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PallasAthene
Dec 6, 2010

Why, vixen, have you again set the gods by the ears in the pride and haughtiness of your heart?

OctoberBlues posted:

This same guy has a very popular song at the moment, where he describes wanting to be rich so he can buy a $500 Yeti Cooler and fill it with 50 cent Coors Light beers. I feel like there is so much to be written about just that one line...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQPjKSVe1tQ

The music video director should have worked in a scene where the singer winks at the camera while depositing his Yeti endorsement check. Watching that, I just realized that any country where the singer is doing halfass karate kicks on the video is gonna suck. Look for International Harvester by Craig Morgan on youtube for more proof, but make sure to mute it before he starts singing.


comes along bort posted:

that goof sounds like someone from boston doing a halfassed imitation of a southern accent

Millions of Crows posted:

They all sound like that. Modern country requires the same voice for all singers.

Living in the South for years, I noticed that for every one guy who talks like Randy Travis, there's about two hundred who talk like Boomhauer. Yet all the singers sound like Foghorn Leghorn.

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Bloodfart McCoy
Jul 20, 2007

That's a high quality avatar right there.
Ever time I see a man listening to country, I assume he's a closet homosexual.

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Ein cooler Typ posted:

I like everything except country and rap

more like crap lol

fabergay egg
Mar 1, 2012

it's not a rhetorical question, for politely saying 'you are an idiot, you don't know what you are talking about'


Ein cooler Typ posted:

I like everything except country and rap

same, except i also like rap

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

I would also like to leave this here, for both the song and the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtMy5IBmX7E

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe

Haier posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXf899tt6ac

Is this considered Country or what? It's not so bad.

He's allright, he's more of a Bob Seger than a George Strait though

tomatoes and shit
Sep 17, 2015

anyone post the Bo Burnham country song yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTUP4ET2IE0

EvilMossman
Apr 1, 2016

Merle Haggard's death could not stop the country music machine from destroying itself... What could possibly save it now?

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe
Sad to say, modern country makes Nickelback look like the goddamn Rolling Stones

PallasAthene
Dec 6, 2010

Why, vixen, have you again set the gods by the ears in the pride and haughtiness of your heart?

OctoberBlues posted:

I would also like to leave this here, for both the song and the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtMy5IBmX7E

Why is he pretending to strum a capoed Spanish guitar when the track is obviously a steel string?

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx

ElGroucho posted:

Sad to say, modern country makes Nickelback look like the goddamn Rolling Stones


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecAgYcTaqt4&t=145s

Jive One
Sep 11, 2001

I'm going where there's no depression, to a better land that's free from care.

Uziduke
Jul 2, 2015

A storm over Europe unleashed
Dawn of war a trail of destruction
The power of Rome won't prevail
See the Catholics shiver and shake
Current country is poo poo.

This is good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d05tQrhNMkA

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!

EvilMossman posted:

Merle Haggard's death could not stop the country music machine from destroying itself... What could possibly save it now?

Once Willie's gone we are all hosed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi3GgoLtlWk

KawaiiAtomicBombs
Apr 15, 2016

~Ka-Boom~
This is the only true country music. Everything before this was trash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HflDc7PUT2g

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

ElGroucho posted:

Sad to say, modern country makes Nickelback look like the goddamn Rolling Stones

Very true.

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay7ss7s4mCE

Get the drinkin' started motherfuckers, its the end of country

ed: Here's a fun thing to do, be a dark skinned mexican dude and bust out some Ray Price on guitar for your honky friends, and then shame them when try to sing some Kenny Chesney poo poo or whatever

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

fakiebeanplant posted:

anyone post the Bo Burnham country song yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTUP4EE0

No it violates the "no Bo Burnham" rule of good posting

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Bo burnham is funny

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

hemophilia posted:

Bo burnham is "funny"

jonathan
Jul 3, 2005

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
LoL at the Anal oval office album.

