The Flying Burrito Bros - The Gilded Palace of Sin Poll

christine

Hold the guac and salsa, add sour cream.

btw norcal burritos are for disgusting savages

Wheels

Dark End of the Street 3:55

gotta be boring and go for Sin City 4:10

(or is it Christine the boring choice?!)

christine is the boring choice but it is also the best one imo

maybe obvious rather than boring

I'm a sucker for Juanita.
Both Hot Burrito's are solid contenders, though.

hot burritos vs. dark end of the street for me...

christine is the "Rock Song" in an otherwise Country record

yeah

Hot Burrito #1, you savages.

yeah Hot Burrito #1

"I'm your old boy" 1m33s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rrqBsG1yXs

(OT question: what are other instances of bands switching up their instruments during TV lip-sync performances?)

SIN CITY

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WHEELS

this is my favorite version of Dark End of the Street and that is saying something

yeah I can't vote for the covers because they're not my favorite versions

Juanita is good on this album but the version on that Conmemorativo tribute album is stupendous

JESUS CHRIST!

feel like i have to vote sin city. it not's boring. it's a fucking stone cold country classic and possibly the best tune parsons and hillman ever wrote!

dark end of the street is magnificent though

Hot Burrito #2 y'all

really pretty impossible.
this is one of those records that is v meaningful & special to me. </emo garbage>

off the cuff vote for do you know how it feels

essential humor after le burritos

Burrito Caliente Numero 2

Not a bad tune on the record, but I got to go with "Sin City" as I'm not sure it isn't Parson's best song.

Parsons/Hillman

"Christine's Tune"--I've put both that and the International Submarine Band's "Blue Eyes" on lists of my favourite songs ever. I've posted this before, but never tire of it. Love Parsons' gesture at the 25-second mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beliAjaulJ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elz18jgRhBk

Pretty nice version. Not sure if Pete would look good in a Nudie suit or not.

Sin City! The chorus could have been written by the devil himself

SO IT GOES!

Never realized the solo in "Christine" was fuzz steel guitar

Pretty nice version. Not sure if Pete would look good in a Nudie suit or not.

Ha, I doubt it.

I saw him do this in 1997, prefaced by a story he told about hanging out with Gram in 1969: "Gram, I think you're great, I think your band's great, and I think you'll be really successful." "Well, that'd be great, Pete, 'cause we're starving."

(although, as a trust fund kid, I don't know how Gram could have been starving)

You must not have gotten to the end of the YouTube clip--looks like Pete likes to recycle his stories.

This is a tough one!

Hot Burrito #2 for me pl. I even like the Dino Jr versh.

whels

You must not have gotten to the end of the YouTube clip--looks like Pete likes to recycle his stories.

haha, I hadn't.

I gotta say, hearing Townshend play a Parsons tune -- not having any idea that he'd heard of Parsons, much less that he was a fan -- was one of the more mindblowing surprises I'd experienced at a show.

Dark End Of The Street

HB #1 towers above the rest for me.......will "Hippie Boy" get shut out???

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the perspective switch on 'do right woman' makes it kinda brilliant and they do a great job with it, but it's pretty hard to hold a candle to the original, which i didn't hear until after i fell in love with this album.

shockingly, lol

Hippie Boy 4:55 0

I've listened to this album probably hundreds of times. I might have listened to "Hippie Boy" twice. Maximum.

when this album was unavailable on cd there was a burritos comp that had all of this album except for Hippie Boy & My Uncle, and I was so bummed because my Rolling Stone said they were the sleeper hits of the album. and then when they finally reissued the album on the Hot Burritos! Anthology 1969 -1972 cd I got to hear these two songs! and Hippie Boy is not really something I come back to. but My Uncle is a fab little ditto, nice stereo effect, good solo, and the story is fun & subversive for country music (though I'd guess no one who wasn't in on the joke ever heard it)

(xp) I like it, so I never skip it!

Somewhat controversially, "Sin City" is actually my least favourite track on the album... well, it is better than "Hippie Boy", I must admit.

The thing I dig about Hippie Boy is that it's like one of those Red Sovine talking story trucker song but with a very unusual subject matter for that time. I think it is a pretty good closer for the record, perfect in fact considering that type of story song with a gospel backing is used so much in c&w, especially during that time.

My Uncle is awesome!

did Parsons had a scoliosis?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rrqBsG1yXs

This is the Red Sovine tune I was specifically thinking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zoTLwrm9QE

also, i thougt Wheels will be higher with all the allegedly ilm love for it

I really, really like Sin City at the moment...but on another day....

Wrote about The Gilded Palace of Sin here:

http://devonrecordclub.com/2014/03/26/the-flying-burrito-brothers-the-gilded-palace-of-sin-round-63-toms-selection/