Ryan Adams
DESTROYER (2000)
You didn't think I forgot about this one, did you? I played Heartbreaker;
Love is Hell;
Suicide Handbook,
48 Hours, all the leaked 2000-01 sessions and Pinkhearts (THANK YOU, LOST HIGHWAY...but also..NO
20/20. WHAT A CATCH 22?! I hate numbers. There's too many of them);
Cold Roses, JCN and 29; Gold,
Demolition and RNR---and yes, even Easy Tiger--I mean
played them front to back the FUCK out. Whiskeytown, too. OF COURSE
. I got a little weary of Cardinology and his post-2010 output; that's WHY I started this blog in the first place, lol. Well that and lack of anything
else to do, constructively or creative wise. I personally didn't care for much of Destroyer;
too slow...weird versions of Heartbreaker
tunes, etc. THIS is just MY
own personal tastes. I found Heartbreaker
a little inconsistent for the 'big breakup record' it is. I think my reconstructed version of THAT one flows better. The remaining songs were far from shite. I just didn't have anywhere to put them; then it hit me. So I combined and re-sequenced them to fit between Heartbreaker
and Suicide Handbook.
Maybe Bloodshot could've put this out as a second album? I think Ryan decided to scrap the Destroyer demos and start over; good decision. The excuse then was "Geffen/Interscope wants to claim the recordings" (though I'm pretty sure Interscope would've kept him if THEY wanted to)---he had previously almost signed with A&M after the band broke-up the first time (he and Phil W. were the first two members to sign with Outpost...then, Caitlin came back---Skillet got 'demoted', lol). The alt-country 'fad' didn't become the big cheese the industry thought grunge was; Outpost Recordings folded. Whiskeytown's last album was shelved (the 20 song double LP that later was remixed by RA and Ethan Johns--Pneumonia).
