"The Righteous Path" is my favorite post-2003 Hood song.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 June 2013 13:03 (ten years ago) link
I'd agree with that one.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 June 2013 13:23 (ten years ago) link
Used to be a Cop is mine
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 June 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link
Those are 2 of them fer sure. I'd throw in That Man I Shot, too.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 14 June 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
I like Shonna's songs on BTCD a lot, especially "The Purgatory Line," though I seem to be alone in this.
― Simon H., Friday, 14 June 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
i like her stuff on the album fine, and in some ways prefer her presence on an album to isbell's. less meaty songwriter, but more genuinely a change-of-pace
― da croupier, Friday, 14 June 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
Ewwww. I am not a fan. Though her songs did get progressively better as they went along.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 14 June 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
I like her stuff just fine. Like SRO, and to an extent any long, double album, sometimes a change of pace/voice is all you need, quality be damned. And a song like "Purgatory Line" is lovely, much better than "Home Field Advantage."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 June 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link
I've liked all of her songs. Her voice has a nice old-timey quality to it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 June 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
I'd say those results are fairly predictable, but GGB was robbed (and who the hell voted for Gangstabilly??)
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
SRO was one of my absolute favorite albums at the time it came out and for a few years after. I kept going back to the well and being so disappointed by their later albums. Haven't heard anything after Brighter Than Creation's Dark. "Women Without Whiskey" for life.
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
Women Without Whiskey owns
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
Stereogum ranks'em. Pleased to see BTCD so high.
http://www.stereogum.com/1422101/drive-by-truckers-albums-from-worst-to-best/list/attachment/brighter-than-creations-dark/
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 August 2013 00:21 (ten years ago) link
I saw that, and would have reversed the order of their top 3: SRO>>BTCD>>DD. Decoration Day is obviously a good album, but it sometimes seems to me very much in line with other breakthrough albums with better distro and bigger labels/promotion that people rank high because it's the first thing they heard from the band.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 August 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
How's tahe new album, "Alabama Ass Whoopin"? What're the high points?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 9 September 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link
it's actually a re-release of their 1999 live album, not technically a 'new album'
that live version of 18 Wheels of Love is pretty great
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 September 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
It's a great snapshot of them at their punkest and rowdiest. Definitive version of "The Living Bubba." Worth checking if you're a fan but not a great introduction. I haven't heard the remaster yet but word on the street is it sounds 100x better
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Monday, 9 September 2013 23:59 (ten years ago) link
Man, years ago I had some fan send me a couple of dozen CDs of early DBT shows. I should dig them out and dust them off ...
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
Ranking their six best.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
Seeing them again this Saturday. And by again I mean again and again, because it's quite possible I've seen them more than any other act. 30 times? 40? Who can tell. The last time I saw them they were as good as I'd ever seen them. In 2002 or so I left a Bob Dylan show early to see the DBTs somewhere else. The first time I saw them was in Texas where they were on the same bill as ... Black Eyed Peas?
My tops remain Southern Rock Opera and Brighter Than Creation's Dark, but honestly there is not a single disc of theirs without its share of pleasures, passion and surprises. Maybe "A Blessing and a Curse" is the one I come back to the least? Even a lesser album like "Go Go Boots" has "Used to be a Cop," which is eerie and evil as fuck. And the early albums are remarkably assured and diverse and funny and powerful and smart.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 02:00 (five years ago) link
I'm trying to remember, when was it that the band had its van stolen and solicited replacement music and mixtapes from friends and fans to make their drives more tolerable? Priorities!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 02:03 (five years ago) link
Soto's ranking otm (never heard the pre-Opera albums). Creation is a marvel despite no Isbell tunes and the fact that I generally stop at "Checkout Time in Vegas"
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link
Sime vital tracks pre-Opera, but at the least give "The Living Bubba" a listen. Incredible song, one of their best. Possible the first song Hood wrote for the DBTs? He once told me that if he was feeling off or not excited about a show he would start with that song, and by the end everyone was ready to go.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 03:26 (five years ago) link