to HATE country and western music?

[strandedatsea]

Who buys this stuff? Who supports this dangerous industry?

It's everywhere here, they play it in the supermarkets, on the radio, blaring out of the clubs at all hours of the day and night.

Sorry. Had to get it off my chest. It's driving me insane.

I love it buy it support the industry and am a killer dolly at karaoke so yabu

You know that, if you play C&W music backwards, the singer's crops all grow back, his dog comes back to life and his woman doggone dang well comes back to him?

Ooh ah love a bit o' country. YABU.

Having said that, there's a lot of shit I wouldn't listen to either.

Depends who's picking the playlist.

We should get dolly on for an MN chat. That would be AWESOME

"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for those of you who like country music, "denigrate" means to "put down." "
-Bob Newhart

Though, as I said, I do like it. Though DH, who does not, looked a bit at our not quite 3 yr old DS singing "Rain makes corn/Corn makes whiskey/Whiskey makes my baby/Feel a little frisky...." Oops.

Love Dolly myself.

But yes it is whiney and most of the dolly-alikes you hear are always such 'victims' in their songs. That's what annoys me most.

Another classic Dolly quote:

"When we were younger there were so many of us living all together, boys and girls. We had to wash in front of the boys so i'd wash all the way down to decency. Then i'd wash up as far as decency.....Then i'd quickly wash decency...."

Actually - if it wasn't for country music you wouldn't be able to laugh at this...

God you would hate my music collection then, it is 99% country

What is not to like about Tim Mcgraw Brad Paisley and Keith Urban!

You just have to listen to this

And according to my 19 year old niece, country is cool!

thankyou so much bint, those song titles are brilliant. "How Can I Get Over You If You Won't Get Out From Under Me" anyone?

Unquiet dad - that's one of my favourite jokes!!!

I love it. I love the story element of the songs, the unashamed sentiment, the dark Johnny Cash stuff. I love the history of the genre and the huge amount you learn about American social history, especially re the empowerment of women. Loretta Lynn's life is fascinating. I love that these women are almost all working class, often from extreme deprivation and poverty and they used their voices to improve their dire situations.

I imagine you've only heard the twangy stuff. Have you heard Ode to Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentry? Have a listen. Southern Gothic fabulous.

There are lots of tough women in the songs if you find them.

Have you heard Little Sparrow - Dolly Parton's recent(ish) album? Or Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris? They might change your mind.

Ford Econoline - song by Nanci Griffith. No victim there.

Please have a listen to these on Spotify or wherever. I'd love to know if you still loathe it all. You might. But I won't hold it against you. IF you do listen, please come back and give your opinion. Whatever it is.

So long gals.

There's nothing worse than Irish C & W though, esp 1970s vintage.

DD2 likes Taylor Swift (boak). Although Johnny Cash isn't bad, especially the more gospelly songs he recorded -- 'Ain't No Grave' is fab.

How could you not love 'Harder than your Husband' by Frank Zappa? A country classic.

PS Check out "If you can't live without me why weren't you dead when I met you?" by Tina C. Can't beat a country drag act. Toodle pip, I've off to bake an apple pie and wait fer ma man to git home from the bar.

Ok I will try and listen to some of your suggestions once I get the chance (at the moment I am typing with one hand and separating two fighting dd's with the other....).

I promise if I like them I will tell you. I won't lie. You never know, I might be a convert.....

PeopleCrunchingCelery (fab name) - I'll concede that Bobbie Gentry song is alright but the others you mentioned, I'm afraid I could get past the first 15 seconds.

couldn't get past, sorry!

Perversely - I quite like Jolene, and I also like loads of folk music, and it can be a fine line between folk and country sometimes...And even Led Zep did some stuff that was dangerously close to country, although I didn't like it much... I dunno, it's quite a broad genre I suppose.

Listen to Dolly, Roseanne Cash, Emmylou.

Listen to Johnny Cash's Rick Rubin- produced albums.

Some of it gorgeous, some of it cringeworthy. Like all genres.

Tim McGraw - he did that awful, awful, AWFUL (I mean gut-churningly, life-endingly AWFUL) record with someone called "Nelly", didn't he? I remember seeing it on some chart show on TV about 5 years ago. And I've just dug up what I wrote about it at the time:

"Nelly" presumably has enough bling and "attitude" and stupid sportswear for him not to mind people pointing at him and saying "you've got a girl's name". And McGraw is one of those people you only find in the American charts, clad in shades and a black hat and sporting a camp goatee. Yes, it's the world's first rap-country crossover, and it is every bit as bad as that sounds. It meanders along for four minutes (although it seems much, much longer) with no vestige of a tune and one or both of Nelly and Tim growling "it's allll in mah hheeeee-d". The video gives away the fact that the two of them haven't even met and probably recorded the thing in two separate studios thousand of miles apart, thus betraying the "song"'s origins as a marketing-man's dream. Presumably it's aiming at snaring a predominantly-southern-state white redneck audience and an urban black audience at the same time. Shame it's such an unmitigated load of shite. And it'll probably lead to more amalgamations of the two genres: "Mah Baby Dang Done Left Me (So My Homeez Gonna Fill Da Bitch Wit Lead)" perhaps? Or "You Said Mah Dawg Was Ugly (So Mah Homeez Ain't Gonna Hang Wit Ya Posse No More)"?

This thread has made me remember loads of songs I've not heard in years.

Nothing better than a bit of Dolly or Loretta, even Conway Twitty blaring from the speakers whilst you get the housework done.

I may feel inspired to clean tomorrow

YANBU

YABU - Dixie chicks!

OOOO I like it, nothing like 'Stand by Your Man' Rose Garden, and Working 9 to 5

Whoever suggested we get Dolly on here for a chat is a blardy GENIUS!

MNHQ PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE sort it!

She would jus' love all the gals here!