Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers HAVE good albums, this is not one of them.

Would have been much better if this was condensed into one standard length album, with the rest of the tracks just being in a deluxe edition. Maybe it's because I'm not American (nor have I listened to Lynyrd Skynyrd much) and lack some of the context to fully enjoy this album, but it didn't make a strong impact. Some songs were good and the history lesson made me look up Governor Wallace, but it feels like much of what this record was trying to accomplish was just lost on me. Some of this southern rock is pretty cool, though. Standouts were 72, Women Without Whiskey, and Plastic Flowers on the Highway.

Boring, tired, uninspired. Nobody is playing like they want to be there. Really boring songs. Don’t think I’m gonna make it all 93 minutes. 1.5

If you have the business of having a 1.5 hour album, it has to be great. I appreciate some of the topics but I never want to hear any of these songs again.

1.5/5

Yawn. I mean, it's all a bit samey. Perhaps if I were driving around the back roads of Hicksville USA this might be a good soundtrack, but I'm not so it isn't.

Норм, но не зацепило

I only listened to the first half, as it wasn't really my thing. However, this is definitely better than I was expecting. I like the ambition of the thing, and it's way more thoughtful than I was expecting. Ultimately though, this isn't my jam and I don't connect to it.

I have never been able to get in to Drive-By Truckers, and I'm guessing a double album isn't the best place to start. I found myself treating this more as background music and not being fully engaged, which is not surprising, as it's kind of how I listen to this brand of southern blues based rock. It's just a bit too straightforward and rooted in things I've been hearing my whole life. This was a miss for me for sure.

Not my jam

Long, and uneventful

Such a grind of an album. A few interesting songs around some interesting topics, but a strange fixation on Lynryd Skynyrd.. I get that they’re the quintessential southern rock sound, but sounds like they’re just mimicking. Also 94 mins of this :(( 3/10

Its a history lesson with a nice track.

Best Song: 72 (This Highway's Mean). I like the coarseness of his voice here. Worst Song: Moved. Sometimes a song can be too stripped down. Overall: This is a large quantity of country music, but I felt like I'd heard all that it had to offer by the end of Disc 1. It mostly sits in that safe spot between pop, rock, and country, but occasionally has some interesting diversions, like in "Three Great Alabama Icons". There might be a compelling skeleton in here, but if there is it's buried under a mountain of fat.

Good band, but they have to be one of your favourites to want to take the time to really digest this album

J'en ai rien à foutre

c'était nul puis sans surprise ça a commencé à parler de neil young et d'alabama

3 v 5

Not my kind of music. Too long

Agh this was a bit of drag. Its all just a bit cringe and what I found weird was the truckers clearly think they're the best and trucking the best. Which again I just found embarrassing. #truckinglyfe sounds a bit grim in my opinion. A very weird song about some guy that was racist but then spent his life trying to convince everyone he wasn't racist... found this sound a bit weird and questionable. Wasn't sure of the point - was it dodgy? The music is just a bit one-sided an mon avi

God this was pretty dire. 'It's a mean old dusty highway but it's the only one', what the hell is that. This was almost like a parody of American trucker music. I guess it wasn't wholly bad, there were some nice solos and sounding guitars and his voice was okay but overall it was a cringe-fest.

Not bad, but just didn't connect with it. Meh.

Southern Rock Opera. Un poco rollo

För långt, intetsägande och för långt. Ganska gött sound

05/22/2022 Some good stuff here; not a fan of the lead's voice. Insane to be over 90mins long... who has the time?????

You what mate?

Listened to on 3/30/22 2.5/5 Favorite song: women without whiskey Kinda all over the place but also I can’t distinguish any one song. Vibe is meant for a BBQ joint that also has axe throwing after hours

3/30/22 I don’t think this band is that musically talented. I appreciate the story telling and their spoke word piece was great, but everything else was just okay. Fell short in comparison to The Wall. Also many song are hand to understand lyrics wise which makes it a hard listen if you aren’t reading the lyrics. Appreciate the themes. Favorite song: Three Great Alabama Icons

Not my thing. I'm sure I've enjoyed DBT before but too much Skynard for me. Both lyrically and musically. As a Brit, this was never going to change my opinion of the South.

It started out pretty good, but 90+ mins of this Joe Walsh sound-alike band was too much to bear. That Canadian, Neil Young did the Southern Rock thing much better IMO.

medium enthousiast

When I first started listening I thought I'd really get on with this but as the album went on I got more and more bored with it.

I don’t like country music, so not off to a great start. A couple of ok songs on this. And the idea of the album isn’t bad, but it’s just far to long for me to ever consider a second listen. Can see why some people would like this, and it’s different enough to not get a 1.

This kind of reminds me of a band of dudes in their 40s who casually get together from time to time and play for a town or state fair. Just pretty textbook bland southern rock lol. 4/10.

Not for me.

One of the longest rock albums I’ve listened to. Feels like a homage to southern rock bands, mainly skynryd. The songs are ok sometimes and other times they’re nothing special. They can rock and they can also bore. The album was too long. 5.2/10

almost 1.5 hours of redneck whining... surprisingly, a couple of awesome songs found here

Did nothing for me: generic and repetitive and way too long.

I don't feel like spending one and a half hour listening to anyone called the Drive-By Truckers making a rock opera to be honest. But it's not that bad. "Three Great Alabama Icons" actually really explains the theme of this album. And reveals the reasons and prejudice I had when I got this album, and shows why it was completely invalid. Interesting album. 3 eh, still a 2, it's too long and uninteresting.

I think some of the melodies and lyrics are pretty cool, but overall it was just a long country-rock album. Got pretty bored by the end of first half. No stand-out tracks for me.

Musically fine, and I really like the gritty solos, but that's about it.

I want to explore the message further, but overall the music didn’t really do much for me.

// Favs: Days of Graduation Score: Strong 2

Begon veel belovend, maar vond het toch maar saai uiteindelijk

Twijfelgeval. Op zich best te verdragen, maar oh, wat braaf. En die stem moet je ook maar kunnen hebben.

Avevo grosse aspettative per questo album a giudicare dal titolo e la copertina. Purtroppo le mie aspettative erano mediamente mal riposte. Capisco cosa volevano fare i Drive-By Truckers con questo album e in qualche modo simpatizzo pure. L'idea di ripercorrere la storia della musica southern dal punto di vista dei Lynyrd Skynyrd è sicuramente originale e in qualche modo mi fanno simpatia, anche per la sfiga, considerando che dicono di aver registrato questo album durante una heat wave senza aria condizionata né ventilatori dalle 6 di sera alle 6 di mattina per diversi giorni e l'album alla fine è stato rilasciato il 12 settembre 2001. Il problema è che secondo me si sono lanciati chiaramente in qualcosa di più grande di loro, non si possono reggere 90 minuti e passa di disco con canzoni southern rock abbastanza banali, tra l'altro con tre chitarristi che onestamente sembrano uno e mezzo. L'ascolto non dico che è stato spiacevole ma più volte ho avuto la sensazione infantile da viaggio in macchina coi genitori, tipo "Ma quanto manca??". Ho seguito gran parte dei testi avendo intuito che erano abbastanza centrali ma li ho trovati, anche quelli, abbastanza mediocri. Sicuramente c'è anche una distanza culturale per cui mi riesce difficile apprezzare i temi di questo album, magari se fossi stato un fan accanito del southern rock mi sarei esaltato. Purtroppo per me la simpatia non basta in questo caso e dubito fortemente che lo riascolterò, magari me lo ricorderò ma non lo riascolterò.

