Inspired by a not completely original idea that we saw somewhere else, we bought ‘1001 Albums: You Must Hear Before You Die’ and are working through it with the help of Spotify, a random number generator to choose the page and a coin toss if 2 albums on a page.

Rules: Must listen to at least 3 tracks before skipping and album is only skipped if we BOTH agree. We’ll catalogue what we listen to, what we think of it (Rubbish/Indifferent/Good/Excellent) and whether we’d listen to it again.

Simple.

Sunday, 1 November 2009

898 - Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera



Year:  2001
Verdict:  Rubbish
Comments:  Skipped after 3 songs.  If you were kidnapped in the Deep South by a bunch of toothless hill-billies wearing Nascar baseball caps and bundled into the back of a pick-up, this is the album they would be playing just before they raped your arse and then dumped it in a swamp.  Absolutely everything we hate about Country Rock in one 94-minute double album.  3 songs is just too much for any intelligent human being to listen to.
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2 comments:

  1. Trailer10 January 2010 at 19:56

    You could barely be more wrong, but I respect your incorrect opinion. From Popmatters: "Southern Rock Opera is a complex work, a cohesive text that functions as a Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story; as an exploration of cultural issues that have defined the South; as an autobiography of the Drive-by Truckers; and as a reclaiming of Lynyrd Skynyrd's legend and music."

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  2. Kate and Jamie13 January 2010 at 12:29

    Just because a website says an album is good, doesn't mean it's actually good. I stand by our comments. Hick music, I'm afraid. But that's the wonder of music - different stuff for different people. Certainly interesting to hear from someone who likes it!

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