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What do all these things have in common? Why, they are all counted by Ryan Adams as influencing his most recent double album!
Via Pfork's review today:
"Hi, hello, it's me again," Ryan Adams bellows, granting III/IV-- Adams' 12th LP since 2000-- something of a cheeky start. Adams is the patron saint of the prolific, equally beloved and reviled for his never-ending avalanche of releases, and reintroductions aren't necessary: he's never drifted out of earshot for terribly long. A follow-up to Orion, the limited-run, vinyl-only, sci-fi concept record he released last spring, III/IV was culled from the same batch of tracks that produced 2007's Easy Tiger. The sessions were supposedly inspired by "the 80s, ninjas, cigarettes, sex, and pizza", a kind of holy pentangle for kids born in the mid-70s. And despite all his bluster-- all the songs and breakdowns and books of poems and oddball interviews-- Adams insists his needs are simple, universal: All he wants, he sings, is "Someone that loves me the way I love Star Wars." Well, sure.
Poll Results
Option | Votes |
Sex | 13 |
Pizza | 12 |
Cigarettes | 5 |
The 80s | 4 |
Ninjas | 2 |
― slouching, unshaven, thick-necked, unstylish, pig-eyed (ilxor), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 15:48 (fourteen years ago)
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