yeah, its "fuck yeah sweetheart of the rodeo," and that is what it is for
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck yeah
― some droopy HOOS in makeup (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
sweetheart of the rodeo
thank god we aren't on ilm
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
hickory wind
the alt. version of "you're still on my mind"
― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
hickory wind comes on and i *hush*
― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
banjo on pretty boy floyd, yes. is that mcguinn playing or is it a sparkly nashville session dude.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yes that alt version is supreme
its john hartford, he used to be on the smothers brothers show and had hit with "gentle on my mind"
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
nice.used to think blue canadian rockies was the dud of this album, but it is now one of my faves.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
it readies me for fall
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
been listening to lots of flying burrito bros and graham parsons on my walks to work the last few days.
do not have this album ¯\(°_o)/¯
― arby's, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
GRAM parsons, god
you gotta check it out if u love burritos
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
that is a campaign slogan i would follow off a cliff
― arby's, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
im seriously wild about the burritos, its how i got into the byrds in the first place (backwards, to some)
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
arby's, yer gonna love sweetheart!!
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
teh gilded palace of sin changed my life man o_O
its so so good
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i listened to dark end of the street 4 times in a row yesterday morning
― arby's, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that is one of my faves
― the only truffuluther on ilx (gbx), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Playing this in the bar I'm at right now
― buzza, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 06:05 (eleven years ago) link
Not to get all ilm up in this but I do prefer the alternate take of "you're still on my mind" to the album version
― buzza, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 06:09 (eleven years ago) link
Banjo mandolin action on pretty boy Floyd always gets me
― buzza, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
This went into regular rotation with me when I picked it up for a buck in 2006 and it's never actually gone away, and yet it always feels like this album I'm recently getting into - always fresh, always familiar. "100 Years" was my favorite for the first few years; since I picked up a booze habit it became "You're Still On My Mind." Thanksgiving this year included a 2 AM, everybody in a deep pleasant full-tummy buzz zone; someone had a guitar and we all fell into harmony for "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere." Feel-good music at its best, for me.
So, uh, should I check out their other records one of these days?
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ ACTUAL THREAD
― buzza, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
Notorious is my faveDr Byrds the most underrated
― buzza, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 06:18 (eleven years ago) link
Was hoping for burrito bros after but beggars banquet not too shabby
― buzza, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 06:32 (eleven years ago) link
the alternate takes of p much everything on SOTR are better imo! gram's voice is better suited to the stuff. roger was admittedly trying to sound like him on the album takes anyway
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 December 2012 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
actual thread here refers to the fact that the ilm thread was stupid as fuqqq
i know it's funny esp in all caps
― buzza, Thursday, 20 December 2012 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
ok ok i get it
― plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, December 25, 2009 6:14 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i love you!!! merry christmas!!!
― S.E., we runnin' this FAP shit (roxymuzak), Friday, December 25, 2009 6:23 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol i dont remember this at all
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 December 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
i think the guitar bits on the alt take of YSOMM are what lift it
i was pretty much able to sing the words of the entire album, me and the bartender were both just softly singing to ourselves but in unison at times, it was weird
― buzza, Thursday, 20 December 2012 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
that sounds nice
the lap steel stuff is kind of wild and all over the place in the alt takes! in a good way
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 December 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
not hatin but so-called naysayer thread has some interesting shit to say about the album & its place, this thread is just "fuck yeah, sweetheart of the rodeo"
this isnt even true! that thread is 100% "why do people like this? i don't like this" plus the occasional well known fact about the album
the post on that thread that says "post-byrds you could never buy a country album with confidence that the singer would be competent, therefore this album is a dud" or w/e - so much RONG RONG RONG
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 03:39 (ten years ago) link
rip competence
― velko, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 04:26 (ten years ago) link
its sad, it was a quality
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 04:28 (ten years ago) link
I had no use for it but R.I.P. anyway
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 04:29 (ten years ago) link
mcguinn is good even though he's obv frontin a bit on sweethearts
― velko, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 04:31 (ten years ago) link
he sounds great, and hillman is the most competent harmony singer maybe ever imo
gram sounds A+++
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 04:36 (ten years ago) link
(on the alt takes on this. i dont really care for his solo stuff. can't step to his vox tho in general)
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 04:37 (ten years ago) link
hillman is super smooth, his vocals on gilded palace get overlooked
― velko, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 04:39 (ten years ago) link
otm
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 05:09 (ten years ago) link
pulled this out for the first time in a while when i had a half-hour drive to do for work, on a sunny morning at the beginning of fall, perfect soundtrack.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 06:20 (ten years ago) link
Others find pleasure in things I despise
― velko, Monday, 14 May 2018 05:39 (six years ago) link
this album should absolutely not work with my tastes, but I love it
― Hire Planes (dog latin), Monday, 14 May 2018 09:31 (six years ago) link
just posted this on rolling country, but then realized this belongs on a proper sweetheart of the rodeo thread. so cutting & pasting:
roger mcguinn, chris hillman and marty stuart & his fabulous superlatives, sweetheart of the rodeo full album show, los angeles, tuesday night. opening night of a short-ish tour. it was ragged, loose, occasionally awkward and more than occasionally great. they did one set of truncated versions of hits and deep cuts, and then the sweetheart of the rodeo set, played in full but out of order. i got the sense that stuart and the superlatives rehearsed thoroughly on their own and mcguinn and hillman maybe not so much. they missed cues left and right, were looking down frequently for chords and lyrics, and while hillman's voice was in good form, mcguinn was having a little trouble cutting through. but their instincts for harmony are still dead-on, and stuart fit right into that. i felt like i was watching a band still working out its sound, and as a result, when something gelled, when they hit a sweet spot, it was magical. like watching a band discover itself in real time. and that second set was way better than the first. it felt like having a piece of my own dna read back to me. maybe they felt the same.
encore: two byrds classics and three tom petty classics. i was wondering if maybe they would be able to coax david crosby (who i assume still lives here though i have no idea) onto the stage for a song or two. instead we got mike campbell, who joined for "american girl" -- after which they kicked him off and, strangely, played more petty songs without him. marty stuart did a bluegrassy take on "runnin' down a dream" (thumbs up) and hillman did a fairly faithful "wildflowers," which apparently petty produced for him for an album he put out last year.
they also told some stories. they're not particularly good storytellers. damn those harmonies though.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 July 2018 02:10 (five years ago) link
realized that this is probably one of my favorite albums. like, the sheer number of times I've thrown it on! and it's always a pleasure. really appreciating the sound and the instrumental performances this time around.
what is it exactly that makes it sound more magical/shimmery/full/psychedelic than just your average country record? is it the drumming? the organ?
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 12:19 (one year ago) link
used to think blue canadian rockies was the dud of this album, but it is now one of my faves.
It's always been one of my favourites tbh.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 13:25 (one year ago) link
I love Hillman on that song; I get such feeling and a strange mix of confidence and vulnerability from his singing that I think he might be my favourite of all the vocalists they had.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
Hillman is super underrated, great harmonist
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 18:07 (one year ago) link