| Shock'n Y'All | 
 enlarge | Artist: Toby Keith
Label: Dreamworks
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
Buy Used: $0.99
You Save: $12.99 (93%)
New (47) Used (69) from $0.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  288 reviews
Sales Rank: 30494
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Average Used music CD with artwork and case * * We carefully inspected this * Great customer service * Satisfaction Guaranteed!
|
| 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 |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
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
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 283 more reviews...
 The best yet! November 5, 2003
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!
Toby: The Likable Straight Talker November 5, 2003
56 out of 76 found this review helpful
I like Toby Keith, and I like this CD. The main criticism of this CD seems to be that Toby is doing hard edged, rhythm based songs more predominantly than romantic slow country ballads, or alternately that he is outspoken and pointed in his song writing. Well, no kidding. He takes the theme of patriotism to heart once again on this CD with songs such as the wry 'Taliban Song' and 'American Soldier.' The best two up tempo crossover songs on the CD are 'Time For Me to Ride' and 'Sweet.' There is a very amusing (and generally justified) stab at media critics in 'The Critic,' that takes the axiom that 'those who do, do; those who can't do, teach' to a new level. Lastly, another 'Bus Song,' 'Weed With Willie,' is an account of meeting Willie Nelson in his tour bus, and is not to be missed (although his in concert introduction does add quite a bit to the track, and I wish they would have left it in the track). If you like hard edged country music or country-rock you will like the CD. If you want some politically correct, rose-tinted view of the world, save your money.
 The musical embodiment of the Patriot Act January 20, 2004
47 out of 62 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.
Keep waving that flag, mouthbreather. December 15, 2004
30 out of 63 found this review helpful
I used to like Toby Keith. Then I started walking upright.
Actually, no, that's not even close to true. Even monkeys hate this guy. When fellow "contemporary country" (read: pop music for Nascar fans) musicians start complaining that this troll makes them look "ignorant," that's truly an all-time low for the genre.
Go buy something from Johnny Cash or Hank Williams Sr. if real country is your thing. Leave this album for those with a family tree resembling a telephone pole (you know who you are).
Nothing but a racist November 10, 2004
27 out of 40 found this review helpful
Has gotten worse over the years and has now sunk to a new low with this cd. Bush rantings, jesus rantings and anti-muslim thoughts are the new realities of Toby Keith. And it's racist pigs like him that have turned the South into mindless, gay bashing bush supporting idiots.
|
|
|
