| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 12/6/2006 4:01:44 PM |
But its the same as people saying they don't like hip hop or rap, or heavy metal. They might not have just found the type of "that" music that they like.
I strongly agree.
If, for example, one finds a song with certain lyrics or a certain story or expression; it might make us appreciate the kind of music that goes along with it.
Re: rap...
Rap was actually going on a long time ago. If you listen to Mac Rebbenack's (Dr.John's) records, you'll hear quite afew raps... albeit not with the same theme, but it's the same basic style in many ways...
How about talking blues? ... or middle eight bridges with spoken lyrics like "Little Darlin'"? or "baby let me take you home"? or the talking part in Irma Thomas' great "Time is on my side" or "Cry Baby", by Garnet Mims? | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 12/10/2006 9:06:50 AM | | There isn't one...theres alot of great country music out there, just as there is alot of bad country music..mostly the newbies....Seems alot of people are getting hooked on Johnny Cash lately, yeah hes cool ,wore black, had an FU attitude.....guess hes closer to the Rock n Roll thing so people dig it, but....he was a country singer. I listen to country constantly, along with everything else.... | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 12/15/2006 11:14:56 AM | Well my last country gig. a few weeks ago netted me 5670.98 us I LOVE COUNTRY. this was a three night gig... anything to keep me from working a day job 9 what a nightmare that would be. all I do is play music and I honestly cant understand musician's who would rather do a day gig than play what is mainstream and what the public wants. Someone here said "the problem with country music is the same problem with rock music...the industry..." Im sure he should not quit his day job. Rofl
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 12/16/2006 10:12:55 AM | Some of us musicians work day jobs that we like so that we can make music that we love.
I'd like also to comment about "what the public wants". That's a tricky notion. I think what people want as far as music is generally shaped by the options presented to them. Traditionally, that is done by radio. And we all know that what is on the radio is not determined by the outcry of the public. Present fashion is dictated by the people who make and sell things.
Thanks to the affordability of exceptional digital sound quality and the wonderful internet, guys like me can produce our own music and market it on the web. We can then go out play the kind of gigs we want to support it.
I'm a graphic designer/artist by day and the "industry" determines what kind of art I create. That's what happens when you work for somebody. That's a deal with the devil I made so that I could make a living as a designer. I chose not to make that deal when it comes to my music, so, I work a day job. And for now that's okay. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 12/16/2006 12:34:02 PM | The problem with country music is that it typically slathers meaningless sentiment onto cliché tales of woe, to give the singer an excuse to twang mournfully, and rhyme with truck, love or door. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 12/16/2006 2:07:27 PM | | I can tolerate country music, but if I have the option, I would prefer to listen to almost anything else. This is the main reason I don't listen to the radio. Nashville has around 4,000 country radio stations. That's probably just a rough estimate. Also, the obligatory cowboy hats get on my nerves. They aren't cowboys. They don't ride horses to work. And they don't have shoot-outs at sundown. Take off the hats, you fraudulent ninnies. It's just as bad as the prerequisite baggy gangsta clothes or the black metal corpse paint and studded leather. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 12/18/2006 4:01:09 AM | | Some of it I can't listen to anymore after a bad breakup (yesterday) with an old-flame I'd tried to reconcile. He listens to classic country and some of it on the radio was very sad and depressing. I can't listen to those anymore now. It used to not ever effect me, but that was very hard yesterday. I can't really listen to it anymore, because it makes me think of him... | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 12/22/2006 10:18:49 AM | | here in NH its not odd to hear country singers/songs on the non-country stations. And you hear people say "Oh, I like this song" and dont realize its considered country. But I listen to it now, when a few years ago I was saying I hated country music as well. People are just associating Country to hillbillies, chewing straw and driving old Ford pickups with a rebel flag in the rear window. Give it a fair chance and alot of people will be converted. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 1/30/2007 7:22:13 AM | The problem is that some where back in the 90's, it became the new Disco.Didn't need to be good as long as you could line dance to it. Now add in all the sappy P-whipped popstar wanna be crooners,and the 90's almost killed country music!
The first time I heard Gretchen Wilson, I hit my knees and thanked God! I realised the country music was gonna be saved by a Jacked Up, Red Neck Woman who ws Here For The Party. No matter how Politically Un-Correct she had to be to do it!
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 1/31/2007 10:00:19 PM | | im from the uk and i dont mind country its very funny at times rather that than Tool that stuff will turn you into a psycho if ya aint already one | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/1/2007 10:55:45 AM | I hated country when I was a kid. Why? "Cuz it was country, dude - no one listens to that stuff in LA."
Now that I'm a little older, I like much of the genre. The lyrics tend to be more real world than the ****cat Dolls' or Black Eyed Peas. The more rock sounding songs are straight out of Southern Rock (a genre which included the Eagles, among other 'classic' bands).
Having said that, Faith et al are not country. They are pop. Not bad pop, by any means, but pop. If you want to hear an excellent album, listen to Mark Knopfler (from Dire Straits) & Emmylou Harris' All the Road Running. Part traditional country, part modern rock and pop.
