Southern Rock Opera

Really not sure what they were going for here. Yes, the south has a complicated and unfortunate history, but like Skynyrd? I don’t know. DBT can play, I bet they sound great live, but I don’t think I need to hear anymore.

If you listed all 600 albums we had left and ask me to rank by my excitement to listen to them, this probably would’ve been in the bottom 50. Listening to all 90 minutes of this was a big ask. Usually these huge albums take me all morning to listen to, but an unrelated change in the household morning routine allowed me to get half of it listened to before I got to work. I am not sure what to make of some of the messages in this. Genuinely. Musically, it was pretty good overall. A 2 feels like a safe rating. I liked it, I thought it was really long. I don’t think shortening it would’ve given it a higher rating. Also, Lynyrd Skynrd might be one of my least favorite bands? And they didn’t change my mind.

#515. Viewed as satire, this comes off a bit amusing, but unfortunately I don't think that was the point. It'd just truly mediocre music coupled with middle school poetry competion quality lyrics and Lynyrd Skynyrd references. 2/5: bad

I had high hopes for this, but it turned out really dull. I didn't get it at all.

Definitely something. They went for it for sure. It exists.

not terrible, but guitar sounds is a little grating 2/5

Not for me

I really do not like this and find some of the southern lyrics to be crude and stupid. But I do find it interesting that this album was financed by fans using promissory notes.

It’s not horrible. But I’m exhausted two songs in. I get where this is going, but I don’t want to go any further.

5 tracks in, nothing has stuck, nothing was bad. 10 tracks in, nothing has stuck, nothing was bad. The stuff about George Wallace was interesting however. 15 tracks in, nothing has stuck, nothing was bad. 20 tracks in, nothing has stuck, nothing was bad.

I’m not listening to 94 mins of that

Too long. The instrumentation is fine; not great. I'm not a fan of the spoken word and the singer isn't very engaging in general.

bruh this is so long and boring

3/10 - Boring southern rock. He shouted out lynyrd skynyrd way too much

About an hour longer than it needed to be

Southern Rock Opera feels like a love letter to Southern rock culture, wrapped in heavy critique. It starts intriguingly, with thoughtful commentary on identity and racism, but quickly loses its spark. The concept is compelling, yet the 90-minute runtime turns into a test of patience as the songs blend together, leaving little that truly stands out. Musically, it’s polished but lacks grit. Tracks like The Southern Thing and Angels and Fuselage offer glimpses of brilliance, but much of it feels like a parody—campy vocals and overdone tropes that wear thin. A standout moment for me was when a female voice took over briefly, elevating the energy and coolness of the album, but it was fleeting. I wanted to connect with this, but it felt more like an academic project than a visceral experience. For all its ambition, it left me checked out, longing for something deeper and less self-aware. Highlights: Birmingham, Angels and Fuselage.

One and a half hour of just solid southern rock. Not a single remarkable track or piece except the bad vocals. Positive: it don´t sucks! But so dull that I don´t even want to rate it down just because of it´s lenght. 1,5

The title "Southern Rock Opera" is like nightmare fuel for me. Add in "Truckers" and "1.5hr runtime" and I've really formed some rock-bottom expectations. And those expectations... were met. The subject matter is respectable; the lyrics are engaging, but I just can't handle the presentation. They did a good job with the Lynyrd Skynyrding, but Lynyrd Skynyrding is like my anti-pizza (even when it's good, it's bad).

Eh.... I did kinda like a couple songs on here, but certainly not enough to justify the runtime on this album. Also, pretty sure if you made this into a drinking game where you took a shot every time Skynyrd was mentioned you'd be black out drunk by the end of "Let There Be Rock". I would be anyway. I haven't had any Skynyrd yet, and don't know anything beyond "Sweet Home Alabama" (off the top of my head), but I can't help but suspect the Drive-By Truckers didn't add anything new or interesting to the conversation that Skynyrd didn't already. Not fully sure why this album is on here over some others I can think of but maybe I'm missing something. Not a 1 star since I at least liked some of the songs/vibe, but definitely don't find it to be essential listening.

Njaa.. nothing special really

It's okay. Wouldn't seek it out to listen again. Not a fan of southern rock country

do i fucking look like i have time to listen to an hour and a half long album on christmas eve ;-;

2.5

I admire the scope of this record. Unfortunately I got overexcited accidentally listening to The Dirty South first which has Danko/Manuel on and is absolutely gorgeous. I first came across this band because of the really great album Decoration Day. Both of those LPs I really love. I couldn't muster the same feelings for this double LP. Like I said, great scope but rock and opera are two words that when placed together scare me

Decent is all I can say good artist average album

Yeeeeeeee hawt damn I didn't want to finish this

It could be good, but I was tired of the voice and the style on the second song and they gave me another hour of it.

Honestly, I didn't hate this and it had its moments. The second side of disc 1 is especially good. It's just too long... too fucking long.