Nope

A lot of distracting spoken word, didn’t make it thru.

So apparently this is a bit of a concept album, with a complex story that close listening would reveal in a rewarding way. I didn't listen to it closely. I thought part-way through that \"I should pay more attention to the lyrics.\" But I must confess I didn't. This album probably deserved better, even though its not really my style.

Didn’t finish - too long and bleh

I got through the first disc and stopped. This album is not offensive. It could be on in the background, but I would never choose to listen to it again. Frankly I didn’t listen to the second disc so I could have more time to explore more White Stripes albums and Bob Dylan songs (80th bday!). This is more a statement about how much I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday’s White Stripes album and my lasting admiration for Mr. Dylan.

Although they are a pioneer in their landscape of genre bending narative based music, this album comes across way too on the nose. Subtlety was not a word they thought of throughout the writing process. Nothing is left to imagination. It's basically an entire album apologizing for the south, and them saying "but we're not like that". It doesn't do much to explain the situation, give any insight into what this lifestyle looks like, or really anything other than "My version of this isn't everyone's version". Musically, it was boring as shit. Just another generic rock band from the late 90's

kinda wack. Like they had a decent sound but there was no gusto.

not bad

It was okay. Got repetitive.

Musically a bit too samey for me, even though the lyrical themes are interesting.

Erster Punkt für den Bandnamen . Das Genre mag ich grundsätzlich, kannte ein anderes Album von denen und war er wartungsvoll. Irgendwie kriegt es mich dann aber nicht so richtig...

not sure if ill make it through this...

Just not something I'm interested in listening to. I can appreciate the influences and the extensive project, but not for me

There's an edge lyrically that I very much appreciate, but the honky-tonk is just too much for me. I find it difficult to get through without wearing a cowboy hat; however, I understand the appeal.

Didn't love it

i really like country music but more pop-country...less so this. I'd probably like listening to this live in a dive bar in Nashville but that's about it.

Some exploration of Alabama's racially charged history

Es hört sich ja gut an und alles, aber ein 90min album. my my hey hey 2

Just can’t get into this. It’s like store brand skynnard

Some songs were decent rock, others were strangely just talking with guitar backup. Not enough rock to make me like the country.

Not my bag at all

Could not finish

# Album Name: Southern Rock Opera # Artist: Drive-By Truckers # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Absolutely awful. There should be a law against shit bands making double albums. # Top Tunes: # Would I listen to it again? No

moj brat imao je nekakvu igračku ritam-mašinu, u principu komad plosnate plastike na kojem su bili nacrtani bubnjevi i ovisno o tome na koji bi se dio pritisnulo začuo bi se zvuk toga dijela bubnjeva. teoretski su se mogli "svirati" bubnjevi barata li netko vješto svima prstima po toj ploči. fora igračka, no s jednom manom: imala je nekakvu "sempl" tipku pritiskom koje krenula bi, uz jasno izraženu pratnju bubnjeva, neka generična američka kantri rok pjesma koja je bila neopisivo loša i nesnosna. čitav ovaj album (koji nipošto nije opera kao što naslov upućuje) zvuči upravo kao taj sempl, samo što umjesto dvadesetak sekundi traje sat i pol. užas

Are we fucking deadass having us all hear this 1 hour and 30 minute Drive-By Truckers album.... Oh well, mama didn't raise no bitch so you know I tanked this whole thing down just so I could continue to move through this list. I have listened to a lot of music in my time and the singer for Drive-By Truckers has got to have one of the worst sets of vocals I have heard in a minute. If you thought Lemmy from Motorhead or Bob Dylan or any other mumbling and grumbling artist was bad, you simply haven't heard this shit because it is rough. The music here is so repetitive and devoid of any sort of character or emotion outside of some "southern accenting" of the music. Everything here feels like such a drag to get through and I absolutely despised all 1 hour and 33 minutes of this album with a lot of malice in my heart. If I can give this album one positive thought it would be the track Three Great Alabama Icons, it wasn't a song I particularly enjoyed but the message it held stood out more than anything else here. It managed to turn a song into a lesson, and a lesson in Southern history at that and I don't usually see that done ever let alone done right so I will give credit where it is due. With that being said though Three Great Alabama Icons is not a good song and continues to add to the problems of really sloppy songwriting, boring compositions, and a singer that desperately needs someone else to take over vocals. I am sorry to any Drive-By Truckers fans out there but this was not good at all, hell I'd even say this was pretty bad.

no lo terminé de escuchar, definitivamente no es mi estilo, me sonó un poco a mana pero mana si la arma.

Wow. This is truly terrible. Bad reductionist versions of .38 Special, Skynyrd, etc. and nothing memorable about any songs. Same riffs and tone on almost all the tracks, and vocals that grate on eardrums. I’ve complained that this list is way heavy on Britpop but when you came across the pond, THIS is what you chose? Ugh.

A concept double album, fictionalizing (and grandurizing) Lynyrd Skynyrd? Fuck you in the ear all the way back to the hell from which you were spawned. I'll bet a quarter that confederate flags outnumber U.S. flags in the stale-beer-soaked parking lots outside their shows 10-1. When they manage to get Skynyrd's cock out of their mouths for a song, they go hard on George Wallace of all things. Skynyrd famously locked themselves in a shack in a swamp and practiced until they got good. These clowns dropped out of high school and hit the road. Zero hits, zero influence, zero intangibles, take a 2 on quality, and I could not hate this more.

Not a fan, this album is way too long for what it is, the songs a very generic that emulate a style which was perfected by lynard

This all bled together really fast...if it was just 10 songs it might have been more bearable?

Finally, an album that answers the question: What if Kid Rock was a theater kid?

Life is too short to listen to dull music

No thank you.

Une très... très longue écoute, malheureusement si je devais le refaire ce serait comme bande sonore de fond. Je peux citer trois chansons qui m'ont quand même bien plu: Three great Alabama icons, poème conscient bien mis en musique; Moved, belle ballade blues et Greenville to Baton Rouge, avant dernière piste qui finit cet opéra en apothéose et d'une plutôt belle façon.

