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I actually was making a list to Murso’s post yesterday but lost interest because it was a joke and half the people voting in any Inforoo poll are knuckle-draggers anyway.
1. Good Ol Boys Like Me - Don Williams 2. Independence Day - Martina McBride 3. Neon Moon - Brooks and Dunn 4. Seven Year Ache - Rosanne Cash 5. It's Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty 6. She's Got You - Patsy Cline 7. Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell 8. This Drinking Will Kill Me - Dwight Yoakum 9. The Weekend - Steve Wariner 10. Mountain of Love - Johnny Rivers 11. Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell 12. Amarillo By Morning - George Strait 13. Shameless - Garth Brooks 14. El Paso - Marty Robbins 15. Let the Mystery Be - Iris DeMent 16. You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma - David Frizzell and Shelly West 17. Fancy - Reba McEntire 18. Love Will Turn You Around - Kenny Rogers 19. Sunday Morning Coming Down - Kris Kristofferson 20. Just to Satisfy You - Waylon Jennings 21. Oh Lonesome Me - Don Gibson 22. I'm No Stranger to the Rain - Keith Whitley
I didn’t even get to Dolly, Loretta, Willie, Keith Whitley, etc
Well? Keep going...
I love iris dement btw... A lot of the rest of those, not so much
Post by SupeЯfuЯЯyanimal on Aug 5, 2022 14:12:38 GMT -5
I actually was making a list to Murso’s post yesterday but lost interest because it was a joke and half the people voting in any Inforoo poll are knuckle-draggers anyway.
1. Good Ole Boys Like Me - Don Williams 2. Independence Day - Martina McBride 3. Neon Moon - Brooks and Dunn 4. Seven Year Ache - Rosanne Cash 5. It's Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty 6. She's Got You - Patsy Cline 7. Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell 8. This Drinking Will Kill Me - Dwight Yoakum 9. The Weekend - Steve Wariner 10. Mountain of Love - Johnny Rivers 11. Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell 12. Amarillo By Morning - George Strait 13. Shameless - Garth Brooks 14. El Paso - Marty Robbins 15. Let the Mystery Be - Iris DeMent 16. You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma - David Frizzell and Shelly West 17. Fancy - Reba McEntire 18. Love Will Turn You Around - Kenny Rogers 19. Sunday Morning Coming Down - Kris Kristofferson 20. Just to Satisfy You - Waylon Jennings 21. Oh Lonesome Me - Don Gibson 22. I'm No Stranger to the Rain - Keith Whitley
Lol. I don’t even know 20 Country songs off the top of my head but I might be able to work through it. I used to hate it but have come around on some of the alt-country live with Brandi and Kacey both making Top 2 and Top 7 at 2019 festivals. Johnny Cash Rusty Cage. There’s one song.
Hilarious how much you've dogged the genre in these threads and come to find out you don't know anything about it.
It’s late 70s but the problem is it was a blanket term used on college radio. But bands like REM had mainstream success years before 86.
not gunna lie, the way i chose 1986-2000 is those are the years MTV's "120 Minutes" aired. but i can't disagree that alternative started in the late 70s, just in my head i tend to split those "early alternative" tracks into separate genres: post-punk, new wave, and college radio, for the most part. and by college radio i pretty much mean early REM.
Post by SupeЯfuЯЯyanimal on Aug 4, 2022 8:27:48 GMT -5
Oh I thought this convo was more recent.
Whatever. Alternative and indie are pretty much the same. Indie just has better bands attached to it because there’s so much shot alternative stuff in the 90s
Has anyone brought up how we should define indie vs. alternative yet
i think shuck disagreed with my years but alternative was like 86-00 and everything after that is indie. alternative is the pixies, indie is the national, vampire weekend, and LCD soundsystem. i mean the spirit of that is pretty accurate i think.
It’s late 70s but the problem is it was a blanket term used on college radio. But bands like REM had mainstream success years before 86.
Seems like there's some momentum behind bluegrass elimination. Everyone's talking about it, and more and more it seems like a good idea
no, bluegrass will win the survivor because it is easily defined, no one is going to argue over what bluegrass is, there are lots of great bluegrass artists from it's inception through today, from bill monroe to billy strings, and it's the whitest genre on this list, having almost no influence from black music genres, so it's the least racist, because the best way to be anti-racist is to not appropriate black culture and instead embrace your whiteness and ignore black art and black people, oh no that is white nationalism, fuck.
The fact that rap music still exists is a strong point in your favor here
One might say that dinosaurs defined the Jurassic period. The fact that they no longer exist does not make that less true. (Bring on the old guy/dinosaur jokes.)
Hip-hip still had the more meaningful and long lasting cultural impact.
Post by SupeЯfuЯЯyanimal on Jul 29, 2022 12:08:24 GMT -5
I highly recommend watching Fresh. Do not watch the trailer. Do not read the synopsis. Just take my word on it. It's better going in knowing nothing.
Just really refreshing, genre-bending horror film with great performances and a weirdly perfect soundtrack. Leans into one of my favorite exploitation tropes as well. Lots of stuff to "enjoy" here.
It’s not I have a problem with songs that focus on the culture of country music, it’s that so much of pop country has a either direct or implied message that says the white rural or antebellum experience is the “real” one, and inherently better than others that I find off putting. Especially since a lot of the imagery they glorify of farms and trucks is becoming less and less reflective of what life is like in even those areas.
And often it was never like that. It's not really different than Baudrillard's argument that Disney World is a simulacra. That main street America never existed outside of the cultural imagination that felt it necessary to create it.
That's one of worst offenses of modern country. The reliance on nostalgia and this old world where things were better. I don't have to explain how to is just a smaller trend that manifests itself in right wing populism politically. But even tho it's mostly left unsaid it's pretty clear where the problem is. People used to be moral and you could walk down the street without fear. And your neighbors were friendly. Everything was clean and people worked hard and they went to church. On and on. Liberal democracy destroyed all this. It was the libs, folks. It's certainly not a good thing that this notion is reinforced a thousands times a day on the radio.
And even if you don’t buy into any of that, every song being about trucks and farms and beer and listening to George Jones just gets fucking boring and repetitive. Every hit song has to work in the cliche cultural signifiers and it’s exhausting.
I really hate this. I've been forced to listen to country radio a lot in my life and this has always gotten on my nerves. I'm in the Bible Belt but my town is mostly industrial based... it's in the mountains and not the best farm land in the region, etc. There are farms but maybe 5% of the population makes their living working a farm. Plus it was Native land up until the Trail of Tears. The last territory of the Cherokee. Anyway, it was never really "suburban" like you'd see outside a major city but most of the people around here are not farmers and didn't grow up on a fucking farm. But the music they mainly listen to is filled with a world they relate to that's completely alien to their lives. It's just so bizarre.
But it should be said that plenty of other genres have similar problems. It's just not always as widespread and obvious as it is in country music from the 90s onward.
Most of the country people toss up here as good either avoids the “us vs them” trap or talks about identity in either an inclusive or truly personal way. In Dolly Parton’s “Why’d You Come in Here,” for example, the fact that the love interest is wearing boots and tight jeans is just the backdrop to the larger point of the song. It’s framed from her own country perspective but the larger theme is relatable. Compare that to a Jason Aldean song like “Dirt Road Anthem” or “She’s Country.” Those songs are just long strings of cliche stitched together.
This is my hometown. This is where I had my first beer. Then my old man and me got in a fight. Then I fogged the windows up in my old truck with the girl that got away. I like to sit at the old bar and retail these stories while my buddies and I listen to Springsteen.