I'm sorry,
I haven't previously listened to anything from DBT;
but this "A Blessing and a Curse"
is more of the latter.
Is there something in their back catalog that isn't
one big boring cliche'?

yeah i also wasn't blown away by this. and i also haven't heard any other previous stuff. but it just seems like a wilco a.m. knockoff.

This is a joke, right?

I'll abstain from any of the horribly obvious jokes and just say that you might want to listen to, well, ALL of their other albums. BUT, if you think that the latest is "boring" and "cliche", then don't bother. Go find some other band to rank on.

i'm seriously not trying to "rank" on them.
this is just boring, uninventive drivel.
but that is my opinion.
just wondering if something else from them would be better...

If this album is "boring" why the hell would you want to hear more of this "univentive drivel." Isn't there anything else to dazzle yr amygdala?

zzzzzzz, I hear the ducks chattering.

because maybe he's seen so many posts praising them and he wants to find out if earlier stuff is more his bag. a band's sound tends to change a bit over a span of 8 years. jesus man stop taking it so personally.

i mean,
that's why i'm asking asshole.
if you wanna talk neuroanatomy
be my guest
but i come here to avoid graduate school.
asshole.

Why are you bringing up neuroanatomy and graduate school?

What did that have to do with The Drive By Truckers, which, it seems you had nil interest about anyway?

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If this album is "boring" why the hell would you want to hear more of this "univentive drivel." Isn't there anything else to dazzle yr amygdala?

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yeah you win.
you stupid shit.
all i was asking was for more album suggestions.
but if you're fucking the backup bass player,
great.
fuck on.

so what are your suggestions
bass fucker?

Who took it personally? By your own admission you don't know ANY on of the Drive By Trucker's output, it just "seems like a wilco a.m. knockoff."

Hardly an educated opinion.

minus your circumventing bullshit,
what's better?

I dont think anyone will ever confuse DBT with Animal Collective or Radiohead. With that said, Dirty South and Southern Rock Opera are two of my favorite albums of the last 15 years. Derivative, perhaps, but with Lucero, these guys pretty much carry on the whole "Southern Rock Thang". I havent been blown away by the new one yet, either, but Im not disappointed.

They are essentially a very good rock and roll band. That used to be enough. An analogous example (at least as far as hype:product ratio) for me would be My Morning Jacket, a good band, but not incredible.

I gotta admit I've NEVER heard DBT called uninventive drivel before.

If anything, they're praised for being as real and honest and gritty as a band can ever be.

Never heard them called commercial or derivitive or bland before, either. I don't share the negative opinion, but fascinating anyway.

YEah, Its not poopoo bear vs. the ticklemonster.

It's ROCK AND FUCKIN ROLL!!

The new one is not as immediate as the last couple, but I like that about it. This is a band that has not yet hit its stride.

And if you think a double album about Lynyrd Skynyrd and "The Duality of the Southern Thang" is derivative, then you don't know the meaning of the word. And you need the brakes beat off you. And a Lobotomy

all right,
someone finally suggests a couple albums instead of defending indie cred.
thank you.

even though i don't find DBT very interesting at all, you can't argue with the above statement. and for that, i've got mad respect for them.

Indie cred doesn't exist, dude, except in the minds of a few urban fashionistas, a couple thousand pliable sadsacks and a handful of caustic critics.

However, the concept is used as a tool for unpleasant people to lump everyone else into easily dismissed categories. As in "you're just an idiot worried about indie cred." It enables the dismisser to have something dismissive to say to the dismissee without having to come up with any concrete knowledge about that actual dismissee.

If a person likes Drive By Truckers because it's "expected" by the "community," that's pathetic.

It's possible some of the songs, well, maybe they're interesting songs.

i lost you on that last part but it appears that you're still flailing.
any suggestions please?
about DBT albums. nothing else.
i guess some people need to be told.

Fucktard -- go buy Southern Rock Opera. A Bottle of Whiskey and A Joint.

Put both cds in your changer. Crank it up.

Park you car in the garage, close the door. Listen to the whole album...Please

Listen to the Dirty South. If you can call songs like "Danko/Manuel," "Goddamn Lonely Love," "Never Gonna Change" and "Lookout Mountain" candy-coated crap, you're never going to like DBT's.


Plus, you'll never win friends and influence people by assuming they're stupid. The "just need to be told" shit isn't necessary message board parlance.

My post was perfectly coherent.

It's all fucking good and has nothing to do with 'indie cred', whatever the fuck that means. It's just good rock and roll. I suspect you're not really interested in the DBT's other albums, so go read some Carpenters or something. Lots of luck.

incorrect. immediately attacking someone for giving an opinion that may not line up with yours seems like you took it a bit personally. i know their most recent album. that's it. you must have missed the part where I said "I DON'T KNOW ANY OF THEIR PREVIOUS STUFF." and yes, the most recent album, to me, sounds like a wilco knockoff. you have to understand that there are going to be people out there that might not enjoy one of your favorite bands.

Fair enough, are you interested in hearing more?