Big & Rich Slammed On Slate

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Here's the link. Granted, it's not that good a song. But this does serve as one more chunk of proof that this guy's a complete fuckin' moron who I honestly don't even know why I read. (Though his comment about "post rock country" was funny.)

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 29 August 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently the author does not much care for fun. And how B&R are "pretending to maintain an adversarial stance" is beyond me.

― frankE (frankE), Sunday, 29 August 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Kaus is no music journalist, and I'm sure he's fine with that. But he wrote some really clueless neo-con bullshit when Joe Strummer died, too.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 29 August 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

>Granted, it's not that good a song.<

Actually, it's a great one, as anybody with ears will admit.

― chuck, Monday, 30 August 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

A few weeks ago, or maybe two months, actually, shit the summer's gone fast, I found this awesome barely-mexican restaurant in the town I grew up in. Everything was loud and obnoxious there, the decor, the waitress, the food, and they sold beer in buckets of three and Big & Rich were cranked on the sound system followed by Gretchen Wilson.
It was the best time I've had in a long time.

― Huck, Monday, 30 August 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

This was mentioned on ILE as well, and there was contempt in the air.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 August 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

60 minutes are doing a story on the muzik mafia sometime soon

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 30 August 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I listen to pop-country radio at work--and they're NOT PLAYING BIG & RICH. They play Gretchen Wilson and Montgomery Gentry all day long which is fine but the B&R luv needs to spread. I'm in New Orleans--where are these people that get this stuff on the radio?

― adam (adam), Monday, 30 August 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

georgia!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 30 August 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

'save a horse, ride a cowboy' peaked in airplay a good while back, i mostly hear 'hey ya' now (i'm not even sure if it's a real single though). the video is really what's tooken off.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 30 August 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Wild West Show" (the song with the "Hey Ya" chorus) was the FIRST single; it hit the charts a few months before the album came out. Oddly, airplay or no, the album is still in the pop top ten (and I believe Gretchen no longer is). "Save a Horse" is the theme song for ESPN's World Series of Poker; maybe *that's* what's selling all the albums.

― chuck, Monday, 30 August 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

We've got all kindsa different country radio stations here in Iowa, and the one that big-upped "Save a Horse" a couple months ago was the big, flashy clear-channel FM outfit that calls itself "The Hog."

― briania (briania), Monday, 30 August 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Both the Philly station and the much glitzier Allentown "Cat Country" station were playing "Horse" a LOT a couple months ago, but driving through the midwest to Michigan and back earlier this month, I barely heard it at all. I heard Gretchen Wilson constantly, though. Weird.

― chuck, Monday, 30 August 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The Hog? That's awesome.

― Huck, Monday, 30 August 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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