Who Destroyed Country?

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So, what do you think is the secret ingredient necessary to convince the masses it's "country" they're listening to instead of the "80s garbage pop" that we hear?

I'd love to read your ideas. Maybe we can take of our left over 80s garbage pop 4-track cassettes and slap a little secret sauce on them. We can be the internet version of nashville. We'll sell them at gas stations next to the over-the-counter speeders and cheap sunglasses. I have two ideas myself.

I think the main one is that little yelpy yodle thing that do at the end of every line that sounds Peter Brady. "Time to c~h~a~n~g~e." I spent the last 15 years trying to get my voice to stop doing that so I didn't sound like a cartoon. It shouldn't be hard to unbreak that habit.

Next, you need the pedal steel. It's like you can take any entre at Denny's and dump picante sauce on it and call it "South of the border Style". Pancakes included. Pedal steel being the picante sauce, and kenny chesney being the denny's entre.

I remember a few years ago that 6-year-old from star search (not christina agulera - the one who sang patsy), who has now grown to have perky titties, made a little crossover attempt with a blatantly shitty pop song complete with video of her walking around with erect nipples in a camesole made from wet kleenex. What the hell is her name?!?

Anyway, the thing was so obvious in it's every motive to be a pop song but tried to keep one foot in the country aisle at wal-mart's CD department by sprinkling just the tiniest meow of pedal steel about once every 4 seconds. OK, sometimes it was fiddle. DavidK probably knows how to do the meow thing on the fiddle. Isn't he the bow man from Cleveland?

I look too weird to make a country video. While I was back home, a 400-pound, platinum-blonde beautician asked me if I was gay because I was wearing these narley buddy holly-esque glasses that I paid a shitload of money for. Obviously what's cool on the flat lands ain't neceassarily cool in the valley. I also consider the fact that I was the only guy in the place not trying to get in her pants might have played a factor in her evaluation.

She told me it was the glasses, but I got some fucked up hair, too. I imagine it to look like that johnny bravo cartoon, but most of the time it looks like a cross between don king and the heat-miser from rudolf the red nose reindeer.

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/1972/jb.jpg
http://www.misfittoys.net/gallery/miser/heat2.jpg

You know what don king looks like.
 
cephus said:
I remember a few years ago that 6-year-old from star search (not christina agulera - the one who sang patsy), who has now grown to have perky titties, made a little crossover attempt with a blatantly shitty pop song complete with video of her walking around with erect nipples in a camesole made from wet kleenex. What the hell is her name?!?

Anyway, the thing was so obvious in it's every motive to be a pop song but tried to keep one foot in the country aisle at wal-mart's CD department by sprinkling just the tiniest meow of pedal steel about once every 4 seconds. OK, sometimes it was fiddle. DavidK probably knows how to do the meow thing on the fiddle. Isn't he the bow man from Cleveland?
Leann Rimes.....
 
I like her music (and videos....yummy....)......why does it matter what category shes marketed under.....
 
Yummy, huh? There are some days when I'd give anything to be as simple as you.










I guess I don't look at her the way a consumer does. I totally can appreciate the way the product is spun. You see the yummy nips and that's cool. I see that video and her songs as a work, I guess. The nips are OK, but I remember her more for when she was 8 and pretty remarkable without the nips.
 
shes hot and she sings great...how simple does it get......

and when i have sex with my wife, i try not to think what she was like when she was 8........

if you keep looking for a woman that was hot when she was 8, you may have a problem......
 
OK Cephus, I pretty much agree with just about everything you just said, BUT, I'm back to my question of what do you consider country? When most older country fans bemoan the 'new country', I don't really think most of them are thinking true country was rockabilly. It was Loretta, and Porter, and Patsy, and Hank Sr., and Ernest Tubb, and Tex Ritter and Johnny Cash. It's a matter of perspective.

I remember Hank Jr's 'Young Country' video and I can't help but think of how the 'young ones' then are now the old ones bitchin' about the new young ones.

