I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail

2.0 - Weak

This didn't age well.

The first album that was hard for me to get through to the end. I understand the legacy, but it honestly sounds more like a parody of country. Act Naturally’ gets a small plus from me because it reminds me of movie X. 3/10

Nae my cup of hickery shit lye

Not a fan of this album at all but I 1000% can see myself wandering the fallout wastelands to the first song.

Bad twangy folk country from 60 years ago. Gross.

He looks like Jimmy Carter. I am not a country person and would rather not hear this again.

Mediocre country is a staple of this list, it seems.

Muy wena voz pero idk, está todo tan cuadradito que pierde caché

Forsvant forbi uten at jeg tenkte over det

Hokey country music

This is my grandfathers bluegrass music. It’s a good history listen but I can’t see myself revisiting any of it away from this project.

Look, this is fine. The highlight is the non-Ringo version of 'Act Naturally.' But this is really an old skool country record you can put on and forget about. Nothing mind blowing here.

Give me some Johnny Cash or modern alt. Country/Americana instead of this please. Mid 60s - 1965, Beatles with 'Rubber Soul', Dylan's 'Bringing It All Back Home',Johnny Cash has 'Orange Blossom Special' and yet Buck Owens is singing about swinging a tiger by the tail. Mediocre country. 2 out of 5 stars only.

The predominantly UK-based music critics that populated this list sure do have a fetish for early Country & Western music. I will not my own bias - C&W (and country in particular) is not a genre I luck much at all. And this album, while inoffensive, really does nothing for me. There's a tried and true formula to this music, and if the music describes the world you live in and/or this is music you grew up with this I can understand why you'd enjoy it. Other than that...it's pretty meh. The only thing this album seems to have inspired is people making more of this music. As you can tell, not for me.

Did a good job of making me go to sleep during a 13 hour flight

It’s ok. Not my thing.

Ugh, another one of these C&W wonders

Isn't "I've got a tiger by the tail" the "cleaner" version of a very VERY racist song line? I really should have disallowed country from this project for myself; I rarely enjoy these. Highlight: act naturally (because of the beatles, ngl)

Don’t know enough to know why this is on list. Sounds like hundreds of other things from this era to me. It was fine

So there's some classics on here, but I have to say most of the really solid ones are done better by other folks. Has a nice throwback feel to it but if I want old-timey country/western twang there's much better options on this list.

2,3 Highlights: Wham Bam, If You Fall Out Of Love With Me

Surprised at how long I listened to this

I've Got a Tiger By The Tail - 3/5 Trouble and Me - 2.5/5 Let the Sad Times Roll On - 2/5 Wham Bam - 2.5/5 If You Fall Out of Love With Me - 2.5/5 Fallin' For You - 3/5 We're Gonna Let the Good Times Roll - 2.5/5 The Band Keeps Playin' On - 2.5/5 Streets of Laredo - 3/5 Cryin' Time - 2/5 A Maiden's Prayer - 2.5/5 Memphis - 3/5 Pretty standard rockabilly country. Nothing really special but it's a decent album regardless. Production is very muddy at points where the vocals are drowned out by the music. Apparently this way a fairly influential album but I didn't really see it that way. Guess I'm not deep into the country scene or whatever. Overall: 2/5 Favorites: I've Got a Tiger By The Tail, Streets of Laredo, Memphis

Its ait, but not very special to me.

It's... country music. I like some country music. This one is fine, but I didn't quite make it through.

Not my thing but cool for the style of album

fine

I feel like my grandpa would have loved this fellow. It’s a little to honky tonk for me, but some lyrics are hilarious. Wham Bam is a particular favourite!

I don't mind it, but it sounds like so many other old country albums that I'm just not that interested. Perhaps I was forced to watch too much RFD TV as a kid.

Not an old timey country music fan, but a lot of very recognizable songs

This guy’s not doing so well with the ladies. Not totally sure I listened to the right version of the album? A crooner. Archetypal, but, for me, meh

I think it says something that my favorite song on this album has no lyrics (a maidens prayer). I find his voice quite annoying.

Buck and his Buckaroos have a tiger by the tail but Prince has a lion in his pocket that I’ve been told is ready to roar. Which is better? There’s only one way to find out… FIGHT!!!! *one minute later* Oh what a surprise it’s a massacre. Prince and his lion wins.

This one is probably a victim of it's age at this point. Just really basic, old country music. And unfortunately, with the exception of Act Naturally, this album is not Fallout-core.

A little too much Honky and not enough Tonk. I was suprised that "Act Naturally" was first sung by Buck vs Ring.

A lot of this sounded like a parody of a country album. Not for me I'm afraid. I understand that the covers of these songs are all better than the originals. So maybe a great songwriter, but not a fantastic album. 2⭐️

Nice mood and era sound. Not really for me. Streets of Laredo stood out to me.

Hokem Pokem cowboy shizzle. Very vanilla disposable stuff.

