― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:04 (nineteen years ago) link
they showed back-to-back episodes tonight.
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:54 (nineteen years ago) link
I was hanging out with a friend of mine who had never seen or heard B&R. We watched some CMT. He just snickered and laughed at that B&R video shot on one of the bridges in Nashville over the Cumberland River. "What the fuck is this?"
I think it's OK, I've grown to somewhat appreciate it. I don't know any other person here in town who takes them seriously at all, they all go "goddam, those New York critics will take *anything* we do seriously." And I don't totally agree, that's just some kind of picque. B&R don't make me laugh or jump up and down or anything, but I think it's good fun, something to think about, significant enough in the evolution of Nashville--maybe Gretchen Wilson is more significant, or Monkey Gentry, you know, in terms of shifting weirdo demographix and all that. As music, well, I am not sure, again--sometimes I quite like it and other times I go, hmm...think I'll just watch Shania Twain ride and sing on her horse in a field of agave or something, she's so lovely...
― es hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
comcast does the same to me! wtf?!
while i'd *love* to see this, my wife is very glad we don't have it.
― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link
in honor of the release of the new album, let us revisit what is still the best album of the half-decade, shall we?
― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 04:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 05:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 06:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― gershy, Friday, 4 May 2007 03:30 (sixteen years ago) link
― etc, Friday, 4 May 2007 04:18 (sixteen years ago) link
― I eat cannibals, Friday, 4 May 2007 04:48 (sixteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Friday, 4 May 2007 12:13 (sixteen years ago) link
― the next grozart, Friday, 4 May 2007 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
― braveclub, Friday, 4 May 2007 12:20 (sixteen years ago) link
― john. a resident of chicago., Friday, 4 May 2007 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:15 (sixteen 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