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Ryan Adams — Luminol
Album: Rock n Roll
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Released: 2003
Length: 3:22
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Nobody with no one to call
All this time
Hot metal as her clothes disolve
Emergency lights

It's genocide,
It's suicide

I'm spinning round the room in awe
I'm spinning round the room...

I'm floating through a room of halls
Party time
Stops breathing like a china doll
broken eyes

Its genocide,
It's suicide...

I'm spinning round the room in awe
All bloody in the luminol
I'm spinning round the room in awe
In awe, in awe, in awe...

Save my life, save my name
Save my life, save my name

Its genocide,
It's suicide...

I'm floating through a room of halls
All bloody in the luminol
I'm spinning round the room in awe
In awe (x 8)
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 heathenchild wrote:

That was Bryan Adams.


Careful. You might get escorted out of here.
Posted 1 month ago by RickRickerson    [ Reply ]
 kcar wrote:

Good segue from Bauhaus "Bela Lugosi is Dead" to this: they share some of the same riffs.




..well spotted ..you are right
Posted 3 years ago by nmb    [ Reply ]
Good segue from Bauhaus "Bela Lugosi is Dead" to this: they share some of the same riffs.
Posted 3 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
 Stave wrote:

I heard a story that he once stopped a concert and refused to play again until a guy in the front who'd requested "Summer of '69" was thrown out.  I'm still not sure if that makes him a thin-skinned, self-important d-bag or completely awesome. 

 

One way or the other, he seems to not grasp how to win fans with humor. 
Posted 5 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
 Exene wrote:
I hate Ryan Adams, but I really like this song. Yikes.
 
Maybe you don't h8 Ryan Adams after all. 

Mabye h8ing any musician makes no sense.
Posted 5 years ago by h8rhater    [ Reply ]
 Stave wrote:
I heard a story that he once stopped a concert and refused to play again until a guy in the front who'd requested "Summer of '69" was thrown out.  I'm still not sure if that makes him a thin-skinned, self-important d-bag or completely awesome. 
 
I vote "Completely AWESOME."
Posted 5 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
My kind of music!
A sad song (blues?)... with a kick butt rhythm.
Posted 7 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
 out_to_lunch wrote:
Wow, he's come a long way from Summer of 69.... (I keed, I keed)....

 
I heard a story that he once stopped a concert and refused to play again until a guy in the front who'd requested "Summer of '69" was thrown out.  I'm still not sure if that makes him a thin-skinned, self-important d-bag or completely awesome. 

Posted 15 years ago by Stave    [ Reply ]
 nagsheadlocal wrote:

This was the first Ryan Adams song I ever heard and I thought, wow, a great new act.

Unfortunately, I was wrong.

 

I'd check out Whiskeytown, just in case, before you write RA forever. That band seemed to me to keep his eraticism (not to be confused with eroticism) in check. I hear he writes tons and tons of songs and instead of throwing out the lesser ones he keeps - and records/releases - them all.
Posted 15 years ago by paulmack    [ Reply ]
 horstman wrote:
Ah, that would be Elvis Costello there partner.
Clearly he's been watching the detectives...
Posted 15 years ago by MinMan    [ Reply ]
 EssexTex wrote:
He's doing his best John Wayne stance on the album cover
 

Ah, that would be Elvis Costello there partner.
Posted 15 years ago by horstman    [ Reply ]
 Exene wrote:
I hate Ryan Adams, but I really like this song. Yikes.
 
This was the first Ryan Adams song I ever heard and I thought, wow, a great new act.

Unfortunately, I was wrong.

Posted 15 years ago by nagsheadlocal    [ Reply ]
I hate Ryan Adams, but I really like this song. Yikes.
Posted 15 years ago by Exene    [ Reply ]
 coding_to_music wrote:

 
"Silent Bob" was on Jay Leno last week pitching his latest directorial effort, and it was downright scary!  He's gotta be north of 350 lbs. at this point, and there's probably no snacks left at Dante's Quick Mart...


Posted 16 years ago by treatment_bound    [ Reply ]
 out_to_lunch wrote:
Wow, he's come a long way from Summer of 69....

(I keed, I keed)....


