12 Best DBT songs according to Paste Magazine

[headhunter]

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2 ... songs.html

Interesting take on various DBT tunes.

Nice to see the magazine say that DBT has become "one of the most respected acts in rock and roll."

[John A Arkansawyer]

I wouldn't dream of making a substantive comment on this. I'm just going to sit back and watch everyone else go at it.

[Kudzu Guillotine]

The list itself aside, I wonder how it made it past the proofreading stage before being published as it's rife with misspellings.

[Zip City]

Subjective article blah blah blah this list sucks

[heartbreaker1976]

no Shonna songs...
Someone was going to go there eventually...

[Flea]

I'll give the list one accolade: it made me listen to "A Blessing And A Curse" (the song) for the first time in years. That's pretty pretty pretty good. Wouldn't mind at all seeing that reintroduced to the Rock Show.

[Smitty]

Cool article, seems like the writer knows his stuff* even if his choices are far from what mine would be.


*or doesn't know at all and just kinda arbitrarily picked some songs off a list. Could work either way from my perspective.

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

a dual guitar attack that’s laid on as thick as sawmill gravy over supper’s biscuits.

[Daddy_played_poker]

This discussion fits well with the one on which songs should have made the cut for top 35 on the new live record. Other than "wig" I don't have a problem with this list. The thing about DBT is that I could pick a different top 12 for a different mood and still be happy.

[Flea]

a dual guitar attack that’s laid on as thick as sawmill gravy over supper’s biscuits.

I'd want to listen to that.

[Mekaus]

I managed to get through the whole article. If I critiqued grammar and structured schmuck reviews, I would give this person a C- for grammar and a D for his review.

[RolanK]

Cool article, seems like the writer knows his stuff* even if his choices are far from what mine would be.


*or doesn't know at all and just kinda arbitrarily picked some songs off a list. Could work either way from my perspective.

Someone just recently dropped him a mix tape with only these songs on it.

Beer drinkin' hipster.

[Tequila Cowboy]

It's kind of a silly list and the editing is suspect to say the least. All that said if it gets one person who has never heard the band to listen I'm good with it.

[brett27295]

I'll give the list one accolade: it made me listen to "A Blessing And A Curse" (the song) for the first time in years. That's pretty pretty pretty good. Wouldn't mind at all seeing that reintroduced to the Rock Show.

I may be the only one who has ever said this....but I love that song.

[Rocky]

Well first of all I'm glad as Hell Paste even tried to do this very thing. And the truth is this is a fool's errand.

We all know taste is subjective but there's no way The Wig He Made Her Wear is one of the 12 best songs the Truckers have recorded. And the same thing goes for A Blessing And A Curse. Sorry kids.

[tinnitus photography]

a dual guitar attack that’s laid on as thick as sawmill gravy over supper’s biscuits.

sawmill gravy is actually a thing, never mind a cliche?

[jimmyjack]

If anyone's interested in writing their own terrible piece on DBT, here are the puzzle pieces:,

alt country (x4)
debauchery (x2)
"good ol boys"
Lynyrd Skynyrd (x2)
gothic novel
a hell of a live show
"catchy as hell"
Muscle Shoals / David Hood
dual guitar leads / attack (x4)
Southern Rock (x3)
"plaintive" / "earnest" / "somber" (lost count)

And "A Blessing and a Curse" is bottom five for me, sorry. One of only four or five skippers in the entire Patterson / Cooley discography.

Actually, most of this list is pretty

[John A Arkansawyer]

And "A Blessing and a Curse" is bottom five for me, sorry. One of only four or five skippers in the entire Patterson / Cooley discography.

I'm still not going to comment on the list, but I will say this: Someone gave me a mix CD a friend had made for them of DBT songs. One of them was "A Blessing And A Curse". It sounds a whole lot better out of context than it did on the record.

[Clams]

Someone just recently dropped him a mix tape with only these songs on it.

Beer drinkin' hipster.

Where did you find a pic of Cortez?

[Zip City]

I'm an unapologetic ABAAC fan (song)

[Duke Silver]

"Look, everybody, some guy took the time to write a fawning piece about our favorite band!"
"Get him!"

[brett27295]

"Look, everybody, some guy took the time to write a fawning piece about our favorite band!"
"Get him!"

[Kudzu Guillotine]

I managed to get through the whole article. If I critiqued grammar and structured schmuck reviews, I would give this person a C- for grammar and a D for his review.

I have no problem with the article itself but there's really no excuse for the amount of misspellings and factual errors such as The Dirty South being Jason's last record with the band and the Harvey family murders occurring in 1999 (they happened in 2006). To Paste's credit, these have since been corrected.

"Look, everybody, some guy took the time to write a fawning piece about our favorite band!"
"Get him!"

I imagine every one of us would come up with vastly different Top 12 lists if asked so I don't have a problem with this guy's list but if you're going to publish something like this at least have someone proofread it first. To not have done that not only reflects poorly on the author of the article but Paste itself.

[tinnitus photography]

i heard that Paste had to lay off their entire proof-reading staff last year.

[211poundsofpork]

If anyone's interested in writing their own terrible piece on DBT, here are the puzzle pieces:,

alt country (x4)
debauchery (x2)
"good ol boys"
Lynyrd Skynyrd (x2)
gothic novel
a hell of a live show
"catchy as hell"
Muscle Shoals / David Hood
dual guitar leads / attack (x4)
Southern Rock (x3)
"plaintive" / "earnest" / "somber" (lost count)

And "A Blessing and a Curse" is bottom five for me, sorry. One of only four or five skippers in the entire Patterson / Cooley discography.

Actually, most of this list is pretty

Don't forget 'hooks'. Everybody who's everybody uses 'hooks' in their music reviews. C'mon now.

[beantownbubba]

"Look, everybody, some guy took the time to write a fawning piece about our favorite band!"
"Get him!"

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

If anyone's interested in writing their own terrible piece on DBT, here are the puzzle pieces:,

alt country (x4)
debauchery (x2)
"good ol boys"
Lynyrd Skynyrd (x2)
gothic novel
a hell of a live show
"catchy as hell"
Muscle Shoals / David Hood
dual guitar leads / attack (x4)
Southern Rock (x3)
"plaintive" / "earnest" / "somber" (lost count)

And "A Blessing and a Curse" is bottom five for me, sorry. One of only four or five skippers in the entire Patterson / Cooley discography.

Actually, most of this list is pretty

I would add "Southern-fried", "down on their luck/back against the wall," and "blue collar." Massive negative points for any use of "guitar slinger"

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

a dual guitar attack that’s laid on as thick as sawmill gravy over supper’s biscuits.

sawmill gravy is actually a thing, never mind a cliche?

what are you, some kind of dandified Yankee boy?



http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alto ... ecipe.html

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

not gonna make my own list but will say I can't imagine a top 12 w/o Living Bubba or Lookout Mountain

Will say the guy seems to have done a better/more consistenbt job with his Cooley choices than he did with Patterson

[Eyes Above It]

Any list that doesnt include WWW loses credibility with me. Just sayin.