Author Topic: Any Bryan Adams Fans in ? (Read 4452 times)

Kotowboy · « **on:** August 21, 2013, 09:47:43 AM »

I'm probably the only one i'm sure.

Starting listening around 1991. Memory is a little hazy but I *think* I was already a fan before The Robin Hood Song ® ©.

- Waking up The Neighbours is a cracking album. Huge Production. Great solos by Keith Scott as ever.

- 18 Til I Die is decent. It was a little bit more low key than it's predecessor. Still has great tracks like " Black Pearl ".

- On A Day Like Today. A nice long album. Poppier than the previous two. Great fun to jam to on guitar though. Getaway is a highlight.

- Room Service. Probably not worth waiting six years for. Continuing the trend of getting mellower and more acoustic with each album. Not *bad* but I miss the big rock songs.

- 11. A little more like " On A Day Like Today ". In the mould of Room Service but a touch more energy and bluster. Liked it a lot. Really nice production and a copious amount of slide guitar

Really big sounding album.

I think BA is under-rated as a vocalist. He can still do the full-voice shouty/screamy vocals like he did in 1991 and he's in his 50's now.

YtseBitsySpider · « **Reply #1 on:** August 21, 2013, 09:53:20 AM »

saw Waking UP The Neighbors tour.
BEST show i've ever seen any artists ever.

kári · « **Reply #2 on:** August 21, 2013, 09:54:28 AM »

Quote from: YtseBitsySpider on August 21, 2013, 09:53:20 AM

BEST show i've ever seen any artists ever.

What?

That's the last thing I would expect from you.

Kotowboy · « **Reply #3 on:** August 21, 2013, 09:56:42 AM »

i've never been to a BA concert. Not sure if i'd enjoy it when they were just a trio with BA on bass. I'd want the full shebang with BA on guitar et al.

MrBoom_shack-a-lack · « **Reply #4 on:** August 21, 2013, 10:37:15 AM »

Cuts Like A Knife, Reckless and Waking Up The Neighbours are all really good Rock/Pop albums.

Movie magic:

Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, Sting - All For Love

Even though both movies are pretty meh (still good popcorn flicks), I get very nostalic hearing those songs and get reminded of how great songs and soundtrack can lift a movie.

I've seen BA live once and it was pretty cool hearing all those 80s and 90s hits, overall a very solid show.

Kotowboy · « **Reply #5 on:** August 21, 2013, 10:56:11 AM »

Everything I Do is still a great song - it's just been played to death because it was at #1 in the UK for 16 weeks

In today's climate - I don't think a song will ever beat that ever.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #6 on:** August 21, 2013, 11:10:44 AM »

Quote from: MrBoom_shack-a-lack on August 21, 2013, 10:37:15 AM

Cuts Like A Knife, Reckless and Waking Up The Neighbours are all really good Rock/Pop albums.

This. I didn't really follow any of his albums after Waking Up. That 'Robin Hood' song is awful. Absolutely hated it - like I do most songs that are made specifically for movies.

Zook · « **Reply #7 on:** August 21, 2013, 12:00:32 PM »

I was grounded and couldn't watch Robin Hood when it came out on video, but I was pretty obsessed with "The Robin Hood Song". It's still great, and I never got sick of it. I like all his other singles too, but I don't regularly listen to them.

Kotowboy · « **Reply #8 on:** August 21, 2013, 12:12:06 PM »

His last studio album came out in 2008 so he's well overdue for another one. I'm not counting any of his soundtrack albums. Not really

interested in an entire CD of made for movies songs. Even though most of 18 Til I Die were in films.

Lowdz · « **Reply #9 on:** August 21, 2013, 12:19:52 PM »

Quote from: YtseBitsySpider on August 21, 2013, 09:53:20 AM

saw Waking UP The Neighbors tour.
BEST show i've ever seen any artists ever.

You are not alone!

