I'm sorry, but country music is bad poetry and bad art.

[Stop_the_War]

:silly:

[sportndandy]

1. Thanks for taking responsibility!

At least I know who to blame! :evilgrin:

[KT2000]

2. and sooo depressing

have you ever noticed how much of it is about death?

[RetroLounge]

3. Only the last 25 years worth...

:hi:

RL

[Longgrain]

4. Another flamefest in the making

aren't you guys tired of these yet?

[Maestro]

5. I don't touch pop country crap

but give me some good ole rockabilly any day, BR5-49, Old 97's, almost rock really, Brian Setzer, Dwight Yoakam, The Reverend Horton Heat, The Flatlanders. Heck, one of the most hilarious songs I have ever heard come from The Flatlanders. It's called, "I'm gonna strangle you, Shorty." Good music with hilarious lyrics.

[Floogeldy]

6. Racism rears its ugly head again!

Oops! I forgot about Charlie Pride.

Heh. Sorry.

:wow:

[Eloriel]

7. I dunno

I think you'd have to go pretty far to match the poetry of Kris Kristofferson. And while he's not as eloquent (and elegant), perhaps, Toby Keith's lyrics are pretty danged clever too.

But I don't know anyone who recommends Country Music to raise one's IQ or cultural quotient. It's what it is -- intended for termporal enjoyment and personal expression -- not high brow "art." And I personally love it, just as much as I love my Mozart and Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky and Chopin on other days.

YMMV.

[BlueJazz]

8. Boy..You know what would truly, really Suck?

Country Rap.

AAH!..I won't to takes my Hound-dog:
right to the races:
Gonna' find a green-tooth Gal:
And put her through some Paces..

[ghostsofgiants]

12. Haven't you heard the new Tim McGraw/Nelly collaboration?

Why are people like that allowed to even see daylight?

[DrWeird]

20. Hick Hop. It exists, and it's very good.

From perhaps the most ignored group of people in the US today: poor rural blacks.

here's verse from "Awnaw" by Nappy Roots:

My nigga, we hogwild, bet that from that roota to that toota-file
Hell naw, them country boys ain't headed south for six miles
Kentucky mud, them kinfolk, twankies with them hundred-spokes
Skullied on that front po'ch, plus you know they got 'dro
Seventy-nine coupe DeVille vertical Caddy grill
Interstate 65 headin down to Cashville
Glass filled, to the tippy-top, back-seat Benz
Spent my last cent on the rent, left with pocket lints
A damn shame, gotta grind anythang and everythang
Jimmy Crack Corn, cross the county line with Mary Jane
A long time, a gravel road, to cash and fame and sold my soul
To Hell and back, and back and forth, with same jeans and nappy 'fro

[bleedingheart]

9. Patsy Cline, Hank Williams Sr, and Johnny Cash .....

they were wonderful.....

[saltpoint]

10. "I would rock my soul..."

===
"I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham
I would hold my life in his saving grace

I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham
If I thought i could see, if I could see your face..."

--Emmylou Harris, "From Boulder to Birmingham

===
There's a lot of country I could do without. But take that song from me and I'll blow my brains out.

[mwb970]

11. Much of it seems lachrymose and melodramatic...

Is it because the lives of country fans have a certain desperation or what?

Most of it is not very interesting to me as a musician, I mean compared with Nine Inch Nails or Mars Volta. I like stuff with an "edge".

[ghostsofgiants]

13. NIN and Mars Volta...nice.

Nice to see someone with taste here.

[mwb970]

16. Hey, and I'm 55! n/t

[Bake]

14. Go head and show us MORE of your ignorance

That is a ridiculously broad statement condemning an entire genre of musical expression. Just like rock, blues, pop (please don't tell me you're going to defend the current state of popular music) -- some is excellent while the majority is bland, even bad. And some is very bad.

If you want to engage in a pissing contest, I can name at least as many truly bad titles in other genres as you can in country. Probably more, in fact, because you obviously know nothing about REAL country music.

Bake

[Floogeldy]

15. OMG!

[Bake]

18. OMG What?

What's your point? That I challenged the original poster?

Bake

[tuvor]

17. You've finished listening to all of it, have you?

[Bridget Burke]

19. Yet another flamebait thread.....a copycat, in fact.

Will the OP abandon this one, too?

I do agree that you are sorry.