Mate, get the hint - she doesn't like you anymore. Move on. A couple of stars for the influence but the same song, with slightly different lyrics, in slightly different time, 14 times over, gets a bit tedious.

I don't care for it. It sounds old and hokey. That isn't its fault, really, time just did that to it.

Wham Bam, thank you mam. Is this where the phrase comes from?? Damn. Seems like this might have been groundbreaking, didn't mind listening to it, wasn't inspired, but it passed by without upsetting me particularly.

Its probably a country classis i dont know. The first half is rough to say the least. It gets listenable at the end but it doesnt hold enhough content to me. Some songs repeat the same message and i feel like if it cut half the songs and kept the good ones it would be a better album.

Not my type of music - too much of a country twang. A few standards, but I prefer versions by other artists.

I'd like to like this more but it sounds SO formulaic.

So I guess this is included because it’s ’Bakersfield country’ / hillbilly music. I’m hoping that means it’s the only one. Ploddy steel twangy guitars. Not my least favourite country but I don’t like it at all.

Didn't overstay it's welcome, which is nice.

Відверто не моя музика, але разок прогнати можна і якогось роздратування під час прослуховування не було.

Сильно не моє.

I’ve always liked this song “Memphis” and for some strange reason enjoy his voice. But this is not something I can listen to maybe one song at a time can’t take a whole album of it.

I'm already struggling; this caught me on the wrong day. Playlist Additions: - I've Got a Tiger By the Tail - Wham Bam

Well, I wasn't sure whether I loved or hated this album until the cover of Memphis Tennessee came on and I remembered that there are NO Chuck Berry albums on this list! Chuck did that song so much better... Apparently Buck was a huge influence on Dwight Yoakam. And I'm supposed to be impressed?!

Wasn’t that into this

I like classic country but this seems a bit camp. When I think of Buck Owens, Hee Haw instantly comes to mind so it's hard to separate that from the artist. Plus honestly I'm team Roy Clark anyway :)

Šta reći da nije već rečeno... Mrzim country. Ovo se skoro može slušati. Eto.

Album No. 0074 on my list. I could imagine that this album is probably on this list because it is the classic country sound in perfection. Perhaps it was one of the first ones perfecting this sound or so, I dunno. Unfortunately, it sounds so much like country that it rather feels like a parody than anything serious. In addition, things are somewhat repetitive and a little dull. Maybe it's just not for me and country fans will be very happy to see this on the list. "I've Got A Tiger By The Tail", and "Memphis" were the songs I liked best and I'll add them to my playlist. 2/5 stars.

2 stars I’ll never listen to this again and a lot of it sounded the same to me. But I didn’t hate myself for listening to it and it was short so I appreciate it for that. Just does nothing for me.

Not my favorite style of country but it wasn't all bad. I did feel that the beats were really repetitive so I got tired of it even if it was just a half an hour long.

Haven't heard of him before. A couple of songs were fun but I find the overall vibe of some country albums overwhelming. This music is not popular here so listening to a whole album in this genre feels like I'm listening to a parody album and I can't shake that feeling off 2/5

3/10

Mercifully, none of the songs are very long

Not a country fan, but respect to the album that started the honky tonk sound and fun bit of trivia that Buck Owens recorded act naturally before the Beatles.

Довольно стандартный кантри, хонки-тонк, голос у Оуэнса не самый лучший, нет особого разнообразия. Но приятно слышать живой, аутентичный кантри-инструментал. Но в целом ничего особенного. 2/5

I have no ear for this style and era of music. Short but felt endless.

appreciate buck owens for inspiring so many bands i like, but they'll take it from here

and just like that I'm nine years old again and trapped in a grandparent's living room while my dad does yard work or something my least favorite of the three? versions of Streets of Laredo I've heard in this project although I appreciate the deep voice

Was mostly into the last few tracks but maybe that’s just when I started paying more attention to the instrumentation.

Hokem Pokem cowboy shizzle. Very vanilla disposable stuff.

Album 953 of 1089 Buck Owens - I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail (1965) Rating : 2.5 / 5 I’ve always liked Buck and his Bakersfield sound - that twangy, straightforward, good-time country that just feels authentic. He’s got his own style, and it’s always easy to recognize. That said, this particular album didn’t hit quite as strong as I hoped. The songs are fine, the guitar work (especially from Buck himself and Don Rich) is enjoyable, but the production feels a bit thin. It’s listenable, sure, but it just never really gets going in a way that sticks. It’s one of those records that sits right in the middle - not bad by any means, but nothing that stands out either. Still, Buck Owens’ charm and easygoing delivery keep it from ever being a bad listen. Even when it doesn’t sparkle, it’s got that down-home feel that makes his music hard not to like.

i did not need to hear this before i die 💀

Really not my cup of tea, although I can appreciate the album and its impact it had on music at the time. That being said for me it wasn't very enjoyable, particularly as I'm not a fan of the style, and I had a hard time listening to this one.

