Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

I like Yoakam's country music. It's not as commercial as the country coming out of Nashville. I love the Telecaster guitar playing of Pete Anderson. The duet with Buck Owen's is a highlight.

I enjoyed this, it just got too religious for my liking

I did not now know there was going to be so much murder.

Beunas Noches to your sad self.

This is a pair of brand new, high gloss, cowboy boots. I prefer creased, dusty, worn-in cowboy boots.

Twas okay

Some country by numbers, standard chords and tropes. Nothing stood out, just did it's thing for half an hour or so. Don't like the genre, was delivered competently enough to be acceptable not not noteworthy. Ran out of words to describe country landfill, this was that.

Oddly boring - didn't mind the music for the most part, even if it was repetitive, but the guy has such a bland country voice. Lyrics are off-putting and stiltedly delivered.

Didn't do much for me. Was short enough not to outstay it's welcome though so there is that. 1.5

I liked the old country sound of the songs. Didn't care for the lyrics. Nothing really stood out for me.

I feel like he had to be a country singer with a name like Dwight Yoakum 😂

A guy named Yoakum of course has to make yokel music. I actually can't believe I don't hate this. Maybe I even like it. I can hear the passion in the music somehow. It feels real and sincere.

This was different. Sounded OK. Blasé about it.

Go get 'em, Dwight. Hearing Yokem makes me feel both cozy and uncomfortable. Maybe I shouldn't feel uncomfortable but why highlight the leather whatevers on the album cover. I think it's just good-natured rev-the-engine Yokemocity though.

Pretty enjoyable country album. Really dark lyrics. Sometimes funny, but even then, dark. I wish we had half stars available for albums like this.

Country just really isn't for me. I can hear that it's not bad but the whole album feels like a trope. 2⭐️

Another solid record from early in Dwight's career

Interminable whiny country. Not one I enjoyed hearing, and not one I feel I needed to hear before dying

Not a big country music person but I do enjoy some this was ok not to country today I couldn't enjoy it, I only listened a couple of times and I probably need to give it some more time to fully understand it but it's was ok not great music was enjoyable I like the different country sounds the production was good and Dwight's voice is ok without really being a stand out

bruh the text ruins the whole thing, no thanks

Сара 3,5 Марко 3,5

Not a C&W fan but if I have to listen to it this album is the one I want!

Too country, country

This was perfecftly acceptable country.

Boring ass country

country

I like this guys sound but there weren’t any stand out songs for me. 3.5/5

Another one for the country fans.

I'm not a frequent listener to country, so grain of salt. But this album rips. Yoakam has more of an alt-country vibe to it, not necessarily radio-friendly, but more storytelling. And the stories. Songs of heartbreak, grief, redemption, and multiple songs of murder. Gangsta. Great voice, too.

Pretty cliche country, but as a baseline I like it well enough since I like country. Not the biggest fan of his voice, but I do like the use of accordion. Can't think of much country I've heard with polka esque accordions Highlights: I Sing Dixie, Floyd County

Nice to see some country music on this list. This album isn’t even one of the better country albums, but it is better than any of the British pop we have been subjected to album after album.

Two too many songs about murdering your girlfriend for cheating on you

Country ballads are just so boring 2.5

I LOVED THIS. omg

I don’t know how he can have that much hatred wearing those tight ass leather pants.

I had not listened to any Dwight Yoakam before this - in his heyday I was not interested in listening to mainstream country music. I was missing out, with Yoakam and several others. The opening track ("I Got You") sounds tender and loving on first listen, but as the album goes on it almost sounds more like a threat. The rest of the album is mostly jealous and violent, with "What I Don't Know" in particular being a country update on Lennon's "Run For Your Life." I like this music and Yoakam's voice, but the subject matter is awfully dark for me.

objectively a good album but just not at all the kind of thing I want to listen to.

Yeehaw Jesus and monotony

No private session used for Spotify. This is just not my kind of music, and yes, I am totally base my reviews on how I like the album and not how great of a representation of the genre it might be.

Country.

It was not terrible for country music... But dang was it a lot of country music.

Dwight Yoakam - Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room - 2/5 You can definitely hear some Hank Sr. influence here, especially in the lyrics to “Home of the Blues.” The title track actually had a pretty unique feel to it too, and those were probably the moments where I understood the appeal of Dwight Yoakam the most. His guitarist apparently discovered tape delay while making this album and loved it so much he should’ve married it. It’s everywhere. I like a good rockabilly guitar sound, but after a while I felt like I was hearing the same slapback effect on every song. I don’t outright dislike country, and I’d still take this over the bro country assembly line any day. That doesn’t mean I thought it was particularly good, though. Its main redeeming quality might be that it’s less than 40 minutes long.

Dwight Yoakam is known for being an unwavering Country traditionalist with real chops. So why not go with his most popular album, "Guitars, Cadillacs, etc."? That's the one you should really listen to.

I've never listened to Yoakam and was pleasantly surprised. Very good country music, but still country. Solid 3 stars.

horrible

Late 80s cover. Extremely cool cover.

Decent. Doesn't have the story telling element quite as good as my favourite country/folk artists, but decent enough.

Listens: 1.5 Standout Tracks: None Let me stop you right there. No. Nope. Not interested. Pass.

How is this album the first one to leave me speechless? 5/5

Run of the mill late 80s country to my ear. Not an artist that I've given much time to so all of this was new to me. I'd probably give this another listen, if I was in a country mood, and see if there was something that latches onto me, but more likely I'd throw on one of the handful of albums from the time that I know front to back and revel in that sound and familiarity.

I generally don't like country music, and this is exactly the kind of country music I generally don't like - twangy, jangly, mopey, musically and morally simplistic tunes about cheatin' women and lonely nights and Jesus. Classic stories like "she left me for another man so I shot her" and "old drunk rebel dies sad about living in Yankee territory." It's fine, I guess, but it's definitely not for me.

I liked this more than I thought I would. Great instrumentation, and a country singing voice that doesn’t grate on me.

