better than the usual radio country but this guy still has that modern country voice that i hate so very much. could never get into this
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Album Rating: 4.0
Fair enough.
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Album Rating: 3.0
i always considered call to arms, in bloom, and brace for impact the "rock songs" on this album (can see why others would say otherwise), but yeah i don't really like them all that much. :/
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Album Rating: 4.5
This is pretty splendid, could even grow to a 4.5. Didn't think country could sound like this.
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Album Rating: 3.0
u thot wrong, buddy ;)
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Album Rating: 4.5
Definitely something I don't mind being wrong about :D
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Album Rating: 4.5
Call to Arms is one of the best tracks of the year
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Album Rating: 4.5
^Ditto "Welcome to Earth"
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Album Rating: 4.0
'Call to Arms' is the best tune on this
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defo the best album cover of the year.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Every tune is the best tune on this
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Album Rating: 4.5
[2] to Zak
Need to give this another listen, was floored when I checked it last night
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Agreed zak, the cover is as good as the album itself!
I'm glad you dig this Dylan, you'll be a full-blown country fan soon enough ;-]
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Album Rating: 4.5
Usually the Dixie Chicks are the only country I love
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Album Rating: 4.5
I'm making a point to get country on my pie chart by the end of 2017 :D
This could be my favorite of the four country albums I've checked - presently I have American Band at a 4.3 and this at a 4.1 so that's not a big gap to bridge
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Album Rating: 4.5
Check Home and Taking the Long Way by the Chicks
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Country, for me, is possibly the genre that affects me the most emotionally. The nature of the genre is that it's not terribly concerned with musical innovation, instead country is all about portraying a feeling or telling a story. The greatest country is some of the most evocative I've ever heard. Also, unlike many other genres, pretension is rarely an issue in country. It's genuine, human music.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I can definitely feel that Boney. The sincerity of albums like this, American Band, Southeastern and Car Wheels plays a huge role in why I'm able to connect to them. It's something that you don't get from the bro-country that plagues the airwaves - I largely avoided country until this year because I was under the mistaken impression that bro-country was generally reflective of contemporary country as a whole.
Fast-forward to the end of the year, and two of my top five 2016 AOTYs can be safely classified as country - funny how tastes can evolve in a relatively short span of time.
Oh and Neekafat, I'm catching up on 2016 releases for the time being but I'll make sure to check them out during the first few days of 2017!
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
The thing is that the popular country today has been taken over by a lot of soulless pop country and the truly deplorable bro-country. Some of the popular country acts (particularly female ones) are passable, but by and large it's worthless.
But there are a wealth of country acts making great stuff still - it's just that many of them fall under the alt-country or Americana subgenres. All those albums you mention are in that category.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Getting a share of some of that wealth was probably my biggest musical revelation of 2016 - it shed new light on a genre I'd previously dismissed as disposable.
The occasional good mainstream country tune does crop up every now and then - "Before He Cheats," "Need You Now," "Hello World," "Back to December" - but bro-country is horrific, agreed. It's possibly the only genre or subgenre that I intrinsically detest.
Funnily enough, I actually saw a 4.5/5 review on here for this year's Jason Aldean album and promised myself I'd give Aldean (and the reviewer) the benefit of the doubt by spinning the album based on the review... we'll see how that goes «nervous chuckle»
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