The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo (ACTUAL THREAD HERE)

Oh how my lonely heart is achin tonight for that girl I left behind

100 yrs from now <3

not hatin but so-called naysayer thread has some interesting shit to say about the album & its place, this thread is just "fuck yeah, sweetheart of the rodeo"

that's right, it is fuck yeah sweetheart of the rodeo

good/weird to know i have gram parsons hair right now tho w/o starred cowboy hat obv
will listen to byrds today

yeah, its "fuck yeah sweetheart of the rodeo," and that is what it is for

fuck yeah

sweetheart of the rodeo

thank god we aren't on ilm

hickory wind

the alt. version of "you're still on my mind"

hickory wind comes on and i *hush*

banjo on pretty boy floyd, yes. is that mcguinn playing or is it a sparkly nashville session dude.

yes that alt version is supreme

its john hartford, he used to be on the smothers brothers show and had hit with "gentle on my mind"

nice.
used to think blue canadian rockies was the dud of this album, but it is now one of my faves.

it readies me for fall

been listening to lots of flying burrito bros and graham parsons on my walks to work the last few days.

do not have this album ¯\(°_o)/¯

GRAM parsons, god

you gotta check it out if u love burritos

that is a campaign slogan i would follow off a cliff

im seriously wild about the burritos, its how i got into the byrds in the first place (backwards, to some)

arby's, yer gonna love sweetheart!!

teh gilded palace of sin changed my life man o_O

its so so good

i listened to dark end of the street 4 times in a row yesterday morning

yeah that is one of my faves

Playing this in the bar I'm at right now

Not to get all ilm up in this but I do prefer the alternate take of "you're still on my mind" to the album version

Banjo mandolin action on pretty boy Floyd always gets me

This went into regular rotation with me when I picked it up for a buck in 2006 and it's never actually gone away, and yet it always feels like this album I'm recently getting into - always fresh, always familiar. "100 Years" was my favorite for the first few years; since I picked up a booze habit it became "You're Still On My Mind." Thanksgiving this year included a 2 AM, everybody in a deep pleasant full-tummy buzz zone; someone had a guitar and we all fell into harmony for "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere." Feel-good music at its best, for me.

So, uh, should I check out their other records one of these days?

lol @ ACTUAL THREAD

Notorious is my fave
Dr Byrds the most underrated

Was hoping for burrito bros after but beggars banquet not too shabby

the alternate takes of p much everything on SOTR are better imo! gram's voice is better suited to the stuff. roger was admittedly trying to sound like him on the album takes anyway

actual thread here refers to the fact that the ilm thread was stupid as fuqqq

i know it's funny esp in all caps

ok ok i get it

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i love you!!! merry christmas!!!

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lol i dont remember this at all

i think the guitar bits on the alt take of YSOMM are what lift it

i was pretty much able to sing the words of the entire album, me and the bartender were both just softly singing to ourselves but in unison at times, it was weird

that sounds nice

the lap steel stuff is kind of wild and all over the place in the alt takes! in a good way

not hatin but so-called naysayer thread has some interesting shit to say about the album & its place, this thread is just "fuck yeah, sweetheart of the rodeo"

this isnt even true! that thread is 100% "why do people like this? i don't like this" plus the occasional well known fact about the album

the post on that thread that says "post-byrds you could never buy a country album with confidence that the singer would be competent, therefore this album is a dud" or w/e - so much RONG RONG RONG

rip competence

its sad, it was a quality

I had no use for it but R.I.P. anyway

mcguinn is good even though he's obv frontin a bit on sweethearts

he sounds great, and hillman is the most competent harmony singer maybe ever imo

gram sounds A+++

(on the alt takes on this. i dont really care for his solo stuff. can't step to his vox tho in general)

hillman is super smooth, his vocals on gilded palace get overlooked

otm

pulled this out for the first time in a while when i had a half-hour drive to do for work, on a sunny morning at the beginning of fall, perfect soundtrack.

Others find pleasure in things I despise

this album should absolutely not work with my tastes, but I love it