Country and Irish Country Music

6541

The older I get the more this music is becoming tolerable.
Does anyone else find this ? For years I hated it !

ohnonotgmail

That just means your hearing is getting worse.

riffmongous

6541 wrote: »

The older I get the more this music is becoming tolerable.
Does anyone else find this ? For years I hated it !

Nothing beats an bit of wee old Daniel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTkxkTrzKwQ

demanufactured

OP, you are tone deaf.

super_furry

6541 wrote: »

The older I get the more this music is becoming tolerable.
Does anyone else find this ? For years I hated it !

You're decomposing and rotting away from the inside and as your IQ drops, your tolerance for country music rises.

Still though....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDE_nVJcJ70

Deebles McBeebles

6541 wrote: »

The older I get the more this music is becoming tolerable.
Does anyone else find this ? For years I hated it !

How old were you when it started becoming tolerable, OP?

I like a good country guitarist, they can have a very distinct style and great chicken pickin', but I wouldn't sit down and listen to an album.

jimgoose

I can take the Irish stuff or leave it, but I love these guys:

SEPT 23 1989

the old outlaw country stuff is not bad

kneemos

I can take small doses of it. It's all more or less the same,but it has an innocence about it.

facehugger99

6541 wrote: »

The older I get the more this music is becoming tolerable.
Does anyone else find this ? For years I hated it !

No - Irish Country music is music for people who don't like music - it's awful sh;te.

selwyn froggitt

It's such a broad genre of music though isn't it...

Some of the greatest bands of all time like the Byrds,Buffalo Springfield and the Grateful dead have their roots in Country

riffmongous

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

the old outlaw country stuff is not bad

Waylon, Willie and the boys

topper75

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

the old outlaw country stuff is not bad

WAYLON!!!

Never really made an impression in Ireland. But I love it.

I blame RTÉ - should have showed the Dukes of Hazzard, instead of Sandy Kelly at the Olympia.

We ended up with inlaw country.

I have spent a small fortune on country music CDs and records through the years, but 0% of that would be Irish artists.

6541

You know the stuff that you see in the West of Ireland, Guy keyboards and another with a guitar and a foot drum machine ? Do you think we will lament that when it dies out as the generations move on ?

Plopsu

There's some great stuff out there. There's also a lot of shyte out there. Same as any genre really.*



*With regard to Irish country, the balance seems very shifted in the shyte direction.

kneemos

6541 wrote: »

You know the stuff that you see in the West of Ireland, Guy keyboards and another with a guitar and a foot drum machine ? Do you think we will lament that when it dies out as the generations move on ?

The twang of the old steel guitar,not Irish country without it.

Immortal Starlight

Always loved this

SEPT 23 1989

jimgoose

6541 wrote: »

You know the stuff that you see in the West of Ireland, Guy keyboards and another with a guitar and a foot drum machine ? Do you think we will lament that when it dies out as the generations move on ?

During my delicate, formative years I was partially put off Irish country music by being repeatedly subjected to a fat man from Moate in a cheap suit and a Stetson on the television blathering on about "honkey-tonk". I am only recently psychologically able to tolerate small doses of Mike Denver and Nathan Carter. :pac:

completedit

Irish country music is so **** it's ridiculous. It's a genre that people either hate or love but Chris Stapleton, Scotty McCreery, Luke Combs, Tim McGraw and Jana Kramer make good tunes. It's the ultimate feel good music(generally)

Plopsu

completedit wrote: »

Irish country music is so **** it's ridiculous. It's a genre that people either hate or love but Chris Stapleton, Scotty McCreery, Luke Combs, Tim McGraw and Jana Kramer make good tunes. It's the ultimate feel good music(generally)

Not to mention Steeldrivers, Devil Makes Three, Dead South....

bodhrandude

selwyn froggitt wrote: »

It's such a broad genre of music though isn't it...

Some of the greatest bands of all time like the Byrds,Buffalo Springfield and the Grateful dead have their roots in Country

Tinged with a bit of cool aid tho, I can't imagine going tripping to Margo and Daniel O'Donnell at the local community hall anyway.

Ciaran_B

Catherine McGrath is great - she's about the only one from that genre I could listen to.

Rothko

Big difference between proper country and the Irish stuff. Alternative country is especially good.

Dyr

Country n Horse****e

I'm sure every keyboard produced since the '90s has a preset that can play every Irish C&W song that was ever written or will ever will be written.

I suppose if you're from the midlands you might as well fantasize about being a cowboy.

completedit

Ciaran_B wrote: »

Catherine McGrath is great - she's about the only one from that genre I could listen to.

She's just 2007 Irish Taylor Swift....which isn't a bad thing.

Aglomerado

Wayne / Jayne County and the Electric Chairs FTW:P

Noveight

A lot of the Irish country stuff is made for folks to jive to. Jiving has become hugely popular again - well, the Irish version of it anyways.

Arguably predictable and uncreative, it’s music that is “built for purpose”. I enjoy it though, for the most part.

padd b1975

topper75 wrote: »

WAYLON!!!

Never really made an impression in Ireland. But I love it.

I blame RTÉ - should have showed the Dukes of Hazzard, instead of Sandy Kelly at the Olympia.

We ended up with inlaw country.

I have spent a small fortune on country music CDs and records through the years, but 0% of that would be Irish artists.

Waylon Jennings had an amazing voice, but unfortunately he was his own worst enemy.

RIP.

Birneybau

As tis nearly the Season, here's that Scouser twat who has pulled the eyes over some amount of idiots in this country:

The J Stands for Jay

6541 wrote: »

You know the stuff that you see in the West of Ireland, Guy keyboards and another with a guitar and a foot drum machine ? Do you think we will lament that when it dies out as the generations move on ?

