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Old 11-10-2007, 06:36 AM   #101 (permalink)
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'One step forward, two steps back, no ones gettin far walking like that' - Classic!

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Old 11-15-2007, 11:10 AM   #102 (permalink)
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Since when is alot of acoustic folk associated with the UK? Compared to the amount of american folk artists (Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, etc) and recently (Elliott Smith, Sam Beam, Mike Kinsella, Jeff Mangum).

Anyway, what you hear on the radio isn't country, its more like southern pop. I hate it when people assume all that Garth Brooks **** is what country is all about, with the amount of hype Johnny Cash gets you'd expect people to at least somewhat expect theres more to it.
There's an exceptional amount of British folk out there, it just goes unrecognized i find, it doesn't fair as much as American folk i think because logically America being a lot bigger would have more folk, but I've recently been looking into British folk and although very new to me I'm really enjoying a lot of what i hear, and it seems a very different type of folk than American, entirely different scene, almost couldn't class it in the same genre but it is folk, a lot of Celtic kind of stuff.
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Old 11-21-2007, 09:23 PM   #103 (permalink)
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there's just something about the twang in yer voice when ya sing it. lol
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Old 11-25-2007, 12:13 AM   #104 (permalink)
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I'm from Texas and I can't stand country and I know A LOT of people who are right there with me.

So I guess my reasons for not liking country are that I don't think any country song has ever been good.
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Old 11-28-2007, 03:22 PM   #105 (permalink)
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I used to hate country, wouldn't even want to hear it for a second.

Then I started dating this guy who loved country. I wasn't very fond of it at first but the more I listened to it, the more I learned to appreciate it. Sure some of the lyrics are whacky and something you wouldn't want to hear someone sing about, but music today in our youth is so degrading and violent. Good music cant be found, but in country there is tons of it. There arent enough people who listen to it!!
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Old 11-30-2007, 06:49 PM   #106 (permalink)
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i never liked country before now

but i learned to love it alot because it has some meaning to it, because i looked up some music and i learned a lot more.

i love it now
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Old 12-01-2007, 08:31 AM   #107 (permalink)
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At first I didn't like country music, because I never properly listened to it. I had totally the wrong idea about what it was, but I started with some of Van Morrisons country music and moved around a bit from there, and I'm really glad I took the time to look in to it a bit more.
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Old 12-01-2007, 03:15 PM   #108 (permalink)
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Since when is alot of acoustic folk associated with the UK? Compared to the amount of american folk artists (Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, etc) and recently (Elliott Smith, Sam Beam, Mike Kinsella, Jeff Mangum).

Anyway, what you hear on the radio isn't country, its more like southern pop. I hate it when people assume all that Garth Brooks **** is what country is all about, with the amount of hype Johnny Cash gets you'd expect people to at least somewhat expect theres more to it.
I absolutely agree. The "Country" that comes out today has no originality, and next to no sincerity. The always sing about either homestyle values, their childhood, love, God, or drinking. Not that any of those are bad things to write about, but when an entire genre limits itself to what is safe, and what sells, it takes out of itself any aspect of artistic expression or progression. My mother and all of her friends listen to Big And Rich, Keith Urban, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry, and all the other crap that comes out on the "Country Radio" here in Annapolis, MD (Not The South, Not True Country Territory). I visited her a while back and she had bought the new Kenny Chesney CD, who I don't normally mind, but the new one was so terrible I didn't know how to deal with it. There was a song in the beginning where, in the chorus, he sang "I hope someday I'll have a wife and kid". Not once in the verse, where a line like that would usually be dropped, but over and over again in the chorus. That phrase, devoid of any poetic insight, was the cornerstone of the song. When I hear this type of music, and knowing what I know about my mom, I think that the people who listen to this music don't listen to it because they like music, but rather they need the reinforcement in their everyday lives in order to keep living their lives as comfortably as they do.
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Old 12-10-2007, 12:46 PM   #109 (permalink)
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I don't like country that much actually...I only like new country, what may have come out on the scene in the last 10 years...that is all.
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Old 12-12-2007, 05:47 PM   #110 (permalink)
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I guess Johnny Cash is the closest to country that I can stand without wanting to shove a fork in my ear
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