I got this right after skunk anansie and its funny to juxtapose them against each other. Its hard to listen to this and understand what people who do or did enjoy this in earnest were up to in their lives. Im guessing there was a lot of beer and pretty much only white people. It probably was influential or something but it almost sounds like a parody. An odd listen that I just think doesn't hold up in time.

Not much for country in general but this old 60s twangy shit aint so bad. 2 stars

This album wasn’t for me a low 2 star for me

Cool old country sound. Not my type of album at all but I can respect it for what it is.

Howdy folks!!

Country music is generally abhorrent to me, having had it forced upon me from an early age. This wouldn't have been so bad of they music wasn't, without exception, shit. This album isn't the worst collection I've ever heard. At least it doesn't have any Irish moments. I won't pretend the band can't play, but I also won't deny the fact that slide guitar in country music gives me a violent, vomit reaction. You've heard one Country album, you've heard them all. Thankfully this one is free from the rampant racism, stupidity, religion, and fascism hidden under the guise of Patriotism which is the genre's modern hallmark.

This was kinda enjoyable, can’t really remember any of the songs though. Would I listen to it again? No

This is kinda hokey country, w pretty much zero gravitas that makes it stand for something.

Overall: 4/10 Not the worst thing I've ever heard. I just can't really get into Buck's voice if I'm being honest. The songs aren't really that special themselves and neither is the production of the album. That cover is also doing it no favours. Fav Song: The Band Keeps Playin' On

1,5/5

Me, yesterday morning : "Been a real run of dross the past couple of weeks. Come on algorithm, give me something good." Oh.

Recently this website offered me an album by The Boo Radleys. However, this guy looks like Boo Radley

I think this has just confirmed for me that I don’t like country music. Who knew a 2 minute song could feel so long?

Very dated. I’ve listened to it now. Move on.

Those 32 minutes really dragged. I don't mind (some) country but Buck Owens represents that hack-eyed type of country which makes my skin crawl. The sound of country fairs, drunk uncles, and clouds of cigarette smoke. No thank you.

Ziemlich spezieller Country garnicht mein Ding wieder interessante Geschichte hinter Buck Owen’s Crying Time ist besonders gut wenn man weiß das er 3 Ehen hatte aber keine davon gehalten hat in Amerika bestimmt weitaus mehr bekannt auch durch die TV Serie Hee Haw Special Mention: Crying Time Best song:I’ve Got a Tiger By The Tail Rating: 2,5 Ist halt country, aber nichtmal die krasse Art. Sehr langweiliges Ding. Und nach Adrians Informationen war der Typ auch ein heftiger weirdo 2,1/5

It was fine. Standout songs: Let the sad times roll on The band keeps playing on

A little too much twang for me

Yo this dude is ugly as hell. This is glimmering honky tonk music. This is from an age when one could slap a waitress on the ass, punch a stranger in the face, line dance and go to sleep knowing you had a night well done. I’m actually a big fan of this album. It was a lot of fun. I knew that movies song. It’s a lot of fun!

Not really my jam but I could appreciate it and enjoy moments of it. 2.5

Doesn’t hold up

That twang is an acquired taste. I can only take so much.

So country it’s almost comical.

Il country classico non è proprio il mio

meh

*Easily* the least enjoyable country album on the list thus far. One-note, goofy-ass honky tonk with little to redeem it. At least I got a good laugh at the low notes on 'Streets of Laredo'.

2/5

The odd-album that (a) I certainly “needed to hear” to understand evolution of the country sound (making it a 3 or above) and (b) i did not like at all (making it a 1). I do not like the repeated bending of notes, on guitar and vocally. It’s a trick/technique that can be great, when used sparingly. But it’s not used to great effect here and they do Owens does it throughout the album. Influential, yes; but not a good influence on the country genre.

So this album popularlized the "Bakersville Sound" combination of rock and honky tonk country, which influenced more modern country sounds. You can really hear that guitar electric twang that is associated with this sound and at this point is considered synonymous with country music. It's why this album sounds like the most cliche country album of all time; but this album created what we know today to be the cliche. I like the Streets of Laredo with it's deep bass chorus that really sticks out. Surprised this song isn't bigger. Overall i'm not really a fan, but I can appreciate how this album has influenced an entire genre 60 years later - for better or worse.

Not great but easy listening

Absolutely not my style. Not the worst I've heard by any means, but I didn't like it.

Once you concede that all honky-tonk is novelty, the question is not “is this authentic?” but “how long before the joke palls?” These songs are not testimonies, they are sideshows, stunt doubles for lived experience. They are padded bras of emotion. Buck Owens declaims Streets of Laredo with chesty solemnity, the chest itself buzzing like a fridge. It sounds great, but it is also hilarious. We are supposed to hear gravitas. What we get is pantomime gravitas: a cowboy hat worn indoors. The band plays with immaculate snap, the production gleams, yet everything is excused by the wink. Honky-tonk never resists it. Owens flashes smile upon smile until charm curdles. Wink too often and too quickly, and you give yourself epilepsy. Owens, perpetually sparkling, is not far off. 2 Obviously there is a cap on how high you can rate this sort of thing because it isn’t quite asking to be taken seriously. But I did manage to listen to this twice. The band are great - I especially liked the fiddle playing on Maiden’s Prayer. Enjoyed Wham Bam a lot. I danced to it in the kitchen with the woman with whom I live in sin. 2/5

Felt longer than it was.

