@hems79 Loooove her and them! Dan Tyminski will always be the voice of George Clooney for me (and I listen to his solo stuff on the regular), and Jerry Douglas plays that dobro like nobody’s business. The rest of the group is equally talented.
Wish I could see them live (I have the live album as well as a copy of the 2003 CMT MWL Special performance).
I hate country music so much that I have left stores that are playing it in the background. All the songs sound alike and brings back memories of times when my parents were drunk and arguing.
@jqubed
Google GG Allin, but definitely not at work though. After reading through that, check out some youtube videos. Warning - Nudity and poop are involved.
I can’t stand country. But I also hate rap, hip-hop, funk, swing, pop, emo, disco, dubstep, most new agey crap and just about everything else that isn’t classical, classic rock, progressive rock, doom/gothic metal, or electronic
@f00l I’ve always thought the Stones had a good feel for the style of old country music (Hank Sr, Ernest Tubb) and although their songs are full of punky sarcasm, they are way more country than most of today’s Nashville pop.
My preference in country music is Texas Outlaw, here’s one from around here that’s not Waylon:
@ragingredd Start a comment, then paste the youtube address. Magic happens somehow. For a giphy, start a new line in the comment with ‘/giphy’ and then put in some words you like, and post it.
/giphy sons pioneers
Dad listened to everything but country and rap. Mom only listened to country, and the rare clean rap song. Really, she’d listen any rap until somebody pointed out the lyrics. I’ll listen to anything, except an eight hour span of various remixes of the same dubstep song during a biochem lab. I used to enjoy Elle Goulding’s voice.
I used to say I don’t like country, which seemed strange since I like bluegrass, folk, and Americana. I finally realized I really just don’t like modern mainstream country that’s pretty much just bad pop music with a twang. I like older stuff, and I’ve heard some alt country and insurgent country, which I think is closer to what country traditionally was; it’s just not what they play on the radio. I also haven’t done any deep dive into the genre.
Same. I just call it country music - the americana, the bluegrass, the alt-country; all of those sound more like country music than the new “country music”. Twang. I quite like pop music too, but somehow that mixture of country and pop is terrible. Like so bad I do not understand how it gets popular. It was a bad idea. Country + rock, yes that works. Country + folk, yes sure. Country + some sort of acidhead indian techno, I think even that could be made to work, but the pop stuff all sounds like either like a beer ad, or someone making fun of the country pop, mocking the genre. It’s very difficult to get that to sound good.
@jqubed yeah, this is nearly exactly my feeling. Though, I don’t tend to do that well with things I see labeled “Americana” either, as far as I can remember.
There’s an occasional country song I can stand… But most of it gets on my nerves.
Rap is the same way.
Country rap (Hick Hop) is probably the worst thing.
Country song that I don’t mind:
/youtube Rodney Carrington dear penis
No one really likes Country music. Everyone just goes through a Country phase.
Yes, even I went through such a phase - the summer of 1995. My family had recently moved us from the suburbs out to the country. I listened to Garth Brooks, Martina McBride, Clint Black, and Shania Twain. I saw (and could quote) 8 Seconds, Unforgiven, Tombstone, and The Quick & the Dead. I owned a black cowboy hat, considered buying a Ford Bronco, and even volunteered at the local rodeo.
Turned out I didn’t actually like Country music; I just liked girls in jeans and flannel shirts.
When I read “country”, the majority of what is in this thread does not occur to me. Bluegrass, the Stones, “folk” (whatever that is) – those things are music. Country is that thing in the top reply. This isn’t “country” either.
I first started to appreciate country music once a friend pointed out how well written many country songs are. Nashville can do really good work when it tries.
However mainstream country devolved from “well-written observations of universal truths” to “celebration of lowest common denominator / unreasonable redneck pride.” The genre started losing me when Redneck Woman became a hit.
@djslack The most perfect country song ever done as Allen Alda and Lilly Tomlin singing as Conway Twitty and Dolly singing a song titled, I’m tryin to remember the day you said good bye. Within a month of airing all the country divas went from big hair mini-skirts/hot pants and gogo boots to fluffy hair and granny dresses.
I have a client that only plays country music. The hair on the back of my neck stands up and I’ve been so close to telling them to turn that awful shit off.
I generally hate country music. Hate it. It’s awful on so many levels. Especially the pop shit others have already addressed. But I have to admit that there are a few artists whose stuff I kinda like: iconic performers like Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson come to mind. I also like guys like Hayes Carll. Part of how that works for me is that I can listen to maybe a song or two at a time.
