MYSTERIOUS COVER ALBUM

[MarvinThePipe]

Has anyone heard the much rumored Ryan Adam's cover album of the Strokes "Is This It"

IF so, does anyone actually HAVE this album?

It sounds like a fucking GEM id love to get my grubby little hands on

[taparoo]

It hasn't been in circulation (and most likely never will be) to my knowledge.

From answeringbell.com:

The Strokes Cover Album
Date: Spring 2002
Location:
Personnel: Ryan Adams
Tracks: A 4-track cover of the Strokes' Is This It?
Notes: From NME.com 9/17/02: "Ryan Adams has said he will never release his much sought after solo cover album of - The Strokes' Is This It but that someday would send it anonymously to Holly's Demo Hell in NME.COM for review . . . . Earlier this year, Adams aid he had recorded [it] on a four-track recorder. The news prompted a flood of enquiries, with some fans starting a campaign to have the album released. "I had an abscess on my tooth," explained Adams. "And I was on vicodin, out of my nut for a whole week. Swollen fucking mouth and I couldn't do anything, so I decided I was going to learn some records that I liked. So I just learned a bunch of compositions, but I learned them in a different way. So I went upstairs and started recording them on a four-track. One sounds like ragtime, some of them are like country and ballads, you know. It's on a four track, in a bag somewhere. I told The Strokes about it because they came to me and said 'Hey, what the fuck Ryan' and I told those guys I never made a big deal out of it. I told them I would never release it because it'd be like riding their coat tails. To me that would be stealing their thunder. I won't release a cover of their record. One, because I've got my own records to do, and two because its fun for us. It's fun when I can play them their songs and they sound real weird - like bluegrass." He added: "You know what I'll do - one day, when I have too many beers, I'm going to send it to Holly's Demo Hell. I'll send it under a pseudonym. Then I'll find out if she really does listen to all those fucking tapes. I'll put it under a crass fucking name, but once you get it you'll know what it is. But it'll be in a bag of fucking tapes. I'll send it in just like that and I'll never confirm or deny if it's me. I told that to the guys and they're like - that's genius, that'd be really funny."

[Tim Simmons]

Why is this a MYSTERIOUS COVER ALBUM ?

[ewok.online]

Why is this a MYSTERIOUS COVER ALBUM ?

+ i thought this whole thing was put to bed long ago.


you should do some more independent reading before you come to class, Marvin.

[FrigidRoses]

Play nice kids.

[ewok.online]

Play nice kids.

i did kind of come off as a douche, huh?

[FrigidRoses]

Can't blame you for knowing your stuff. :)

[raer7385]

i don't want to hear it. it's prob a hundred times better than the original. and for that, would prob never listen to the original again.

[MarvinThePipe]

"do your research"

Wow, sorry I asked...this is why I stopped posting on ALT COUNTRY too.

Can't even ask a question without being buried in chips...

shoulder chips

(everyone has a chip on their shoulder)

*Cue Thunder,* storms off to AnsweringBell...

:) haha, joking, thanks for the info.

I STILL WANT TO HEAR THIS FUCKING ALBUM THO!

[raer7385]

"do your research"

Wow, sorry I asked...this is why I stopped posting on ALT COUNTRY too.

Can't even ask a question without being buried in chips...

shoulder chips

(everyone has a chip on their shoulder)

*Cue Thunder,* storms off to AnsweringBell...

:) haha, joking, thanks for the info.

I STILL WANT TO HEAR THIS FUCKING ALBUM THO!

don't worry, people are nice here. welcome and hi :wave

[ewok.online]

"do your research"

Wow, sorry I asked...this is why I stopped posting on ALT COUNTRY too.

Can't even ask a question without being buried in chips...

shoulder chips

(everyone has a chip on their shoulder)

*Cue Thunder,* storms off to AnsweringBell...

:) haha, joking, thanks for the info.

I STILL WANT TO HEAR THIS FUCKING ALBUM THO!

i'm really sorry, man.
i didnt mean to be a lame-ass.
i hope you stick around, because we have fun 'round here.

[Tim Simmons]

I'm betting its no where as good as the hype (or NME - same thing really) has made it out to be.

[TheOneThatLeaves]

I read about it in rollingstone as one of the ten best albums never heard or lost albums or something anyway it was up there with Cigarettes and Valentines....

[Raining in Baltimore]

NME is sh*te....but it would be interesting to hear the record...