Pneumonia Music Cd

Whiskeytown - Pneumonia

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Pneumonia      Artist : Whiskeytown      List Price : $13.98 USD        Your Price : $13.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2001-05-22      Studio : Lost Highway      Label : Lost Highway      Avg. Customer Rating : (56 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Pneumonia      A fitting last album.      Rating:      Whiskeytown created 2 great albums and then issued this mildly good but ultimately mediocre and forgettable one. I'm not sure if this album showed them that it was time to hang it up, or if they already knew it was time to hang it up and this album is a byproduct of those feelings. In any case, this album is not up to par with their first two albums by a long shot and if this were the first album I heard by them I never would have gotten into them. This album plays like the album of a band under contract to make another album but may not have if they were not obligated to do so. This is an album for the diehards only. I have it in my collection because I am a big fan of Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown so I have all their albums by default; this one just sits idly in iTunes and doesn't see regular rotation except the occasional playing to make sure that I still don't care for it very much. I'm just trying to be objective here so I hope I don't get crucified by fellow fans for not giving 4 or 5 stars to every single album associated with Mr. Adams. Again I'm a huge fan but this is not the finest hour of Whiskeytown or Mr. Adams.     Customer Reviews for Pneumonia Cd      Wonderful bedtime music      Rating:      This is definitely my favorite CD to listen to when going to bed, and I mean that in a good way. These songs are so gentle, and it's hard to believe Ryan Adams was like, what, 24 when he put this album out? Editorial Reviews for Pneumonia Audio Cd      Amazon.com      In their brief, volatile tenure as a working band--which spawned just two proper albums, Faithless Street (1995) and Strangers Almanac (1997)--Whiskeytown never quite fulfilled their considerable promise. But prior to their ultimate split, the band made a record that was buried for nearly three years by industry snafus. Pneumonia was well worth the wait. The band's final lineup (singer and songwriter Ryan Adams, violinist Caitlin Cary, and guitarist Mike Daly) is augmented by special guests such as Tommy Stinson of the Replacements and James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins. Sure, Adams doesn't quite grasp what he's reaching for on the Latin-tinged "Paper Moon," and "Sit & Listen to the Rain" is about as exciting as its title suggests. But "Jacksonville Skyline," a hometown ode that's sweetly nostalgic but hardly naive, easily ranks among Adams's best ballads. And don't bother trying to elude the hooks of the bouncy kiss-off "Don't Wanna Know Why" or the polished piano pop of "Mirror, Mirror." While it's unfortunate that the reliably unreliable Whiskeytown didn't live to see the release of their most consistent disc, Pneumonia is a harbinger of still better things to come from both Adams and Cary. --Anders Smith-Lindall