Ryan Adams & The CardinalsBest Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Albums Ranked
7.1
Avg Score
6
Opinions
4
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 6 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Ryan Adams & The Cardinals’s catalog across 4 albums from 6 opinions, with an overall average of 7.1/10. The top-rated Ryan Adams & The Cardinals album is Jacksonville City Nights (2004) with a 7.3/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Cold Roses and III/IV (Bonus Track Version). The discography on Rate.fm spans 2004 to 2010.
Jacksonville City Nights
“Nearly a dozen albums in, counting Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams' shtick is that it's all shtick. If so much alt-country turned out to be a poseur's game of authenticity chic-- with a happy surfeit of strong songwriting, to be sure-- then no one embraced his poseurdom more openly than Ryan Adams. "I started this damn country band/ 'Cause punk rock was too hard to sing," he admitted from the get-go, whil”
Cold Roses
“The prickly singer/songwriter is a little more country than rock'n'roll on this 2xCD effort, which was recorded with a backup group called the Cardinals and features vocal contributions from Rachel Yamagata.”
III/IV (Bonus Track Version)
“Around 2006, prolific, hard-drugging singer-songwriter Ryan Adams cleaned up and began spitting out even more music. III/IV is 21 songs from 2007’s Easy Tiger sessions, supplanting that album’s wired folk rock with a blend of punk head rush, New Wave twitch, metal crunch and hippie noodling. "The Crystal Skull" is Morrissey with a girlfriend; "Ultraviolet […]”