Excelsior wrote:  Do you ever have anything good to say? Ever? Don't make me sic h8rhater on you.

 hippiechick wrote: 
I know. He's so much cooler than her.

Love it, one of his best!

 yanmar wrote: 

There is a part in the song that he sounds like a wailing Leon Russell....good or bad? I don't know....

GOOOOOOD STUFF HERE.....

cool!!

7=>9 this is hitting the spot for me today.

I was just commenting how Megafaun "Real Slow" reminds me of this song, and voila!  Nice call Bill.

Thanks Bill.  Ryan Adams puts out great music.  His writing is complex and interesting, although his voice is an acquired taste.  That said, sometimes I can't fathom what goes on in the minds of those who post here. 

I agree with bachbeet (I hope I remembered your name correctly) - Ryan Adams...horrible..like Hank Williams III. ugh

 fredriley wrote: 
I've been known to do that to a few systems from time to time.  It's a shame that I can't use that technique on a few users as well.

I wouldn't care if I never heard this song again.

 fredriley wrote: 
Thanks, Fred - I had a television set once - it was one of those with tubes, so it had to warm up. And when it warmed up, sometimes the picture was vertical lines, or horizontal ones, depending on its mood on any given day. I'd have to smack it upside the head, literally, to get the picture to clear.  Percussive Maintenance. I always thought I was torturing inanimate objects out of desperation, but your term makes it sound... clinical and neutral.

Now, I just have to stop attaching human characteristics to inanimate objects.

 bpkengor wrote: 
Awww - thanks, bpkengor.  The cats remain (a little more well-adjusted due to my brother's introduction to "Flying Lessons.") Kidding. He'd no more hurt a cat than he'd break his own arm, uh, intentionally. Finally got a new flat-screen monitor, but I have to lay it face-down at night because the afore-mentioned "well-adjusted cats" treat it like a badminton net without the birdie. And how weird is THAT - they ignore a birdie and bat the net? It's durable, but better to take temptation out of the way. The next thing is that electrified wire mesh across the windows. Kidding.

And I still love this song (yanking the topic back to music, probably far too late for repair.)

 fredriley wrote: 
Maybe you should treat yourself to a good pair of speakers? ;)

I actually think Ryan Adams is a great singer. Honest, real, and he can pull of a lot of styles: from Mick Jagger like rock to very emotional ballads.

Kings of Leon is not my thing either though. 

Nice segue from this song to the Dead's "Playing in the Band." The guitar at the beginning of Cold Roses sounds a lot like the Dead to my inexperienced ears. 

Co-oh-oh-oh-old noses... With that voice, yer man sounds like a wolf howling, but rather less tuneful. A voice that hurts these ears, sadly :(

 Cynaera wrote: 
Us IT techs have a name for that technique: percussive maintenance :o)

 Marcuse wrote: 
Singing of whining...

 Cynaera wrote: 
Do both!    Keep the cats (they need you!) & keep commenting (more entertaining than most!)

I just love that guitar lick. In between smacking my stupid computer monitor (because the picture keeps reducing and a healthy whack to the face or the top makes it go back to full-size) and the constant hissing/snarling/growling of the additional cats we're fostering, I'm at least able to hear part of this and know that I like it. Because of that guitar lick.

I seriously need to either stop commenting or get rid of some cats so I can seriously comment.

 madaxeman wrote: 

I think a lot of the negativity is based on his personality - I've heard he's very unreliable and, even by rock star standards, unbearably arrogant. And that's the opinion of some very reasonable, decent people, so...
But, good tunes. I'd love to see him perform, but I've heard he's really unpleasant at concerts (usually very late, rude, etc) so until I hear otherwise, I won't be standing at a concert waiting for him to come out of his dressing room.

 fredriley wrote: 
Speaking of whining....

Yes!

Ow! That voice! It's just so painful to my ears. In the same vein as the singer from the Kings of Leon, except an order of magnitude worse in the nasal whining .

Isn't that guitar riff right out of Dark Star?

wow...why are the vocals trying to sound like stephen tyler?..ryan adams is really good just trying to sound like himself!  but it's cool that he's paying homage to jerry garcia and the dead...you can really hear that in this song....

almost thought this was the Dead at first too...  cool early dead vibes.

Rock on

Solid 8