Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

Country bumpkin nonsense

I somehow thought The Byrds were a bit like... The Small Faces or something. But Jesus... Country, and somewhat Christian country at that. Absolutely not.

The Byrds. I like The Byrds. Oh dear - what the heck is this?!? No issue with the genre shift - just that it is so pedestrian and has absolutely no place on this list.

I really did not enjoy this album

Makes me want to puke into a hay bale

I just can’t.

I'm tired of this Grandpa Admittedly, I'm not a fan of American rock/Folk. Nothing stands out to me. This all just sounds like music I'd hear standing in a roller coaster line at Knotts berry farm. Listening to this made my day actively worse.

Ay caramba, da losi erneut das top Radiohead album, schriibe mis review, Schicke ab, und denn chund wider de huere lassoschwingendi, Jesus verehrendi cowboy-brunz. Macht mi hässiger je meh so Albe bide 1001 sind. Fuck that, Abbroche und d ohre eimal gründlich usgwäsche. Ein Chautabak-gfüllte speuz in Spucknapf für das zügs

I feel like a big part of the Byrds success was repackaging Dylan for people who wanted music to be more boring. Starting this album with an uninspired Dylan cover did little to allay these concerns. Now I realize their thing wasn't so much repackaging Dylan as it was watering down distinctive music until it had no edge to it at all. Astonishingly empty album, now that I'm deeper in. What if we had the softest most boring band try to half-ass country for an album?

That’s gonna be a no from me, dawg.

It sounds like a parody of country music.

Not for me at all. I don't like country even when mixed with other genres. I've softened to some types of country music, which is usually a bit more hard rock than it is country, but this particular kind of country is just a big no for me.

I didn't hate it, but I didn't like it.

I DON'T LIKE COUNTRY

Just a bunch of boring white dudes with a banjo

dnf

boring

Jeg bliver aggressive af sådan noget lort! AAAAAARRRRHHHHH!!!!!

Mine ører bløder og min mund smager lidt af opkast

Maybe it's just the particular historical moment we live in or maybe it's just a culture clash thing or maybe it's just being sick of hoary cliches, but ugh, a tired-sounding country-rock album where they sing about loving the Christian life? No thanks.

Not for me

A horrendous waste of time, can't believe it's anywhere near the top 1000 albums of all time, letalone top 10,000.

Didn't think much of this. I think I was expecting something different from the Byrds not this.

Just a bunch of boring white dudes with a banjo

I know this is a legendary group. I could not finish. From the opening twangy guitar, to the nasal off-key wannabe Dylan singing to the honkey-tonk country rock style…I just couldn’t stand it. The banjo, fiddle, mandolin (?) and piano sound good. I’d give it 1.5 if I could.

Just didn't care about this at all. The songs on here I recognised I know from covers I enjoyed a lot more.

Marked a move from their previous Psychedelic Rock albums to Country Rock, but more Country than Rock. I'm not a fan.

Nope, not a fan of cowboy country. I was anticipating a different 1960s band called the Birds

Ah, Gram Parsons, my old nemesis. He's the anti-Eno for me; everything he touches turns to dogshit.

Terrible nonsense

Do we really need this many Byrds albums? I think not. Completely epitomizes all the worst problems of this list: Too enamored with the past and with records that should have been filtered by the passage of time. There are Byrds albums whose influence can still be heard to this day, this is definitely not one of them.

No country for this old man.

This album was awful

Bruh, this definitely ain't it

Garbage. I could barely make it through three songs

Country parece-me quase sempre a música pimba portuguesa mas adaptada aos EUA. Não é tão má, mas...

Country? Christian? No thanks.

Not my kind of country music. They should have stuck with the sound of their previous albums instead.

Probably could have been a 2 but the election results made me especially intolerant of music like this today. Very boring.

That’s gonna be a no from me, dawg. 1/5

Couldn’t even make it through the whole thing, just no. Awful.

Risible stuff really, from a band who should know better. Is this what happened? The psychedelics artists of 67 suddenly grew up, got a six shooter and met up with Gram Parsons to release a load of country dirges? It's just so basic and simple, with very little of any interest of all. I never thought I'd say this about The Byrds, but I wouldn't mind a little Bob cover instead to be honest.

Holy crap. I generally like country music and this was bad

christian country gross

No thank you.

