Big & Rich: Album of the Decade?

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

First album's good. #saveanalbum

I went through and cut all his parts out of the album in protest. Then I threw out the rest of the album, too. Also, I shoplifted that album to begin with.

Oh, OK, so I never owned or listened to it, whatareyougonnado?

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-810844
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ho88VXJTBg

Wow, what a story.

really weird they don't reference the obvious debt the song owes to months of people playing Red Dead... it's right there in the video!
anyways, song isn't bad! Good meme material!

Always love seeing this thread pop up. FWIW I still love this album. Wonder what xhuck's updated take on it is.

Should post it to the "What's the least acclaimed album you love?" thread.

okay, now billy ray is on the remix. fun song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ysFgElQtjI

lol I knew why this thread got revived.

... ok pic.twitter.com/pwJC5Vyqir

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) December 14, 2020

ilm hero

lol so many of the replies are people going "wtf is john rich?"

or how the fuck is John Rich rich?

Ha, the guy he did the bet with, Adam Gold, is a former editor of mine at the Nashville Scene. He's been loving this hilarity of course.

wonder if he laid a bet on the 2004 pazz & jop results

If anyone's curious at this point, which I doubt, the first album was almost as good to listen to as it was to write about, which is saying a lot; the second one not as much, as tends to happen with second albums (Don: "You have your whole life to write your first album, six months for the second one." Well yeah.) But it did slink into my Nashville Scen Top Ten. The third was ridiculously bad.
Other endeavors soon became relevant to Duos with one member you love and one member you loathe
Big K did some good mixes of his and OPP singles, also I liked this first solo joint (haven't heard others)---excerpted from Voice review of it and B&R associate Lil Jon Nicholson's:
Live a Little, Big Kenny's pre-Big & Rich solo album, finally given a proper release on The Disney Music Group's Hollywood Records, brings the
noise candy, not the nose candy. It's a slowly spinning saucer, serving up a skyful of Purple Planetberries,
bursting on cue, presented 2 U by B.K., a psych-pop-goes-thee-country impresario and aw-shucks-ma'am workaday wizard, bopping through amber waves with his drum machine. Kenny's as much wistful crooner as carny barker when singing through a megaphone-like vocoder
about "a place where dreams come true." He gets his comeuppance in "Cheater's
Lament." Even more so, in "Think Too Much," with virtual drumsticks bouncing off
the cello-and-viola cloud growing around his (Traveling Wilburys-flavored) Orbisonic orbit.
Yet also with a ready tip of his feathered top hat to "Dor-oh-thee, and
Lit-tle To-To," flying by in "Rather Be."

the first album was almost as good to listen to as it was to write about

oh i agree

For the rest of my life I will remain completely baffled by how this awful album became such an ilm touchstone.

I'm assuming even calling it "awful" out loud will get me FPed so I'll add, "so long folks".