I've heard this before, and i am angry that i am committing to giving everything a fair full listen on this list. This could potentially be a longer slog, but it's hard to imagine. People go dramatic on the Ella songbook, but an hour and a half of this bullshit feels twice as long as that could possibly feel. It's funny, and deeply unfair, to get this right after Johnny Cash, because it's such a contrast. Simple powerful songs vs whatever this is. I have zero time for Skynyrd Apologism even if it isnt in garbled, meterless lyricism. Yeah, yeah. I am sure the stars and bars dudes didn't meet any racist pieces of shit. But when this isn't confederate apologist music for catalytic converter thieves with a bachelor's degree, it's still just mediocre southern rock. It is so crushingly mediocre. Having this album on the list at the exclusion of more women and people of color is why DEI exists… it's War of Northern Aggression rock, and it does it's damnedest to decouple the human rights abuses of the last 300-500 years from Just Alabama Culture. The “duality of the southern thang” is a classic tactic to forgive a reality that is still absolutely drowning the American South, to pay loud lip service to equality but refuse to stand against the bits that have been instrumental to preventing it. You don't get to sing “Robert E Lee” next to “Martin Luther King” as though they're just two important southern historical figures. At least the average abject bigot countryboy doesnt try to hide it. If you need to understand that better, they conveniently give a shitty rundown in Three Great Alabama Icons, which tries to whitewash the racism of the three shitty humans he talks about, all while INSISTING he, the “singer”, was not a bad guy, not him, no. “Racism has existed since recorded history”... OK. But we're talking about this particular aspect. George Wallace ended up no better or worse than most white men of his generation? That's southern cope if ever there was, even ignoring the reality that racism is systemic and present all over america. Id say I digress, but the drive by Truckers don't. This is music for folks who heard Strange Fruit and said “well sure, but also there are peaches! Real delicious peaches! Just ignore the “strange fruit,” it's terrible but it's just PART OF THE SOUTH.” and there are just so so so many things that sound better than this without playing that card. And that's just the first disc. The second disc is when you start realizing that this isn't a rock opera about the south, which has been bad enough, but an opera about southern rock, specifically skynyrd. And that just somehow makes it all stupider. 1*

Me enganou muito bem. A canção introdutória te engana completamente. Achei que seria um disco alternativo bem psicodélico, com letras obscuras e instrumentais reservados. Totalmente errado. É só Black Crowes novamente (um álbum que peguei recentemente e detestei), só que dessa vez com os vocais temperados de country. Péssimo. Uma hora e meia? Para. Simplesmente uma armadilha de nostalgia pra conquistar boomers na virada do milênio. Intragável. Admito que discos como esse estragam minha integridade do projeto 1001, porque acho fisicamente impossível não ouvir esse álbum pulando as faixas. Seria uma tarefa de derreter o cérebro. Lynyrd Skynyrd mas sem graça e sem charme algum. Não, obrigado. A capa é legal. Só. 1/5

Notable Textzeile: You think I'm dumb, maybe not too bright You wonder how I sleep at night Proud of the glory, stare down the shame Duality of the southern thing Ich war selten so froh als eines dieser Alben vorbei war wie bei diesem. Musikalisch könnte mir das ja von der Instrumentierung und den Rhythmen irgendwie gefallen, aber ich mag nichts daran. Nicht die Ähnlichkeit aller Songs untereinander und zu tausend anderen Sachen die es schon gibt. Wer hier einen Funken musikalische Innovation oder Besonderheit findet, vor dem ziehe ich den Hut. Und gebe ihm dann den Hut, denn der passt vermutlich dann sowieso eher zu dieser Person. Was mich aber noch viel mehr abstößt als die Musik ist das „Southern“ raushängen lassen an sich. Ich kann damit wirklich so gar nichts anfangen, bei mir machen sich da nur Assoziationen an Segregation, Rednecks,, christlichem Fundamentalismus, Intellektuellenfeindlichkeit und eine Pseudo-Anti-Eliten-Haltung, die aber allen Konservativen alles an Klüngelei verzeiht, breit. Und dass das hier differenzierter ist, möchte ich gar nicht herausfinden weil es trotzdem so dick aufträgt. Am Ende habe ich dann doch ein wenig nachgelesen, vielleicht entgehen mir da die Nuancen, aber das hier war wohl das Ziel, sagt einer von denen: „The album wrestled with how to be proud of where we came from while acknowledging and condemning the worst parts of our region’s history“ - aber vielleicht wäre es dann ja auch einfach okay NICHT stolz zu sein darauf wo man herkommt, sondern zu sagen: trotz der Furchtbarkeit da wo ich herkomme, wo wirklich fast alles furchtbar war und ist, gibt es auch dort ein paar gute Menschen. Aber sie überwiegen leider nicht. 
Man ey echt!

Oh nein, meine Review ist nicht eingeloggt worden. Daher Rekonstruktion: Dieses Musikexperiment funktioniert, und ich habe die Referenz in Ronnie und Neil verstanden, weil wir uns all die Neil Young Alben anhören musssten und ich über die Southern Man /Sweet Home Alabama Geschichte gelesen habe. Es geht also um eine Beschäftigung mit dem weißen amerikanischen Süden. Interessiert mich nicht. Southern Rock Musical nimmt dann den Titel sehr ernst und schreibt unzweideutige Texte über Highways, Birmingham,... ich habe dann eigentlich nicht mehr richtig zugehört. Musikalisch ist das sehr lauter Southerm Rock mit Grunge und wenig Vielfalt. Stört mich. Dabei mag ich Jason Isbell, der später zu den Drive by Truckers stößt, und ich bin sicher die Band hat sich dabei auch viel gedacht. Interessiert mich einfach nicht. Ich bin auch durch mit Konzeptalben und langen Alben. Manmanman

No! I hated this. Overdone American slop

😒

isso é tão estadunidense que dói. me poupe.

This sounds like a band lab-grown to soundtrack a rodeo parking lot. Even in the most ideal setting: a multi-day bender, drunk in a dive bar, hearing them live…I’d still fucking hate it.

hey what the fuck?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RIIsLj6l9jQ Back in my day we used to do 1800 miles in a night listening to this. Thank you America (and of course Alabama) for this hick redneck music. Did this album really have to be an hour and a half? In all seriousness though, the actual message of the album is quite interesting. It's very political, and speaks to life in Alabama trying to fight stereotypes that every Alabaman is an ignorant raging racist. I guess that's probably why it's on this list. It was a hard listen, and far too long with

Vokser alle sørstatsmenn opp med et generasjonelt Skynrd trauma? Anyways, dårlig produsert drittrock, langt som et vondt år og vokalisten kan ikke synge. Glad jeg ikke hørte det i helga, nå kan jeg i hvert fall late som om jeg fikk betalt for å høre på dette.

