Reviews (page 7 of 7)
Wasn't drunk enough for this one
not for me
Thank God that's over.
Country sucks, but beyond that I have a hard time buying Haggard's "outlaw" persona with as deep of folk influence as this album has. I just keep picturing folk hippies trying to act tough and it doesn't work.
Even though I'm not lonesome, and not a fugitive, I can't help, but think this album is awful. Favorite Track: "If You Want To Be My Woman".
Clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop. The forlorn Merle sings about how she done him wrong in every song. Cept Mary (and she’s likely to die on him any day.) Pretty sure I coulda made it through life without hearing Lonely Fugitive, but OK - I don’t want my half hour back. (1.3*s) Still just not that into country.
Merle the Haggard...sounds like a character from some fantasy novel. Music doesn't though. Some throwback country although 1967 is not that long ago. I'll actually take this over the newer pop-country garbage. This at least has some roots and the ramblin' adventures of a cowboy hitchin' trains and boozin'. For such a tough guy though, his heart is susceptible to a woman's games. Not sure why this album stands out and makes the list and don't need more...1.23 stars.
I wasn't looking forward to listening to this because I loathe country music. I can recognize that Haggard is very good at what he's doing, but what he's doing does absolutely nothing for me. On the plus side, the songs are mercifully short. I generally like storytelling in lyrics, and this is something that Haggard is doing in just about every song. I did enjoy the mismatch between the bright music and dark lyrics on "Life In Prison" where he's singing about hoping to die to cheery instrumentation. Even with all that, I did start singing along with "Someone Told My Story," so some of it is catchy.
Nein.
It was mega garbage I can’t stand country and this is bad.
Not more country :( thankfully this is only 30 minutes, I CAN DO IT! Wow that was painful.
👎🏻
wasn't on Spotify, and the YouTube feed played one song then a bunch of other people, so did not listen.
Clearly country, clearly crap. I didn't listen to the whole album as I don't want the algorithm to decide that I really want to listen to Norwegian country music like it did a few years ago. It took 18 months or more to purge that out. Johnny Cash he aint.
I am not a fan of country music.
2/10 - a tough listen, real elvis hillbilly stuff
Bleh
- Another assaulter/abuser on this list (domestic and beyond). - The good: Merle's voice is pleasant & the album is short. - The rest: The instrumentation doesn't hit as well... I don't enjoy the bend, slide, or clipping on every note of the guitar and constant walking baseline. This feels like paint by numbers honky tonk. - Bored of the love and/or "I'm a tough, broken man" themes. And, I know that he was incarcerated, but I didn't really believe him when he was singing about being a Lonesome Fugitive, so I just kind of feel a distance from everything when he sings it. He's a storyteller, but I don't feel like he's ever really being introspective/vulnerable. - It all felt very "conservative man in the patriarchy" - not my bag, at all. "Little bitty woman"?! & a song about trying to kiss someone in his Cadillac who "tries to push him" off? Gross. And, of course: "Insane with rage, I took my darling's life Because I loved her more than life" Fuck off Merle Haggard. - Flagrant misogynists get a 1.
Merle Haggard, US-amerikanischer Country-Sänger und Songwriter, festigte mit diesem 1967 erschienenen Album seinen Rang innerhalb der Bakersfield-Bewegung. Die Aufnahmen entstanden in den Capitol Recording Studios in Hollywood, Kalifornien. Der klare, direkte Klang der Produktion unterstützt Haggards nüchterne Erzählweise. Der Titelsong „I’m a Lonesome Fugitive“ wurde zu einem seiner prägenden Stücke und beschreibt das Leben am Rand der Gesellschaft aus persönlicher Perspektive. Auch „Branded Man“ und „The Fugitive“ stehen exemplarisch für seinen Stil zwischen Honky-Tonk und traditionellem Country. Die Songs verbinden reduzierte Arrangements mit einer Stimme, die weniger auf Pathos als auf Erfahrung setzt. Genretypisch im Country verankert, zugleich geprägt vom raueren Bakersfield-Sound, wirkt das Album geschlossen und thematisch konsequent. Für mich gehört es zu den Aufnahmen, in denen Haggard seine Rolle als Chronist einfacher Lebensrealitäten überzeugend ausformt. Unterm Strich bleibt es amerikanisches Western-Gedudel, das vermutlich besonders bei Trump-Anhängern Gefallen finden dürfte.
