The Epitome of DBT

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The Epitome of DBT

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So me and BrettAC were talkin the other day and figured I'd post here..
What one song do you feel best describes DBT, the Epitome of DBT. One song that after completion you say that is what the Truckers are all about. Not just your favorite song either.
My choice has to be The Living Bubba. It's dirty, true, pure and rock n roll to the core. It seems to be the most fitting in my opinion.

So what are everyone else's thoughts?

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Let There Be Rock
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The Living Bubba or Let There Be Rock
good job, guys!
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Smitty wrote:The Living Bubba or Let There Be Rock
good job, guys!


Has to be one of those two.
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Puttin People on the Moon has always struck me as the song that epitomizes what DBT is to me.

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So many to choose from. Has to be Living Bubba.
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why henry drinks
love like this
hwy 72
lookout mt
zip city
margo and harold
where the devil don't stay
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When I crawled out of bed this morning
I could tell something wasn't right
There were cigarettes in the ashtrays
They weren't your menthol lights
There were beer bottles in the kitchen
And broken glass on the floor
Someone must have slipped me something
Passed out a couple days before

The car was in the carport sideways
Big dent running down the side
Never seen anything as frightening
As when I took a look inside
Smell of musk and deception
Heel marks on the roof-line
Bad music on the stereo
All the seats in recline

The aftermath staring me right in the face
I'll get around to breaking even one of these days

My credit cards have all been maxed out
The meat in my freezer all thawed
The IRS laid the facts out
It's all worse than I thought
The welfare lady said enough is enough
The kids ain't been to school in weeks

Crystal-meth in the bathtub
Blood splattered in my sink
Laying around in the aftermath
It's all worse than you think
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"Where the Devil Dont Stay"
I've never taken a pissbreak during a DBT show but if I had it would have been during Dancing Ricky.

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I get the feeling that this song has become more relevant over the years.

Hell No, I Ain't Happy

There's a lot of bad wood underneath the veneer
She's an overnight sensation after twenty five years
Sharp fast curves, power steering
unroll that twenty, buy me some beer
Ain't too bad, too bad at all, pick up the phone if I ever call
Hell No, I Ain't Happy.

There's a purdy little girl outside the van window
Bout 80 cities down, 800 to go
Six crammed in, we ain't never alone
Never homesick, ain't got no home
Check my mail if you would please, Jenn
Collect my things till I'm in town again
Hell No, I Ain't Happy.

But I get a little closer everyday
Gonna be a long time till I'm back your way.

I've seen just how much I can stand
One night in Kansas City, we thought about killing a man
Seen my number fly by on Interstate Ten
Seen the mountains of Montana at Seven AM.
And I keep it all together for the sake of the kids
Got your fine-ass self on the back of my lids
Hell No, I Ain't Happy.
But I ain't too crappy, too crappy at all
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mgsooner wrote:Puttin People on the Moon has always struck me as the song that epitomizes what DBT is to me.


That was the first one I thought of too.
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Why Henry Drinks wrote:A Ghost To Most
Heathens
The Company I Keep


These are good picks---

add in 'where the devil don't stay' and either 'ronnie and neil' or 'let there be rock'...definitely a song that mentions skynard.
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I like Dime's list
and gonna add
Bubba
Hell No
Company I Keep
I told you so
Wig

were the rules pick one song? I'm no good at rules.
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dime in the gutter wrote:why henry drinks
love like this
hwy 72
lookout mt
zip city
margo and harold
where the devil don't stay
3 bama icons

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Tequila Cowboy wrote:
Smitty wrote:The Living Bubba or Let There Be Rock
good job, guys!


Has to be one of those two.


Yep. Werd.
Can you hear that singing? Sounds like gold...

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Steve French wrote:"Where the Devil Dont Stay"


This is an impossible question - kind of like "if you had to cut off one of your legs, which would it be?"