Plikt er det eneste jeg følte når jeg hørte dette albumet. Dette er skapt, og med en utrolig dårlig produksjon til tider.

It just drags on and on and on and on...

Accuracy of album title: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Enjoyment of listening to 93 minutes of this nonsense: ⭐

boring ass watered down temu lynyrd skynyrd sans any form of talent

a band I like, an album I don't

I'm all for fusion but maybe opera and southern rock aren't good candidates.

I made it a couple songs in and then heard the line “the south will rise again”. No, no I don’t think it will. Fuck this shit. 0/10

oooo driving a truck is so hard, my motorways are so manly

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Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera (2001) On Day 70, Southern Rock Opera was 90 minutes of... absolutely nothing, as far as I'm concerned. Maybe it’s just because I’m African and the whole "Southern American" mythos doesn't resonate with me, but this was a total struggle. I couldn't find anything to cling to—no soul, no melody that stuck, just a long-winded project that felt completely irrelevant to my ears. It’s a 1/5, and I’m more than happy to leave this one behind.

Favorite track(s): an hour and a half of flavorless songwriting, derivative or outright bad vocals, and off-meter lyrics about how us Yankees don't understand Lynyrd Skynyrd or "the Southern Thing™". I couldn't wait long enough for the next exit off Highway 72.

cooley songs were the only good ones, still a no for me

terrible

As soon as this popped up, I was excited to hear it. I like a lot of americana, alt-country and southern rock stuff. I like Jason Isbell and I know he was in this band for a short while - though it looks like this album was from before he was with them. And I already have 5 songs liked by them on Spotify - but none from this album. Thoughts while listening... Uh oh, this is not going well. I got through the whole Disc 1 and kept thinking that I'm not really liking any of this. Maybe the song "Birmingham" is sort of ok, sort of?? Onto Disc 2... First song "Let there be Rock", not good. "Plastic Flowers on the Highway" was ok. "Angels and Fuselage" is the best song on this - by far, with more interesting lyrics about the crash of a plane. It's from the perspective of someone on the plane (assuming this is the Skynyrd plane crash). The pace of the music lets the song breathe without the spastic sound of most of the songs. I just can't get into the fact that every song is about the state of Alabama or Lynyrd Skynyrd or both. If they want to glorify Skynyrd, at least write songs that are enjoyable to listen to - like Skynyrd. One of the songs is a spoken word history lesson of Alabama heavily focused on George Wallace. Ugh. Why did this have to be 2 discs? There just isn't enough good or interesting stuff on here. It has a feeling of a bunch of outtakes, or of a bad bar band rehearsing together. Unfortunately, I don't think I could even narrow it down to the 12 best songs for a 1 disc album & but it definitely shouldn't be a double album. The music is just very repetitive and has a generic southern sound that often sounds very sped up. Are they all seriously coked up or something?? And the multiple singers' voices aren't good. Artists like Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Black Crowes, Ryan Adams, Sturgill Simpson, Son Volt etc. all do this type of music SO MUCH better. I realize the Drive-By Truckers kicked Jason Isbell out because he was a troublesome drunk at the time - but Isbell writes thought provoking songs with good music - so good for him to get away from this. Upon relistening, I only liked 2 songs on Spotify (Plastic Flowers, Angels) which is pretty bad out of 20 songs. Liked songs on Spotify: 2/20 Rating: 1/5

Absolutely abysmal. Had to turn it off after four songs. It would have been okay if he wasn’t singing

Nails on a chalkboard. Why would I listen to this when I could just listen to Skynyrd?

I couldn't wait to stop listening to this. I gave up halfway through. That seems like a good candidate for a 1 star.

1.3

Wow, Southern Rock Opera was horrible. Between the dreadfully stereotypical southern/country bullshit lyrics and insanely bland, untalented music, I'm surprised this album gets as much praise as it does. It's just one song after another about "such is the duality of the southern thang" and "Lynyrd Skynyrd this, Lynyrd Skynyrd that" and yet it somehow manages to be a full double album, clocking in at an hour and 33 minutes of this dreadful junk. The music is just a bunch of the most generic rock power chords and stiff, dry playing. This whole album sounds like it'd fit perfectly in some cruddy 2000's comedy about some looser band trying to make it big. Favorite Song: None

There's a fair few reasons to dislike this USA at the moment. I'll add this to the list.

No.

I was not feeling the album and then there was a lyric about the South rising again so I turned it off

Bullshit

I gave up on this, wasn’t interested in this lousy shit

The guitar/music is fun in places, but maybe still feels predictable. I've not connected at all to the vocals or lyrics and it is a very long album.

Makes me glad I didn’t grow up in the Deep South

Long and boring

It starts off pretty interesting, with the spoken word track and some nice songwriting on the opening few tracks, but the further down the considerable tracklist you get the more threadbare the writing becomes - simple power chords, basic drums, one dimensional bass playing. It lacks finesse, flavour, or frankly - surprise. What starts off as quite charming soon becomes tedious. The most certainly did not have enough fuel in the tank for a double album.

Nawww

DNF. This is like a wish version of Skynard and I really dislike Skynard. They are trying to take this Southern Rock and make a liberal lean to it.. Cool but it's just not my jam.. I'm liberal leaning too.

dnf... not the type of country i enjoy... spoken word stuff was ok

Not for me

not my thing

An absolute failure and probably an inspiration for hacky, pandering country acts of the 2000s

I can’t believe I’m listening to an hour and a half of this. I’ve been ready to turn it off since the first song. So much talk of Alabama. Are they trying to make non-Southerners like it? They’ve gone about it in the wrong way. Or, more likely, they’re telling white boys like themselves that it’s ok to like Alabama even if they don’t like football, the legacy of George Wallace, or the racist appeal of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Oh and besides, everyone is racist everywhere so no biggie.

boring

Nope. Just nope.

It’s funny cuz it sounds like literal truck drivers would sing and listen to. I’m no truck driver so this wasn’t my thing. Sounds like country rock? Dead, drunk and naked song is hilarious. What is this lyrics. The album feels incoherent but I feel like the songs have a theme…they get tedious after listening to them after 1/3 of the song. Idk feels repetitive and I feel like I’m over it and ready for the next song. Also these songs are avg 5 minutes long! No wonder I am getting bored. 🥱 also just boring lyrics. Nah not a big fan. 1/5

Honnêtement, je l'ai pas finit. J'ai écouté quatre titres, mais ça m'a pas donné envie de continuer.

Tough to see the appeal. Music is simple but scattered. Execution is sloppy. Lyrics are lame and vocals worse

way too country. can't do it. saved: n/a.

I just want it to be over, this is so so bad

Theoretically there's some sort of postmodern narrative about the American South in the middle of all the Lynyrd Skynyrd cosplay on this record, but because the band doesn't do anything transformative with the source material (i.e. Southern Rock), all this amounts to is a second-hand version of music that ain't particularly interesting to start out with. Just because they slapped some ironic lyrics on top of it doesn't make it any more compelling to listen to.

