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Track Listings
| 1. New York, New York |
| 2. Firecracker |
| 3. Answering Bell |
| 4. La Cienega Just Smiled |
| 5. The Rescue Blues |
| 6. Somehow, Someday |
| 7. When The Stars Go Blue |
| 8. Nobody Girl |
| 9. Sylvia Plath |
| 10. Enemy Fire |
| 11. Gonna Make You Love Me |
| 12. Wild Flowers |
| 13. Harder Now That It's Over |
| 14. Touch, Feel & Lose |
| 15. Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues |
| 16. Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd |
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Torrential creativity has fast-forwarded the artistic evolution of former Whiskeytown frontman Ryan Adams from country-rock boy wonder (see Faithless Street) to despondent troubadour with a 1960s fixation (his solo debut Heartbreaker), but it may also explain why listeners often need to wade through some pedestrian material just to find a few pearls of poetic excellence. Gold is no exception to that trend, a sometimes engaging middle-of-the-road roots-pop album that's both overlong (70 minutes) and at times overindulgent. There are high spots--such as the bouncy, breezy opener "New York, New York" and the plaintive ballad "When the Stars Go Blue" (which features a vocal turn reminiscent of Morrissey)--but much of the disc gets lost in forests of indistinct guitars and plodding percussion that never nudges Adams into actually rocking. Gold is the work of a notoriously prolific songwriter who hasn't yet learned to play to his strengths, one whose execution doesn't yet match his vision. --Anders Smith Lindall
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Ceux qui débuteront l'écoute de cet album par "Nobody Girl" penseront aussitôt que Bob Dylan ne pouvait espérer plus digne héritier. Un petit voile supplémentaire dans la voix, toujours ce sens de l'attaque des mots par jets pressés, et on pense alors à Steve Forbert, autre Dylanophile transi. Ailleurs, avec les accords brutaux de "Enemy Fire" ou de "Tina Toledo's Street Walkin'Blues", ce sont soudain les figures emblématiques de Paul Westerberg, avec les Replacements, et forcément celles des Rolling Stones qui s'imposent. Tant de bonnes influences, et pourtant Ryan Adams ne ressemble qu'à lui-même lorsqu'il entame "Answering Bell", cette douce ballade vaguement country, ou lorsque, plein pot, il fonce sur "Firecracker" harmonica et nappe d'orgue Hammond. Ryan Adams a compris le rock'n'roll dans ses enjeux et ses obsessions. Il en est à ce jour une des incarnations les plus abouties. Ce double CD voyage avec rage et une intelligence dérangeante au-dessus de toute la production du moment. Car il intègre et synthétise tout ce qui fait de cette musique un objet d'art en mouvement, toujours actuel et toujours d'hier. Magistral et inusable. --José Ruiz
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Adams knows what you're going through...,
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This review is from: Gold (Audio CD)
That may sound strange, but by listening to this album, you feel that is a true statement, not just an arbitrary one. When you're angry, throw on 'Touch, Feel and Lose' and get lost in Adams' gritty, angry, bluesy voice as he belts desperately, "I never wanted to be your rolling train/I never wanted to be your dancing shoes/I just wanted you to love me, I just wanted you to love me". When you're sad, listening to "La Cienega Just Smiled" is like crying on the shoulder of a comforting, objective friend. If you feel happy and light-hearted, a great tune on the album is the bouncy, fun, sly "Gonna Make You Love Me". There are so many great emotional epiphonies and all of them are on this album. It's as though Adams wrote every person's autobiography, while writing his own at the same time.In addition to a whirlwind of emotion, this album says a lot about Adams in many ways. People have complained about the cover art, which pictures Adams somewhat mocking springsteen's infamous album cover. As well, we see his humorous side as he numerously thanks Alanis Morisette in the liner notes, after losing a bet with her. And in the music we hear about his own trials and tribulations and lost loves, as well as his love of writer Sylvia Plath, in one of the album's intricately crafted standout tracks. Although reviled by many of Adams' Whiskeytown fans, this is by far one of Adams' best solo albums. It's catchy, it's passionate, it's real. This is a brilliant, classic album.
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This review is from: Gold (Audio CD)
i never thought i could love a cd so much in all my life. his music is creative, sexy, honest, thoughtful, unique...this is an excellent cd and even better than his first solo work. out of all of his solo albums (heartbreaker, gold, demolition, rock and roll and love is hell parts 1 & 2) i rate this as the best. those who have heard the corrs' cheap rip off of 'where the stars go blue' will be surprised to hear the original version written by ryan adams. he shines on tracks 1, 4, 5, and 7. track 8 is the longest and best on the entire cd because it contains so many moods and styles. his creativity is astounding.
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Rate This CD On The Quality of the Music,
By mike (Clarks Summit, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gold (Audio CD)
I was reading the reviews people wrote for this album and there was this one that caught my eye: Reviewer: A music fan from Houston, Texas United StatesWe have men dying for their country and ryan adams turns the flag upside down. One more of the useless socialist elite. When clinton was bombing Serbia for 80 days straight, where were the elite complaining about the "evil America" then. The silence was deafening! Are you an absolute idoit, you dont like this cd because the cover of it. Give me a break. Please listen to the music on the CD and rate that not the CD cover. Well for the people who like true music and dont rate CDs on the front cover's picture, but listen to the music and you will like it for what it is. This is one of the best true rock n roll albums to come out in years.
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