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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 5/17/2012 9:40:40 PM | | I've been woken up a few too many times at retarded o'clock in the morning by country music after being out til crazy o'clock drinking... Hangovers do NOT like country music. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 5/20/2012 11:04:03 PM | | I don't know. I cannot tolerate modern country. And yet, AND YET.. Patsy, Hank, Sons of the Pioneers, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys and a gazillion old folk tunes- all in my blood. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 5/21/2012 7:37:10 AM |
I've been woken up a few too many times at retarded o'clock in the morning by country music after being out til crazy o'clock drinking... Hangovers do NOT like country music.
I think hangovers don't like loud noises, period lol. That being said, I'm the opposite, I prefer to listen to country when hungover. 'That Lonesome Song' by Jamey Johnson is the best song to listen to when you're hungover, imo. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 5/26/2012 8:36:30 PM | I don't think saying "why does everyone seem to not like country music", when obviously, millions do, judging from concert ticket and album sales.
I don't, particularly care for it at all. A lot of the so-called "new country" borrows heavily from rock, in my opinion. At least I can tolerate it somewhat. The older dirge, from the likes of Porter Wagoner, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette and Johnny Cash is intolerable to me. However, most of them can carry a tune, except Cash who can't even string two notes together. He sure as hell can't sing. Roy Orbison, I always thought was a very talented. Early rock artists owed a lot to his influence. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 5/28/2012 6:43:57 PM | I don't think people understand the concept of country music anymore, even country musicians. Brad Paisley and Vince Gill are a couple of the dying breed that is quality country music. Guys like them understand the concept of the genre and that the music is more then just the lyrics, it's the performance aspect. I mean, you look at some of the greats in country music over the last 40 years, they take a crap all over the likes of Garth Brooks and all those 3 chord strumming hacks that call themselves country artists. Those types of artists can't play worth a damn, and their songs are lousy. It's just like anything mainstream that calls itself rock anymore like Nickelback, it's just boring unoriginal garbage that has the same sound over and over again. At least The Foo Fighters keep it original with their music for the most part. I guess that's what happens when the music business is a business first and an art second.
Maybe I am a bit biased because I am a guitar player, but that's the only way to really listen to country music. Brad Paisley and Vince Gill just rip it up on the guitar, and there are other guys who play a variety of genres that really kick it in the country style guitar playing as well. Albert Lee for one, is considered one of the forefathers of 'chicken pickin' as it's called, is basically the use of fingers or finger picks on your picking hand and played on an electric guitar for the most part. Eric Johnson does some great country tunes, coincidentally one called A Tribute to Jerry Reed, who in his own right was a phenomenal country guitar player. Jerry Reed was just in a league of his own for a time really during the late 50's and early 60's until all these big loud rock guitar players started showing up. Andy Timmons of course with his finger destroying Headed Into the Ditch and I know there are plenty of others that I have forgotten. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 5/29/2012 8:15:10 PM | I respect the talents of any good musician, but try as I might, I cannot get into country music, especially not "country pop" (but I also dislike regular "pop").
I do like bluegrass, and I love the blues. I enjoy Southern rock and have been an Allman Brothers Band fan going back to "Eat a Peach"...
but I just don't like country. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 5/30/2012 10:19:06 AM | | I'm actually playing in a Hank Williams the 3rd tribute band next month. I don't mind that sort of country music because it's raw and sounds almost like the blues music you would hear people like RL Burnside play. I'm not really into the pop-country stuff either because I just can't really relate to people singing about their trucks and going to rodeos. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 5/31/2012 11:36:03 PM | Having spent most of my life in South Carolina but having also spent some months in California and Rhode Island, there are things I like about Southern culture and as a quasi-libertarian there are some things I like about Southern politics.
But there are two basic reasons. First, as someone with a mild accent, I can’t stand the exaggerated twang. Second, I can’t stand the naivety of the culture—naive religiosity, and naive ‘patriotism.’
I’ll give an example. And I know it’s a touchy one, but I’m not trying to inflame anyone or start an argument. One of the single most popular country songs in some time? The main reframe is, “Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?”
Now, I’m not attacking the author’s intent. I get where it’s coming from. I realize it’s trying to be noble and heartfelt and not dismissive or narrowminded or what have you. But the simple facts of the matter are that: (1) our government has inflicted far more violence on the rest of the world than we have ever received in turn, including our helping more than half a million innocent Iraqi children starve to death through sanctions on that country throughout the 90’s and even Bill Clinton, of all people, bombing a major Afghan medical plant; (2) the 9/11 attackers were directly motivated by a desire to retaliate against us for the violence we have inflicted on the Middle East (I will provide quotes from all their martyrdom videos if anyone doubts this and I can defend this point in detail with all sorts of references), and (3) more innocent Afghans died during any three or four month period of our occupation of that country than died on 9/11, and the statistics for Iraq are even worse. And you won’t find a single writer anywhere in the country field batting an eye. In light of all that, while I once again understand the sentiment, to say that the “world stopped turning” when just a small fraction of the violence we have inflicted on the world came back to us strikes me as ... I’m not sure exactly what the appropriate word is, but if you understand me so far I think you get the point. And in greater or lesser ways, that sort of mentality seems rather pervasive all throughout country. Let me repeat that as a libertarian–leaning individual, I have a great deal in common with conservatives; it’s not that I’m opposed to conservatism per se. Indeed, I’d even suggest Bill Kauffman’s book, “Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle–American Anti-Imperialism” to defend the claim that conservatism has a much stronger historical claim to true principled antiwar sentiment than does liberalism.