I just can’t get behind this sort of thing. Just feels the same as all the other country albums we’ve listened to.
Cant see the merit in this even if I did like the genre. Tough listen. Yet to enjoy a country album on here
1:5
So bad
No me encanta el country
Not a fan of this. Maybe I don't understand this style of country music but it all sounds the exact same. 3/10
🤢
This was a real stretch for me! Interesting to go in a very different direction.
1,5
Nie ma nigdzie tego nawet do posłuchania xddddd i do tego western xddddddd nie No gorsze niż jazz ten gatunek muzyki nie powinien istnieć to jak discopolo dla Amerykańców xddddd
Just bland background music, presumably for people who weren't ready for contemporaries like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
33. not worth a listen
Boring!
More country... not awful but not something I'd ever listen to on my own time. It was completely forgettable. I gave it a 1 because I'm really not in the mood for this shit, sorry.
didn't finish, i guess i dont like country
Nee-haw
Like a poor man's Johnny Cash.
Uggh... country shit Top 1001 albums, you gotta be kidding
This is really not my jam. There are so so many country albums in this list, and I get there are lots of people who enjoy this but I feel like gouging my ears out listening to this album. Best: I'm A Lonesome Fugitive Worst: If You Want To Be My Woman
Nei takk.
A poor listen in every way.
I was hesitant to listen to this album but gave it a go due to my aversion to country music . This proved to be the case and have to admit to fast forwarding a lot of the tracks as there was nothing ground breakin* in this album and is a johhny cash rip off , or maybe the other way round ? Either way nit for me
Not my thing
I am not a country fan, so this unfortunately didn’t strike a cord with me.
There are times this journey has taught me new things about myself--I never realized how into late 80s/early 90s NY hip hop I was or psychedelic rock. Introduced me to bands that I never heard of before that I now love or made me appreciate musicians that I may have scoffed at before. But there are times that it is only deepened my already existing opinions about bands or genres and one thing I have had confirmed and confirmed again is my dislike of country music. Especially old country music. Especially old country music about murdering women.
В аду играет кантри
Don't you just love good ole country music? Nope!
dont like it
Gjesp. Jeg er rimelig genre fluid, men akkurat når det kommer til country, så blir det ikke representert med en farge på flagget mitt. Jeg er en country bigot. Fight me.
First song I already hate
Not my kind of music
Holy suicide song Batman
Drecks Country
No. Go away. The existence of a Merle Haggard isn't new to me, but I need the makers of this list to understand that roughly 95.8% of the world's population have no whatsoever reason to know this dude. Or to listen to this Spongebob-ass music. I don't care how this album compares to the ones from George Jones or Buck Owens I've regrettably had before and given a 2; maybe it's better in some abstract US music history way, but today, I have zero tolerance for this yankee yokel shit. 🗑, NEXT!
A single song that rises above the drab mediocrity is not enough for me to appreciate country
1.0 - Awful
1+ Stars (3/15)
Dreary C&W.
I’ll have a rack of ribs and a root beer please. Oh and a side of grits. Didn’t enjoy it.
Christ this is lyrically miserable and depressing, and the music while sort of better isn’t really helping. Mercifully it’s short. I’m trying to work out why I dislike this so much more than the Marty Robbins album we had in here. I think the latter was kinda more upbeat in a corny way. Old Merle here is just straight up mournful. I’m pretty sure I’m not in the minority of people that listen to music to get joy, not to put you on a downer. Do people who like this get up in the morning, slam their todger in a closing door, shout ‘I’m alive!’ and get on with their merry day?
HORRIBLE se me ha hecho eterno dios, me he dejado unas dos tres canciones porque no acababa.
Zuhause, Heidenheim, Deutschland öööööde, Country, geil!
After listening to a few country albums in the project, which I surprisingly didn't find bad, I wondered whether I might like this genre after all. With this album it became clear, no, I don't like it. This is exactly the style I associate with country music and it really annoys me. 1/5
Deep country twang on this. Wasn't for me. No tracks really stood out.