No

DEFTLEFTHAND

padd b1975 wrote: »

Waylon Jennings had an amazing voice, but unfortunately he was his own worst enemy.

RIP.

His son Shooter Jennings is also very talented.

Great live act.

Gimme A Pound

Proper Texas and Appalachian roots/folk country music is awesome. Fascinating stories to it too. The white blues.

The Irish stuff is just bland, background noise.

AndrewJRenko

Noveight wrote: »

A lot of the Irish country stuff is made for folks to jive to. Jiving has become hugely popular again - well, the Irish version of it anyways.

Arguably predictable and uncreative, it’s music that is “built for purpose”. I enjoy it though, for the most part.

I'm always amazed to see young people in this scene doing the jiving thing. Do they consider that their parents' culture is completely uncool, like every other young person in the world?

Noveight

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

I'm always amazed to see young people in this scene doing the jiving thing. Do they consider that their parents' culture is completely uncool, like every other young person in the world?

It's hard to know.

Things tend to move in cycles, like you said all young people want to be different to those who went immediately before them.

The Irish version of jiving is easy to master and it's always handy to be able to throw shapes at a wedding or similar, so you can kind of get the appeal.

whisky_galore

Noveight wrote: »

A lot of the Irish country stuff is made for folks to jive to. Jiving has become hugely popular again - well, the Irish version of it anyways.

Arguably predictable and uncreative, it’s music that is “built for purpose”. I enjoy it though, for the most part.

Bland shyte. Next door to kids' TV show music.

Noveight

whisky_galore wrote: »

Bland shyte. Next door to kids' TV show music.

Bland is definitely fair, a lot of it is produced using the same old script.

Fine for dancing to or if you need cheap and cheerful background noise.

Atoms for Peace

Until Nathan Carter can wash down a half dozen quaaludes with a bottle of whiskey before breakfast I can never really take him seriously as a country artist.

6541

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Until Nathan Carter can wash down a half dozen quaaludes with a bottle of whiskey before breakfast I can never really take him seriously as a country artist.

On Nathan Carter - have you had the pleasure of discovering his brother, I nearly fell off my seat when I saw him on TV. Absolute krud !

whisky_galore

Noveight wrote: »

Bland is definitely fair, a lot of it is produced using the same old script.

Fine for dancing to or if you need cheap and cheerful background noise.

No thanks.

Noveight

whisky_galore wrote: »

No thanks.

No problemo!

gormdubhgorm

Was flicking through the channels of the radio heard a country music song.
Could not place the accent.
What part of America is he supposed to be from?
He has that nasal thing going on and the accent, that they all feel like they have to do.
The presenter said it was fella called Ray Lynham.

If you never heard of him like me can you tell where he is from?

I looked him up:

He is from Moate in Westmeath!!!

My main gripe with country music is why do people (who are not even American especially) feel the need to put on a fake nasally Southern American impersonation???
They are just like cover bands/or glorified impersonators.
Is it really a prerequisite to put on those fake nasally accents?

Irish Guitarist

Two completely different types of music. I've always loved real country music. That Irish showband shite can fuck off.

topper75

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

Was flicking through the channels of the radio heard a country music song.
Could not place the accent.
What part of America is he supposed to be from?
He has that nasal thing going on and the accent, that they all feel like they have to do.
The presenter said it was fella called Ray Lynham.

If you never heard of him like me can you tell where he is from?

I looked him up:

He is from Moate in Westmeath!!!

My main gripe with country music is why do people (who are not even American especially) feel the need to put on a fake nasally Southern American impersonation???
They are just like cover bands/or glorified impersonators.
Is it really a prerequisite to put on those fake nasally accents?

So when you are swinging some enthusiastic busty beetroot-faced Bridie with road frontage around the floor, you are thinking about the nasal voice of the singer?

People are strange.

Noveight

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

My main gripe with country music is why do people (who are not even American especially) feel the need to put on a fake nasally Southern American impersonation?

Throwback to the time when the world was a lot bigger and everything American was assumed to be better, probably.

gormdubhgorm

Noveight wrote: »

Throwback to the time when the world was a lot bigger and everything American was assumed to be better, probably.

Do people not think it sounds silly? In fairness to Daniel O`Donnell he sings in his own accent. Bucking the trend!

This sort of cultural appropriation should be consigned to the dustbin of history, shamelessly derivative idiocy.

Capt'n Midnight

From the Blues Brothers

Elwood: What kind of music do you usually have here?

Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country *and* western.


Irish country , with it's many covers badly done, would be on an even lower circle in Hell.

retalivity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey_bqW5qY-Y

Got to love the trucking subgenre

biko

Straight out of Swaziland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JR8fq1ny-0

The Late Late Show

Saw a bit of the Country music special last Friday and the main problem with it, is the music often is not even country. It seems most singers featured on the media these days can't ignore those 2 overrated musicals, The Greatest Showman and A Star Is Born. Songs from both will end up getting covered by singers from everywhere. Of course, Westlife used to be doing this all the time with whatever back then the media overhyped. Sure enough on Friday last, Shallow a song from the latter of these 2 modern musicals is performed as the second song featured. It sounded like a typical heat from You're A Star or Voice of Ireland or whatever they call it now. Nothing remotely country about a lot of this modern music. It is a million miles from Big Tom and in a bad way I mean. Big Tom and other older Irish country and folk singers would not go near this modern drivel and rightly so. Boybands and talent shows have polluted our scene and these modern, bland songs from these modern musicals only provide the perfect fodder for this weak set of singers who are all the media want to promote.