Just don't like this kind of music. I grew up in Alabama so want to like this one but its a pretty good representation of the music I was surrounded in and do not like. If I did like this kind of thing, I think they would be one of my favorites. Cool cover art and deeper lyrics than their contemporaries at least. This just kinda makes me embarrassed to be from Alabama. A double album of bland southern dad rock. Good Old Boys remains my favorite Southern album by a pretty far margin Rating: 2.0

People are really hating it! well, its not good but it has its moments. as many albums on the list, it could benefit from being half an hour shorter but truth is, I didn't hate it

Meh. A couple good songs but not my thing.

Intolerably long and boring, featuring one guy that can't sing, and another that's even worse. Droning on about the South, Skynyrd, and George Wallace is not even remotely interesting to to anyone that doesn't make being Southern the cornerstone of their self identity and major personality trait. It's bland, it's derivative, and all things considered I'd much rather be listening to Skynyrd.

It's not objectively bad but it's a) way too long b) of no clear significance justifying its presence in this list. If you want to listen to this kind of southern rock, you're probably way better with good old stuff from the seventies.

This is quite the ambitious project and they nailed the sound they were going for. It just dragged on a little too long for me. I was pretty bored and over it by track 8 and admittedly just kind of skipped through the rest of the album so I could move on to some better music to get me through election day.

oh give me a break already

Look, I like southern rock as much as the next person, but NINETY-FOUR MINUTES?!?!?! Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, and why would the creators of this list do this to us?

If lyrics are more important than music to your appreciation for recordings, you might love the Drive By Truckers. When I want to celebrate poetry, or essays, I read books. When I listen to recordings, I want to be moved by music. There are moments of interesting southern rock here; but next to these guys' idols it's always a little pale, a little quaint. And the vocals - like Neil Young who they seem to adore - are just painful. I've wanted to like them for decades. But I just don't.

Some interesting lyrics, but country rock.

OK, this is far too long, a pastiche of a terrible genre, simultaneously weird and boring and generally unlovable. And yet, I finished Three Great Men and immediately played it again, because the story telling (of a song that's basically spoken word) is absolutely extraordinary. They should just have released that and ditched all the other nonsense.

Trip and a half.

someone needs to sit Dimery down and explain that a double album isn't inherently essential.

There has to be a better way to tell a story than a Rock Opera. has some interesting sound here and there but the storytelling nature and 2 frickin discs makes for a sour experience. How do you make southern rock so boring?

Huh? Why in the hell is this album on here? It’s boring, poorly recorded and way way way too long. It IS a good example of a rock opera though. In that it does tell a story but none of the songs are good. But there sure are a lot of them!

Sometimes interesting

Sounds like Lynyrd Skynyrd, clearly designed to do so, with fake-out introductions to some of the songs. Extremely self-indulgent / uncompromising, at more than 90 minutes these guys clearly had something to say and didn't care much if anyone wanted to listen. Aside from the length, it was unobjectionable but there is no way I am listening to any of this ever again.

I don’t get Lynyrd Skynyrd. I don’t get this. There were glimmers of something occasionally but then it would descend back in to samey stuff. And so long. I don’t care about the story. I did go and read up about George Wallace though. What a piece of work he was

Did not finish.

Lucky for them, I've been on a bit of an alt-country bend recently, so this came at the right time. Unlucky for them, I've been on a bit of an alt-country bend recently, and heard much better. Listen to Sixteen Horsepower if you want that good shit.

I'm not familiar with Drive-By Truckers' music, and I don't think I've ever heard of this album. What really strikes me as odd is that I don't think I've ever heard any of my friends ever mention being fans of DBT. Living in Texas my whole life, and going to college in a small town in-state, I've known plenty of country music fans, but I really don't think I've ever heard anyone talk about these guys before. I'm really picky about my country music, and with a run-time of 90 minutes, I'm not so sure about this album, but I'm willing to give it a shot. Well, this album certainly wasn't to my liking, and the fact that it ate up an hour and a half of my day certainly didn't help. I guess I'll start with the things that I thought this album did well. I appreciate the vision behind this project, even though on paper, it's not really my kind of jam. It's a hell of an interesting concept, and it's even more interesting when you consider that this album was released in late September of 2001. I assume that current events may have played a part in this album's inability to find a wider audience. Still, even in the ten years leading up to 9/11, I can't think of any other country albums that were doing something similar to this. There are some pretty bold criticisms about the history and culture of the south on this album, and just as many questions about how to reconcile with something that's permeated your own personal past. The second half of the album is a lot more fun, especially musically, with some catchy songs like "Life In The Factory," "Shut Up And Get On The Plane," and "Greenville To Baton Rouge." Thematically, the second half of the album was much better than the first, as the band looks towards their present and future, and how their past plays a role. When it comes to the things that I didn't like about this album... well, there are many. Musically, it's pretty boring. I typically don't think of country music as being particularly great musically, but for something a little bit more country-rock, I'd expect something a little bit more unique. The guitar playing is competent, and even though there's plenty of it to go around, the riffs aren't memorable, and they're not doing anything new or profound. For an album that leans towards country music, I'd expect much better vocals than what was on this album. This album really lacks anything noteworthy when it comes to its sound, and that's a bummer, because the band clearly has some talent. The songwriting is fine, but first half of the album feels like someone took a Lynyrd Skynyrd biography, a term paper for AP American History, and a road trip memoir, and stapled some pages from each one together, in an attempt to create a single work. The multiple tones of each of those elements just didn't land with me. I think this album would have been much better if some of the fat could have been trimmed off, and if it wasn't trying to pull the listener in so many directions at once. I just couldn't get into this album, and it's definitely not something I'd return to.