Country just really isn't for me. I can hear that it's not bad but the whole album feels like a trope.

Not sure this should’ve been on the list

In general this isn’t my jam. If the country albums they’ve had this is probably my least favorite - too slow, too little bite, overall it isn’t one I find interesting.

I am a fan of Dwight Yoakam and his music. I am of two minds about this album being in this book. I don't think this is one of his best albums, as I would put This Time, If There was a Way, or even one of his later albums (Second Hand Heart?) in the book. If the point is to introduce the listener to Yoakam's sound, then I would probably have gone with Guitars, Cadillacs... Regardless, this is a good album and I am happy Yoakam has a spot in the book. He has a weird sense of humor in his music with lyrics that often reflect the heartbreak he is usually singing about. I can see some were offended about What I Don't Know, as the idea of him killing his significant other turns them off. I listened to an album on Monday where every song was about how much the band liked Satan. Some of it was tongue in cheek and there are plenty of rap albums in this book (that I enjoy) where killing others are the subject of almost 50% of the album tracks. So, I think you will be fine to hear one song by a country artist where he is (kind of) tongue in cheek saying he will kill his significant other in the form of wordplay. My favorite tracks: I Got You One More Name What I Don't Know Buenos Noches From a Lonely Room I Sang Dixie Streets of Bakersfield Send Me the Pillow

Peaceful country album. Great voice and guitar and I enjoy the old fashioned feel with some elements of Mexican music

For a late '80s country album, this is *very* rootsy. It's also very "Tear In My Beer", for better or worse. But, it's also good, so then there's that. Dwight Yoakam is a charismatic storyteller across this collection of Americana songs, and he leads Buenas Noches... somewhere that most country of it's time didn't dare to touch. It honestly invokes some of the '70s (and earlier) couuntry I've heard, especially with the accordion. I will say that I don't think this transcends into one of my favorites of the genre, although the title track is a fantastic song. But regardless, I'm glad I heard this album.

I really don’t like country music. I like country-rock and alt-country so let’s see what Mr. Yoakam’s got. Pretty straight country. Typical country vocals. God awful steel guitars. Some good guitar work here. Uptempo songs are better. Song with Buck Owen’s is okay. Below average album. Two star. Country fans might like it.

Pas grand chose de rafraîchissant/novateur là-dedans, surtout pour 1988. Un son Nashville 20 ans plus tard (la voix de fond de gorge, les guitars avec le tone au max, etc.). Un honky-tonk de qualité, mais sans plus.

Un peu trop country pour moi mais quand je l’ai remis à l’heure de faire le souper, j’ai pas pu m’empêcher de me déhancher! Donc un point de plus.

Llegó un momento en el que sentí que estaba escuchando a Los tigres del norte y fue lo único que “me gustó” aunque solo fue una canción y fue el coro.

No fav song

its def good country it just didn't really catch my attention

This guy's really doesn't like women does he

What a classic country record should sound like. Not overly obnoxiously twangy. A good listen. Dwight yoakam. I watched the movie slingblade and I thought the abusive stepfather buy was tom petty. Then I learned it was Dwight yoakam. Then I saw the movie the green mile and I thought the crazy inmate was Dwight yaokam but then learned it was Sam Rockwell. Sam Rockwell is an incredibly underrated actor.

It’s alright

Можливо саме серед кантрі музики це не погано, але якщо порівнювати цей альбом з іншими з цього списку — це нереааааально нудно. Начебто усі пів години грала одна довга пісня. 1,5

Remarkably predictable. I get that he's trying to branch out from his "normal", but it's clear that he's not really knowledgeable in the the style of music that he's trying to fuse with country. At it's core, they're listenable songs. Nothing terrible, just a good example of appropriation.

RATING: 5/10 HIGHLIGHT: Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses) LOWLIGHT: What I Don’t Know

This generator has made me realize that I do not actually hate country. I just find the people who typically listen to country to be insufferable. Easy 4 stars.

As a fellow Appalachian, gotta rep my kin.

Not my cup of tea

Its pure country. Jaunty storytelling

Too much country

4/10 How many times in one album can a man sing the word "dixie"? Dwight Yoakum is proof that 9322 times is possible, although I'd argue it's perhaps not enough. 10,000 dixies per album is the bare minimum. The album is very, very country: lots of yearning, complaining about the big city, god, crying about people in bad situations, and putting the south on a pedestal. Some of it's pretty good, most of it's pretty mid, and there aren't really any standouts. My big takeaway from this album is that Bakersfield was considered a shithole even back in the day, which is hilarious.

Previously unknown. Fine. I didn't find it very interesting.

Holy hell, this thing tries to be gritty and ends up sounding like a bad sitcom script about a jealous cowboy. The musicians are decent; there’s a slick fiddle solo that actually lands. Otherwise, it’s a parade of tired southern clichés. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions - I Sang Dixie - Streets of Bakersfield

Playful lyrics like The Chics song Goodbye Earl are fun and fine, but Dwight turned this one into a Dateline episode. The music is fantastic, the lyrics and vocals are not.

Country Americano clássico. Não é meu estilo, mas bom ter ouvido.

Was looking forward to giving my first country album a whirl....turns out an album of country music is just as made as a single!

3/5

Holy crap. Gorgeous vocals, but still not a country fan. Definitely not a revenge porn and southern fried, misogyny fan. Bruh.

I'm not much of a country music fan, and this style of country certainly isn't bringing me any closer to becoming one. The only thing I found remotely interesting was the use of the accordion, which gives the album a nice Tex-Mex flavor and helps it stand out from a lot of other traditional country records. Beyond that, though, very little grabbed me.

Not for me

Am I biased towards country? Yes. Did this album change that? No. To me, it felt like a solid country album and would likely be around a 4 if you loved country music. But, I just don't think country is that good in terms of instrumentation, lyrics, or style.

Favorite track(s): What I Don't Know, Buenas noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses), Streets of Bakersfield

I don’t believe anyone truly likes this.

