I am getting into country music

[ThePresence]

I think I need help.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
I think I need help.

I think you need help too.

Edit: And I even live in Texas

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: ThePresence
I think I need help.

I think you need help too.
Edit: And I even live in Texas

LOL

Friend left a cd in my car and I popped it in to just give it a listen. Here's the thing though, these songs are emotional and have meaning I can relate to. Not some millionare rich kid putting on a raspy voice and singing about how much his life sucks.

 

[Kadarin]

I am getting into country music

*shudder*

Yeah, you'll get into it for a while, but after a couple of weeks you'll realize it all sounds the same, and it's all too damned BLAND.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

What kind of country, like "pop" country, or bluegrass, or..?

 

[Platypus]

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: Yo_Ma-Ma
What kind of country, like "pop" country, or bluegrass, or..?

I don't know yet what qualifies as what, it's all new to me.
I'm listening to Brad Paisley now.

 

[gsaldivar]

My condolences. :thumbsdown:

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

I am getting into country music

*shudder*

Yeah, you'll get into it for a while, but after a couple of weeks you'll realize it all sounds the same, and it's all too damned BLAND.

stop posting. © CorporateRecreation 2005. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Country is awesome

It actually has meaning (mostly emotional) whereas rock is just artists ranting about life, how theirs is terrible, and how it is terrible as a whole.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: Yo_Ma-Ma
What kind of country, like "pop" country, or bluegrass, or..?

I don't know yet what qualifies as what, it's all new to me.
I'm listening to Brad Paisley now.

That's typically classified as "pop" country. That's also what you hear the most of on the radio.

Bluegrass country is the older style... I hate it.

 

[bootymac]

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

I am getting into country music

*shudder*

Yeah, you'll get into it for a while, but after a couple of weeks you'll realize it all sounds the same, and it's all too damned BLAND.

stop posting. © CorporateRecreation 2005. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Country is awesome

It actually has meaning (mostly emotional) whereas rock is just artists ranting about life, how theirs is terrible, and how it is terrible as a whole.

Bah...

<--- likes electronica, smooth jazz, rock (not this new crap they make nowadays, but real "rock"), '80s "new wave", gothic (Sisters of Mercy, Clan of Xymox, etc)...

but NOT country

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

I am getting into country music

*shudder*

Yeah, you'll get into it for a while, but after a couple of weeks you'll realize it all sounds the same, and it's all too damned BLAND.

stop posting. © CorporateRecreation 2005. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Country is awesome

It actually has meaning (mostly emotional) whereas rock is just artists ranting about life, how theirs is terrible, and how it is terrible as a whole.

Bah...

<--- likes electronica, smooth jazz, rock (not this new crap they make nowadays, but real "rock"), '80s "new wave", gothic (Sisters of Mercy, Clan of Xymox, etc)...

but NOT country

One of my brothers is the same way... I don't get it.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: Yo_Ma-Ma
What kind of country, like "pop" country, or bluegrass, or..?

I don't know yet what qualifies as what, it's all new to me.
I'm listening to Brad Paisley now.

That's typically classified as "pop" country. That's also what you hear the most of on the radio.

Bluegrass country is the older style... I hate it.

It is older, but it's also a different style. There is also older country similar to the popular country of today, just older. Bluegrass / fiddle tunes are more related to scots/irish type of music from those original areas.

 

[nageov3t]

country music is pretty good if you can ignore all the crap (99% of the songs you'd hear on a country radio station... Faith Hill, Shania Twain, Tim McGraw, whoever does that "Redneck Woman" song, etc...)

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Yo_Ma-Ma

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: Yo_Ma-Ma
What kind of country, like "pop" country, or bluegrass, or..?

I don't know yet what qualifies as what, it's all new to me.
I'm listening to Brad Paisley now.

That's typically classified as "pop" country. That's also what you hear the most of on the radio.

Bluegrass country is the older style... I hate it.

It is older, but it's also a different style. There is also older country similar to the popular country of today, just older. Bluegrass / fiddle tunes are more related to scots/irish type of music from those original areas.

You're right... I've just found that a lot of people that like older country also like bluegrass.

 

[KK]

Find yourself a station that plays some older country music. , 80's and older. Most of the stuff nowadays doesn't compare to the classics.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I hear a tune or two when I have the TV on fixing dinner or when I'm about to watch something else.

I actually found a few artists I liked enough to listen to on Napster since I'm paying for it anyway:

Alison Krauss (easy on the eyes too )
Tift Merritt ( " )
Gary Allan - Smoke Rings in the Dark cd

and I've been a Lyle Lovett and Cowboy Junkies fan for ages, but they're more mainstream.

I'd say overall at least 1% of my music listening is country

 

[darkswordsman17]

Are you kidding me? You think hardly any country music singer can relate to what they sing about?

Haha, like Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, or any of the others don't live in huge multi-million dollar houses...

I don't mind some country music (and lets face it, Faith Hill and Shania Twain help make up for some of it with just their looks), but most of it I utterly despise.

There's one in particular I think I wouldn't mind if I never heard anything from or about again, I think Toby Keith maybe? Its the guy who does/did the Ford truck commercials and tries to make it sound like he's being all patriotic when he's really just reinforcing the world's opinion that America is a bunch of illiterate overweight a-holes. Words can't express how much I dislike him.

 

[chrisms]

Some beach was a much better song and video when I thought he was saying "Sonbitch"

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
Are you kidding me? You think hardly any country music singer can relate to what they sing about?

Haha, like Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, or any of the others don't live in huge multi-million dollar houses...

And that really matters because... ?

Oh, and not all country fans like Tobey Keith either... he likes to stir everything up.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: chrisms
Some beach was a much better song and video when I thought he was saying "Sonbitch"

That's implied

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: ThePresence
I think I need help.

I think you need help too.
Edit: And I even live in Texas

LOL

Friend left a cd in my car and I popped it in to just give it a listen. Here's the thing though, these songs are emotional and have meaning I can relate to. Not some millionare rich kid putting on a raspy voice and singing about how much his life sucks.

I agree, C&W music is adult music concerned about adult issues It is not about adolescence angst. But I still do not like the nasal sound that is dominant in Country music.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
Are you kidding me? You think hardly any country music singer can relate to what they sing about?

Haha, like Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, or any of the others don't live in huge multi-million dollar houses...

And that really matters because... ?

Oh, and not all country fans like Tobey Keith either... he likes to stir everything up.

I was just pointing that out since the OP said that they weren't just rich kids whining about how their life sucks.

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
I think I need help.

yes...yes you do