Pieces Of The Sky

I listened to 29 seconds of the most downloaded track from this album, which was enough to confirm how much I despise country music. Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ 29 secs Revisit ❌️ Horrific ★☆☆☆☆ (2/10) Total reviewed : 207 Already owned : 46 Purchased : 8 To buy list : 6 Nope : 147

She has lovely vocals, I just cannot stand country.

Country slop. Not for me at all

Complete skip album. Slow country covers with barely any originality. Nice voice but sorry Emmylou, you got nothing special. Don't understand why this record makes the list at all...0.9 stars.

Not much to take away on this one. I'm sure this southern belle is alluring for some but it's just some slow country honky tonk to me. Sure the vocals are fine but it doesn't seem to be any different to a million country singers I've heard in Nashville bars or elsewhere. Not sure it's list worthy but it's not in my wheelhouse either way. It was easy to tune out as opposed to actively obnoxious which is more than I can say for some other entries. 1.25 stars

The album cover did not prepare me for this very Dolly Parton like experience. She has an absolutely gorgeous voice. 1/5

God, country is really not my thing. Not a good way to start the day, sorry

I simply cannot understand the love for Country music. I don't understand why it managed to spread beyond its own borders. Keep your horses and cows and cold beers and wife-beating to yourselves - the rest of the world has adult shit to do. She has a nice voice. Scratch that... She can sing, I'm not sure I'd qualify her voice as nice as she has the same hellish twang and warble as literally every other Country singer who has ever existed. The band can play, but I hate what they do with instruments I like and I instruments I don't. What doesn't help is that the Genre only has 2.5 modes. You'd think after a hundred years and a million performers they'd have you know, progressed, but I can't that progress and change is not in the dictionary of several US States and institutions. You have the slow, sad song. You have the shit kicker. And you have one that falls in between. Price to me there's something else. Go on! To say something positive... Before Believing has the potential of being quite pretty, good in fact, if only it were stripped of anything Country. Harris would likely sound great if, again, stripped of anything Country and given something less shitty to sing. There is simply nothing in this world more hateful than a Country Music album.

This is not the album that suddenly changed my brain into liking country. It just reinforced how much I don’t.

Sleep paralysis music. This is not country by the way, this is what demonic soulless people think Country is like.

Country Music is the only music I dislike, sorry(but for what it's worth, Emmylou Harris has a great singing voice). Favorite Track: "Queen Of The Silver Dollar".

boring

I’m sure this was very influential because it sounds like literally all country music but was made in the 70s. It’s still country though so no thanks

Country, 26eme album => 1/5

Really not my vibe

So boring it made me cry

Tremulous and terrible.

A mix of twang, folk and schmaltz that didn’t really do it for me.

She has a nice voice, but it's still farm emo and I don't like it.

Line dancing music. Bin it.

Yeah I know I said no country. Emmylou Harris is cool but I hate this sorry.

Didn't listen to it

I tried to get into this album because the singing was genuinely pretty good. But I got very bored of it very quickly.