Country music isn't really to my taste, with the pedal steel, yodelly vocals and songs that tell sad and often dispiriting stories of crime, punishment (occasionally redemption) and love lost. This isn't really an exception, though I found the back story to Haggard's career quite interesting.
Nope
The worst thing ever
Basta con sto country
How did this make the list? Huge nope from me. I'd give it a 0 or 0.25 if I could.
Darn Tootin'
I don't care for this honky tonk stuff at all.
Why is this generic old country album in this list? The songs are boring and monotonous. At only a half hour, this album bored me nearly to tears.
not my thing
Plain old crusty, dull, super corny foghorn country that gets spectacularly samey even across its skimpy 30 minute span. In a whole different sphere but at the same point in time you have Sgt Pepper and Are You Experienced which have just come out . Bit unfair to bring up those two culture-shaping cornerstones of pop, rock and psychedelia but even compared to the most regular country album this is about as interestingly developed as moss. Makes me long for the utopian country days of Joe Ely which I have rated slightly higher in my 1 star pile of albums.
Falsches Genre.
Artiste / groupe inconnu. Dès les premières notes je n'ai pas apprécié. Ce disque confirme mon aversion à la country ... Je n'y trouve rien qui puisse retenir mon attention, je me suis très vite ennuyé. =>1/5
Luckily this was only half an hour
Make it stop
Country music, ugh! Country music is an abomination in the broad field of musical styles. Merle Haggard's is the best example of this. German "folk" pop music is similarly awful. Unfortunately, the English translation always uses the terms 'folk music' and 'pop music', but that's wrong! This music is a new pop music with mostly Bavarian-inspired instrumentation, ugh! So unfortunately we have something like that too. Again, this album by Merle Haggard is crap and I think if he hasn't developed musically, all of his albums are crap. I don't even know how many minus stars I can give here, let's stick with the system, five stars. 5-minus stars! Again, ugh
This was a very unpleasant listen.
Country music is not for me. I tried, spun it twice and no go.
You should take a lovely trip to Turkey. It's beautiful this time of year! They need you for the prophecy. Make haste for Turkey! What was not now is and shall make what is what is not, for all time. The patterns are deafening. You haven't much time at all. They are whispering for you now, so hurry. Drown the pattern in silence. Make it unknown, lest we all hear it. Goodbye.
We should really go to Turkey, something is calling us. The prophecy is calling, the time draws nigh. Clouds are gathering, storm is brewing and the clock keeps ticking stronger and stronger. Turkey calls impatiently for us. The moment is now.
at least it's short spotify fooled me and said it was from 2001
Fuck no way to country
I don’t like Country music and I didn’t like this album. But whilst listening I thought to myself that this music could not originate from anywhere else other than the USA. This type and style of music could not be from anywhere else in the world which made me think of how it originated anywhere but there. I can hear no influences at all from what I understand to be native Americans or any of the hundreds if not thousands of different nationalities who emigrated to America. There are other types of music which have their roots in America and I can hear the influence of other cultures. I’m thinking here of soul music and the influence of black Americans but Country music as far as I can tell is firmly in the domain of white Americans and so must have their roots in the founding fathers who in turn originated from Europe. This is my point. How can European musical dna go down two widely different paths? English folk music was about in pilgrim times so I assume it continued to be sung on those cold Newfoundland winter nights. Or perhaps they weren’t due to strict Puritan values? Maybe English folk music was looked upon as the work of the devil and anyone whistling hey nonny nonny no down the street had seven bells kicked out of them in the puritan pursuit of discouraging immorality and other sinful activities. So it gave birth to this clean cut inoffensive wholesome music we now call Country. So I blame the bloody puritans for this album. 1/5 17/11/24
God, I just don't care. This genre normally doesn't grate on me but it rarely fails to catch my interest. This album sounds exactly like everything else in the same neighborhood. Fav Track: Life In Prison (would be better than this album)
Intolerable country. Why would anyone subject themselves to this?
At least it was short.