Everything changes.

I like this glimpse into the mind of Cephus. You're alright, I don't care what they say.
 
Well, hell! The post I was responding to was from Friday, when you just came back to it. Somehow I didn't see the last page of this thread, so what I said makes even less sense than normal.

Screw it, I'm goin' to bed. I don't know why I let myself get sucked into this stuff.
 
Gidge said:
shes hot and she sings great...how simple does it get......


I disagree about both....................... Just because she showed her perkies doesn't make her hot............... And that growl in her voice was cute when she was a kid, but it sounds really weird to me now......................I was talking about her as a commodity, but if you want to look at pop singers as potential wives and lovers, that's your boggle............................If I met my wife when I was 21 and she was 8, I don't think I'd ever be able to see her as a potential lay..............................................

I don't know what the significance is of the periods, but I have more in my post, so I guess I win.



Anonymoose: Johnny Cash was rockabilly sure as shit. His picture was up on the wall at Sun next to elvis and jerry lee lewis.

I woke up this morning hating country and this thread. Unfortunately, I have rehearsal with my 'billy band this morning at 11. I just want to be in Cheap Trick again, like I did when I was 13.

"This next song is the first song on our new album. It just came out this week and the song is called... Surrender.... <chick> <chick> <chick> <chick> .....
 
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.


Billy Ray did it I agree, why is it that country music is always so over produced and polished sounding....it doen'st sound real half the time. And it' so stuctured and radio friendly, the video's are so acted out...yuk!
 
cephus said:
I disagree about both....................... Just because she showed her perkies doesn't make her hot............... And that growl in her voice was cute when she was a kid, but it sounds really weird to me now......................I was talking about her as a commodity, but if you want to look at pop singers as potential wives and lovers, that's your boggle............................If I met my wife when I was 21 and she was 8, I don't think I'd ever be able to see her as a potential lay..............................................

I don't know what the significance is of the periods, but I have more in my post, so I guess I win.

Thats the beauty of all this...you can like what and who you want, and so can I.....If people wanna spend their time crying about who gets put into what genre, so be it....im not one of them.....

yes, you win......congrats.....
 
youre right, shes not hot in that video.....
 

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Who destroyed country?
Fred Rose, (even if he did write 'Blue Eyes Cryin In The Rain') when he moved to Nashville in 1942 and started Acuff/Rose Music and began crossover marketing.
 
she's not 8 anymore, so id 8 her......
 

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brandrum said:
sure he wasn't using a wireless?

It isn't wireless when you can see the jack has nothing plugged into it. Besides the fact that he wasn't even strumming in time. Makes me wonder if he was lip syncing too.
 
I am one of the ones that bemoans new country. As a matter of record, other than Johnny Cash, I refuse to listen to any country music post 1980. I am a HUGE country fan, but "classic" country. George Jones, Cash(my hero), Merle Haggard ,Ferlin Husky, Ricky Skaggs, Johnny Paycheck..Marty Stuart

Before then everything was great. Real country music, not this pop hair rock bullshit.

I also like some "alt country" IE I see hawks in LA, Ryan Adams, Whiskytown.....Old Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Golden Smog..Son Volt..bottle rockets, coffee creek....
 
I don't know who ruined it, but Dwight Yoakam and Steve Earle are 2 of my favorite artists.
 
donkeystyle said:
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.


Shania SINGS too??? :eek:













I'd climb her like a ladder...

:rolleyes:
 
Anfontan said:
No, the modern stuff is rehashed 70's rock with twangy guitar gymnastics on super light gauge strings. :(

Exactly! I keep saying that, but folks look at you, like you are crazy. It's SO obvious to me....
....maybe they are 'blinded, like a deer in headlights' or something...
 
Dumby said:
Billy Ray did it I agree,

I'll have to add my '2 cents' to this one....IF, there was a Poll, this would probably be my choice!
 
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