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Gareth Brookes - the atheist + agnostic angle

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    #32
    Jim Rockford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Jim Rockford


    legspin wrote: »
    Way moreso than the darkest metal, country music is suicide music.

    Far from it, unless you specifically go looking for it, like any other genres.

    A lot of people confuse American country music with the vastly inferior (with a few exceptions) Irish country music attempted clones

    Personal preferences and acquired tastes aside, good music is good music, regardless if its classical, country, pop, techo, jazz or metal. Shyte music is shyte music, regardless if its classical, country, pop, techo, jazz or metal.


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    #33
    legspin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭legspin


    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    Far from it, unless you specifically go looking for it, like any other genres.

    A lot of people confuse American country music with the vastly inferior (with a few exceptions) Irish country music attempted clones

    Personal preferences and acquired tastes aside, good music is good music, regardless if its classical, country, pop, techo, jazz or metal. Shyte music is shyte music, regardless if its classical, country, pop, techo, jazz or metal.

    I was not referring to it's inherent goodness or badness. The content and subject matter of country music has been well documented as having a role in depression and suicide.

    On a personal note, having been forced to listen to the likes of Margo and Ray Lynam on long car journeys as a kid, how I didn't throw myself out of the car just get away from it I don't know. I still shudder at the thought of Philomena Begley and her misogynistic trucker of a dad or Big Tom and his drug addled backing band (the Mainliners).


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    #34
    wp_rathead
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    endacl wrote: »
    Godin? Does he have a law too?

    :D

    ...grrr...


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    #35
    Jim Rockford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Jim Rockford


    legspin wrote: »
    I was not referring to it's inherent goodness or badness. The content and subject matter of country music has been well documented as having a role in depression and suicide.

    On a personal note, having been forced to listen to the likes of Margo and Ray Lynam on long car journeys as a kid, how I didn't throw myself out of the car just get away from it I don't know. I still shudder at the thought of Philomena Begley and her misogynistic trucker of a dad or Big Tom and his drug addled backing band (the Mainliners).

    I think you might have missed the point, but yeah some Irish country music is woeful


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    #36
    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    Excuse me while I Godwin this thread but this is a work of genius. That is all.



    You're welcome. :D


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    robindch
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    Ah, here we go.

    If you're using Chrome, this addon is a must:

    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/garth-blocks/baicbelfjoldkmllpmjmheemjiddppod


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    #38
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,039 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    http://kingofiona.tumblr.com/post/90853256535/the-intern-remixes-john-waters
    Meaning, hope, and purpose - concepts ailen to the godless liberati - abounded within my spirit as I devoted my considerable intellect to this crusade. And yet there was an absence. I felt it when, in old and futile habit, I stole fleeting glances through the seething morass we have come to know as the nation’s media. Who among the members of the Irish writers’ guild had the firmness of character required to fill my considerable void? Who would embody the courage and fortitude that forms the sine á que non of writing my conservative column, railing against a media where little people are allowed comment both unsupervised and uncensored? Who would dare to voice the truth of the insidious menace that masquerades under that nom de guerre, ‘Garth Brooks’?

    O_o

    Life ain't always empty.



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