67?????????? 1967????? jos olisi 1067 niin 5 tähteä. 1967??? insane album from 1967 bc... the middle kingdom of egypt looking ass... aa olikin 1967 jeesuksen jälkeen nvm... vähän jälkeen jäänyt mies tämä merle haggard karakteeri...... ainaki poko osaa raiskailla päätellen lyriikoista. jotain taitoja sieltä elämäm koulusta sentään saatu... once upont in the west. tänne sieltä nainen... tänn prkl..... duuuuu du duuuuuuu duuuuuuuuuuuu... mahtava albumi joka tehtiin vuonna 67... sama vuosi kun gaius julius vindex kapinoi, ensimmäinen sarjassa joka johti keisari neron tuhoon... nvm olikin 1967 vuosi jolloin suharto kaappasi vallan sukarnolta indonesiassa... life in prison
I’m never going to like country. This is slightly more palatable that the 5 or 6 country albums that have already come my way via the process. It’s 1.5 in that respect. But there’s no way I can round that up.
The only thing I liked about this was that the album was very short
Ok. Boring as shit, repetitive lyrics.
i mean okay if you heard one country album you heard them all its not bad, just isnt special NNN
This is #day30 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... I messed up the numbers in the previous review and wrote #day28, which should have been #29 instead. Anyway, country... I've nothing to say except this music leaves me indifferent. Sorry, but we're back to square one with, you guess, a 1 out of 5. Looking forward to #day31.
If you enjoy twangy country you'll love this. I however do not.
This album was not for me. Its a poor mans Jonny Cash, with a little more cowboy and sad songs. Its not the type of country music I like and enjoy.
Still can’t stand this kind of music. This guy sounds like a problem.
Nahhhhhh
It's some c£$t from Preston!
Country crap
FFS
Gear: Grado Hemp Artwork: 🚂 Mix: 🦻 Musik: 🤣 Wertung: 🚓/5
Country music is an abomination.
Blah. Meh. Old timey country music. Horrible.
Old school country is not my thing. Gave it a listen but no need to listen again.
A little too old timey country for my taste.
So I think my mom might like Merle Haggard, but this guy is not for me. I think I would have been kinder if this album was from the late 70s or 80s, but this releasedin 2001. It's attitudes seem dated, and it's music is average.
More hillbilly music, pass
Meh, not my cup of tea.
Listened to his stories of woe on ride back from airport…. Guitar picking was cool…. Read up about him and he stayed true, and though not one I’d play, album is a bit special.
Yikes no
Nah man, fucker ikke med country
Nope
Not my bag... too twangy.too predictable
Well I’m surely in a bad roll. I know for sure there are some great albums coming but most of the last sorts have been quite lame. This one was lame for sure, the new Spotify teaser feature surely came in handy.
Slow and painful. The album is too long. Very morose
Good god this is unspeakably boring. You know that dreadful film where the Beatles don't exist, so someone plays Beatles songs with Ed Sheeran (I think that's the plot, it was shocking). Anyway, this is like if the Fabs didn't exist, but nor did any other progressive sixties music, any drug or alt culture, or cultural revolution. It's easy to imagine this is what Don Draper put on when he turned off Tomorrow Never Knows halfway through. I love Don, but I don't want to live in that world.
Gott...
Terrible
proper good ol boy country. should have been left in the 19th centaury
Not my bag whatsoever. My eyes they are a rollin.
Leiðinlegt ... gat ekki hlustað í gegn
no favorites, whoever wrote the lyrics sound annoying to me sorry
Country. does nothing for me.
For fuck sake… can we apply a filter to filter out Country music?! My review is its exactly as uninspiring and predictable as every other country album. Perhaps a slight less annoying.
Couldn't really shake Conway Twitty out of my head, very much of the era where music followed very stringent rules so there wasn't much variation, which is somewhat acceptable when it's big band stuff but dire when it's rockabilly/country. All the songs were mercifully short, almost ridiculously so, not even the solos got more than a couple of bars. Not for me at all, just generally bad.
More country... Not for me, but probably preferred it to Emmylou we had the other day. Mercifully short. Felt extremely dated 1.5
OK the only time I’ve even ever heard this name was through a Bloodhound Gang a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is crying. This is straight up country. I’m not gonna be able to do this one. Sorry. One star.
Drink up and be somebody
Definitely not!
HATED IT!! country booyyy I do not love you. :(( sorry Merle
No.
