I hate country and am proud to admit it!

The music. The dancing. The singers. The fans. All of it.

~Ulrika~

I like Patsy Cline's singing and am not afraid to admit it, even in the face of Ulrika's cold, anti-country western logic.

*strolls by whistling El Paso*

i love country and am proud to admit it!

I'm no expert on the genre, but even Ignorant Teeny knows that Shania Twain ain't country.

I don't like either type, country or western !

Thank you for the best belly laugh I've had all week - and I 99.9999 % agree with you except for the secret, sick sort of heart throb thingie I've always had for Willie Nelson.

There's one song I can listen to by Reba MacIntyre, but it's an oldie. "Winds of Change" or something like that.

And I'll listen to Johnny Cash, if somebody else chooses to play it within hearing range.

Oh: And Astrin Few was playing some "Alternative Country" (?) guy while he was on break at one of his recent concerts. "F*ck This Town" is hilarious!

But that's it. The rest must go.

-- jj

i can handle some of the old stuff. johnny cash, merle haggard (sp?), and others like them, but only in small doses. most of the crap that's out now is just that...CRAP.

Rose, did you know 99.9% sure was a country song? LOL I thought it was funny hehehe

Leilany

Yup, I agree. But I have some Dwight Yoakam and the Mavericks on rotation in my mp3s, and I like to listen to some of the zydeco-flavored country-ish music. And Elvis (not his gospel stuff, though, I can't stand that)! A lot of Elvis songs have been played on country music stations.

Most of the "country music" played by radio stations now is just toned-down top-40 pop crap; IMHO, it's garbage. True country music is sort of a harmonious melding of bluegrass/folk and rock'n'roll.

Incidentally, Ulrika, the country music I grew up with in the 70s and early 80s was often a celebration of "the working man," i.e. blue collar workers, a group I've always sort of pictured you standing up for. My lumber-mill worker (now retired), union-member father is one of the primary reason I am liberal and a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat -- well, that and women's reproductive rights.

(Somebody poke me when it's time to complain about rap; now that's a music genre I generally dislike uniformly. )

A-men! See? There is at least one thing on which Ulrika and I agree.

I'm right there with you. Modern country is just farking terrible. It makes me sick. Feh. Give me Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and even small doses of Charlie Daniels or Alabama. How the hell people can stand modern country is beyond me. It's soulless pop garbage glossed over with country kitsch at best- a marketing vehicle capitalizing on manufactured nostalgia for people who live in the suburbs but feel the need to buy dualie diesel trucks, suitable only for farm work or hauling horse trailers, so that they feel like they belong to some culture of outdated Marlboro man dreams. I've known real ranchers growing up and I guarantee you that none of them would listen to the crap on country western stations nowdays.

LOL, yup that's Robbie Fulks, who I had the pleasure of seeing here in Madison last Friday. He's a TOTAL riot. Most of his fans are not country fans but just like funnier-than-shit entertainment. Also, his recorded stuff is more "country" sounding than his live stuff, he's a rocker at heart. Out of Chicago, by the way.

I luvs the country. Not modern country -- the old stuffs... Carter Fam, Cash, Cline, etc.

But even better than the country is the bluegrass.

luvs luvs luvs the bluegrass.

"Hate" is a strong word. But for me, appropriate here also. If it's not Johnny Cash, I'll probably dislike it very, very strongly.

Modern country, perhaps. All the real country singers were too drunken and angry for Nashville. Just look at Hank Williams Senior or Johnny Cash.

How can you resist such lyrics as:

Give me a little ole fashioned love
The kind that lingers through the years
The kind that was made buy GOD above
Give me a little ole fashioned love!

You know, if you don't like it, and don't support all the patriotic work the administration is doing, you can leave it!

Very good point.

TACO TACO say it isn't so!!??

You have got to be kidding with that statement. Are you a fascist? lol Who knew~!!?

At least the trains are running on time.

I agree wholeheartedly with the current majority opinion here; I think that modern country and it's whole culture is silly, but I'll stop short of saying I hate country, as the classic era stuff is wonderful.

To back up this position, I'd like to show a comparison:

Classic:

"Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad
From a worn-out picture that my mother'd had,
And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye.
He was big and bent and gray and old,
And I looked at him and my blood ran cold
And I said: "My name is 'Sue!' How do you do!
Now your gonna die!!"

-Johnny Cash, A Boy Named Sue*


Crappic:

"Iraq, I rack 'em up and I roll,
I'm back and I'm a hi-tech GI Joe.
I pray for peace, prepare for war
and I never will forget ~
there's no price too high for freedom
so be careful where you tread.
This terror isn't man to man,
they can be no more than cowards.
If they won't show us their weapons
we might have to show them ours. "
- Clint Black, Iraq & Roll


For the great majority of Off-Topic posters who can't read, I can illustrate this visually as well:

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* Curiously, "A Boy Named Sue" was penned by none other than Shel Silverstein, who also wrote the classic children's tale, "The Giving Tree". I am going to add a picture of him because I like him, and also because he looks amazingly like Green Fate's Avatar.

Yes I have to agree (about the Bluegrass part) but I never saw Bluegrass and country as being on the same music planet. I also LOVE zydeco! What can I say, I guess it's an aquired taste.

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um today's country and any bluegrass of any era are not of the same ilk but there was a time when there was a fair amount of crossover