Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room

Ugh country. It wasn't bad, but it's just not my thing.

I didn't like country as a youth but have grown to respect, nay even quite like some of the more modern stuff. (I admit Shania Twain also changed my outlook a lot too!).
But this is the old school twangy honky tonk, shoot my woman tripe that made me dislike it in the first place. The squeaky thing he does with the vocal is annoying and if I'm going to call out the 'rape my hoe' lyrics of gangster rap then I have to call out shooting his girlfriend in the head as she's sleeping just because she shagged his mate. What is the beef Americans seem to have with women?

Music for good ol' MAGA boys.

I've heard of Dwight Yoakam but never really heard anything by Dwight Yoakam... Country music is a hit or miss genre, this feels more like the stereotypical pure twangy country, all songs about a lonely man, who's woman done him wrong and/or up and left him because of all his drinking and partying at the honkytonk. So he sets about drinking and partying his problems away at the aforementioned honkytonk, but on the way his truck breaks down and his dog up and dies so he decides to maybe do a little murderin' on the side...

Therapy wasn't invented yet in 1988 apparently.

I liked this a lot! I am surprised by this development :) usually country that isn't Johnny Cash is like pulling teeth :) I liked the instruments used, and the songs having something going on lyrically

80s country has gotta be one of least favorite eras/genres. This is maybe better than most? At least it’s short.

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room is an alright album. I'm not really the biggest fan of country music so i wasn't going in with the highest of expectations but it is a decent listen. The songs are pleasant and well done with good vocals, good instrumentation, good rhythms, and the album is really well produced. My main issue with this album (like a lot of other albums like it) is the songs are not diverse enough. They all seem to rely on more or less the same formula which sounds fine but gets a little bit tiring even with this album's fairly short runtime. This album isn't a huge recommendation from me but it isn't a stay-away either.
Best Song: What I Don't Know
Worst Song: Send Me the Pillow

Shit bsginnung, shit middle and extra shitty end. Must be a bad album, and a waste of the longest 30 minus ever. 0/5

I mean, Dwight is not bad if you like country....kind of a rockabilly sound... but he is also like a B-Lister in the grand scheme of things. It kinda seems like Robert Dimery has no idea about the genre of country, so he just randomly picked country records so it had representation on this list. A lot of what he picked for country doesn't really make sense. I mean, it's usually ok, but not peak country music.

Favorite songs: Streets of Bakersfield, I Sang Dixie, Hold on to God, One More Name, I Got You, Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses), Home of the Blues, What I Don't Know, Floyd County, Send Me the Pillow

Least favorite songs: I Hear You Knockin'

4/5

Uno de esos álbumes que está ya pasado en melodías, letras y entretenimiento. No he podido sacar mucho de aquí que quiera recordar, pese a que no lo considere infumable. Es un disco totalmente mediocre.

Canción destacada: Streets of Bakerfield

3.5

Inessential but dependable neo-traditional country.

3.5/5

If there’s one thing this album does, it’s remind you just how much you’ve heard all these country clichés before. And I mean really remind you. This 1988 album is a deep dive into a world of broken hearts, cheating lovers, and long nights spent alone in dive bars—and while that might sound familiar, Yoakam's ability to resurrect every classic country trope is truly something else. Whether or not it’s a good thing, though, is another story.

It’s almost as if the music section took a country music manual and said, “Let’s make sure we hit every single page.” The result is something so comfortably familiar that it borders on predictable, but not in the "this is a classic" kind of way—in more of a "yep, I've heard this before" kind of way. Every song shuffles along, like you’re caught in a loop of honky-tonk bars you can’t escape.

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room doesn’t reinvent country music; it simply embraces everything country music has been for decades. And if you’ve spent any amount of time in this genre, you’ll find that the clichés here aren’t exactly groundbreaking—they’re more like that dusty old jukebox that just keeps playing the same songs.

Imagine sitting--drunk on broken dreams--in a dusty, empty honky tonk with this album playing on the jukebox, dust motes playing in the slanted, sunlit air, the lonesome music echoing off the over-decorated, uncaring walls. Lost somewhere north of Los Angeles, close enough to know the big city's a real sumbitch.

*yawns* *stretches*

Plinky plunky fiddley wibbly tales of woe.

Fun country

Vilken jävla sliskig sörja.

3.36

I got excited for brass from the latin inspired title only to find a bog standard country album. Ugh. It's brilliantly executed of course, I just don't like it.

I'm not really familiar with this guy. Although I am more receptive to country music than most, this album is not really hitting for me. The material is a bit scattershot. A lot of the instrument parts sound great (yet...why accordion?) however the drums and the vocals are not really doing anything for me. If you don't have a drummer or a singer, you don't have a band.

I'm not sure why you'd pick this out of his first three albums?