The Gilded Palace of Sin

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

They get a 5/5 for the band name. But not for anything else.

Its a toss up between whose voice I dislike more: Gram Parsons on lead or Chris Hillman on backing vocals. The combination on the first couple of tracks was a bit like nails on a chalkboard to me. I found it less annoying as the album went on, but I'd never say I really enjoyed it.

The actual music is fine, if a bit dull to my ears.

5/5 for Chris Hillman's suit (love the blue), 2/5 for the record.

2/5

W/ a name like The Flying Burrito Bros, you'd think you'd get farce or parody. W/ an album called The Gilded Palace Of Sin, you may think you'd get prog or intellectual snobbery. But what you get is country - I mean the straight-up version, the simple, haunting, and necessary foundation. Gram Parsons is a hell of a singer, and tho he's no Aretha or James Carr, his renditions of 'Do Right Woman' and 'Dark End of the Street' are soulful and profound. 'My Uncle' is an essential political track, rivaling CCR for how much punch they pack: ''Cause they don't need the kind of law and order / That tends to keep a good man underground.' They're everything The Eagles are not, and even if they never released a comparable product, this is superb enuf.

I was looking forward to today’s album, as I’ve never really listened to Gram Parsons before. I know The Gilded Palace of Sin with The Flying Burrito Brothers is highly regarded and seen as an influential record, so I was keen to see what the fuss was about.

I’ll admit, I found it hard to fully concentrate on this one — mainly because today is the day Nebraska ’82 came out, and that’s all I really want to listen to!

That said, this album was a good listen. It blends Country and Western with touches of 60s pop really well. Nothing particularly blew me away, but it was still enjoyable from start to finish.

Favourite track: “Burrito #1 & #2”
Least favourite track: I struggled with some of the slower songs like “Do Right Woman,” which leaned more heavily into the country side.
Album artwork: A fairly standard 60s cover — nothing special, but it fits the era.

Seemed like an okay take on Everly brothers harmonies.

Random band I haven't heard of making old school country music. It's honestly kinda relaxing, and the songwriting is of acceptable quality, but hardly life changing. Less boring than yesterday's U2 album, though (thank God!)

Not as good as Gram Parsons solo work, but still pretty good.

Is there anything worse than a slow-paced country music song? Not just in music, I mean is there anything worse to ever exist than a 60 BPM country music whine-fest? Luckily this album is evenly split between these teeth-grindingly hokey snoozers and some more upbeat country/bluegrass/rock.

2.0/5.0: Disappointing

Considering that it's country rock, which in most circumstances I would gladly pay to see being mass-excavated into a landfill plot, this was actually... just as shite as I was expecting for the most part. I will acknowledge that the opener "Christine's Tune" is genuinely a rare, rollicking banger of a tune for the genre, "My Uncle" also had a bit of energy to it and "Juanita" is a passable enough ballad, but much of the rest descended into that wet, skin-crawling mid-paced slop which we apparently didn't have enough of in this list. Give me up-tempo bonky bonk over some lad doing his best sheep impression whilst giving a guitar a manicure any day of the week.

Arguably even worse than the above however, we're "treated" to a spoken word organ track with someone occasionally rattling a cymbal in the background as the album's closer. Who in their right mind would've signed off on that? These jokers apparently.

Beat der beginnenden 70er mit starkem Country Einschlag. Insgesamt ganz ok.

Very much a ‘heard one, heard em all’ situation. In one ear and out the other.

Gram Parsons carries on the psychedelic alt-country vibe from his one Byrds album... Some of it is kinda dope, some of it is more like traditional country, a real mixed bag. But their cover of "Do Right Woman" is pretty special.

OMG ITS JUST THE BYRDS EXCEPT NOW THEYRE BURRITOS

Yawnathon

Better than Coldplay

This was alright. Very country with shades of psychedelic rock thrown in to keep things interesting. Favorite songs were Christine’s Tune, My Uncle, and Hot Burrito #2.

This album is on my list of ones to buy but now I have listened to it I am not sure. Perhaps my expectations were too high - I thought it would be country tinged singer songwriting style but it is a bit too much country for me. Definitely great but perhaps not for me.

Parsons should be a must for me, but this stuff never really speaks to me the way I would expect. It is just ok. 2.5/5

I’m not an Americana kind of guy and I quite liked this, so it must be a strong example of the genre. The band are passionate and the singing sounds genuine and heartfelt. Yeeehaw.

Country rock. Blah.