The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

[jamieanderson1968]

It' embarrassing how little of Willie's music I've heard in my lifetime.

Hehehe little Willie

 

[jamieanderson1968]

So I have revisited Soft Boys again this morning and I am revising my rating to 3/5

There are great songs and you can see the brilliance of Robyn Hitchcock starting to take shape but there are several boring tracks on there.

 

[Nee Lewman]

I gave it a three as well. I didn’t find anything boring, it does meander a bit. There are moments of absolute brilliance though and I love how just bananas it is.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

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Willie Nelson - Red Head Stranger

Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson | Album | AllMusic

Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson released in 1975. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

www.allmusic.com

Greatest Country album of All Time?

Definitely in the conversation.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Greatest Country album of All Time?

Definitely in the conversation.

Possibly. It’s hard for me to think of any country album being greater than Honky Tonk Heroes. It’s in my top five all time. This is in my top ten/twenty.

 

[Whiteout75]

Greatest Country album of All Time?

Definitely in the conversation.

Definitely up there. But in my humble opinion, I think Willie has at least two more albums that can compete for that honour too: "Shotgun Willie" and "The Troublemaker".

Anyway: Is "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" the greatest country ballad of all time?

 

[dbarila]

This is why I don't like rating country albums. I like what I'm hearing but I don't know what makes this album better than another country album. (Country is a very big blind spot for me).

 

[Nee Lewman]

Definitely up there. But in my humble opinion, I think Willie has at least two more albums that can compete for that honour too: "Shotgun Willie" and "The Troublemaker".

Anyway: Is "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" the greatest country ballad of all time?

Phases & Stages, Stardust, and Teatro all belong in the conversation as well.

 

[avecigrec]

Phases & Stages, Stardust, and Teatro all belong in the conversation as well.

Phases & Stages is #1 Willie in my world, but this one is still a 6 out 5 for me.l

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

This is why I don't like rating country albums. I like what I'm hearing but I don't know what makes this album better than another country album. (Country is a very big blind spot for me).

It’s probably the first country concept album. It’s very cinematic. Like @Lee Newman said it incorporates standards with originals but the whole thing feels timeless, even though it wasn’t released until 1975. The album popularized “Outlaw Country” with the mainstream. The album not only was popular with Country fans but was a crossover smash. The album charted at 28 on the Top 200 and had songs chart on the Hot 100. The story of the album behind the scenes is super interesting too.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Country music should, in my opinion, be authentic and tell a story. Here we have Willie shaking off the last of Nashville’s attempts to mold him and making an album the way he wanted to make it. We already knew he was a damn fine storyteller from his own writing but to create a cohesive story from classic songs and his own. It’s very impressive.

“If it sounds country, man, that’s what it is.” - Kris Kristofferson.

 

[Hemotep]

It’s probably the first country concept album. It’s very cinematic. Like @Lee Newman said it incorporates standards with originals but the whole thing feels timeless, even though it wasn’t released until 1975. The album popularized “Outlaw Country” with the mainstream. The album not only was popular with Country fans but was a crossover smash. The album charted at 28 on the Top 200 and had songs chart on the Hot 100. The story of the album behind the scenes is super interesting too.

Did chatgpt write this?

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Did chatgpt write this?

Nope. Do I sound like Chat GPT? TBH, I almost take that as a compliment as I usually have way more typos and grammatical errors than Chat GPT. I guess I need to work on my writing voice though if it sounds that generic.

 

[Hemotep]

Btw, sorry if that was too snarky. I'm grading papers and the chatgpt language is too fucking rampant. I know the answer, but still, why spend tens of thousands on a college education only to cheat and not learn anything?

 

[Hemotep]

Nope. Do I sound like Chat GPT? TBH, I almost take that as a compliment as I usually have way more typos and grammatical errors than Chat GPT. I guess I need to work on my writing voice though if it sounds that generic.

It was like a list of facts, in clear and concise language. So that's what made me think of it.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Btw, sorry if that was too snarky. I'm grading papers and the chatgpt language is too fucking rampant. I know the answer, but still, why spent tens of thousands on a college education only to cheat and not learn anything?

Can’t you just get Chat GPT to grade their papers?

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

It was like a list of facts, in clear and concise language. So that's what made me think of it.

Also, if ChatGTP starts referencing @Lee Newman we are all doomed.

 

[Hemotep]

Can’t you just get Chat GPT to grade their papers?

I wish. But it's full of errors and even the full version isn't up to the challenge yet.

 

[Hemotep]

Also, if ChatGTP starts referencing @Lee Newman we are all doomed.

Well I thought like my students that you'd made some light edits.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Well I thought like my students that you'd made some light edits.

I looked up Red headed Strangers chart performance on Wikipedia on my work PC to get the chart information but outside of that it’s all me.