Cold Roses

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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Metacritic(69/100) [1]
Review scores
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Drowned in Sound(8/10) [3]
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NME(7/10) [6]
Pitchfork Media(7.2/10) [7]
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Robert Christgau(1-star Honorable Mention)[9]
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Cold Roses is the sixth studio album by alt-country singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, released on May 3, 2005 on Lost Highway. The album is his first with backing band The Cardinals, and the first of three albums released in 2005.

Cold Roses has sold 159,000 copies in the United States.[11]

Although all the tracks can fit on a standard 80-minute disc, it was released as a double album with packaging and CDs designed to make it look like a vinyl LP. The album was also released in a standard 2-disc jewel case.

Background

While performing in Liverpool in January 2004, Adams broke his left wrist when he slipped off the stage and fell six feet into the orchestra pit below.[12] A painful recovery and rehab period followed over the next several months, as Adams relocated to his hometown of Jacksonville, North Carolina, and slowly relearned how to play guitar. "There would be tears streaming down my face as I struggled to play Black Sabbath songs,” he later said.[13] During this difficult time, Adams was inspired by Jerry Garcia's playing because "he wasn’t afraid to fuck up".[14] This fascination with The Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan pointed Adams in a new musical direction, and his next band - christened The Cardinals - was conceived as a loose, spacious musical collective.[15]

Writing and composition

In 2011, Adams claimed that "How Do You Keep Love Alive" was written while he was high on opium: "I fully understand when people say Edgar Allan Poe used to smoke this stuff and have visions. I wrote the entire song "How Do You Keep Love Alive" without writing a word down, and I played it on piano. And I've tried to understand the chord pattern ever since, because I can't fuckin' play it."[16]

Reception

The album so far has a score of 69 out of 100 from Metacritic based on "generally favorable reviews".[1] USA Today gave it three-and-a-half stars out of four and said, "What makes this hard-to-pigeonhole country/folk/ punk/pop-rocker remarkable is the quality of the quantity. There's not a bad song in Cold Roses' 18-track bouquet, and at least 13 are worth instant iPod enshrining."[17] The Guardian gave it a score of four stars out of five and said of Ryan Adams: "The boy wonder is back in the saddle."[18] Chicago Tribune gave it a favorable review and called it "Adams' most ambitious effort to date."[19] The A.V. Club gave it a favorable review and said it "feels fantastic--as pretty and affecting as a slow sunset."[20] Spin gave it a score of seven out of ten and said, "There's an air of formal exercise here.... But if you can ride with the cliches, you won't fault the execution."[21] E! Online gave it a B− and said, "Even if it is twice as long as it needs to be (thus, a couple of dead spots), we're not arguing. We're just enjoying the music."[1]

Some reviews are average or mixed: The Austin Chronicle gave it a score of three stars out of five and called it "Adams' double-album hubris".[22] Neumu.net gave it a score of six stars out of ten and called it "a relaxed and ambitious collection that confirms Ryan Adams' reputation as a top-notch singer and songwriter who easily jumps styles and evokes comfortable sadness with every turn."[23] Tiny Mix Tapes gave it a score of three stars out of five and called it an "18-track monster".[24] Paste also gave it a score of three stars out of five and said it "comes as a bit of relief, bereft of the posturing that so often attends Adams’ work.... That said, there’s also a sense of retreat that permeates the record, a willingness to offer the comforts of familiar tones instead of ambitiously taking chances."[25] Playlouder gave it a score of two-and-a-half stars out of five and called it "A frustratingly self indulgent and inconsistent double album that pitches itself somewhere between the classic country rock of 2001's 'Gold' and the lovelorn despair of 2004's 'Love Is Hell'."[26] Flak Magazine gave it a mixed review and said, "Without the first disc, the double disc Cold Roses wouldn't be half bad."[27]

Track listing

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Performers

Charts

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Belgian Alternative Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[28] 20
Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[29] 40
Dutch Alternative Albums (Alternative Top 30)[30] 2
Irish Albums (IRMA)[31] 16

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  1. ^ a b c d Critic reviews at Metacritic
  2. ^ Allmusic review
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Drowned in Sound review". Archived from the original on October 1, 2015. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
  4. ^ Entertainment Weekly review
  5. ^ The Music Box review
  6. ^ NME review
  7. ^ Pitchfork Media review
  8. ^ PopMatters review
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Christgau, Robert. "CG: Ryan Adams & the Cardinals". Robert Christgau. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
  10. ^ Rolling Stone review
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hasty, Katie (June 3, 2007). "Busy and bored, Adams tames "Tiger"". Reuters/Billboard. Archived from the original on January 6, 2007. Retrieved June 4, 2007. "Cold Roses," has sold 159,000 copies in the United States
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  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mehr, Bob (September 7, 2014). "At Home, Kinda, With Ryan Adams". BuzzFeed. Retrieved June 7, 2015.
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  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Simpson, Dave (September 22, 2011). "Ryan Adams: 'Things got broken and I couldn't fix them'". The Guardian. London.
  17. ^ USA Today review via alt-country.org
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."CD: Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Cold Roses". The Guardian. April 29, 2005. Archived from the original on July 10, 2018.
  19. ^ Chicago Tribune review
  20. ^ The A.V. Club review
  21. ^ Spin review
  22. ^ The Austin Chronicle review
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  25. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Leven, Jeff (June 3, 2005). "Ryan Adams & The Cardinals (Cold Roses) :: Music :: Reviews". Paste. Archived from the original on January 7, 2006. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
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  27. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Flak Magazine review". Archived from the original on June 24, 2005. Retrieved May 1, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  28. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Alternatieve Albums" (in Nederlands). Ultratop. May 21, 2005. Retrieved February 16, 2026.
  29. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Williams, John (May 11, 2005). "NIN's 'Teeth' bites into Cdn. charts". Jam!. Retrieved December 28, 2025.[dead link]
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  31. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Irish Charts". Irish-charts.com. Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved November 22, 2009.

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