Southern Rock by the B team

No idea what was going on here

Do you think they’re fans of Lynrd Skynrd? I actually really like the commentary on the culture of the south and heavy criticism on racism, definitely wasn’t expecting that. Not usually a fan of songs like it but Three Great Alabama Icons is a good example of that commentary Otherwise I feel a bit checked out and idk what’s happening in the story lol Interesting how the second a woman starts singing (Cassie’s Brother) the entire vibe becomes 10x cooler. Hmm🤔

I think the actual concept of the album is really good, I haven't seen anything like it before, with that being said however, if you take away the concept part, you're left with far too much plain blueish music. There's definitely some highlights, but not near enough to justify it's length.

2.4/5 listened 2x. long album and a few good tracks, but not interested to come back to it.

This was ok. I started playing bass guitar in bands when I was about 13 or 14 years old. Playing many shows in the south, I remember playing alongside bands that sounded like these guys. To me it's music without much complication or technicality. I've never played music after drinking alcohol because I was always too scared to make mistakes because of being buzzed. I felt like I always tried to challenge myself to make things interesting and just do the type of bass playing that could sit in the background. This music though sounds like it could be played after drinking moderate amounts of whiskey. Again, nothing too demanding. Southern rock is not really my thing, although I do have a lot of respect for the Allman Brothers, I can take the genre in small doses. This project is kind of highlighting to me certain types of music that don't really pull me in.

can only describe this as johnny depp music pluspunkt für antirassismus?

Headache-Stuff

Skynyrd meets Vutthole Surfers (with a little Black Crowes). I should like it, but I don't.

Listenable throughout with lots of fun references to Southern culture, but nothing stands out musically in 90+ minutes. Mediocre southern rock.

Got about halfway through. Couldn’t vibe

A bit of a slog to say the least, and really not even very operatic.

It sounds like it wants to be grungy southern rock, but it is too produced and musically and lyrically banal to be exceptional in either of those genres.

Canciones favoritas: -Guitar Man Upstairs -Birmingham -The Southern Thing -Moved (es distinta al resto, me gusta el efecto de la guitarra, tranqui) -Greenville to Baton Rouge -Angels And Fuselage (por fin una armónica aaaaaaaaa) La primera canción (Days of graduation) me dio meras vibras de Fire Coming out of the Monkeys Head. Siento que con la segunda canción ya escuché todo el álbum :/ (espero que no sea así) pura música de camionero gringo (LA ULTIMA CANCION SE LLAMA ANGELES Y FUSELAJE O SEA...) 🫠🤢. No creo que lo vaya a escuchar completo, (no soy xenofobica pero) aparte 4 de los 5 miembros son de alabama jajajsjsjjs, definitivamente no lo voy a escuchar completo xd y apaaarte está re largo wtf... A ver, voy en la mitad y ya estoy saltando las canciones porque todas suenan igual (papaparara papaparara me aburriiiii), la guitarra está bacanita. No pude escucharlo completo de verdad, no es para nada mi género. Chau

This was kinda cool actually lol. I liked the music and the sound of the production but the vocals were too much for me honestly. Obviously campy on purpose but sometimes it was a lil beyond the pale for me

Not for me

Reminds me of the time a skinhead walked into my shop - full gear, bovver boots and bomber jacket, and I thought uh-oh, then I saw a badge at his lapel saying, skinheads against racism. That made me relax, but imagine picking a look that needed a disclaimer. It's like a southern rock parody of System of a Down. Rock for a bit, then read out screeds of political history. The South will rise again! But, but, not in a racist way, you understand. Anyway, this next song is about a racist politician - which we're against, by the way, just to be clear. Yeehaw. In conclusion, Skynyrd, Alabama, and Skynyrd again. Thanks for coming to our TED talk y'all

bless their hearts

Sorry, this is just too damn long.

They made a long album and they can play, but I'm not at all feeling it.

