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Tsiyu

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26. I'm so old, I remember

Wed Jan 2, 2013, 04:56 PM

Jan 2013

when there were tons of independent stations playing great songs no matter what you liked.

There are about three music stations now, mass produced and blaring crap nationwide.

Everything's a racket, but there are more options if you don't need free, so radio stations suffer from their own lack of vision and creativity and local flavor.

I just hear New Country and want to cry for all the dollars wasted on that crap. The consumers are just buying garbage without seeming to care that there are "real goods" out there for sale...

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About the Country Music of this decade-> [View all] PM Martin Jan 2013 OP

"Blue-collar" comedy didn't help either. sadbear Jan 2013 #1

Especially as practiced by "Larry The Cable Guy"...who ISN'T blue-collar(or Southern) Ken Burch Jan 2013 #45

There's nothing country about country music anymore. Puzzledtraveller Jan 2013 #2

It ain't country and I'm not so sure it's music either tularetom Jan 2013 #3

Remember "Man, I Feel Like a Woman"? riqster Jan 2013 #4

Boot Scootin Boogie! are you serious!? Puzzledtraveller Jan 2013 #5

That, and Garth Brooks made it culturally ok to be a redneck idiot in America. Volaris Jan 2013 #12

Garth Brooks is a Democrat pamela Jan 2013 #38

Garth is okay TlalocW Jan 2013 #53

Country went commercial and that was the beginning of the end. Tempest Jan 2013 #28

When they started doing what rock-n-roll had done thirty years before.... lastlib Jan 2013 #44

"New Country" is just bad Pop Tsiyu Jan 2013 #6

Word! AND there are no radio stations which play the real stuff anymore either. Skidmore Jan 2013 #11

I am spoiled Tsiyu Jan 2013 #18

go after the Internet Radio Shows and search for Americana... WCGreen Jan 2013 #19

True..hard to stream on dialup Tsiyu Jan 2013 #21

Broadcast radio is there to bring as many people as they can to that spot on the dial... WCGreen Jan 2013 #24

I'm so old, I remember Tsiyu Jan 2013 #26

We have a winner. Boomerproud Jan 2013 #16

Welcome to DU Tsiyu Jan 2013 #22

Links? I'd love to read more about what they think. :) reformist2 Jan 2013 #31

Taylor Swift made $25M last year DollarBillHines Jan 2013 #29

A fool and his or her money and all that Tsiyu Jan 2013 #36

Thank you! TM99 Jan 2013 #55

"Nashville Music Factory" Country is SHITE. HughBeaumont Jan 2013 #7

How 'bout this home grown guy? RC Jan 2013 #8

Blah Blah Blah.... WCGreen Jan 2013 #17

Well, OK. RC Jan 2013 #41

. Go Vols Jan 2013 #9

Modern country music exists so untalented people can have careers, too. Aristus Jan 2013 #10

Yes, unlike hip-hop and pop hughee99 Jan 2013 #47

Rural defensiveness against Urban snobbishness maxsolomon Jan 2013 #13

It must make the composer, lyricist and singer feel like they are doing protest music... Tikki Jan 2013 #14

Commercial Country Music is pretty formulaic just as much as pop music... WCGreen Jan 2013 #15

one thing for sure - KT2000 Jan 2013 #20

Yes, the whole country genre changed after Obama won in 2008. NCTraveler Jan 2013 #23

+1 onenote Jan 2013 #46

Best propaganda in the world! Glorifies working for the minumum wage, guns, toxic relationships, etc MightyMopar Jan 2013 #25

+1 PM Martin Jan 2013 #50

There's plenty of good alt country out there, like Old Crow Medicine Show and others alcibiades_mystery Jan 2013 #27

About the only Country performer I can stomach is Brad Paisley. yourout Jan 2013 #30

Brad mainstreetonce Jan 2013 #34

Saw him last year with Scotty McReady and The Band Perry. Good show. yourout Jan 2013 #35

I like that song of his about the kid in his parents basement LeftofObama Jan 2013 #43

This one.... yourout Jan 2013 #48

Yeah! That's the one! LeftofObama Jan 2013 #49

For those who don't know, here's an example of how country music *used* to sound. reformist2 Jan 2013 #32

Here is a little Roy Clark yourout Jan 2013 #33

If any of y'all mainstreetonce Jan 2013 #37

Zac Brown I like....saw a crossroads special with Zac and Jimmy Buffet. Pretty good. yourout Jan 2013 #39

Most of the "country" artists nowadays are really horrible! There are a couple who are really quite DearHeart Jan 2013 #40

I see your Justin Moore and I raise you Toby Keith - Cold Beer Country Initech Jan 2013 #42

There's still good music being made tularetom Jan 2013 #51

Johnny Cash wrote about Zimmerman when he sang he shot a man in reno, just to watch him die graham4anything Jan 2013 #52

Whenever I visit my mom TlalocW Jan 2013 #54