The Best Worst Album Ever

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Hardy's breakthrough sophomore album is hilariously awful
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Tracklist:
Intro 0:00
1. beer 3:38
2. red 6:27
3. wait in the truck 10:25
4. drink one for me 14:14
5. i in country 18:16
6. screen 22:01
7. happy 24:40
8. here lies country music 27:02
9. the mockingbird & THE CROW 31:14
10. SOLD OUT 34:45
11. JACK 36:57
12. TRUCK BED 38:32
13. .30-06 40:21
14. I AIN'T IN THE COUNTRY NO MORE 41:49
15. RADIO SONG 43:45
16. KILL SH!T TILL I DIE 45:36
17. THE REDNECK SONG 47:35
SPOILERS
Favorite Songs: wait in the truck; RADIO SONG
Least Favorite Song: .30-06
2/10

[@tuna5618]

Whoever said "imagine wagons" in chat during stream won the game to find the funniest band name.

[@nondescriptcat5620]

Shilly Nelson is also primo.

[@psychokitty444]

"Waylon Jeggings" was wildly savage.

[@blockycoolgold]

shoutout fitz

[@grbrt6318]

my favorite was "limp bisquick"

[@mariankula3540]

Fitz callback

[@leonsalgeuro]

33:28 I wrote "Imagine Wagons" in the chat and made everyone laugh, all of you are welcome.

[@marc-antoinepepin8908]

Well done!

[@chop4045]

You are a hero. I wish all Americans were like you.

[@trteeerryfse-wy2ww]

You sir made my D hard and I 💦 everywhere 🎉🎉🎉🎉 bravo! Everything is sticky now. Musky smell

[@The.church.of.scientology]

Icon

[@jimmyseit934]

thank you for your service

[@lati_3]

this ain’t no radio head 🤬🤬🤬🗣️🔥🔥

[@t_ed2521]

So, no (radio)head?

[@joshstrickland21]

Pablo Hardy

[@cringeybydefault4151]

She giving me radio till I head

[@honeycomblord9384]

I need some radio head

[@jojijoestar7233]

Let Down

[@elon2707]

I WOKE UP ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRUCK BED THIS MORNIN

[@uzi_the_drone]

What would happen if HARDY woke up on the right side of the truck bed?

[@jaydenaustin9993]

🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@xnopytt]

WELL THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULD STOP SLEEPING IN TRUCK BEDS, HARDY

[@187producedit]

damn she got sum nerve

[@Jackenough]

When she kicked me to the curb

[@zachstutzman4059]

The end of each song felt unfinished just because I didn't hear the transition to my local country station.

[@nzingahendricks4128]

“YOURE LISTENING TO 94.3, THE BULL 🐂”

[@SATOhara3173]

Hardy unironically sounds like that southern voice Filthy Frank used to use on some of the Pink Guy songs lmfao

[@ZHike360]

White is right

[@fordesponja]

This gives me hope of Mitski saying "I'm going to take you to the rice fields tonight" in an album

[@JustaNotherguy-pd7pw]

@@ZHike360what.... ?

[@ZHike360]

@@JustaNotherguy-pd7pw it's the name of the song

[@MattBryant2792]

and that voice was so preposterous Frank literally couldn't keep from laughing ON the finished track lmfao

[@shonkywonkydonkey]

HARDY's constant Walmart references are clearly an homage to Komar and Melamid's Most Unwanted Song

[@generalzar0ff]

Do all our shoppiiiiing… at WALMART! fancy seeing you here btw

[@cln5510]

[Casio keyboard preset beat] Do all your shopping .... At Walmart

[@jimmyl27]

Certified hood classic

[@Kalitayy]

The 'C' in The Crow is actually a 'T' in the cover art. So the album is actually called "the mockingbird & THE TROW"

[@yee8332]

Someone pranked him

[@sirspookybones1118]

GETTIN IN ME TROW TRUCK

[@DRACOCHIEF]

More like the TROUGH

[@nickstadler1906]

I wouldn't trust 'im as far as I could trow 'im.