"You ain't going nowhere" sounds disturbingly country. Skip to the next - and that sounds even more country. A few more skips and I'm asking - when did The Byrds become country? Oh. It turns out with this album. Yes, this is guff. No, it isn't guff. It's actively painful. That steel guitar "bwap bwap bwooow" noise causes actual pangs of revulsion. This is a hard, hard no from me.

Saccharine and uninteresting country. Almost so much so that it sounds like a parody of country music.

I've heard other country albums, no problem. Some I have even enjoyed. But something about this one is so repulsive to me, I couldn't finish it.

What a jangly boring piece of shit. Sorry ya'll but I honestly couldn't stand this one. I tried but I couldn't grab onto anything here. Fav songs: - I guess You Ain't Goin' Nowhere?

Not my thing and I don't think that I needed to hear that before I die.

Country music. Boring and irritating at the same time. I tried but could not finish.

Nope, not a fan of the country music. I did enjoy however reading the WIkipedia article on Gram Parsons. When Keith Richards says you're being too reckless with the drugs, that's saying something. It's definitely a tragic story and I'm sad for the guy, but his friends could have done a better job with his burial wishes.

I did not enjoy the last Byrds' album, so when I figured out this one was a country album it set my expectations to the floor. Man, this album is so boring and twangy, I have no patience for country music. EVERY SONG SOUNDS THE SAME I AM GOING CRAZY! I am not looking forward to their other 3 albums on this list. (did they really need 5 spaces?!?!)

Och ne, nicht schon wieder so eine Endsechzigerjahre Countryrockfolkscheibe. Wie wärs zur Abwechslung mal mit etwas Barockmusik? Hannibal Lecter und ich empfehlen da die Goldberg Variationen von J.S. Bach. Gespielt von Glenn Gould. 1981.

I'm not flying with these Byrds.

It's The Byrds Jim, but not as we know it :-(

Yuck

I usually like The Byrds, but I didn't care for this one at all.

Read the notes on the album and sounds like a bit of a messy recording. I get it's subsequence influence, but not on my like of country.

More country. Very disappointed that The Byrds weren't even a country band really and made a decision to go in this direction. That said, this apparently did piss off ultra conservative country fans so feel a bit conflicted. By definition it seems you make only make a country album by rehashing the same half a dozen riffs and tropes so nothing here was different or interesting.

Really irritating and not what I expected based on the previous album. Doesn't really get going.

As far as country goes, it was probably more accessible than usual.... Not for me though.

wtf, never thought of the Byrds as a country artist

Let me get this straight: It’s the 60s. These guys are gonna travel to a festival show, do a lot of cocaine and heroin and hang out with a bunch of underage groupies backstage, then come out on stage to sing a song like “This Christian Life,” all about how they lost all their friends because they don’t have fun anymore, and then go right back to the drugs and groupies? And not only are all these songs total nonsense, they all sound screechy and irritating? I didn’t even like these guys when all they were known for was jangly Dylan covers, but this is really too much to be believed. It’s like some terrible marketing plan: go country, still get all the drugs and groupies, no energy needs to be spent on rocking’, and you can write even fewer songs than before! Brilliant.

The Byrds had such an awesome sound. Why’d they have to pull this shit?! Not the worst album I’ve ever heard, and I actually really enjoyed “One Hundred Years From Now,” but one star for shitting all over something that used to be amazing.

Disgusting country twang. 1.4

Don’t like them on their home turf, and I don’t like them doing this kind of thing either

The Byrds again?? I figured it couldn't get much worse but it got much worse

This record is somebody's sweetheart somewhere but it ain't here.

I could have known from the title of the album "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo" that I wouldn't be able to do anything with it. I listened to the first three tracks and switched on after a few seconds, so perhaps the Byrds have succeeded in playing country music immersively on this album. All the more reason for me not to enjoy it. You probably have to be Texan and have a lot to do with rodeo to listen to music like this. It annoys me, just like Bavarian folklore, German Schlager and German folky music. 1/5

I didn't realize the Byrds were a country band.

No thanks to country rock

Odd Christian tunes

And I thought the other one was dull, the one with Hey Mr Tambourine Man. The country thing just ain't it for me

The whole album, every single track, is a bit tame and twangy for me. Didn't find any tracks I liked. I'm afraid it has to be a 1 star

Pile of s**t, honestly

Mo

No thanks

Country Rock doing country rock things, things that I don't really like. That southern twang that sounds like yodeling that I just can't really stand, it puts me to sleep but then jerks me awake when they begin to yell (??) again. Please make it stop. Best: Pretty Boy Floyd Worst: The Christian Life Note: Spotify had an extended album version, I only listened to the original 11 tracks.