Not bad

You happen to catch me on one of my random country music enjoyment days and when it comes to.good country, the late 80's has a lot of good options and this album is one of them. Good times.

This album felt like generic country to me. Most of the songs on "Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room" sounded identical to each other. However, I do think it sounds nice, which doesn't mean it's great. There's no reason for this album to be on the list. I can believe I reviewed over 600 albums on the site. 2 stars for "Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room".

Standouts I Got You

Yeehaw. This is standard, inoffensive 80’s country. It gets the job done but it’s seriously lacking in standout moments.

solid 3.5. Álbum divertido, apesar de um pouco repetitivo

Not a fan of country music but it's tolerable I guess.

Classic old country was a great start to my day today. The singers voice feel just as classic country sound when I imagine it. A bit of whine and heavy on the accent. The genre isn't something I listen to often but a warm summer evening its the best thing to have on in the background while hanging out with friends so I might have to play it a few times these coming weeks.

Ok

ok

súper country! muy padre :D

Fuck country music

I won't become a country guy, this much I have learned from this generator. Here is an extra awful example, though. Appalling lyrics over clichéd music that's already hard to bear.

I do not really not know much about country music - but I know I do not like this. I think the pacing is too jaunty and the voice lacks character for me. Not bad just not for me.

No, Dwight I haven't walked the streets of Bakerfield, and Yes I am judging you. You have an annoying voice and your album is terrible. Whine some more about that. Just keep your shootin' tendencies out of it. Yee-haw.

Outside of “A Thousand Miles From Nowhere” (which isn’t even on this album), I wasn’t very familiar with Dwight Yoakam’s music. I knew him better as an actor and had always enjoyed his film and TV work. But Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room was a pleasant surprise. Despite its often dark subject matter, it’s a fantastic record—traditional country with plenty of honky-tonk swagger and just enough south-of-the-border flavor to keep things interesting. It’s also a refreshing reminder of what country music can sound like when it isn’t drowning in the bro-country sludge that’s dominated the airwaves for years. It won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but I had a surprisingly good time with this one.

As we get older and musical taste becomes less defined by our peers, there is a tendency to give genres a chance when that would have been blasphemous prior. Country is one of those genres that I have come to enjoy more and more as I've opened my mind musically. While I still despise today's pop "country" and the industry's hit single at any cost mentality, the opposite corner of the country spectrum has really been enjoyable. This album had a fun honky tonk vibe and some Mexican flavor that really made it a great listen. I'd come back to this again if the mood hit.

Meh

I enjoyed this much more than I expected. 3.5* rounded down to 3*

Was absolutely stoked when I saw Dwight's name come up. A childhood favorite and remains probably my favorite country artist of all time. His focus on putting his unique vocal up front and surrounding himself with extremely talented instrumentalists and great producers really separate him from the stock. Love the Cali country vibe, but make no mistake, his tempos and styles vary within the tracklist to create an extremely tight album experience. This might be one of his best alongside 1993's This Time. "Streets of Bakersfield" is one of my all time favorite songs. So jubilant and the vocal interplay with Buck Owens honestly gives me chills. Dwight was the first concert I ever went to (age 5) and he'll always remain very special because of that.

Not really into country, this is just like any other country.

Buenas Noches starts off with a decent track, "I Got You", but unfortunately offers nothing but a monotonous and generic country sound that does not even reach the level of the opener. A fine thing to leave playing in the background, but that is not something we are looking for here.

I don’t mind it. Kind of crazy to have this album on the list when there are so many other better country albums.

That rarest of all creatures: good country music

I know and love a few Dwight Yoakam songs but didn't know this album. Overall I enjoyed it, I love the start of Buenas Noches but it was ruined by being a song about killing your cheating lover. Favorite songs: Streets of Bakersfield, I Got You

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Life-changing? A must-listen? No, sir. This album being included on the list is extremely discouraging. Country music technically isn't *overrepresented* on the list – as far as modern Western music goes, anyway – but it's certainly overrepresented in real life. I would've expected Dimery and Co. to compensate for this by maybe having 5-10 hugely popular country records (i.e., not this one) and using the remaining 990-odd slots for records that experiment a little more given the time of their release. For context, Buenas Noches was released in 1988 – when the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and other creative giants had already released (essentially) all of their ridiculously inventive material, and the world had decided (correctly) that inventiveness was the way to go. What happened? I Got You is a pretty enjoyable album opener if only because there's still hope yet. Hope that we might transition to a cool genre-bending, boundary-pushing masterpiece that makes use of some cool chords, instruments, melodic writing, mixing, production... anything, really. So I Got You sets this up for the album to hit that much harder later on. Simple, pleasant country music. Followed by a more arty and electronic breakdown, maybe something inspired by disco or metal. But... no. One More Name is exceptionally underwhelming. What I Don't Know, though, has enough bite in its brash guitar part to somewhat stand out from the crowd. But from here on out, I don't really know what to do. Every song is pleasant. Cloyingly so. The lyrics are generally the opposite, advocating for the murder of one's unfaithful wife. Don't murder wives, kids. Points lost in I Sang Dixie for using a term that had been offensive and dated as far back as the 60s. But points gained back for being one of the better-sounding songs here. Love the dual male vocal harmonising in Streets of Bakersfield, and though the back-and-forth between guitar and accordion is pretty cheesy, I still like it. Probably the best song here, at least when consumed in isolation. 2/5 Key tracks: What I Don't Know, Streets of Bakersfield

Enjoyable

First Listen; 2.5; Just feels very clean and predictable. It's certainly very technically proficient and sounds nice, but at the same time doesn't really do anything interesting. I can appreciate the instrumentation some, and there are some fun parts, but they lyrics just feel boring. Favorite Track: Floyd County

Yeehaw

The first country album I've gotten since doing daily records again! And I've never heard this one before, at least not consciously. Pretty much all of my country music knowledge comes from what my dad would play in his truck on camping trips, and for all I know this could have been one he played. I'm generally more of a fan of country music that predates this by quite a bit, but I actually really enjoyed this album. It predates the extremely unfortunate bootlicking bro-country movement that began in the late 90's and then exploded post-9/11 until it pretty much devoured mainstream country all together. So if you're looking for something with a classic mainstream country feel but still feels like real country music (no cartoonishly fake accents here!), I can absolutely recommend this. It probably isn't something I'd out on most days, but I probably will throw it on next time I'm out on my dad's boat with him. Some highlights: What I Don't Know, I Got You.