[@alyssa6743]

they did mention that in the video

[@MightyAmygdala]

So I work at a local mom and pop restaurant. The only radio station we get is the local country station. I swear to GOD, I know the words to every Billboard top 100 charting country song. That being said, TRUCK BED has got to be the fucking WORST song they play on there. I am a recovering alcoholic and I get to listen to some industry plant talk about alcoholism like it's some sort of quirky character defect over some garbage instrumental that was made in less than 5 minutes. It's so awful.

[@Remedy462]

If it makes you feel better, after Hardy passes, no one will ever remember him or his music.

[@dr.pepperbiggestfan]

i hope your doing well in your recovery, wishing you all the best dear. and as another unwitting country radio listener, i am so sorry

[@BigSleepy985]

Brad was already in a shitty moody during this stream, this was the worst time to send in this album.(It was the best time)

[@sgm3488]

I like the part where he goes like "I woke up on the wrong side of the truck bed this morning" fifty times

[@xnopytt]

kids these days never go to walmart to buy dusty baseballs guys this is so sad😭😭😭😭

[@Angel-nc5nd]

Thank you for having me and Static, Brad!! This stream was, without a doubt, the most fun I’ve ever had showing someone an album. I’ve been following your journey since 2019 and with where you’re at right now, I think this is a new high for you creatively. I’ve never seen you have more fun listening to music and it shows in the videos you’ve been putting out. You’re truly a talented guy and I cannot thank you enough for having me on stream. Also wanted to say shoutout to the people who tuned in, y’all the fuckin goats and made that experience even better. P.S. In 2-3 business days, a defamation lawsuit will be issued for your heinous comments at the end. HARDY is at LEAST in my top 3 favorite artists.

[@Joshuwatttt-zb7di]

W

[@beastghostt]

I was at that WWE event in Philly. They were also playing the David Guetta "I'm Blue" remix during every break. The sound was fucked, half the mics were cutting out, including Hulk Hogan’s. They cut the women's cage match because a storyline sketch where Roman Reigns had a literal fucking boardroom table in the middle of the ring while self-glazing about "loyalty and bloodline" ran too long. What a show.

[@Purplepentapus_]

Modern country music isnt even country anymore, its just turned into pop and hip hop but with a guy singing in a fake sourhern accent (i firmly believe that none of them naturally sound like that). Its literally just pop music made by a southern person. Bo Burnham's country song is even more true now than it was almost a decade ago.

[@BiggestMuscles]

Yeah it sucks that everybody tries to sound southern. I think it sounds more unique if you use your normal accent and do country music, kind of like Conor Oberst does.

[@Psychedlia98]

After watching the ablum's billboard video, country had been going downhill since the 90s, Dixi chicks sounded good, but they got canceled for being against the Iraq war.

[@BiggestMuscles]

@@Psychedlia98 Yeah I couldn't really name any new country artists that I like

[@Purplepentapus_]

@@BiggestMuscles zac brown band used to be great, but then they took a really weird and bad turn 5 or 6 years ago

[@DoMorrMusic]

50% of small artists in the Deep South sound exactly like this guy.

[@PatrickHogan]

The issue with fantasies like Wait In the Truck is it means he’s sitting there imagining women getting abused just so he can save them

[@myleskinney7431]

when they all sang radio song i realized just badly the vocals on this album were mixed. Like they are sharing space with discord call audio and you can barely make out which one is the actual vocal

[@NIIIICO]

there ain't no I in country... but there's a Y-O-U ✒🔥🔥🔥

[@peytonalexander5300]

AND PEOPLE SAY WHITE BOYS DONT GOT BARS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong]

I actually really thought "Jack" was good. Like, divorce it from this album ant the context, a song framing alcohol through imagery classically associated with the devil is a great premise.

[@nicholastricarico2957]

​@@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlongThat's the thing. There was effort here. There was talent here. There were ideas here. The issue is, most of these ideas have been explored more thoroughly or better in so many other ways, in both country and rock.

[@xnopytt]

The Morgan Wallen feature sounded AI generated

[@littled5986]

Guys I don’t think this guy makes music to be broadcasted on the airwaves for mass consumption

[@SirLightsOut99]

I love the total lack of self-awareness of all the country singers in the past five years singing about how the genre is dead and how they specifically are the saviors of country music who will bring it back to its former glory, as if they’re not actively contributing to one of the three things that modern country singers sing about.

