Big & Rich: Album of the Decade?

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

Poetry.

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, August 22, 2008 3:08 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

hello and welcome to ilm

big and rich is like the snakes on a plane of the music critic community

"Save a Plane (Ride a Snake)"

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, August 22, 2008 3:08 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

A challop for America

Just for the title of the piece.

anthony on B&R

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/07/what-save-a-horse-ride-a-cowboy-did-to-country-music/260300/#

Nice!

I read the title and was shocked the article wasn't just "Nothing."

i instapapered this

Great read.

good piece.

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

“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

enjoyed that piece

The second best moment in MM was when almost half the audience started singing "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)."

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

Still makes me lol that so many of you bought the cd and had the same reaction z s did

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")

no point recommending Dierks Bentley and Eric Church to ilxors :(

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!!!

tl;ip

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).

maybe he coulda called it "Bruce" like the Rick Springfield song.

If only.

"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.

so far "Springsteen" is probably my single of the year.

"Malmsteen"

"Springsteen" is my single of the year too. I like the album but it's still working its way with me.

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.

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

though that his video's americana is full of double-car garages is an honest update of the cliche

point out to me the teens making out to "Secret Garden."

no you perv

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.

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.

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.

No Big & Rich inaugural poem. ;_;

is this stupid album still giving y'all chills?

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)

much better albums have been released in the interim

whoa

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— John Rich (@johnrich) September 3, 2018

A legitimately terrible group from the start

Be A CHUD, Wear Ruined Socks

lmao @ this youtube comment:

Patrick VanSickle
2 years ago
Can we talk about there perfect harmony with each other? Like damn, a lot of songs these days have to use computers to reach this level of harmonic perfection

the "perfect harmony" during the verses is one dude speaking while the other guy sings, & during the chorus it's them singing the exact same melody in different octaves. that is not harmony!!!

people are fucking morons especially people who like this trash band

can't believe one of the 'save a horse (ride a cowboy)' hitmakers is a moron

the bottom has fallen out of my world

it would probably be easier to just not buy Nike socks