I saw Bryan Adams last night with my parents and some old family friends. He's been a guilty pleasure for many many years, I grew up listening a lot to Waking Up the Neighbours (know that album back to front), Reckless too. They were great. He played WAY too many slow ballads (four acoustic) that could only possibly be enjoyable for mega fans, and closed the show with two acoustic songs, which was a major bummer. I would really have liked more upbeat rockers, a ton of tracks from Waking Up the Neighbours that I really would have appreciated as that's when he's at his best, just playing shameless upbeat rock/pop love power ballads. But the highlights were great fun, even though yes he's hardly a beacon of artistry. One Night Love Affair, Can't Stop This Thing We Started, Run to You (great start to the concert), Heaven, It's Only Love, Summer of 69, Only Thing That Looks Good on Me is You, Cuts Like a Knife. He also played new songs, some of which were quite shit, but there was a song called Brand New Day (which came out in 2015 off his latest new album) and it's the perfect example of what artists of his vintage should do if they're gonna put out new music - upbeat pop/rockers that fit your sound without challenging it too much, and that seem pretty effortless. U2 could learn a lot from it. It was a great song.
The dude has played at least 40 shows a year every year this millennium, by the way. Whatever you think of him that's pretty impressive and good fan service.
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. It's the only thing by Adams I'll refer to as a guilty pleasure. Otherwise, I think he's fucking great.
I've got that too. It's a belter. His voice is so suited to the music. Plenty of other artists have done it without making it as addictive because their voices don't strain to the music like Bryan's does.