I thought we'd gotten past the rock opera concept album.

Bad. Real bad.

This just didn’t work for me at all

I really didn't want to listen to white trash music, especially not 1.5 hours of it. The singing is mediocre, it's giving local dive bar. Not worthy of this list. DNF, no ragrets.

Nope. No thank you. Not today.

So this is a tribute album? I didn't make it too far into this one. Nothing here I really enjoyed.

Dette MÅ du høre på for å forstå hvor gubbete musikk faktisk kan være? Tregt, uinspirert og jæææææævla langt!

While the concept sounds fascinating as a story, the reality is a tedious double length album. Favorites: "Ronnie and Neil" Definitely not worthy enough to be on this list. An entire double album about a band (Lynyrd Skynyrd) that itself could be argued that it doesn't deserve a spot of this list as well.

1. dayz - 1 2. ronnie - 1 3. mean - 1 4. Dead - 1 5. Guitar -0 6. Birmingham - 1 7. Thing- 1 8. Alabama - 0 9. Wallace - 0 10. Zip -1 11. Moved-1 12. Rock - 0 13. Road - 0 14. Whiskey - 0 15. Flowers -1 16. Brother -0 17. Factory -0 18. Plane -0 19. Rouge - 1 20. Angels - 1.5

I don't like The Allman Brothers Band, The Marshall Tucker Band, Tom Petty and above all, Lynyrd Skynyrd. In general, I don't like Southern rock, with the exemption of The Black Crowes, who always had more of the swagger of The Faces, than any of the forementioned bands. So how the hell I'm going like, or even appreciate this album or the efforts of this very mediocre local pub band? Well, I don't. 1/5

LOL, I read the title of the album and knew immediately this was going to be a pass. Two tracks in and I noped the fuck out. Lead singer sucks, it’s pretty standard country rock, and the album is 1 ½ hours long. I don’t have time to waste on this trash.

Some nice guitar tones but how long? And, seriously, trying to tell me that Wallace was actually a nice guy? Fuck off!

For langt, for kjederlig. Hørte bare første halvdel, så med mindre noe virkelig sykt skjer i andre halvdel gir jeg det en sterk 1/5 - i grenseland til 2/5. Høres kompetent satt sammen ut om ikke annet.

Yeah, this sucks. Re-imagined southern rock still sucks.

Turgid modern country rock

I had never heard of Drive-By Truckers or their album Southern Rock Opera before today. Judging by the cover, I suspected this one might not be for me—and the fact it’s a double album (90 minutes, 20 tracks) made it feel like an uphill battle from the start. It takes something truly special to hold attention for that long. Unfortunately, this wasn’t it. Musically, the album is very one-paced and doesn’t really shift gears. Across so many songs, I struggled to find any real standouts or moments that grabbed me. The lyrics are clearly politically charged, but without much background on the US context of the time, they didn’t resonate with me. Favourite track: Birmingham (a small connection, as much of my family comes from there). The Southern Thing wasn’t bad either. Least favourite track: Hard to choose when so many felt flat, but The Three Great Alabama Icons stood out for all the wrong reasons—I now feel like I know far more about Alabama than I ever wanted. Album artwork: The cover immediately gave me the ick, and honestly, it set the tone for the listen.

Tribute band som lager egen musikk. Hvorfor det? Kjedelig, men ørene blør liksom ikke. 1-2 et sted

Why on God's green earth are these guys on this list?! There's so much better music in this genre and even that music is hardly worth mentioning here. These guys are awful and I want my 90 minutes back!

It’s a two star album, less one star for being a double album. Sheeeeeeeet

Makes you glad to be British.

Not my thing, couldn't listen to the whole thing.

couldnt handle it past the first track…

? OK, Rock,könnte gut bei Vicky laufen..werde danach mal beim Original Lynyrd Skynyrd (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ER6P8RgZK4&list=PLuNSRX8zAjVngkU3B96CD_wjFkrO9a-0P) vorbeischauen. c PS: Erstes Album das ich nicht zu Ende gehört habe.

Den her kommer jeg ikke igennem. Et dobbeltalbum, hvor ingen af de første ni sange ud af 20 har gjort noget som helst indtryk.

If this hadn't been recorded in 2000 I would have assumed this was AI generated with the prompt "create an hour and a half of copywrite compliant Lynyrd Skynryd style music"

outright painful, this album must have been a captain’s pick, certainly does not deserve to be on this list on merit alone

Did you know they're from the South. I may have given a single album a 2 but after an hour and a half, sorry guys.

we've had to listen to like 4 completely unnecessary neil young albums from this list, so i was primed to not take it seriously when these guys started very badly singing about him AND ronnie van zant. Honestly, the vocals on the live jam band unnecessary neil young album were better than this. this is TERRIBLE.

Their third album. So, yeah, Lynyrd Skynyrd, we get it, you're Southern USA Good Ole Boys and can play an instrument or two but why did you have to bore us for just over ninety minutes ! Dead, Drunk And Naked is a parody right !? Birmingham - Ugh ! What a fucking awful song. The vocals, shit ! This album, hmm, are they serious or is it satire. Ha ! Either way it's fucking bad AND it's 1 hour and 33 minutes long ! I'm 122 albums in and only a Mariah Carey one (Butterfly) was worse so far.

If any human a guitar , a cord book, a lynyrd skynyrd greatest hits cassette and ONE week , I’m convinced can make a better album than this.

Don’t like the vocals

couldn’t get through

I shan’t listen to a band that can’t decide how many cds their album should have let alone when they are called drive by truckers. 0 rating if applicable

At first you think this is just going to be shit truck driver music….and then a mere 1.5hrs later you have this confirmed.

Woof. This album is certainly for someone but it ain't me. Reading the description I didn't think I would mind it too much. How bad could an attempt at a rock opera with some southern rock Lynyrd Skynyrd influence be? Pretty OK for about 15 minutes and then verging on insufferable after 90 minutes evidently. I tried to enjoy this for what it was, but I was constantly feeling like this was something an AI program would churn out if you asked it to generate a down-the-middle inspirational Lifetime movie with Lynyrd Skynyrd references sprinkled in. Noting that it was originally based on a semi-autobiographical screenplay gave me the feeling that an unsavvy record labelman would take a multi-million dollar hit in an attempt to create a shitty jukebox musical Broadway show only to have it fold after 4 weeks due to poor attendance and terrible reviews (like a shittier Rock of Ages). This lands firmly in the wimp-rock genre as I found the musical accompaniment had little-to-no punch. In all seriousness the part of this that I enjoyed the most was the brief history lesson about George Wallace that was more of a spoken word section. Big swing and miss for me on this one. 0.85 stars

me no like

By the song Dead, Drunk and Naked, if you'd told me that this band weren't really American, let alone Southern, I would have believed you - even the name Drive-By Truckers sounds like a parody. And there was still so, so much of this absurdly long album left to go.