 
That was Bryan Adams.

Posted 16 years ago by heathenchild    [ Reply ]
What a random Ryan Adams song! Not his best song or album, but I still like just about anything he does...especially now w/ The Cardinals
Posted 16 years ago by kelty    [ Reply ]
 robadr wrote:
I hardly ever rate songs, but this deserves way more than a 6.5 So I'm giving it a solid 7
 
I see your 7 and raise you 1.  

Posted 16 years ago by miamizsun    [ Reply ]
Somebody loves him some power chords.
Posted 16 years ago by Odyzzeuz    [ Reply ]
He's doing his best John Wayne stance on the album cover
Posted 17 years ago by EssexTex    [ Reply ]
I hardly ever rate songs, but this deserves way more than a 6.5 So I'm giving it a solid 7
Posted 17 years ago by robadr    [ Reply ]
Wow, he's come a long way from Summer of 69.... (I keed, I keed)....
Posted 17 years ago by out_to_lunch    [ Reply ]
One of my favorites of Ryan's!
Posted 17 years ago by Alexandra    [ Reply ]
Kurt_from_La_Qui wrote:
Needs more fingers!
yes!!
Posted 17 years ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
Sounds NICE after a Pink Floyd relic!
Posted 17 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
coding_to_music wrote:
Needs more fingers!
Posted 17 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
thewiseking wrote:
nice power pop. derivative as hell, but who cares
Power-Pop is good!!!
Posted 17 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
Posted 17 years ago by coding_to_music    [ Reply ]
meatbee wrote:
I don't get it either but it goes way back.
Yeah I would say pigeon-toed.'Dont know why.
Posted 17 years ago by celadonstone    [ Reply ]
teeyodi wrote:
I heard Ryan Adams once jumped into the audience and beat the crap out of someone for shouting "Play Cuts Like a Knife!" LOL oh crap now I know where I saw that....right here!
It may be as good as this tune. Not one of his best.
Posted 17 years ago by More_Cowbell    [ Reply ]
llor n kcor?
Posted 17 years ago by squidish    [ Reply ]
I heard Ryan Adams once jumped into the audience and beat the crap out of someone for shouting "Play Cuts Like a Knife!" LOL oh crap now I know where I saw that....right here!
Posted 17 years ago by teeyodi    [ Reply ]
tony620d wrote:
ryan does the foo fighters :) i like it
Posted 17 years ago by tony620d    [ Reply ]
Love it.
Posted 17 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
tony620d wrote:
ryan does the foo fighters :) i like it
good call!
Posted 17 years ago by agnes    [ Reply ]
Posted 18 years ago by xs9095    [ Reply ]
On tour now ! (click the Pollstar link above)
Posted 18 years ago by coding_to_music    [ Reply ]
Posted 18 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
rosedraws wrote:
There he is! Thanks CTM, this graphic totally cracks me up!!
It was cute the first 250 times or so...
Posted 18 years ago by dwhayslett    [ Reply ]
coding_to_music wrote:
Needs Cowbell:
There he is! Thanks CTM, this graphic totally cracks me up!!
Posted 18 years ago by rosedraws    [ Reply ]
Needs Cowbell:
Posted 18 years ago by coding_to_music    [ Reply ]
Rock on Ryan
Posted 18 years ago by Shades    [ Reply ]
THE WILD SIDE OF RYAN...AND THAT'S THE ONE i PREFERE... ONE OF THE MOST TALENTOUS AMERICAN ARTISTS FOR ME!
Posted 18 years ago by exciter76    [ Reply ]
meatbee wrote:
I don't get it either but it goes way back.
Thats how people walk when their in a trance. Or drinking ">(click here)
Posted 18 years ago by katalyst    [ Reply ]
Not a suitable follow up to See Emily Play from Floyd. Not a good segue at all.
Posted 18 years ago by wondertoofar    [ Reply ]
This and Easy Plateau are more than enough proof he's onto something flowing and cool after such a Relic!
Posted 18 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
I like this.
Posted 18 years ago by moonbat    [ Reply ]
very catchy tune.
Posted 18 years ago by MinMan    [ Reply ]
Leaf13 wrote:
