Metalheads Respond to Pistol Annies

eternal annies

dreamboat annies

the long-awaited collabo between doug boatgorilla and miranda lambert.

please lex and co have a listen to the youtubes on george's thread when you have a chance. I'd love to see what you think.

top 10 along with uncle acid!

gonna listen to the actual pistol annies album brb

this is ok i guess, kinda rootsy for modern country

i don't think the songs are that great

the jessica lea mayfield record from this year is way better than this

^^^

the new McGraw record might be better than this.

really? because i've definitely tried to get into McGraw before and thought it was mostly awful.

He can be maudlin but he's singing better than ever. He's got a duet with Ne-Yo!

I like this one – a guy's take on "Famous in a Small Town."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfZW3xZ8O0Q

I don't really think this record is overproduced or too glossy. It basically sounds like a real band playing with real people singing. So it's pretty traditional in that sense.

I've also been trying to puzzle out the significance of the opening track. I guess it's not too uncommon in genres where role-playing is more accepted, such as hip-hop, to have a track bragging about wealth, success, and status lay comfortably alongside tracks about a hardscrabble struggle for survival.

they're not really bragging about wealth/success/status on the opening track; they're bragging about preying on those who have it as a fantasy solution to the problem of hardscrabble survival.

the songs aren't that great

i got into country in the 90s quite a bit, some kinda low level mainstream-ish dudes were pretty good, like gary allen, charlie robeson (i saw once live) and chris knight, they seemed to go for this kinda thing, like a first album steve earle thing, but better than this

Not sure Chris Knight and Gary Allen (not to mention Earle) sound at all like Pistol Annies tbh.

no they don't but they kinda have the same vibe of being kinda "old school" or rootsy but felt like they were trying to be a commercial nashville thing and not fit into the No Depression thing, is what i meant

I've a buddy who pretty much only listens to Dwight Yoakam among country artists. And I love Yoakam -- especially his early nineties period! But you (not you specifically) can't dismiss Lee Ann Womack for not sounding like Yoakam.

btw if you want a good hard rockin' country dude, try Eric Church!

i wanted to, but that "homeboy" song kinda turned me off

lol country music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP2MKYGggd8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R03Xakd91Xw

Can't stand Eric Church. I haven't listened to those youtubes, but the album of his that I heard - Sinners Like Me - was really strident.

Current country dudes I've heard that I can deal with, part or most of the time:

Jason Aldean
Josh Turner
Rodney Atkins (part of the time)
Brad Paisley (guitar solos and maybe 1/4 of his songs)
Charlie Robison (probably my favorite of these, but I've only heard Good Times)

jessica lea mayfield?? i don't see the comparison..

i don't know what it is about tim mcgraw but hearing his music almost always triggers some hyperspecific childhood memory of boredom.. like having bubblegum-flavored fluoride trays wedged tightly into my mouth and a suction hose droning dryly away as i stare up at the speckles on the ceiling of my pediatric dentist's office

Jason Aldean has highs and lowws but I really really love Amarillo Sky

I like the most recent Justin Townes Earle album - not sure how mainstream of country that is.

I liked metal more (and more metal) than country last year, but this was my Nashville Scene ballot; i.e., the country I liked most:

Rolling Country 2012

Ha xhuxk, Sunny Sweeney's "From a Table Away" was top 3 in my singles ballot this year

I voted for that single in Pazz & Jop in 2010. Liked the album okay, but thought it was really spotty -- especially its second half.

yeah I agree about the album; best songs were the first three for sure

An entire thread and no mention of the way Lambert sings "shit" in "Trailer For Rent" like she's savoring every last drop?

Anyway I agree w/ Alfred; a slight album that was far and away my favorite thing to listen to last year. Much better than Lambert's solo output, give or take a "Dear Diamond" (which would fit in beautifully as PA track) or some of the ones she didn't write.

lol country music

― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Thursday, February 2, 2012 5:58 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

proud of this comment, bigot?

Honestly though I'm pretty used to ilm championing one or two shitty new popular country records a year by now

RIP those one sub brooks and dunn dickheads who had the cowboy rapper

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:05 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I figure that would be Big & Rich and they own Yob or whatever.

hey now

let's hear them write a song as good as Wild West Show.

I'm a metal fan btw, but a slightly bigger country fan.

Popping pills is great!
i like the album.
i made a spotify playlist of like 95% of the music on the ballots from the Rolling Country 2012 thread:
http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/33rxzh6aMbjrRBuiUyuWoO
I'm exploring

nice playlist

that would be Big & Rich and they own Yob
let's hear them write a song as good as Wild West Show.

Yeah, honestly -- I listen to tons of metal, and most of my favorite albums last year were metal albums, but call me when a metal band makes an album as good as Horse Of A Different Color. It's been what, a quarter century now since any have?

Plz text me your number so I can call you thousands of times also plz text me a time machine.

horseshit. PA = Great!

last undeniably great metal record? um AFD, maybe? oh, wait, that's just hard rock now, right? never mind then.

Horseshit, PA? I thought that was Taylor Swift's hometown.

if you think there's been no great metal albums in the past 25 years then you're nuts

i. am. nuts.

glad we cleared that up.

http://www.pistolannies.com/news/pistol-annies-celebrate-record-store-day-vinyl-rel/

Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, a.k.a. the Pistol Annies, will commemorate Record Store Day with the vinyl release of their critically acclaimed album, Hell On Heels. Released in August of last year, the album has already yielded a Gold single with the title track.

In addition, there’s a widget available at http://www.tweematic.com/pistolannies/ that features an animated record player where fans can listen to the album with the “fuzz and crackle” feel of a well-loved and worn vinyl record. By sharing the widget, fans are automatically registered to win an autographed copy of the album and a Sony USB Stereo Turntable to play it on. Fans can find a list of participating independent record stores on the site as well.

“The music of the Pistol Annies is the three of us truly being ourselves—not only in our songwriting and storytelling, but also in the way we perform as a team. We wanted to make music that people talk about but might not want to admit and it’s the kind of raw and honest country music that deserves to be on vinyl,” said Miranda.

The trio was born during a songwriting session with Lambert, a.k.a. “Lonestar Annie” and Monroe, a.k.a “Hipppie Annie.” While writing and sharing stories, Monroe decided that Lambert and Presley, a.k.a “Holler Annie,” needed to meet, and a midnight phone call with the three of them launched the group. The three of them wrote and co-wrote every song on the album and were joined by Pistol Andy, a.k.a Blake Shelton, on the song “Family Feud.”

Honestly though I'm pretty used to ilm championing one or two shitty new popular country records a year by now

RIP those one sub brooks and dunn dickheads who had the cowboy rapper

truth bomb re: ILM of a several years ago

but this seems to have gradually disappeared w/ the village voice crew

thanks for the reminder

In addition, there’s a widget available at http://www.tweematic.com/pistolannies/ that features an animated record player where fans can listen to the album with the “fuzz and crackle” feel of a well-loved and worn vinyl record.

Beginning to really hate this kinda shit.