Absolute dogshit. Bland, regurtitated, tedious dog shit.

Why would they do this to me?

Favorites: Three Great Alabama Icons, Wallace, Road Cases, Cassie's Brother, Angels and Fuselage

In a nutshell: charmless alt country The Drive-By Truckers sound like an in house country band made up of Steve Earle, Don Henley and Kid Rock wannabes who idolise Lynyrd Skynyrd. The singers have a distinctive twang, trying hard to act like cool and worldly. This is the kind of country I fiercely dislike (I prefer the humble and heartfelt approach). What is worth noting is that this could be the earliest example of a Crowdfunded album (from Wikipedia): "The album was financed by issuing promissory notes in exchange for loans from fans, family and friends of the band (Citation needed)." Props for going the non traditional route there fellas. Overall: 1/10

< The Beatles Keep driving, away from me. Why are the least interesting albums also the longest?

I haven't used a private session in Spotify in over a year, but seeing the name "Southern Rock Opera" and that it was over an hour and a half long, I wasn't taking any chances that Spotify might think this is my new favorite thing. The only thing these guys are good at are stretching out short basic ideas out as long as possible. Once you've heard the first 10 seconds of any song on this album you know exactly how the rest of it is going to sound. The same riff on repeat forever, basic country vocals, guitar solo, and then back to the riff. If this album was 30 minutes I would have given it a Low 3 said "It's not for me but it is fine", but no this atrocity had to be AN HOUR AND A HALF!!!! This band barely has enough unique ideas to fill out an EP. Birmingham is a 5 second loop for 5 minutes and it sounds exactly like one of the 5 other songs I have already heard. This isn't the worst album of all time (It is one of the hardest albums to sit through), and there is a decent album in here. If you trimmed like 3/4ths of this album I think you could have a solid 3/5 album, maybe a really low 4 if you are lucky, but as it stands this is pain to listen to. High 1.

# Playlist Track - Ronnie And Neil # Notes - This album is bad. No way around it. It's one of those things that you can only really enjoy if you have this particularly keen interest on the American south. And I'm not saying this just because is comically stereotypical, but also because it's a double album. - So, unless you're borderline 'murica fanatic, it's unlikely that you can enjoy the full 90 minutes of this weird thing. - I would give 3 stars for a 30 to 40 minutes "best of", but I don't recommend anyone but the proudest rednecks to sit through the whole thing.

#Rally Review - Day 2## Butt rock, but the kind you wipe your ass with. Jamie: i would rather listen to barbie on repeat

When you open with an obnoxious track it sets low expectations When you meander from there into mostly forgettable rock, I'm not gonna be offended but don't expect a great review When you keep referencing other music you're gonna start making me want to listen to something else When you make it 90 minutes long I eventually can't stomach this shit any longer and move on

BORING ass BUTT ROCK. hit SKIP old man this shit SUCKS!!!

Every time I heard a little twinkle of like a good riff or something coming in and thinking the album was gonna pick up a bit it would immediately come crashing down as soon as the lead singer finished his bowl of hot gravel and started belting on about some bullshit. Boring dogshit.

Southern fried shit.

Totalt ointressant

The torment is unending

Not my favorite style of music.

Gear: Abyss DIANA MR Artwork: 🦉🛑🛣️ Production: 💩😐👎 Music: 🥃🚗💥 Rating: 🍺/5

This album has absolutely no business being on this list or being 90 minutes long. That's 90 minutes of mostly mid tempo blues rock with lazy vocals and very little deviation from what has long been considered extremely standard and basic rock 'n' roll. It gets a 1 because even though it's "listenable", it's duller than all get out and has absolutely nothing new, fresh or interesting to offer. And it's 90 fucking minutes long! TL;DR this record is loooooong and booooooring.

There was some nice guitar tones and interesting note choices, and a few good tunes buried in there but really... I have so many questions about this record. Why is it a double album? Why is it on this list? Why listen to people sing about Skynyrd when you could just listen to them? If you want the balls to the wall punk stuff, go for Social Distortion. If you want the alt country thing, go for Hank Williams 3. If you want to listen to this flabby, indulgent, generic labyrinth, go fuck yourself.

Looking back, the only moments that stood out from this album were memorable for all the wrong reasons.

Some thought-provoking questions, but not really fun or enjoyable. It's like an awkward apology for 'Sweet Home Alabama', which is itself an awkward apology. These guys seem like talented writers - maybe not talented songwriters, but talented... idk, polemicists I guess. So, why bother with this verbose, plodding double album? Why are Southerners so determined to defend the South? In theory this is good, and I think the 4 and 5 star reviews on this site make some fair points. But I think a Ronnie Van Zandt concept album just isn’t for me.

So bad. So very, very bad. I was expecting awful country and what I got instead was even worse southern rock. And I like southern rock. But if you’re going to put that on a list like that, how about we stick to something with an Allman or a Van Zant in the lineup. Or something along those lines. This makes me feel like I’m at a bar in a small town where some local band plays on Friday nights and the crowd is mostly their friends, drunk middle aged rednecks all. Sometimes, often, Dan from the corner drugstore sings off-key and there’s probably a reason the drummer is still the store manager at the Piggy Wiggley. They’re having fun pretending to be rock stars though, and as long as there’s a pitcher of Coors Light on the table, their friends don’t seem to care. The week is over and there’s a sitter for the kids, so it’s a chance to let loose. But how dare they press this crap onto vinyl and hoist it on the rest of society. Even the cover art looks like it was the bass player’s son’s 10th grade art project. I’m not sure I can hate this enough. I realized after writing the above that Spotify did not play the whole album. After about five or six songs it stopped and went back to the first song, as it sometimes does when it gets to the end of an album. I consider this an act of mercy, as the entirety of this - a double album, for crying out loud! - would have only been more awfulness. I will not go back and finish, but receive Spotify’s mercy.

i knew within 1 minute this is not for me. next

I'm just not a fan of a lot of Southern rock. This just bores me.

this makes the whole project a joke. haha

Didn't make it all the way through, the lyrics bothered me so much. The music was boring and broke no new ground, but my biggest problem was their tired takes on The South. I had to listen to Southern Culture On The Skids to clean my mind after.

Drive By Trucking means you sound like every other southern rock band combined. Their Southern Rock Opera is a short form of everyone's work on one record spanning 20 tracks unless you listen to the even longer version of this record. I heard a track from these southern rockers who evoke Skynrd nearly at a constant. Album is more of an annoyance than anything else, its shit.

I made it 4 songs in before I bailed. Shitty lyrics, boring music, and a lead singer who sounds like he can't actually sing.