I'm sorry this was unlistenable!!! I just struggled to even get through any of it. This aint it for me sorry

I lowkey love this honky tonk shit. Objectively this isn't particularly good, but deep down in my soul I feel there's a lonely cowboy trying to get out. Why? I dunno. Maybe I need to unpack some stuff. Maybe I'm just having a weird mental health day. Maybe there's some kind of ancestral folk memory of my great great geegaw's time on the prairie in the 1800s. Fuck it, four stars. Side note, apparently this guy went out with Sharon Stone for 5 weeks but she dumped him because kissing him was like "kissing a dirt sandwich". Yeeeeeeee haw.

Listened

If I was to listen to country music it’d be stuff like this. Traditional-sounding, crisply performed and produced. But ultimately I can’t really be bothered with country music. The novelty wears off too quickly for me and then it all just sounds formulaic.

I’m giving it 5. The joy putting on this album.

I love some of Dwight Yoakam's albums. I also live that he stayed true to country music at a time when there was a lot of pressure to have more of a pop sound. I'm just not sure this is the record I wouldn'ty picked.

Made me feel like I was ok the Mexican border, in pre ICE times. Streets of Bakersfield is a gem too.

5: I will happily play this album anytime 4: I may occasionally play this album of my own free will 3: I will happily listen to this if someone plays it in the background 2: I will tolerate this if it is playing in the background 1: I will leave the room if someone plays this in the background

You know what I liked this. My brother listened exclusively to this era/genre and while I like it mixed into my rotation I’m not a purist. There’s a fun twang to it and I will come back to explore more Dwight.

Enjoyed it, felt pretty middle of the road country but happy to revisit.

Solid country album with a few familiar tunes .

I don't like country music.

3.3

I'm not into Country and so this guy was new to me. But a pleasant listen. 2,5

An album about killing your girl when you find out she's cheating, but trust The Lord. Honestly pretty decent.

This may be the best country album made in the 1980s. If you enjoyed this album listen to more of Yoakum's music. He soet of gets lost in comparison to some.of the other country artists who came after him but is in my opinion superior to Garth, George Strait and others who sold more albums and have a larger following.

Yoaked

If I WAS a fan of country this guy would probably be my jam. He's got that old "i lost my wife and truck" sound, but I'm not really a fan of country. Unless your Hank Williams because everyone gets a pass in the Hank Williams family.

Eh. This one's okay. Dwight Yoakam's Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room is a pretty standard country album all things considered. The music here sounds pretty good, but for being the best part of the album, it's still pretty average. Dwight's singing is alright. I don't have anything against his voice, but I don't love it either. The writing isn't my favorite. I'm not a fan of the songs like "What I Don't Know" where Dwight basically sings about killing an unfaithful partner. I'm not against country songs about killing people, but all I'll say is that "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die" and "But if I find out that you've been cheatin', what I don't know might get you killed" have very different energies behind them, and I think one is clearly better than the other. Other songs like "Streets of Bakersfield" are definitely better, but still not amazing. I really don't have much to say here. It's an average country album. 3/5. Now can I please get something better than a 3/5?

I enjoyed most of this album a lot but the whole domestic violence thing kind of took some of the fun out of it

Liked it until the domestic violence 🙃

Actually not bad for a country album, still didn't particularly love it.

They tease you with a great blues riff and then you're stuck with a whiny country album...

This just isn't my style. I can see how someone would think this is good, but I am not that person. I just can only take so much country. Least this was fast. It did what it wanted to do well tho. Liked Songs: "I Got You" , "Home of the Blues" , "I Hear You Knockin' " , "Streets of Bakersfield"

I really have a hard time enjoying country music. It’s not you, it’s me.

Shite country

Not bad, but definitely not my jam.

These songs are just too simple and plain. I could be charitable and say it helps show off Dwight’s voice (which is great), but in the end it’s just boring.

twang

I enjoyed the title track to this album a lot but the rest of this album was a bit meh. 2 stars only.

not as good as Joni Mitchell’s Blue

I am a fan but don’t this album too well.

Not for me.

Well. I liked the fiddle and mandolin.

I didn't dislike it as much as I expected from the genre, nonetheless, it is country.

Country twang One more name She wore red dresses Streets of bakersfield

This is 80s country and Dwight is a legend. The sound, the structure, the instrumentation, every bit of it is classic Country Western.

A pretty straight forward country album, very upbeat. I'll give it a high 3

Perfect country album.

Laughable

Had no idea what genre this was (from the artist or album name or the cover) before it started. But it ticked all the “country” tropes from the very first note to the last. Which is fine for about 4-5 tracks. Beyond that, very samey. Feels like this is how Disney would have done a country album. And I bet all his other albums sound exactly the same.

Country has never been my thing but I must be mellowing because this was tolerable.

This album was born under a lonesome star...

way too hick for me

This genre is a very hard sell for me.

Can't fault this one, but it's really not my cup of tea.

Love Dwight, but he has better albums. Still some great guitar licks in here though.

Pretty decent Country album here from Dwight. Great opening track, likely my favourite. Pretty wild he straight up murdered that girl in the title track. Some good country lines throughout, musically could have been more interesting. 3 stars

Not my genre.

