Ashes & Fire
by Ryan Adams
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Ryan Adams bestography
Ashes & Fire is ranked 10th best out of 40 albums by Ryan Adams on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Ryan Adams is Heartbreaker which is ranked number 1150 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,509.
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Ashes & Fire track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| 01/11/2026 22:05 | bjorndedrij | 137 | 62/100 | |
| 06/09/2025 18:31 | MemphisDelft | 116 | 81/100 | |
| 02/25/2025 00:11 |  EyeKanFly | 8,427 | 65/100 | |
| 08/30/2024 11:14 | cicadelic | 12,122 | 73/100 | |
| 06/06/2024 19:40 | ads100 | 216 | 79/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 14% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.3/100, a mean average of 72.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.
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Best Ryan Adams album since, heartbreaker, and almost a kind of companion LP. Ashes and fire, like heartbreaker, is full of excellent acoustic based tracks including the brilliant title track, come home, and, rocks. Adams' weakness has always been releasing too much material. Now that he's taking his time, his albums have improved. Quality over quantity every time, in my opinion. I actually think that if this had been his first LP, and, heartbreaker, released in 2011, I honestly think that, ashes and fire, would be looked upon as the better album.
paladisiac 12/15/2011 22:34 | #33049
"best ryan adams album since 'gold', recalls mood of 'heartbreaker'" or something like that is what i've read on a few sites. These songs are tame, mid-to-low tempo acoustic-guitar-based ryan adams heart-tuggers without enough lyrical or plaintive vocal substance to actually tug the heart. They're all good songs, but after "faithless street", "heartbreaker", "gold" and even the first two collaborations with the cardinals, i expect more out of my favorite artists like ryan adams. He might be past his peak, which is a shame since he has the insight, attitude and balls to let loose some gems.
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