Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
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About
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs is an album recorded by Marty Robbins and released by Columbia Records in 1959. It has gained popularity due in part to the inclusion of the song Big Iron in the video game Fallout: New Vegas. The cover is frequently the subject of photoshopped album cover parodies.
Origin
In September 1959, Marty Robbins's album Gunfighter Ballads and Trails Songs was released in the United States.[1] Bruce Ider of All Music wrote that it is "The single most influential album of Western songs in post-World War II American music."[2]
The album was selected for induction into the US Library of Congress National Recording Registry in 2017.[3]
Spread
On October 19th, 2010, video game developer Bethesda published the video game Fallout: New Vegas, developed by Obsidian Entertainment. The game features the song “Big Iron” by Marty Robbins, which was the first track on Gunfighter Ballads On March 28th, 2011, the song was uploaded to YouTube, where it received more than 11.8 million views in eight years (shown below, left).
On October 30th, 2012, YouTuber Hiryuzz posted a music video for the song “Big Iron” that uses footage from the game. The post received more than 46,000 views in six years (shown below, right).
On August 29th, 2017, YouTuber Joseph Salvador posted an ear rape version of the song. The post received more than 11,000 views in one year (shown below).
In 2017, the cover for the album became the subject of a photoshop series. The earliest known version was posted on October 8th, 2017 by AminoApps[5] user A Dead Meme (shown below, left).
Over the next year, more versions of the meme was posted on sites such as 4chan, [4][6] Reddit [7] and more (examples below, center and right).
On Februay 14th, 2019, New York[8] magazine published an article about the memes based on the song.
Additionally, the article highlighted examples of the song used on TikTok (shown below).
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6644526905255005446
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6650949185484885254
Various Examples
![STEREO FIDELITY SCP MALLCOP BALLADS AND INTERCOM SONGS ROBERT [REDACTED] Big HID . Chaotic Water . Bully the Nerd A Hundred and 6 . We are having pizza tonight The NTF's call The Cure Man Running Gun El Dee In the Nuke Room Micspammer The Little Machine Room The Moving Statue . Sad Guy Locked Inside The Man with no Mic The Femur Breaker El Dee (successful escape Version)](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/442/729/237.jpg "Big [REDACTED] on his hip")
Search Interest
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
[2] All Music –
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
[3] Library of Congress – National Recording Registry Picks Are Over the Rainbow
[4] Desu Archive – mods are asleep post rare martys
[5] Amino Apps – I made a meme
[7] Reddit – /r/ExpandDong
[8] New York – How the 60-Year-Old Country Song ‘Big Iron’ Became an Enduring Meme
![big iron but every other beat is missing [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dloboO5bWCA/hqdefault.jpg "big iron but every other beat is missing [CC]")
Top Comments
El piso
Dec 21, 2018 at 11:52PM EST
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