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| List Price: | $13.98 | | Price: | $12.99 | | You Save: | $0.99 (7%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Lost Highway | | Release Date: | September 25, 2001 | | Sales Rank: | 19,280th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: New York, New York
- Track 2: Firecracker
- Track 3: Answering Bell
- Track 4: Cienega Just Smiled
- Track 5: Rescue Blues
- Track 6: Somehow, Someday
- Track 7: When the Stars Go Blue
- Track 8: Nobody Girl
- Track 9: Sylvia Plath
- Track 10: Enemy Fire
- Track 11: Gonna Make You Love Me
- Track 12: Wild Flowers
- Track 13: Harder Now That It's Over
- Track 14: Touch, Feel & Lose
- Track 15: Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues
- Track 16: Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd.
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Album Description
European limited edition of the Whiskeytown frontman's second solo album from 2002 includes a bonus CD featuring five bonus tracks, 'Rosalie Come & Go', 'The Fools We Are As Men', 'Sweet Black Magic', 'The Bar Is A Beautiful Place' & 'Cannonball Days'. 21 tracks in all. Lost Highway. 2003. |
Amazon.com
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 |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 268 reviews)
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One of the top albums this decade by R York (Windham,Me)  5 Stars
February 20, 2009
Right from it's opening track New York, New York, Gold grabs you and never lets you go with some of the best songs I've listened to in a long time. Firecracker, Answering Bell, When Stars Go Blue, Somehow Someday are just a handful of the gems you'll find on Gold. For some reason still relatively unknown in these parts, Ryan Adams may be the best contempory American musician/songwriter since Bob Dylan. And although for some strange reason too long for some Amazon.com critic's, throw Gold in, kickback, relax and enjoy!
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The bonus disc is well worht the admission price by Russell D. Melling (Coatesville, Indiana) 5 Stars
May 05, 2008
This cd is proof that Adam's is a great songwriter. The bonus cd only adds to enjoyment. Well-worth looking for.
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Gold by Morton (Colorado) 5 Stars
April 26, 2008
Ryan Adams-Gold *****
Gold just might be his best album. It certainly was the one that put him on the map. Before Gold he had a slight following leftover from his days in Whiskeytown, and the few solo albums he had released previous to Gold, but this really introduced him to the mainstream and that is mostly due to the semi-hit single 'New York, New York.' The video for the song was actually played on MTV which was the first and only time that ever happened for him.
The success of the album led to Adams recording albums at a break-neck pace, all of which being good but not always being the solid albums they could be because of the little amount of time spent on recording. 'New York New York' the lovely plead of 'Firecracker' and 'Somehow, someday' are classic Adams. The melancholy 'Nobody Girl' and the now T-mobile theme song 'Gonna Make You Love Me' were a different side of Adams not shown before but were a pleasant welcome.
For Ryan Adams, Gold is as good as it gets, though I must say he is one artist who should be explored in full. All his material should be explored. Gold, alongside his other album Easy Tiger are among the best albums to be released since 2000. Highly Recommended.
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Adams' Greatest Work Yet by D. Zobel (Minneapolis, MN USA) 5 Stars
March 27, 2008
This is perhaps Ryan Adams' greatest album so far. It showcases his ability to write and perform a wide variety of music. Some reviewers here say that "New York, New York" and "Firecracker" are great, but then he "loses focus." They obviously expected the entire album to be rocking and upbeat. With Ryan Adams, that is a mistake. Some of the best tracks on here are the slow ones. The best thing about this album is that there are songs on it for every kind of mood.
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Total Brilliance.... by S. R. Smith 5 Stars
January 09, 2008
I've waited a few years before saying this, but am now pretty sure that this album is my all time favourite from any artist. When I first heard this cd I could hardly believe how brilliant it was...I just kept on playing it...and I've never gotten sick of it. Although this cd should come with a warning for people new to Ryan Adams music: IF YOU BUY THIS, YOU'll END UP BUYING EVERYTHING HE'S EVER RECORDED, INCLUDING WITH WHISKEYTOWN. That's alot of cd's! But well worth it...2005 was an expensive year to be a Ryan Adam fan (with three releases). I feel "privileged" to be the owner of no. 995 of 1,000 of the colored vinyl Gold promo record - even if it cost me nearly $400.00 on eBay (haha, see what I mean). One day Ryan will top this album, some say Heartbreaker is his best so far (his first solo album). I prefer Gold just a bit more - but I'm just waiting for a better album (or equal) to this from Ryan. I'm sure he can do it - he almost achieved it with Easy Tiger. In the meantime though, thank you Winona Ryder!!! Without you, this album may never have existed - wow, I wonder how she must feel being the muse to this incredible masterwork. I wouldn't claim that Ryan (David) Adams is a genius...but I know that he's a musical genius, the proof is in listening to this.
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