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2 minutes ago, DougO said:

Pretty much every legit genre of music is dead now, replaced by recycled soylent green dreck. Even the shittier popular forms that emerged in the 80s and 90s seem listenable compared to today's regeration.

All you can do is dig through everything you can and sift through the trash to find some hidden gems, both past and present, that were never allowed to by the industry to gain significant play.

This is way off. There are a bazillion legit artists out there these days, in country most of all probably.

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20 minutes ago, DougO said:

Pretty much every legit genre of music is dead now, replaced by recycled soylent green dreck.

Nah.  Not even close, unless you're judging every "genre" as one single whole.

There are a ton of legitimate artists out there in every genre imaginable.  The business model has mostly flipped -- record to make money touring as opposed to tour to make money selling records -- but music is not dead.

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52 minutes ago, Kennythetiger said:

This new music sucks. Same thing our dads said to us, and their dads said to them. 
We’re getting older. 

All true.  
 

But my disdain for Bro Country has nothing to do with its newness.  There are a ton of even newer genres that I either embrace or am indifferent towards.  

My disgust for it is based on the distinction between art and commerce.  And the fact that the teams of (mostly Nashville-based) musicians/producers/engineers making it actually *could* make great art if they chose to do so.  
 

But they don't.  

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3 hours ago, DougO said:

Pretty much every legit genre of music is dead now, replaced by recycled soylent green dreck. Even the shittier popular forms that emerged in the 80s and 90s seem listenable compared to today's regeration.

All you can do is dig through everything you can and sift through the trash to find some hidden gems, both past and present, that were never allowed to by the industry to gain significant play.

I really appreciate what the Internet and Napster did. So much music was foreign to me. Now I can just go fold anytime from any time from any land. 

And I like Garth Brooks. I mean, what's wrong with "No Fences"?

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1 hour ago, Slacks said:

I really appreciate what the Internet and Napster did. So much music was foreign to me. Now I can just go fold anytime from any time from any land. 

And I like Garth Brooks. I mean, what's wrong with "No Fences"?

 Back in the day Myspace was a great gateway to new bands, by seeing what other new bands your favorite bands were promoting on the front of their page, and then just linking one after another. It's a shame it eventually suffocated under the tsunami of spam and bullshit that made it unusable. Facebook is almost worthless for similar purposes.

The internet of the 90s and early 2000s was great for discovering music, old and new. Used to hang around alot of music oriented message boards and try out tons of recommendations. The resources aren't as good any more. They just keep steering you back to the mainstream crapola.

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1 hour ago, Slacks said:

I really appreciate what the Internet and Napster did. So much music was foreign to me. Now I can just go fold anytime from any time from any land. 

And I like Garth Brooks. I mean, what's wrong with "No Fences"?

I have no idea what I typed. Swype is not my first language.

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I DJ’d for my cousins wedding. And during the intermission between the ceremony and the reception (during the time the wedding party took their photos) the groom made a very special request… To play specifically this song and only this song- on repeat. That intermission was an hour and a half long. The venue was a small pavilion. And the attendees had no shelter from the life long damage this song is capable of doing in that length of time. The glares we received from the families were incredible. What an honor it truly was.
 
 
 
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I don't have the desire to look it up & frankly wouldn't dream of posting a link to the video even if I found it, but while waiting to watch some football last Saturday at my local pub and before they switched the house audio over to the games, an auto tuned abomination by some slapdick was playing on TouchTunes. The chorus was simply him professing to being "a cold beer drink-errrrrrr."

Two things:
1) that "song" may rival We Built This City by Starship as the worst shit ever, and
2) the performer will undoubtedly be set for life performing it & the songwriters likely just bought another mansion due to the bro country dudes & dudettes almost certainly claiming it as their personal anthem.

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6 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

I don't have the desire to look it up & frankly wouldn't dream of posting a link to the video even if I found it, but while waiting to watch some football last Saturday at my local pub and before they switched the house audio over to the games, an auto tuned abomination by some slapdick was playing on TouchTunes. The chorus was simply him professing to being "a cold beer drink-errrrrrr."

