How Many Times Have You Played The Big & Rich CD That You Bought Because Of ILX?

sorry i made you buy that howlin' rain cd gorge.

first Big and Rich is still 2/3 of a great album, after that diminishing returns set in fast (same with Gretchen Wilson).

It's on me, skot. Gotta make at least token attempts to broaden the tastes. Somewhat mitigated by utter lack of success in the mainstream marketplace.

I suppose I should be glad no one has ever bought an album because of me.

scott I bought that Howlin' Rain album almost solely because of you and I love it to death! the new one kinda disappointed me though so I'm glad I didn't pay for it

i own a couple of agalloch albums mostly because of scott. (well i bought the first one because of scott. then i bought another one because i liked the first one. agalloch is better than big&rich.)

Agalloch are great!

Howlin rain are alright too.

big & shit

Kish Kash still sounds fun. That whole time when pop and "other" were playing with each other for the first time in a while was fun. I should probably get "body Language" out and see if I still like it.

listened to "save a horse," cockpunched the nearest baby, deleted it from my hard drive. sorry guys

I've probably listened to Kish Kash somewhere 3-5 times this year

Howlin rain are alright too.

You're attacking the process of your own thread. Ask for retitle: Shit I really regret buying because of xhuxk but stuff I like because of teamsters of xhuxk. I know it's confusing.

captain save-a-horse

I'm so glad someone has finally addressed this crime against humanity. (I voted 11-50.)

Voted 11-50 to be generous; did indeed buy this because of ILM and totally enjoyed three or four songs for a couple of months. Only paid $2, though.

captain save-a-horse

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lmao

shut up gorge

Picked it up at a boot sale for a quid because of Chuck's raving about it and I'm glad I did, no regrets, still dig it out occasionally. That Kix album however...

which Kix?

Oh, I dunno, the first one? The one with whistling on.

I hoped everyone would know Kix weren't very good.

btw I'm not having a go at Chuck with this thread. Incase that's what Gorge is getting at. I think Chuck is a decent guy, even if we dont have similar tastes at all.

OK, everyone stfu that's hating on Kix

no :)

>I think Chuck is a decent guy, even if we dont have similar tastes at all.

100 percent in agreement w/this.

I loved his stairway book, even though all the bands in it I liked he then subsequently decided he didn't like after all!

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Anyone else?

you really care about this a lot

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.

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Last chance voting.

When did you stop beating your wife?

After she called the cops :(

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39 people bought it!

I can't believe so many bought it

Maybe a few downloaded it or burnt it to cd.

The question says "bought" though.

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.

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.

van lear rose purchasers were poptimists?

terrible album. although i did quite like "saved".

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.'

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.

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

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.

Is this somehow worse when people do it with Country than with Snap or whatever?

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that whole talk talk thread really got to you, huh?

I can't imagine buying music based solely on a recommendation in 2015 without listening first.

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

The obligatory “old ILX was wild” post.

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.

On revisiting, it's actually Ned himself saying he wants to buy it, but just hasn't been able to yet.

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.

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 the
noise 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 vocoder
about "a place where dreams come true." He gets his comeuppance in "Cheater's
Lament." Even more so, in "Think Too Much," with virtual drumsticks bouncing off
the 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, and
Lit-tle To-To," flying by in "Rather Be."