Yes, "See You Again" is country

[koganbot]

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i will post my nashville scene ballot in a second, but some comments about yrs

[anthonyeaston]

i keep wanting to like cleaning my gun, but it seems to jokey, too obvious, and frankly sort of creepy, it reminds me a lot of ticks sort of like brad paisley.

what made you rethink last dollar, because when we talked about it, you were totally on the fence about it?

did you ever find that corb lund album, because its really good, i should send you a copy of it, do i still have yr address?

how do you split the diference b/w pop and country--because i thot for a long time abuot including some work that i decided was pop and not country, but i did include rockstar--to be more specific, why'd you think that miley cyrus was country, was it her daddy?

i want the soul revival as much as the next guy, but i keep wondering, if rissi palmer was white, would you liker her as much, because it seems really generic, a collection of barely strung together cliches...which kind of pains me to say outloud.

sinners like me is v. v. good.

Re: i will post my nashville scene ballot in a second, but some comments about yrs

[koganbot]

I'm not sure how much I do like "Cleaning My Gun," but it definitely makes me feel something - of course, the lyrics are a cliché about what dads are like and boys are like, and I'm pretty fed up with the way that country music lies and keeps telling you that these clichés are unquestionable fact, when actually country is consistently defensive about these very same clichés, trying to assert continuity (this is what dads were like then, this is what dads are like now; this is what boys were like then, this is what boys are like now). But I like several things about the lyrics, the fact that the choice of "continuity" is dads threatening daughters' boyfriends, and of course modern country is full of songs about teenage loves where the sex is actually happening (Taylor Swift's "Tim McGraw" sure implies that something more than holding hands went on in that pickup truck that kept getting stuck) and full of songs about sexual loving (Currington's "Tangled Up," in which the bods are getting all "Tangled Up"), neither of which were rampant

Re: i will post my nashville scene ballot in a second, but some comments about yrs

[anthonyeaston]

Trace Adkins does have a great voice, and regardless of the gender stuff, i am always impressed in how he can tell stories--how good he is at constructing, building up, pulling out a narrative, his Arlington from last year was a masterpeice

Re: i will post my nashville scene ballot in a second, but some comments about yrs

[koganbot]

"Cleaning My Gun" is Rodney Atkins, not Trace Adkins; really good at storytelling (think he spent a while as a writer before breaking through as a performer; this is something that only seems to happen in country). I reviewed him back in 2004, if you're interested.

[koganbot]

Also, the type of "rockabilly" I'm hearing in "See You Again" is more Cash and Orbison than Elvis and Jerry Lee.

[koganbot]

"So Small" probably should be a little higher, but I'm still miffed at Carrie's album for not being better than it is. The big brassy voice pours too much brightness on the track. She'll probably outgrow that in time and become a better singer.

[koganbot]

So I just raised it two spots from 15 to 13.*

*I realize that I am a compulsive neurotic.

[jeff_worrell]

I finally got to hear "Teardrops On My Guitar" at the weekend (it's only when I tune into Paul Gambaccini's US charts show that I get to hear any country at all - this is also the only place I've ever heard Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley*). One play was insufficient obv, but it sounded promising enough that I'll probably go buy her album now.

*I know, I know, youtube.com - but my online time is too precious

[koganbot]

I'd put "Teardrops" as the fourth or fifth best on the album (which made my last year's Pazz & Jop).

[jeff_worrell]

Have now acquired the LP - only £9 in HMV, not bad for an import - and had much fun decoding the secret messages in the lyrics last night. Based on one listen, I'd say the album is 50:50 great:hmmm. But it seems to be a good entry point into country for non-experts like me; very much a cross-breed with the teenpop confessional records I know and like.

I'd put "Teardrops" as the fourth or fifth best on the album
That sounds about right. "Tim McGraw", "Picture to Burn", "Tied Together With A Smile" and "Our Song" were the standouts for me on first play.

Teendrops on my guitar

[koganbot]

I'd subtract "Our Song" from that list (haven't warmed up to it at all, though it's the current single, and Xhuxk likes it more than he likes "Teardrops On My Guitar"), would add "A Place In This World" (Taylor Swift as Jordan Pruitt!), "Cold As You," "The Outside," "Stay Beautiful," and especially "Should've Said No" (a track that got me three points in the League Of Pop). (This leaves "Mary's Song" as the one other song on the outside looking in

[brak55]

I heard the Tim McGraw version of Suspicions for the first time the other day. It took me about a verse to figure out what I was hearing. I knew the lyrics but the arrangement threw me.

I have to say that I really like it as a true re-imagining of the original (and that's saying a lot because I still love the Eddie Rabbit version).

[koganbot]

I'd say that Tim's voice sounds strained and struggling to get to the song's emotion, but somehow he gets through. He's on much better voice on some of his other tracks, but this one reached me.