The Gilded Palace of Sin

Hippies pretending to be cowboys and fucking around and establishing the country rock americana style that's been a recurring staple, re-iterating itself every decade or so, re-articulating with new sounds in rock. This is a great synthesis of classic country styles (the close harmonies, twangy outlaw guitars, gentle schmaltz, heavenly slides) with the jangly dreamy pop and fuzzy psych of the 60s. It's warm, nostalgic, easy going stuff.

Jamais écouté avant.

Beaucoup de country, un peu de rock psychédélique, une pincée de soul... La recette, révolutionnaire sans doute en 1969, a perdu de sa superbe et n'a plus beaucoup d'intérêt aujourd'hui. Sauf peut-être pour la pedal steel guitar de Sneaky Pete, qui pour le coup, impose une vraie identité au son du groupe. Facile et même agréable à écouter, mais tout à fait oubliable, au bout du compte.

Top : Dark End of the Street
Flop : Juanita

I can handle the Byrds, but this is just not for me. Kinda cool that it blends the country and rock/pop genres, but I just have no love for the sound or musicality of it. Feels like a poorly done rip off of both instead of a marriage. 2.

Definitely a different time… but I do love a draft dodging song. This album took me through a whole range of emotions in a nice, short package. There were some songs I liked the sound of and some that I liked the lyrics of. My Uncle is also joining regular rotation.

Season: Late Summer
Favorite Song: My Uncle
Runner Up: Dark End Of The Street

What if the Louvin Brothers dropped acid?

I expected something so much better from a band called The Flying Burrito Brothers. I wasn’t hoping to hear a sappy country record. There was some good guitar work here and there but for the most part this was really flat and unmemorable. Wouldn’t listen again 2/5

The Band name promised me something fun. I got meaningless 60s western cosplay.

I'm going to go listen to the Viagra Boys to make up for this slight.

What a band name. Country-ish album, not very interesting or worthy of this list.

A nice enough album but was a bit bland. Couldn't quite pin point what exactly was wrong here

3 ⭐️

All i can really say about The Gilded Palace Of Sin is that it's alright. It does have a cool name though which is something i can say with a strong opinion unlike the music on this album. This album, more or less is your standard country rock affair with pretty much all the strengths and weaknesses you would expect in this genre. The album certainly is pleasant to listen to being very slow moving and easy-listening which makes it a good album to be played on a road trip or something. However, it just really doesn't do anything that special and just makes this album blend in with all the other country rock albums that came out at the time. This album is fine, just nothing special
Best Song: Christine's Tune
Worst Song: Do You Know How It Feels

Harmonies to rival the Everly Brothers, heartfelt but not hokey

This album is amazing. Simple folk accompanied by great layering of instruments like piano and organs, telling great stories. Very nice listen.

Big fan of their name actually

Those bad reviews are right when they say this is way more country than rock. I differ in thinking that is not a bad thing.

Good stuff. Little Hippie Boy was kind of a different vibe, not as enjoyable, but not awful. Overall a great listen, will definitely be returning.

Well. That was some country music, all right.

Gives me fond memories of an old pal, a former roommate who was a country singer and a Parsons enthusiast. Makes me wanna smoke weed and sit around a campfire in Joshua Tree.

Digging the The Devil's Rejects vibes. All the songs kind of sound the same but it all sounds pretty good. Solid 3/5.

It's a shame that every song on the album isn't up to the level of Sin City, which is whatever the musical equivalent of "dank" is. Just a big ol' purple crystally bud, that song is.

The rest of the album is still a good listen, though; catch me on a Saturday afternoon with this one.

Very countrified rock. Inoffensive, but hardly exciting.
Wheels feels like a parody of a country song written for s fake band in a film. Of the hot burritos, #2 is at least upbeat