Big & Rich - Horse of a Different Color
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Artist: Big & RichEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-05-04
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Rollin' (The Ballod Of Big & Rich)
- Wild West Show
- Big Time
- Kick My Ass
- Six Foot Town
- Holy Water
- Saved
- Real World
- Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)
- Drinkin' 'Bout You
- Love Train
- Dreadwood Mountain
- Live This Life
Music reviews of Horse of a Different Color
Music Review: oh wow...I am opened-mouthed in wonder...
Rating: 1 Stars
that music this bad can possibly sell at all. I give this album a half-star because the CD cover makes a nice beer coaster. I got this CD from my library to hear what it's all about (the same way I spent tortuous hours listening to Gretchen Wilson and Britney Spears, to see what all the raves were about).
It is obvious that technically-adept musicians gravitate toward rock and metal, and poor or merely-adequate musicians lean toward the simplicity of country-pop and rap. Compare the drumming of Swedish bands Arch Enemy, In Flames, and Dark Tranquility, to the simplistic metronomic time-keeping of B&R; compare the technical difficulty of the guitar and bass playing of the Norwegian black metal bands Immortal and Behemoth to the juvenile picking on this album; compare the impassioned emotion and vocal pyrotechnics of the Crown, King Diamond, or Shadows Fall, to the thin, reedy, "American Idol" over-emoting of B&R (note to y'all: referring to American Idol was an insult, not a compliment --"but ah LIKES American Idul!!"...oh, shut up). Compare the complexity of the song-writing and ensemble playing of Overkill, Slayer, and Soilwork -- hours and hours of practicing to be able to play melodically and fast and keep it together--compared to the by-the-numbers, paint-within-the-lines child-like simplicity of the song-writing ability and band performance of B&R. Let's take some random examples (I didn't get them all because I truly was laughing so hard listening to this garbage that I couldn't take notes): a) lyrics to Holy Water: "she says...surround me now and hold, hold, hold me like holy water"...what a terrible metaphor, how do you "hold water" (unless they mean that she has to pee really bad...or she wants you told HOLD her like you have to pee real bad..not sure about that one); 2) I appreciate that the band has managed to take two of the most non-talented musical genres and duct-tape them together with the rap breaks in the songs...the song's (already poor) momentum comes screeching to a halt whenever Cowboy Troy comes in..rap is a style for people that cannot sing or write, and country/pop is a style for people that cannot play or write...put the two genres together and you cannot help but stop and stare...like looking at a car crash, and that's what this album is. c) random notes: Love Train...trying to mash 70's feel-good lovefest in with a pop-country twang; the "la-la-la's" in the beginning of Big Time made me spit up my Jack-n-coke..and coupled with the whiny over-wrought twanging of the steel guitar...it's so bad it's a classic; Real World...this is the one that left me open-mouthed in wonder -- it made me think that maybe, just maybe, this album was a big practical joke, that B&R were actually good musicians but went out of their way to purposely make a truly awful album just to see who would by this stuff. I cannot believe that they sat around at the mixing board, listening to the final take of this song, and saying "yeah, boys, we really nailed it that time, that's a keeper!" Let's not forget the pandering to you religious folk with the maudlin Holy Water and Live This Life, the studious avoiding of any type of near-obscenity ("I'm a crazy son of a (bad word)" from the first cut, subbing "this stuff" instead of a stronger, more real word), and the general dumbing down of lyrics and topics of the songs so that all you psuedo-trailerpark trash in your $150 Gap Jeans wannabees can do your "hell yeahs!" without resorting to cue cards...not that you could read them, anyway, or understand time signatures and beats and such to be able to sing along in time or in tune.
In summation..all of you who gave this album five stars and raved about how good it is: get out of the house, walk in the park, breath some fresh air..GET A LIFE...talk to professional musicians who might know something about quality music and take their suggestions and expose yourself to some "music"...real music, not pop/country pap played by under-talented video-over-exposed all-hat no-cattle poseurs; how about, instead of listening to "easy-listening" music, that you try some "difficult-listening" music, songs that challenge you and teach you and extend your musical knowledge and appreciation..instead of resigning yourselves to listening to the musical equivalent of America's Most Wanted. In short, I don't despise you people for your musical tastes..I pity you, that you are so narrow-minded, so ignorant, and so closed-off to true talent that you fall over yourselves praising such an awful band as Big and Rich.
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