Country Music...My God does it suck..

[Unchainme]

As some folks here know...I play High School Football...And I live in a semi-rural area, And the popular thing to be is to be a Redneck...Talk about hunting, All that shit...I'm not so much into that stuff..And All My Team Mates listen to is Cuntry...And my God does it suck...Don't get me wrong, I love Johnny Cash and people like him...But this country is just lame and very formulaic...But I will Bet one thing..That a lot the Guitarists Were All in Hair Bands in the 80's...That never made it, and they probably saw this as a new way to make money...

anyways...Anyone else Agree that Modern Country sucks ass?

[PlexiBrown]

It is horrible.

[Diamondjimi]

New Counrty sucks moose cock!

I like most pre 1979 country. The only new one worth listening to is Hank Williams III

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Hank 3 kicks ass!

[FORD]

Country music went straight to Hell at the beginning of this decade when two things happened...

1) Garth Brooks retired

2) Nashville started signing right wing propagandists pushing bullshit war messages (Toby Keith, Darryl Worley, etc.) as opposed to actual talented artists.

Keith Urban & the Dixie Chicks are about the only "modern country" I can listen to.

I'll take Hank III over Hank II. But not over Hank I.

And the old guard seems to be slipping away one by one..... Waylon and Johnny Cash, in recent years. Willie's still out there, but even he's tired of country. His last album was reggae of all things. And Merle Haggard was a damn prophet when he sang of "our highways and bridges falling apart" in his recent his "America First".

So country's not entirely shit, that's just what the Clear Channel stations play.

[Terry]

Originally posted by FORD
Country music went straight to Hell at the beginning of this decade when two things happened...

1) Garth Brooks retired

2) Nashville started signing right wing propagandists pushing bullshit war messages (Toby Keith, Darryl Worley, etc.) as opposed to actual talented artists.

Keith Urban & the Dixie Chicks are about the only "modern country" I can listen to.

I'll take Hank III over Hank II. But not over Hank I.

And the old guard seems to be slipping away one by one..... Waylon and Johnny Cash, in recent years. Willie's still out there, but even he's tired of country. His last album was reggae of all things. And Merle Haggard was a damn prophet when he sang of "our highways and bridges falling apart" in his recent his "America First".

So country's not entirely shit, that's just what the Clear Channel stations play.

Not my first choice of music, but older country took a degree of talent to play.

Today's pop-country stuff does nothing for me.

[NathanRay]

Yes Songs like RedNeckYauchtClub and Honkytonkbadonkadonk are just as bad as Rap.

"Song song Song of the South Sweet Potato Pie and I shut My Mouth"

This Shit Song This Song they still play all the time. If I was Southern I would not want my song to have such Dumb ass lyrics

Merle Haggard is an original Gangsta fer shore, though.

[Redballjets88]

Originally posted by NathanRay
Yes Songs like RedNeckYauchtClub and Honkytonkbadonkadonk are just as bad as Rap.

"Song song Song of the South Sweet Potato Pie and I shut My Mouth"

This Shit Song This Song they still play all the time. If I was Southern I would not want my song to have such Dumb ass lyrics

Merle Haggard is an original Gangsta fer shore, though.

no the song of the south song is cool, if you have ever been around the culture and the people you would also think so its just an ode to how people are and the culture.

FORD garth brooks, although I love his music, is the beginning of pop country.

dixie chicks and urban are as pop as it gets.

toby keith is a democrat.

[FORD]

I know Toby Keith claims to be a "Democrat". I also know he campaigned for Chimpy, played at some Chimpy coronation event and hangs out with Hagar and Nugent..

The Dixie Chicks are Democrats. Willie Nelson is a Democrat. Faith Hill & Tim McGraw are Democrats. I don't know for a fact whether Garth Brooks is a Democrat, but he appeared at Live Earth, and recorded the song "We Shall Be Free", and I don't see a Republican doing either of those things......

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[Hardrock69]

Well, what well and truly disturbs the Force is that their are so many amazingly kickass country songs out there that never go anywhere.

Someone in the family created a brilliant debut album for a major label here they were signed to.

They got dropped the day after the album was mastered.

The album will never see the light of day, though perhaps some songs can get placed with other artists.

But in order to release it, the label needs to get 'reimbursed' for a little over $300,000 in recording expenses. So it sits.

Nobody will ever hear it.

It slays many, many country albums being released these days.

Wonder why they shelved it? Nobody will ever tell....so nobody will ever know.

And the people are the ones missing out. Or in music industry language, "the aggregate consumer demographic".