90 goddamn minutes of the same song.

Vapid, unpleasant, and way too long

Any time I see a double album I weep a little for the time I’ll never get back. Brevity in an album is an art form within itself. This isn’t music that travels well. Dull, repetitive and closed lyrics about the south mean nothing to me.

Garbage.

This has to be a parody album

Nope. I’m English and can’t see the appeal or artistry in this kind of thing.

Mielisairsn juttu jota oon tehny viimeaikoina kuunnella tämä paska 20 biisiä.... Mitä vittua.... Itsehillintää niin pirusti lykkyä tykö ouluun kun tämä paska...

Hillbilly nonsense.

Country. Rock country, but still country.

This album reminds me of an old Saturday Night Live sketch. Every song seems to be about Lynyrd Skynyrd, Alabama, Neil Young or a combination of the three. I'm not into Southern rock like this that borders on country, especially 1.5 hours of it.

First album from this project that I didn’t finish. I hit the 30 minute mark of this ludicrously 90+ minute record and I was hating every second of it. So I stopped. Try hard country. 0/5

Standard guitar rock, I won't be coming back.

This was not a good album. Each song was barely distinguisable from the previous or following. Vocals were both monotonous and uninspired. Melodies got lost by annoying performances. Don't bother with this one.

I don’t care about America that much

piss off, 2 discs??? couldn’t make it through a single song, let alone an /hour and a half/

This could have been a forgettable three star album if it was 40 min long. Instead it loses 1 star for being 90 minutes long for no reason and 1 star for the racism apologia. Why are they so obsessed with Lynyrd Skynyrd?

Ew

Garbage

So, some kind of self-conscious Kid Rock rock, is that what this is? That I needed to hear before I die? Those paint-by-numbers songs? A 90 minute tractate full of them, channeling #120's ★☆☆☆☆ Lynyrd Skynyrd? And they're serious about that? I... can't even. The "Duality of the southern thing"? I live over an ocean away from these guys' identity or whatever crisis thereof, idgaf. Whiney shits. I hate this.

This sounds like I was invited to a friend-of-a-friend's birthday get together at a shitty townie bar with some random shitty band playing. I can't tell if they're a joke band or serious. And this is 1.5 hours long? I don't think I'll make it through one hour of this. Yikes.

I got through the first 6 songs. Not convinced that another 14 songs are going to change my opinion. Musically I don't hate it (and don't love it, either), but vocally and lyrically it's really not my thing.

Gave it a try, but was lost by song 5, had to pull the plug.

This was really flat and dull.

Unless you care about Alabama or skyward this album is a complete waste of time

KKona Лучшая песня - Plastic Flowers on the Highway.

Why

I'm sorry but I'm two songs in and I ain't finishing this shit

Woof. No notes, just.....what an exhausting experience. 1 song added to 1001 Experience Playlist and it wasn't even close to considering a second.

nah

Nicht meine Richtung

Worst album ever.

Hillbilly rock. Ok, music if you’re into that. No real hits.

Some decent southern rock, so-so vocals and a flat out no for the tribute to racist panderer George Wallace

Nope. 🙂‍↔️

This blows.

I went into it open minded but I couldn't listen to it. I just hate this sound in my ears.

No

Didn’t like it

Very boring.

southern rock just isn’t my cup of tea. this album runs for far too long imo. interesting concept tho

fuck you

I gotta be honest this looks and sounds awful. I don’t think I have any interest in it at all. There are so many other good southern rock albums to listen to. This is just not it.

I really tried to get through this. It’s so boring and just as awful as it is long.

Lol! I've 790 albums in and just can't waste my time on derivative newbies mimicking 70's classics. They sound like a load of drunk guys having a laugh in someone's garage. There are so many better albums and bands out there that aren't even on the chart. They couldn't even be bothered to spend money on a proper cover.........

Zzzzzzzzzzz

Let’s just pretend I listened to this whole thing

Rate instance I couldn't finish.. awful

Hvað skal segja... þetta er ekki andstyggilega tónlist, voða meinlaus suðurríkjarokks hljóðheimur, en það er ekkert sem grípur, og ein röddin sérstaklega léleg. Var að velta fyrir mér tvisti sympatico, en ég enda í ás. Fullkomlega óþörf hlustun.

J'ai rien contre le Southern Rock mais ça, à l'aide.

1.5/5⭐️ This sounds like the Cars soundtrack if all the characters were violent drunks

This shit sucks. Straight up. It's a good record if you and your old pill head friends record a record to play at family barbecues or town gatherings. Otherwise, what the fuck? This band has the most consistently terrible album covers too. 0/5. If I could give that, I would. Even that's too high.

When I typed in "Drive" and YT suggested "Like Jehu" I very much almost just went with that. I'm sure there's people that appreciate this album, but I'm not sure I want to meet them. I do not need a country rock opera concept album in my life.

Just posting my track by track listening notes. ACT 1: Days of Graduation - I laughed. This talk over introduction destroys whatever emotion they are trying to build here. Ronnie and Neil - I'm onboard with this one. Upbeat Southern Rock. 72 (This Highway's Mean) - This SUCKS in every way that I hate country. Dead, Drunk and Naked - see above review for 72. Guitar Man Upstairs - I guess this is "cowpunk"? It sucks too. Birmingham - I kinda like this. It's a HUGE rip off of Neil Young's Ohio in both sound and the emotion they are trying to convey. The Three Great Alabama Icons - exposition like the intro because they can't work it in musically. Throwaway track. Wallace - Jesus, what are they doing here? Sounds like an untalented ZZ Top. Zip City - More uninspiring country infused "rock". No thanks. Moved - Wow... Who knew it could get worse. AWFUL vocals on this boring wanker of a track. Great way to close out "act 1" you dicks. ACT 2: Let There Be Rock - This AIN'T AC/DC! Road Cases - More Neil Young worship. Actually listenable. Women Without Whiskey - see above review for 72. Plastic Flowers On The Highway - Southern rock but without any emotional feeling to it. Vocals sound like Rod Stewart. Cassie's Brother - Oh! Now they are trying southern Soul (or R&B). I can't do much more of this. Life In The Factory - These are all starting to blur into completely non-memorable southern rock you'd hear at any redneck bar or county fair. Shut Up and Get On The Plane - OK, just figured out this whole thing is about Skynyrd... These guys AIN'T Skynyrd! Greenville To Baton Rouge - Finally, Southern Rock that actually sounds like it ROCKS! Album should have been a single. Angels And Fuselage - Neil Young rip off again, this one more early singer/songwriter style. Makes sense, this is where they are at their strongest. Still feels like a cover song when it's not. Never truly has the emotional pull Neil's voice did on tracks like this. Wow LOL they even bust out the harmonica for it!