[@jessie6600]

But haven’t they literally brought it back? It’s becoming the most popular genre in America

[@SirLightsOut99]

@@jessie6600 yeah but becoming the most popular genre in America isn’t the hardest thing to do when the stuff you’re stacked up against isn’t much different from the stuff that you’re making.

[@gamingsquad2326]

@@jessie6600 yes but hardy saying it is dumb because he definitely isn’t a main reason why it’s so popular right now

[@jessie6600]

@@SirLightsOut99 nah it’s still really hard to do. Lemme give u a test. Does this Hardy album or a Morgan Wallen album sound like Midnights by Taylor Swift? No, I’d say. What about other popular albums like years like GUTS, SOS, or Utopia? No for the first two, I’d say, and Morgan’s albums does have some rap influence so u could say it has some elements like Utopia. But other than that, it’s straight country (or rock, in Hardy’s case). I think these guys are pioneering new country and country-rock sounds, respectively

[@jessie6600]

@@gamingsquad2326 I wouldn’t be so sure about that. He wrote a lot of Morgan Wallen’s songs, and Morgan had the #3 album in the world last year. Morgan is the king of country rn, and Hardy is his wingman artistically. Also, Hardy wrote a lot of the country hits for other people in the last few years like Gods Country. The big country guys not touched by Hardy are Luke Combs and Zac Bryan, but he has def forwarded the popularity of the genre

[@grandma_shark8793]

WE GETTIN GREAT DEALS AT WALMART WITH THIS ONE 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🔥🔥🔥

[@BigSleepy985]

Hardy’s music sounds like if someone who hates country music programmed a Pirates Of The Caribbean animatronic to play country music

[@jovidalmeida2801]

Every time people talk about "radio song" on the stream, i used to be happy and think "damn, they really like danny brown"..... i wish they were talking about danny brown

[@nzingahendricks4128]

I too thought we were re-appreciating Danny brown 🫠

[@aa-rav]

this truly aint no radio song 🦭🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@berkeleyisonline160]

part 1: The Mockingbird *On the first part of the album, Hardy stays in a more conventional rock-country sound.* part 2: the Crow *part 2 is without description.*

[@Bluejayboy94]

When the Walmarts hit the fan is you still a fan?

[@ItsCostnerAgain]

This album would've been insane back in the early 2000's when people were listening to dirtbag rock like Crossfade or Theory of a Deadman

[@limitless_valley]

SO SICK OF THE HOBOSSSSS ALWAYS BEGGIN FOR CHAAAAAAANGEEE

[@leftisbest7173]

And Puddle of Mudd

[@Guyvermectin]

You mean good rock bands?

[@uzi_the_drone]

And Buckcherry we can't forget Buckcherry (any other time besides bringing up this type of rock is when we can forget about Buckcherry lol)

[@davidnissim589]

Crossfade's actually good. Theory of a Deadman not so much lol

[@gew43]

johnny cashew 🥜

[@manboy4720]

johnny cash grab

[@gew43]

@@manboy4720 your not royal flush go on git

[@REALTurbkeySandwich]

Don’t go comparing him to Johnny Cash, that’s offensive.

[@user-cm8qp4qg9i]

i dont understand americans in country writing about their small towns and their country life because you go and look up the populations of the "towns" they grew up in and theyre all in the mid hundred thousands. sometimes even 1 millions. maybe i just have a skewed opinion of what rurality is like cus i live in one of the more population-sparse places in the world but its just funny to me that these guys are boasting about living in the middle of nowhere poaching and fishing to survive walking along dirt tracks (which somehow have TRUCKS on them?!?!!?!?!?) while also being born and living in large towns/small cities with like multiple supermarkets and malls and basically all the anemeties that you dont actually get in rural communities. meanwhile i know a guy who actually DID live like that for a few years and hed never boast about it like that

[@MednaTheFox]

Hardy looks like what an AI would generate when you tell it to make a picture of a Country Singer

[@nzingahendricks4128]

Including the misspelled title on the front 😂

[@kiethveseyofficial]

Of a country singer, teacher glasses, affliction shirt, caucasian in his 30s, 20-gallon cowboy hat.