A bit cozy but outdated

Better than most country on the list But a decent looking rat is still a rat. Fine but shite

Very samey and dayed

Finally finished. Oof.

2.5 Fine! Not my fave type of music but I get why it’s important. Short, and not hard to listen to.

Title track immediately sent my father in law into a lather because his dad apparently had an 8-track of this album that was broken, so it was the only song that worked. He would rewind it and play it over and over. Needles to say, the rest of the album is completely forgettable.

Some decent songs on here, and I can see how it could have been influential. But overall it's "Wham bam, thank you mam, not for me"

no sé si me gusta el country

Very country.

Me imagino que esto es lo que ponen en las cafeterias nocturas de estados unidos de Texas. Seguro que Tarantino lo usa de BSO.

country is not really my style but it's kind of a fun album

Hey, it's Ringo's song! Other than that little surprise at the end, this wasn't for me. I'm going to be generous and say it's a low two, not a one, but maybe that's just because I had Napalm Death recently.

I'm sure Buck has his devotees. But this is not even remotely in my wheelhouse. Chalk this 2 up to personal preference only and it should not take away from his influence...

Being a pioneer means diddly squat when the music you made sounds like donkey balls.

★★½

I mean it was kinda funny and didn’t over stay its welcome

Felt like I was in a honky-tonk twangy Tarantino movie, just keep that tiger away from my tail!

At least it was a quick listen! It might be great rockabilly but its not for me. Way too much slide guitar!

The recording production was pretty bad, plus not a genre I really enjoy to begin with. Listenable but won't get another spin from me.

A bit samey

Nah

Das Album I've Got A Tiger By The Tail wurde 1965 von der US-amerikanischen Countryband Buck Owens and His Buckaroos veröffentlicht. Die Aufnahmen fanden in den Capitol Studios in Hollywood statt. Die Band um Sänger und Gitarrist Buck Owens war zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits fester Bestandteil der sogenannten Bakersfield-Szene, die sich durch eine direktere, weniger orchestrierte Form der Countrymusik auszeichnete. Der Titelsong „I've Got a Tiger by the Tail“ zählt zu den bekanntesten Liedern der Gruppe und gilt als stilprägend für den Bakersfield Sound. Auch Titel wie „Cryin’ Time“ und „Trouble and Me“ stehen exemplarisch für den trockenen, klaren Klang der Produktion und die eingängigen, teils ironischen Texte. Das Album bleibt im traditionellen Country verortet, ohne auf Elemente des Honky-Tonk oder Rockabilly zu verzichten. Die Produktion wirkt kompakt und handwerklich präzise. Die Arrangements sind sparsam, aber durchdacht. Die Band agiert eingespielt, das Zusammenspiel zwischen Lead-Gitarre, Pedal-Steel und Rhythmusgruppe ist eng abgestimmt. Insgesamt bietet das Album eine konzentrierte Darstellung eines bestimmten Country-Stils, der sich deutlich von der damals populären Nashville-Produktion abgrenzt. Es dokumentiert eine Phase, in der Buck Owens maßgeblich an der Prägung einer alternativen Strömung innerhalb des Genres beteiligt war.

They were songs.

It's country music. Always struggled to take country music as a serious music style and this is no different.

nice bit of geetar twanging

It's only 32 minutes. Its upbeat but Old "Country n Western" isn't my jam...

Is this where Wham Bam thank you mam came from?? Very Old School Country

Decent country, would listen again if I was in the mood. 2.5/5

NOOOOOOOOOOOO it feels that a tiger kept biting my imaginary tail from the first note to the end. 2/5

Kort, enfoldigt country

Certainly not a sound that speaks to me, but I appreciate the simple sounds and lyrics and why he spoke to so many.

Ну эт бред какойт то на коне в ранчо баре прыгскокать башкой тенеты собирать ваще удивлена что это на яндексмузыке еще существует зато новые треки блейда не добавили дос

Fun, old school country. There's nothing special about this record but it has a certain charm to it. 5/10

joa a country record halt

Some heat, some lovely, some eh

I’m not a big fan of country music. How was that only 32 minutes. I felt like my brain was dissolving to mush. I get that this “was an important album” - but it’s only influenced music I’m not that into

Wow that was boring!

I really did not care for this album one iota. I enjoy older country music more than most people, but Buck Owens did too much rockabilly or had too much twang that I couldn’t enjoy the album. But I’ll be honest: while this was a drag, it was a smooth listen. Owens had a whole vibe going on. My enjoyment of this album is a 1, but it’s actual music that presumably someone on this earth enjoyed, so a 2.