Country is gewoon kut. Sloom en jankend gezang. Enige leuke is het gitaarpingel

Awful!

Pretty boring

Country shite. Awful.

Country music. No

No

Oh I dislike country rock. This album was torture for me to listen to, it just sets my teeth on edge. 1/5

No, just, no. I would rather stick a fork in a light socket than listen to the again.

Painful

Não consigo ter empatia por esse ritmo musical, o que limitou o minha sensação com esse albúm.

Not for me, sounds the same.

1.5 Look, this list has done a successful job of opening my mind towards country music, but Jesus this was terrible. I don’t claim to know a ton about The Byrds, but supposedly their sound changed almost entirely with this album due to Gram Parsons’ involvement, so all I can say is F that guy for it. The story surrounding his death and cremation is awesome, but between this and that Flying Burrito Brothers album, that’s all he has going for him. The first song, You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere is decent and gave me Bob Dylan vibes despite the twang, but by the second track, I was ready for this thing to end. And as it just so happens, the opening track is, in fact, a Bob Dylan cover, so once again, F these guys for dragging Dylan’s name into this. Everything else on this album sucks and/or is incredibly boring, with The Christian Life in particular being a song that made me want to bash my head against a wall. Supposedly these guys were booed out of Nashville for being a bunch of hippies posing as country stars, and for perhaps the first time in my life, I gotta say I’m with the conservatives on this one - leave the country music to country artists. I know I’m in the minority here because this is a highly regarded album, but the closest comparison I can draw to this is when Weezer brought in Lil Wayne to help spice up Ratitude - and we all know how that ended up. If you’re a big fan of classical country music, there’s probably some enjoyment to be had in this album for you, but as someone who wouldn’t consider the genre a personal favorite of theirs, I’d much rather listen to quite literally any other country album we’ve had on this list so far. Gonna need Patron, gonna need a beat, gonna need a lot of pretty girls around me in order to forget this one. (I can’t stop, partying, partying)

I recommend this album if you have trouble sleeping. The monotonous music and singing make you fall asleep after 5 minutes.

Too much religion

Plunka plunk music. It must be ...Tuesday. I gave up after three songs. 1 star. Might have gotten more on a different day, but it was not to be.

Outdated and absolutly not my taste

FFS the 60s psychedelica seems to appear every second day. Now it’s worth, it’s gone Country

Americana. Again. Bleh. No good members left either. Bland crap.

How this album can be categorized as rock music is beyond me. This is straight up, old school, twangy as hell, whiny ass country music. It's awful. We need a zero stars.

Did not like this at all. Not much of a country fan to begin with, and neither liked the singing nor the instrumentation. Everything sounded the same.

Generic country. Not terrible, not great. Another one on here that is apparently influential but it's lost on me.

hot garbo

Now, this is some Cracker Barrel shit right here. This album was a touch more lively than Southern Baptist church music, only a touch though. 2/10

Well I’m not a country fan so my critiques don’t matter. It’s not going to get a high score. This is mostly blue grass. Slow, boring, can’t wait for this album to be over. Why does it have to be so long? 2/10

Hopefully one I day I'll find a country album that I like. Today is not that day.

boring

Ugly byrds.

They should turn turn turn back from this sound and go back to their more psych/pop stuff

No….just no. Too twangy. Terrible.

Rubbish

First 4 chords of track 1 and my instant thought was... I'm gonna hate this!! The Byrds have created loads of great music, but this country album isnt one of them, this creation is little more than dreadful. Nothing else to say except, I hate this album with a passion. I hate country music with a passion.

Was not expecting this from the Byrds. Didn't care of it at all.

could not make it more than three seconds into track 1. way too country for me.

Woof

There are so many things I'd rather be doing than listening to the Byrds' country album, including but not limited to committing arson and getting a prostate exam. Dogwater. I can't think of a more boring and vanilla band than The Byrds. They might be influential in pioneering the folk rock genre or whatever, but they're the ultimate "product of its time" band that has zero appeal to modern ears. They just didn't stick in the same way that The Beatles, The Beach Boys or even The Kinks did. Have you ever met a hardcore Byrds fan younger than 50? I don't get why these guys have 5 albums on this list - "Mr. Tambourine Man" is understandable at least, but anything else is mega overkill.