[@lenathemaid]

This generation didnt need a new kid rock.

[@lenathemaid]

Why can't we have a new beck. He combined country well wit rap and rock and noise and everything else

[@lenathemaid]

We need someone like that

[@lenathemaid]

Why can't we have like someone do the kim dracula or mr bungle but with country music added? That'd be cool. Not this bs

[@nondescriptcat5620]

@@lenathemaid Geese is the band you're looking for.

[@maryfreegirl2029]

Where does beck incorporate noise into country i wanna listen!!

[@kmanscano]

Be honest Hardy Taste In Music, if this album was titled 'the to pimp & THE A BUTTLERFLY' you'd give it a 10/10...

[@TacoLogan08]

the sw & THE ANS

[@ImpendingRiot83]

🎵A baseball gettin’ dusty at a Walmart The Waltons’ money gave my career a jumpstart🎵

[@DoMorrMusic]

Someone in my club showed me RADIO SONG and I had to listen to the rest of the album. Worst decision of my life.

[@littled5986]

Radio song made me feel emotions I didn’t know existed before listening to it

[@theghost00]

Embrace your masochism. No shame in having a kink. 😉

[@manboy4720]

i hated it. i would listen again.

[@NeonBeeCat]

Florida-Georgia Nickel.

[@nyloluckycat]

Really enjoyed the voice call commentary fun format 🐙

[@neminem233]

I would love to see the first time you heard RADIO SONG and your reaction to it Also the Wal-Mart mentions make me sad, considering that it destroys small towns and rural areas WAIT I THINK I HEARD TRUCK BED BEFORE Dude the beat drop at KILL SH!T TILL I DIE made my jaw drop like I didn't know a drop could me that bad. And the ending part reminds me of...the dungeon dudes intro song? crazy that the sellout half is better than the not sellout half

[@autrystump]

I (I think) was the first one to send in RADIO SONG. I have the clips from the stream but I don't know how to download them.

[@neminem233]

@@autrystump do you have a link to the stream?

[@Gary_a_normal_human_being]

Im honestly conflicted if he’s self aware cause it’s so on the nose in every song (Also Truck Bed fucks hard, fight me)

[@biddleeewho4181]

"Ain't afraid to throw a dead buck on my Instagram" is my favorite line by far. This dude genuinely thinks its a flex to brag about posting dead animals on social media

[@abaddonthelordofavernus.4353]

maybe he's just a celtics fan that hates giannis?

[@ablackwelltp1]

I love that the concept of this album is literally: the first half sounds derivative and the second half sounds like ass

[@madduxlunde7007]

Radio Song scares me because this dude absolutely could transition into writing country songs. I mean the one of the dudes who cowrote “We are never ever getting back together” and a gazillion other pop songs started off making death metal. Morgan Wallen’s next album is about to have a familiar figure in the album credits…

[@t_ed2521]

Jack was on the soundtrack for WWE 2K23 and that just makes perfect sense

[@thrashb1n]

I WOKE UP IN A NEW TRUCK BED THIS MORNING

[@ST4T1C330]

ur welcome :)

[@aa-rav]

goated

[@intbaggy]

:)

[@slumox213]

I always really love the reactions with people from the discord. I laughed so incredibly hard during thjis. Legendary chat for this one

[@obsidiancrow450]

I mean people meme on country music for overplaying the tropes about trucks, dirt roads, beer, small towns, and camp fires but they arent exactly trying to fight these cliches off

[@TonyMichaels166]

I try so hard. Unfortunately I work at a place that blasts country 24/7. I’m physically repulsed by it.

[@yagnn]

the funniest part about radio song is that the joke chorus is easily the best sounding part of the album

[@DJANGO_excl]

“Wait in the truck” pretty much plays at my job everyday and it’s so funny.

[@daniellavaladez7820]

Late reply, but what’s your job?

[@day_pilot]

if this was called "the soundtrack & THE GLOW PT. 2 for the blind" you would've given in a 10/10 let's be real

[@ashleybrown4754]

Okay Fantano

[@manboy4720]

if this was called 'the mockingbird and the vulture', kanye west fans would give it a 10/10.