Sloppy rock

First song has all the southern rock tropes, all of them. Second, same. Third, same. I'm not going to give this 90 minutes of my day. Gawd, takes me back to the days of my cover band in the 80s. We'd be playing Dire Straits or Doobie Brothers or something 70 ish and about the 3rd set some damn drunk in the back would start calling for Sweet Home Alabama. Yea, we could play it but it was kinda the Freebird for drunk men who liked to fight. Then there were the drunk women who would scream "WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" at the top of their lungs about the same time. And I could barely breathe for all the smoking. Memories I had forgotten. The band was so much fun. This stuff, not so much. Such boring stuff is made for endless cases of cheap beer. 2 stars.

Rock clássico que desenvolve bem até acabar o primeiro disco.

Kind of a budget rate Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynryd mash up. Definitely emulating the southern rock style, but trying to be more modern/contemporary. It was ok, not really my thing. I'd rather listen to actual Allman Brothers

Helppoa rockia. Levynä olisi merkittävästi parempi jos karsisi 50% biiseistä pois joutavana täytteenä. Nyt jäi kolmas tähti saamatta.

Never heard of the band before today. I miss yesterday

The title says it all. And it’s not a good thing. 2 stars

Never heard of this combo but as ever willing to give it a listen. Haven’t listened much to US southern rock and bits I have heard not really my scene. As always gave it a listen and in fairness the album started well and pricked my interest. However as I got deeper into the album it all became a bit the same with the music and vocals beginning to grind. Reminded me a lot of Neil Young and Tom Petty but not has talented. References to Lynard Skynyrd meant nothing to me. Nothing here to see. 2/5 30/4/24

The biggest sin this album commits it's overstating it's welcome. I really think that if they had trimmed at least 1/3 of it, it would be a much tighter and quality album. The songwriting is compelling for the most parts with some interesting ones such as the opening track, zip city and three Alabama icons among others. Unfortunately most of the album is just forgettable tho I will admit this is not rrally my thing, I can see how someone who appreciates southern rock, culture and this type of storytelling will definitely enjoy this more. Deserves to be in this list nonetheless.

Ziemlich langweilige Songs mit ziemlich abgedroschenen Soli. Nix besonderes.

Terrible voice. Idc about Alabama.

Idc

Jeez an hour and a half though?

Not for me. Too long with a couple OK songs mixed in.

There's some fun southern rock here but it wears out its welcome rather quickly - one disc would have been enough.

meh

We get it. You like Lynyrd Skynyrd and Alabama. Geaux Tigers.

Southern Rock Opera. Un poco rollo.

way too long. Had some alright songs but mostly same-y garbage. Favorite Track - Days of Graduation

Not very exciting

Women w/o whiskey is okay.

An ambitious project, having a rock opera all about living in the south, especially for an at the time very small band (they had to get fans and friends to help pay for its completion). There are some great songs here with great lyrics, Three Great Alabama Icons being a cool history lesson, but this album has a fatal flaw that completely ruins the entire thing for me. It. Is. Too. Fucking. Long. It's so long, that i tuned out a LOT of the songs because I felt it should have just ended at the end of disc 1. Sorry Drive-By Truckers, great effort, with some great songs, but the album is too fucking bloated and desperately needed some trimming, like 45 minutes of it

Gotta give em points for the attempt at a souther rock concept double album, but it comes up short. It's more like a long winded collection of bits that are Gaffa taped together to try and make cohesive whole, but for me there's not enough variation in sonic textures to keep me interested, got about 3/4 through it before I tapped out.

90s and early 2000s southern rock to the hilt. Birmingham was just “Last Dance with Mary Jane” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers without the charm. I respect the carrying on of the tradition. The lyricist is a southern rock historian. Ultimately, the sounds and the grooves all melt together for me. None of the songs hold any special place for me, but they do make me want to listen to Skynyrd and Tom Petty.

It's just some southern US and A mild rocking. I get that they sing about important stuff in a pretty intersting way, still not a big fan.

Fuck this shit entirely. Imagine the worst guys you know suddenly decide to act like storytellers like they’re Bob Dylan only they were football players and only drink light beer. Pass!

Only listened to disc 1

Fairly uneventful. Country music masquerading as rock.

of course everything is phony, but some things are too phony music: hated. (⌐■_■)

On the whole, I like this band. This one is just too narrow as a concept. Only so many times I need to hear a guy sing the words “Lynyrd Skynyrd” before I say “Ok, ok.”

Nothing special here.

Could not care less about the concept and story behind this record, but I am a fan of the southern rock riffs.

Ok but not for me

Meh. I couldn't pay attention.

Meh

I got pretty tired of this sound by the end. I feel like these guys were a little too inspired by Lynyrd Skynyrd

An album that is heavily inspired by Lynyrd Skynyrd, as they mention the band at least 50 times throughout the thing. Not bad, but I'd honestly just listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd at that point.

Truly awful, personalityless, garbage

interesting not my cuppa

Ganske kjipt

It's southern rock for 90 minutes. Nothing special in the music. Nothing special in the vocals. Sometimes lyrics that go beyond muh Alabama and skynyrd

Would've been a 3 if it wasn't a double album---was fun for a while but becomes tiresome and samey.