[ace diamond]

Originally posted by Unchainme
As some folks here know...I play High School Football...And I live in a semi-rural area, And the popular thing to be is to be a Redneck...Talk about hunting, All that shit...I'm not so much into that stuff..And All My Team Mates listen to is Cuntry...And my God does it suck...Don't get me wrong, I love Johnny Cash and people like him...But this country is just lame and very formulaic...But I will Bet one thing..That a lot the Guitarists Were All in Hair Bands in the 80's...That never made it, and they probably saw this as a new way to make money...

anyways...Anyone else Agree that Modern Country sucks ass?

dude.....all cuntry sucks big hairy sweatiny stinky ass donkey balls....
kinda like sammy

[Redballjets88]

Originally posted by FORD
I know Toby Keith claims to be a "Democrat". I also know he campaigned for Chimpy, played at some Chimpy coronation event and hangs out with Hagar and Nugent..

The Dixie Chicks are Democrats. Willie Nelson is a Democrat. Faith Hill & Tim McGraw are Democrats. I don't know for a fact whether Garth Brooks is a Democrat, but he appeared at Live Earth, and recorded the song "We Shall Be Free", and I don't see a Republican doing either of those things......

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willie is actually an independent. If Kinky would have won the governors race in texas he was going to appoint Willie to the Eviromental causes of texas (forgot the actual positions name)

[katie]

Originally posted by Unchainme


anyways...Anyone else Agree that Modern Country sucks ass?

[SparkieD]

I'm a misplaced southern belle. I fucking hate cuntry. The closest thing to it I can take is Hank III in Superjoint Ritual.

[SparkieD]

Originally posted by katie

Awful music with a killer frontman.

[BITEYOASS]

Originally posted by Unchainme
As some folks here know...I play High School Football...And I live in a semi-rural area, And the popular thing to be is to be a Redneck...Talk about hunting, All that shit...I'm not so much into that stuff..And All My Team Mates listen to is Cuntry...And my God does it suck...Don't get me wrong, I love Johnny Cash and people like him...But this country is just lame and very formulaic...But I will Bet one thing..That a lot the Guitarists Were All in Hair Bands in the 80's...That never made it, and they probably saw this as a new way to make money...

anyways...Anyone else Agree that Modern Country sucks ass?

Sure as hell does, guess they're all trying to appeal to the family values crowd with the lame-ass clean lyrics. WTF ever happened to honky-tonkin, drinkin, fighting and 4 wheeling country?

[BITEYOASS]

Most of it is just formulated BS nowadays.

[BITEYOASS]

Not to mention Protools being used for robotic-like backup vocals. I also think Shania Twain should spend more time placing her mouth on a cock instead of a Mic.

[ODShowtime]

I just don't know what would draw anyone to country music. It is so god damned generic. I'm just glad I'm not forced to listen to it at work or anywhere, or my opinion would be a lot more forceful.

There were some country songs on the last grand theft auto that were great. The old stuff rules, just like in Rock.

[Coyote]

Originally posted by BITEYOASS
Not to mention Protools being used for robotic-like backup vocals. I also think Shania Twain should spend more time placing her mouth on a cock instead of a Mic.

Nah, she started using a mic after she got her record contract...

[FORD]

And now, for some real country...... recorded in a fucking PRISON, no less......

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[FORD]

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[Nitro Express]

There were some talented country artists like the late and great Johnny Cash but then most of it sounded like Insest squaking over music that was the audio version of what a barnyard smelled like.

The new country is a bad copy of 1980's rock and roll. Notice the cowgirls have big hair lost in the 1980's. The new country artists think they are Bon Jovi.

[delta5150]

Here's some funny country song titles

1. Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth 'Cause I'm Kissing You Goodbye

2. Mama Get The Hammer (There's A Fly On Papa's Head)

3. Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed

4. And There Was Grandma, Swingin' on the Outhouse Door, Without a Shirt On

5. If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me Her Memory Will

And a joke too

A newly graduated doctor gets a job at the morgue. When he is going through the bodies he discovers a body with a cork in the crack of its butt. After much debate, he decides to take out the cork. When he pulls it out suddenly he hears country music. When he puts it back in, it stops. Puzzled, he goes to his advisor and tells him what happened. The advisor says, "You think that's strange??" "Yes! Don't you?!" replies the young doctor. "Well," said the advisor," any asshole can play country music."

[Dan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn481KcjvMo
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Kenny Rogers.

[Unchainme]

Originally posted by Nitro Express
There were some talented country artists like the late and great Johnny Cash but then most of it sounded like Insest squaking over music that was the audio version of what a barnyard smelled like.

The new country is a bad copy of 1980's rock and roll. Notice the cowgirls have big hair lost in the 1980's. The new country artists think they are Bon Jovi.

Bingo..I like a little bit of the old Country...Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash....Hell I even like Garth Brooks.