Jamais écouté avant. Il y a quelques jours, je reconnaissais à Steve Earle la capacité à s'affranchir des clichés les plus ridicules de la country. Dwight Yoakam, lui, n'en a rien à foutre et plonge dedans la tête la première, sous prétexte de retourner aux racines du genre. Ça ne serait pas si grave sans les textes vomitifs de l'album. Marier ainsi clin d'œil antisémite, références au bon vieux temps des États confédérés, misogynie meurtrière étendue sur cinq morceaux (!) et, en guise de point final, clamer sa sainteté et son amour pour Dieu, c'est parfaitement dégueulasse, en plus d'être d'une hypocrisie inouïe. Une énorme bouse de cowboy fascisant pour redneck MAGA. Top : - Flop : Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)

I don't mind me a little 80s country. Had some polka aspects at times which isn't bad as a Midwestern boy. 3/5

not the biggest fan of country, and much of this is fairly typical country of the era. At least that's better than 70s over-produced country or modern "pop" country. Overall, it wasn't too bad - at least until that final way too religious tune.

The only thing I hate more that Yoakam's caterwauling ... is that he just dropped my overall average for the 80s! Thanks Dwight!!

I think the order of the albums is randomly generated, but back to back country… that’s not fair. Again, fans will know Dwight & he’ll deliver, sticking nicely to the formula they want. Whining guitar, harmonies, violin bridge, local lyrics. I just can’t do it.

Im not really a fan of country but this really got me swaying to the rhythm. This record, when compared to modern country, isn't vapid or all about the streams. The love and care put into this record is truly palpable. While I don't think I can give this a 10/10 because it does falter in some areas like poor composition in some songs but I do believe this record is really well built as a whole. 8/10

I remember seeing Yoakam live about 25 years ago. It is good. This album is ok. I don't think it's really special or particularly interesting. Songs I enjoyed: "What I don't know" (music, not lyrics), "Buenas Noches...", "I Sang Dixie", or "Send me the Pillow",... overall, not a great fan (and don't really like the lyrics). It's between 2 and 3 stars for me.

pls no more country i can't take it

Nice enough

Nö! Schon wieder nix!

maybe i’m just super duper white girl wasted on a sunny day but i liked this! his voice is so rich and i kinda love a little honk tonk every once in a while. i can picture myself by the lake this summer with a little yoakam floating in the breeze. no complaints! hold on to the word of God!

I think this is as old country as newer country gets. Distinct vocals. Great guitars. Great sound. Although it's not my cup of tea, I totally understand the vibe for those looking for a sing-along or a story.

Honestly, there isn't a star rating low enough for this pile of shit.

Too much country in this list. That said, this was okay.

NICE TO SEE YA BACK IN BUCEES

Muy country para mi

I don't remember the last album that I felt really introduced me to a new artist that I enjoyed or was a review of an album I felt truly deserved a spot in the Top 1001. This one doesn't change that one bit. I'm not into his sound, it's just another country album with better guitar and less slide than most. Way too much violin. I was bored 3 songs in. What makes this stand out from any other I-lost-my-dog-my-girl-left-me-my-truck-won't-start country album? Dude has like 9 Grammy's so you gotta respect that. I'll give the album props for listener counts, couple song with 19M and 49M respectively and a few more at 1.4M, 1.2M and 4.7M. Someone listens to this drivel. 2 stars, I honestly hate country music but this was slightly better.

Enjoyed it overall. Standout songs: One more name I hear you knockin' Streets of Bakersfield

country. invokes Dixie. two songs about violence towards women

Played it through twice nothing registered.

Very generic country. Like pre-stadium style. 3/10

Traditional country. Can’t see how this would even make a 1000 best country music list. Not for me. 2.

Following my relative reappraisal of Country from this list this definitely felt like something of a test..one I failed with flying colours.

And there I was bemoaning yesterday’s Gram Parsons’ country crap pile entré, only for this to be served as a main course. Being kind I could say the track that borrowed from American Trilogy was OK. The rest could have been filler from an extended version of the Parsons release. This is why I profoundly dislike country. It does absolutely nothing for me, and that’s coming from someone who loves a well placed slide guitar in a song. A painful, repetitive experience. A strong one, a weak two, but I got out of bed the wrong side this morning.

This is just painful.

Maybe the worst album yet, just truly vile stuff.

Bloody country music....

Yodelay hee hooooooo. Lo único q se me quedó fue que a este chaval probablemente le pusieron los cuernos.

el country no es lo mío

Me gustó bastante, es un country piola. No suelo escuchar este tipo de música, pero la verdad super entretenido y agradable al oído. 7/10

A lot of these songs kind of all sound the same to me. I actually like this era of country music, but this isn't the best.

The way country should sound!

Inoffensive country. Doesn't really bring anything to the table, but it's not harsh to listen to. Wouldn't be surprised if I heard songs like "I Sang Dixie" or "Floyd County" in a store somewhere. Very ear-friendly, but a bit too safe for my liking.

Probably a good representative of where country was at in the late 80's. Leaning country-pop, but still some of that twang to it. I understand that Mr. Yoakam wasn't too popular with Nashville at the time too, instead crafting his own thing separate from the country capital of America. This album breezes by and is crafted pretty well. The singles shine and the rest is pretty bleak at some points (if you're into themes of adultery and the like...) It was tolerable.

Alright 3/5

- Really nothing much to say here, just a nice easy listening album

This album was so bad it provoked my fight or flight response. Dwight Yoakam, I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

I'm not too familiar with Mr. Yoakam, but that 80s honkey tonk stirs something in me for some reason. But this one is pretty corny in hindsight, particularly I Sang Dixie. It doesn't seem like the entire Country music scene really moved on from themes like this. His story telling saves the album for me slightly, though there are better country artists in that regard imo. I did enjoy the tejano fusions on Bakersfield and Buenas Noches From A Lonely Heart. Unfortunately as much as I wanted to enjoy it, the themes really just killed me (like Dwight would apparently have done to his partner if they cheated). The more I think about it, the more I don't understand the inclusion of this album on the list. 2/5

Good

Almost gave this a 1 star because 1) it’s country music, and 2) Dude needs therapy. The only reason I’m upping it to a 2 is the incorporation of Mexican styles, especially songs reminding me of Tejano music.

A big, fat whopping no. This is the epitome of awful country music.

I didn’t find anything remarkable about it. And I do enjoy this genre of country.