OK, nothing specifically to do with the song, but looking at the album cover, what's with the artists posing with their feet turned in, polio style (no offence intended)?
I don't get it either but it goes way back.
Posted 18 years ago by meatbee    [ Reply ]
From May 27th 2005: Tux wrote:
What an anticlimax to get this after Pink Floyd. Yuck!
It came again after PF today (See Emily Play). Are the sets canned? Will we always hear this after See Emily Play?
Posted 18 years ago by tocrawle    [ Reply ]
ryan does the foo fighters :) i like it
Posted 18 years ago by tony620d    [ Reply ]
RA: Impressive, in general. Such a flexible, talented musician producing really varied music. And such a *sweet* voice -
Posted 18 years ago by Carly    [ Reply ]
fuh2 wrote:
If I was listening to this on an Ipod while running I'd probably have a heart attack.
And that's a bad thing?
Posted 18 years ago by horstman    [ Reply ]
Leaf13 wrote:
OK, nothing specifically to do with the song, but looking at the album cover, what's with the artists posing with their feet turned in, polio style (no offence intended)?
It was part of the "nerd chique" image that I can recall going back to the early days of punk.
Posted 19 years ago by mach-hog    [ Reply ]
OK, nothing specifically to do with the song, but looking at the album cover, what's with the artists posing with their feet turned in, polio style (no offence intended)?
Posted 19 years ago by Leaf13    [ Reply ]
nice power pop. derivative as hell, but who cares
Posted 19 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
Hmmm... I didn't know this album had anything worth listening to on it... thanks for enlightening me.
Posted 19 years ago by mrselfdestruct    [ Reply ]
Luminol: a luminescent bio-detector, used to detect the presence of blood (like at a crime scene). Not a bad song either!
Posted 19 years ago by WaltK    [ Reply ]
If I was listening to this on an Ipod while running I'd probably have a heart attack.
Posted 19 years ago by fuh2    [ Reply ]
What's a luminol? luminol IS that stuff that shows up blood under a certain wavelegth of light. blah blah blah blah blah blah blah......
Posted 19 years ago by bajafisher    [ Reply ]
I like this song a lot up until the point he starts signing. It's still decent after that point, but I don't know, not as good.
Posted 19 years ago by DMay    [ Reply ]
What's a luminol? is it like a wonderwall?
Posted 19 years ago by Nuance    [ Reply ]
also not a huge ryan adams fan... but i do love this song.
Posted 19 years ago by mikedill    [ Reply ]
What an anticlimax to get this after Pink Floyd. Yuck!
Posted 19 years ago by Tux    [ Reply ]
I love everything this guy has done...
Posted 19 years ago by wbmarco2    [ Reply ]
NOT A BIG RYAN ADAMS FAN, BUT I REALLY DO ENJOY THIS ALBUM. I LIKE THE ROCK!
Posted 19 years ago by darthblav    [ Reply ]
Aaahhh! The bats! The bats! Save yourselves!
Posted 19 years ago by Old_Pool_Skunk    [ Reply ]
Bit of a Television riff going there.
Posted 19 years ago by redeyespy    [ Reply ]
Jezza wrote:
Thirded
Posted 19 years ago by beelzebubba    [ Reply ]
....He's playing in NUMENOR??!!! Cool!
Posted 19 years ago by trekhead    [ Reply ]
Seems that he really meant this to be about the chemical used to detect blood. Cool song for some upcoming CSI ep. LYRICS Nobody with no one to call And all this time Hot metal as her clothes dissolve Emergency lights It's genocide It's sucide I'm spinning around the room in awe I'm spinning around the room I'm floating through a room of halls Partytime Stops breathing like a china doll And broken eyes It's genocide Suicide I'm spinning around the room in awe All bloody in the luminol I'm spinning around the room in awe In awe Save my life... Say my name It's genocide It's suicide I'm floating through a room of halls All bloody in the luminol I'm spinning around the room in awe In awe And on and on and on
Posted 19 years ago by Marr    [ Reply ]
zipper wrote:
I'm gonna go ahead and fifth it.
Ok - now we're talkin'!
