Tonight's listen:The Flying Burrito Brothers - Hot Burritos! The Anthology 1969-1972Following his dismissal from the Byrds, Gram Parsons founded the Flying Burrito Brothers with fellow ex-Byrds Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke to further develop the country-rock sound pioneered on Sweetheart of the Rodeo. After recording two LPs with the Burritos, Parsons was again ousted and embarked on a solo career for a few years before dying from an overdose at 26. This two-disc set compiles the group's first three albums along with numerous bonus tracks. In all honesty, I've never truly understood the hype around Gram Parsons. His self-styled "cosmic American music" sounds an awful lot like watered-down country to these ears and often leaves me wishing I were listening to "the real thing" instead. Part of the issue is Parsons' voice, which is devoid of any southern twang or much intensity in general. I find the most engaging Burrito Brothers tracks to be those like "Older Guys" which incorporate elements of soul and R&B instead of just being relatively straight country music played by a rock band. Their version of "Wild Horses" also rivals the Stones' own (and actually predated it by a year). The musicianship is tight as you'd expect. Gram would have been a great guy to talk classic country with, but I just think other artists fused rock and country in more innovative ways. 6.7/10https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zC3YNUmIvuAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9fIN0OCO2g
>>129925630Get help.
>>129925648>Being that offended by an average score
>>>/hm/
>>129925740Gosh anon, I'm flatteredBUT TALK ABOUT THE MUSIC REEEEE
>>129925752By chance, do you like heavy music? I would suggest Discharge's Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing if you like Punk or Manowar's Battle Hymns if you like Metal.
>>129925766Sadly the heaviest I generally like is early hard rock and lite punk, but thanks senpai
>>129925800If you like '70s Hard Rock, I would highly recommend Sweet Fanny Adams by Sweet or Captain Beyond's self-titled from 1972. Captain Beyond should've been a bigger name.
Imho the rolling stones are gay and terrible. the same boomer minds that voted in a lot of bullshit also love this band. that should tell you how trustworthy they are.BUT I don't mind some of the stones 70s stuff, especially Wild Horses. I didn't know that the fucking burrito brothers already ate that lunch a year early. Jagger and Keef btfo once again.I honestly do like the stones when they are going country. maybe they should have done that instead of being homosexual ghosts for the entire time I've been alive (1986)Did you like Neil Young's rockabilly record from the 80s?
>>129925630You’re losing me with this one. Gram is kino.
>>129925833I really expected to like him more, I've had this set for years and have gone back to it a few times but it just hasn't clickedMaybe it's partially because I was raised on stuff like Marty Robbins and George Jones, so the addition of country to rock didn't really blow my mind>>129925826Thanks again, I'll consider those two for sure>>129925828I love pretty much everything the stones did up through about 1974, but fair nuffYes, I actually enjoy Everybody's Rockin', possibly my favourite of his Geffen albums
>>129925630What do you think about Before the Next Teardrop Falls by Freddy Fender
>>129925828To be fair Jagger and Richard did write Wild Horses, they just gave it to the Burritos first
>>129925909The Spanish bit is kino, but I'm more partial to Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
>>129925630>>129925766>>129925826>>129925909So this is where the board faggots hang out
>>129925929Wasn't until YOU showed up
>>129925889my impression of the stones was formed in the 90s when the stones were playing in my city and the news broadcast some footage from the show.Jagger was prancing around in this tight crop top all over his disrespectful old man body trying to act like Tina Turner or something. Present this to a 15 year old whose into Black Flag, Nirvana and Butthole Surfers and they never really recovered from that first real impression.The other reason why I grew to hate them was that all the time growing up they would have some new song come out on the radio and the DJ would be like "this new album is their best since ___" and then a couple years later their next song would be hyped up as their best since ____. It never felt like the stones made music in my lifetime that was a banger on its own, not just coasting off repuation and failing to measure up to past glories.
>>129925911thats like saying you are ok with another guy fucking your wife but its ok because you get a turn later. FACT
>>129925987I can see why that would leave a bad impressionRegarding the second part, the same can be said of basically every boomer rock act who survived that far, so it's best to ignore what they did past their prime
>>129925630Where can I cop the left dude's pterodactyl shirt?
>>129925987I remember as a kid when they would hype up the new McCartney/Elton/Clapton/Beach Boys single play it nonstop for about three weeks and all the boomers would go "fuck yes" after which it would be quietly binned and nobody actually believed it was on the level of their 60s-70s output.
>>129926022I recognize that my views aren't really being fair to them but my opinions of them are deep set and hard to change at this point.Good call on the Neil Young. That one is a hidden gem.
>>129926050Yes! that is exactly the cycle I'm talking about. It was fucking shit.But to be fair I gotta say that Clapton - My Father's Eyes makes me cry like a little bitch. Also Billy Joel - River of Dreams and Santana - Smooth were bangers. But I feel like those were songs people actually liked.
>>129925630>Gram would have been a great guy to talk classic country with, but I just think other artists fused rock and country in more innovative wayParsons was the OG of Country Rock you fat fuck
>>129926163First doesn't always mean best
Thanks for playing folks, next review is going to take us a little further into the past than any before
>>129926209Except Parsons was indeed the best
>>129926290>next review is going to take us a little further into the past than any beforeThis isn't gonna be any 50s/Mitch Miller slop, is it? 'Cause if it is...
>>129925630I recommend some Michael Nesmith/First National Band. It's very much in the FBB mold musically but Nez has a lot more of an authentic southern character to his artistry, by your standards at least.
>>129925630Fun Fact: at one point, a member of Whitehouse was in the FBB.
>>129925987He stopped being cool since Live Aid when his dancing act just looked dated and corny in the age of U2 and Prince.
>>129925630good thread, insightful, keep it up
>>129926290HE'S GONNA TAKE YOU BACK TO THE PAST
>>129926424>WRIGGLE LIKE A FUCKING BURRITO
>>129926436last time the Stones were still cool was the 81-82 tour, after that they're just a lame nostalgia act
>>129926397Now I wish I had some shitty Columbia housewife pop album to review>>129926421I've meant to check him out, thanks lad
>>129926502that music is mostly singles not album based
Burrito Deluxe [A&M, 1970]The Gilded Palace of Sin was an ominous, obsessive, tongue-in-cheek country-rock synthesis, absorbing rural and urban, traditional and contemporary, at point of impact. This is a skillful, lightweight folk-rock blend, enlivening the tempos and themes of the country music whose usages it honors. Its high point is called "Older Guys," a rock (as opposed to rock and roll) idea by definition, and though songs like "Cody, Cody" and "Man in the Fog"--as well as Jagger-Richard's previously unrecorded "Wild Horses"--obviously speak from Gram Parsons's Waycross soul, they're vague enough for Chris Hillman's folkie harmonies to take them over. B+
>>129926832At least OP isn't a literal cuck (we hope)