Buck Owens was an absolute country legend whose music paved many a path for other country singers. That said, I've never really dug his style or his music. This album went pretty fast, and most of it sounded the same-ish.

I despise country music but, in the spirit of the program, decided to listen to this all the way through. It wasn’t terrible, mainly due to all the songs being under 3 minutes long. Not something I’d listen to again, but not mad about having heard it.

базовый кантри

Pretty nice twangy classic honky tonk rock and roll. These songs to me often have a timeless sound and I can appreciate forever. The thing that I don't like though is that it's often way too formulaic, and the chord progressions could be copied across every song on a record like this without deviation, and usually it's the hook or chorus line that keeps the songs afloat. "If You Fall Out of Love With Me" is my favorite on the record. I'm giving it a 2 because it's a nice album to listen to but I don't know if it warrants a spot on this list.

Att han rimmade "matrimony" med "alimony" gav honom nästan en trea dock

Some rock solid, vaguely annoying, old school honkey tonk country & western. Feels dated in the annoying way rather than the timeless way.

I’m not a big country fan to begin with. Twangy old school definitely wasn’t for me

Considering this may as well be from another planet, it’s not bad. Classic honky tonk… I guess 4.9/10

Too country for me

Buck Owens - I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail Just not for me, not bad by any means but a reminded to myself that i like modern country-ish music, not actual country music. ⭐️⭐️

While this is an innovative record and inspired country music that came afterwards, what came later was just far superior and left this artifact in the dust The streets of Laredo Let the Sad Times Roll On Let the Good Times Roll I’ve got a tiger by the tail Trouble and Me Cryin’ Time The band keeps playing on Wham Bam Fallin’ For You Memphis If You Fall out of love with me Act Naturally A Maiden’s Prayer This Ol’ Heart

Meh, at least it was a quick one

4/10 buhhhhhh

not my thing but ig its not terrible

Better than I thought it would be. Not my thing but he was very influential. And I did realise Act Naturally was first recorded by him, not the Beatles. See? He must be influential if he influenced the Beatles.

Elevated square dancing music.

Country, 1965 -> 2

Noh ihan jees countryy. Ei suuria tunteita kuitenkaan herättänyt. 2/5

Country das antigas 1950.

Basic 60s yankee album, nothing special considering the rest of what was being released at the time. 2.4

Good for its genre but not what I want to listen to.

It's...fine. It is exactly what it wants to be- a twangy old country album. Probably great if you like the stuff but I have no need to listen past 3 songs. 4/10 (2/5)

I really really don't care about country. All the commenters whining about how there's too much british music on this list, meanwhile I feel like im about to loose it when there is another southern twang singer complaining about how shitty their life is. I. DONT. CARE.

Johnny Cash is about the only country i can listen to. Unfortunately this does not have Johnny cash on it.

I can see why this was included. It is a very classic old American country style. It has some charm, not particularly my jam.

Not for me

A crystal clear twang Nursery rhyme style lyrics Yet sadder motifs

The first three seconds and I thought, wow this is not for me

This is strange thing to have to give a rating too. It's clearly from another time and hits a style really well. I liked Act Naturally. Something tells me this is really influential and makes sense being here but I don't know enough of the country world to really tell. Won't be back much, didn't hate the experience.

Boring ass country album. I see no point in having to listen to this.

atypical 90's country, was pretty nice to listen on a drive home but doesn't suit to listen outside of that

Hwatever

An entire album of 60s country is a but much.

Umm there are some "classic" songs but this is not my favorite album it is meh and I would never listen to it again, I'm more of an outlaw country man myself!

Meh, I understand that this is a seminal album for a certain kind of "hillbilly" music -- the kind you might hear at Bob's Country Bunker on a Saturday night. This just doesn't do it for me, but I do like the sound of the Telecaster.

He ain't no Johnny Guitar that's for sure.

Did not find it interesting, but at least it's short.

He’s obviously very talented and I liked a couple of songs but overall it was kinda cheesy country music.

Not really my type of music at all. Not bad to listen to just didn't do anything for me

Buck is lucky I'm feeling good on this Monday morning

Cute! I like a good old country album. Nothing really *stood* stood out to me though. Soz

This is silly country music that shows skill but not much heart

2.5

Sorry not for me - too much country and not enough rock and roll

Not my kind of country. I can see how it influenced my Cash style, but I just can’t listen to it again (and, man, Streets of Laredo was so much better with Cash at the helm).

I think it’s okay, but country is boring and uninteresting to me.

I’m sure to someone it’s the perfect album. Does one thing for 17 songs. Only song of note for me was Memphis. Reminded me of GTA San Andreas country music station.

Little bit hokey, but the album makes me reminisce about my Eastern Colorado family who loved to listen to music like this driving down the roads out there. Lot of standards on this album that I've heard many times by other artists. Worth hearing.

YEEE-HAAW!

