Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound (June 16, 2017) Album • Page 5

Things I learned making this list of 50 songs:
"Alabama Pines" is my favorite pre-sober Jason solo song.
"Children of Children" is my least favorite post-sober Jason solo song.
"Daylight" is my least favorite of Jason's DBT songs.
I need to listen to the self-titled album more probably because it seems like its been years since I have with any sort of regularity.
The 12 songs from Southeastern are apparently amongst my 20 favorite overall.
I probably couldn't replicate this list if I made it tomorrow.

1. Cover Me Up
2. Decoration Day
3. Elephant
4. Stockholm
5. Yvette
6. Something More Than Free
7. 24 Frames
8. Songs That She Sang in the Shower
9. Speed Trap Town
10. Flying Over Water
11. Flagship
12. If It Takes a Lifetime
13. Alabama Pines
14. Traveling Alone
15. Live Oak
16. Relatively Easy
17. Super 8
18. Different Days
19. Never Gonna Change
20. New South Wales
21. TVA
22. Codeine
23. Outfit
24. In a Razor Town
25. Easy On Yourself
26. To a Band That I Loved
27. Shotgun Wedding
28. Palmetto Rose
29. The Life You Chose
30. Tour of Duty
31. Chicago Promenade
32. Hudson Commodore
33. How to Forget
34. We’ve Met
35. Danko/Manuel
36. Dress Blues
37. The Day John Henry Died
38. Children of Children
39. Go It Alone
40. Cigarettes and Wine
41. Brand New Kind of Actress
42. God Is a Working Man
43. Try
44. The Devil is My Running Mate
45. Goddamn Lonely Love
46. Stopping By
47. Hurricanes and Hand Grenades
48. Daisy Mae
49. The Blue
50. Down in a Hole

Not enough information: "Hope the High Road"

 

Scrolled to the bottom, saw "Goddamn Lonely Love" and "Stopping By" at 45 and 46, immediately discredited everything above that haha. Sorry man but I love those songs, no way they rank below the bulk of his first two solo records.

 

I really can't bring myself to try to rank his DBT work and "Sirens" side-by-side with his last two records. I adore those songs so so much and they've been a part of me for so long that I'm probably always going to be biased towards them. That being side, I do think SMTF is his best work and some of his best songs have been written in the last few years.

Favorite pre-sobriety songs:

1. Outfit
2. Danko/Manuel
3. Dress Blues
4. Alabama Pines
5. Goddamn Lonely Love
6. Decoration Day
7. Never Gonna Change
8. TVA
9. The Day John Henry Died
10. Stopping By
11. Chicago Promenade
12. Codeine

Favorite post-sobriety songs:

1. Relatively Easy
2. Palmetto Rose
3. Children of Children
4. 24 Frames
5. Elephant
6. Speed Trap Town
7. Different Days
8. The Life You Chose
9. Cover Me Up
10. If It Takes a Lifetime
11. Flagship
12. Stockholm

 

I love "If It Takes A Lifetime"

I can't rank the songs but I will say that the DBT songs and the last 2 albums are, in general, the best stuff (for me) and the previous 3 albums are solid but not in the same ballpark.

 

Live vid of the debut of "Hope the High Road" in Anaheim a few weeks back:

 

Anyone score the RSD release today?

 

Yeah I got it. My old system got wrecked but I have one of those tiny little all-in-one things that I listened to it on. Pretty awesome.

 

Damn wish I was near a good record store/had had the time to go wait in line to get it. Hopefully someone with a stellar system floats a rip somewhere eventually

 

Also it looks like another new song besides "High Road" got worked into the set last night at EKU in Richmond, KY: "If We Were Vampires." Don't see any video as of yet though.

 

I saw that, I was googling around for a video but no luck. I'm just dying to hear what his next part of that sentence is, honestly.

 

Someone has to rip this RSD release. Still so bummed I didn't find one.

 

There's now one floating around. Check the usual place(s)

 

If you go to this link and go to ~2:43:15 Isbell plays an acoustic version of "Last of My Kind"

BBC Radio London - Robert Elms, Vicki Russell, Jason Isbell and Fiona Kingsman

Holy fucking shit it's good...

Edit: I'm seriously stunned by how good this is, wow

 

Fuck yes.

 

Its everything I was hoping for. This band can really fucking rock. Although the chord changes are slightly wrong in the chorus of "Atlantic City" and it slightly offends my Springsteen geek sensibilities haha

 

Excited to listen tomorrow. I struggle with some Springsteen covers, but usually it's the voice that's make or break for me. I doubt I'll have a problem with Isbell's take.

 

Last of my Kind is unreal. Stupid good. Really curious to hear the studio version because that solo version was perfect.

 

really interested in this especially after Isabell has said itll have some political lyrics. plus i just like his songwriting and voice so im down for pretty much anything

 

The EP is sick, predictably.

 

Man I was blown away by the RSD release. Such a tight live band, and he made them all sound like Isbell tracks. "Atlantic City" was definitely a highlight for me.

He literally has it all. Incredible songwriter, great vocalist, ridiculous guitarist... geez. Even more excited for the new record now!

 

Fuck. This might be his best record. So dark and personal, yet universal at the same time. And ultimately extremely life affirming. I can't imagine anything beating this to the top of my EOTY list.

 

dammit craig

 

this wait just got longer

 

Aahhhhh yes

 

Friendship = over.
Until 06/16 at least.