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Irish country music

  • 02-10-2018 09:28PM
    #1
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,936 ✭✭✭


    Jesus H God-dancing Christ it is fcukin awful. I've tried to understand it, really I have, but Glor Toir this evening killed even that. This is the greatest load of bollix I've ever heard. Are there really people that like that shlte? I can't believe how many fcukers are making a living out of it.
    As another poster said recently, discuss.


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  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I just don't listen to it and avoid any programmes that include it.

    Simples!


  • #3
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    Just avoid it if poss.
    I like some american country music especially the more blusesy (sp) kind.


  • #4
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989




  • #5
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,793 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    A recent thread.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057908792&page=6


  • #6
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Same can be said about any genre, and probably is said about the genre you like yourself OP.


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  • #7
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,936 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    I know, but in a weak moment I happened to switch on to tg4 and decided I'd give it a go, just to try to understand what the fcuk country music has to do with Ireland. Bad mistake.


  • #8
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    It's a ploy of the lizard overlords to destroy our links to actual irish culture.


  • #9
    TheRiverman
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    Fake music :eek:


  • #10
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,936 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    biko wrote: »
    Same can be said about any genre, and probably is said about the genre you like yourself OP.

    I like many different kinds of music, but this is just pure rubbish. What has country music got to do with Ireland anyway?


  • #11
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    SmartinMartin wrote: »
    What has country music got to do with Ireland anyway?

    We're a country.


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  • #12
    d8491prj5boyvg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭d8491prj5boyvg


    Stop the thread and let me off


  • #13
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Cynthia Curved Thesis wrote: »
    Stop the thread and let me off

    One day at a time...


  • #14
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,936 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    Sweet Jesus


  • #15
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,295 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    It’s by far the most popular genre in Ireland in terms of how many ppl make their living from it gigging and the audiences that go to see them week in week out.


  • #16
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    SmartinMartin wrote: »
    I know, but in a weak moment I happened to switch on to tg4 and decided I'd give it a go, just to try to understand what the fcuk country music has to do with Ireland. Bad mistake.

    Admit it op you are a closet Daniel O’ Donnell fan.


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Up in Caaaavan, we play both country and western.


  • #18
    Jimmy.
    Site Banned Posts: 386 ✭✭Jimmy.


    People who marry their cousin and have kids what can you expect.


  • #19
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    They love it up around Roscommon, Cavan, Monaghan and other nothing counties like that.

    It’s a bizarre scene. American music influenced in part by Irish traditional music is packaged up and sent back to Ireland to be played by men and women in cowboy hats.


  • #20
    Lord Glentoran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Lord Glentoran


    SmartinMartin wrote: »
    Jesus H God-dancing Christ it is fcukin awful. I've tried to understand it, really I have, but Glor Toir this evening killed even that. This is the greatest load of bollix I've ever heard. Are there really people that like that shlte? I can't believe how many fcukers are making a living out of it.
    As another poster said recently, discuss.

    I’m a family carer and have to endure this pish on a daily basis.

    Burn it with fire, I say. Unnecessary key changes, reactionary gender roles, and unwarranted sentimentality about Ballypissant and being under Mammy’s thumb. Burn it!


  • #21
    Hidalgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,845 ✭✭✭Hidalgo


    There's nothing I like more than someone from Longford or Cavan rattling on about driving their pickup to the local baseball game


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  • #22
    daithi1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭daithi1970


    It's fairly ****e, alright..its like they've taken Genuine American Country Music, removed the musicality and replaced it with sentimentality.
    And Cavan accents.
    Apparently Big Tom and the Mainliners had to change their name in the US asthe term mainlining had heavy IV drug abuse connotations..or maybe you just had to be heavily medicated to enjoy Big Tom...


  • #23
    Gaspode
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    Different strokes for Different folks. I like American country music but most of the Country n Irish stuff is quite poor - there is a certain sound a lot of Irish artists go for that is old-fashioned and twee, A lot of the musicians themselves are great but many of the big name singers are mediocre at best. Country is huge outside of Little England The Pale, people love it and a lot of money is to be made by artists.

    Like any other genre, if you dont like it dont listen.

    Someone once told me there's only 2 types of music in this world - the music you like which is brilliant, and everything else which is kack.


  • #24
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS-zEH8YmiM


  • #25
    Anesthetize
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,471 ✭✭✭Anesthetize


    How do people allow themselves to be exposed to this type of music in the first place?


  • #26
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,793 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Anesthetize wrote: »
    How do people allow themselves to be exposed to this type of music in the first place?

    They use their ears.


  • #27
    Anesthetize
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,471 ✭✭✭Anesthetize


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    They use their ears.
    There's their problem.

    Never use your ears.


  • #28
    tupenny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭tupenny


    Linda Scruffy Bass wrote: »
    One day at a time...

    Tireda goin round n round


  • #29
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    The showbands have a lot to answer for, this Country N Irish bastardised sub genre evolved out of the showband scene in the 70's, though the stuff around now is ten times worse.


  • #30
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    To put Irish Country Music in context with other styles of music, 10 being the best, 1 being the worst and barely music at all, or only didactic :


    (off the upper end of the scale and unrankable, Mozart and Beethoven)

    10 : Schubert, Bach, Haydn range
    9-7 : The greater part of the classical music canon,
    6 : a decent portion of the top end of jazz, and handful of 20th century popular music pieces, the lower end but nevertheless worthwhile classical music
    5 : Mediocre classical music, much jazz, snippets of folk or traditional music from here and there, the top portion of pop music
    4 : some pop music, throwaway classical music
    3 : simple traditional songs, a decent portion of pop music
    2 : Country music, much pop music, 'Musicals'
    1 : nursery rhymes, Irish Country Music, the greater part of pop music

    (off the lower end of the scale : Rap, for those who call it music, although it equally be left out of this ranking, as not music)



    So Irish Country Music has its place, for those who like that place.


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  • #31
    dxhound2005
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    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    To put Irish Country Music in context with other styles of music, 10 being the best, 1 being the worst and barely music at all, or only didactic :


    (off the upper end of the scale and unrankable, Mozart and Beethoven)

    10 : Schubert, Bach, Haydn range
    9-7 : The greater part of the classical music canon,
    6 : a decent portion of the top end of jazz, and handful of 20th century popular music pieces, the lower end but nevertheless worthwhile classical music
    5 : Mediocre classical music, much jazz, snippets of folk or traditional music from here and there, the top portion of pop music
    4 : some pop music, throwaway classical music
    3 : simple traditional songs, a decent portion of pop music
    2 : Country music, much pop music, 'Musicals'
    1 : nursery rhymes, Irish Country Music, the greater part of pop music

    (off the lower end of the scale : Rap, for those who call it music, although it equally be left out of this ranking, as not music)



    So Irish Country Music has its place, for those who like that place.

    You left out yodeling.


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