― Emily Bjurnhjam, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
ain't no stopping it now!
― gershy, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 04:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i pity the fool
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 18 February 2008 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
The truth is out there
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 18 February 2008 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
whatchew talking bout willis
― latebloomer, Monday, 18 February 2008 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
There should be a poll on how many ilxors bought a Big & Rich album because of ilx. And what they thought of it.
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 18 February 2008 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
also the last time they listened to it
― m coleman, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7572040.stm
Daughter slams Cash 'endorsement'The daughter of late country star Johnny Cash has called the use of her father's name to endorse a US presidential candidate "appalling".Country star John Rich[ implied Mr Cash would have backed Republican hopeful John McCain while appearing at a rally in Florida, according to media reports.Writing on her website, Roseanne Cash called the remarks "presumptuous"."Even I would not presume to say publicly what I 'know' he thought or felt," she added.According to the Washington Post, Mr Rich, a member of the duo Big and Rich, told a crowd of supporters in Florida: "Somebody's got to walk the line in the country.""They've got to walk it unapologetically. And I'm sure Johnny Cash would have been a John McCain supporter if he was still around."The star then went on to sing Cash's hit, I Walk the Line.Ms Cash, who is also a singer-songwriter, requested that in future: "My father not be co-opted in this election for either side, since he is clearly not here to defend or state his own allegiance.""I knew my father pretty well, at least better than some of those who entitle themselves to his legacy and his supposed ideals," she added.Grammy-award winner Cash sold over 90 million records and had hits with Folsom Prison Blues, Ring of Fire and Man in Black. He died in 2003, aged 71.
The daughter of late country star Johnny Cash has called the use of her father's name to endorse a US presidential candidate "appalling".
Country star John Rich[ implied Mr Cash would have backed Republican hopeful John McCain while appearing at a rally in Florida, according to media reports.
Writing on her website, Roseanne Cash called the remarks "presumptuous".
"Even I would not presume to say publicly what I 'know' he thought or felt," she added.
According to the Washington Post, Mr Rich, a member of the duo Big and Rich, told a crowd of supporters in Florida: "Somebody's got to walk the line in the country."
"They've got to walk it unapologetically. And I'm sure Johnny Cash would have been a John McCain supporter if he was still around."
The star then went on to sing Cash's hit, I Walk the Line.
Ms Cash, who is also a singer-songwriter, requested that in future: "My father not be co-opted in this election for either side, since he is clearly not here to defend or state his own allegiance."
"I knew my father pretty well, at least better than some of those who entitle themselves to his legacy and his supposed ideals," she added.
Grammy-award winner Cash sold over 90 million records and had hits with Folsom Prison Blues, Ring of Fire and Man in Black. He died in 2003, aged 71.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I am really at a loss as to why there was universal praise on ilm for such a self-evidently atrocious piece of music as "save a horse (ride a cowboy)".
― Freedom, Friday, 22 August 2008 03:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Why make the past your sacred cow? I guess you've changed, you've changed and how Yeah, yeah, yeah Fruit's grown rotten on the bough Reap what you sow, with a counterfeit plough Yeah, yeah, yeah
That was then but this is now
More sacrifices than an Aztec priest Standing here straining at that leash All fall down Can't complain, musn't grumble Help yourself to another peace of apple crumble And consequently: Hearts of oak are charged and blistered Russians should be baby-sitted Americans enlisted
That was then but this is now That was then but this is now That was then but this is now
― velko, Friday, 22 August 2008 03:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Poetry.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 22 August 2008 03:16 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Freedom, Friday, August 22, 2008 3:08 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
hello and welcome to ilm
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 22 August 2008 03:46 (fifteen years ago) link
big and rich is like the snakes on a plane of the music critic community
― omar little, Friday, 22 August 2008 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link
"Save a Plane (Ride a Snake)"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 August 2008 04:15 (fifteen years ago) link
A challop for America
― J0rdan S., Friday, 22 August 2008 04:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Just for the title of the piece.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 January 2009 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
anthony on B&R
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/07/what-save-a-horse-ride-a-cowboy-did-to-country-music/260300/#
― scott seward, Friday, 27 July 2012 03:17 (eleven years ago) link
Nice!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 July 2012 04:56 (eleven years ago) link
I read the title and was shocked the article wasn't just "Nothing."
