Country?

[abrocks22]

Any country fans???

Here is a new album to add to your collection ya'll!

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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[CaptHayfever]

Are we talking actual country music, or are we talking pop-with-steel-guitars-&-an-accent? 'Cause I like some of the former, none of the latter.

Papa Nez is one of my heroes.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[Dizzy]

Originally Posted by abrocks22

ya'll

*facepalm*

[Cosmonautical]

Originally Posted by CaptHayfever

or are we talking pop-with-steel-guitars-&-an-accent?

Alt country played in public places was actually one of the contributing factors in my decision to leave the US. It sounds so bad to me it's actually very difficult for me not to be angry about being unwillingly subjected to it, whenever I hear it.

I actually like some Western.

Abrocks, I'm pretty certain you're just a spammer, but I'm going to be a nice guy today and let your topic stay up. Less with the advertising links and more with the legit discussion.

[Booyakasha]

I like real country music. Hasn't been a lot of it recently. Like, I hear modern 'country' acts like Rascal Flatts, and I think to myself, "This is not authentic to the genre. Bon Jovi is closer to my idea of country music than this thing."

[Valigarmander]

I really love good country music.

That said, I haven't been listening to much country lately.

[Galefore]

Originally Posted by AI

Alt country

Interesting. Are you talking about Toby Kieth, Kenny Chesney bull****, or are you talking about, like, Wilco and My Morning Jacket. Because the latter are actually "alternative country" by its current definition as a subgenre of indie and folk and the former are just "stupid ****ing bull****". Just making sure.

Anyway, I love Johnny Cash, and that's about it when it comes to country. And again, I sort of dig the aforementioned Wilco and My Morning Jacket, and even Okkervil River uses country-rock arrangements on some of their tracks, but just not that annoying, repetitive drivel they blast on public radios.

[Eric]

My God, when I was little I LOVED any country music. Now, the country music I like to listen to (rarely) is Toby Keith. And the country my dad and brother force me to listen to when they turn on the car radio. I f**king hate it. What is this "Big Green Tractor" bulls**t?

Is it just me or did get real old, real fast?

It all sounds the same, and it's all about the same stuff.

[Panfan]

alt-country, but i personally call it indie folk. Much easier tag to convince people to listen to it with.

[Jere]

I like country, damn Merle Haggard is one favorite and Charlie Daniels play's a mean fiddle.

[Auron]

Country makes me want to vomit. How many god damn songs can you write about drinking beer, having your wife cheat on you, and your ****ing tractor? It's all 100% unoriginal and annoying as hell. Jonny Cash is about all I can stand anymore.

[Booyakasha]

^Forgive me, but that sounds kind of ignorant. Like, if that's all you get out of the genre, fine; but that's a bit like when you get junior-high kids scoffing at rap because 'it's just talking about drive-bys and spinnaz over a drumbeat'---the kind of opinion that proceeds from profoundly limited experience. I don't know. Maybe I'm out of line.

[Auron]

^Well, out of any country that I've heard, the meat of it tends to be about the same subject. Maybe I haven't explored it enough. But the thing is, I don't want to explore it. So maybe I am being ignorant. I don't know. I just know that I'm very comfortable with the music that I listen to, so I feel no need to expose myself to something that I have yet to have a pleasant experience with.

[Jere]

You forgot about their old trucks and how much more they love horses than women.

And i think country have kind of droped in popularity because no one tried to renew it and present it to a newer generation.

[Cosmonautical]

Originally Posted by Galefore

Interesting. Are you talking about Toby Kieth, Kenny Chesney bull****, or are you talking about, like, Wilco and My Morning Jacket. Because the latter are actually "alternative country" by its current definition as a subgenre of indie and folk and the former are just "stupid ****ing bull****". Just making sure.

Anyway, I love Johnny Cash, and that's about it when it comes to country. And again, I sort of dig the aforementioned Wilco and My Morning Jacket, and even Okkervil River uses country-rock arrangements on some of their tracks, but just not that annoying, repetitive drivel they blast on public radios.

Yeah, that's because people who actually know a thing about genres had need of available terms. When I use buzz words like that, you've got to imagine it's a tongue-in-cheek sort of thing. I mean, how many effing stations claim to play Alt Country but just end up being another shrine to Shania Twain and all her clones.

I'm with Pan here, in that I couldn't possibly label most of the stuff that blatantly sounds like an Indie return to honest folk music as any manner of Country, anyway, since that term is tainted. Then again, I'm referring to Laura Marling with Indie Folk.

I haven't heard much anything by Wilco or My Morning Jacket that speaks heavily of Country, though. "One Big Holiday" sounds like alt rock took a return to the 90's, and I've actually heard electronica done by MMJ, so I'm not so sure that's remotely appropriate.

Regardless, as radio stations are apt to use the term Alt Country, it's pretty much equivalent to Country Pop more than anything. It's getting more and more confusing with Pop music and "Country" now using the same writers and production techniques if not the same producers. Frankly, as far as I'm concerned Pink's last album sounds like crappy Country Pop and I'm constantly mistaking Kate Perry for her as well.

[Galefore]

^Yeah, that's pretty much what I was getting at. Wilco is almost always referred to with the label "alt country" by reviewers, since most music critics have no ****ing clue how to describe a sound so they just make up a genre or compare the band to another band. MMJ, on the other hand, only got that label because some of the stuff on Z (namely "Lay Low") was a little Southern Rockish, and I think their early lo-fi, reverb heavy stuff was really folky. I prefer the term indie folk as well, though. I think the only really country sounding Alt Country bands that I know of would be Blitzen Trapper and maybe Son Volt.