But Devil is as good as any. Along with Bubba, Sinkhole, Decoration Day, Zip City and Cottonseed. And the others I'm forgetting.
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I'm going to say LTBR.
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I'd definitely throw in TVA as a wild card.

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You know somehow I completely forgot about LTBR... dummy
But my pick still stands lol

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Get ready, cause it's a dark horse.

"The Night G.G. Allin Came to Town"

Awlright, hear me out on this one.

Yeah, it doesn't have a ton of crashing guitars, or an anthemic chorus, or even a signature Cooley guitar solo. It doesn't get played that often. It doesn't really fit the definition of "epitome", and perhaps you will decide that my post is trending more towards "favorite DBT song" and bump my ass offa here. But think about it.

It's incredibly raunchy. It tells a fantastic story. It's spectacularly funny. And being from the South, a mere 40 miles from where Cooley/Patterson/Jason/Shonna grew up, I know people who probably look just like the Lovey and Thurston Howell III look-a-likes who were horrified and bewildered over the story in the Memphis Flyer about the G.G. Allin show. Hell, those people could have been my parents. I'm sure I've sat, still drunk and stinking the morning after, in a restaurant in the South next to people just like this, and been prompted to laugh so hard I fell down by something in which ordinary people, fresh from church, failed to see humor.

But most of all I love this song because of its back story. I love the fact that Patterson wrote it as a birthday present to Cooley at a time when they weren't speaking, and shortly thereafter they started playing together again, and soon formed the band that has me here on 3DD tonight in the first place. God bless G.G. Allin, the demented, sick, depraved SOB he was.
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colodogdoc wrote:Get ready, cause it's a dark horse.

"The Night G.G. Allin Came to Town"

Awlright, hear me out on this one.

Yeah, it doesn't have a ton of crashing guitars, or an anthemic chorus, or even a signature Cooley guitar solo. It doesn't get played that often. It doesn't really fit the definition of "epitome", and perhaps you will decide that my post is trending more towards "favorite DBT song" and bump my ass offa here. But think about it.

It's incredibly raunchy. It tells a fantastic story. It's spectacularly funny. And being from the South, a mere 40 miles from where Cooley/Patterson/Jason/Shonna grew up, I know people who probably look just like the Lovey and Thurston Howell III look-a-likes who were horrified and bewildered over the story in the Memphis Flyer about the G.G. Allin show. Hell, those people could have been my parents. I'm sure I've sat, still drunk and stinking the morning after, in a restaurant in the South next to people just like this, and been prompted to laugh so hard I fell down by something in which ordinary people, fresh from church, failed to see humor.

But most of all I love this song because of its back story. I love the fact that Patterson wrote it as a birthday present to Cooley at a time when they weren't speaking, and shortly thereafter they started playing together again, and soon formed the band that has me here on 3DD tonight in the first place. God bless G.G. Allin, the demented, sick, depraved SOB he was.


I actually thought about that one - good point
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colodogdoc, I like the way you're thinking. My favorite DBT songs are the ones that have a backstory, like this. Good call.

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i looked at every album and every song and all the lyrics of all the songs i thought could qualify:

i came away with these:
bulldozers and dirt
ninebullets
ronnie and neal
southern thing
women without whiskey
sinkhole
never gonna change


for me,
any of these could work...
southern ideals, drinking, attitude, toughness,pain,etc.

but after much consideration, i am going to pick 1, only one
for me,
the epitome of all things truckers is...
honest,growing up without giving up,reality,
sex, friends,sadness, beauty
perseverance

World of Hurt

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I could name several but for me it has to be "The Living Bubba" and/or "Zip City". I'm surprised "Zip City" hasn't gotten more mentions, although it does have a few.

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4sooner wrote:18 Wheels Of Love
Became official last week


You can make a case for it. The fact that it has a beginning and now, sadly, an ending and that it's so deeply personal of a song. It's certainly the epitome of the personal side of DBT. Good call.
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