[@guardianexo2624]

Machine Gun Florida Line

[@Brandnewriot001]

What’s with Hardy and posting dead animals on his Instagram feed

[@betty5014]

He go's hunting. He is a country boy after all.

[@nicholastricarico2957]

Apparently he had one of those photos taken off of Instagram, and man, does he want you to KNOW the injustice.

[@AustinEEEE]

The transition song, the mocking bird and the crow has unfortunately been stuck in my head since this stream. Help me

[@eliarchive5562]

i love the presentation of Brad wearing a Death Cab For Cutie shirt reviewing a country album, peak music reviewing💯

[@maliceegg]

46:46 JEEP TOKEN LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO credit: Snarbs

[@ritavermilyea5848]

this cool guy country album having the lowercase apathetic indie girl lowercase titles is killing me

[@catpurrito5586]

thats cause the mockingbird first half are lowercase then the CROW last half are uppercase, going from softy to HARDY

[@khakisboy6641]

THIS AINT NO RADIO SOOONNG!!!!! 👿👿👿👿

[@turboshazed7370]

3/10 for me. Like the country to hard rock concept but he is one more goofy project away from being the Lil Dicky of those two genres.

[@leftisbest7173]

Exactly. Nailed it

[@dontinsultmyprevioushandle]

You’re not the Radio Song

[@johnsapp8810]

21:42 The reaction to my comment made the video❤ Also, that comment was kind of a parody of when you said, "I would be lying if I told you I hated this song." In other words, I was only half joking.

[@ringer1324]

I’m starting to think this isn’t a radio song

[@dr.pepperbiggestfan]

i cant stop watching this video, this is like my fifth rewatch. it’s just so funny

[@thatonedude9744]

Wait in the Truck SOUNDS amazing, the lyrics could’ve been compelling with one more pass through. Makes me wonder what Hardy could do if he went full Nick Cave and did an album of murder ballads

[@sammythewizard420]

​DON’T 🚫 BE 🅱 AFRAID 😳 TO 🤔 BE 🤫DIFFERENT 😉 Y’ALL 🤠

[@uzi_the_drone]

Why does the opening riff to .30-06 sound the exact same as the opening riff to Brain Stew by Green Day?

[@alexelliott5062]

Crucify me if you want, but that first track beer is so catchy to me 😭😭😭

[@DoctorTheo]

Will I be hearing this on the radio?

[@ethanglasgow7612]

Personally, I think “wait in the truck” is emblematic of what’s wrong with this whole album (at least in its lyrical content) It’s a message that many could relate to, but doesn’t add anything to the actual conversation around it. Hardy chose what is most listenable to people (punishing abusers = good), without actually discussing the morals/consequences of it. Just like the rest of the album, it appeals to real problems with absolutely no substance. It’s soulless to its core

[@CirceIsHere]

At my old place of employment, they'd play this type of country all the time and super loud too. I've heard Truck Bed (which I thought it was Morgan Wallen tbh) more times than I ever wanted to

[@janelle7778]

Thanks for making me scream laughing this morning Brad, Angel and Static! 😂😂😂

[@ST4T1C330]

Ur welcome :)

[@Tocinos]

10/10 would drink again

[@aurawraxd]

Motionless in Red, White, and Blue

[@miasweatman7340]

29:30 "I pray I don't leave this world before country music does" makes no sense? because he's complaining that country music is dead/dying. so surely he'd want to die *before* country music, so it lives on to future generations etc. why is he saying he wants country music to die before him if he's sad country music is dying

[@catpurrito5586]

cause he wanna saves it

[@birdbrain4445]

Bro the chat went fuckin hard here. 'Imagine Wagons' jfc

[@DoctorKenAbyss]

Zack bagans ghost adventures lookin ah cover

[@elith3331]

This aint no danny brown😭

[@CA_Gator]

Beer and Jack is like tpab i and u

[@limitless_valley]

i remember you was conflicted, misusing your alcohol, sometimes i did the same

[@farmanocotl1419]

The second half feels like he heard some of cane hills more tame songs like singing in the swamp and said wouldn't it be great if this sounded like a quarter of the effort was put in.