It's saccharine vibe makes it all a bit of a drag to listen to
I can' listen to this. Wish he would choke on his fucking memorieeees!
Kill me. The worst kind of country. No, wait. Is there a good kind?
I just dislike country music.
Nope!
Nope !
It’s country. It’s shit.
Sure a great album if you like Honkytonk, i dont.
Ah, country & western, my second most despised genre after prog rock. Music for small town rednecks.
Having just watched Dewey Cox, I could semi enjoy a few tracks by imagining him singing it and believing it to be a pisstake. However, when the realisation dawns that this was an actual album. My god. 1.5*
Country isn't my thing. This is a no.
I can't stand country music.
Miellyttävämpää kuin eilinen mutta kuraahan tämä.. arvotonta... oikein mitätön..
Sounds like bog standard Country. Nothing special.
Dross
Not for me
Yee Haw
Slow C&W is a hard no. Bore off
I’ve certainly heard of Merle Haggard before, but I’m not sure if I’ve heard any songs in particular. I’ve definitely said this before, but country music very rarely click for me. Merle seems to have a bit of a legendary status within country music, so I’m hopeful that this will be one of the better country albums. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: I’m A Lonesome Fugitive I genuinely went into this hopeful for a good album. The first two songs sounded fairly interesting, but then my attention was lost from there onwards. The songs all sounded too similar to me, and the sound wasn’t remarkable enough to get away with it. Listening to any of these songs by themself wouldn’t be too bad, but a whole album of it was just too much for me.
Shit
Æji, þessi "Ó ég er svo villtur og get ekki hætt því, ekki einu sinni fyrir einu sönnu ástina" týpa af köntríi þykir mér svo afskaplega klén og leiðinleg.
Wat een ellende zeg. Gauw iets anders draaien om deze vieze smaak weg te spoelen.
Blegh! Verschrikkelijk die belegen country
Non
Country. Fine but not my thing. Meh.
Nah.
As many albums and artists I try, country still remains a “no” for me
No thanks.
It is a country album. Not good. No need to listen to it again.
Nothing special
This album almost put me to sleep. Basic old-school country can be good, but this ain't it chief. Favorite song: If you want to be my woman Worst song: Life in prison
This is so dull. Only 31 minutes, but still really dragged for me, little energy to it and nothing particularly worth listening to in the lyrics. I don't mind country, but this is pap. 1/5.
Nope. Just nope.
no.
Nope
p121. 1967. 1 star Poor man's Johnny Cash. All the worst excesses of country music are here. I really struggled to listen to the entire album. On the plus side the songs are short. Definitely not my thing. "If I could die/My pain might go away". I wish he would.
I like a lot of old country - Marty Robbins, Jimmy Dean, etc. I even like some "hurtin' country" - Patsy Cline, etc. So I was excited for some country, but...this album fucking sucks. It's very hard to pick out the worst of the bunch, but what the fuck are the songs "If You Want to Be My Woman" and "Mary's Mine"? It makes me appreciate someone like Johnny Cash, because some of his songs are adjacent to songs on this album but somehow manage to be actually good. The only good thing about this album is that most of the songs are over mercifully quickly (almost all are <3 minutes). If I had to be generous, I would say the first song, "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive", was a song that I thought was okay. It does not save this album from getting a "1".
no
Absolutely hate this twangy shit.
🤮🤮🤮
self-pity is a steel guitar
Country just isn't for me I think.
Not my kind
Not for me. It’s like listening the same boring song 20 times.
when i listen to this it sounds bad to me?
Ye ugh country
Not my cup of gruel.
Not my thang at all. Honky tonk music
Boa, das kann sich doch kein Schwanz anhören. Country ist schwer abartig.
Words don't really explain how much this album sucks. Nobody in their right mind should put this on a list of 1001 albums to listen to before you die. A complete waste of time.
Reminds me of my parents. That's the only good thing about it. The simplicity bugs me - if I could listen to 4 bars then play along with the whole song, I don't like it.
Slow paced shite
Country de la vieja escuela... Puahh
Listened to part of the first song, wasn't for me.
Too country, not my thing.
No
Can't do it... Long winded cheesy soft country from the 60s
Good old classic country. Nice in small doses.