god
― plaxico (I know, right?), Sunday, 8 November 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
yea this album rules
― mark cl, Sunday, 8 November 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGdGdjc9GfI
byrds doing "rollin' in my sweet baby's arms"
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Sunday, 8 November 2009 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Didn't realise how much I was in the mood for this till I watched those vids. earl scruggs is rocking indeed.
― ogmor, Sunday, 8 November 2009 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/levisjomorajan05.jpg
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Monday, 9 November 2009 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
wotta poster
― bamcquern, Monday, 9 November 2009 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link
faux real
That is so dumb that I can't help snickering at it. Like the Olson twin with the "You got it, dude" caption. Same realm.
― bamcquern, Monday, 9 November 2009 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
tell us more!
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Monday, 9 November 2009 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't be impolite.
― bamcquern, Monday, 9 November 2009 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm going to listen to this album !!!
― bread has no effect on you (ciderpress), Monday, 9 November 2009 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
oops plan derailed, i don't have this one
― bread has no effect on you (ciderpress), Monday, 9 November 2009 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
listening to notorious byrd bros instead but its just not hte same...
― bread has no effect on you (ciderpress), Monday, 9 November 2009 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
will put this on after the Townes van Zandt record.
― ian, Monday, 9 November 2009 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link
hands up who's still rockin sweetheart on the regular?
― ian, Thursday, 19 November 2009 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
roxy otm this shit is unfuckwithable.― ian, Friday, November 6, 2009 8:02 PM (1 week ago)
― ian, Friday, November 6, 2009 8:02 PM (1 week ago)
ian i always rock this on the regular
― itdn put butt in the display name (gbx), Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:00 (fourteen years ago) link
tho i listened to gp/grievous angel on the ride home 2nite
i think until ayovember started it had remained filed for several months. a mistake obvs.the best gram for my money is still the gilded palace of sin <3
― ian, Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:01 (fourteen years ago) link
on the regular <3
― wilter, Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
there's a lol drugs joke in there somewhere, i can feel it
xp to ian
― itdn put butt in the display name (gbx), Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i kno it is not on sweethearts but god i love 'return of the grievous angel'
I REMEMBERED SOMETHING U ONCE TOLD ME
― itdn put butt in the display name (gbx), Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i love gram so much, i even have his photo on my living room wall.
― estela, Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i did not know that about you estela!
― wilter, Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
estela u r a dream and that is real talk
― itdn put butt in the display name (gbx), Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
my friend A also has a picture of gram on the wall and it is at least reason #6 why i <3 her so much
everyone should have a photo of gram on their wall.
― estela, Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:16 (fourteen years ago) link
his outfit in the hot burrito 1 youtube thing I posted elsewhere is hilaarious.
― wilter, Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
where did you post it?
― estela, Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
OPO: Flying Burrito Brothers (songs)
― wilter, Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
And I didn't get an answer :(
― wilter, Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i remember now, i tried to find it for you but i couldn't.
― estela, Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:32 (fourteen years ago) link
<3<3<3 estela
― velko, Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link
aw<3
― estela, Thursday, 19 November 2009 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
ha thanks for trying!
― wilter, Thursday, 19 November 2009 04:41 (fourteen years ago) link
it was my pleasure.
― estela, Thursday, 19 November 2009 04:43 (fourteen years ago) link
man gram doesn't come off well at all in the hotel california book i'm reading. he really bummed a lot of people out.
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 November 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
there's an early - prob international submarine band era - vid clip of gram performing on a boat - so he's prob 'luxury liner', really can't remember - where he does this terrible, i mean just awful, camp jagger impersonation, kinda punctured the myth a bit for me, for a while - but so glad i finally got to hear his vocal version of '100 years from now', one of the bonus tracks on the expanded edition of 'sweetheart'
i def remember an old ilx thread where lots of ppl were really slagging of 'sweetheart' and i was like :-((( so thanx for this thread folx
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
prob singing 'luxury liner'
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess i always sorta suspected this? what little i know of his life (i'm vague on much other than "harvard dropout," "was in byrds," "liked drugs," and "friends stole body, supposedly?"), for some reason, made me assume that he was better at singing country than he was at conducting life
― itdn put butt in the display name (gbx), Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
musician in blah blah blah shocka
― It Ain't The Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 November 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, don't get me wrong. i like this album and the burritos stuff a bunch. just weird reading about how he was really a non-entity to a lot of people at that time. like an "oh is that guy still alive?" kinda thing. but, you know, its 1969! he wasn't taken seriously by a lot of people. the myth came later.
