| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 1/16/2009 12:48:54 PM | I think what many people - including myself- find unappealing about country music is that today, it just seems so 'cookie cutter', for lack of a better term. Shania Twain is the perfect example: her producer was Mutt Lange (Def Leppard, AC/DC) . Her stuff is 'cut and pasted' together and sounds more like pop music. What's country about that? It also seems that country has fallen into the same pretentious groove that pop and rock are in: talent is not necessary - it's all about how beautiful you are! And why try to gain a following? Just sign up for the next Nashville Star on t.v.! Yuck! That's why country music is littered with 'artists' like Whitney Duncan. 
Give me Johnny Cash any day. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 1/16/2009 1:00:46 PM | Country music encourges Inbreeding. Also, Rap and Country are tied for the #1 spot for the most sexual influence. Look it up! I hope it gets banned soon. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 1/16/2009 4:55:08 PM | | I work for a country format station. I personally think its "ok" but its not my first choice of music. I get so tired of hearing all the whiney love songs, along with the " she left and took my dog with her" type songs. Now days, I can't really tell the singers apart. Most have the same style along with the same sounding voice.... | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 1/16/2009 5:53:24 PM | | Yeah rock n roll was influenced by Country and Blues. The only difference is Rock N Roll hasn't changed. Country isnt country anymore. The voices havent changed so much, it's the lyrics and the instruments. Could you hear Johnny Cash singing anything from cowboy troy? Could you see Hank Williams dancing around like a rapper? Thats why I cannot stand to hear country music anymore. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 1/17/2009 7:16:09 AM | AmericanMade, I agree with you totally. Johnny probably would have shot Troy and his "Save A Horse Ride A Cowboy" side kick freaks.   | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 1/19/2009 8:12:22 PM | Truthfully the only thing I have against country music is just the sound. If I didn't have to hear it, it wouldn't be that bad...............so yeah, just to sum this up..............................the sound of it. Not so much, the look of it because I really like Faith Hill, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, etc. Yep, it's the sound...definitely.
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 1/21/2009 10:11:55 AM | | I hate Nashville pop, it is not real country. For the real stuff you have to look for it. There are many good real country artists playing in honky tonks and punk clubs all over the place. My local college radio station has a couple of shows where I hear the good stuff. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/10/2009 2:33:49 PM | There is only one country musician...Johnny Cash. Other than that? They are all pop-star wannabees. I absolutely hate country music as it sounds all the damn same....and I also agree with the poster about Shania...her music is pure pop all she did was throw on some boots!!
You couldn't pay me to attend Merrit....no way no how! | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/11/2009 8:47:56 AM | | Statements like the one above my post irk me like nothing else. Sisterevil you obviously don't know anything about country music except for a few of the bigger names so you pull them out whenever confronted by the question of country so you feel like you can have something to add. I cannot believe the audacity some people have call an entire genre of music shit. If you look beyond the surface (radio) then you'll find that below your comfort zone there is an entire other world of music. Some of the best country music has come out in the past ten years, bands like Elliott BROOD, Those Poor **stards, Pinebox Serenade, Corb Lund & the Hurtin' Albertans, O'Death, Luther Wright & the Wrongs, Drive-By Truckers, Two Cow Garage, Nickel Creek. Those are some great bands right there. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/11/2009 12:32:18 PM | Country music is what i grew up on and I love it! The wonderful thing about it, they are just stories told to a tune. I listen to a wide vaiety of music, too. But I will always be a country girl! Yes, there are some ridiculous songs out there, but every genre has one that just makes you ask "WHAT?". But the one thing I love about country, is the references to our Lord  These so called "rednecks" put their love for their country and religion into their music. At least they arent singing about *itches and hoes and degrading women. Listen to some Tim McGraw and you will see just how much love is in country music.  | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/11/2009 1:46:25 PM |
i dont think country influences anything...
Influences, maybe not. Influenced? Try helped create rock.
Just ask Chuck Berry about Ida Red.
But today people like Mutt Lange and his cut n paste as someone called it ruin not just country music but any music subjected to his overproduced dreck | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/12/2009 10:10:22 PM | I remember going into the army in the early 90s, hearing ones of the other soldiers tape of "Garth Brooks", and thinking that it marked the end of the country music I knew. It sounded exactly like pop music with a southern accent.
I still get into the mood for some of the old stuff once in a while -- I was even reminescing to some Dolly Parton and Jerry Reed songs on BoobTube (Freudian slip?) earlier today. Some of the other posters are mentioning good live country out there, and I'm think it's time to do a local live music search.
I know the stuff on the radio being passed off as country holds zero appeal to me. Something about that stuff makes me want to post in all capital letters. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/12/2009 11:41:18 PM | Throw a banjo, a fiddle, and a thick sawthurn accent into some pop rock...and call it country??? I don't think so. Gimmie some good ole bluegrass any day....
...any good country instrumental music????? | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/13/2009 11:24:48 AM | | Country as far as big radio goes died after the early 80's new traditional movement that brought at least for a little while something like the old honky tonk style. Which was killed by the afore mentioned evil Garth Brooks and the I'm going bald gimme a hat gang. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 2/13/2009 12:13:52 PM | | I'm not a big country fan but do like guys like Kenney Chesney and the older stuff like Waylon Jennings. I recently watched an episode of Manswers and found out that listening to country has the highest suicidal rate, not rock or rap. Country is OK but not my first choice. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 3/7/2009 5:13:21 PM | Since I've recently fallen in love with country music I find this thread interesting. I've always been into rock, but more mellow rock like Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffet, Doobie Brothers etc. Also I'm a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, rocker/story teller extraordinaire.
With that background I guess you can see why I love contemporary country music by artists like Billy Currington, Dierks Bentley, Rascal Flatts etc. I think the "she keyed my truck and took my dog" or the "save a horse, ride a cowboy" songs equate to pop or bubble gum rock songs which I don't like and don't listen to, so I don't listen to that sort of country music either.
So ... to answer the question posed in the title ... nothing in my book!  | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 3/8/2009 2:26:44 PM | | Probably because it isn't country any more, its a bunch of bums who wish they were rock stars, so they throw a steel guitar and a fiddle in it and try to sing with a southern draw and call it country. There are very few artists/acts that sound country any more. | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 3/9/2009 3:21:56 PM | Oh, where to begin? Okay, it's mostly a personal problem. The very sound of country triggers PTSD in me; I get flashbacks of my redneck upbringing, and that is just not a good thing, lol. Otherwise, it just sounds whiny and generic; like mainstream pop in its own annoying way.
Give me rock any day. That being said, I DO enjoy Southern Rock, in the vein of Lynrd Skynrd, The Eagles and CCR. And to a lesser degree the *really* old-school cowboy/folk music like Sons of the Pioneers and Burl Ives. No, I'm not terribly old, but my dad is!
Still, if I was stranded on a desert island with nothing but Garth Brooks and Faith Hill on my iPod, I'd drown myself asap. Give me David Bowie and Queen any day. I'd live on coconut and salt water for a good thirty years! | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 3/10/2009 7:59:27 AM | | Hey George Strait still does his thing.... along with Reba ( although I havent heard from them in a year or 2, hope they havent died off) | |
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| WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH COUNTRY MUSIC?
Posted: 3/10/2009 11:47:32 AM |
I'm not a big country fan but do like guys like Kenney Chesney and the older stuff like Waylon Jennings.
OMG! Two names I never thought to hear in the same sentence! Kenney Chesney is a horse-thievin punk who only WISHES he was as talented and Waylon Jennings who now deceased has more rhythm and soul than Kenney Chesney's lil' finger. | |
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