Southern Rock Opera

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

To be honest, I listened to two tracks and just knew this one wasn’t gonna work for me.

Firmly filing under HARD PASS.

I hated this album

Nope

I actually think I could sing better than some of these jabronis. I actually thought some of these songs were the South Park guys but then realized they wouldn’t make incredibly shittty music. Really not my shit minus some guitar work.

Dislike

I couldn't get even halfway through this, and at first I didn't want to rate an album without listening through the whole thing but you couldn't pay me to revisit this noise pollution.

this dude really just sang about Neil Young and Lynyrd Skynyrd the whole f***ing time. Was this Neil Young? Wtf did I just spend an hour and a half on?

When a 20 your album whiffs of 40 year old dad rock. An awful record.

No thanks. Not for me.

Could not get into it….

I get what the topical lyrics are all about. I get that they try to make sense out of the complex legacy the southern US states have had to deal with, between segregation and the old George Wallace supporters among poor white folks... Under that light, I can somehow appreciate the band's intent as they try to reconcile Neil Young and Lynyrd Skynyrd's different takes on such issues. To those it may interest, Neil Young has always been pretty candid about how his song "Alabama" had actually been unfair to the subtleties people who lived there went through--interestingly he never recanted about the overall message of "Southern Man", which might mean he still had a point about southerners' cowardice, at least broadly speaking... But anyway, yes, I "get" what this record is all about. But I *also* get that the music on this album is just damn awful, even with all those topical issues weighing in the balance. Vocals are hackneyed, the music is unoriginal, and the lyrics are on the nose, or heavy like a thesis statement. And ironically. invoking the memory of both Neil Young and Lynyrd Skynird in the first songs only proves one thing: that Drive-By Truckers had none of the latter's skills as songwriters. What a strange way to unite the two, really... Number of albums left to review: 700 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 148 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 70 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important): 83 (including this one)

“Three great Alabama Icons” was interesting. Not being for the south a lot was lost in me.

Shittier skynyrd

Liked: Three Great Alabama Icons

I don’t like folk

Kinda boring

Southern Rock for people who already like Southern Rock. Bland lyrics, bad singing, bad mix, okay guitar, bland drums. Not a good album at all.

Endless southern rock but without any if the good bits - avoid.

How this made it onto this list is a mystery. Cliché-ridden hard rock riffs with an equally ‘innovative’ singing style. Played the first track through then skimmed a couple of others. Turgid.

Double albums send the fear through me. Especially an album that pivots around Lynyrd Skynyrd. This wasn't easy on the ear. I didn't think it would speak to me, and I was right. It's beefy and has some decent riffs. But an album telling the story of other albums doesn't really work for me. I'm amazed I made it through to the end. It was an effort.

man these guys really like leonard skin nerd, huh? i didnt like this. the songs were individually bad, and the story of the album wasnt particularly compelling

This album is over 90 minutes long. I started skipping through songs. I struggle with southern rock and I certainly don't need a double album of it. A lot of times it sounded like a knock off of Skynyrd. I understand the irony of the Skynyrd comment given the George Wallace song. I just do not care for this much southern rock. It is better than some of the other 1s on this list but it not really a 2.

Southern and Opera are two words that i never want to be associated with something i have to listen to and this album justifies that predisposition. I'd like to know who listens to this and gets such frothy knickers that they listen to it all the time and have to go and see this live? I couldn't work out if it was a joke or not. if it is then it isn't very funny, but then doing 20 tracks is mega lolz.

Muderering prostitutes on the highway. What a life. I miss doing it so much. So many people died and i just didn't care one bit. I tell you what guys and gals, I'm going to fire up the engine and go out murdering right now, just for the memories. Watch out! Especially those of you with spina bifida. That's my kind.

Not unlistenable but wow it never ends… and not always sure its taking the mickey or earnest in intent. What is for sure I couldn’t take hearing Lynnyrd Skynnyrd namedropped one more time by the end of it

Not rated

Frekar leiðigjarnt. Með Lynard Skynard á heilanum.

Nope. Nope. Nope.

I really didn’t dig it

Complete crap. Just total horseshit that I want nothing to do with.

Not for me. 1/5 stars.

Dopo avendo appurato che il tizio che ha formulato questa lista sia un coglione, non mi stupisce aver ascoltato per un'ora e mezza quest'album di scarsa qualità. Quello che mi è dispiaciuto di più è che, anche trattandosi di un genere che potenzialmente mi piace, di 20 tracce in totale, nessuna mi ha intrattenuto, anzi. Che vi ha lasciato? A me niente proprio.

Che coglioni, qualche riff interessante ma fare 1 ora e mezza di questa musica è una violenza indecente. Inoltre completamente monocorde alle mie orecchie, ma ce n'era veramente bisogno di fare tutti questi pezzi? Veramente devastante, dovrei mettere 2 per incapacità di giudicare pienamente ma comunque sono pieno di rabbia dopo tutto questo tempo perso.

This doesn't even deserve the keystrokes. So, I'll just share what my friend Joel (a Southerner from Kentucky) had to say when I texted him: "It's bullshit. There is nothing wrong with your cultural perspective. It's "roots" or "Americana" inspired garbage by dudes who really want to tap that vibe, but just can't. Just because I'm Appalachian doesn't mean I'm worth a shit when it comes to that kind of music. Every asshole in that band looks like they went back in time and bought out the clearance rack at Structure."

Just could not listen to this while I worked. Do not like the vocalist's voice. Otherwise just basic southern rock chords

I tried. I just can't.

Paia

There's not really anything here to like or dislike, I found the whole thing entirely unremarkable. It's there, it's doing its thing, it isn't interesting me at all. I had to keep reminding myself to listen.

Not my favorite. Some of the songs did have the same beat. The talking points in between the songs were a little distracting for me

Just more bad country music. Couldn't get me to stick around to figure out the Opera part

The worst parts about classic rock, men who think they can sing, and men who love classic rock. The least terrible part was the spoken word song

Very much not my thing. And an hour and a half of it to boot. Definitely could have been refined and edited down to 45 minutes or split into two separate albums. Had to skip some of the tracks. The combination of the awkward lyrics with the awkward singing made it almost painful. The Southern pride thing comes across in a way that I find alienating. Feel like much of the content of this album could be handled musically in better hands, but the way they do it, it's like they're trying to collage 2 books together into an album (sometimes even a song) and it just comes across as ham fisted. Half the album wants to be a history lesson about Alabama and Southern culture and the other half is like this short story collection of tales of gritty wild life and being a musician in the South. Trying to do too much at once. I get they're trying to be raw and honest but it just comes across as unrefined and self indulgent.

Boring, generic folk-rock album. Call me a snob, but this is the first one I don't even understand how it could fit to 1001 albums to listen to before you die. And jeez it is 20 songs of boredom, i might not listen to it the whole way through... Giving up at "Women Without Whiskey", could not care less.

Hated it

why wood i lisin tu this