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
tl;ip
― skrill xx (cozen), Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
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).
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
maybe he coulda called it "Bruce" like the Rick Springfield song.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 July 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
If only.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 29 July 2012 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― Nutri Grane (some dude), Sunday, 29 July 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
so far "Springsteen" is probably my single of the year.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 July 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
"Malmsteen"
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 July 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
"Springsteen" is my single of the year too. I like the album but it's still working its way with me.
― Euler, Sunday, 29 July 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Euler, Sunday, 29 July 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Sunday, 29 July 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
though that his video's americana is full of double-car garages is an honest update of the cliche
― da croupier, Sunday, 29 July 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
point out to me the teens making out to "Secret Garden."
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 July 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
no you perv
― da croupier, Sunday, 29 July 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 July 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― balls, Sunday, 29 July 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― balls, Sunday, 29 July 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
No Big & Rich inaugural poem. ;_;
― to each his own but (Eazy), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:42 (eleven years ago) link
is this stupid album still giving y'all chills?
― Cory Sklar, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
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)
― soyrev, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
much better albums have been released in the interim
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
whoa
― soyrev, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link
/!\ http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/big-rich-to-perform-at-trump-inauguration-gala-w459115 /!\
― Executive Ball Clicker (euphemism) (haitch), Thursday, 12 January 2017 04:42 (seven years ago) link
Our Soundman just cut the Nike swoosh off his socks. Former marine. Get ready @Nike multiply that by the millions. pic.twitter.com/h8kj6RXe7j— John Rich (@johnrich) September 3, 2018
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 00:54 (five years ago) link
A legitimately terrible group from the start
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 01:41 (five years ago) link
Be A CHUD, Wear Ruined Socks
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 02:46 (five years ago) link
lmao @ this youtube comment:
Patrick VanSickle2 years agoCan 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!!!
― crüt, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 12:32 (five years ago) link
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
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
it would probably be easier to just not buy Nike socks
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
First album's good. #saveanalbum
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
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?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-810844https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ho88VXJTBg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
Wow, what a story.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
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!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
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.
― john. a resident of evanston. (john. a resident of chicago.), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link
okay, now billy ray is on the remix. fun song!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ysFgElQtjI
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 5 April 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
lol I knew why this thread got revived.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 April 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
... ok pic.twitter.com/pwJC5Vyqir— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) December 14, 2020
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 14 December 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
ilm hero
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 December 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
lol so many of the replies are people going "wtf is john rich?"
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 14 December 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
or how the fuck is John Rich rich?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 December 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 December 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
wonder if he laid a bet on the 2004 pazz & jop results
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
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 loatheBig 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 thenoise 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 vocoderabout "a place where dreams come true." He gets his comeuppance in "Cheater'sLament." Even more so, in "Think Too Much," with virtual drumsticks bouncing offthe 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, andLit-tle To-To," flying by in "Rather Be."
― dow, Monday, 14 December 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
the first album was almost as good to listen to as it was to write about
oh i agree
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 December 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
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".
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 December 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
No, you're fine. There's room in the manger for all walks of life. As The Big 'un always says, "It Ken be done."
― dow, Monday, 14 December 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link