Sadly, we live in Texas. The good news is that Texas has some decent barbecue. The bad news is that a couple of the barbecue joints we frequent (Rudy’s and Lakeshore Smokehouse) play the worst, most cringeworthy, beer commercial, jingoistic, sexist, horrible shit. So I’ve added a good bit of “ironically” to my “appreciation” of country music–because otherwise we’d always just take out or I’d sit in misery. It’s effortless; you don’t even have to do anything to make it sound ridiculous, just repeat the lyrics, the tone, whatever. Just play it. It’s its own mockery.
Happily, Kenny’s Smokehouse plays better music that rarely includes anything country.
@OldCatLady I pass the cemetery Johnny Horton is buried in every day. There’s a lot of country music history around me, thanks mostly to the Louisiana Hayride.
@djslack Lucky you! My mom played steel guitar in a family band for a few years, and I grew up with Sons of the Pioneers, Gene Autry et al on the radio. There’s not a lot of country music history in NW Ohio, though.
@sammydog01 Waylon, John and Kris… allllll yummmy voices… Kris is very cute – and still alive! (no offense to Willie, but he doesn’t do anything for me!)
@mikibell I looked them up and discovered they recorded an audio book of some Louis L’amour stories, $6 on Audible. I’m gonna buy it just to listen to the non-Willie Nelson ones. OK I’ll listen to his too.
@sammydog01 You wouldn’t remember Kris Kristofferson winning a Hasty Pudding award for his lifelike portrayal of a washed up rock star in the remake of a star is born.
@cranky1950 In its 37th Movie Worsts Awards, the Lampoon said the movie was picked “for attempting to pass off Barbra Streisand as a singer” and “for Kris Kristofferson’s all‐too‐believable performance as a washed‐up rock star and the wrecking of a perfectly good automobile for his suicide.”
The best country artists are the ones with funny sounding names when said in an exaggerated southern accent.
Examples:
Dierks Bentley
Brooks and Dunn
Kix Brooks
Garth Brooks
Big & Rich
Skip Michaels
Chase Henry
Derp Mercedes
Mack Dorpins
Trash Pickins
@thismyusername That was brilliant!
@thismyusername Ha i love Bo Burnham!
@thismyusername he’s awesome.
I only like it if it’s bluegrass.
@curtise I don’t know how you feel about Alison Krauss and Union Station, but they were remarkable live.
@curtise Little Roy and Lizzie
also the Moron Brothers
We’re going up to see Little Roy and Lizzie at the beautiful Lincoln Theatre in Historic Marion Va. Aug 12
@curtise
@hems79 I agree! I see them every time they come to http://boothamphitheatre.com/. The Raleigh area is a great place to be if you love bluegrass.
@hems79 Loooove her and them! Dan Tyminski will always be the voice of George Clooney for me (and I listen to his solo stuff on the regular), and Jerry Douglas plays that dobro like nobody’s business. The rest of the group is equally talented.
Wish I could see them live (I have the live album as well as a copy of the 2003 CMT MWL Special performance).
All my one day shopping ex’s live in Texas…
I hate country music so much that I have left stores that are playing it in the background. All the songs sound alike and brings back memories of times when my parents were drunk and arguing.
Indistinguishable from other awful pop.
Yarrr me genres!
Red Solo Cup…I fill you up…with urine…
best country song ever.
Only if it’s g.g. allin’s Carnival of Excess!
@edguyver14 Ain’t nothing more country than a GG Allin show.
God, I’m afraid for what giphy will show up below, but…
/giphy GG Allin Country
Yup… That’s what I was expecting.
@hems79 Um, is there a backstory to this?
@jqubed
Google GG Allin, but definitely not at work though. After reading through that, check out some youtube videos. Warning - Nudity and poop are involved.
I can’t stand country. But I also hate rap, hip-hop, funk, swing, pop, emo, disco, dubstep, most new agey crap and just about everything else that isn’t classical, classic rock, progressive rock, doom/gothic metal, or electronic
So no surprise twist. I’m just a bitter person and I hate almost everything.
@Dweezle Wear looser underwear
/youtube Dear Doctor
@2many2no
@f00l I’ve always thought the Stones had a good feel for the style of old country music (Hank Sr, Ernest Tubb) and although their songs are full of punky sarcasm, they are way more country than most of today’s Nashville pop.
