Zach Bryan - Zach Bryan (August 25th, 2023) Album • Page 5

Gonna listen to it again on my drive to work this AM.

 

71.3%

No, for real though, that's a little tough to answer because "Overtime" might be the most upbeat song on the album, but I would say that the majority of the album has that feel to it. It's a lot of the band playing together with drums and everything vs. just him with an acoustic guitar for the most part.

 

cool cool cool cool, I will listen to the whole thing soon!

 

I’ll go on record and say All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster is one of the greatest live country records ever.

 

Finally gave his Summertime Blues "EP" a proper listen and there are a handful of really great songs on it. There are a few other songs on Amazon Music that look like standalone singles from 2022 that are mainly all really good as well.

I know this has already been said numerous times, but that's still pretty crazy from a guy who also dropped a 34-song album that year too.

 

He’s one of the only modern artists who would benefit from a greatest hits single disc. If only because you need to show people “Heading South” if you want to introduce them to why he’s so beloved.

 

This record is yet another banger. I listened to it on my walk and it was almost transcendent.

 

If She Wants A Cowboy is so fun though, and This Road I Know is special. But like you said, every fan would have a different version.

 

That's why American Heartbreak is such a funny beast - it is absolutely loaded with amazing songs, literally dozens of them, so I'm always telling people they should go listen to it, but then also it is 34 songs / 2 hours long which I know is a big turn off for a lot of people.

I personally don't think I dislike a single song on it, yet I can fully admit that I have only listened to the entire 34 songs in the order they are presented as a giant album one time, and I most likely will never do it again. Partly that is just a result of my lack of free time that I can devote to just listening to music, which is a shame, as I bet younger me would have sat outside on a nice day and smoked a bunch of cigars and listened to the whole thing multiple times.

 

The earlier EP has some GREAT songs too

 

I decided “Cowboy” was almost too much of a novelty song for the taster. But I do love that track and how it so effectively parodies so much about mainstream country.

 

I can’t tell if it is or isn’t really, aside from the ending maybe

 

Oh, it’s 100 percent satire. I take the entire thing as a metaphor for the Nashville establishment. The intro, outro, and auto tune sections really hammer it home.

 

Yeah I mean it is a parody, but at the same it’s a well written pop country song with a great hook and I think he knows that. Do you know what I mean?

 

The line “I heard they shut down the old bar we’d go to when we needed rest” is killing me man

 

Does anyone know why these two songs (track 9 and 16) aren't on AM?

 

Bonus tracks for the iTunes (or whatever the store is called now) version?

 

Found this.

 

do we like zach?

 

Oh yeah, totally. It’s still a great version of the form (pop country song) which makes it all the more effective as parody.

 

Looks like “I Remember Everything” has a good shot at #1

 

Would much prefer that to the other country songs currently up there

 

Is this dude country?

 

He’s definitely disrupting country music. I don’t know how the genre gets broken out these days, but there’s a place for him there. Most of the “country” guys I listen to probably wouldn’t be considered country by a large group of people. I guess I consider them all at least country adjacent.

it’s kinda like Ruston Kelly’s Dying Star. At that time he was called Country but he ended up leaning more into songwriter/alternative territory.

 

I ask because I genuinely hate country music but from what I have heard from Zach, if fucking rules.