Who Destroyed Country?

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No poll. Polls are gay. They keep getting bumped to the top even though no one posted anything.

Anyway, I don't like much country. I detest what passes for country these days for sure. I grew up in appalachia, so I always rebelled against it. Now I sort of embrace it - at least the old stuff. Recently CMT started rerunning Hee Haw and I have been watching it in small doses when I see it's on.

George Jones and Roy Clark with bag-assed mutton chops. Jim Stafford. Buck Ownens, God rest his soul. Nothing wrong with that.

Two minutes ago, I think I saw the death of true roots American music that we called country:

Garth Brooks.

When I think about the commercial, cross-over success of Garth, I can just picture the wheels turning in the record execs head. I can see the greed in their eyes. It was when they decided that rural folks and truck drivers weren't enough and they went after that mainstream pop dollar.

I guess this will end up being a "Country sucks" thread. As a guitar player and a performer, I can truly appreciate Hee Haw and what it represented to me as a pre-teen wanting to get into music. But I can also see how the country music manufacturing industry has really been turned into the equivalent of fiberglass rocks in a fake cave at Universal Orlando.

Just to further tie this to the "Who destroyed metal" thread, I have heard from various sources that all the hair metal shredders from the 80s that lost their gigs when money left metal moved to nashville and now play on all the country records. I did a sub gig once for a pop country band and had to learn that awful toby keith song "How do you like me now". The guitar solo in that thing is fricking impossibly hard. Could have been played by a head banger for sure.

Maybe it's up for debate. Do you think today's country is especially shitty compared to country before Garth? Maybe you think it's better. Maybe you think it always sucked and always will. I just wanted to bang out how much I hate what garth did to the institution.
 
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I think it was the dixie chicks and Gretchen Wilson.
 
No, the modern stuff is rehashed 70's rock with twangy guitar gymnastics on super light gauge strings. Garth Brooks is so totally choreographed in his singing that you can figure exactly when his next yodel will be coming, must be worked out mathematically or something.
I can listen to the old stuff without a problem, not exclusively of course, but the new stuff is so formula driven, and so rehashed I can't really listen to it at all. :(
 
Shania Twain and Garth Brooks and whoever else that decided that mixing 70's and 80's rock with with a slide guitar and some country twang was a good idea.
 
timboZ said:
myhatbroke. :confused: :confused:

I think it was the dixie chicks and Gretchen Wilson.

it was earlier than that.

I agree afontan. I can listen to the old stuff, but starting in the 90's and continueing till now most of it is complete crap.
 
I hate country! Always have! Always will! It's even worse now! I saw a comercial for some Travis something or other that was singing Hey batter batter hey batter batter hey batter batter swing. I just about puked!
 
Its a shame really. Fundamentally I love all music, and respect what every musician does and how it makes them feel. I'm talking about genuine musicians here. I don't class any of todays radio crap as music or musicians. That is simply product. And thats what a lot of the more 'popular' (or should I say 'common'?) country is, the stuff that made its way onto VH-1 and MTV.

I say its a shame because, with my love of music. As rule, I still cannot abide much country. However, chances are I have not heard much decent country anyway. I have just been subjected to the product. My opinion of country was formed by the Garth Brook's of the world. The only place I got to see country was on VH-1, so my opinion of it was formed based on that crap.

I have heard some of the more honest, heartfelt country on occasions, and I kinda like it. It wouldn't be my next big buy, but I can appreciate it for what its worth. And I can respect what the musicias are doing.

It doesn't seem fair that what seems like a very honest genre of music to me has been given such a bad rap by those who would profit from it massively. As I say my opinion was skewed until I got a bit older and heard a few bits and bobs. I still love the blues brothers' rendition of 'Rawhide' tho! :D

It just doesn't make sense to me why radio stations would rather play trash than decent good honest music that is clearly better and more meaningful. I spose at the end if they can get crap music for cheaper, and convince people to like it, then thats good business.

I guess this happens in almost every genre. Most of these radio metal bands suck these days too.

I will say again. What a shame...
 
everyone knows that metallica killed both country and metal with that LOAD of shit of a record. :D ................but who in the fuck killed J.R.?
 
TravisinFlorida said:
everyone knows that metallica killed both country and metal with that LOAD of shit of a record. :D ................but who in the fuck killed J.R.?

the Man from Atlantis did that!!!!
 
The same band that is trying to destroy metal. And they thought, "What the hell, let's kill country while we're at it".















Nickelback.
 
Who was that achy breaky heart fuck ball?....that mullet headed, clothear, no good, low down, yellow belly...swine....Billy ray Cyrus?...Aghhh...Im not sure if anyone killed country...but if they did i hope they bury him with it.
 
Maybe video killed the country radio star too.

Seems like that there's a lot of people trying hard to make what's marketed as country but it turns out all wrong. I'd have to agree it was around the time Garth and Clint Black first came out. It seems like the art of the song (e.g. Willie Nelson) is gone and it's more about grabbing an acoustic/cowboy hat and calling it country based on looks and not sound.
 
gummblefish said:
Who was that achy breaky heart fuck ball?....that mullet headed, clothear, no good, low down, yellow belly...swine....Billy ray Cyrus?...Aghhh...Im not sure if anyone killed country...but if they did i hope they bury him with it.

Agreed, that song killed it for me.....
 
country music sucks badly...........but id bang the bujeezus out of shania twain.
 
Country music is alive and well.......

the problem is old farts thinking it cant evolve past "George Jones and Roy Clark".....it can and will evolve and it has evolved......

no different than rock has evolved.....
 
montage said:
Maybe video killed the country radio star too.

Seems like that there's a lot of people trying hard to make what's marketed as country but it turns out all wrong. I'd have to agree it was around the time Garth and Clint Black first came out. It seems like the art of the song (e.g. Willie Nelson) is gone and it's more about grabbing an acoustic/cowboy hat and calling it country based on looks and not sound.

I think it was when "country" stars started wearing cowboy hats and everybody forgot what "western" music was.

I mean, who under the age of 25 can get the classic Blue Brothers line, "Oh, we have both types, country and western"? :(
 
mshilarious said:
I think it was when "country" stars started wearing cowboy hats and everybody forgot what "western" music was.

I mean, who under the age of 25 can get the classic Blue Brothers line, "Oh, we have both types, country and western"? :(

The scene that the Good ol Boys turn up after The brothers First reunion gig is classic. "you gonna look pretty funny eatin corn on the cob with no Fuckin Teeth" cracks me up everytime. :D But you are spot on.
 
Hopefully when country is really dead I will be there to extend ..ahumm.. an open hand.... to Shania to console her broken heart and then break another part of her. One last thought... the Mulletts did it.
 
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