Nimensä mukainen. Vallan kiinnostavia tarinoita, tai no kertojan elämä nyt oli aika tavallista selkeesti. Ihan päteviä rock-kappaleita, sedille kivoja. Viihdyttää muttei juuri innosta. Miksi on ollut tarpeen antaa aivan näin paljon mittaa albumille?

eh, not my style

mehhh.....Uncle Tupelo is way better....

This was really bad but I definitely liked it less listening to it on an airplane. 3/10

Ganske kjipt

Not for me. Two stars only because of the song about perceptions about southerners being driven by George Wallace.

It's alright, not really my style

Didn't get it. Not Southern enough

01) Days of Graduation - 6,5 02) Ronnie and Neil - 6,5 03) 72 (This Highway's Mean) - 6,5 04) Dead, Drunk, and Naked - 6,0 05) Guitar Man Upstairs - 5,5 06) Birmingham - 6,0 07) The Southern Thing - 5,0 08) The Three Great Alabama Icons - 6,0 09) Wallace - 5,0 10) Zip City - 5,0 11) Moved - 4,5 12) Let There Be Rock - 4,5 13) Road Cases - 5,5 14) Women Without Whiskey - 4,5 15) Plastic Flowers on the Highway - 4,5 16) Cassie's Brother - 4,5 17) Life in the Factory - 4,5 18) Shut Up and Get on the Plane - 4,5 19) Greenville to Baton Rouge - 4,5 20) Angels and Fuselage - 5,0 TOTAL: 5,22 (52/100) Oh God! Another one I have to listen on You Tube :rolleyes When you think you're finally done, there's a second part, because why not. Well, at least I had enough time to learn something about George Wallace, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the city of Birmingham, Alabama... Wikipedia is my friend. I started to lose patience half way through the second part. God, this is sooo booooriiiiing!

Not sure how I really feel about this one, interesting history lesson in parts, some nice tunes but not sure it will stick with me long term….

1,5 h? Even as a curiosity, it's a waste of time to listen to this album.

This was a tough listen. Some melodies and jams but the writing lacks depth, so much so that it makes a lot of it boring and unlistenable.

Every song sounds the same and the album is so long that I just lost interest halfway through and skipped to the most popular songs to see if they stuck out. They didn't.

So this is definitely not my favorite thing, but it did grow on a me a little bit over the course of the album. I think the biggest issue here is that I'm clearly just not the target audience. The overarching theme is about growing up in the South and the experiences and misconceptions that come with that (fed though a Lynyrd Skynyrd lens). I found it at times to be an interesting perspective, but not one that I could relate with very well. I also just don't think I love the singer's voice (it's a bit raspy) and I found the non-lyric part of most of the songs to be a bit generic twangy rock. It's certainly ambitious though, and I appreciate the storytelling throughout. I found the back-to-back tracks "Three Great Alabama Icons" and "Wallace" pretty interesting. The former is barely a song, and more like a documentary overview of George Wallace, Bear Bryant, and Ronnie Van Zant and their impact on Alabama. Then it leads into the latter, which is about Wallace and how he's in hell (but a fairly nuanced perspective on him). Then the second half mirrors the plane crash that killed a lot of the Lynyrd Skynyrd band members. The closing song "Angels And Fuselage" is particularly striking and has a much more somber tone than what led up to it. There's definitely a lot going on here, it's ambitious. It's long (93 minutes), and long concept albums (which this definitely is) can be a bit hit or miss. This one isn't really for me, but I get why it makes the list and am glad I listened. Two interesting side notes about this album. First is that Jason Isbell was not involved in the production of this album, but he joined the band for the live touring and then was part of the band for their next few albums before launching his solo career. The other one is that this was set to be released on 9/11/01, but ended up getting pushed back a day after the attacks. Favorite song: Zip City Other: Dead Drunk And Naked, Wallace, Angels And Fuselage 11/14/23

1. Days of grad - 1 2. Ronnie and neil - 2 3. 72 - 2 4. Dead drunk and naked - 2 5. Guitar man upstairs- 2 6. Birmingham- 2 7. The southern thing- 3 8. Three great Alabama icons - 5 9. Wallace - 3 10. Zip city - 3 11. Moved - 1 12. Let there be rock - 3 13. Road cases - 3 14. Women without whiskey - 2 15. Plastic flowers - 3 16. Cassie bro - 2 17. Life in the factory - 2 18. Shut up and get on the plane - 2 19. Greenville to baton Rouge - 2 20. Angels and fuselage - 4 2.45

Happy when it was over

Don't like country

Robert a décidé de nous compliquer la vie avec cet interminable album de castor-rock uniquement disponible sur Youtube. Fais très attention Robert...

Decent Lynyrd Skynyrd knock-off but no way it needs to be almost two hours long.

Not really my thing and felt like way too long of an album. The spoken word stuff felt like it was trying too hard. Maybe two songs out of the whole album I would choose to listen to again.

