Rock N Roll

I felt compelled to write my own review of this album. I was tired of reading reviews where people were saying how this is a rubbish album when I believe they couldn't be farther from the truth. This album alone just proves that Mr Adams can do almost anything he feels like and the end result is still better than most music that's in the charts at the minute. I would definitely recommend it. It's just upbeat rock, fair enough it isn't really the alt country that he's been used to but everyone likes a change every once in a while. Don't they? This album is just what he thought he'd like to try out and the end result just simply rocks - especially the track 1974.Definitely recomended to any open-minded Ryan Adams fans.

Great set of up- tempo tunes on this album by the very talented Ryan Adams. Several tracks remind me of U2 and The Smiths. Recommended!

What a great album! Some pile driving rock tunes. Love "So Alive" and "Luminol" in particular.

Good album and product as described.

Have loved Ryan Adams for a good few tears now, this is an excellent cd consisting of some his most rockier songs. If you see this cd in the "Country" section move it to the "Rock"

Yep that's right. Better even than "Heartbreaker", "Gold" or "Love is Hell". Adams gets everything right on this album which consistantly brilliant from start to finish. If you think about how many bands have thought they have made an album as great as this in the last decade then you're going to be listing alot of records. Reading pointless reviews about this album from people whining that it doesn't sound much like Gram Parsons makes me laugh because they are missing the point. Adams always loved his Husker Du just as much as his Willie Nelson and that's why he's one of the best songwriters around. It might have started as a two fingered salute at his record label but Adams just ends up having the last laugh with "Rock N Roll". Buy it now.

'Rock N Roll', Ryan Adams' fourth studio album was, in his words: "the most rock thing I have ever done'', and I would go certainly along with that. Although it might well have lacked the variety of his previous full-length releases, the whole record looked like a good new direction for him. The end result was a pure unfiltered rock album with some great melodies, that would potentially bring him to the attention of a different audience. Ryan's vocals on this album had, in my opinion never sounded so raw and powerful, and his guitar work had rarely been quite as good either.This is a straight forward rock album, with literally every track on it a winner. You can tell instantly upon hearing the opening song 'This Is It' that Ryan was listening to The Strokes a lot at the time (borrowing the title of the band's debut album for this track), and 'So Alive' could easily have been mistaken for a then latest U2 single, as there are many similarities in both the way it is played and sung.I know that Ryan has recorded stronger albums since this 2003 highlight (see 2007's  Easy Tiger ), but 'Rock N Roll' was one of his most 'different' at the time, and is still a definite highlight in his already vast and very varied musical catalogue. It received some mixed opinions upon it's release, but I would advise you to ignore any negative reviews you might read, and just buy it!

And modern Rock 'n Roll it is, in a pack of fourteen songs giving you just the energy you need.Those who are delighted by his gentle solo debut album Heartbreaker can be (a little) disappointed by this record. Those who liked the song 'Enemy fire' from his previous record 'Gold' definitely have to check out this record.Sometimes you need music to give you a explosion of energy. This album provides that in a way you want to hear the record more often then only sometimes! The record: It rocks, it rolls, it moarns, with sometimes a touch of punk or psychodelica. Ryan Adams shows his (song writing) capability for showing some of his musical influences without copying his musical influences. In high speed, Adams leads you through the world of modern Rock 'n Roll with a lot of grooving en refreshing guitar riffs, completed by rough and raw vocals."This is it" could have been written by the Strokes? Maybe, but I hear an up tempo great rock and roll song with the right drive. Ryan sings the song partly with a breaking, cracking voice, especially in the first lyric. He sings it like you want to scrape your own voice.One of my album favourite tracks "Burning Photograph" contains very well guitar playing, using the echo technique. Great groove in this track.A touch of humour in the tittle track. You would expect the greatest of the greatest modern rock and roll song, but you will be surprised: it's a gentle and softly piano based and scared sung song containing the line "Everybody's cool playing rock and roll. I don't feel cool at all." In this short song Adams gives us with only a few words us a picture of somebody not feeling that confident. Album closer and bonus track 'Hypnotised': great!Rock 'n Roll: here you have an ideal pumping on your stereo driving record.Rock 'n Roll: It's rough, it's tough - but honest. FRESH!