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
listenin to this bitch right now
― max, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
there's an early - prob international submarine band era - vid clip of gram performing on a boat - so he's prob 'luxury liner', really can't remember - where he does this terrible, i mean just awful, camp jagger impersonation, kinda punctured the myth a bit for me, for a while
wait are you talkin about this "older guys" clip? i have to admit to thinking it's sort of great. goofy, but great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bmcT4qieI4
― feed them to the (Linden Ave) lions (will), Friday, 20 November 2009 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
haha i love how the other dudes look in that clip
― Delhomme 3030 (roxymuzak), Friday, 20 November 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i used a to date a girl who looked remarkably like Gram in that video. she had short red hair tho.
― feed them to the (Linden Ave) lions (will), Friday, 20 November 2009 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i tried to cut my hair like gram once when i was wasted, but ive told that story on ilx like 3000 times. anyway its still growing out
― Delhomme 3030 (roxymuzak), Friday, 20 November 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i always like that story, it was a good impulse.
― estela, Saturday, 21 November 2009 01:43 (fourteen years ago) link
was going for this iirc
http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/gram-parsons.jpg
― Delhomme 3030 (roxymuzak), Saturday, 21 November 2009 02:47 (fourteen years ago) link
ok ok i get it
― plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, 25 December 2009 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i love you!!! merry christmas!!!
― S.E., we runnin' this FAP shit (roxymuzak), Friday, 25 December 2009 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
mcguinn is good even though he's obv frontin a bit on sweethearts
― velko, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 04:31 (ten years ago) link
he sounds great, and hillman is the most competent harmony singer maybe ever imo
gram sounds A+++
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 04:36 (ten years ago) link
(on the alt takes on this. i dont really care for his solo stuff. can't step to his vox tho in general)
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 04:37 (ten years ago) link
hillman is super smooth, his vocals on gilded palace get overlooked
― velko, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 04:39 (ten years ago) link
otm
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 05:09 (ten years ago) link
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.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 06:20 (ten years ago) link
Others find pleasure in things I despise
― velko, Monday, 14 May 2018 05:39 (five years ago) link
this album should absolutely not work with my tastes, but I love it
― Hire Planes (dog latin), Monday, 14 May 2018 09:31 (five years ago) link
just posted this on rolling country, but then realized this belongs on a proper sweetheart of the rodeo thread. so cutting & pasting:
roger mcguinn, chris hillman and marty stuart & his fabulous superlatives, sweetheart of the rodeo full album show, los angeles, tuesday night. opening night of a short-ish tour. it was ragged, loose, occasionally awkward and more than occasionally great. they did one set of truncated versions of hits and deep cuts, and then the sweetheart of the rodeo set, played in full but out of order. i got the sense that stuart and the superlatives rehearsed thoroughly on their own and mcguinn and hillman maybe not so much. they missed cues left and right, were looking down frequently for chords and lyrics, and while hillman's voice was in good form, mcguinn was having a little trouble cutting through. but their instincts for harmony are still dead-on, and stuart fit right into that. i felt like i was watching a band still working out its sound, and as a result, when something gelled, when they hit a sweet spot, it was magical. like watching a band discover itself in real time. and that second set was way better than the first. it felt like having a piece of my own dna read back to me. maybe they felt the same.
encore: two byrds classics and three tom petty classics. i was wondering if maybe they would be able to coax david crosby (who i assume still lives here though i have no idea) onto the stage for a song or two. instead we got mike campbell, who joined for "american girl" -- after which they kicked him off and, strangely, played more petty songs without him. marty stuart did a bluegrassy take on "runnin' down a dream" (thumbs up) and hillman did a fairly faithful "wildflowers," which apparently petty produced for him for an album he put out last year.
they also told some stories. they're not particularly good storytellers. damn those harmonies though.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 July 2018 02:10 (five years ago) link
realized that this is probably one of my favorite albums. like, the sheer number of times I've thrown it on! and it's always a pleasure. really appreciating the sound and the instrumental performances this time around.
what is it exactly that makes it sound more magical/shimmery/full/psychedelic than just your average country record? is it the drumming? the organ?
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 12:19 (one year ago) link
used to think blue canadian rockies was the dud of this album, but it is now one of my faves.
It's always been one of my favourites tbh.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 13:25 (one year ago) link
I love Hillman on that song; I get such feeling and a strange mix of confidence and vulnerability from his singing that I think he might be my favourite of all the vocalists they had.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
Hillman is super underrated, great harmonist
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 18:07 (one year ago) link
classic
― ciderpress, Friday, 9 June 2023 19:10 (ten months ago) link
Seconded
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 June 2023 19:23 (ten months ago) link
thirded
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Friday, 9 June 2023 21:11 (ten months ago) link
One of my favorite albums to sing along with.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 9 June 2023 21:47 (ten months ago) link
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Friday, 9 June 2023 23:13 (ten months ago) link
...said Roger McGuinn
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 10 June 2023 01:34 (ten months ago) link
...to Gram Parsons' chagrin
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 10 June 2023 01:41 (ten months ago) link
Was wondering
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 June 2023 01:49 (ten months ago) link