Why is country music disliked here?

[DainBramaged]

I like country music because it usually relates to life. And I like the music.

 

[Loreena]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
I like country music because it usually relates to life. And I like the music.

QFT

QFT 2.0

 

[zoiks]

I friggin can't stand it.

 

[Turin39789]

But

I

like

 

[Aikouka]

Country music tends to be depressing or just not interesting. I don't listen to music to end up depressed... I prefer being uplifted by the beat, not drug down like someone's trying to cry on my shoulder.

But I would do so many naughty things to Shania Twain . I remember when I was younger and my mom had this magazine or something with a poster of her in it... but it was this low-cut dress and well... it showed off the goods and showed 'em well. I hung it up on the wall to see how long it would take for the parental control unit to take it down . I think it went about a week .

 

[dawp]

not sure if i'd call it country, but i do like Lucinda Williams

 

[Paladin3]

I met a guy on a redeye, he spotted my guitar and said "what do you do?"
I said, "I sing for a living, country music mixed with a little rock and a little blues."
He said, "I'm sorry, but I've never been crazy about that twang and trains and hillbilly thing. Whatever made you want to sing stuff like that?"
I just looked at him and laughed and said:

"Cause they're songs about me, and who I am!
Songs about lovin' and livin' and good hearted women, family and God!
Yeah, they're all just songs about me!"

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
When it's not full of name dropping and lauding the merits of getting fucked up in a beloved patriot tonk and screwing someone you don't know, it's praising the lord and lamenting the loss of the good ole days while slipping in not-so-subtle religio-political ideas about how things and people "ought to be". The hilariously hypocritical part of this is that EVERY contemporary country artist has a repertoire of MANY songs that fit both categories. I don't know how someone can listen a Gretchen Wilson CD with a song about being a good little christian girl on track 2 and "All Jacked Up" on track 10 and not suffer a terminal illogical feedback loop.

:roll:

Thank god for rock and rap where names are never dropped, religious and political themes and statements are never uttered nor explored, and not word is spoken about drug and alcohol (ab)use.

lol, slitherydee's post can't be serious, can it?

 

[Fingolfin269]

I pretty much despise country and live just outside of Nashville, TN.

With that being said, there is nothing more awesome than drinking beer in a bar where 'old' style country music is being played live. It's freaking awesome. It's right up there with drinking at an Irish bar and listening to well done live Irish music.

If any of you are ever in Nashville and want to experience what I'm talking about just shoot me a PM and I'll gladly tell you where to go.

 

[eits]

it's terrible. it's cliche and sappy and way cheesy and sometimes it gets too fascist ("patriotic").

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: irishScott
I have yet to meet a person who dislikes this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ZChA5U&feature=related

older than the internet...

 

[Lamont Burns]

This thread needs to die. Just seeing the words country music on my first page irritates me.

 

[TheInternet1980]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980
Dude I googled it, blue toucan. It matched the avatar.

PSA: Google image search is a reliable source of information.

Um.. I like your posts, the original toucan comment made me LOL.

But his avatar isn't supposed to be a Toucan, it's supposed to be a Macaw.

Are you blind? lol Remember, Toucans have long, colored, striped beaks. Not a typical parrot beak.

Macaw

Toucan

Goddammit. I've been deceived

http://images.google.com/image...1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

2nd row, 5th picture over. "Toco Toucan Ramphastos toco," Si?

I ignored all the other pictures that did not match the avatar. I wanted to believe

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: zinfamous
Hank Sr is great, but most of the modern stuff that is labeled as such is not country.

Music genres evolve.

into pre-packaged, tame, consumerist teeny-bopper Bullshit? I agree.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: IGBT
..bluegrass or country is fine w/me. anything but cRAP.

Bluegrass > country

of course, this is true.

Anyone been to Merle Fest? greatest musical festival in the history of mankind.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980

Originally posted by: Soundmanred

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980

Originally posted by: foghorn67

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980

Originally posted by: Preyhunter
Country music lyrics do not cover the broad spectrum of relevant social topics such as bussin' caps, cutting yourself, fuck the police, and bitches 'n hos.

Instead it covers, lost stuff, lost wives and pets, american flags, trucks, trailer parks, and rednecks. YAY STEREOTYPING.

you say American flags like it's a bad thing.