This band reminds me of the southern rock version of Titus Andronicus. It’s just messy and an information over poetry approach to art…. And where is the piano…. It’s like a pretzel without salt. I love Skynyrd and while informative this feels overly played in its desire to convey southerness rather than letting it naturally flow out of the art they are making. I think you can be southern, artistic, critical and poetic… like Skynyrd…

Thought the music was interesting. Could definitely hear both rock and southern style tones throughout each song. Not my style though

Still haven't been able to listen fully after a 2 months....not a fan. All sounds samey with no riffs or lyrics that really draw me in

Of its place.

country, not in my wheel house

They best keep moving on.

Meandering, occasionally engaging but disjointed concert album.

Did not care for it. Did not listen. 5/10

hootin, tootin AND hollerin calm vibes and nice guitar, but maybe not the biggest fan? 2*

i didnt like this, too slow

Off key

The union won

This might be the most confusing album on this whole list. It's not terrible I guess but there is nothing good about it either. If your friend told you he made this album you'd be pretty impressed but it really is nothing special compared to actual musicians. There is no historical significance to this album that I can see either so what the fuck.

Ok

Too long

The guitar playing absolutely carries this band. Song structure sucks, vocalist(s?) suck. Most of the songs sound exactly the same. Didn’t finish it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 2/5

This album is what I imagine the people I went to middle school with listen to when they’re shotgunning beers on their daddy’s boats on the lake. The *idea* behind this album is interesting but good golly Miss Molly if you want me to listen to the lyrics you have to make it sound at least a little bit good.

I'll start by saying that this album, musically, is not very good, and at over an hour-and-a-half long, that is not a good thing. Sometimes you'll get a guitar lick or a hook that is pleasing to the ears, but otherwise you're either getting stereotypical country rock, or Lemmy doing stereotypical country rock. It gets old fast, and whenever the lyrics are just like "I got drunk to Lynyrd Skynyrd hyuck-hyuck" the worst of the album shows. I understand that it may be relatable to some guy in Alabama who grew up in the 70s and 80s, but for most of the world, it verges on parody. However, I must admit, despite not wanting to, that I don't hate this album. Especially not enough for a one star. There are lyrical nuisances here that show more deptch and humanizing of the American South than their "culture" has ever shown, and the looking inside the album tries to display at times is endearing at worst, but genuinely interesting at times. Not every song does this, mind you, but after years of Alabama being the butt of every joke you've ever heard, to see someone actually from the state talk about their thoughts and opinions on various topics can be genuinely thought provoking, and they can definitely tell jokes that are more clever than just "Alabama lol". Needing all twenty fingers and toes to "hold the closet door closed" is one that is especially clever as a comment of the stereotypes of the state. Most of this is not good, and I'd rather not hear this again, but I have to give credit somewhere. This is too long, though, were half of these songs necessary? Still, expected worse. Looking into this album a bit more, I'd say just listen to disc one, as disc two is the part of the storyline where the fictional band of the story "Let there be rock" and while most of the decent parts musically come from this section, nothing on this back half will stick with me.

Gäsp!!!

# 64 : Good musically and the concept behind the album was great but the singer wasn’t my favourite. I was bored while listening. if you're going to do 90 minutes, you at least have to have a few songs that GRAB you, which this doesn't have. It just goes on and on and on remaining passable but never great. Guitar Man Upstairs

I've heard of this band before, but had never listened. Not surprisingly, they sound exactly like a band called "Drive-By Truckers" should sound. Not a big fan, but also didn't hate it.

Too. Long. It's like they did a lot of cocaine one night and said what if we took the song length of Freebird and correlated it to an album? It didn't work for me.

First of all, I couldnt finish this. I was hopeful that something would click or it would get better but it just wasnt happening. It sounded like Kid Rock, The Presidents of the United States and Florida Man had a baby. And their baby was this album.

Sounds the same

Southern Rock Opera. Un poco rollo

Nou, je kan zeggen wat je wilt, maar ik ga flink mn muzikale comfortzone uit met deze albums zeg. Southern Rock opera, nou was de laatste Rock opera(Meat loafs Bat out of hell) fantastisch dus er zijn verwachtingen aanwezig! It's southern rock, thats it. Thats the review. Niet een heel opvallend album, vind er niet heel veel aan eerlijk gezegd. De andere reviews noemen Lynyrd Skynyrd veel, maar ik heb hun eigenlijk nooit echt geluisterd De tering wat is dit album laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang Laatste nummer: Angels and Fuselage vind ik misschien het prettigste. Wat meer country, bijna bluesy voel ik deze eigenlijk wel. Dit bewijst weer dat ik er geen verstand van heb omdat de meeste reviews de 2e helft zwaar afkraken. Favo: The Southern Thing, shut up and get on the plane, Angels and Fuselage

Jeetje houdt de Rock dan nooit op? Een heftig epos over het zuiden van Amerika. Ik denk dat mijn relatief beperkte aandacht en gebrek aan kennis over Alabama niet helpen. Verder is het wederom scheurende gitaren, fijn. Oh ja, en anderhalf uur vind ik toch wel pittig lang voor een album, al snap ik in dit geval waarom men het nodig vond Favorieten: Zip City, Cassie's Brother

Actually a few good songs but nothing that caught my attention. Was a really long album, could have done without the full 1hr 33min. Got bored towards the end and just became background music in the end.

Not really my type of music, this kind of country is a little boring for me

Beer boy bar band boogie. It's OK, but there is no nuance or melody

90 minutes?!?!? There is absolutely no justification for the length of this album and really needs to go with the less is more approach. Generic country rock in so many songs, drowning out the decent ones 3/10

This was a SLOG. Disc 2 seemed a little better at least, but man.

Ja wat moet je hier van denken. "Dead, drunk and naked" is een lekker nummer. De zanger klinkt als een redneck pannenkoek maar dat is denk ik een beetje de grap. Op sommige nummers wordt een lekker potje gitaar gespeeld. Anderhalf uur is wel echt te lang. Na een nummer of 5 a 6 had ik het eigenlijk al wel gezien en dan blijft het zich maar als een hagedis zonder achterpoten over de stoffige grond voortslepen. In het begin kijk je er gefascineerd naar, maar na een tijdje wordt het wat sneu.

Cool lecture. Tried reading the lyrics, but still found them hard to follow, because I can't English

This was an Interesting and ambitious concept overall for an album. I can’t say that it met it’s mark in the end. I was not a fan.

Buckle up: this is a long one... And I already saw this had universal approbation among the group, so I'm excited. Opens on a slog with Days Of Graduation -- ominous bass with a weirdly condensed spoken word deluge. Reminds me of something, but I can't place it. Honestly I'm into it so far. Complete change of pace following the opening into much more traditional southern rock sounds. 72 (This Highway's Mean) is a pretty solid jam. Not gonna lie, while this is fine, it really doesn't sound that far from something that you could find in just about any country dive bar on a weekend. Sure, the production is cleaner and there are some better than average guitar licks, but there isn't a ton so far to separate it. Three Great Alabama Icons brings back the spoken word thing... I don't know if it intends to be funny, but it is in the delivery. I do appreciate the history lesson on Alabama leadership and the race issue as perceived from someone who grew up there. Alright the whole second side did just about nothing for me. Fine enough in the background, but this album is way longer than it has any right to be. And the final song docks a full point from my score for being both terrible and way too fucking long. So with that, I don't think this is a complete steaming pile of dog-shit, but I still don't want it on my shoe. 2 / 5.

I did not care for this. Not a fan of Southern rock. I especially did not care for that one throaty guy's voice. The one song about George Wallace was interesting.

Nah, I just got bored.

I wish the album was more accurate to its title...I was expecting grandiose hillbilly theatrics

This album made me want to crack a cold one and mow my lawn or wrench on my truck. good ol souther rock. favorite song dead drunk and naked least fav song three great alabama icons

Awfully boring rock. I don't know, I just can't stand this album

I wasn't a big fan of this cowboy rock style in the first place, but by the time "Moved" came up, I really wanted to turn it off. And that was only halfway. None of it is objectively bad, but there's too much of it. Favorite song: dead drunk and naked

Way too long, couldn't get over the young vs vanzandt shit, mediocre songwriting. Terrible introduction to this band (and Jason Isbell) for the Salt Disciples.

Meh, rock? I guess some of them. To me this is country with a bit of pep and a few less dogs dying. Hard to concentrate on the entire thing.

No me disgusto, solo un poco difícil entender las letras en ese acento, y demasiado largo para mí gusto, pero para ser country no esta mal

Little to like

Countryrock, sydstatsting, for langt

Diggaan näist välitarinoista, mut ei tää nyt oikee potki. Jos tää olis stoner -bändi joka tän tekis niin tää varmaan olis erimainio 2/5

Vähän turhan pitkä ja muutenkin vähän ihmeellinen Lynyrd Skynyrd-tribuutti. Jotkin biisit sai suupieleen puolihymyn mut taitaapi kakkoseen jäädä.

Maybe if they mentioned Skynyrd another couple hundred more times. Sounded like a crap country band that tried a rock album and failed miserably. Plus 90 minutes of this? No thank you

This band is regarded quite highly among alt-country circles, which this being the first of their golden era. However, there's not much country going on in this record, focusing on a greater southern rock sound trying hard to sound like Lynard Skynard and Tom Petty (and they don't try to hide this). It's decent, but pretty forgettable and inconsistent with the rotating songwriters and vocalists, with almost none of the tracks standing out. Favorites: Dead Drunk & Naked, The Southern Thing, Zip City

3.1 - I appreciate the honest ambition to give voice to a Southern POV that’s too often/readily dismissed because of a segregationist past. But the songcraft is mostly uninteresting besides a few tracks in the middle: “Three Icons…”, “Wallace”, “Zip City.” Also, at 75 minutes it’s just too damn long.