Þarna fóru Byrds-liðar 100% út í köntríið og misstu mig þar með. Ekkert spes.

This might sound mean, but there's only very few kinds of music that I like less than this. Sorry.

what the fuck happened here? when did the Byrds, the 60s beat psychedelia merchants turn in to a bunch of huyk hyuk cleetus's? its called cuntry for a reason.

SHACK is big and fairly racist. He also watches fairy racing. Hates Belgians. Eats lamb chops for breakfast.

So the Byrd's do country. Wish they hadn't.

This is not my kind of music. "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" is.... okay, and I could tolerate it playing in a bar or restaurant I'm at, but this is not what I like. I cannot tolerate any of the other songs.

Just too country for me. I wish I could get more into it. Plus I blame them for helping birth country rock which has now turned into the worst music around today.

Bible bashing country bumpkin shite. Sorry

I really can't stand this kind of music This is only the 2nd album I couldn't even listen to the end

Too country

Generic country riffs, generic country singing, generic country lyrics, generic country star rating. Avoid and stick with Turn Turn Turn.

Kinda boring. I like some music by the Byrds, but not much on this album…

Ugh, ojalá se hubieran quedado en la sicodelia.

Nyce album cover, but unfortunately, Y'm not gyvyng out stars for album covers. The fyrst song was good enough, but what followed was medyocre and contryved attempts at country musyc. How many rodeos have these cyty slyckers been to anyway? One brand new, shyny, never broken yn cowboy boot out of fyve. 👢

Notes - Country rock album by the Byrds - They decided to do a big genre shift after seeing their popularity decline - Originally they got pushback but the album has gone on to be a big part of “outlaw country” and country rock in general - A mix of covers, traditional country songs, and originals - Seen as significant for just how big of a risk it was - But to me….. hugely disappointing after how much I liked younger than yesterday - Bit of a Snooze fest Fav - Dunno the songs all sound the same to me - You aint goin nowhere - I guess Least fav - Life in prison 1/5 - OOF what a disappointment

Dit is helemaal niet wat ik me herinnerde van een album van The Byrds dat ik ooit veel draaide. Weg ermee!

Nope. Look, as someone who's vehemently against all organized religion, some of the songs here made me nauseous and angry at the dopey "aw shucks, I'm just a good ol' Christian, putting up with all these sinners" shtick. I also despise almost all country music, so, yeah, put it in the trash and set it on fire.

Second album from The Byrds in three days, but they are so wildly different from each other, it might have been centuries between those two. "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" takes turn, as you might have guessed by the title, into the uncharted territory of country music. It's also very helpful that yesterday's album was by George Jones, one of the staples in country music history. This gives me some room for comparison between those two albums. The Byrds leaned heavily into country style, leaving no room for soft, or psychedelic rock they were exemplifying before. Also, contrary to Jones music, they started playing a sort of group/band country, with plenty of instruments, with lyrics being just somewhere in the background. As a result, this album is not as good as previous one, and the change made the band 'just another one out there'.

Could have done without this one. Mediocre country.

> The Byrds' audience was used to groundbreaking experimentation from the band, but balked at the album's adoption of a genre they associated with conservative rednecks lmao just say racism. and i'm balking for the same reason five decades later > A relative failure on release lollllllllllllllllll > On March 29, 1968, King went to Memphis, Tennessee > On April 3, King addressed a rally and delivered his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" > King was fatally shot at 6:01 p.m., Thursday, April 4, 1968 > Between March 9 and March 15, 1968, the band, accompanied by several prominent session musicians, recorded multiple takes of eight songs at Columbia Records' recording studios in the Music Row area of Nashville.[11] Recording sessions for the album continued from April 4 through May 27, 1968, at Columbia Studios in Hollywood, so mlk jr is assassinated, and they decide to cosplay as sons of the confederacy? to aggressively court violent whiteness? fuck outta here ★☆☆☆☆ for this, any, and all byrd's albums

Not my sweetheart…

Absolute arse, can't tell if they're tacking the piss or not. If they are it's not funny, if they're not than this is a massive arse stain on the filthy sheet of music history.

