Anyone else?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 8 December 2008 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
you really care about this a lot
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Monday, 8 December 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Did not buy, but downloaded. Awful crap, though some of it kinda funny in a "gee, this is awful crap" kinda way. Would not have been aware or interested if not for ILX (esp. xzzuzch). On the other hand, thank you ILX for the Santogold.
― Suggest Ban Permalink (contenderizer), Monday, 8 December 2008 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
http://mediaportal.ru/uploads/posts/1173007547_fnm_1985_we_care_a_lot_www.jpg
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 8 December 2008 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
bump
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Last chance voting.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 23:51 (fifteen years ago) link
When did you stop beating your wife?
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 23:54 (fifteen years ago) link
After she called the cops :(
― ian, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 23:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
39 people bought it!
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 00:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't believe so many bought it
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 11:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe a few downloaded it or burnt it to cd.
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link
The question says "bought" though.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link
it's just that those two bands aren't the sort of music that would make the charts in Europe, nor the sort of music I would want to find out about.
I love that Tuomas' last clause makes these bands sound like something he doesn't want sneaking up behind him in a dark alley.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
How many crimes have been committed in the name of poptimism? How many people thought that when they got into this, or Gretchen Wilson, or Miranda Lambert, they were like "Oh I love country music." Be honest. Also, this thread needs to be cross-referenced with Pazz 'n Jop ballots.
― post-schadenfreude (fukasaku tollbooth), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 12:19 (fifteen years ago) link
van lear rose purchasers were poptimists?
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
terrible album. although i did quite like "saved".
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 12:47 (fifteen years ago) link
No, Anthony. I'm talking about people who talked up crap like Big & Rich that was praised in the name of critspeak answer to pluralism. This is where we should also flog the author of 'The Wisdom of Crowds.'
― post-schadenfreude (fukasaku tollbooth), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
How many people thought that when they got into this, or Gretchen Wilson, or Miranda Lambert, they were like "Oh I love country music." Be honest.
i do, and did, like country. i don't like gretchen wilson, and haven't been compelled to check our miranda lambert. this album is not great, but perfectly fine, btw.
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link
at my college my sr. year 'save a horse ride a cowboy' was played w/ frequency at the local bar -- lol rural midwest -- this was a popular song w/ lots of fans and not exactly a great representation of the influence of lol pop critics
i bet there are less-remembered albums that were voted higher by ilx, not at all popular nationally at the time and are listened to and remembered by fewer ppl now
lol van lear rose
― deej, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Is this somehow worse when people do it with Country than with Snap or whatever?
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
van lear rose has held up very well for me personally.
country is a genre where i just sorta let my rockist tendencies ride and don't worry about it.
like maybe i miss something, but i only really feel like listening to country every so often, so like i'm just gonna pull out honky tonk heroes or merle or something. not enough time to sift through all the garbage with the new stuff, and really no inclination to.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost
and the biggest prob w/xhuckx is that he's such a damn entertaining writer that he makes all these mediocre albums so SO AWESOME then yr disappointed when you actually here them.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post I mean that it presupposes that there's no way critic types could actually enjoy listening to these acts, hooks be damned, whereas with other forms of pop you're supposedly lying to yourself if you fail to give in.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
how many copies did the Big & Rich album sell?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 11 December 2008 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
that first one was certified 3x platinum
― the rev (al sharpton ha ha) (some dude), Thursday, 11 December 2008 00:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh the memories
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
New album out today
― bozack horseman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
Still love "Save A Horse," "Six Foot Town," "Wild West Show," "Holy Water" and "Love Train"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
with all the post-rap country hits out there now, these guys were just a decade ahead of their time
― da croupier, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
haven't heard anything of theirs in a while, have they jumped back on the bandwagon or are they still pushing conservative balladry?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
did cowboy troy have a solo career
― adam, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
the answer is yes and Cowboy Troy performed at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.[7] He is a self-described black conservative and a member of the Republican Party who supported Senator John McCain in the 2008 U.S. presidential election[3] so sounds like he's doin ok
― adam, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
How Many Times Have You Played The Electrik Red Album That You Downloaded Because Of ILX?
― dichtgekitte discman (unregistered), Thursday, 5 March 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
ILX has gotten me to buy all kinds of terrible stuff over the years. Truthfully, I don't trust this group's opinion on anything but rock music. I think I'm much, much more discriminating about what I listen to in the pop, country, and electronic realms, and my tastes simply don't seem to align well with those of people here. It's to be expected.
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 5 March 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
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― the lady is a bomb (mattresslessness), Thursday, 5 March 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
that whole talk talk thread really got to you, huh?
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 5 March 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
I can't imagine buying music based solely on a recommendation in 2015 without listening first.
― Darin, Thursday, 5 March 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
John Rich, multi-platinum singer/songwriter, TV host and one half of the super duo Big & Rich will debut “Earth To God” on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” on Friday, September 25th at 8:45 am and discuss his involvement with this Saturday’s "Washington Prayer March 2020 with Franklin Graham".
from a gross pr email I got sent
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 September 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
The obligatory “old ILX was wild” post.
― Boring, Maryland, Friday, 25 September 2020 01:37 (three years ago) link
You gotta read the original thread: Big & Rich: Album of the Decade?
I love reoccurring motif of asking Ned if he'd bought it yet.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 September 2020 04:44 (three years ago) link
On revisiting, it's actually Ned himself saying he wants to buy it, but just hasn't been able to yet.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 September 2020 05:09 (three years ago) link
I went to grad school with someone who was closely related to either Big or Rich, I can never remember which one. He was very sensitive about it and would get mad if you brought it up. So of course "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy" echoed through the halls of the English Department on a regular basis.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 25 September 2020 05:17 (three years ago) link
Haven't listened in a while, but debut seemed great, second not as good but wormed its way onto my Nashville Scene ballot, third no good, didn't listen to any solo albums except reissue of Big K's first, which I wrote about briefly in the Voice, excerpted here (from a longer piece, which also covered Jon Nicholson, talented B&G mentee, whose A Little Sumpin Sumpin, despite title, went a bit deeper and darker than their albums):
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 skyful of Purple Planetberries,exploding on cue, presented 2 U by B.K., a psych-pop-goes-the-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 impervious cello-and-viola cloud of 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, Friday, 25 September 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link