OPO: Flying Burrito Brothers (songs)

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"Sin City" - Just a perfect song. That pedal steel solo makes me swoon, and the "green mohair suits" line is top notch. Most definitely one of the band's (and Gram's) greatest moments.

― PB, Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

"Juanita"

― Keith C (kcraw916), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

"Hot Burrito #2"

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Dark End Of The Street

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Christine's Tune (Aka Devil In Disguise)

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

I'll take "Juanita." "Sin City" is no less classic, but strangely enough I like the Uncle Tupelo cover better.

It's not my OPO, since it's not their song, but the Burritos' "To Love Somebody" still occasionally blows my mind.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Have a fondness for "Cody, Cody", even tho it sounds more like The Byrds

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

"Dark End Of The Street" is a cover, tho'.

It's kind of hard to say their best song is anything but "Hot Burrito #1"...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Yeah gotta go with no. 1; it doesn't matter to me so much that it's a cover as much as that Carr's version is way way better.

― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

That semicolon is doing more work than it ought I guess.

― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

I know you're supposed to like it but I don't even like "Sin City" that much

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Really? I don't know exactly what I like so much about it....but it's probably the combination of the cool/mysterious lyrics that have a sort of metaphysical bent to them, the pedal steel solo, and the way the song communicates an achingly sad longing. One of my favorite songs ever by anyone.

― PB, Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Hot Burrito #2

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

juanita

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

although the entirety of their first lp is just so fucking classic. like utterly perfect.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

fuck...I guess I love "Hot Burrito #2" most of all. Todd Rundgren meets Waycross. And "Do You Know How It Feels."

And yeah, "Gilded" is one of the few totally perfect albums I know. I love every minute of it. That poor hippie boy.

But I love one song from the second one, "Older Guys," which I just heard Teenage Fanclub do on "Thirteen" (a band whose records I never bothered to buy, but it was two bucks so what the hell). And "Down in the Churchyard" is fine too.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

"Wheels" is my #1

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

"Lazy Day", Loving the boogie.

― Kid Twist (kid twist), Friday, 15 July 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

the pedal steel in sin city is unreal, and i do love the combo of the two voices. but i think i would pick juanita too.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

oh and i forgot 'why are you crying' - love the banjo

― gem (trisk), Friday, 15 July 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

"Hot Burrito #1"

― Burr (Burr), Friday, 15 July 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

#2.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 15 July 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

sin city

― Sym Sym (sym), Friday, 15 July 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

i think this lp has entered my bloodstream, i have no critical distance on it whatsoever.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 15 July 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

Hi is there anywhere on these internet that you can see the hot burrito #1 film clip as seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-od3vmRaLHE ?

― Literal Myspace PW Admin (wilter), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 12:11 (sixteen years ago)

"Sin City" - Just a perfect song. That pedal steel solo makes me swoon, and the "green mohair suits" line is top notch. Most definitely one of the band's (and Gram's) greatest moments.

― PB, Thursday, July 14, 2005 8:06 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark

― mark cl, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 14:08 (sixteen years ago)

been feelin "down in the churchyard" lately.

― feed them to the (Linden Ave) lions (will), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 14:09 (sixteen years ago)

Juanita

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 14:51 (sixteen years ago)

Wheels prob but an underrated classic is "Hand To Mouth" from the third LP.

― ian, Thursday, 5 November 2009 00:30 (sixteen years ago)

I love that 3rd album

― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 November 2009 10:21 (sixteen years ago)

Hot Burrito #1 and Wheels fighting it out for me

― "I get through more mojitos.." (bear, bear, bear), Thursday, 5 November 2009 10:25 (sixteen years ago)

Yuh I agree. also lol @ his sunglasses in the film clip thingy

― wilter, Thursday, 5 November 2009 11:13 (sixteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

Hot burrito 1-2 one helluva back to back

― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Sunday, 23 June 2024 06:14 (one year ago)

Think I’d have to go #1 tho

― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Sunday, 23 June 2024 06:14 (one year ago)

Jesus Christ!

― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 23 June 2024 06:19 (one year ago)

nine months pass...

Another tick for the "their debut is so perfect this is impossible" box

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 24 March 2025 08:14 (ten months ago)

I have to skip "Hippie Boy". In spite of the excellence of the rest of the songs on that first album, I might actually pick "Man in the Fog" as their best. It's something about the contrast between the jaunty tune and arrangement, and the mysterious haunted nature of the words.

― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 24 March 2025 16:00 (ten months ago)

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