They are discussing Rock n roll, that album had a lot of bad reviews, and was made as his record company refused to put out his album Love is hell,I think he referred to them saying it was career suicide, but actually if anything RnR did more to damage his reputation, whilst the later release of Love is Hell, was widely regarded as his best work, receiving a 9 out of 10 from the fickle NME.
RA: It only took two weeks to make, but I swear to God, I've been preparing to make it for five or six years. My first record, Heartbreaker [2000], was a studied folk-traditionalist record in a lot of ways, even though the things I was singing about were instinctive; and with the next one, Gold [2001], I wanted to make a classic-rock record like the ones they used to play on CBS-FM [a classic-rock radio station in New York City], but only if every cool classic-rock song that came on CBS-FM happened to be written and performed by me. [laughs] But Rock N Roll is unadulterated--it's the way I play guitar live. It's the exact sound I always use when I make the demonstration recordings for my records. The other albums are concept records a little bit, but I wasn't trying to reference anything here.
PP: Well, I think this one is a concept album too. It's a natural progression for you as a songwriter--this is the album where the language is all coming together.
RA: That's what Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera say when they make new records. They go, "This record is like my old record, but definitely more me." Then you go, "Yeah, but you didn't write any of the songs on your record." [both laugh] They go, "I took more time picking these songs out" or "1 interviewed songwriters a lot longer this time before I chose which songs to cover on my record."
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