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Gold [Bonus CD]
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Album Details: Gold [Bonus CD]

Release Date:01/08/2002
Label:Universal
UPC:008817023526

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  • Overall:

    Great Breakout CD for Adams

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 15, 2003

    Pros: Very Nice Alt Country CD

    Cons: Nothing specific

    A great CD for adams, as it was his first real mainstream CD since he went solo. I think anyone would easily enjoy this original masterpeice.

  • Overall:

    what an amazing album

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 22, 2002

    i have to say this is one of the best releases i've heard in a while. his style is so much more advanced than even the Boss. if you really want to hear some great stuff by ryan adams, try The Pinkhearts, too.

Pro Reviews: Gold [Bonus CD]

  • All Music Guide

    One would think that being Ryan Adams would be a pretty good deal at the time of this album's release; he had a major-label deal, critics were in love with him, he got to date Winona Ryder and Alanis Morrisette, Elton John went around telling everyone he was a genius, and his record company gave him carte blanche to do whatever he wanted. But to listen to Gold, Adams' first solo album for his big-league sponsors at Lost Highway, one senses that there are about a dozen other musicians Adams would love to be, and nearly all of them were at their peak in the early to mid-'70s. Adams' final album with Whiskeytown, Pneumonia, made it clear that he was moving beyond the scruffy alt-country of his early work, and Gold documents his current fascination with '70s rock. Half the fun of the album is playing "Spot the Influence": "Answering Bell" is a dead ringer for Van Morrison (with fellow Morrison enthusiast Adam Duritz on backing vocals), "Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues" is obviously mode...led on the Rolling Stones, "Harder Now That It's Over" sounds like Harvest-period Neil Young, "New York, New York" resembles Steven Stills in his livelier moments (Steven's son, Chris Stills, plays on the album), and "Rescue Blues" and "La Cienaga Just Smiled" suggest the influence of Adams' pal Elton John. Of course, everyone has their influences, and Adams seems determined to make the most of them on Gold; it's a far more ambitious album than his solo debut, Heartbreaker. The performances are polished, Ethan Johns' production is at once elegant and admirably restrained, Adams is in strong voice throughout, and several of the songs are superb, especially the swaggering but lovelorn "New York, New York," the spare and lovely "When the Stars Go Blue," and the moody closer, "Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd." But while Gold sounds like a major step forward for Adams in terms of technique, it lacks the heart and soul of Heartbreaker or Pneumonia; the album seems to reflect craft rather than passion, and while it's often splendid craft, the fire that made Whiskeytown's best work so special isn't evident much of the time. Gold sounds like an album that could win Ryan Adams a lot of new fans (especially with listeners whose record collections go back a ways), but longtime fans may be a bit put off by the album's richly crafted surfaces and emotionally hollow core. [The first pressing of Gold came with a bonus five-song EP, entitled Side Four, that allowed Adams' twangy side to rise to the surface again for a couple of numbers, especially "The Fools We Are as Men" and "The Bar Is a Beautiful Place."] - Mark Deming, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Ryan Adams

Mixing the heartfelt angst of a singer/songwriter with the cocky brashness of a garage rocker, Ryan Adams is at once one of the few artists to emerge from the alt-country scene to achieve mainstream commercial success; and he is the one who most strongly refused to be defined by the genre, leaping from one spot to another stylistically as he follows his increasingly pro... Read more