BTCD is their peak, I think. Ever since then it's been just a little too much yet not quite enough. Still love 'em, still great live, etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 03:00 (seven years ago) link
OK, listening again, and there are some great, great songs (esp. Cooley's) and performances. But I think the problem may be as simple as sequencing. "Darkened Flags" is just not a terribly good song, and it sort of kills the momentum before it even begins, especially between "Ramon Casiano" and "Surrender Under Protest."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
Watching them kill it right now. Right band for the right time.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 July 2017 01:09 (six years ago) link
just covered The KKK Took My Baby Away!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 July 2017 01:35 (six years ago) link
Best tracks of their last LP: "Ramon Casiano" (another biting Cooley song), "Surrender Under Protest", "Guns Of Umpqua" and "Ever South".
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 21 July 2017 02:13 (six years ago) link
Wow, just heard that awesome brand new song they snuck out. Called The Perilous Night, and it is without question the most political thing they've written to date. Calls out Trump by name, and so on. Hood on point.
Incidentally heard it in tandem with a new Neil Young protest song, Already Great, which sounded pretty awesome too.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 November 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luoe-6ok_TE
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 November 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
Not into the political stuff. Not why I listen to DBT.
― calstars, Sunday, 12 November 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
Weird. They've always been pretty political!
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 November 2017 22:53 (six years ago) link
Dad drunk and Amex
― calstars, Sunday, 12 November 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link
It's okay. And every song by every act is political. Breathing clean air is a political act.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 November 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
Women Without ILX
― calstars, Monday, 13 November 2017 00:04 (six years ago) link
Angels and SNA
― calstars, Monday, 13 November 2017 00:08 (six years ago) link
Wow, the enthusiasm is overwhelming.
Seriously, if this is not why you listen to the Drive-By Truckers, then I guess I don't know why any of you listen to the Drive-By Truckers.
And every song by every act is political.
Oh, come on.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 November 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link
I think they've always been political, but in the new song they name names.
I love the DBTs even though their work is very disciplined and rarely exciting. I'm seeing them live in Feb and also seeing Cooley and Hood's local solo shows.
― Randall Jarrell (dandydonweiner), Monday, 13 November 2017 02:05 (six years ago) link
If you're gay, every love song is political.
This song is topical.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 November 2017 02:11 (six years ago) link
I thought the political songs on the last album were great but this one’s pretty awful. Boring music, super on the nose lyrics.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 04:17 (six years ago) link
This is fucking awful. I can just sense that my opinion is in some way regressive or rockist or whatever, but so be it. I wouldn't run screaming from a room where this was being played, but who could actually get into this
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 05:23 (six years ago) link
God knows we need something from music right now, but it's not a cringey, ham fisted explication of a sensible if obvious POV, set to pubrock
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 05:40 (six years ago) link
truly sorry for the triple dip, but I do want to say I love the exultant defiant The High Road by Isbell, which deals just as directly with this administration. I guess it's because the message is, transcend it instead of griping about it or wallowing in it. TPN's message is more suited to an op-ed or blog post imo
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 05:48 (six years ago) link
Into the Perilous Night: An Essay by Patterson Hood
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
I mostly like the riff and the faster than usual tempo. I also like Hood in righteous mode.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
xpost that's a great essay, I love his honesty.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
He's a fantastic writer.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 16 November 2017 02:17 (six years ago) link
Something about the wrinkle in your foreheadTells me there’s a fit about to be thrownIf we get the van out of the ditch before the morningAin’t nobody gotta know about what I’ve done
― calstars, Saturday, 9 December 2017 04:27 (six years ago) link
As good as I have ever seen them tonight, and I've seen them a lot!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 7 April 2018 03:23 (five years ago) link
They just released an album by Hood/ Cooley’s 80s band Adam’s House Cat, with re-recorded vocals. It is excellent as usual. If you haven’t heard it yet, definitely check it out.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 24 September 2018 00:18 (five years ago) link
Saw them again last night, playing a truncated set at a beer fest. Great as usual, if shorter than usual. Hold Steady opened!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 September 2018 02:16 (five years ago) link
I was so worried the Adam's House Cat album would sound like some alt-era reject, but it actually sounds like a lost '80s Amerindie classic.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 11:54 (five years ago) link
Let's rank these awesome Patterson Hood songs.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 01:57 (five years ago) link
C’mon no Heathens?!?!
― Heez, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 02:06 (five years ago) link
No Living Bubba?!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 02:46 (five years ago) link
no!
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 02:50 (five years ago) link
NO EIGHTEEN WHEELS OF LOVE!?!??Alfred why do u hate irl trucking
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 02:59 (five years ago) link
I like this imo
https://img.discogs.com/uB_x_iunwCVuF90mHIwUyi9X33Y=/fit-in/600x602/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3419423-1519135654-3674.jpeg.jpg
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 03:07 (five years ago) link
well that gives me some hope
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 03:11 (five years ago) link
His songs have gotten slower
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 04:06 (five years ago) link
aaaaaand here are Mike Cooley and Jason Isbell's songs.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 January 2019 02:53 (five years ago) link
Interesting. I think "Ghost To Most" and "Gravity" Gone" both deserve a nod. Plus a bunch of Cooley, really (there's not much Jason to choose from). I mean, this is chorus!
"So I'll meet you at the bottom if there really is oneThey always told me when you hit it you'll know itBut I've been falling so long it's like gravity's gone and I'm just floating"
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 January 2019 03:07 (five years ago) link
Space City is my favorite Cooley
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 January 2019 03:10 (five years ago) link
"Goddamn Lonely Love" is one of my favorite songs of all time, full stop.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 14 January 2019 03:15 (five years ago) link
I mean... If I could have one wish right nowI'd be about as half as tough as I pretend I amThen I wouldn't care how empty this old house feelsI could take her things and take them far away from hereI could make sure no dirt ever got on her nameCause looking at that stone wouldn't bring me so much painI could go into town wearing my finest clothesI could turn these tears into blood and make it run ice coldSpace City's one hour up the road from meOne hour away from as close to the moon as anybody down here is ever gonna beAnd somewhere beyond that big white light is where my heart is goneAnd somewhere she's wondering what's taking me so longMy hands are as good to me as they've ever beenAnd I ain't ashamed of anything my hands ever didBut sometimes the words I used were as hard as my fistShe had the strength of a man and the heart of a child I guessSpace City's one hour up the road from meOne hour away from as close to the moon as anybody down here is ever gonna beAnd somewhere beyond that big white light is where my heart is goneAnd somewhere she's wondering what's taking me so long
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 January 2019 03:25 (five years ago) link
― resident hack (Simon H.), Sunday, January 13, 2019
Same! I didn't think so in 2004. Now I understand the desperation.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 January 2019 03:33 (five years ago) link
I need to make a concerted effort with Drive-By Truckers as I've only really dabbled here and there. The thought that there might be three songs better than Outfit staggers me.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Monday, 14 January 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
― resident hack (Simon H.), Sunday, January 13, 2019 10:15 PM
It only started cutting into me last year.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 January 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
The thought that there might be three songs better than Outfit staggers me.
The fact that this band has remained so prolific yet turned out so many amazing songs is itself pretty staggering.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 January 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
Uncle Frank is my favorite DBT song, and probably my single favorite song of the century.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 14 January 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
I even like "The President's Penis is Missing."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 January 2019 17:17 (five years ago) link
women w/o whiskey
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 14 January 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
still trying to wrap my head around the absence of Gravity's Gone
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 04:00 (five years ago) link