Who killed country music?

Mith · Jul 10, 2005

While were on the subject of music, anyone here listen to reggae?
Staying on topic, cant say that country/western rings my bell, seems to be a bit samey and heard one youve heard it all. But I guess to an extent all music is like that. Also I think rappers have dmaged our lives enough and shoul back away now, but aint nothing wrong with hiphop in the right place. But still the ruler of all time has got to be rock but none of the new stuff that is so called rock. But best has got to be reggae, nothing like a bit of Bob Marley /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Bob_Skurka · Jul 10, 2005

But best has got to be reggae, nothing like a bit of Bob Marley 

Well I actually bought Ziggy's newest CD a while back. (For those who don't know their reggae lore, Ziggy is Bob's son) Its a bit more commercialized than Bob's music, with a different type of edge, but hey, its better than country!!!

 Also I think rappers have dmaged our lives enough and shoul back away now, but aint nothing wrong with hiphop in the right place. 

I really have nothing against rap style or hip-hop style music, what I have a problem with is the messages I hear in both styles. And those messages are not sent by all the performers, but they do dominate MOST of the songs from MOST of the performers I hear. The messages of voilence against women, violence in general, overt sexual lyrics that treat women as ******, things like that. I'm no prude, but I really don't want my daughter or any other young girl to begin to believe that to be accepted she has to be a *****, nor do I think that we need to desensitize people to the violence toward women or to demean others in the ways that the lyrics of much of this music seem to portray things. But to see Missy Elliot and a bunch of 10 to 12 year old dancers perform during prime time last year singing "pop that thang" while gyrating their hips to simulate sex is too wrong to get into!

On the other hand, I've heard some great rap lyrics about life from artists like eminiem. So I'm not condeming the style.

Cactus · Jul 10, 2005

( Well I'm an unlikely country fan...........actually I'm not sure I'm a country fan at all. But of late I've had the urge to hear some of the songs I liked and listened to on my grandparents LP player when I was just a boy. Hence Johnny Horton, Marty Robbins and several Johnny Cash albums have recently entered my CD collection )

Thats the country music era I like,my 21 year old son suprised me when he we were out driving and he offered to play a Johny Cash CD he had.I had no idea he was a Johny Cash fan.

Moon · Jul 11, 2005

I have to agree with others who said, "I didn't know it was dead"!!!

Music has always been important to me. I'm a rocker at heart. Grew up with some fantastic bands all over the radio in the 60's. The 70's were good, until disco came along. I never did like that. Sure hope it doesn't return ....but that's another story. I've listened mainly to classic rock for years, but nowadays it's the same thing. Nothing new, or not enough new stuff that can fit in the classic category. So I've tried the new stuff on pop stations. There are some good songs, but most I do not care for. Now, I think I'm open minded, as an example (I'm afraid this will make some of you cringe) I actually liked that M & M song about "Two Trailer Park Girls, go around the outside" or "Guess who's Back". Not sure of the name of it, but to me it was a catchy tune. He has a few others I kinda like. Overall, I don't care for rap. Most of it I can't understand what they are saying. And ....that brings back memories of what my parents would say about the Rock and Roll I listened to way back when I was young. Anyway, pop stations have way to much rap and other stuff I don't care to listen to, classic rock is same old, same old, so it gets boring to fast. I can't do the head banging hard rock stuff, just don't care for it. This carries over to VH1 and MTV. I used to enjoy seeing new videos on those channels but they hardly play them anymore. So I tried out CMT and GAC. I found I liked some of the new country ones. Seeing the videos helped me understand the songs and lie them better. Had I tried radio first I might never have made the switch. I've never been a country fan. I did like some of the crossover acts, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson for example. But hard core country was never my thing. To twangy for my taste. New country does not seem to be that way. It reminds me of the light rock or southern rock from back in the 70's to some extent. So, I'll always consider myself a rocker, but nowadays I listen to country as much as rock stations.

Have you heard the song 'Alcohol' ...it has a catchy line in it "helping white people dance". That slays me. To sum up I do not think today's country is anything like the old style country, but I like it. Just like pop music today is nothing like it was 10, 20 or 30 years ago, country is not the same as it was 10, 20 or 30 years ago, and I think it's a good thing.

sendero · Jul 11, 2005

I grew up listening to country because my Dad listened to it. I hated it. Back in the early 60s when he was listening to old Willie, Cline, Price, Jones - I didn't want to hear any of it.

I'm still no fan of country music, but I will say this. I can hear that old stuff and it sounds like it is from the heart, like it is real. I can't say that about many of the current artists, whose names I will omit in the interest of not goring anyone's ox. They are opportunists, they are no more artists than I am, and I'm no artist.

Yes, country music is dead, for the same reason rock is dead and all pop music is dead - it's the money.

Thanks to satellite radio and the internet - you can still find real music if you care enough to look. But don't waste your time on the radio - it's just not there.

Durbob · Jul 11, 2005

( But don't waste your time on the radio - it's just not there. )

I disagree...it's called classic rock.

Dur

ByronBob · Jul 11, 2005

Everything in life changes. If it didn't then something else would be wrong because it wasn't changing.

Cactus · Jul 11, 2005

( Thanks to satellite radio and the internet - you can still find real music if you care enough to look. But don't waste your time on the radio - it's just not there. )

I agree !!!

MicroPilot · Jul 11, 2005

Clear Channel has ruined radio

RobertN · Jul 11, 2005

You can find music on the radio. It's called Public Radio. Our local station plays a HUGE variety. You can get Bluegrass, Raggae, 50' Rock and Roll, Dylan, Cajun, Hawaiin, Celtic, you name it. The only thing is, it is in shows. One hour may be Blugrass show, the next Cajun, and the next Celtic. None of it is a full day of programming.

Go to KVMR and listen to thier webcast.

Interesting to this topic, they have a series of great country shows on Saturday afternoons.