you're welcome!
This needs its own thread
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 November 2019 02:59 (four years ago) link
it's a really gentle production for such a sad song and more texturally interesting than it lets on at first
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 7 November 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
"Track Record," another chapter in the "Kerosene/Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" book, gets me with its jangly guitars -- it's those songs played by Tom Petty.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 November 2019 03:05 (four years ago) link
i really like the opening & closing clusters of songs on Wildcard.
― quinn morgendorffer stan account (morrisp), Thursday, 7 November 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
"Dark Bars," yes; "White Trash" meh.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 November 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
I like "White Trash!" (I see Luke Dick and Natalie Hembie both wrote on it... to circle back to my posts here)
― quinn morgendorffer stan account (morrisp), Thursday, 7 November 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
(I should mention that "Man, I Feel Like a Woman" is in my all-time top-10 -- so big, unabashedly corny country-pop songs are right up my avenue.)
― quinn morgendorffer stan account (morrisp), Thursday, 7 November 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
Dick & Hemby also wrote on the excellent "Highway Vagabond," track 2 on The Weight of These Wings (to hew to the thread topic)
― quinn morgendorffer stan account (morrisp), Thursday, 7 November 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link
I whittled this down to a 10 song playlist and it’s perfect
― Heez, Thursday, 7 November 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link
finally getting around to this
man, the guitar tones on "mess with my head"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 00:30 (four years ago) link
(i only caught maybe two of the singles so most of this is new to me)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
Well, good. You can decide whether "Locomotive" and "Bluebird" and "Settling Down" are as good as I think.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 November 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
"locomotive" and "bluebird" are amazing ("bluebird" was one of the ones i'd heard)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
oh so was "locomotive" actually but it grew on me heavily, generally i'll listen to her sing over any overdriven wall of guitars
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
c/o the Rosanna Cash thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihyHTKqBU5Q
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 November 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link
basically love every song on this except for "way too pretty for prison" which could've spent a little more time in the song incubator
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
as an album it's a little all over the place and weirdly-paced like platinum and revolution, which are two excellent albums so i'm not exactly complaining
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link
she's the goat
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
Best of the decade.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 November 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
Way to pretty for prison surprised me - it’s markedly inferior to Stripes by Brandy Clark.
― that's not my post, Friday, 8 November 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
It's on par with Goodbye Earl.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 November 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
“Pretty Bitchin’” is such an awesome personal anthem.
― quinn morgendorffer stan account (morrisp), Friday, 8 November 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
listened this morning. first impression: seems to get better in the second half. some of the uptempo or rockier ones were misses but the ballads were uniformly good, some truly great
― flopson, Friday, 8 November 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
I was not expecting "Track Record" to sound like New Order!
― L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 9 November 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
Closer to Tom Petty to my ears (and "Mess With My Head"!).
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 November 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
re "Dark Bars" this seems right
― J0rdan S., Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:01 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
what strikes me in particular is the restraint of her singing. Compare it with "Over You", for instance, where she sings "you went away" big & loud to express her loss. "Dark Bars" communicates in subtler ways, through her twangs, through her enunciation of words with the letter "r" throughout (in "bars", "lifeguard", "hearts", "hard"): soft, almost mushy? but broken? it's mesmerizing me.
― L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 9 November 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
What fascinates me about her evolution is how she saves the sentimentality for the rockers while her ballads are getting more fatalistic and in some cases terrifying -- her vocal choices, that is.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 November 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
I'll have to give this another listen, because on my first try it sounded just OK but nothing particularly special (at least not the way "The Weight of These Wings" popped out at me).
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 9 November 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
yes her vocal choices are fascinating. just listening to "Track Record" and "Dark Bars" over and over and over again.
"Dark Bars" is a Liz Rose co-write, I just learned.
― L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 9 November 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
as is "Track Record"
― L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 9 November 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
the little documentary on apple music about this album is not incredibly insightful but it does have some good video
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 9 November 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
I don't have the gene that lets me enjoy some of the shtickier upbeat songs but the closing stretch is killer
― Simon H., Saturday, 9 November 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
Finally listening to this now. If I could make one plea to the gods of modern pop country it would be this: please make the guitar solos sound more like James Burton (or at least Eddy Shaver) and less like CC Deville. Brad Paisley is probably the only guy from this generation of country stars who understands the role guitar should play in this music. Half of the (admittedly unnecessary) solo breaks here sound like Dial MTV circa 1988.
I like "White Trash," "It All Comes Out In The Wash," and "Track Record," but some of these songs sound like cuts Pat Benatar would have given the gas face, and I don't remember thinking that about any of her previous albums.
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 18 November 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
The Bon Jovification of so much contemporary country doesn't always leave a lot of room for chicken-pickin' and guitar twang.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 November 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
hmm, you make a point there
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 18 November 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
I like most of the solos *shrug*. I've heard worse on Eric Church's The Outsiders.
I take your point about Paisley, though. And Jason Isbell does fine work on The Highwomen album.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 November 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
not important question: why does she cut out the two utterances of the word "pretty" in the last verse? just for fun? or am i missing a reference or a joke?
― alpine static, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
Of "Pretty Bitchin'"? I assume just cuz it sounds cool?
― paris geller spinoff pitch (morrisp), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
yeah, sorry i forgot the song title
sounds cool, just seems weird! but i guess identifying that kind of thing is what makes her Miranda Lambert
― alpine static, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 23:42 (four years ago) link
this woman is an all-time genius
― alpine static, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
What a wonderful album this is.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 17 January 2021 00:21 (three years ago) link
Yup, very much so.
― that's not my post, Sunday, 17 January 2021 02:22 (three years ago) link
Pink Sunglasses one of my alltime favorite songs now & yeah the whole album is terrific.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 January 2021 04:21 (three years ago) link
new song is incredible
― J0rdan S., Friday, 5 March 2021 05:57 (three years ago) link
meanwhile “bluebird” has basically become one of her biggest songs ever... she’s not going away, and the industry hasn’t left her behind. i never get tired of hearing it either, it’s pretty close to a perfect song. “i turn pages all the time / don’t like where i’m at, 34 was bad / so i just turned to 35” ... been thinking about this one a lot lately i will also ride hard for wildcard ... it’s kinda self evidently inferior to its two predecessors but completely stands on its own two feet to me. i still play it all the time ... “tequila does” is my favorite song ever written
― J0rdan S., Friday, 5 March 2021 07:09 (three years ago) link
pretty beautiful, this new song. intrigued about the album.
i never got around to giving wildcard a spin but i def should. honestly, might as well revisit the weight of these wings lol
she put out a song w/ elle king recently, i wasn't feeling it much but maybe it'll grow on me as/if i hear it more
― dyl, Friday, 5 March 2021 07:27 (three years ago) link
wait, what's the new song??
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 March 2021 10:31 (three years ago) link
https://images.app.goo.gl/Gp3QijuBjwrjTwyt8
Announcing The Marfa TapesA project by Jack Ingram, Jon Randall and me. Recorded in Marfa, TX. They’re raw. You can hear the wind blowing, the cows mooing... We wanted you to feel like you were right there with us, sitting around the campfire, escaping the world, disappearing into the music. The first song “In His Arms” is out now. Full album arrives May 7th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUrukGC8TQA
― Indexed, Friday, 5 March 2021 14:12 (three years ago) link
These three wrote "Tin Man" together, btw
― Indexed, Friday, 5 March 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
i whittled wildcard down to ten songs and i listen to it all the time. a very underrated album
― Heez, Friday, 5 March 2021 14:31 (three years ago) link