So, um, I don't really listen to country, but should I buy the Dixie Chicks album on principle?

Yes. I'm going right after work.

You shouldn't buy any album "on principle"; you should buy it 'cause you wanna hear the music. (And just because a lot of country fans are still mad at the Chicks doesn't make them bad people, and I say this as a true-blue blue state Chicks fan.)

I did buy Entertaintment Weekly with them on the cover that came out shortly after the London remark. The cover was good with them naked and having all kinds of things people were calling them at the time written all over ala Memento, but they sounded pretty apologetic in the interview.

you should buy the album cause its fucking amazing

you should get the new linda ronstadt/ann savoy album too. it's nice. they cover walk away renee on it.

your purchase of one record will obviously be enough to topple the Cheney-Rove oligarchy

i am going to get a ted nugent cd today cuz I feel like eating steak tonight

haha dumbass timmy tannin thinks CDs taste like steak

i bet you've never tasted one, have you?

If you don't like our president, perhaps you should move to Canada, the country audience says to the Chix.

Well, bless the Chicks. but if Oklahoma and Tennessee want to broil with their #4 position Toby Keith then the Chicks with their #1 should go where they're welcome, which would seem most everywhere.

It's a GREAT record.

you should buy the album because you should listen to country

I finally heard this today, and it's neato.

I hate modern day country, but I really liked their new single when I heard it on Vh1.

the problem is that journalists will realize that they are idiots and continue to ask their opinion on politics and they will continue to say stupid things. they have the right to say them but so too does the public have the right to not appreciate their opinions. and considering that most people are dim and easily led it's probably a battle that they can't win. are they featured as climate experts in an inconvenient truth?

no, i'd say the problem here is that country music fans are thin-skinned, petty and vindictive.

and the male half often hates women

I just posted this on the rolling country thread, fwiw:

So okay, Dixie Chicks. Good album, it turns out. Almost every song (give or take the two dogs to my ears, "Lullaby" and "Easy Silence") kicks in within a couple listens; not very many albums this year (in any genre) you can say that about. My favorites are "The Long Way Around" (not about high school, but life *after* high school) and "I Like It" (Motowny pop-r&b about getting so high ON LIFE you don't ever wanna come down, take that, Axl; also the closest thing to a funky song on the album), followed I guess (though not necessarily in this order) by "Not Ready to Make Nice" (not all THAT angry or THAT much a rocker), "Lubbock or Leav It" (ditto, and inasmuch as it's a rocker it's a genre-piece rocker in the tradition of plenty of lady-sung country rock hits of recent years, with fiddles, and yeah I guess the layered vocals are kinda Fleetwood Mac), "Voice Inside My Head" (aka "The Sheryl Crow Song"), "Baby Hold On" (starts kinda so-what -- and more Shelby-like than the gospel song at the end, I'd say -- but I love the buildup to the climactic complex mesh of vocals). Beyond that (kinda like the latest Pink album, come to think of it; the best songs on that one by the way are easily "Leave Me Alone [I'm Lonely]" and "U + Ur Hand", the latter of which has Pink's most rock *and* most rap vocal; most country song on Pink's album is her sorta Janis-voiced "The One That Got Away," which is nice but'd be better if it had a hook or two), lots of completely pleasant though somewhat forgettable and often wishy-washy midtempo power ballads: "Everybody Knows" has an extremely catchy chorus, it turns out, but fairly boring verses; "Bitter End" should be called "Farewell to Old Friends" and it's just okay; "Silent House" I'm stumped by since Frank seemed intrigued by it above -- more bluegrassy, gets powerchordy, fine, but so?; "Favorite Year," not bad but so?; "So Hard," nice power-ballad buildup I guess; "I Hope," not great but also not horrible as gospel-pop goes, I honestly don't hate it as much as Josh Love predicted I would above, basically it hits me as corny and unconvincing but still lively enough, not just going through the tasteful motions of blowing smoke in the air in a cocktail bar like most recent Shelby does, but again so what? Still, a really listenable album. And mostly not a fuck you to anything.