Spooky music

This style has been done before in better ways, which leaves little reason to listen to this one. And then its also waaaaaayyyyy to long. I feel like theres still something here, and who knows, maybe I decide to return to it someday and will love it, but for now, I really dont care about this one.

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.

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

As the title says, an ambitiously huge country rock concept album but I'm not super into that kind of music so it was a chore for me to get through

Fuck George Wallace

Normally I'd give something like this a 2. I don't like it, but I suppose there's a lane for other people to enjoy it. But let's be honest - this shit sucks, and you suck if you like it. A double album of bland shit songs all about the same things - guns, drinking, and George Wallace. I'm pretty sure even George Wallace would hate this. Take the one star and never get in my ears ever again.

Unforgivably long and unconscionably bad.

It's the first time I couldn't finish listening and finally understood the people who decide they won't continue with the project Utterly and irredeemably boring

Pure cringe

Oof. Not a fan. It sounds like 90s music with a hint (too much of a hint) of country music. I couldn't count how many times they name dropped Lynyrd Skynyrd on the two album but I'm it wasn't enough for the band. Kind of like Plastic Flowers on the Highway but not enough to make 2 stars happen.

Was not expecting all the history lessons on lynyrd skynyrd

I saw a 90 minute long southern country rock concept album and genuinely groaned out loud. And my fears were correct. Couldn’t even make it past halfway

AI generated music (techniquement pas mauvais mais je vais faire un test et voir si dans 6 mois j'ai pas complètement oublié cet album)

I would honestly rather listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd, and that's saying something because I hate them. Southern rock is one of my least favorite genres, and these guys are the worst version of it. Every singer is bad, but one of them sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me, I had to skip all of his songs. What a steaming pile of garbage.

Firstly, this is a bad album both in concept and execution, and they should feel bad for making it. Secondly, this also reminded me of a guy called Shoes who loved them for some reason. Shoes is incredibly charming, quick-witted, warm, and observant. He is a gifted conversationalist and generally good guy. However, this blessing is also a curse because he hates social gatherings, hates talking to people, and generally hates leaving his house. It’s like he was built for the schmooze, but a bit of him died inside every time he used his talents. Anyway, Shoes decided that he was going out for a Drive-By Truckers show, and he suggested that other people come along. And we all went “Hell yes. I don’t know a single thing about this band, but if it means even five minutes of pub time with Shoes, that’ll be worth the price of entry”. And that’s pretty much what happened. We went to the pub after work, listened to Shoes do what he was built for (pub banter), then saw some music. No regrets.

Me seeing that today's album is a country rock opera: "Oh no" Me seeing that it is about Lynard Skynard: "Oh no" Me seeing that it is over 90 minutes long: "Oh no" Me seeing that the top review is a one star review that just says "I'm European": "Oh no" Me after listening to this for 30 seconds: "Oh no" I tried to give this a chance, I really did, but this genuinely has very few redeeming qualities. I wanted to stop listening 2 songs in and there was still over 85 minutes left. I stopped when I got to the track that had actual audible mic feedback.

The curse of the double album strikes again. Why is it always the worst ones that make 90 minute albums? Ugh. The second part was better than the first but this was just not good overall.

How do you guys say it in the States? It’s like going to a campaign rally and being subjected to 90 minutes of talk about values, conservatism, the rise of - I don’t know what else… Clearly, this isn’t meant for anyone outside the U.S., let alone a list of albums to listen to before you die! Once again, I find myself wondering about the criteria behind the choices made by whoever wrote this book/list - there’s no way this thing has any universal appeal! Albums like this are only of interest to those who share the nationality and values represented in them. And there you go, bring on the next wave of hate for my opinion :-( EDIT: After 40+ minutes, I gave up and went to listen to the “Reddit: Songs to Hear at Least Once” playlist on Spotify instead. Now that’s a more balanced playlist ;-)

I'm way too British for this derivative murica crap

I saw a 90 minute long southern country rock concept album and genuinely groaned out loud. And my fears were correct. Couldn’t even make it past halfway

an album so bad it retroactively makes me want to bump up my other 1/5 albums

Entre médiocre et pourri

Shut up about lynyrd skynyrd!

the audacity of this album being an hour and a half………… not good

I tried, and gave up. This is horrendous to my ears.

I just struggled to see the point. I tried to stay open minded through the overlong run time. There was a bit at the end of the first disc where I learned a little about modern American history, that was nice.

Southern Rock 🤢 🤮

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.

Southern white American culture might be the worst culture of all time, and the music it produces tracks completely. The last thing I need is 90 minutes of retreaded Skynyrd, 0.5/5.0: Unlistenable

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.

This is ass and fuck double albums. Very rarely do artists have enough good material to fill a double album and these guys barely have enough to fill one.

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

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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