And to the person who asked about Little Big Town, I recommend listening to the entire record before you buy it. Half the songs are uptempo, and the other half are very quiet ballads. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/1/2007 12:36:15 PM | Yup, ......this thread is just a "my pop is better than your pop" (all puns intended)
ALL pop, ............is a celebration of the mediocre.
......................people.........Late
Absolutely agree Palabra! What's with those hats?
OP, when you ask a question starting ith "What's wrong with?" you'll get answers telling you what's wrong. Try asking what people like about country music if you want people who don't like it to avoid the thread like the plague
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Posted: 2/1/2007 12:58:51 PM | I'm a huge country music fan....I have found that over the years it's become more "popish" *grrrrr* I'm a HUGE johnny cash fan.....I enjoy the older country
Not saying I dont enjoy alot of the new artist's because I do...I just miss the old days | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/4/2007 2:13:09 PM |  Absolutely nothing..... wrong with Country music.... just some peoples perception of it !!!!
I used to be a presenter for my local Hospital Radio. I had a one hour country music show every week...
I'll never forget the day the studio manager sat in with me.... (he was big on rock and wasn't really looking forward to it.) It was the most extraordinary experience.... as I played each track, he'd say.......... "Oh, that was good".... and, "but that's not country!"......
by the end of the show he was converted.... he enjoyed all the music I'd played and of course as he'd only been exposed to the stuff they play on easy listening radio.... he had no idea of the amazing country music that's out there......
It's interesting too, that when I went out amongst the patients for the request show.... I'd say that 80% was for country music or balads.  | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/5/2007 2:46:25 PM | I am a music fan and that includes country. Now the issue I have with country music is that "most" of the big names in country nowadays do not write there own music and or play any instuments. Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Garth Brooks (for the most part) to name a few are some of the most popular names in country and the don't write or play. Now the old guys like Merle Haggard, George Jones, The Hanks are of a more "talented" bread but weren't as commercialized as the musicians now adays because they were/are less like their "popular" music counterparts. Like them or not, the Dixie Chicks are more talented than most of the country artists out there. They write their own music and play several instruments. I'm not a big fan of the Chicks but you have to give credit where credit is due.
On the other hand ...... There is nothing wrong with a simple jingle, a catchy tune and a song performed by someone else other than the person who wrote it if it makes you role down the windows, turn up the music and shout at the top of your lungs.......Gittr Done.
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/6/2007 3:57:15 PM | I have never liked country music, it feels boring. I have never liked Japanese music either. I don't care much for jazz either.
There is no "problem with country music", I just don't care for it. Not my cup of tea.
It all boils down to personal tastes doesn't it? I fell in love with soul when I was a small child. This progressed into rock when I was a teenager. I grew up on early rock and roll, big band and classical. That's all my parents listened to. My tastes grew from there.
However, if James Gang is considered country, colour me in. Same as Eagles, Molly Hatchett, CSNY. About as country as I get....
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/8/2007 9:22:20 AM | | I am a major listener of country music, I was raised on it and I still love it today. However the problem with country music today is that they only play the top 40 crap on the radios. I mean c'mon does Shania even sing country music, NO, does Rascal Flats NO, Keith Urban HELL NO. People if you want true country music and not all of it is cryin in my beer stuff, you have to listen to outlaw country. If you have SIRIUS it's channel 63. So all you non-country listeners give it a try,I think you'd be surprised. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/9/2007 1:33:58 PM | | I just dont like the way it sounds...it bugs me...makes me wanna rip my hair out if I have to sit there and listen to it for a long period of time(which I did have to at work sometimes, ugh...one of the worst things about living in Kentucky. lol). So does rap. If other people like it though, I have no problem with that. I don't care. Just as long as I'm not forced to listen to it. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/9/2007 1:44:36 PM | I'm not big on it, in the sense it all starts to sound the same to me.....eventually.
But talk about GREAT session musicians....and your talking about almost all good country songs/albums. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/9/2007 7:24:24 PM | I think the reason I don't like it is the simplicity of it. I find harder rock, jazz, classical and other genres tend to be more complex in their natures and it appeals to me more.
I was raised around country music and bluegrass. I've had exposure....its just the way I feel. | |
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Posted: 2/10/2007 11:50:57 AM | I have heard the same thing, and used to say that myself. I was saying that I don't like country because in my mind it was all loretta lynn and other whiney, slow, boring, 'my dog ran away with the neighbors wife' stuff. I like good country now. Not formulaic like shania twain/garth brooks, but Alan Jackson /Shedaisy style.
Jenni
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/12/2007 10:34:47 AM | It's all about the money, not talent.
Any Good music should evoke emotion or stir a memory or at least tell a great story.
Country Examples:
Garth Brooks - Lonesome Dove or That Summer
Randy Travis - The Box
George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today
Confederate Railroad - A Bible And A Bus Ticket Home or Daddy Never Was The Cadillac Kind
Jimmy Dean - IOU
Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down
Ray Price - For The Good Times
Willie Nelson & Ray Charles - Seven Spanish Angels
Music doesn't even have to have words to tell a good story or evoke emotion. One thing I am pretty sure we are all in agreement on is:
BILLY RAY CYRUS IS NOT COUNTRY MUSIC...NOW GO SHAVE THAT G.D. MULLET TRAILER BOY! | |
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