Sometimes I think that I don’t hate all country music, just modern pop country that’s all exaggerated drawl, ‘Murica, pickup trucks, and beer. But Buck Owens is far from modern pop and I don’t care for him either. While the guitars have an impressive ability to suggest sadness or joy, it's the vocals that ultimately turn me off.

To quote Buck Owens: "Wham bam, thank you ma'm, I'll be on my way Thank you but no thank you, not today"

Just a guy whining about being lonely, but he does it in such an on-the-nose twangy country way that it was weirdly kind of endearing

Country halt. Für nebenbei mal nett. 2,4

I'm sure this is influential in the honkey-tonk sub-genre, but overall this isn't for me. There were a few standouts like "Let the Sad Times Roll On".

couldn't keep me interested on a full length project. Few Rebel Radio jams were provided. (2.5/5.0)

Middletown

Not my jam, but the musicianship is decent and I'm sure this slapped 50 years ago. Well, for some people, at least.

I've Got a Tiger by the Tail. Super generic country, barely merits a 2, thought it's just dull rather than bad, but he keeps it short and light.

Didn't get into this at all. Maybe there are better versions of a load of his original tracks here, and he is a really good songwriter (as a few of the comments on the site have said), but that didn't come across to me. Pretty down the line country, 2/5.

++: Wham Bam, Fallin' for You, Memphis +: I've Got a Tiger By the Tail, Trouble and Me, Let the Sad Times Roll On, We're Gonna Let the Good Times Roll, Streets of Laredo +-: If You Fall Out of Love With Me, The Band Keeps Playin' On, Cryin' Time, A Maiden's Prayer 5,4/10

I imagine this is good music to listen to while drinking sad and alone in an American bar, but that’s the only time I think I’d appreciate it

Old country. There's too many albums I'd rather listen to.

Too twangy. I'm just not a fan of country music. I'll always point out, at least this isn't modern pop country crap.

Album art: 2

• 2/5 - not my jam • Opening track was fun, upbeat hillbilly rock (with questionable lyrics); but the rest of the album was just variations on the formula

A generic, old school country album with enough very minor twists to make the formula at least standable, such as the odd rock n roll track at the end, or the multiple plays on the phrase "let the good times roll." However, it still was repetitive and predictable, and I fail to see what makes this shine above any other country "album" from the time.

I'm good. Don't think this style has aged very well Will I listen to again: 0%

Ok

It's short, that's a positive. However, this certainly is not much genre, so I'm pretty low on Buck Owens and his Buckaroos

A solid work in country, catchy tunes and a fun listen… did I enjoy it ? For sure … would I have been ok to die and not have heard it ? Ya probably . Historical impact aside , a solid 2

Eh.. pretty boring tbh

Didn’t really do much for me—the songs I liked are irritably because of other versions I’ve heard and like better, e.g. Streets of Laredo.

A couple of years ago I thought I should explore country music. Past those few songs and artists I had casually come by in my life so far. Could be worthwhile, I thought. Bar some few more, single songs and Gillian Welch: it was not. This music here is indicative of that.

Take your buckeroos and get outta town

Not bad by any means but a little cheesy. I'm curious as many of the country albums picked for this selection, while overall solid, tend to be really old and this embodies that to a tee.

Back to back country albums. Pijnlijk. Maargoed. Het is wel heel andere country dan wat ik gister had. Het is een vrij kort album, maar ik kan me er vandaag niet toe zetten om hier heel veel positieve dingen bij te zoeken. Ik heb hier gewoon best wel een hekel aan. Dat 4e generatie inteelt-accent vind ik verschrikkelijk. Er wordt wel eens beweert dat er tegenwoordig geen muziek meer wordt gemaakt of dat muzikale creativiteit dood is, maar dit is ook niet bepaald hoog niveau. Feitelijk worden op dit album ook 12 inwisselbare tracks uitgepoept volgens één formule. Alleen qua tempo heb je nog wat afwisseling en vooruit: Er wordt zowel 3/4 als 4/4 maatsoort gebruikt, waardoor hoempahoempa een enkele keer wordt ingewisseld door hoempapa hoempapa. Ik doe deze muziek echt tekort denk ik, maar voor mij is dit gewoon een 2. Beetje klaar mee.

This was okay, but not as good as some of the other country records of that era. Kind of boring.

2.5

Not bad. Quite dated. For a C & W act he has mor diversity than most other acts at the time. Must listen before you die? Like 99% of albums I've heard so far on this list the answer is ... No

It's fine. Not the style of country I appreciate, but it's listenable. It's definitely no Hank Williams.

Some nice tunes but a bit too old fashioned for me.

Bakersfield Sound - derived from country and hillbilly.

