[albummaster]

Today's album of the day

Heartbreaker by Ryan Adams (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 2000.
Country:
Overall rank: 492
Average rating: 77/100 (from 175 votes).

Tracks:
1. (Argument With David Rawlings Concerning Morrissey)
2. To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
3. My Winding Wheel
4. AMY
5. Oh My Sweet Carolina
6. Bartering Lines
7. Call Me On Your Way Back Home
8. Damn, Sam (I Love A Woman That Rains)
9. Come Pick Me Up
10. To Be The One
11. Why Do They Leave?
12. Shakedown On 9th Street
13. Don't Ask For The Water
14. In My Time Of Need
15. Sweet Lil Gal (23rd/1st)

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[Mercury]

I personally find this to be one of the greatest albums of all times and genres. It's definitely a beautiful and extraordinary singer-songwriter album, country rock album, alt country, etc. It's a melancholy record which just blows me away. And the songwriting lyrically is superb.

Here's the note from my chart:

As the title suggests, this record is a heartbreaker. Much like Licinda Williams' "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road", Adams' on this record lets you fully jump into the heart and soul of the album. I think it takes a very powerful and skilled writer to pull off an album like this. And Adams' is definitely a powerhouse with words. The songwriting is sharp and vivid and impressive and the vocals nicely convey the songs. The musicianship is very solid southern Americana, country and blues.

The whole atmosphere of this album after the initial quasi-anthemic blast of the opener is emotionally stirring. Throughout the record it feels like Adams is grappling with questions, trying to find some rhyme and reason for love and living. The lyrics are as honest as anything. They don't back away from the sadness and heartbreak and ruggedness of life. They face it in all it's innate ugliness an hope and beauty.

This is minor key tour de force. If you are in the mood for a great modern singer-songwriter album, you can't go wrong here.

"Yeah and the sun it tries to warn me.
'Boy those wings are made of wax.'
While the things I do to kill me,
They just tell me to relax"
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-Ryan

ONLY 4% of people can understand this chart! Come try!

My Fave Metal - you won't believe #5!!!

[RepoMan]

[nachosbob]

I love this album so much. I get to see Ryan Adams in December.
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Memo to myself:
Do the dumb things I gotta do
Touch the puppet head