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Country Music - Love it or Hate it?

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Can't stand country. Originally my wife disliked it also then she got a job serving at Lone Star many years ago. It brainwashed her and now that's all she listens to. Needless to say the radio is not on when we drive. Too many arguments.
 
There are a few songs I like but I don't listen to it too much in general. Don't dislike it per se, I just like other stuff more.
 
What is called country music is not. Try bluegrass if you really want to hear what country should be sounding like.

Or listen to the Oh Brother, where art thou? soundtrack.
 
A song or two. "Strawberry Wine" or something - for the ladies. Some of Toby Keith is ok by me, or newer stuff. He's funny.
 
Originally posted by: AMDZen
After all, Country and Rap are the only forms of popular music that you can really call "American". As both genre's were started here.
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What about blues and it's bastard child, rock and roll? Definitely american. And better than country. There's a few country tunes I can handle, but not many. Bluegrass, on the other hand, I like. Especially Iron Horse's bluegrass tribute to Metallica.
 
Originally posted by: MaxDepth
What is called country music is not. Try bluegrass if you really want to hear what country should be sounding like.

Or listen to the Oh Brother, where art thou? soundtrack.
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Quoted for truth. Uncle Tupelo, Jayhawks & early Wilco too.

I like Allison Krause (sp?), Nickel Creek, Mindy Smith and some others, but that isn't what passes for country these days. Shania Twain and everyone else on CMT can rot in hell along with Britney, Christina, and all that nu-metal, pseudo punk or "emo" MTV garbage. They're a disgrace to music.
 
What's with everybody always saying "old version of X type of music was great, this new crap sucks". I don't buy it at all. Maybe that's really how you feel, that sure would suck though. I'd hate to not be able to enjoy newer music coming out and be stuck with the same ol songs over and over. Lots of new stuff I don't like, but there's lots of stuff I do like too, in pretty much all genre's. I will say there hasn't been anything brand new in the rock scene that I've really enjoyed, not that I can think of right now anyway.
 
I like some country songs, only the ones that are "good". In my opinion a "good" country song needs to have a strong chorus.
 
I want to kill all the country music artists. I grew up in Nashville and had to listen to all the tourists ramble on and on about country.
 
New Country is crap. Give me old-school, like what they used to play on KFAT. (For you Bay Area types) And Johnny Cash, if you count Cash as Country. (Personally, I have him filed under "badass" myself)

The worst part about New Country -- aside from the uniary tune and "sound" -- is the overt prosthelytizing(sp?) in 75% of the songs. "Jesus saved me" here, "what a friend we have in Jesus there, "God" "God" everywhere. If it wanted hymns I'd tune to the God channel.
 
Originally posted by: OCNewbie
What's with everybody always saying "old version of X type of music was great, this new crap sucks". I don't buy it at all. Maybe that's really how you feel, that sure would suck though. I'd hate to not be able to enjoy newer music coming out and be stuck with the same ol songs over and over. Lots of new stuff I don't like, but there's lots of stuff I do like too, in pretty much all genre's. I will say there hasn't been anything brand new in the rock scene that I've really enjoyed, not that I can think of right now anyway.
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Actually, there is newer stuff out there and it is R&B and Bluegrass that is holding to the standard of what country music is supposed to be as a genre. "Proud to be an American" does not fit the genre standard. It fits the pop category. But as pop is driven by A&R out of California and NYC business models, country goes through A&R in Nashville and Charlotte, NC. It was easier, in the 80s and 90s, to break into music through country than it was pop. Pop industry had, and still has, age limits to singers/bands.

The reason I dislike country today is that any cliche automatically becomes someone song title ("Honkytonk U"). It used to be reserved for jokey, one hit comedy singers ("take this job and shove it"). And lastly, country was regional with local producers/labels. Dreamworks? Hardly.

Yes, all the hoopla, pyrotechniques is fun to watch at a concert. And yes, Martie Maguire did not wear underwear when the Dixie Chicks played in Raleigh a few years ago. But for all the flash and glamour, the music matters the most.

Dolly Parton, not Shania Twain.
 
Have to reitterate how much country music suxx, and how its undoubtedly the worst form of musical expression devised by Human Beings.
 
I like old country... This new stuff is crap, sounds more like pop... Garth Brooks, Clint Black, Johnny Gill, Randy Travis, Reeba, George Strait... Those were the good old days... I'm only 21 but I still remember...
 
I like it, but I listen to lots of other stuff too.

I dig, in no particular order:
John Michael Montgomery
Diamond Rio
Alabama
Alan Jackson
Garth Brooks
Brooks & Dunn
Blackhawk
Lonestar
Nickel Creek (more bluegrass, but some people put them in with country)

Really not a fan of a lot of newer stuff.
 
Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
I want to kill all the country music artists. I grew up in Nashville and had to listen to all the tourists ramble on and on about country.
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I've heard my share of this since I worked at Opryland, and working downtown, when they have Fan Fair every year.
Diamond Rio played at Opryland every day the year I worked there, but were called the Tennesee River Boys then.
 
It's ok, would rather listen to something else.

But one thing is indisputable:

Country Music has the hottest women in the entertainment industry. Hands down.

Heard a funny country song last night. It was called "Save a horse, ride a cowboy."
 
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