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 27 July 2012 05:00 (eleven years ago) link
i instapapered this
Great read.
― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Friday, 27 July 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
good piece.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 27 July 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
this thread is the clearest instance of ILX totally fucking me over.i remember sitting there, 5 tracks into the big & rich cd i had just purchased, shaking my head, reading the thread again. checking the date, no...not april 1, wtf
― you're all going to hello (Z S), Friday, 27 July 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
“Save a Horse” was meant to launch a new hybrid genre—”the South shall rock again,” wrote one critic in a review of the album that spawned the song.
no djp but I literally just spent 5 minutes trying to google the Big & Rich song "The South Shall Rock Again" inspired by Dom Passatino's Stylus review
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:08 (eleven years ago) link
enjoyed that piece
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
The second best moment in MM was when almost half the audience started singing "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)."
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
Still makes me lol that so many of you bought the cd and had the same reaction z s did
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
the whole phenomenon of ilxors who don't listen to country checking out a country album, recommended highly by posters who listen to a ton of country, and acting like they were punk'd is just weird
article kind of conveniently ignores that Big & Rich currently have their biggest country radio hit in years (a very un-"Save A Horse"-like song called "That's Why I Pray")
― Nutri Grane (some dude), Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
no point recommending Dierks Bentley and Eric Church to ilxors :(
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
i was swept up in save-a-horse-mania back in 04, but i actually liked the album and started listening to more country because of it. owned!!!
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
tl;ip
― skrill xx (cozen), Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
xxpost -- my sweetie (the country fanatic) is all about Dierks but is kinda pissed with Church because she likes everything about "Springsteen" except, well, the title, in that she hates Bruce. (Which I'm all good with, as has been previously established).
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
maybe he coulda called it "Bruce" like the Rick Springfield song.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 July 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
If only.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 29 July 2012 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
"Springsteen" is so good, maybe in my top 10 for the year. can't really get w/ Church's other stuff, though.
it occurs to me that Horse Of A Different Color came out in 2004, a year or two before YouTube hit big and way before Spotify etc., so i guess that was kind of one of the last bastions of the "I heard this was good so i bought the CD and wtf!!!!" blind purchasing era.
― Nutri Grane (some dude), Sunday, 29 July 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
so far "Springsteen" is probably my single of the year.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 July 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
"Malmsteen"
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 July 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
"Springsteen" is my single of the year too. I like the album but it's still working its way with me.
― Euler, Sunday, 29 July 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
It's funny in that I was hearing it on every radio station in my old town, but I moved last month & here suddenly the stations are mostly rock stations! I think we have one country station. (moved from great plains to midwest) This is maybe the only downside in getting the f outta Dodge-ish.
― Euler, Sunday, 29 July 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
springsteen is catchy as hell but i wish there was a reference to making out to "secret garden" just to reaffirm this dude was not a teen in the 80s
― da croupier, Sunday, 29 July 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
though that his video's americana is full of double-car garages is an honest update of the cliche
― da croupier, Sunday, 29 July 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
point out to me the teens making out to "Secret Garden."
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 July 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
no you perv
― da croupier, Sunday, 29 July 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
I'm trying to remember whether Jerry Maguire was popular enough to drag a halfwitted Springsteen outtake into the top twenty or if the tune had a fan base already.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 July 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
jerry maguire totally carried 'secret garden' - there was a radio version w/ lines from the movie patched in. happened w/ 'my heart will go on' and then reached it's zenith when radio would just play bits of the titanic score w/ kate winslet gasping 'jack! jack!' over it. actually kinda miss it, would really love it if some radio station would patch in bane quotes onto 'wide awake' or whatever.
― balls, Sunday, 29 July 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
here it is! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAo7AK5aTBY&feature=related
also totally didn't realise until now he sings 'she'll let you in her mouth/if the words you say are right'. not as horrifying as realizing marty balin sings 'i got a taste of the world/when i went down on you girl' in 'miracles' but still a bit uh.
― balls, Sunday, 29 July 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
No Big & Rich inaugural poem. ;_;
― to each his own but (Eazy), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:42 (eleven years ago) link
is this stupid album still giving y'all chills?
― Cory Sklar, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
is this stupid album still worth hearing for the first time a decade later? (i only vaguely remember the "ride a cowboy" song if that's on there)
― soyrev, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link