Not listened to much country music until I started this project. Had a few albums since starting and so far they all contain at least one song about killing your wifey after she cheats on you

Sorry, I'm not into that country twang voice.

Review - this is a good fun country album. Score - 6.5/10 Need to listen? YES

I mean, if you keep threatening to shoot your lovers if they leave you.... maybe it's not them that's the problem? This is not redeemed by the music in any way. It's just basic and plodding.

Not a bad album, but nothing spectacular. Definitely giving my grandma's CD collection. I was already having a bad day and listening to the yeehaw of this album didn't help.

308/1001 Dwight Yoakam - Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room Heard before? ❎ Revisit? ❎ Twingy twangy country album? Yeah... Nah

This sounds like country music cosplay. Nothing wrong with it as such, it just sounds like a tribute to decades of preceding music that sounds the same. At this point I don't know if that's the dudes voice or an affectation. A moments the music is good, but that voice, the god awful title track and the fact 4 tracks in I feel like it's been on for 10 hours have sealed it's fate...

Good classic country album, always liked Dwight yoakam and this was a good one!

I was surprised how much this album sounded like Chris Isaak. Overall it was fine.

Suuuper twangy. Not really my scene and also sounds like it’s a good thing for this album that I generally don’t pay super close attention to lyrics. (2)

A bloody ordeal.

S'alright

Te veel rockabilly voor mij

country is ni mn ding

ni slecht, ma ook ni goe ofzo… 2,5

7/10. This one has that classic country heartbreak feel—lonely, dramatic, and very clear in its mood. Not every track sticks, but the atmosphere is well done.

Rootin tooting 4

Yee-haw. 80s country album featuring a duet with Buck Owens.

Not everyone likes country, I get it. But Dwight doing a concept album should be celebrated. But then again.... it's Dwight doing a concept album. Mid artist, Mid album idea.

I Got You - 3/5 One More Name - 2/5 What I Don't Know - 2/5 Home of the Blues - 3.5/5 Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses) - 2/5 I Hear You Knockin' - 2/5 I Sang Dixie - 3/5 Streets of Bakersfield - 2/5 Floyd County - 4/5 Send Me the Pillow - 2/5 Hold on to God - 1/5

There’s a strange tension running through this album. On the one hand it’s impeccably made country music - tight Bakersfield snap, proper songs, no wasted motion, enough accordion and rhythmic bounce to periodically threaten a full toot-toot outbreak. On the other, the emotional world it describes is bleakly unstable. These aren’t songs about grand romance so much as people trying to remain psychologically operational inside chronic insecurity. What surprised me was how Californian the whole thing felt once I settled into it. Not Hollywood California, but migrant California - highways, temporary rooms, drift, labour, emotional transience, people carrying “home” around inside themselves because the physical version has long since dissolved. Steinbeck with an overextended credit card. The Buck Owens influence is obvious in the sound, but the emotional weather feels much later and more exhausted. The album is full of movement, but very little liberation. Characters leave, drift, pack suitcases, stand at junctions, circulate through bars and streets, but rarely seem to arrive anywhere stable. Relationships aren’t treated romantically so much as infrastructurally - load-bearing emotional arrangements keeping people functional in a coercive economic landscape. That’s why the loneliness lands so hard. The songs understand that when continuity collapses, ordinary life itself starts to feel unstable. What kept fascinating me was the contrast between the emotional content and the musical presentation. “Streets of Bakersfield” is basically social exclusion and hobo precarity delivered with enough rhythmic uplift to keep the dance floor alive. A lot of American roots music seems built around this contradiction - despair transformed into socially usable momentum. British melancholy often stops and observes itself. This music keeps moving because stopping might mean total collapse. And yet, for all the insight and emotional realism, I never quite stopped feeling the limitation of the form. The album observes hardship brilliantly, but ultimately accepts the conditions as given. Endure, continue, sing, hold on to God, get through another morning. There’s very little sense that the wider machinery producing all this insecurity could itself be altered. That’s probably the point where my instincts diverge from the tradition. Still, as musical anthropology, this was deeply rewarding. Not a record I’d revisit often, but one that revealed a coherent emotional civilisation underneath a genre I’d previously kept at arm’s length.

I really like this! Turns out that a lot of the modern country I listen has a similar sound to Dwight Yoakam so that's neat.

This is the kind of country I don't like

Musically? Yes. Lyrically, this was such a cliche about country music as to almost be a parody of itself. His voice is nice to listen to, but his little yodel drove me up the freaking wall. Just stop already.

I injured my hand while listening to this album so now I think I should make an entire album about how my hand hates me and cheated on me Also I put full blame on Dwight Yoakam for said injury it's his fault I got hurt 💅💅

Just a name I know, but nothing else. Eh, I guess this is good 80s country, but doesn't sound so different from bad 80s country. I just can't get into it. There is a sameness to it all. 2 Heard before? No Owned: No: 72/291 (24%) Will I get: No

This really speaks to me personally, but I also understand why some see this as a bit of a caricature. I love that 'Bakersfield Sound' from Buck Owens and Merle Haggard and others - the tex-mex influence, that country shuffle... this kind of 'traditionalist country' really does it for me. There are times when this record feels like someone doing a Merle Haggard record, though he doesn't have the same song quality. Overall this was a great listen for me and I put on a bunch of other Dwight Yoakam to listen to the rest of the day.

Actually don't mind country but those guitars were Aids

musica country, un 3 porque no estuvo mal ni bien

i never heard of this guy before but i sure know the sound. this is some real stereotype yeehaww ass shit. acoustic beats to tell your little dogies to git along to. piss-taking aside, im having a lot of trouble forming an opinion on this besides "yeah thats some country and western music". like i guess musically its fine but whatever it's doing to have earned a place on this list is going totally over my head, assuming there even is a reason beyond "one of the list contributors heard one of the singles on the radio and kinda liked it". the inclusion of "i sang dixie" doesn't do this album any favours either. "rebel pride", huh? and what exactly were the south rebelling against, mr yoakam?? gimme a break..... at least its only 35 minutes long, i guess.