Posted 19 years ago by ciscochasbro    [ Reply ]
This is the only song I really dig from ROCKNROLL.
Posted 19 years ago by Rickvee    [ Reply ]
Jezza wrote:
Thirded
I'm gonna go ahead and fifth it.
Posted 19 years ago by zipper    [ Reply ]
ciscochasbro wrote:
I'll second that!
Thirded
Posted 19 years ago by Jezza    [ Reply ]
RichardPrins wrote:
I'll second that!
Posted 19 years ago by ciscochasbro    [ Reply ]
Posted 20 years ago by R_P    [ Reply ]
Figures...I go downstairs to grab lunch and this gets played.
Posted 20 years ago by stevebeaver    [ Reply ]
Leslie wrote:
What I want to know is why he's singing a song about a chemical used to find traces of human blood.
Maybe its one of those bloody metaphors.
Posted 20 years ago by fuh2    [ Reply ]
What I want to know is why he's singing a song about a chemical used to find traces of human blood.
Posted 20 years ago by Leslie    [ Reply ]
Gregorama wrote:
Isn't that Bryan Adams?
No thats Oleta Adams!
Posted 20 years ago by JokesandJokesandJokes    [ Reply ]
I will listen to his Whiskeytown material more frequently, but I like most of what is on this CD. I saw Ryan in concert last December and he put on quite a show. He does seem to be emulating the Janis/Jimi/Jim model of a shooting star--streaking brilliantly across the heavens before burning up and self destructing. Sometimes you can't have the first without the second.
Posted 20 years ago by drjimmy    [ Reply ]
Kurt_from_La_Qui wrote:
well, i bought the cd and i like it.
Me too.
Posted 20 years ago by Darlington    [ Reply ]
15 comments, and no one has mentioned that Luminol is the substance that makes blood traces show up?
Posted 20 years ago by Art_Carnage    [ Reply ]
well, i bought the cd and i like it.
Posted 20 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
camden_hampden wrote:
Curiously, I have found that for every listenable (sometimes brilliant)song Adams releases he records several that are mediocre at best (often garbage). Maybe someday he and his record companies will realize just because he has written it, doesn't mean it needs to be recorded and released for public consumption (or torture).
I found that out the hard way--Two song CD.
Posted 20 years ago by mig7    [ Reply ]
rascal420 wrote:
"Cuts like a knife" for me please
Isn't that Bryan Adams?
Posted 20 years ago by Gregorama    [ Reply ]
snarf wrote:
I'd love to hear "Summer of '69" please.
"Cuts like a knife" for me please
Posted 20 years ago by rascal420    [ Reply ]
MTL_Robbie wrote:
The only song I can stomach from this guy...
OK, I won't buy the CD, but I do like the song!
Posted 20 years ago by rulebritannia    [ Reply ]
yeah. definitely diggin this. didnt know Ryan Adams had it in him, truthfully.
Posted 20 years ago by Platypus    [ Reply ]
Best friggin' song I've heard in a while....so eat me.
Posted 20 years ago by Geed    [ Reply ]
The only song I can stomach from this guy...
Posted 20 years ago by MTL_Robbie    [ Reply ]
snarf wrote:
I'd love to hear "Summer of '69" please.
LOL
Posted 20 years ago by zeus    [ Reply ]
Curiously, I have found that for every listenable (sometimes brilliant)song Adams releases he records several that are mediocre at best (often garbage). Maybe someday he and his record companies will realize just because he has written it, doesn't mean it needs to be recorded and released for public consumption (or torture).
Posted 20 years ago by camden_hampden    [ Reply ]
I like it :D
Posted 20 years ago by DownHomeGirl    [ Reply ]
every time i hear this new ryan adams album i wish i was listening to whiskeytown instead. :(
Posted 20 years ago by rah    [ Reply ]
Just what I always wanted to hear early in the morning.....crappy music.
Posted 20 years ago by ndanger666    [ Reply ]
agoston wrote:
I'd love to hear "1974". Thanks.
I'd love to hear "Summer of '69" please.
Posted 20 years ago by snarf    [ Reply ]
I'd love to hear "1974". Thanks.
Posted 20 years ago by agoston    [ Reply ]