My preference in country music is Texas Outlaw, here’s one from around here that’s not Waylon:
Of course, my favorite is music is metal, all kinds (heavy, death, thrash, black, etc) but I also have an unexplained fondness for J-rock (I blame it on the anime.)
I like both kinds of music, country and western.
kd lang + Laura Veirs + Neko Case. At least 2/3rds country, and pretty darn great.
I like the comedy songs best.
@OldCatLady how do you put in /giphy or you tube video via cell phone?
@OldCatLady
/youtube roll me up and smoke me
@ragingredd Start a comment, then paste the youtube address. Magic happens somehow. For a giphy, start a new line in the comment with ‘/giphy’ and then put in some words you like, and post it.
/giphy sons pioneers
@OldCatLady
My parents played Sons of the Pioneers all the time.
Still love them.
The old stuff is good drivin’ music.
Dad listened to everything but country and rap. Mom only listened to country, and the rare clean rap song. Really, she’d listen any rap until somebody pointed out the lyrics. I’ll listen to anything, except an eight hour span of various remixes of the same dubstep song during a biochem lab. I used to enjoy Elle Goulding’s voice.
I used to say I don’t like country, which seemed strange since I like bluegrass, folk, and Americana. I finally realized I really just don’t like modern mainstream country that’s pretty much just bad pop music with a twang. I like older stuff, and I’ve heard some alt country and insurgent country, which I think is closer to what country traditionally was; it’s just not what they play on the radio. I also haven’t done any deep dive into the genre.
The first band I ever interviewed on the radio in college was classified as insurgent country
/youtube drunk stuntmen
@jqubed
Same. I just call it country music - the americana, the bluegrass, the alt-country; all of those sound more like country music than the new “country music”. Twang. I quite like pop music too, but somehow that mixture of country and pop is terrible. Like so bad I do not understand how it gets popular. It was a bad idea. Country + rock, yes that works. Country + folk, yes sure. Country + some sort of acidhead indian techno, I think even that could be made to work, but the pop stuff all sounds like either like a beer ad, or someone making fun of the country pop, mocking the genre. It’s very difficult to get that to sound good.
@jqubed yeah, this is nearly exactly my feeling. Though, I don’t tend to do that well with things I see labeled “Americana” either, as far as I can remember.
Not sure which one this is.
/youtube Gillian Welch scarlet town
Take this job and shove it
There’s an occasional country song I can stand… But most of it gets on my nerves.
Rap is the same way.
Country rap (Hick Hop) is probably the worst thing.
Country song that I don’t mind:
/youtube Rodney Carrington dear penis
@RiotDemon This may be too bluegrass for you.
@2many2no I got about ten seconds in. Even if I liked the instrumental, her voice… No thanks.
@RiotDemon The whole band is strange.
It’s more a comedy skit than a song.
We’re going to a Brothers Osborne concert tonight.
@sammydog01 I don’t care what you people say. Country music is catchy.
@sammydog01
The video is one of the great ones.
Only when I’m hanging out day drinking in the south. Preferably at some event like NASCAR.
Otherwise, please turn that garbage off.
@TaRDy IOW, when inebriation or the sound of stock cars drowns out the noise.
No one really likes Country music. Everyone just goes through a Country phase.
Yes, even I went through such a phase - the summer of 1995. My family had recently moved us from the suburbs out to the country. I listened to Garth Brooks, Martina McBride, Clint Black, and Shania Twain. I saw (and could quote) 8 Seconds, Unforgiven, Tombstone, and The Quick & the Dead. I owned a black cowboy hat, considered buying a Ford Bronco, and even volunteered at the local rodeo.
Turned out I didn’t actually like Country music; I just liked girls in jeans and flannel shirts.
When I read “country”, the majority of what is in this thread does not occur to me. Bluegrass, the Stones, “folk” (whatever that is) – those things are music. Country is that thing in the top reply. This isn’t “country” either.
/youtube champion no heaven
I first started to appreciate country music once a friend pointed out how well written many country songs are. Nashville can do really good work when it tries.
However mainstream country devolved from “well-written observations of universal truths” to “celebration of lowest common denominator / unreasonable redneck pride.” The genre started losing me when Redneck Woman became a hit.
@melonscoop What about the perfect country and western song?
“I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison…”
@djslack The most perfect country song ever done as Allen Alda and Lilly Tomlin singing as Conway Twitty and Dolly singing a song titled, I’m tryin to remember the day you said good bye. Within a month of airing all the country divas went from big hair mini-skirts/hot pants and gogo boots to fluffy hair and granny dresses.