Whilst I wouldn't go quite that far, that tour was absolutely fantastic.
I was a fan from seeing Lysette Anthony in the Run To You video

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Reckless was my first BA album and I played it to death back in the day. The Robin Hood song ruined him though. He went soppy after that.
Waking Up The Neighbours is the best Def Leppard album after Pyro and Hysteria

I really don't need to hear Summer Of '69 ever again though. One of my regular pubs has played that and Livin' On A Prayer back to back, every fucking time I've been in there for the last 20 years

kirksnosehair · « **Reply #10 on:** August 21, 2013, 12:34:31 PM »

I wouldn't really call myself a "fan" but I definitely appreciate the songwriting skills. It's cool to write insane prog songs with half a dozen meter changes and all kinds of crazy-ass modal scale runs and poly-rhythms and shit, but creating, executing and producing a quality pop-rock album ain't as easy as some people may think it is. It takes a certain.....gift....to come up with that stuff. And only so many people have that gift. For a few years there, Bryan Adams dominated FM Rock Radio and quite a few of his songs have stood the test of time.

Cool Chris · « **Reply #11 on:** August 21, 2013, 12:49:05 PM »

Reckless was a great album, I remember playing that to death back in the day.

That's all I've got.

Beowulf · « **Reply #12 on:** August 21, 2013, 01:51:47 PM »

LOVED BA once upon a time. But haven't really listened since "Into The Fire" days. Saw him a couple of times. The tour for Fire was outstanding.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #13 on:** August 21, 2013, 04:00:47 PM »

Quote from: YtseBitsySpider on August 21, 2013, 09:53:20 AM

saw Waking UP The Neighbors tour.
BEST show i've ever seen any artists ever.

Saw him on this tour as well and it was a hard rocking fun show. I was blown away how good they were live.

Kwyjibo · « **Reply #14 on:** August 22, 2013, 05:36:57 AM »

Was a big fan when Reckless came out, played that record to death. Also loved Into The Fire, but kinda lost interest with Waking Up The Neighbours. That one sounded too Def Leppardy and not in a good way.

Saw him two or three times in that period and every concert was great rocking fun. I remember the last one during the Waking Up tour. He played When The Night Comes, a song he wrote for Joe Cocker as the last encore and the crowd kept on singing "ohh ohh when the night comes" long after the lights went on. Spine-chilling moment for sure.

Nowadays I sometimes listen to Reckless when I'm in nostalgic mood but I wouldn't consider myself a fan anymore.

Beowulf · « **Reply #15 on:** August 22, 2013, 07:21:22 AM »

Quote from: Kwyjibo on August 22, 2013, 05:36:57 AM

Saw him two or three times in that period and every concert was great rocking fun. I remember the last one during the Waking Up tour. He played When The Night Comes, a song he wrote for Joe Cocker as the last encore and the crowd kept on singing "ohh ohh when the night comes" long after the lights went on. Spine-chilling moment for sure.

Sounds like the end of a Peter Gabriel show when he finishes with Biko. The crowd keeps chanting, even into the parking lot.

Jaq · « **Reply #16 on:** August 22, 2013, 07:29:11 AM »

Always appreciated his skill as a songwriter of good old fashioned rock songs with Jim Vallance, but the only album of his I loved-and I loved it pretty unreservedly-was Reckless. That was a fucking brilliant rock album. Even the lesser tracks would have been side one, song one classics for other acts. He never got that good again, but man, for one album he got everything right.

Kotowboy · « **Reply #17 on:** August 22, 2013, 07:34:13 AM »

Waking Up The Neighbours was HUGE for me.

I played it so much that I had to buy THREE cassettes of it !!!

They kept breaking

Eventually I bought it on CD and i'm still not bored of it.

He probably won't be that good again but 11 is not too shabby for what it is...

Kotowboy · « **Reply #18 on:** August 22, 2013, 12:29:30 PM »

https://open.spotify.com/track/1PlNXY5mEeP2rXolrBWQkJ

Anyone got Spotify ?

This is pretty funny - halfway thru the song he suddenly starts singing in a country accent.

Lowdz · « **Reply #19 on:** August 22, 2013, 02:52:15 PM »

Quote from: Kotowboy on August 22, 2013, 12:29:30 PM

https://open.spotify.com/track/1PlNXY5mEeP2rXolrBWQkJ

Anyone got Spotify ?