You say American flags like a jesus-loving badass, my country music loving toucan friend.

that's sig worthy right thar

It might be if it was actually a toucan...

Dude I googled it, blue toucan. It matched the avatar.

PSA: Google image search is a reliable source of information.

It's a blue and gold Macaw.

you fail at certain things.

 

[TheInternet1980]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980

Originally posted by: Soundmanred

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980

Originally posted by: foghorn67

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980

Originally posted by: Preyhunter
Country music lyrics do not cover the broad spectrum of relevant social topics such as bussin' caps, cutting yourself, fuck the police, and bitches 'n hos.

Instead it covers, lost stuff, lost wives and pets, american flags, trucks, trailer parks, and rednecks. YAY STEREOTYPING.

you say American flags like it's a bad thing.

You say American flags like a jesus-loving badass, my country music loving toucan friend.

that's sig worthy right thar

It might be if it was actually a toucan...

Dude I googled it, blue toucan. It matched the avatar.

PSA: Google image search is a reliable source of information.

It's a blue and gold Macaw.

you fail at certain things.

You fail @ using your mouse wheel to scroll up :laugh:

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: Miklebud
"...she thinks my tractor's sexy.
It really turns her oon."

:barf:

I'm subjected to country 8 hours a day from a coworker who doesnt know how to use headphones... Thank god for my iPod.

You are only saying that because you don't know how much a tractor really does turn a woman on.
Country boys know they get all the best women !

 

[CKent]

It's the only genre of music I positively cannot listen to. And I listen to some pretty far out stuff.

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: Lamont Burns
This thread needs to die. Just seeing the words country music on my first page irritates me.

Bumped just for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6wBxQVBozI

(Ok, maybe it was for me too. Shania Twain is hot. )

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: zinfamous
Hank Sr is great, but most of the modern stuff that is labeled as such is not country.

Music genres devolve.

Fixed.

 

[shocksyde]

country blows

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
I listen to a lot of country music. I would prefer to listen to rock, but most new rock nowadays is too angry for me. I like classic rock, but hate classic rock radio that plays the same 12 songs repeatedly. Pop music and rap are full of limitless suck and are out of the question. I'm religious, but most Christian rock/pop/whatever sucks. I like electronica/dance/jazz/blues/classical (orchestral), but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it. Hawaiian music is too happy. What's left?

Cake, They Might Be Giants

you get mad props for mentioning they might be giants in a country music thread.

 

[OCNewbie]

Country, like Rock, Pop, etc., I like most of it, but certainly not all of it.

I have encountered a significant number of people that claim to not like country, but don't really bother trying to hear what's out there either. The more country songs they hear, the more they say "well I do like that one song by xxx, and that other song by yyy", etc. So it's got a bad stigma too it which prevents people from being open to seeing if they really like it.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: Perknose
Alt Country (as opposed to crap commercial country) has so many fine, fine artists and a, well, a tradition going back to the '60's and that fruitful confluence of Texas, hippies, country music, and drugs . . . really, really good drugs!

It makes me sad that so few of you seem to know much about any of them, but, eh, your loss.

Anyway, here's two of the finest, Ray Wylie Hubbard and Jerry Jeff Walker with a bunch of their friends at Willie Nelson's second 4th of July picnic back in 1974 singing Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother.

Enjoy.

ROFL! I've been a Jerry Jeff fan for years and years. Also, irreverent sumbitch, David Allen Coe.

:lips: Same here, years and years and years.

For those of you who don't know Jerry Jeff Walker, he wrote Mr. Bojangles. In the vid he's playing with David Bromberg, another long-time fav of mine. You can hear his solo at about 3:45.

David Bromberg and his Big Band used to play the Chestnut Cabaret in Philly regularly in the early 80's, and that was always a fun time! Bromberg fans would come out of the hills from as much as two hours away. Ten buck cover, a big dance floor, come early and get a seat at a side table five feet from the stage. Then a g/f got a job there and I'd get in for free.

Don't let Bromberg's stiffness in that vid fool you, he was a ton of fun live with his Big Band.

Oh, Sharon!

Short attention span? Then go directly to the 7 minute mark and start with his disjointed rant! :laugh: