Album Rating: 3.0

I might have to drop this to a 3, I perhaps jumped the gun giving it a 3.5 after only two listens, I'm still finding it enjoyable enough though.

Album Rating: 1.5

The missus has just gone out to netball practice for an hour and a half and now I'm listening to 'Ryan does Taylor' at full volume...it's come to this

Album Rating: 1.5

It at least sounds a bit livelier, possible classic right here

Album Rating: 3.0

Lol, have fun with that

Be sure to peep Father John Misty's mocking Velvet Underground styled Taylor renditions too

Album Rating: 1.5

Blank Space cover is lol

Album Rating: 3.0

Style is the worst probably

Album Rating: 1.5

I'll check the FJM one, the Taylor Swift thing is something I've avoided mostly, probably an even bigger deal in the States I'm guessing

Album Rating: 3.0

The FJM ones are fully tongue in cheek, classic FJM. Yeah Taylor Swift is massive here in the States, her stuff's really unavoidable. The 1989 album is actually pretty good for a mainstream pop album though imo, for the most part she's way more tolerable than most top 40 music of the past decade.

Album Rating: 1.5

Yeah, I've spun the album and know all the singles but I can go months without hearing her stuff or seeing her face now which might not be your experience across the pond

Album Rating: 3.0

Nowadays I am able to avoid radio pretty much entirely so I don't hear it much anymore, plus it's been a solid couple years now since she's released anything so it's a bit easier to avoid her now.

Album Rating: 2.5

Reviewing any Adams album in the context of Heartbreaker - an album that's almost twenty years old, is kind of stupid imo, but Adams has been in a rut since the Cardinals broke up and basically every album has been rehashing Easy Tiger (a more appropriate reference for this record). Prisoner in particular has almost no new ideas and doesn't really bring anything to the table his previous releases in this style have done. Which is why I didn't review it. No point



You don't have to be familiar w his entire discography to adequately review something but just playing off his most critically accomplished record is sort of lazy

Album Rating: 3.0

Just checked out Easy Tiger last week, great record though I don't really see how it's any better a reference point for this album.

I've dropped this to a 3 now, the self-titled definitely pulled off this sound more convincingly and with somewhat better songwriting overall.

Album Rating: 2.5

I meant it more like Adams has made the same sort of record since Easy Tiger

Album Rating: 1.5

Not really when I know the competition he's up against in the genre so well. The only real context with Heartbreaker is me saying I kinda had him sussed then...and I've really got him sussed now.



It's a case of 'the clues were there...even on his 'best' work. Even right at the beginning.'



But ok, maybe I should have listened to three or four more of his boring albums to help inform me - actually, after doing just that today it really wouldn't have added a huge insight to things.

Album Rating: 2.5

Lol, it just sounds more like he's not your cup of tea.

Album Rating: 3.0

Even Doof has to be wrong sometimes :-P

At the very least he accepts that Heartbreaker is "great"

In other news, Cold Roses desperately needs a review. Strange that that's his only album without one here as it's one of his best.

Album Rating: 1.5

No, he's operating in the genres of folk and alt country releasing stuff a bit like War on Drugs, Petty and Springsteen - if he isn't my cup of tea then something's gone wrong.



People like him, fair enough, I can grudgingly accept that lol

Album Rating: 3.0

Again, disliking the recent stuff is understandable, and every Adams fan dislikes at least one of his albums - I'd be more disturbed if you didn't like Heartbreaker or the Whiskeytown stuff or even Cold Roses even at all as those are all genre classics.

Album Rating: 2.5

His best material doesn't really remind me of any of those bands you mentioned, but ya I meant it in the sense that he just doesn't do it for you. All his recent material has been like that and too samey for me to really enjoy although I liked 1989



Boney, Cold Roses is next on my list of 5s to review. Almost did it before source tags. Top 10 record for me

Netball?

Fair fucks.