I don't like the new country thats out right now...It's just basically lame pop music, with Cheesey lryics.

[FORD]

Originally posted by Nitro Express


The new country is a bad copy of 1980's rock and roll. Notice the cowgirls have big hair lost in the 1980's. The new country artists think they are Bon Jovi.

Actually, some of the new country artists ARE Bon Jovi!

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[Diamondjimi]

Shit, even the videos are 80's hair band-esqe. Considering the fact that top 80's video director Wayne Isham headed out to Nashville after hair rock was destroyed (thank god) in the early 90's.

[jcook11]

Johnny Cash live from folsom prison is still one fo the greatest recordings ever IMO.....I was checking out some footage on cmt not too long ago, good stuff!

[Antman]

This guy rules:

http://hogrockcafe.com/show_them_to_me.htm

[Hardrock69]

Actually, the current state of country music here in Gnashville is that it is right now at the place Lynyrd Skynyrd was back in 1976.

They have infused enough rock into country, that it is now Southern Rock.

And yes, tons of peeps who were in rock bands back in the 80s are now doing country. Most famous of these is Martina Mcbride.

Then there is someone those of you who know a lot about VH history will recall....Mitch Malloy. He has been playing guitar backing up country artists for awhile now.

It is no wonder Johnny Cash won those Grammys back in the 90s. Rick Rubin had the right idea. He wanted to produce some Johnny Cash country albums, done the way they should be....acoustically.


For the most part, country music these days is homogenized, super-polished pop SHIT.

[Diamondjimi]

Originally posted by Antman
This guy rules:

http://hogrockcafe.com/show_them_to_me.htm

Great vid. Thanx for the link!

[Shaun Ponsonby]

I don't particularly have a problem with it.

And besides, from what I can gather from the bits of research I have pieced together, rock and roll was originally a fusion of blues and country...so without it you wouldn't have anything to listen to.

[Katydid]

HERE IS A PORTER WAGGONER/MARTY STUART VIDEO doing an old JOHNNY CASH SONG ON VIDEO.

JOHNNY CASH MUST HAVE LIVED THIS SONG IN HIS LIFETIME OF DRUGS, ALCOHOL, ETC.

AFTER GETTING IN CLICK ON "PARK AVENUE" TO WATCH.

I JUST SAW IT ON CMT. IT'S A MUST SEE FOR OLD COUNTRY MUSIC FANS.

http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/wagone...r/artist.jhtml

[Casemeister]

Modern country mostly sucks.

Waylon, on the other hand, fucking RULES. Nobody could disagree with that!

The old Outlaw cats, they were cool. I mean, Outlaw Country basically had rock 'n' roll values with the sentimental side of country. It was all about freedom. Freedom to write and record your own music. Freedom to party. Freedom to wear what you want. Freedom to grow yer god damn hair.

This cookie-cutter stuff today is a far cry from what Waylon and co. fought for. There are a few guys and girls doing it right, though. Shooter Jennings is great. Sure, his music is probably more rock than country most of the time, but he's doing what his father did: he's telling the establishment that he'll be making his own music, whatever it should be called, and that's the way it's going to be.

[Little Texan]

Country music these days sounds like a bunch of top 40, pop, bubblegum bullshit, and just about every song sounds the fucking same! I've never been a big fan of country, but now, more than ever, I can't fucking stand it at all, and here in East Texas, it's everywhere and highly difficult to avoid! Just about every radio station around these parts is a country station, and the closest rock station around here is 98.9 in Shreveport, LA, which, luckily, has a strong-ass signal that allows me to pick it up clearly from 60+ miles away. On the subject of country, does anyone else here hate Rascal Flatts like I do? Damn do they fucking blow! Their singer sounds like a fucking bitch!

[FORD]

Rascal Flatts looks exactly like a country boy band to me.

N'Suck with a twang, seriously.

[Rat Salade]

I've never been so desperate for music that i actually turned country music on to try and satisfy my appetite. there's nothing fucking going on, certainly not any exciting guitar playing. same goes for that rap crap.

[Loons The Great]

Ize dig ol' timey, ol' school country and bluegrass.

All Three Hanks. Jimmy Rodgers. Roy Rogers And The Sons Of The Pioneers. Elvis. Jerry Lee Lewis. Carl Perkins. The Man In Black. Loretta Lynn. Doc Watson. Merle, Waylon, Willie. Roy Acuff. Ralph Stanley. Marty Robbins. Bill Monroe. Buck Owens. Jim Reeves. Johnny Preston. Ricky Nelson. Slim Whitman. Tex Ritter. The Carter Family. Walter Brennan. Webb Pierce.

[FORD]

Country..... psychedelic style....

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[FORD]

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