself” you believe it).
The flipside is ‘Fix It’, slinky but forlorn, snapshooting a spurned romantic prowling the shadowlit alleys looking for a last drink, while the pedal-steely ‘Cobwebs’ and ‘Natural Ghost’ could be Townes Van Zandt backed by Radiohead. Then they go and top the whole set with the bruised and broken ‘Stop’, a cross between Satie, the Betty Blue theme and the best Tonight’s The Night out-take never written.
If Cardinology were a debut album, Ryan Adams would be heralded as the brightest tousle-haired boy on the block. It’s a thin line between revelation and revivalism, but the Cardinals walk it with style.
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Post by Kez on Nov 19, 2008 11:54:10 GMT -1
Wow, a more favourable review than most, that.
The general response seems to be that it is a good album, not a great one, he lets himself down a bit but his talent generally shines through, which I would agree with.
Its not an easy listen I find but there are tracks you keep going back to.
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Post by michael on Nov 19, 2008 12:36:50 GMT -1
A bit generous from Mr Murphy, I think. Read it the other day myself.
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Post by Kez on Nov 19, 2008 12:57:40 GMT -1
How many bottles of Murphy's did it get?
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Post by marginwm on Nov 19, 2008 14:20:06 GMT -1
they've done away with those. a more elaborate rating system in place.. niall stokes's pubic hairs.
i agree, it's generous hehe. but it's daintily written.
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Post by katyr on Nov 19, 2008 16:06:20 GMT -1
I'd say Townes Van Zandt backed by Radiohead might be taking it a *little* far...
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Post by marginwm on Nov 19, 2008 18:50:25 GMT -1
true. it's not fair mystifying folk with talk of people they've only half heard of haha.
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Post by Sara on Nov 20, 2008 0:23:45 GMT -1
I find though that the more recent albums tend to be growers, long term growers, even. When I first listened to Easy Tiger, I thought "Well, it's fine enough," and now I really love it. Same with parts of Cold Roses. Used to be a few songs that really stood out to me right away on that album, and now it's the whole thing.
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Post by Kez on Nov 20, 2008 8:14:24 GMT -1
I find that as well, with his albums I'm forever discovering tracks that I've didn't grab me on the first listen but then months later it'll come up on the iPod and I'll be plesantly surprised.
Off to see him tonight! *excited*
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Post by katyr on Nov 20, 2008 11:11:21 GMT -1
Ah you'll have a great time kez, wish I was going. Gutted I didn't think ahead and book tickets for London.
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Post by Kez on Nov 20, 2008 11:57:21 GMT -1
Was listening to Cobwebs ths morning on the bus, hope he opens with that.
Looking at the Brixton Academy website it looks like quite an early start - 8pm. Was there any support at the Leeds or Dublin dates?
Please don't say Neal Casal.
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Post by katyr on Nov 20, 2008 12:33:38 GMT -1
No, they're their own support. Came on before 8 in Leeds, played a set then had an interval and came back on again. Get there early. Think they've opened with Cobwebs every night so far. You'll get a blinding version of Crossed Out Name too. Full review after the gig, I demand it.
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Post by michael on Nov 20, 2008 13:14:11 GMT -1
Enjoy your stalking....er...gigging, Kez....
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Post by Kez on Nov 20, 2008 13:15:09 GMT -1
Excellent will get there early so
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Post by kwacky on Nov 20, 2008 20:02:36 GMT -1
Enjoy your stalking....er...gigging, Kez.... hee hee
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Post by Kez on Nov 20, 2008 23:23:35 GMT -1
OK! Well - first things first - what is the best way to find a Ryan Adams gig if you're not 100% sure where to go? Follow the plaid shirts and weird bowl haircuts. Dear god, the amount of attempted Ryan clones was embarrassing.
But anyway, got in with loads of time headed down to the front and yes they opened with Cobwebs but I got horribly distracted cos I couldn't see feck all. Eventually went to the other side and had a fabulous view for Everybody Knows but the crowd irritated me quite a bit. To escape the talkers you would have to get up about 2 away from the front which is fine but even then a bunch of bimbos wearing - I swear to god - fur coats bustled in and stood in front of me half pretending they were interested.
But enough of that it didn't really spoil what was essentially a great gig. No break in this and I thought Neal Casal's songs actually sounded alright. That may have been after voddie no.2 though. I looooved that beautiful outro for Goodnight Rose, oh I could have stood there all day listening to that. And How Can You Keep Love Alive nearly broke my heart.
