Gold (studio album)
by Ryan Adams

Gold by Ryan Adams
Year: 2001
Overall rank: 1,492nd   
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 343 votes)
     
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Award Top albums of 2001 (23rd)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (236th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,492nd)

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Ryan Adams bestography

Gold is ranked 2nd best out of 40 albums by Ryan Adams on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Ryan Adams is Heartbreaker which is ranked number 1136 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,527.

Ryan Adams album bestography « Higher ranked (1,136th)
Heartbreaker
This album (1,492nd)
Gold
Lower ranked (3,215th) »
Cold Roses

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   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Gold rankings

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Overall rank: 1,492nd | 2000s rank: 236th | 2001 rank: 23rd

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Gold ratings

Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 343 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.0.

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80/100
From 07/10/2023 23:07 | #298052
Good album.
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From 05/05/2022 17:50 | #284988
Album of the year, 2001
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From 02/17/2022 14:44 | #281454
A big and a tad long album from a great songwriter in the vein of Boss, Uncle Bob, and Van the Man. No gimmicks, down to earth music with fine moods and sensibility for touching lyrics
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From 07/19/2019 20:35 | #239896
Favorite Tracks:Answering Bell, The Rescue Blues, When The Stars Go Blue, Nobody Girl, Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues, Goodnight Hollywood Blvd.
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60/100
From 02/21/2018 20:25 | #209115
La scrittura di Ryan Adams mostra fin troppo bene quali sono i riferimenti dell'autore ( Young, Petty, Fogerty, Who, Stones, tra gli altri… ) senza che ci sia però quel guizzo di originalità che impedisca che le canzoni siano copie sbiadite di ben più quotati originali.
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From 12/16/2017 08:38 | #203251
A good album spoiled by being too long with 3-4 tracks just filler material.
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80/100
From 07/06/2017 05:56 | #193736
Not the critics choice, but mine. Simply his album with most good songs on.
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90/100
From 06/14/2017 13:53 | #192581
Though a little too long--like every Ryan Adams album--this may be Adams's best album, song for song. The first half alone is as strong of a stretch as any artist could hope for.
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95/100
From 09/19/2016 18:56 | #175366
Two weeks after the Twin Towers fell in 2001, Ryan Adams released Gold, a fact that seems almost impossible given how much the subject matter of this album is so directly related to the events and aftermath of 9-11 (obviously the songs were written much earlier). "New York, New York" became a touchstone for me as I processed my own anger and sadness over the people who died in the World Trade Center, as it is such an affectionate ode to the Big Apple, one that crackles with life and love and romance, the sights and smells of the city. I'm not a city person by nature, but "New York, New York" sheds some light on why a person would be.
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From 09/15/2016 02:09 | #174998
Ryan Adams complained that the record company skimmed his double album, but in my opinion it should have been skimmed even more. When this album is good,its as good anything. But there is some songs that REALLY should have been skimmed.If you skip the bad songs(such as Enemy Fire,Touch Feel and Lose, and Toledos Walking Blues), its one of the best releases of the 2000s.
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