Ryan Adams is pathetic

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Barenaked Ladies: Maroon

OK, Friends: razor sharp script, dead funny and all that, but deep down it sucks, right? Why?

Well, for a start, whenever Ross bangs on about dinosaurs the rest of the cast make jokes about how boring he is. No way! Dinosaurs are both ace and infinitely interesting. And then there's that episode where Rachel persuades a lass to shave her gurly hair so that Ross won't find her attractive any more.

Duh, that's so straight! Total 'comedy-of-conformity' bullshit. And then there's that excruciatingly embarrassing scene where our chums get terrifically excited when they score tickets for a - wait for it! - Hootie And The Blowfish concert!!!! The bastards are actually as ridiculously, tastelessly square as the hero of "American Psycho" - except that in Friends this squareness is presented without any irony whatsoever. Uh, so why are we talking about Friends rather than the Barenaked Ladies, dude? Because they are SO FUCKING BORING! OK, here's some track titles - 'Too Little Too Late', 'Never Do Anything', 'Pinch Me' - and, guess what, THEY ALL FUCKING SUCK! Not just Weller, Ashcroft or Belle & Sebastian sucky but Mike & The Mechanics, Tin Machine and, yes, Hootie And The Blowfish sucky.

So how does 'Maroon' compare to previous BNL albums? Who knows? Who cares? Nobody with a smidgen of soul has EVER listened to one all the way through and this poor bastard hopes he never has to ever again. EVER!

I am glad to be a dullard WITH a brain.

I would like to see them all die.

Ryan Adams too, the fuckass.

And has anyone at NBC thought of a sitcom starring Lenny Kravitz and Ryan Adams, maybe the new Odd Couple?

That Barenaked Ladies review was Steven Wells in the NME, I think. As with everything else Swellsy wrote, he was completely and utterly OTFM.

Oh, and while I'm on, Ryan Adams is indeed an epic cockfarmer.

Any opinion I care to offer.

This seems like the best thread to revive for this anthropological portrayal:

https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-opinion/ryan-adams-belfast-gig-horror-31371698

this is pretty funny

After another bored fan implored him to “sing one of your songs”, Adams screeched “Who said that? What’s your name?”. A defiant voice from the other side of the auditorium then shouted: “I am Spartacus!”

Love the Belfast/NI sense of humour.

thought this would be about his voicemail message to Jim DeRogatis

This very much proves the maxim "once a twat, always a twat", in the unlikely event it needed proving

Even setting aside the fact that he's an irredeemable creep outside of his music, how are people still willing to pay to see this guy in 2025? He's been a demonstrative twat on stage for as long as I can remember, at least post-Whiskeytown.

i saw him with Whiskeytown and he was petulant then too

I mean, people are willing to pay (a lot!) for Morrissey and Van Morrison too (and Keith Jarrett back in the day), knowing there's a even chance they'll turn against the audience at some point. Related to the "the best music is whatever was made in your teens" theory in another thread, it seems like people who discovered Heartbreaker in college aren't going to extract themselves from those songs.

(I thought David Berman had it right comparing Adams's songs to Steve Forbert album cuts, thinking that "Romeo's Tune" is kind of their ur-text.)

More fun from the Emerald Isle!

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/review/2025/04/08/ryan-adams-at-vicar-street-a-gig-that-nobody-will-forget-anytime-soon-but-perhaps-not-for-all-the-right-reasons/

I read that Irish Times piece this morning and threw on Heartbreaker and "man"- still love that album. And I usually hate y'alternative. I'm firmly in the demo Eazy is describing.

I don't care much about Heartbreaker but Whiskeytown will always get a "yeah the singer is a piece of shit but" pass for me.

Even the dozens of rare and unreleased songs from the Whiskeytown years are pretty dang good. If you like Disc 2 of the Stranger's Almanac Deluxe Edition, try to find the bootlegs Forever Valentine, B-Sides & Rarities, and The Fucker Demos.

I mean, the dude has dozens and dozens of great songs - Whiskeytown era, early solo years (Heartbreaker to, say, 29) and even in his mid-period (Easy Tiger to 2014 s/t) - but he has certainly lost the benefit of the doubt from me, and I held on to it longer than most. I haven't heard anything he's done since 2017.

He approached a musician friend of mine as a purported admirer in a professional sense, and offered to collaborate with her on some music. But then when she declined his subsequent advances, he ghosted her.