I can't really stomach this nonsense.

Singing voice like a hound dog baying for it's supper! That's country music. I like it but I guess I've been more open to country but more the blues based or rockabilly style than the POP with TWANG. It's the singing voice can get you. Yoakim's voice is pretty par for course. Streets of Bakersfield is pretty good with accordion. Gives it a mariachi band vibe to it. 3

His voice is great, the production quality is top notch, but this isn't my thing. '80's and '90's country is just too manufactured sounding for my tastes when it comes to country and western music.

Perfectly pleasant instrumentals. I think I would have liked this a whole lot more if his voice wasn’t quite so plain. Likes it’s serviceable but I forgot the vocal performances about as quick as they left my ears. Favorite song was I Hear You Knockin’.

This was soooo boring!

honky tonky not for me

He's bouncing on my boots cheeks i love the way he ride

its really not that bad

Never guessed this would be country

I only like very few country singers, and Dwight Yoakam is now one of them. It was a pretty chill country album with clear Mexican rancheras influences. Will definitely listen to again when I'm in the mood for country, which is rarely.

Very serviceable classic country songs. However it’s killed by the late eighties production. Everything is so gated and compressed, whereas the records that this is modelled on were just instrument to tape with tracks bleeding across and mistakes and so forth. It just makes it all too clean

I Got You - 2/5 One More Name - 1/5 What I Don't Know - 1/5 Home of the Blues - 3/5 Buenas noches From a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses) - 1/5 I Hear You Knockin' - 2/5 I Sang Dixie - 1/5 Streets of Bakersfield - 2/5 Floyd County - 2/5 Send Me the Pillow - 2/5 Hold On to God - 1/5 Average score: 1.6/5 ⭐️ i wasn't very impressed for the most part unfortunately. this had just about everything i hate about most country music. and the advocacy for murdering adulterous people? weird there wasn't enough that i liked about this album to spare it from receiving a 1-star rating. oh well

More than a little creepy, with revenge fantasies and desires for used pillows. The music was standard country to my ears, in other words awful. I was holding out for the track with the most listens, but that wasn't great either. It wasn't quite bad enough for one star, but it's a low two.

Happy to see a 80-90s country album on a list that has almost none. This was good but not my favourite Dwight album b

I should come back to this

Smooth, cool, Dwight Yoakam. People who don’t like country will lambast this for his twang, but fuck ‘em. Plus 1 to offset the haters.

I got my country music roots working in a townie bar in Emmitsburg, MD for 2 years - I’m no expert, but I think I know the difference between roots country / good country & trash country. This feels like real country music. If A Thousand Miles from Nowhere were on this album I’d have a hard time not rating it higher

Most of these tracks feel straight out of the golden age of country music. Surprising for an album that came out as late as 1988.

Not a country western fan at all and this album held true to that.

Basically yeehaw But quite a bit too bland for me

Great instrumentals, annoying country voice. Real sad boy country this one and it’s okay.

Not into it. There are aspects of this music that I like, e.g. the slide guitar. But I dislike the yodel-like country vocal inflection. And the songs as a whole sound dated. It's a 1988 album but if you told me it was released a few decades earlier I wouldn't be that surprised.

Being 80s Country, I was prepared to be turned off to this. Since I sort of equate that time period in that genre with sort of "rock with twang." But this was more traditional and thus better than I expected.

I mostly enjoyed this. It was a nice mix of more traditional sounding country, bluegrass tinges on a gospel song, and occasional mariachi vibes - all paired with mostly lovely instrumentation and great vocals. I'm trying to wrap my head around, tho, why some of the violence against women in country music doesn't tend to strike the chord that it does in hip hop. Does it feel more like a fantastical story & less real? Is there a tongue in cheek quality to country while rap is aiming for a gritty true-to-life feel? Some of the lyrics here felt a little more chilling than Johnny Cash singing 'I took a shot of cocaine & shot my woman down' for some reason....but still didn't rub quite the wrong way that Eminem singing about murdering his ex does. An interesting question I don't know I have the answer to.

I don’t really mind many of the songs, but the production and performance is just so «nice». There’s no edge to it at all, and the only time I take notice is during the harmonies on the last two tracks. At least it’s a million times better than what goes for country nowadays. 4/10

I found the song about shooting your wife so deeply disturbing that although I would have given this album a 2 for being boring, that song just ruined it for me. I dont want to hear about a man singing along to his guitar in a campfire esque way talkign about how he held a gun up to her head thank you

I know, I know, country is a valid genre of music but god does it make me laugh at how unserious it sounds! I can't imagine someone sitting down and putting headphones on to listen to this unironically or not out of obligation let alone someone deciding to write and record this. I don't mean to be discriminatory (I do) but ALL COUNTRY MUSIC SOUNDS THE SAME and to grossly generalise, all country music is pretty atrocious to my ears.

Putting buenas noches on the whitest album ever made is a wild choice

I've seen Dwight Yokum live. I know he has good music. Most of the songs on this album aren't the ones I would call 5 star. Are the quintessential 1980s/1990s country and do they immediatelyhold a place in my heart just because of that? 100%. Are there better DY albums that could have made the list? 100%.

Nice pants, bro. Not much to this except death threats to women.

Dwight, have you considered if so many women keep cheating on/leaving you, the common denominator is you? As a country (and western) music enjoyer, but not superfan, I need someone to let me know, would it be fair to say Yoakam is responsible for the turn of country to modern "Stadium/Bubblegum" country? It sure seems like it. This record is indistinguishable from the garbage schlock put out by the majority of contemporary C&W artists. Bigoted, boring slop 1/5

honey tonk country with misogyny and elements for the good old south . Interesting use of Mexican flavors and sounds so it’s not a 1

6 - AVERAGE

Naw

Day 29 — Dwight Yoakam — Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room (1988) Listened: April 19, 2026 Genre: Bakersfield Sound / Honky-Tonk Country Vibe: A blend of country, honky-tonk, and Spanish influence with raw lyrics and a distinctively lonesome voice. Highlights: • I Got You • Home of the Blues ★ Buenos Noches From a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses) • I Hear You Knockin' • I Sang Dixie • Streets of Bakersfield (feat. Buck Owens) Impression: Very enjoyable album from top to bottom. Never heard of Dwight Yoakam or the Bakersfield sound and as a California native, I'm proud to have discovered this new favorite corner of country music. Rating: 3.6/5 Keep songs? Yes Revisit album? For sure

Some of these songs sound like those pre-programmed songs on cheap yamaha keyboards

Just above average C&W

Un género q no había escuchado mucho

tranquilo, chill

Covering both types of music: country and western...