And it has nothing to do with the general style of country, either. I absolutely love the Civil Wars (especially Barton Hollow, 20/20, and Falling), and if anyone has any suggestions for similar artists I’d be quite grateful. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 6/2/2012 10:11:25 AM | | I love the sound of the guitar. Doesn't matter what genre it is, I just love that sound. There are some country songs I love where I fell in love with the guitar, yet I'm not the biggest country fan. I'm definitely a rock gal! | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 6/2/2012 7:58:37 PM | | I don't know. I like it. I don't know much about country music, but I blast it in my car on most occasions. It seems like I'm the only Latino that loves country music, though. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 7/18/2012 10:05:18 PM | I don't like much new country for the simple fact is sounds like The Eagles to me... with a fiddle. They have some guys like Hank III that do traditional style music (although NOT lyricly) that I like though. I still listen to Johnny Horton, Hank Sr, Patsy Cline, Merle Travis, that kind of stuff, Hank Snow, ect... that to me is real country.
I mostly listen to death metal and bluegrass, but to my ears, music is music. I can listen to say Slayer, then have Bill Monroe or Miles Davis on right after. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 7/19/2012 4:08:40 AM | | Country music can be passionate and emotive. I believe that more care is taken by songwriters in expressing themselves, pouring their hearts out if you like. The music has made me laugh and cry over the years. There are some great musicians who unfortunately do not come to Australia enough. I was one of those who paid little attention to Country, but travelling all over the State with my wife, who plays nothing else, got me interested. And me a lover of the classics. Ah well to each his/her own. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 7/19/2012 9:08:07 AM | I think almost everyone DOES love country music, but they aren't aware of where songs came from, so when they hear The First Time Ever I saw your Face" , for example , by Roberta Flack, they don't know that was really a bluegrass tune. But, is bluegrass country? Or is bluegrass bluegrass?
See, there is so much cross-pollination in music, it's pretty much impossible to make those distinctions any more.
I mean, when Yo-Yo Ma plays country, is it still country?
I say, just enjoy what you like, and stop trying to hang labels on stuff, because it only drives you crazy.
My view is that a lot of "country music" that I hear on the radio is real crapola, "product" if you will, for an industry that needs to sell stuff to survive. But, in a live setting, with a good band, country music is on fire, just like all other live music. That's the way to enjoy music - live. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 7/20/2012 10:23:59 PM | "If the South Would Have Won" by Hank Willliams, Jr. exemplifies the:
Racist
Whining
Ignorant
Backwards
Redneck
Hard drinking
Stupid
repulsive and offensive credo of country music that I cannot stand. It makes my skin crawl. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 7/21/2012 1:21:38 AM | ^^^^^^
Agreed, but what about the other 49,999 songs? Are you going to toss those out too?
Accuradio.com has a TON of music, all genres. As for "country", they show 25 different channels.
There's a whole heap 'o good music there, and some crap also. You can skip the crap, even skip any artist you don't like. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 7/23/2012 11:49:17 AM | I hate the crap on country radio. It's basically bad soft rock.
Jamey Johnson is the only guy on the radio that is putting out good country music.
I also love Hank III.
Mississippi Mud is probably one of the best country tracks of the last decade. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 7/26/2012 10:22:18 PM | L luv country music, that is anything before garth brooks and billy rae cyrus, the older the better, johnny chester, johnny cash, willie nelson, waylon jennings, Nash, charlie pride, ...and thats just some of the guys , let alone naming the galls, like parton, lynne, etc etc...the further yall go back in time the better. also i like bluegrass music. its a matter of what your folks played on the the old stereo when you where growing up I believe.
A mullet is a fish and also an country music destroying monster. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 8/2/2012 5:06:15 PM | Most country artists of the last, oh, fifteen years(?) have seemed more like pop/rock stars that just happen to have a southern drawl. It was happening before that, with artists that were genuinely genre-breaking, as well as folks who just weren't getting it quite right. Now some of them still turn out fine music (that I wouldn't necessarily call country) but most of them just churn out kitschy radio fodder, from what I hear.
I too am of the mind that Brad Paisley is one of the few country artists of this era that's actually still making country music from scratch (but even he sidesteps into some poppy stuff from time to time) and putting it out there unadulterated.
So, yes, I think a lot of people's negative opinion comes from country music on the radio, which for at least as long as I've been alive has probably been largely the poppier, formulaic ilk. And I can see how that would leave a sour taste in the mouth of even an open-minded skeptic. I'm just now getting into bands from the 90s, acts I'd written off because what I heard on the radio either just got overplayed or wasn't impressive enough for me to check out the rest of their stuff. Happens in any genre. | |
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| Why does everyone seem to not like country music?
Posted: 8/2/2012 8:18:44 PM | | I like Patsy Cline, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Hank Williams, Bonnie Rait (don't really think she is country), and some others of the old genre who can sing and play music. Not much on the current stuff. Willy Nelson is okay. | |
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