Generic country

Yes. Another opening paragraph about an artist that I don’t know anything about. I could drag this into some political conversation, although I really don’t feel energetic or intellectually equipped enough to take that on, this fine ‘moro. Can “morning” be stylized in that fashion? Oh wait, I don’t care. Anyway, here’s Emmylou Harris. A leading candidate for a stage name, and perhaps album of the year? Only time will tell. Take it away. Bluebird Wine - Oh god, she’s killing bluebirds and drinking their bones?? This won’t stand. This sounds like it could be country. What a nice voice. Good for her. Although, if we are disclosing fully, this song sounds like it influenced a bunch of 90’s country and therefore, sucks. I’m tired of the revisionist history that the 90’s was an artistically viable time for country. Anyway. This is from the 70’s. Song isn’t for me. Too Far Gone - Boring. Trite. Pedantic. Shallow. Real critic hours. Pay me my 8 cents per “article.” I’m a WRITER dammit. If I Could Only Win Your Love - This was pretty, albeit a little fluffy. I can’t remember it Boulder to Birmingham - Errrm what are you going to do to Abraham? Leave his bosom alone. He’s just a dad who killed his son because he “heard god.” Good guy. Religion is great. This is just another floater. People on the internet LOVE it. Whatever. The ones who aren’t robots are dorks. Before Believing - I am so depressed. Between June and the nothing happening country. Somebody needs to scrape me off the floor. Bottle Let Me Down - The bottle always lets me down. I guarantee it would make this harder to get through. Also, I don’t think I’ll need to worry about remembering this album anyway. That’s a little preview of the final review. This is another song in a long series of songs. Sleepless Nights - Were you also travelling overnight in the middle seat of increasingly smaller planes as we devolve further into hellscaoe capitalism that I can’t see any way out of except the mass deaths and displacement of most people? We continually march towards our own destruction. Anyway, this is another boring song that I’ll forget before it’s over. Coat of Many Colours - I’m ashamed to say but the following thought comes from John Q. RYM reviewer. You can’t cover this personal a song. It just sounds lame. More going through the motions. For No One - This album is “for everyone” which is why it’s so yawn inducing. Queen of the Silver Dollar - Hey, it’s another song. That’s great, everybody. Congratulations on the new song. A coat of one colour. Puke green. Listen, Chris Van Vliet just posted an interview with one of my heroes, Gene Fuckin’ Snitsky, so you can bet your bottom dollar that my next hour (plus DoorDash ads) is spoken for. An oasis in the eternal desert of generic country music. I don’t care about this album. It sucks. It’s not worth analyzing past that. Enjoy your slop. I’ll be watching a retrospective of the baby punt heard round the world with an ear to ear grin. IT WASN’T MY FAULT. 1-1.5 HIGHLIGHTS: Dolly Parton without any of the charm, uniqueness, songwriting, likability etc.

Awful taste, good execution. I have no idea if I'd ever heard any of these songs before in my life. If I hear them again, I don't know if I'll remember them when it happens.

I have to be in the right mood for country, and apparently 7am on a Wednesday is not the right mood.

Meh.

I love country music more than most, but this was just not good. I have been waiting for more country albums, but wanted Willie or Waylon or John Prine or Garth or something else. Just hard to get through this album

muito ruim foda-se

Hate country

Shit

Sorry I can't do this. 1 star.

When I started this project, I eliminated the genre Country. Then had it put back in (thank you generator creator) . This was the first country album to come up. My view of country has nit changed. This was irritating and dull. Bottle Let me Down supports Elvis Costello needing to be on this list as his version shitkicks Emmylou's version.

Not appealing at all, first song was kinda meh but everything else was just sterile

No va

country music, yikes

Boulder to Birmingham

Not for me. 1/5

I had to concentrate really hard with this album, because as soon as it started playing, my brain tried desperately to tune it out for me. It's the sort of music I would expect to hear when walking around a supermarket, innocuous, vacuous, sappy, and bland. I figured there might be something special here, to justify its inclusion on the list, but I was soon proven incorrect. It was so vanilla that I didn't even stop it playing when Spotify gave me two bonus tracks. I kind of noticed it was still going, but at this point I had let my brain filter it out, and had stopped caring. One star for something so dull that it hardly even counts as music.

Country music not for me

Not for me

Nope

Month for me.

This album made me feel sad....lots of sad slow longing melancholy and any other words that come to mind for sweet delicate melodic loving poetry set to whimsical blah blah blah blah....

Country chato e cansativo. Forçado, quase dá dor de barriga. Chega de country porra!

Every cliché is this country album. Heard all the songs in Smokey and the bandit, Smokey and the bandit II, Every which way but loose or Any which way you can. Awful

Dear God, no. This is unlistenable

Country

Be gone

Country shite

No no

I don't like this whining, moaning kind of country music.

Her beautiful voice but with for me terrible country and western music with the 'tear in her voice', not my world this US Country music. Fake nostalghia. Laurie Anderson once sung this about Dolly Parton " Iturned on the radio and I heard a song by Dolly Parton. And she was singing: Oh! I feel so sad! I feel so bad! I left my mom and I left my dad. And I just want to go home now. I just want to go back in my Tennessee mountain home now. Well, you know she's not gonna go back home. And I know she's not gonna go back home. And she knows she's never gonna go back there."

Very talented singer, but country's not really my thing.

Pah

Great voice but not enough for me to enjoy listening to this. Why the over-representation of generic country albums? I just don't get it

Ugh. Country! Whining soppy music.

Cant do country

"What kind of music do you have here?" "Oh, we have BOTH kinds of music. Country AND Western." So do we now. YEEHAW! God, I never realised it could be so depressing! There were some bright spots though. Her voice is really good, and I did recognise some of the songs, but by other people. Coat of many colours I'm more used to hearing John Denver sing, and his version is much more up beat. And this may interest Gandalf's Fist. I was racking my mind to think who I'd heard do The Bottle Let Me Down. Then it came to me, but I had to search through my music on my PC to confirm it. It was covered by a band called Throw Rag. But it is their guest vocalist that is the really interesting bit. It was a certain Mr Lemmy Kilmister. Now this has left me with just one question. What the hell does Elvis have to do with Californian cotton fields? Anyway to business. Sorry Emmylou, you do have a great voice, and there were some bright spots in the songs, but I just can't bring myself to give you more than 1.

After the warm up act of Swift yesterday, we have a real cowgirl! I feel like doing lines in the Grand Ole Opry or whatever they do in there.... She's got a nice enough voice, backed up with clichéd Country slide guitar, totally inoffensive, what's not to like? And that is where the problem is, it's just not totally terrible to describe it as complete horse shit, that's the smell I was looking for! But it is backing up my lifestyle choice to avoid country music as much as possible, as it is the antithesis of that other ghastly US led genre Rap which is just offensive. If these Yankees could find a balance and someone write an offensive Country album, I might be happier. Now cringing in my living room to 'Bottle Let Me Down' - did I mention anything about cliche? I did think 'For No One' was really beautifully put together, so not a complete waste of 40 minutes. Im guessing there is a factory in Nashville which must churn out these artists like plastic X Factor people as they all sound the same. A really really high 1.

Not a country fan at all

Eh..it was not good. I suffered through it.

otroligt tråkigt

Not for me

Emmylou Harris, I loved so much for so long, but this album is way too far gone into country music territory for me to tolerate.

“ChatGPT, create me a country album that will sound like every other country album ever.” If you asked it this, it would produce this album. AI will have a field day creating country music as its by far the least creative / innovative of all the genres. Anazingly 51% of Americans listen to country at least once a month. Thats crazy. I reckon if you like country, you’ll love this. But if you are a fan of music you’ll think this is boring.

Classic example of female country singer, typical songs, typical warbly vocals, typical themes. If you like country you'll probably like this, if you don't this isn't going to change your mind. Hard to believe this is a must hear album given its almost certainly not the first to sound like this and doesn't offer anything new.

How are there this many Country albums on the list! This is about as generic country as you're going to get. Same old shite, same 1 star rating as the others.

More country! We don't really do country here in the UK..... This might've been the best country we've had so far, but not really for me and I got tired of it pretty quickly 1.5

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

I just can't.

When she started singing, I thought it was Dolly Parton. That's the best thing you'll hear me ay about this album. I checked out Wikipedia stuff and saw song #10 was written by Shel Silverstein. The kids book author? So bored with this album I didn't even bother to check. Linda Ronstadt as a back up singer was pretty cool, too. Yea, this did nothing for me. Won't re-listen or revisit artist. Now on to the good stuff. Tomorrow is the birthdate of Prince. Wear something purple. Listen to some of his music. A couple of my favorite lyrics from 2 different songs: Because of their half-baked mistakes We get ice cream, no cake, all lies, no truth Is it fair to kill the youth? Party Up Got to Party Up, yeah! As soon as we got there, good times were rolling White, Black, Puerto Rican Everybody just a freakin Good times were rolling

nyt tuli pahaan kohtaan tämmöstä 25 album striiikki on semmosta että 3.36 unprecedented unreal kuukausi takana. järisyttävä joukkio albumejan ei vaan vedä vertoja nyt tämä voi.. järisyttävä joukkio albumejan..emmylou rest in peace ( ei vielä kuollut mutta ei hyvältä näytä...) yritit varmasti parhaasi hyvä että yritit parhaasti peukkua siitä ja tsempit! jumala lyriics ''saving grace'' pisaran silmään sait for no one

The first song made me hopeful that I was finally going to like one of the country albums on here, but it fell off immediately after.

