The Suicide Handbook

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The Suicide Handbook is one of many unreleased music LPs by Ryan Adams.

[edit] Overview

The Suicide Handbook was recorded at Javelina Studios in Nashville, Tennessee sometime in early 2001 (possibly January) soon before Adams' album Gold was recorded.

It is a subdued acoustic record similar to Heartbreaker, but in contrast to Gold's higher level of production and more complex musical arrangements. Like Heartbreaker, it has a sad, sentimenal tone concerning the breakup of an intimate relationship (while "Idiots Rule the World" would give political overtones to anybody who hadn't heard the song, Ryan has claimed on live bootlegs that "it's about not being able to score chicks").

Suicide Handbook is traded amongst bootleg collectors. It contains audible pops and other audio infidelities that are the result of the original audio transfer from the master recording.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Wild Flowers" (alternate version included on Gold)
  2. "Perfect and True"
  3. "Tell It to My Heart"
  4. "She Wants to Play Hearts" (included on Demolition)
  5. "Pretenders"
  6. "Famous Eyes"
  7. "Touch, Feel & Lose" (alternate version included on Gold)
  8. "Firecracker" (alternate version included on Gold)
  9. "La Cienega Just Smiled" (alternate version included on Gold)
  10. "For No One"
  11. "You Don't Know Me"
  12. "Bow to the Sad Lady"
  13. "Off Broadway"
  14. "Cracks in a Photograph"
  15. "I'm Waiting"
  16. "Cry on Demand" (included on Demolition)
  17. "Miss Sunflower"
  18. "Just Saying Hi" (alternate version included on Gold, known as "Answering Bell")
  19. "My California Love"
  20. "Idiots Rule the World"
  21. "Dear Chicago" (included on Demolition)

[edit] Personnel

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