All new country songs sound the same

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 3, 2006, 6:31 pm

How can you listen to this shit?

If you like new country music:

-buy one country song...any song
-put your CD player or MP3 player on repeat

It's the same fucking shit over and over. Buy a MP3 player with enough storage for one song. Use the saved money to buy some nice shit-kickers and a new cowboy hat.

It drives me nuts every time I have to walk by a coworker's office and hear the same canned country beat and lyrics singing about meaningless day to day shit.

Yeeeee haw!

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » January 3, 2006, 6:49 pm

Country nowadays isn't even country. I call it 'twangy pop'. Need to go back 30+ years for real country!

Leonaerd · Post by **Leonaerd** » January 3, 2006, 10:49 pm

Seriously, the only country I've ever liked is Cash. It's physically difficult to listen to anything "new" (except the very occasional Alabama).

Kylere · Post by **Kylere** » January 3, 2006, 11:42 pm

The only difference between country and rap is usually skin color ( except there have been more good black country stars than white rappers)

Booze, Bitches, Banging, Rides, Money, Lies and Reputation cover them both.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » January 4, 2006, 12:38 am

If you want decent new country music, look at what's now being called bluegrass, alt-country and some folk music. There's still a fair amount decent non-pop music coming out. You'll rarely hear any of it on commercial radio though.

It's the same fucking shit over and over. Buy a MP3 player with enough storage for one song. Use the saved money to buy some nice shit-kickers and a new cowboy hat.

That's no different than any other commercial radio swill, same crap, different channel. Everything on the dial is homogenized to sell.

Xzion · Post by **Xzion** » January 4, 2006, 1:47 am

The explanation is simple, nearly all new music, be it rap,country, rock, metal, etc is simply pop music with a very weak disguise, new music is heavily manufactured and for some odd reason this generation accepts it, at least the boy bands were straight up with there manufactured pop music act

Nick · Post by **Nick** » January 4, 2006, 11:42 am

Yep, it's a business, most of the good bands get ignored now if they try anything vaguely different that isn't geared towards raking in the $$.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 4, 2006, 1:07 pm

This conformity talk reminds me of a great song by Rush called Subdivisions. Some of the lyrics:

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone

Chorus
(Subdivisions)
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
(Subdivisions)
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help disprove the unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth

Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night

Well some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight
Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights...

Syenye · Post by **Syenye** » January 4, 2006, 1:51 pm

Aabidano wrote:If you want decent new country music, look at what's now being called bluegrass, alt-country and some folk music. There's still a fair amount decent non-pop music coming out. You'll rarely hear any of it on commercial radio though.

rilo kiley's last album had a folksy, alt-country feel to it (<3 that steel guitar). jenny lewis's solo album is due out on jan 24, and it features even more of that from what i've heard. i've never really been one for country music, but i really dig the indie folk sound.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » January 5, 2006, 2:22 pm

The broadcasts from WMNF are streamed, they've a couple great folk\bluegrass shows. The Florida folk show on Thurs mornings is usally pretty good.

http://www.wmnf.org/programming/index.php