This is pretty funny - halfway thru the song he suddenly starts singing in a country accent.

I think the phrase is "consummate performer".

Kotowboy · « **Reply #20 on:** August 22, 2013, 03:44:35 PM »

Yeah it's random but funny.

JPX · « **Reply #21 on:** August 22, 2013, 04:09:19 PM »

Quote from: MrBoom_shack-a-lack on August 21, 2013, 10:37:15 AM

Even though both movies are pretty meh

WOAH!!!! RHPoT is anything but meh, it's a classic.

Kotowboy · « **Reply #22 on:** August 22, 2013, 04:13:37 PM »

Alan Rickman steals that movie.

Dublagent66 · « **Reply #23 on:** August 23, 2013, 08:36:26 AM »

I'm really not a fan but I still liked a lot of his stuff back in the day. Got Reckless on the iPad. Good album.

MrBoom_shack-a-lack · « **Reply #24 on:** August 23, 2013, 09:15:35 AM »

Quote from: JPX on August 22, 2013, 04:09:19 PM

Quote from: MrBoom_shack-a-lack on August 21, 2013, 10:37:15 AM
Even though both movies are pretty meh

WOAH!!!! RHPoT is anything but meh, it's a classic.

Meh....I do get nostalgic watching it though but mostly for the OST and yes Alan Rickman is da shizzle!

Beowulf · « **Reply #25 on:** August 23, 2013, 09:40:36 AM »

Anyone dig on the acoustic, slower version of "I'm Ready" from his acoustic album? He changed the song so drastically, but i can't get enough of it. Best electric-to-acoustic transformation!

Kotowboy · « **Reply #26 on:** August 23, 2013, 09:48:15 AM »

Is that from MTV Unplugged or Bare Bones ?

Bare Bones is extremely stripped down. Basically him , an acoustic and a piano.

Great album.

Beowulf · « **Reply #27 on:** August 26, 2013, 07:27:35 AM »

It had to have been from MTV Unplugged. He had a full band behind him. Instead of the guitar solo, it was something along the lines of a tin whistle. Its quite haunting. Best version of that song. The type that gives you goosebumps.

Kotowboy · « **Reply #28 on:** August 26, 2013, 07:29:10 AM »

Yeah MTV Unplugged is a great album.

I'd recommend Bare Bones too if you haven't heard it.

Kotowboy · « **Reply #29 on:** October 06, 2015, 03:31:53 PM »

Lazarus Thread.

This is off his New Studio Album. Really Catchy Pop Rock Ditty !

https://open.spotify.com/track/2qsxRNC8opxf3p6VT7WLZf

New Album Get UP ! out soon .

r0cken · « **Reply #30 on:** October 06, 2015, 10:54:32 PM »

Not really a fan, but I like his music. I had "18 Til I Die" (still my fave album) and a Greatest Hits, on cassette. Loved both. Didn't really get into his other albums. A song here, a song there.

bl5150 · « **Reply #31 on:** October 06, 2015, 10:57:44 PM »

I was a fan around the time of Into The Fire but haven't taken much notice since. He can still cut it live but most of the new material I have heard has been very snoozeworthy.

goo-goo · « **Reply #32 on:** October 07, 2015, 07:13:20 AM »

I have the Unplugged and 18 till I die....Some great stuff in there. I need to revisit BA...it's been ages since I've last heard him

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #33 on:** October 07, 2015, 07:44:58 AM »

Fantastic pop/rock singer/songwriter. Glad to hear he has something new coming out. I will check it out.

Kotowboy · « **Reply #34 on:** October 07, 2015, 08:45:34 AM »

Quote from: hefdaddy42 on October 07, 2015, 07:44:58 AM

Fantastic pop/rock singer/songwriter. Glad to hear he has something new coming out. I will check it out.

It's 13 tracks - which is 9 brand new songs and then 4 of the songs acoustic.

News: The Gift of Music official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fae4FQ4McSY

Author Topic: Any Bryan Adams Fans in ? (Read 4452 times)