Red Mosquito

About ten days ago I played Cold Roses for the first time in years. I thought of the Celebration Rock podcast idea of Fantasy A&R and how you could make it a 10-12 song single disc release. I thought it would make a great discussion point here and I was in the process of this edit when the news broke.

sigh

The only RA album I ever liked was Heartbreaker.

Isbell is a way better singer/songwriter.

We should still do that CR edit

verb_to_trust wrote:We should still do that CR edit

I think been done. But yah, if you shortened it to 10-12 you really would have album of the decade. Would be really hard to do though.

run2death wrote:The only RA album I ever liked was Heartbreaker.

Isbell is a way better singer/songwriter.

Isbell is boring. Ryan being this unhinged weirdo helped make the music feel spontaneous and on the edge in a way that Isbells never did for me.

given2trade wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:We should still do that CR edit

I think been done. But yah, if you shortened it to 10-12 you really would have album of the decade. Would be really hard to do though.

Yeah it would be difficult. What do you keep as the closer? How Do You Keep Love Alive? or Friends? I think I would have to go with Friends.

Rosebud
Let It Ride
If I Am A Stranger
Now That You're Gone
Mockingbird
Sweet Illusions
How Do You Keep Love Alive
Magnolia Mountain
Dance All Night
Blossom
Life Is Beautiful
Friends

verb_to_trust wrote:

run2death wrote:The only RA album I ever liked was Heartbreaker.

Isbell is a way better singer/songwriter.

Isbell is boring. Ryan being this unhinged weirdo helped make the music feel spontaneous and on the edge in a way that Isbells never did for me.

kinda fair but isbell has had his own shit...recovered drug/booze addict. i don't know if any of his future music will be great but his daughter is a great muse i think. anyway, nice to see an artist appear to have his shit together and still put out good music. i think nashville was good and the previous 2 were amazing and he was sober.

I'm going to really need to think about this one. Mainly for sequencing purposes.

verb_to_trust wrote:I'm going to really need to think about this one. Mainly for sequencing purposes.

That's the problem. I didn't go back to it after the news broke. It's a bit all over the place but so is the released album.

verb_to_trust wrote:

run2death wrote:The only RA album I ever liked was Heartbreaker.

Isbell is a way better singer/songwriter.

Isbell is boring. Ryan being this unhinged weirdo helped make the music feel spontaneous and on the edge in a way that Isbells never did for me.

None of RA's other albums had the vulnerable wistfulness of Heartbreaker and that's something that Isbell has really mastered and I'm a total sucker for.

Yeah I have Nashville and have spun it a handful of times. It's pretty good.

Listening to my first Ryan Adams song right now, and honestly it's pretty damn good

Rangi Guy wrote:Listening to my first Ryan Adams song right now, and honestly it's pretty damn good

Where you starting Rangi?

LetMeSleep wrote:Rosebud
Let It Ride
If I Am A Stranger
Now That You're Gone
Mockingbird
Sweet Illusions
How Do You Keep Love Alive
Magnolia Mountain
Dance All Night
Blossom
Life Is Beautiful
Friends

No Cherry Lane? come on bro. NO COLD ROSES!??!!?!?!??! NO EASY PLATAU?!!!

but really no cold roses??

LetMeSleep wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:Listening to my first Ryan Adams song right now, and honestly it's pretty damn good

Where you starting Rangi?

Let it Ride, after having listened to PJ's Let it Ride

Rangi Guy wrote:Listening to my first Ryan Adams song right now, and honestly it's pretty damn good

He's great and also a standup guy...probably going to run for congress in 2020. Enjoy

I'm a sucker for Meadowlake Street but I don't know where I would put it.

Rangi Guy wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:Listening to my first Ryan Adams song right now, and honestly it's pretty damn good

Where you starting Rangi?

Let it Ride, after having listened to PJ's Let it Ride

Here's some links and lists from the tourney we had.
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 04#p397604
http://www.youtube.com/user/dsb1218/playlists

LetMeSleep wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:Listening to my first Ryan Adams song right now, and honestly it's pretty damn good

Where you starting Rangi?

Let it Ride, after having listened to PJ's Let it Ride

Here's some links and lists from the tourney we had.
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 04#p397604
http://www.youtube.com/user/dsb1218/playlists

Is now the right time to get into RA though?