It might be great country music, but I can't listen to it

I really don’t know why these sort of country albums keep appearing on the list, I think there’s a big gap between singer-songwriter and country/singer-songwriter albums and I really did not want to finish this album. This country sound just really isn’t for me and I don’t find this sort of music to be something that’s essential especially for albums that I need to hear.

Way too country for me and I really hate how a lot of these older country albums are just credited to the performer but most of the songs were written by other people. That should auto-disqualify an album from here in my opinion.

This is fairly typical sound of the 70s. She's got a good voice, but it's not for me.

Name one good country album and I'll give you 23 that sound exactly the same. This is one of the 23. Songs about Rodeo and pick-up trucks don't resonate with me; coming from the UK.

Boo country

Sure, I'll admit she has a lovely voice and sure, I'm sure that lots of people love this. But I just can't get away with the overwhelmingly vast majority of country.

howdy, i'm gon mosey on dooown to the ole railroad bridge and throw myself off to save my ears from this darn misery. y'all be good now.

Like eating an ice cream cone full of dog shit. My God, my ears will never recover from this. Suck my hairy cock.

oh god this is torture

Absolutamente cheesy. No lo escucharía nunca por mi propia voluntad.

There's nothing here that I needed to listen to before I died. Some songs veer into gospel. The only redeeming feature is that she sometimes sounds like Queen Dolly.

Oof, awful genre

Deprimente

This is some old school country. It's literally 'hokey'. Old school country has a touch of polka in it.

My streak of not enjoying country continues...

Meh. Country.

Country ist ein überflüssiges, weichgespültes und substanzloses Genre, das auf ausgetretenen Pfaden die immer gleichen, langweiligen Geschichten erzählt. Und dieses Album ist dafür ein kaum erträgliches Musterbeispiel.

She has a beautiful voice but her songs were so sad. I can turn on the news if I want to be 😞.

1.5

Zzzzzzz. 1.

Le monde de la ballade country traditionnelle en est un où la mélodie et l’harmonie sont toujours les mêmes. Ça me rapelle des gigs où le setlist me plaisait à moitié. Ça, ça me fait penser à la moitiée que j’aimais moins. Aussi, ce style musical a évolué depuis et des gars comme Chris Staplelton font des choses qui vont ailleurs et c’est bien. Le violon est insuportable, mais elle chante bien et dans l’ensemble, c’est doux et harmonieux. J’entends qu’elle a influencé d’autre artiste comme Olivia Newton-John, elle chante pareil et je dirais même que « Hopelessly devoted » sonne comme un plagiat. Bref, je n’aime pas ça, mais je peux voir que ça a eu son utilité. Le cover de McCartney fait du bien pour briser la monotonie.

J'ai souvent vu et entendu le nom d'Emmylou Harris, mais je n'avais encore jamais rien entendu de son travail. J'ai vraiment de la difficulté avec le country. Ses pièces plus folks passent mieux. Sa version de For No One est intéressante. Pièces préférées: Before Believing, For No One

Musically upbeat country music, I can only imagine the bar atmosphere, I can’t relate to this to be honest. Mostly cover versions, it’s a nice warm homely atmosphere but her voice grates at times - those louder higher pitch moments. Marked down from a 2 to a 1 as mostly cover versions - controversial I know.

Не мое

Country, eh? Nah, no feelings here.

Nice voice, boring karaoke album. I am getting a wider education of country in this process, and I still think it is rubbish, no matter how hard I try to enjoy it.

More of an album for Ross than Don

Nope

A little to country not enough rock and roll

Couldn't sit through

No thanks.

Nope.

Barf

I'm afraid this is going to be one of my less helpful reviews. To my ears, Pieces of the Sky is homogenized country music. Unlike the Grateful Dead, Commander Cody, or even the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Emmylou Harris has nothing to add to Country music, such as rock or blues--she can only weaken it and dumb it down. If I wanted to listen to pure 70s country, I'd go with someone like Charlie Rich. That said, I have to grudgingly admit that the album is technically well performed from top to bottom. It's just flat and flavorless.

Nee, dat was 't niet echt voor mij.

Bluebird Wine reminds me too much of 5-Piece Chicken Dinner. 2/10, definitely not for me

Not great