[@cremetangerine82]

I remember listening to this whole album after Anthony Fantano's review. I just couldn't take the product placement and faux "authentic" feel.

[@lRedPosion]

16:10 that little giggle while Brad looks like so dumbfounded hahah 😂

[@SaltyNoobShorts]

You should definitely react to the newest 36 song Morgan Wallen record next

[@TonyMichaels166]

I hear that shitty sunburnt Silverado song at least 5 times a day at work.

[@sillyman-skippy]

i love this channel bc i like seeing a man being paid to torture himself with the worst music ever, and he can't do anything about it

[@behelit1997]

I feel honored for participating in this livestream (I commented Atom Heart Walmart, etc. Some in the timestamps are in 46:16 until the end of the clip)

[@paruko39]

omg static!!!

[@ST4T1C330]

Hola :)

[@camusreviews6877]

You need a truck that’s built tough like you

[@mcgrill11]

Yooo this is hard!!! 🔥🔥🔥to listen to!!!

[@ImpendingRiot83]

Jesus, chat was on FIRE in this video with the jokes, the Johnny Cash and stuff like Moonshinedown had me rolling 🤣

[@emolga2007]

TBH, this album had potential, especially with the first half. It was charming in a way. It's easy to enjoy, it doesn't take a musical genius to enjoy them! Then I listened to the rest, and yea, I gotta agree with you. The album's not only bad story-wise, but super hypocritical. I mean the song after SOLD OUT (which is literally a song about country artists and how they're being nothing but beer and truck shills) is a song about Jack Daniel's. You know, THE THING HE MADE FUN OF IN THE SONG BEFORE THAT?!?! And the rest of the second half (except I AIN'T IN THE COUNTRY NO MORE) is awful. TL;DR: This album is musically OK - the songs in the first half are charming imo - but story-wise, it's not good. It had potential, but it got super contradictory super fast, especially in the second half.

[@skyleroliver7078]

I was actually in the crowd for when Hardy performed Sold Out at the Royal Rumble. I’d never experienced a stadium that was so devoid of emotion during that segment. That being said, I also think that it’s the best song on the 2nd half of this album. It’s definitely a guilty pleasure for me.

[@itsallenwow]

You know I hadn’t heard this before but had seen the fantano review. But that first track Beer I kinda messed with tbh

[@trisharb]

what about the rest of the tracks?

[@psychokitty444]

Dare you to change the vid description to "A baseball getting dusty at a Walmart"

[@mellowthecatyesverygood]

Oh boy i thought we had run out of bad music! Thank god brad is back to supply us with more. I was getting scared for a second.

[@javivan9952]

🍫 🌟 🐟

[@insecondss]

🍫 🌟 🐟

[@aa-rav]

🍫🌟🐟

[@pitydisease]

🍫🌟🐟

[@i_fuze_hostages6]

🐠 🌟 🍫

[@grandma_shark8793]

🍫 ⭐ 🐠

[@Jackenough]

Signed sober you off his EP where to find me is actually a good song. This guy could make good county music, it’s a shame he falls into all the modern country cliches.

[@nzingahendricks4128]

Like radio song, Truck bed is having its ‘closer’ experience, the frat boys will keep this song on the charts until the heat death of the sun

[@Josh-pc4sp]

i swear i saw this guy in a hibachi buffet in NC the other day

[@clivemaybe]

mr. brad please feed the hoards give us pink floyd animals

[@joshuawisner4177]

"He went to Jared" and "rednecker" still goe hard. Put them shits in the same playlists as "on a pontoon by little big town." Garbage, but scratches an itch.

[@youforget1000thingsaday]

This just made me wanna listen to Marty Robbins. Good lord this is BAD. Modern country is in the trenches.

[@BoneheadPlays]

When exactly did your wife hating you become a flex in country? I get how it can be quirky to a degree but at some point it just becomes: “my wife really hates me cuz I neglect her but I’m my own man so it’s okay.” Also think its funny he sells out harder in the second half than the first half with back to back walmart product placements