News Article: 'Dixieland Delight' writer hears song at Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium for the first time

[TideEngineer08]

I don't disagree, but as much as I love that song it's probably a little too slow as a sing-along-song.

I love "Country Roads" but when West Virginia fans sing it it seems so morbid.

Yes it would be kind of like Country Roads is for West Virginia. I don't see it as morbid, but I get the opposition to such a song at a football game. Everyone is hyped up and then we slow it down for a sing a long.

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

Yes it would be kind of like Country Roads is for West Virginia. I don't see it as morbid, but I get the opposition to such a song at a football game. Everyone is hyped up and then we slow it down for a sing a long.

I think Sweet Home Alabama says enough.

 

[BamaMoon]

Yes it would be kind of like Country Roads is for West Virginia. I don't see it as morbid, but I get the opposition to such a song at a football game. Everyone is hyped up and then we slow it down for a sing a long.

"Morbid" isn't the right word. "Melancholy" would be better. But maybe I've watched too many WV games when they sing this song after a loss.

 

[TideEngineer08]

"Morbid" isn't the right word. "Melancholy" would be better. But maybe I've watched too many WV games when they sing this song after a loss.

Oh I would not sing the song after the game. Sing in the break between the 3rd and 4th quarters.

 

[Isaiah 63:1]

Oh I would not sing the song after the game. Sing in the break between the 3rd and 4th quarters.

The only appropriate tune to sing after a loss is the Doors’ “Alabama Song”…

 

[JessN]

I love Alabama's music, but I don't understand how a song about Tennessee has become such a big hit at Alabama games. Don't get the connection at all. Now, if it was "My Home's in Alabama" I could understand.

Yeah, on one hand if the band had been named "The Appalachian Country Boys Band" this song never would have gotten a sniff on gameday. And yes, it's about Tennessee -- not even the Tennessee Valley, or the Tennessee River, but a place outside of Nashville.

For those reasons I really hated when we started using the song, but it does get the crowd up and the second half of the song is uptempo.

I also noticed it gets the team up. Two years ago, I forget which game it was, but the song comes on and someone apparently taught Agiye Hall how to buck dance when he was a kid because he was doing a routine in front of the bench.

"My Home's In Alabama" would be more topical to us but if you want to talk about tempo issues, that song has it. It's one of my least favorite songs Alabama (the band) does.

 

[BigAlinKnoxville]

The only appropriate tune to sing after a loss is the Doors’ “Alabama Song”…

There's an amazing history behind that song:

 

[RammerJammer14]

@crimsonaudio probably has more on this, but surprisingly few artists write their own music. It’s an especially low percentage in pop, where one man none of us has ever heard of has written more hit songs than Michael Jackson and Madonna combined, and entire albums are written formulaicly by teams in Los Angeles over just a few days. This article talks about how that’s led to a sharp drop in the timbral diversity and harmonic complexity of popular music (i.e,. why so many of songs sound alike) as measured by algorithms.

So if you think the music of your 80s or 90s youth was better than today’s, you’re actually mathematically correct…

For example, this is why imo mainstream “Country” music is trash now. It is all computer generated formulaic crap. A few years ago I saw a side by side comparison of a popular “country” song and a pop song. IDK what the tool is called because I am ignorant but I will call it a “sound bar”, the thing that shows the music beat and vocals as a fluctuating line. Both songs had the exact same beat and vocal pattern, the only real differences between the two were the words and the “country” singer faking a twang.

 

[92tide]

There's an amazing history behind that song:

this version by david bowie would really get the stadium rocking

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

For example, this is why imo mainstream “Country” music is trash now. It is all computer generated formulaic crap. A few years ago I saw a side by side comparison of a popular “country” song and a pop song. IDK what the tool is called because I am ignorant but I will call it a “sound bar”, the thing that shows the music beat and vocals as a fluctuating line. Both songs had the exact same beat and vocal pattern, the only real differences between the two were the words and the “country” singer faking a twang.

To be fair groups like "Alabama" killed "Country Music" in the 80s because the "crossover" trend that they were a part of at the time. Artists like Eddie Rabbit, Crystal Gayle, Sylvia, Barbara Mandrell and Kenny Rogers started it along with them in the early 80s. I love Alabama's music and I've even been to a few of their concerts. Great times. But, it is what it is.

Dixieland Delight #notasongaboutAlabama