If I was a radio DJ I'd play Johnny Rebel mostly with Hank Williams III stuff like Superjoint Ritual thrown in.

unzercharlie
Aug 23, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o

I believe popular country music has been in steady decline for a long time, and I actually do believe we can blame Garth Brooks. I don't dislike Garth Brooks, but he achieved a level of fame that sort of changed the game of popular country music. No one wanted to be a country music star anymore, they wanted to become pop stars.

Long live Dwight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT2sdgBtAW8

whatis
Jun 6, 2012
shakey graves is pretty country

shakey graves is pretty cool

shakey graves is pretty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD72LbIk02M

RadioactiveKid
Aug 12, 2005

Gato Rebelde

ElGroucho posted:

ITT we now post good country in remembrance, RIP country



not sure if anyone has posted the greatest country western song ever written yet so here it goes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAOVRkSCWmg

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

PallasAthene posted:

When did country artists decide that bragging about how soft they are and sucking up to women was the way to go? The songs always come off like a corporation used focus groups to manufacture a "touching" moment, but they overdid it with the whining and self pity.

In about 50 years we went from "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die" to "When tough little boys grow up to be dads, they turn into big babies again" because they see their little girl fall while she was learning to walk.

Right after Randy Owens's divorce.

As for bro country, Garth Brooks had a lot of classic dark, brutally depressing songs about death and hopless lost causes in between the upbeat stuff and his minimalist production style is pretty rad.

I point the finger of blame squarely at Tim McGraw.

All the way back in 1994:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9YFCZb3rLb8

shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Jul 22, 2016

Big Dick Cheney
Mar 30, 2007
way down yonder on the chatahoochie

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Ein cooler Typ posted:

I like everything except country and rap

DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS.

https://youtu.be/CeFtAmvrPxA


grapecritic posted:

way down yonder on the chatahoochie

Fair enough. Louisiana Saturday Night.

shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Jul 22, 2016

Cartouche
Jan 4, 2011

Bloodfart McCoy posted:

Ever time I see a man, I'm a closet homosexual.

barracks haircut
Jun 2, 2010

ElGroucho posted:


Get the drinkin' started motherfuckers, its the end of country


Yep, if the song doesn't concern the destruction of the human spirit, it's not country:

My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sezhO0yMUDY

I Don't Wanna Play House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuMCBE9yUqg

Grand Prize Winner
Feb 19, 2007


does Devil Makes Three count as country? Because they're pretty fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vedgTokXj04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyMDrWalKjY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WooFSKUEA0

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

No that's more white people doing 1930s callback fag poo poo

Alien Sex Manual
Dec 14, 2010

is not a sandwich

Idk the Squidbillies theme was pretty good. :shrug:

sports
Sep 1, 2012
country music is just poppy Schlager Volksmusik or w/e

folk music is good.

Mortimer Knag
Nov 23, 2007
I only listen to Hank III anymore. And Alan Jackson sometimes I guess. Did someone post them yet? They should. I'm not going to check this garbage thread because if you think country hasn't been just "pop music with a lil twang" for a long loving time now than you're dumb. The target demographic of radio country nowadays are not even close to the same ones even 10 years ago. Hell anyone I know who lives/works on or even near a ranch or farm listens to just rap or old country.


Also I listen to everything but rap and country.

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx

Glaucus atlanticus posted:

Idk the Squidbillies theme was pretty good. :shrug:

billy joe shaver is pretty legit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3ybRH3IyYA

RadioactiveKid
Aug 12, 2005

Gato Rebelde

First time I heard about the time he shot a dude in Waco, I knew Billy Joe was the real deal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_CQKPOU1jE

Cartouche
Jan 4, 2011

sports posted:

country music is just poppy Schlager Volksmusik or w/e

folk music is good.

John Denver was good
Peter Paul and Mary were good.

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L0LGfVEr8o

Unclean
Jun 28, 2002
Sweden knows country music goddamn it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E6RGcCK3Xk

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naem
May 29, 2011

Living in a rural small town environment doesn't stop you from being inundated with the same mass media garbage we all are so there isn't a unique identity to all that like there once was

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