― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:28 (twenty years ago) link
― danh, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 4 June 2004 12:29 (twenty years ago) link
Haha, I just heard this last night for the first time and when "Wild West Show" came on I was like, "is this the Mission?" Roll on goth-country takeover!
― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:14 (twenty years ago) link
2. That their sudden ubiquitousness on country stations may well represent the most quantum leap taken by ANY musical genre in, I dunno, decades. At least.>>
Chuck, I get what you're saying here, and I kinda agree, but do you really think Big & Rich is that big a leap from the ironic jiggle-and-bling videos that have been all over mainstream country for at least the past 5 years? the quasi-hip hop bravado of Toby Keith, etc? I mean, B&R definitely are the most dramatic shift in this direction so far, but I don't see it as that surprising or unprecedented.
― Al (sitcom), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago) link
While I do think Chuck may be taking it a bit far with some of his declarations on this one, here I think he may (may) have something. To the above quote, I'd say that the difference lies what B&R walk in the video and talk in the music is where he has merit.
― frankE (frankE), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, really remember those old Hank Jr all my rowdy friends videos....and that God Bless Texas one from about 10 years ago?
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Friday, 4 June 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Friday, 4 June 2004 19:41 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Friday, 4 June 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Friday, 4 June 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Friday, 4 June 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 4 June 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Friday, 4 June 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Friday, 4 June 2004 19:57 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Friday, 4 June 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago) link
refusal to bend,if we're feeling ten feet tallthen screw the midgets
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link
FWIW, "the race thing" is probably the most irritating thing on the record to me. I can't really listen to Love Train (even though I love the fact that they just decided to call their song Love Train, as if it didn't matter that there already was a Love Train--it's a great little snapshot of their "Fuck it" attitude) because the lyrics are just too hard to take: "The whole color thing's never made sense to me." Really? It hasn't? That's shocking. You think we should all just get along? Can I subsribe to your newsletter? To me, this line by itself undercuts some of the other actually interesting stuff about race on the alum.
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago) link
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― chuck, Friday, 4 June 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago) link
I think that attitude is total horseshit. They might as well sing "some of my best friends are black!" Though that's obviously implied on the record, of course.
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago) link
What tractors, Yancey?? You mean the country group by that name, from a few years ago, who I remember nothing about, assuming that was even their name? Were they even any good? (I thought they were some corny retro act, but maybe I was as wrong about them as I was about the Kentucky Headhunters, who I stupidly ignored back when they actually had hits.) I do know that some people think Kenny Chesny's tractor is sexy, though. (Unless that was Marc Chesnutt's tractor; I forget.)
― chuck, Friday, 4 June 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Friday, 4 June 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 4 June 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago) link
Overall, I still prefer DBT's lyrics but I think Big and Rich have got better hooks, both great bands in my book.
― Josh Love (screamapillar), Friday, 4 June 2004 21:20 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Friday, 4 June 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link
― MV, Friday, 4 June 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Friday, 4 June 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Josh Love (screamapillar), Saturday, 5 June 2004 00:04 (twenty years ago) link
"not nearly as parrot-like as..."
What about lyrics? Surely B&R's are more Buffetesque than those others folks', no?
― MV, Saturday, 5 June 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago) link
Big and Rich are quiteaggressive and flashy intheir lyrical approach
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 5 June 2004 01:27 (twenty years ago) link
The rhythm section might be better (or worse) now that Isbell's wife is playing bass for them (Earl Hicks left the band, right?)
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 5 June 2004 01:28 (twenty years ago) link
and that's true about Shonna Isbell being the new bassist, when I saw them play last year here in town she was terrific, a great new addition.
― Josh Love (screamapillar), Saturday, 5 June 2004 02:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Josh Love (screamapillar), Saturday, 5 June 2004 02:15 (twenty years ago) link
― David Allen (David Allen), Saturday, 5 June 2004 03:08 (twenty years ago) link
lol. She's my state rep, one of our few local Dems. She just got redistricted out of her own district.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 13 January 2022 03:16 (two years ago) link
Doubling down, I guess.
Cepicky bill criminalizing "obscene" materials in school libraries rolled one week because of time constraints after singer John Rich compares librarians to perverts in a "white van."— Sam Stockard (@stockard_sam) February 23, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 24 February 2022 02:28 (two years ago) link
I want to know how a kid working at a fast food restaurant found the funding to purchase thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of rifles, ammunition and body armor. We need answers.— John Rich (@johnrich) May 27, 2022
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:49 (two years ago) link
Well clearly this is why we have to keep the minimum wage down
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
And then America tells him to step right up despite not allowing him to buy a glass of whiskey.— John Legend (@johnlegend) May 28, 2022
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Monday, 30 May 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link