Not a huge Byrds fan. But the Byrds doing country? Absolute seals the deal, utter shite.

No. No no no no no no no.

Can see why it would appeal to some, but for me this is a no....

When you know The Byrds psychedelic work then listening to their Christian, Country album is not a pleasure. Terrible album.

one star all the way. eehh

I actively disliked this album. Hippies pretending to be cowboys is my new least favorite genre.

Religious nonsense with bad country music

I like country music. I likes teh whole hippie rodeo vibe of the album cover. Then the lyrics... The lyrics, people... They are scary AF. Maybe it's bc english is not my main language but no thank you. 1 star for you!

country bullshit

залупа

Insufferable lyrics, boring melodies that don't change within songs, and barely change between songs. Best I can say is that it's reasonable background music, and music me and my buddies could play at open mic night Highlights: Lazy days, Pretty Poly

Far to country

not for me

Are you having a laugh?!

nah

It's too American

...

Christian country music? Yeah not for me 1/5.

Absolutely atrocious. Everything you hate about country music all wrapped into one. Will physically avoid ever having to listen to this again. Strong word coming…fucking shit.

Sorry, this was terrible. 1 star

Country

Levyn kansi oli parasta antia. Muuten ei toimi. 1.5/5

I did not like this at all. It felt contrived and rude and judgmental. I didn't mind the country/folksy music but I expected more from the Byrds

1.5 | Qué extraño que este sea el primer disco de The Byrds que toca. Siento que llevo muchas reseñitas haciéndoles referencia y resulta que cuando tocan por primera vez (porque si ESTE está, quiere decir que hay al menos 4 discos de ellos) es con un disco que, aunque críticamente aclamado, ni siquiera puedo decir que es de la banda correcta. Era la historia de The Byrds... una banda que década tras década fue cambiando de estilos y miembros, pasando por folk, psicodélico y demás, casi creando estos estilos y siendo de las cosas más influyentes en la música en general. Luego imaginemos que llega un nuevo miembro, que más que miembro parece un estafador con un plan. Este miembro que llamaremos Gram Parsons (porque así se llamaba) en realidad no quiere ser parte de la banda, en realidad el quiere tocar un estilo propio de música que le llama Cósmica Americana, le llama como quiere pero en realidad es country, es un vil músico de country. Entonces llega el líder de la banda, Roger, quien es el único miembro que prevalecerá durante todas las encarnaciones de la banda y les platica a sus compañeros que tiene la idea de hacer el siguiente disco como un homenaje-estudio de todos los estilos de música americanos, haciendo un disco que traiga blues, jazz, country, r&b, etcetera como un catalogo histórico (lo cual a su servidor le suena como un disco que sería pocamadre). Pues entonces empiezan y poco a poco, como un hongo, con alguna clase de pacto impío con una entidad ciclopea-abisal (porque no veo otra posible razón) Gram se va adueñando de todo, y va cambiando el sentido del disco y va convenciendo a todos de que maravilla es su idea y BAM! ahora están haciendo un disco de country, con básicamente el disco entero cantado por él con canciones suyas. Este no es un disco de The Byrds, es un disco de Gram Parsons con The Byrds como sus músicos. La cosa más maravillosa de todo... el disco es odiado por sus seguidores hippies de contracultura, el disco es odiado por los verdaderos fans de country porque que están haciendo estos hippies metiéndose al country... Gram Parsons de todas formas decide mandarlos a la goma y abandona la banda que acaba de dejar maltrecha (creo que su tiempo como miembro fueron 5 o 6 meses en total). Con el tiempo el disco fue mejor recibido y hoy se considera muy influyente en el rock country (de hecho creo es el primer disco catalogado como tal). Personalmente, el disco no hace nada por mí, he escuchado country que me gusta más (que de entrada es difícil que me agrade mucho el género con sus notadas excepciones) y en realidad parece que es alguien tratando de imitar lo que se supone es el country. No dudo que haya gente a quien le encante el disco, es competente, pero para mí nomás no me prende ni tantito y casi me molesta la idea de que sea un disco de The Byrds, que no le viene al caso, y mucho más me molesta la idea de pensar ese disco que pudo haber sido y se perdió en el olvido. Iba a subir mi 1.5 a la 2a estrella... pero meh... ya habrá tiempo para alabar a The Byrds.

Not really a fan...

Did not like the Religious touches

2/10

Christian country music. No thank you.