Metalheads Respond to Pistol Annies

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.

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

― the late great, Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So glad you no longer have to put up with a few critics with different taste than you. It must have been hell for you feeble minded fucks coming on this message board and being FORCED to buy Big'n'Rich CDs by Eddy & Kogan or whoever.

lol u mad doggy

must be hell for you to put up w feebs like me

http://www.pistolannies.com/henhouse/

so Neil Young mentions driving down country roads listening to this album on Rhapsody. He loves it ("Those girls can sing!").

Nice!

for tradition's sake, not because i am a metalhead or the following comment has anything to do with pistol annies, but i'm gonna revive to say one thing:

eric church is boring (not talentless, just BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNGGGGGG)

that's all, carry on

ha -- Eric Church's Chief is my top 2011 recurrent. I thought I didn't give a shit abut Mellencamp/Stones gee-tar raunch in 2011 until "Drink in My hand" came along.

Just like Pistol Annies, I don't begrudge anyone their preferences, but if Eric Church were a store, I would not shop there. For anything.

I would shop there to buy presents for Alfred.

then we'd get a beer.

yep. Sounds like a plan next time I'm in South Florida.

ll otm

Eric Church is good times

I am deeply amazed that I have lived to see the day when ILX is repping for Eric Church tbh.

I remember kind of liking the song 'Homeboy' bcz of the lead guitar in it, and then gr80 posted it in the 'is this racist?' and I just went u_u

I suppose "Homebody" codes racist because the narrator is saddened -- that's key, I think, cuz Church sings it without anger -- by what his boy has become, but tonally it's more complex.

*Homeboy

Ha that was not the reading that song received in that thread

oh yes I know

New album available for pre order on itunes.

For the time being, I'm imagining that "Annie Up" is a nod to The Slits.

"Workin' Man" on the new album is almost definitely their most metal song fwiw (though not nearly the record's best track -- in fact, I'm not even sure I like it much.)