@djslack That’s actually a solid song. A sendup of Country dressed in Country tropes.
I have a client that only plays country music. The hair on the back of my neck stands up and I’ve been so close to telling them to turn that awful shit off.
I generally hate country music. Hate it. It’s awful on so many levels. Especially the pop shit others have already addressed. But I have to admit that there are a few artists whose stuff I kinda like: iconic performers like Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson come to mind. I also like guys like Hayes Carll. Part of how that works for me is that I can listen to maybe a song or two at a time.
Sadly, we live in Texas. The good news is that Texas has some decent barbecue. The bad news is that a couple of the barbecue joints we frequent (Rudy’s and Lakeshore Smokehouse) play the worst, most cringeworthy, beer commercial, jingoistic, sexist, horrible shit. So I’ve added a good bit of “ironically” to my “appreciation” of country music–because otherwise we’d always just take out or I’d sit in misery. It’s effortless; you don’t even have to do anything to make it sound ridiculous, just repeat the lyrics, the tone, whatever. Just play it. It’s its own mockery.
Happily, Kenny’s Smokehouse plays better music that rarely includes anything country.
There are some educational country songs. Most were written by a history teacher, Johnny Horton.
And then there’s the Tennessee
@OldCatLady
@OldCatLady
My brother and I went thru a preschool year where we played Johnny Horton non-stop.
Still love him.
@OldCatLady I pass the cemetery Johnny Horton is buried in every day. There’s a lot of country music history around me, thanks mostly to the Louisiana Hayride.
@djslack Lucky you! My mom played steel guitar in a family band for a few years, and I grew up with Sons of the Pioneers, Gene Autry et al on the radio. There’s not a lot of country music history in NW Ohio, though.
@OldCatLady I just asked Alexa for classic country and she played The Battle of New Orleans for me.
Who does not like a song about a woman meeting her husband while she is only wearing an apron?
/youtube other than the night
Rules to live by:
/youtube gambler
A song about falling in love:
/youtube ring of fire
Family anthem:
/youtube roll-on 18 wheeler
Because I was wearing just an apron!
/youtube before he cheats
@mikibell Nice choices! This is one of my more recent favorites.
did I mention the best sibling song?
/youtube the night the lights went out in Georgia reba
oh and this is not bad
/youtube son of a preacher man bobbie gentry
oh and this is kinda awesome
/youtube tuesday’s gone
the song my husband to which he danced with his mother at our wedding
/youtube momma don’t let your son grow up to be a cowboy waylon jennings
@mikibell We have tickets to see Lynyrd Skynyrd this fall! The ones that aren’t dead anyway.
@sammydog01 I saw that… I am jealous!
@sammydog01 and I forgot another favorite
/youtube copperhead road
We’re at a concert- just heard this:
These guys definitely lean rock, not pop.
any of these voices, other than willie’s, make my knees weak…
/youtube highwaymen
/youtube this ain’t no rag it’s a flag
@mikibell Kris Kristofferson is cute too.
@sammydog01 Waylon, John and Kris… allllll yummmy voices… Kris is very cute – and still alive! (no offense to Willie, but he doesn’t do anything for me!)
@mikibell I looked them up and discovered they recorded an audio book of some Louis L’amour stories, $6 on Audible. I’m gonna buy it just to listen to the non-Willie Nelson ones. OK I’ll listen to his too.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000K0YMS6/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1501771575&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=louis+lamour+audio+books
@sammydog01 You wouldn’t remember Kris Kristofferson winning a Hasty Pudding award for his lifelike portrayal of a washed up rock star in the remake of a star is born.
@cranky1950 That should be a Harvard Lampoon Worst actor of the Year award.
@cranky1950 In its 37th Movie Worsts Awards, the Lampoon said the movie was picked “for attempting to pass off Barbra Streisand as a singer” and “for Kris Kristofferson’s all‐too‐believable performance as a washed‐up rock star and the wrecking of a perfectly good automobile for his suicide.”
@cranky1950 Who cares- he looked good doing it. And yes I remember.
The best country artists are the ones with funny sounding names when said in an exaggerated southern accent.
Examples:
Dierks Bentley
Brooks and Dunn
Kix Brooks
Garth Brooks
Big & Rich
Skip Michaels
Chase Henry
Derp Mercedes
Mack Dorpins
Trash Pickins
Head 'em up! Move 'em out! Rawhide
Waylon!