Rock N Roll (studio album)
by Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams bestography
Rock N Roll is ranked 13th best out of 39 albums by Ryan Adams on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Ryan Adams is Heartbreaker which is ranked number 1143 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,519.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/23/2025 11:29 |  Tamthebam | 22,822 | 69/100 |
| ! | 02/25/2025 00:11 |  EyeKanFly | 8,092 | 65/100 |
| ! | 09/13/2024 14:59 | thepurplemartin | 554 | 76/100 |
| ! | 04/29/2023 12:18 |  RevolverCB72 | 1,803 | 76/100 |
| ! | 10/22/2022 15:52 | fotofowler | 479 | 81/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.1/100, a mean average of 69.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.8.
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HoldenM 01/13/2019 11:38 | #229620
Definitely a lot of different rock sounds. A lot of 90s alt rock/grunge. Smidge of Rush on tracks like "1974." A deliberate and very welcome U2 riff with "So Alive." The songwriting isn't always there, but there are some killer highlights;
buzzdainer 10/20/2016 00:44 | #177197
This album doesn't get a lot of love from critics, and to an extent I think that's justified. "Wish You Were Here," for instance, contains some of the lamest, laziest songwriting of Ryan Adams's career, such as this pointless string of expletives: "It's all a bunch of shit / It's totally fucked up." But I don't think the criticism that the album is too derivative makes much sense, since that is explicitly the point: this is Adams obviously and nakedly performing songs that are paens to his influences. And a lot of it is good. "Burning Photographs," for instance, is a nod to Echo & the Bunnymen-style neo-psychedlia, and it's pretty evident to me that Adams is fully invested in the passion of the song, not just aping it. I put that song, and several others from this record, comfortably among Adams's best, which is saying something.
covecove 04/15/2013 21:13 | #73304
Adams most uncompromised album. It is a collection of great rnr tunes which contrast fairly with the southern and country vibe of most of his catalogue, there are some great songs in this unfairly underrated recording...
paladisiac 12/11/2011 02:51 | #32637
This album sure lives up to its title, trying on many influences to pump out some rockin' jams. Some of it works well, like opener "this is it" and its simple, driving electric guitar. Like "so alive" which feels so alive and looking forward to life and the love in the "arms i stay". The reverb-retro of "Burning Photographs" is pretty good. Most works well enough. The touching "rock n roll" is too short, almost self-deprecating with its lyric "i don't feel cool at all" in referring to performing rock music. Some songs were probably good rock ideas with incomplete execution, like "she's lost total control" and "boys" which uses the "so alive" guitar sound to middling effect.
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