2.5

dybt chokeret over at der ikke er nogen Buck Owens numre på countrystationen på GTA San Andreas, jeg kunne have svoret at have hørt i hvert fald 3 af numrene før. Jeg går ud fra den er på listen fordi den definerede den her lyd, så det er vel legitimt nok, men det er godt nok aldrig noget jeg sætter på (med mindre jeg har lyst til at høre country stationen i GTA San Andreas)

Honkey tonk wham bam thank you ma'am

it's old, it's country oder heißt das western? auf jeden Fall nicht so ganz meins

Maso

Clown music

If you still think Gunsmoke and Bonanza and The Andy Griffith Show was some of the best television ever, then you’re gonna love this album!

Pretty standard old country western album. Nothing that great on here, overall pretty average. 2/5 Probably won’t listen again

I absolutely couldn't hang with the honky tonk tracks. But the slow, slide guitar of Let the Sad Times Roll on is classic. Also he wrote Streets of Laredo. Oh no, what the hell is this version. This is definitely music to listen to one song of. More than 3 tracks and I automatically tune out. That's when I'm not being annoyed by the rinky dink ones. Best tracks, Sad Times and Act Naturally.

I would probably love this album if I was born in 1940. Unfortunately for Buck Owens, this kind of music just doesn't have the same effect in the 21st century. That's not to say there are no good songs; I enjoyed a couple of them but overall it was a boring listen.

Sorta fun for the first few tracks but it didn’t hold my attention for long

Funky funky Country music. Was darf satire?

Stop with this old honkey tonk shite

So I spent the entire time listening to this album wondering why it was on the list. I had to go the the reviews to find out that it pioneered the honky-tonk sound, so I guess it deserves a star for that. This isn't something I would ever listen to again though.

Lol

I had this issue yesterday with Loretta Lynn - I'm fine with old country as individual songs, but the same artist for a whole album is a bit much for me. This album definitely feels like it set a tone for multiple subsequent generations of country.

500 songs of honky bonky tonky pluspunkt für waitin in your welfare line

It's very country and western. Don't let go of the tail

The mid ’60s seems rather late for Whams and Bams

Got a kick out of Wham Bam but the rest I would never listen to again

This is why we needed the Dixie Chicks.

Extremely milquetoast country record with nothing special worth paying attention to. In fact, the few awful tracks in-between the bland, mediocrity are the only ones that stood out at all. Inoffensive to bad / 5

I do not, and never will like honky tonk, but I do prefer country music being this kind of silly cornball stuff compared to what it's doing in the year 2024.

Country rollo. No me ha animado.

Maybe interesting for the die hard country fans. I am not a die hard country fan..

2.5, not my style but some of the songs were amusing

-not huge on country, but this album was perfectly paced, so I will give it that -its decent -lyrically, doesnt do much for me -it does have some good tracks, sure -gets one-dimensional -I dont know what else to say about this -favorite songs: Wham Bam, Fallin' For You, A Maiden's Prayer, Memphis -least favorite song: Streets Of Laredo

Was really stuck between a 2 and a 3. On one hand, it felt like it was growing on me. On the other, it was a Bit Much. I could pretty much smell the haybales.

I like country but this album was kinda meh

I really don’t like country, but I didn’t hate this album. Will I put myself through it again, nope. Not sure I can even given it 3 stars, I appreciate it’s an important country album, but I’d of died happy having skipped this album.

It's good for its genre, but it's real 60's country - from a time and genre when men were supposed to be really macho and not show any real emotions on a record. Sure, the lyrics are all about love, good and bad, but none of it seems heartfelt, and there is no vulnerability. I'd enjoy this as a soundtrack to some comedy movie, but I don't really listen to music that doesn't impact me emotionally at all. Between a 2 and a 3.

This brings me back to my childhood, sitting in the tropical patio of Alan & Kim's house, eating sausages loaded with tomato sauce on white bread and finding ways with my brothers to entertain ourselves whilst the adults drank beer and talked about adult things. This is exactly the type of hillbilly old school American country music Alan would play through his stereo. It was awful. I did, at least, find it interesting that Owens' version of Act Naturally, which appears as a bonus live track on this album, predated the version by The Beatles.

Streets of Laredo is my favorite in the album. Pluckier songs were all fine, wasn't a fan of the slower ones in here.

2/5. I'm sure that this was revolutionary when it came out, but it just doesn't hold up.

This feels conservative even in the most artistically conservative genre there is. I can't say that it's bad, but I can say that it's terribly, terribly boring. There are folks who really try to innovate country and I can find that respectable, but this is just half an hour and store brand country.

Country rollo. No me ha animado.

A product of a different era, hard to really judge it but nothing stood out as being memorable to me at all. 2

Fun album but it's been done better by others and there's no depth to it. Very very old school country and has all the trademarks of it, an easy listen but you don't walk away with any new opinions. Nice songs, not spectacular

Classic Country, I'm not super into it but Act Naturally is Good.

This album sounds 20 years older than it actually is. I can’t believe people were still making music like this in 1965. Get with the times, Buck.

Jaunty and nostalgic but not really something I would listen to again by choice. 2*

Straight off the back of Anthrax it was a bit of a shock to the system.

Inte min kopp te så att säga. Men jag kan iaf inte kalla de dåligt.