3.5/5

After being pleasantly surprised by some country albums on this list, I finally hit one I didn't care for at all. Which is a shame, because I think Dwight Yoakum is a great actor, and he has an outstanding cover of "Suspicious Minds" out there, but I cannot deal with his nasal twang for an entire album. Just a swing and a miss on this one.

By all standard metrics, this is an exceptional country music album. It's got honky tonk, fiddles, accordion, yodel-y vocals and a Buck Owens cover. But it all leaves me cold. I feel all those things are done to the extreme; almost to the point of parody. I also feel that's just a sign of late 80's county. That's when country music started getting a lot of polish. It feels very slick and over produced. Some of it feels like they said "Turn the treble all the way up and fire the bass player! We want to make sure this sounds good on AM radio" Dwight Yoakum is a real talent and a credit to the genre. I'm giving 3 stars but honestly I kind of hated this so don't listen to me.

Didn’t need this and didn’t finish it. RYM: N Saved a song: N

Unfortunately country music like this leaves me cold. And worse still, it feels like someone scraping their nails down a blackboard. At least it's only 38 minutes long. This album seems to me to be well executed and recorded, it's just that I really dislike the genre.

Favorite Track: Streets of Bakersfield

I mean, hell yeah

Country is not my thing. Buenas melodías, tho.

Dwight is one of the class of 1986 - the year that changed country music. Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle and Randy Travis. Dwight is the fourth. KD Lang sometimes gets included (her vibe is a bit different but she’s important). Dwight brings back the Bakersfield sound really. Lyle refigures Texan masculinity. Steve thinks about outlaw meanings etc. I think the Dwight 1986 album is the must listen. But Streets of Bakersfield is gorgeous. Buck Owens was brought out of a reclusive retirement (Buck never really recovered from the death of Don Rich). 4.5 because I’m not sure this is the one. If it is the one then 5.

Is country music intended as serious or satire? Has the current President taken his charade too far? (Is it now time for him to break character and say is was all a joke inspired by a Peter Sellers film? The debrief would be a relief for some, embarrassing for others ...) So is this album the real deal? How does one tell? Being named Dwight must signal being hard core for the genre. Which I am not. To me, this is a weapon. Especially if Mars Attacks! (reference to the 1996 film). I will leave it to the experts to say whether adding an accordion is an unnecessary and frivolous adornment to such a serious musical style. Wherever the song about Bakerfield gets a lot of play, I wont be.

I'm a big Dwight fan, he's one of those who helped kick start country and get it out of the Nashville doldrums. As with most revivals he took all the core elements and shook them up for a new sound. Deadbeats, I saw him in 2012 and it was one of the best show I've seen. That said this is not my favourite album, the Tex Mex of Backersfield with Buck, She Wore Red Dresses being a great murder ballad, I Sang Dixie and as close to a murder ballad as you are going to get with What I Don't Know, its the emotional threat which makes it. These are all the highlights. I think it is Pete Anderson's somewhat muted production, maybe. A very good Dwight record but not his greatest.

Cheesy neo-traditionalist country re-hashing the Bakerfield honky-tonk sound. I would much rather listen to some of the artists who first forged this sound. Dwight Yoakum doesn't really have much to add except for a huge serve of toxic masculinity and murderous misogyny. It's a hymn to his fragile ego and domestic violence. Now, there are plenty of murder ballads on this list -- they are a long-established genre of popular song -- and many of them describe random and unprovoked acts of femicide (some notable examples from this list; Nick Cave's Where the Wild Roses Grow, the Louvin Brothers' Knoxville Gril, Neil Young's Down By The River). It is a trope that is starting to really concern me. And Dwight's examples stand out as being recent, humourless and un-self-aware. No thanks.

What can I say?... a pretty monotonous album, good country music.

It was only a matter of time before this thing fed me a country record. I tried to listen with an open mind. Still didn’t like it, but not the worst thing this site had me listen to.

I'm very picky when it comes to country music I like. I grew up hating it, but only in the past decade or so have given some of it a chance, but still, the majority of it I can leave on the table. I've heard some Dwight, and liked it before. And maybe this struck me just right today, but I really enjoyed this album. It's sounds authentically country, but also sounds fresh and well recorded. And the same with the lyrical style; it's definitely in the traditional vein of country, but artfully done. And it's not over done, either. 11 distinct tracks in 36 minutes. This is definitely one of my favorite country albums. 4.5/5, and rounding up due to the surprise factor of being really into country.

In which Dwight Yoakam single-handedly recaptures the Bakersfield sound, even dragging the great Buck Owens along for a duet on “Streets of Bakersfield”. Pretty good stuff.

Muy country pero tiene temas piolas

Genuinely shocked that the top rated reviewer criticizes toxic masculinity in country music. Ha ha, what a woke dumbass.

8.5/10

Countryzinho básico com as letras mais ridículas imagináveis. Gosto de um country honky-tonk, nesse estilo clássico, raíz, mas esse disco não conseguiu me agradar. Tudo me pareceu muito superficial, falso, plástico, sem alma e sem juízo. Não me parecia algo verdadeiro e orgânico. Pode ser só impressão minha, mas foi o que senti! Ao menos, é um disco curto, e essa pegada meio chicana é interessante. Não é horrível, direi isso. Ainda assim, não gostei de verdade e não ouviria novamente. 2/5