I'm a big Ryan Adams fan, and "Sweet Illusions" is one of my favorite songs of his. This, however, will teach me to do random searches for his videos:
Level with me: how prevalent is this kind of shit? I usually only check out YouTube for clips from sporting events and Martika Slayer videos, and I don't want to stumble across a montage of Lara Croft and Aya Brea from Parasite Eve set to Warren Zevon's "Mr. Bad Example."
My sense of old man's righteous indignation might not be able to take it.
EDIT: Addressing Scott's comments, I have as much reason to loathe Adams as anybody. I attended a Whiskeytown concert with The Brother-In-Law here in Houston in the late 90s, and it was excruciating. Adams was - shockingly - drunk as a lemur, and he finally tired of insulting the audience and flipping us off and decided to lay down and play feedback on his guitar for 20 minutes.
But he seems a lot more contrite in interviews these days, so I'm willing to cut him some slack. Is he still an asshole? Probably, but in the words of Major Grant, he seems more like my kind of asshole.
I’m willing to give him another shot. The boy’s talented. It just seemed like he was thinking he’s the last best hope to save Music. A smidgen of mature humility might have fixed that.
Dude.
Don’t look for Jonathan Coulton videos. At least half of those are World of Warcraft montages.
Kinda puts the needle to the overly puffed-up Adams. That’s just my humble opinion…digustubus non disputandum, and all.
I think the video form is pretty popular. You can thank Apple, I think.