Why I Love Country Music

One more thing: I wouldn't expect "I like rap fuck country" to be a common attitude, I don't think. More likely, "I like rap and forget everything else."

I REQUESTED THE TOP #FEMALE# POPULAR AND COUNTRY ROCK SINGERS SINCE THE 1960'S
AND RECEIVED A BUNCH OF GARBAGE NONE OF WHICH RELATED TO MY QUESTION.
THIS IS A TOTAL BUNCH OF DEFICATION WARMED OVER.
DISRESPECFUALLY ---------GLC

I REQUESTED THE TOP #FEMALE# POPULAR AND COUNTRY ROCK SINGERS SINCE THE 1960'S
AND RECEIVED A BUNCH OF GARBAGE NONE OF WHICH RELATED TO MY QUESTION.
THIS IS A TOTAL BUNCH OF DEFICATION WARMED OVER.
---------GLC-------------

This thread is so epic - and its ending strangely poignant.

When ILX goes registration only, new users should be forced to read this thread before they sign up.

Of course, as an ILX veteran, I skimmed the whole thing in about 30 seconds.

Is Fleetwood Mac country?

yeah, it's useful because of 10,000 ton Strawman that Chuck builds out of Alt-Country to protect commercial/pop Country, a genre that needs zero protection, especially from something as moribund as alt-country

It was like a three-day weekend rereading this thread ... I don't think my original question was ever answered though.

I don't know what I was after calling modern country "inoffensive and unchallenging," and chuck was right to call me out on it. Although, in his anger, it appears he may have thought I was "spouting some anti-Garth/Shania line" which I was not, at all. I was suggesting that "unchallenging" can be a GOOD thing, a pleasant thing, whether it's actually true or not, the idea is nice, and I think a lot of country aims to make good on that idea, to bring people into a "home and safety" kind of feeling. And no, I'm not talking about Montgomery Gentry or Big & Rich or other country bands that "rock real hard."

The last time I was in Knoxville I got my hair cut in Vestal, and the TV was on and it was some kind of "my boyfriend got a sex change" show ... inbetwee segments, the ads came on, and of cours they're basically the same ads I get in New York. I was struck by how loud, how abrasive, and how alien to the pace and feel of that barber shop the TV was (though I may have felt the same way at a sleepy barbership in Midwood, Brooklyn, too) and it came home to me - again - how television lays this vast same-ing blanket over the country, where what goes in New York and L.A. is what goes for everybody, and a lot of that shit is scary and not that pleasant and is liable to give you the feeling that things are frankly a little out of control, that the freaks are multiplying. I think there is plenty of country that very consciously sets out to counteract that feeling of anxiety and insecurity, and I don't see anything wrong with that per se.

Dave I don't think anyone can answer your question because you're basically asking other people to explain your own thoughts to you?

Wow, I was totally cranky on this thread and my knee was jerking all over the place! Not gonna try to explain or excuse that, but I will say that I am much more warm-hearted and less argumentatively assholish (not to mention at least attempting to be more open-minded about alt-country, i swear) here (as are a host of other folks, and those intrigued by this thread might well want to dig in and offer up their own two cents):

Rolling Country 2006 Thread

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Tracer OTM!

i don't know if i can trust a country thread that starts with lloyd cole.

Those were the good old days.