Finns så mycket bättre Country.

I've heard of Buck Owens and was relatively excited to check him out, but I have to admit I got very little out of this album. I'll still say it's somewhat enjoyable but it certainly doesn't benefit from its simplicity. Everything about this album is simple and boilerplate; the lyrics, the themes of the lyrics, the singing, and especially the backing instrumentation. There are some alright moments here, like the title track and I like the sparkling guitar that opens up "Let the Sad Times Roll". The deeper vocal delivery on "Streets of Laredo" was something as well. When it comes down to it though, I was bored and was in a perpetual state of "waiting for something to happen". It didn't even have that effect older albums typically do where they shoot me back to their time. I will compliment it by saying that emits this very somber, longing, yet simultaneously minimal and monotonous "satisfaction with what's here" kind of vibe. It's the reason why I found this album, as a whole, to still be decent listening. I'm sure its significance is there in the honky tonk genre; it's just a significance I wasn't capable of appreciating due to how drab it all felt. Again though, I didn't flat-out hate it.

I've Got a Tiger by the Tail is an album by American singer, song-writer Buck Owens and his Buckaroos band. It was Billboard's first Album of the Year featuring country music. The music on this album is a combination of country music developed in Bakersfield, California, along with rock and "hillbilly music" (folk and country from the regions of the Appalachian mountains and the Ozarks). It's a distinctive honky tonk sound that took the US by surprise in 1965. This is a fun, foot tapper of an album. It's some of that classic country from the previous generation, which still holds up today. This may not be the greatest country album, but it's an early star of the genre and influenced albums to come. Give this classic a listen!

I have a very low tolerance for country. All I can say about this album is that it is short and isn't completely unlistenable. However, I swear they tried to sneak the same song in 2 or 3 times. I would rather listen to this than any country album released in the last 30 years, but I would also rather not listen to any country. I bet this has a lot of historical significance, but I know next to nothing about country musical history. This is a pretty bad album cover too. 1.5

Big fan of the style - not the execution.

Simple, straightforward country music performed well. Mostly I, IV, V chords. I probably heard these on “Hee-Haw”. These are most likely good songs….if you like country music. But since I’m not much of a fan of the genre, I’ll pass.

Not every day can be good. I shouldn’t even expect every day to be consistently somewhat decent. There is always going to be a day or two where I have to listen to a stinker. But it doesn’t change how disheartened they make me feel. Some albums, much like today’s, just get me down. And they honestly make me regret ever starting this. There was a long period of my life where I didn’t know if I could name an album I had heard that was legitimately bad. This list has given me quite a few of those at this point. And this record is no different. If you asked someone to create the most generic and copy-paste country music ever, like something you might hear in a video game or kids cartoon, they would probably produce something close to the material on this album. It is so mind numbing that I can’t even pretend this didn’t completely go in one ear and out the other. In a decade like the 60s, where artists started to really push boundaries for the first one, this is just disappointing to hear. It just seems to lack any real substance or creativity. And I don’t really care how influential it might be to other artists of the same genre. Because this is still bad, and all of the other artists are far better. This is bottom of the barrel level country music. Rating: 3/10

Ok

It's old-school country. Very old-school, very country. The Chuck Berry song was pretty good.

This album is so full of clichés, my eyes hurt from the constant rolling. The lyrics are especially bad, but the music is nothing to write home about either. Johnny Cash did it better. 1.5/5

4/10 - Some of the songs sound literally the exact same. The lyrics on some of the songs are also just weird. Especially Wham Bam.

I haven't got any country on the list for a 100+ albums. And it was good times. It's just another example for me that all country music is pretty much the same. They play the same tunes and sing the same lyrics.

Early Country and Western isn't that different from the contemporary version, but somehow seems even more cheesy. I guess it was a simpler (but also much worse) time. Rating: 2/5 Playlist track: Wham Bam Date listened: 15/03/24

It wasn't really my thing, I could tell there was feeling in the songs but I can't really relate to them

It wasn't anything special, but I can see how it was foundational for what came next. Definitely can appreciate someone who can fit 14 songs in 32 minutes. Nothing felt boring at least. It does feel like these songs were covered better by other artists.

2.85

I would give it a 2.5 if I could but it gets a 2. It was catchy and poppy as well as twangy.

Bakersfield…

It was good. But I've heard so much better in this genre that got a 3. So this is a 2. But not in a bad way. Just compared to the other amazing country records.

Pretty generic l, somewhat repetitive C+W

Not a fan of this one really!

Eh

Country rollo. No me ha animado.

Ok for a country album

Not my thing

Well, it was definitely country.

What a big fucking yawn. Country is definitely not my thing. [0133/1001]

Pretty okay. Another hardcore honkey tonker, but a bit of a snooze fest really.

Too country

sonically nice, so so repetitive. annoyingly repetitive but if you zone out the music and voice is nice.

Not for me

4/10 quaint old timey sound. honestly not a bad listen

meh