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Country and Western

  • 02-11-2012 5:50pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭


    So. Watched the Country Music Association Awards last night.

    Why has C&W such a bad rep?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,124 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Inbreedin'


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Cos Its crap.

    Country music though, is fab.


    Big difference between C & W and Country music.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    MadsL wrote: »
    So. Watched the Country Music Association Awards last night.

    Why has C&W such a bad rep?

    Country Music
    Hank Williams
    Waylon Jennings
    Dwight Yoakam

    C&W
    Big Tom
    Larry Cunningham

    Go figure!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Lapin wrote: »
    Cos Its crap.

    Country music though, is fab.


    Big difference between C & W and Country music.

    To be honest, I'm not hearing a lot of difference between Rock and C&W these days, just a twang and the subject matter. Here's an example.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Pfft.

    What you want is Country Funk.



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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    MadsL wrote: »
    So. Watched the Country Music Association Awards last night.

    Why has C&W such a bad rep?

    because it's ****e.
    Simple.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    What you want is Country Funk.[/YOUTUBE]

    I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. More of this please.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Seaneh wrote: »
    because it's ****e.
    Simple.
    And that's my point. Why do so many people dismiss a whole genre out of hand?

    If I asked you, what do you think of Johnny Cash, you'd probably say Legend.

    C&W. Dismissed in one word.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    MadsL wrote: »
    And that's my point. Why do so many people dismiss a whole genre out of hand?

    If I asked you, what do you think of Johnny Cash, you'd probably say Legend.

    C&W. Dismissed in one word.
    I hate his music.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    So, what kind of music you got?
    We've got both kinds, Country AND Western


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    The Avett Brothers are the most 'country' sounding music I listen to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    9959 wrote: »
    Country Music
    Hank Williams
    Waylon Jennings
    Dwight Yoakam

    C&W
    Big Tom
    Larry Cunningham

    Go figure!

    Huh?

    That's like saying
    Rap
    Public Enemy
    Beastie Boys
    Dr Dre

    R&B
    Westlife
    Jedward


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,110 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    Alt country is where its at. Check out Bonnie Prince Billy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Country Music Is Sexy And Rocks!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    RikkFlair wrote: »
    Alt country is where its at. Check out Bonnie Prince Billy.

    I heard a couple of great Punk Bluegrass bands recently; Dumptruck Butterlips and these guys, Dirtfoot.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    MadsL wrote: »
    Huh?

    That's like saying
    Rap
    Public Enemy
    Beastie Boys
    Dr Dre

    R&B
    Westlife
    Jedward

    I thought Jedward were jazz/rock fusion.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    9959 wrote: »
    I thought Jedward were jazz/rock fusion.

    More like jizz/cóck fusion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Where To wrote: »
    Country Music Is Sexy And Rocks!!

    Needs more guns!



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    I like country music but after the outbreak of the line-dancing craze in the mid '90s I think we shouldn't play with fire. My face still aches from all the cringing.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Yellowblackbird




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,110 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    Johnny Cash is class. I'm partial to a bit of Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris.

    Garth Brooks on the other hand should have been thrown on a bonfire years ago.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    Country and Western haircut = "The Mullet"

    2 haircuts in one.

    Business at the front. Party at the back.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    RikkFlair wrote: »
    Garth Brooks on the other hand should have been thrown on a bonfire years ago.

    He's not exactly done much recently other than sit in Vegas and collect his pension.

    On the other hand, incredible voices like Carrie Underwood are now dominating the Country charts. Love this song for instance. One of the best female voices across any genre.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭666irishguy


    If I am honest the thing that put me off country and western for years was Irish country and western. It's almost completely stuck in mid 1970's grand ole oprey American country and western in terms of sound. The songs are mostly just Irish fellas singing in an American accent about things that could only happen in the fantasy America in their head or just 'cowboying up' everyday things . About ten years ago I got a lend of the Highway men's first album and some of the newer Johnny Cash stuff and I am a big fan of the outlaw country and western singers ever since. I suppose they are the real deal and sell it so much better.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Talking about Cash. I defy anyone to listen to this without getting goosebumps.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    My face still aches from all the cringing.
    An achy breaky face?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    An achy breaky face?

    I thanked. +1 for the awesome username. I saw what you did there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Loved Johnny Cash who both a legend and an icon.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭Paddycrumlinman


    My favorite Country Song. Living in the southern US, country music is all the rage. It has grown on me in the last 10 years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Can't watch "Hurt" without tears streaming. Astonishing version.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,226 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Buddy Rich was being prepped for an operation and the nurse asked him was he allergic to anything: "Just two things", he replied, "country and western."


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Buddy Rich was being prepped for an operation and the nurse asked him was he allergic to anything: "Just two things", he replied, "country and western."

    Whilst that's funny, I have no time for people who stick a label on music and then dismiss a whole genre. I've told my daughter over and over, music is music - it's fine to not like it because you don't like it, just don't refuse to listen to it because of its label.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Kris Kristofferson is an example of good country.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Alternative country took off big time a few years back. Its a nice blend of the genre, the likes Ryan Adams and Wilco are well worth listening to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,947 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    I wouldn't be a huge fan of country music but I do like some of it, mostly alternative country. I do hate pretty much all Irish country and western that I've heard.









  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,674 ✭✭✭Dangerous Man


    Ladies and gentlemen - Mr Conway Twitty:




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭666irishguy


    The Highway men - The Road Goes on Forever. A modern classic.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3zSp_uhjcI


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    Has anyone switched over to Sunshine 106.8 FM?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,800 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    I saw her the other night on Later with Jools, Valerie June, seriously good.


    Edith Frost

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    Lots of decent country out there, listen to The C Word RTE 2XM Monday @ 22:00.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    South East Radio on a Sunday morning,absolute god-awful Irish country music.When I lived at home my Sunday morning hangover was made worse by having this shite on in the background.



    Here's a question,why do so many travellers like Irish country music?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,947 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    zerks wrote: »
    South East Radio on a Sunday morning,absolute god-awful Irish country music.When I lived at home my Sunday morning hangover was made worse by having this shite on in the background.

    I know how you feel


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭Mully_2011


    zerks wrote: »
    South East Radio on a Sunday morning,absolute god-awful Irish country music.When I lived at home my Sunday morning hangover was made worse by having this shite on in the background.



    Here's a question,why do so many travellers like Irish country music?

    KILL IT KILL IT WITH FIRE !!!!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    zerks wrote: »
    South East Radio on a Sunday morning,absolute god-awful Irish country music.When I lived at home my Sunday morning hangover was made worse by having this shite on in the background.



    Here's a question,why do so many travellers like Irish country music?

    Travellers and the mentally handicapped. Im not being un-Pc about the mentally handicapped but this is a genuine observation from my day job. The local special school are always a guaranteed group booking when ever my work place has a Country N irish act in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,800 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Gillian Welch, quite left of the field rocky country blues.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 KKHammer


    Keno 92 wrote: »
    The Avett Brothers are the most 'country' sounding music I listen to.

    Playing Button Factory next March.


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