We got When The Stars Go Blue and La Cienega Just Smiled and Wonderwall and Stop and Come Pick Me Up and and and yeah I'm slightly drunk.
All the pictures I took were shite cos although I was pretty near the front it was miles away in camera terms.
Also - lovely bit was this middle aged guy and his very young daughter who couldn't have been more than 14 standing right near the front. She loved all the Cardinology songs and he was bopping away, I thought it was so sweet. She looked very shy I really wanted to say something to them but I would have probably just breathed vodka and scared them. Some random Aussie guy who was obviously off his head on pills kept talking to me and asking me my name and every so often he'd put his hand on my shoulder and ask me was I enjoying the gig and wasn't Ryan's guitar lovely. Eh...yeah ok.
And did The Cardinals do that weird countdown from 4 to 1 when any of you were there? Spacewolf (what is his real name) came out and crouched on the floor and we all counted down from 4. It was very surreal but something happened.
Fuck I better go to bed.
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Post by michael on Nov 21, 2008 7:38:02 GMT -1
Errr....don't remember that, Kez. Ye sure ye didn't have one of those pills yourself...?
Hehe...nah, that sounds good. Sounds like a similar set list to Dublin.
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Post by Kez on Nov 21, 2008 8:21:26 GMT -1
It happened michael I swear!
Also after How Can You Keep Love Alive there was lots of banter between Ryan and Neal about going rawk and then Ryan ran over to the amp and pretended to turn all the dials up. He seemed to be on great form anyway. Thought his attitude with the crowd was great – the band really got into it played some astounding music despite the audience’s slightly shite attitude.
Seriously at the back you would’ve thought you were in some random bar in the city and nobody seemed to know ANY of the songs apart from when he played Come Pick Me Up when the crowd whooped and cheered and then talked all the way through the song.
Funniest moment of the night, towards the end of the set I was getting quite used to the talkers, particularly two girls behind me who chatted incessantly. Eventually the guy next to me just snapped “SHUT UP” he said and one of the girls started to say “wha….?” “SHUT UP” he replied. They did. His girlfriend looked mortified, I couldn’t stop smirking but didn’t dare meet his eye.
Katy be glad you didn’t come down – great set and it sounded great but the crowd were beyond irritating. Glad I’m going to the Southampton gig now.
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Post by Kez on Nov 21, 2008 8:26:08 GMT -1
Set List from Last Night
Cobwebs Everybody Knows Sink-Ships Stars Go Blue Fix It Evergreen Goodnight Rose Freeway To the Canyon (Neal Casal) Come Pick Me Up WonderWall I Taught Myself How To Grow Old Born into a light Off Broadway How Do You Keep Love Alive Please Do Not Let Me Go Natural Ghost Grand Island (Neal Casal) Let it Ride Rescue Blues LaCienega Just Smiled Stop Desire Two Go Easy Crossed Out Name =========== I see Monsters
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Post by tc on Nov 21, 2008 8:56:58 GMT -1
sad I missed it I didn't get a ticket in time and then just decided to skip this tour. I haven't loved his last two albums. Maybe I should investigate the new one though.
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Post by Kez on Nov 21, 2008 10:28:01 GMT -1
Yeah, do. I'm surprised you didn't like Easy Tiger, I loved that one. Definitely go back and listen again.
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Post by katyr on Nov 21, 2008 11:59:42 GMT -1
Glad you enjoyed it kez, London crowds can be a bunch of cocks at times. Leeds gigs are usually rowdier but the fans tend to be real fans and are more respectful all round, rather than hangers on who aren't that fussed about the music. They were grand this time around though, no bother at all. That countdown thing made me laugh. Something happened? Um, what? Did a space craft descend from the skies and anally probe the audience? Pretty cool. But we still got The End.
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Post by Kez on Nov 21, 2008 12:04:03 GMT -1
OK trawling through the internet sites I see that Spacewolf did a great bass solo after we all counted down. It couldn't have been that great cos I couldn't hear it!
Yeah rowdy crowd is better than ignorant as fuck and there to pose crowd
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Post by michael on Nov 21, 2008 12:58:19 GMT -1
Ryan-al Tap
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Post by Kez on Nov 21, 2008 13:25:29 GMT -1
What they need to do next is all emerge from those neon flowers onstage and Spacewolf gets caught in one for the entirety of Cobwebs.
Seriously though, what is his real name.
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