09/1001 God, this album was unbearable. I could talk for an hour about how this album is horrible. Sorry to those who like the album but this album is not good, that's my opinion. I think one of the things that frustrates me the most about this album is the vocals. It was one of the things that made me suffer listening to this album. I didn't get into the lyrics much but I think that doesn't make up for how the album sounds at all. You can't make an album that bad and last an hour and a half, with 20 songs. Notable song: Three Great Alabama Icons

There are a lot of great Southern rock albums - too bad this isn't one of them. I could have died without listening to this and had no regrets.

Ikke for meg

For this project, I like to listen to a given album three times before deciding a rating. It took me about a week to listen to this album ONCE. The horribly raspy or painfully boring lead vocals over butt country instrumentals is so uninspiring. If you don’t like the first couple of tracks, you will be in for the longest 90 minutes of your life.

Not for me 1/5

This did nothing for me, didn’t even finish the first disc.

My disappointment was immeasurable when I determined Dale Gribble was not the voice on the title track. Would have been the highlight of an otherwise bad album.

I hate this. Why is he gargling. Why is it 16 hours long. Why is he talking about my least favourite singer Neil Young (made it even worse- didn’t think that was possible). This was horrible from start to finish. Bad bad bad. This is awful.

This album put me in a bad mood. It's a shame really - this music alone with different lyrics altogether and different vocals might be a minimum 3. Honestly is there that huge of a musical difference between this and early Tragically Hip which I love...? It's just that holy crap not only do I not give a shit about southern American bullshit so-called culture...actually I give a negative shit about it - it's mocked for a good reason. Hey - an album about meth heads and drunken good old boys drivin' around is hard to ignore - every damn song? jfc. Even if it's self-deprecating - i don't want to hear it. ...and I will say some of it is semi-appreciated, e.g. the half-assed effort in "The Three Great Alabama Icons" to not entirely smooth over some of the endless bullshit peddled for decades which caused so much harm to this day but ... as I listened to it and started to kinda want to come around to this quasi-open discussion ... it all came across as more than a little pandering and a little (ahem) south of poetic. Frankly the trying to have it both ways about this "Southern duality" - it ain't clever boys - it's just a little whataboutism. "Fk George Wallace" - how about that for a better title? oh how nice that he felt bad in later life. I remember Georgie and he was an evil asshole who yeah -> caused continuous and irreparable harm mostly because of the cretins that believed in him. Fk off you shall rise again. Shut up - I know I'm sensitive to this stuff, it's my review. My rating shows me that my scale isn't linear and probably not fair. The lyrics, the subject matter, the vocals just annoy me so much that I'm in a mood and don't care about being objective. I hate it - one of the few DNFs in 700+ albums. 2/10 1 star.

One star for parody value

Boring.

Begging someone to tell these guys they could write songs about literally anything else if they wanted

i got maybe 3 minutes into this 90 minute album before i died. a tumor grew on my brain so quickly i died on the spot. unironic hillbilly rock with no fun aspects.

Boring, I feel like I've heard about 10 albums just like this one before

Not really for me.

Meta version of country bands I don't particularly enjoy

Garbage modern country

It aint it

Not for me

Nothing worse than southern nostalgia, and that is all this album is.

Holyyyy, why is 90 minutes. You gotta have better music to justify that, this could have been a mediocre 30 minute album. Will I listen to again: 0%

nothing new to see here, double denim man rock

I like Southern Rock. This isn't Southern Rock. This is watered-down versions of a Kid Rock/Outlaws/Kenny Wayne Shepherd/Skynyrd cover band. Even their attempts at blues-based music fell flat. This is such a tired genre. The more that I listened to it the more I wondered if they were parodying the genre. Spinal Skynyrd?

Hilariously bad. At some point I gave up and decided to listen to "most listened" tracks, one of which was Zip City. And I immidiately got hit by the 4 most basic guitar chords people learn day 1. Its so bad its actually funny. The guy that was making the list was super fucking high to decide that this is a "very important album".

I somehow finished the first track. I skipped around track 2 to hear the vocals. Ugh.

I thought I was in for a rough time hearing the spoken word vocals on track 1, but I didn't know how good I had it by the time track 2 assaulted my ears with abrasive vocals, then track 3 hit me with the coup de grace of Southern Pop Country Rock. No thanks.

I'm pretty sure that this album is a practical joke. Like, this is just a joke that everyone misinterpreted. 1/5

Really not my thing

Oof, I dunno if I’m gonna make it through this long-ass album (which clearly is the basis for Kid Rock’s entire musical catalog, except he’s so fucking edgy bro). #4 this fucking sucks. Patience waning. Nah man, I’m out, listening to the hits as ID’d by Spotify and then I’m moving on.

No, tampoco.

fucking awful couldn’t finish

I didn't like this... at all

This aint for me.

This sucks. And there's a lot of it.

Ick.

Terrible, I’ve heard kids in the garage sound better than this.

I thought I would enjoy an album inspired by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Turns out this album is pretty bland. All flash no substance, led by a mediocre vocalist. Even guitar solos are drowned in the mix.

Of all the mediocre albums I have ever heard in my life this might be the most mediocre of them all. I have listened to the first 7 songs and haven't heard anything that excites me at all. I will not finish this listen because it bores me to no end.

absolutely fucking hilarious. sounds like a very unimaginative parody. southern rock opera is an “appropriate” name. fav songs: i dont know i fell asleep everytime i tried to listen through it in one sitting

Holy shit this was long and pretty boring sonically. I thought the lyrics were pretty thought provoking though. The only highlight for me was the first track.

This one was bad. Turned on one song and I was done

When I’m in a meat riding competition and my competition is Drive by Truckers. Dude this guy has a VALLEY GIRL ACCENT it’s so fucking annoying. Can’t finish this. Three great Alabama icons isn’t awful I guess

I can say I listened to this, but that's about all I can say. I know this is an album that should be consumed with focus, listening intently to every song. Its essentially telling a story. But I couldn't do that, not at this length. It played in the background and I felt like it was halfway decent. Would prob give a two if it was a reasonable length. maybe even a 3 if I really focused on the story and enjoyed it. This album is an ambitious one, Ill give it that. And for the right listener, I could see it being a real hit. But I fear those listeners are few and far between. This is just nowhere near as interesting as it needs to be to justify its length. No best and no MMM because I only listened once and nothing stuck with me at all

Album was too long, was just shit

I want to give this -5 stars. Muddy, badly produced, all sounds the same dirge that goes on for about 76 hours. I listened to it just because I feel I have to. But fuck ME it's shite.

Nicht meins Decent 2/10

Nah. It’s not the Crowes.

Dudes are obsessed with Lynyrd Skynyrd. I couldn't finish this one. The music was ok for the songs I listened to but I can't listen to this guy blat out another one.

Was not a fan of this at all. Would be probably the worst 2 I would give, but there's a number lower than that too. Just too yeehaw and too long