Shock'n Y'All | 
| Artist: Toby Keith
Label: Dreamworks
Category: Music
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Rating:  287 reviews
Sales Rank: 5399
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.3
MPN: 450435
UPC: 600445043527
EAN: 0600445043527
ASIN: B0000C9ZK6
Release Date: November 4, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | I Love This Bar | | • | Whiskey Girl | | • | American Soldier | | • | If I Was Jesus | | • | Time For Me To Ride | | • | Sweet | | • | Don't Leave, I Think I Love You | | • | Nights I Can't Remember, Friends I'll Never Forget | | • | Baddest Boots | | • | The Critic | | • | The Taliban Song | | • | Weed With Willie |
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Amazon.com
A former oil field worker, Toby Keith has always known how to capture the passions of blue-collar men and women, desperate to blow off steam at the end of the day. As such, he's stocked his latest album with themes designed to push all the right emotional buttons--patriotism, Jesus, buddy love, fast women, and reality altering substances. "I Love This Bar," the first single, offers a kinder, gentler Keith than the boot-shoving redneck of "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American)." But as he segues to "American Soldier," a song so gung-ho and puffed up that it could be a musical recruitment poster, you know he's gearing up for a scud missile of a payoff. Sure enough. By the time he gets to "The Taliban Song," a comedic and cartoonish skewering of The Enemy, recorded in concert, it's hard to remember that he once wrote well-crafted ballads of romantic infatuation. Now it's all grandstanding, baby, even the best-written song, a jazzy, talking blues which fillets his critics. If he's not exactly "Shock'n Y'All" as the title suggests, he's certainly putting his "Baddest Boots" forward. --Alanna Nash
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| Customer Reviews: Read 282 more reviews...
 Shockin ....but He Gets Away with it. November 5, 2003
Colleen (SF East Bay, CA USA)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I would wager that you will either really love this album or really hate it. The promotional idea of playing it on the radio the day before it hit the stores was a stroke of genius. It had me going straight from work the next day to buy it. I already knew I liked the songs so when I loaded it in my PC and found approximately 15 minutes of video, I was doubly pleased. The songs are definitely unique so if you weren't privy to the preview, listen with an open mind. We all know "I love this Bar" so it doesn't need an introduction but the others..... "Taliban" gave me a different prospective on the War. An "American Soldier" pays tribute to our fighting men as only a song can do. "If I was Jesus" has to speak for it's self. How he mixed blasphemy with heavenly praise and got away with it is beyond me but the God fearing woman in me was not offended. No Toby Keith CD is complete without at least one or two that make you want to crank up the volume and put the pedal to the medal. Those would be "Time for me to Ride" and "Sweet". The Willie Song tops it off with a laugh. In my opinion, there is something for everyone, except maybe a Dixie Chick fan. My summary would be "This is Toby Keith Bone Deep" and I am definitely on the "loved it" side of the fence.
Score another hit CD for Toby!! November 11, 2003
Angela Gallo (Lexington, SC USA)
22 out of 25 found this review helpful
Toby Keith, once again, shows off his wit and his wonderful songwriting ability to say nothing of his incredible vocal talent. The compilation of songs seems to fit Toby's rowdy, fun loving side and the addition of the bus songs is strictly for the fans. This is a great CD to add to your Toby collection or a wonderful start on the journey to Toby Keith appreciation.
TOBY'S TURN TO HAVE FUN November 8, 2003
Gary M. Russell (Liverpool, NY United States)
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
Anybody that listens to a Toby Keith CD once and writes a review about it is a FOOL. A true TK fan knows that you have to allow the music to breathe like a fine wine to get the flavor out of it. This CD is no different. Keep in mind that Toby is a singer-songwriter, and that 95% of his songs are his own. The man is no songwriters whore like some of the artists out there today. And the man is true to the country roots of the music he writes. OK, so The Critic is a jazzy piece, but thats the point, why waste a good country song on a group of people that wouldn't know one when they heard one. One reviewer criticized his soldier songs, but myself being the son of a decorated WWII soldier, and hearing the stories, I can tell you, we can never do enough for our Armed Forces. Toby is a Proud American, the rest of you need to get with the program. Toby chose this album to write songs he feels good about. Granted it's more of a guy's album than what the ladies are used to hearing, but you always know how Toby feels about a subject by the music he writes. The Taliban and Weed with Willie had me laughing in the car so much I almost crashed. It was sad that Toby didn't win any CMA awards, but it was obvious another fine country gentleman by the name of Alan Jackson gave Toby the credit he deserves. Keep em coming Toby.
The best yet! November 5, 2003
A. Buhaug (St Paul, MN USA)
57 out of 74 found this review helpful
If you haven't boarded the Toby Keith bandwagon, this is a good time to join up. Shock'N Y'all is full of the controversially funny lyrics that makes Toby country music's top bad boy. But there's also the patriotic side that comes out in American Soldier, which is the best cut on the whole album in my opinion. If you aren't proud to be an American after hearing that song, you haven't been paying attention. Definitely buy this cd!
 The musical embodiment of the Patriot Act January 20, 2004
Matt (Georgia)
51 out of 66 found this review helpful
This past weekend I was in a car and was forced to listen to The Taliban Song over and over. It is the most racist song I have ever heard. Probably it is the most racist song in the history of humans.Hearing people cheer when he sings about bombing civilians is absolutely disgusting. To characterize the HUMAN BEINGS of Afghanistan as cave-dwelling camel herders is sick. And then he brings religion into it, suggesting that people deserve to die because they are Muslim. If I were the head of a terrorist network I would translate this song and use it to incite more terror. This is the reason why people in other countries hate us.
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