Drive-By Truckers POX

Margo & Harold
Marry Me
Dead Drunk and Naked

aww fuck this man, I can't. Three of their four albums are PERFECT all the way through. They rule live too. I'm sorry, its just too hard. One of my favorite bands of all time. I can't say enough!!

Outfit
Decoration Day
Wallace
The Southern Thing
Let There Be Rock
Marry Me
Sinkhole
Heathens
Sounds Better In The Song
Pin Hits the Shell

'Marry Me' is my favorite right now.

xp haha I was about to say Roger Adultery to thread!

18 Wheels of Love -- they did this the first time I ever saw them play, when I only vaguely knew who they were. Definitely a "holy shit" moment.

Then:

Marry Me
Let There Be Rock
Do It Yourself
Guitar Man Upstairs
Outfit
Heathens
Margo and Harold
Don't Be in Love Around Me

And a couple of new ones I can't bear to leave off:
Danko/Manuel
Carl Perkins Cadillac

The Living Bubba
Ronnie and Neil
Let There Be Rock
Women Without Whiskey
Angels & Fuselage
Sink Hole
Heathens
Decoration Day
Something's Gotta Give Pretty Soon
Danko/Manuel

>Playing the new Drive By Truckers album *Dirty South* now. It sounds even more tired than their last one; they've totally given up on trying to be Skynyrd, which sucks. Not horrible, though. Better than Patterson Hood's solo CD, I guess. So I bet it gets very good reviews.<

I'm now convinced, by the way, that *Dirty South* is their worst album ever, by far. The first song rocks okay, but just about everything else drags drags drags, almost 100 percent ballads, damn near no fucking memorable melodies, no fucking energy, nothing. Track #4 is okay, probably some others here and there, I forget which ones. Sometimes the high singing is kinda pretty, and the thing definitely is better to play at work than in a car, since the record does not move AT ALL. "Carl Perkins' Cadillac" strikes me as pandering bullshit. Track #9, "Cottonseed," is one of the most tedious, interminable songs I've heard all year. If somebody really believes I'm missing something, I wish they would explain what it is. Their three EARLY albums (as in pre Southern Rock Opera) blow this one out of the water, if anybody's curious.

angels and fuselage
decoration day
carl perkins' cadillac
dead, drunk, and naked
goddamn lonely love
let there be rock
outfit
the day john henry died
the deeper in
women without whiskey

(this one goes to eleven!)

The first time I heard "Marry Me" I was convinced it was an Aerosmith cover. Maybe because it sounds a little like "Mama Kin." Also loving lately:

"Puttin' People on the Moon"
"Ronnie and Neil"
"Hell No, I Ain't Happy"
"Do It Yourself"
"Margo and Harold"
"The Presidnet's Penis is Missing"
"The Company I Keep" (for the stuff about Patterson's wives)
"Dead, Drunk, and Naked"
"Plastic Flowers on the Highway"
"Shut Up and Get On the Plane."

Revive b/c I was dumbass enough to leave off "Zip City". WTF? Best Cooley Song Evar, and that's sayin' something.

today

The Company I Keep
Tales Facing Up
Love Like This
Dead, Drunk and Naked
Zip City
Heathens
Marry Me
Something's Gotta Give
The Righteous Path
Uncle Frank (alternate version)

Noticed today that 3 of the top 5 DBT songs on Spotify are Isbell songs (Goddamn Lonely Love, Danko/Manuel, Outfit). That has to sting a little for Hood and Cooley.

if you click on "show 5 more" it reveals that "shit shots count" "where the devil don't stay" and "my sweet annette" all have more listens than "danko/manuel"

but really i can't imagine they care about bragging rights and an extra ten bucks

I mean the isbell songs are really goddamn good what can they say

No Isbell songs would likely make my top 20 Truckers.

as that spotify top 10 isn't in any sort of order, i wouldn't necessarily assume it even represents the ten most played dbt songs

though obv "goddamn lonely love" must have been included in some popular spotify playlist

xxp if you wouldn't at least include outfit you crazy for that one man

Outfit comes closest, I could make a case for that.

ha - when looking for any evidence of a spotify playlist, i did find this quote from isbell in a '13 nyt article

He used a single word, “evil,” to describe Spotify, the online music-streaming service. “I think Spotify is honestly just another one of Sean Parker’s ways of ripping musicians off,” Isbell said, referring to the Napster co-founder who has a stake in Spotify.His comic mini-rant about Parker was so expletive-filled that, to paraphrase Mary McCarthy, even the words “and” and “the” from it are not printable here. But the gist of his complaint is this: “People can listen to your album over and over on Spotify, and you don’t really make anything on it.”

No Isbell songs would likely make my top 20 Truckers.

madness

Well, I'd say it has less to do with the quality of his writing and more to do with the quality of Hood and Cooley. "Danko/Manuel" or "Outfit" would be my picks, but there are a lot of incredible songs from Hood and Cooley that would have to go to make room for either of them.

Isbell peaked early. Almost the entirety of dude's solo discography bores me to tears

He's always got a couple up his sleeve per album, which is what made his stuff stand out so well in the Truckers. I know he did it on one of his albums, but this would have been awesome on a Truckers disc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJb1_EGnapY

Honestly haven't listened to his solo stuff much, reminded me of ... Son Volt? Just kind of boring strummy stuff in 3/4. But I bet he's got more great songs to come than most manage in a career.