Two things:
1) that "song" may rival We Built This City by Starship as the worst shit ever, and
2) the performer will undoubtedly be set for life performing it & the songwriters likely just bought another mansion due to the bro country dudes & dudettes almost certainly claiming it as their personal anthem.

Is anyone really a warm beer drinker?

59 minutes ago, DougO said:

Just for the record, I hate Garth Brooks. He's like the Dave Matthews of hokey fakeass country. 

C'mon, it's not nice to pick on someone mentally challenged, like Dave Matthews. 

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On 8/18/2018 at 8:07 AM, deadshank said:

The Nashville machine is to blame.  Formulaic songs written for image-driven singers; just like pop and hip hop.  No substance, all image.  Deej's post is 100% correct.

Shooter Jennings' song Outlaw You perfectly describes the Nashville machine. 

It’s not like this shit hasn’t been going on for years. What do you think Guitars and Cadillacs is about?

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This is the laziest form of "songwriting" ever. This dumb motherfucker, aside from the first song he ever released, is total bro country, which I'm sure he did just to get his name out there as being country. He may as well just come out of the closet and try his hand at hop hop. And to include Jellyroll is just a ploy to remain relevant by attaching himself to the flavor of the month. If you actually listen I apologize in advance.

 

 

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On 9/22/2024 at 3:19 PM, DougO said:

Pretty much every legit genre of music is dead now, replaced by recycled soylent green dreck. Even the shittier popular forms that emerged in the 80s and 90s seem listenable compared to today's regeration.

All you can do is dig through everything you can and sift through the trash to find some hidden gems, both past and present, that were never allowed to by the industry to gain significant play.

That’s really true of all music in all eras. Go listen to the top 40 for just about any year and the songs suck. We keep listening to the good shit, so we start to think that all music in that era was good.

However, I’ll take the 60’s-80’s music over anything else for any genre. 

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4 hours ago, Longhornstampede said:

This is the laziest form of "songwriting" ever. This dumb motherfucker, aside from the first song he ever released, is total bro country, which I'm sure he did just to get his name out there as being country. He may as well just come out of the closet and try his hand at hop hop. And to include Jellyroll is just a ploy to remain relevant by attaching himself to the flavor of the month. If you actually listen I apologize in advance.

 

 

Doobie Gray doesn't deserve this 

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That’s really true of all music in all eras. Go listen to the top 40 for just about any year and the songs suck. We keep listening to the good shit, so we start to think that all music in that era was good.
However, I’ll take the 60’s-80’s music over anything else for any genre. 

This is really it. The music industries pumps out mountains of garbage. Then it gets whittled down in our memories to the good stuff.
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1 hour ago, NoRagrets said:

That’s really true of all music in all eras. Go listen to the top 40 for just about any year and the songs suck.

 

Actually there's been several studies about the declining melodic variation in popular music. It's definitely consolidating into recycled shit.

 

That said, there is probably more original good stuff out there now than ever, it's just extremely hard to find, like a needle in a haystack

 

43 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

*Dobie (and he was at the very least the 3rd singer to release it)

I know the "writers" lifted "Drift Away", but it's still shameless.  

 

Like I said, I ain't listening to that video, but by your post I take it they lifted Drift Away?

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1 minute ago, G650 said:

 

Well if Reggie Young isn't dropping tasty licks on it, it doesn't count in my book.

The Neville Brothers used to do a great live version.  I was right up at the front of the stage once at Liberty Lunch and Aaron Neville was about 5 feet away.  Hearing him sing it up close was damn near spiritual.  I'm not sure where this was shot, but it was around the same timeframe:

 

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23 minutes ago, G650 said:

 

Actually there's been several studies about the declining melodic variation in popular music. It's definitely consolidating into recycled shit.

 

That said, there is probably more original good stuff out there now than ever, it's just extremely hard to find, like a needle in a haystack

 

 

Like I said, I ain't listening to that video, but by your post I take it they lifted Drift Away?

i think it's easier now more than ever.  chappelle roan, billie eilish, post malone just to name a few, all got started with uploading their own stuff to the internet and going viral. 

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

Well, it was released over a year ago, so the danger seems to have passed.

Not quite...it's just starting to get a lot of airplay in the last few weeks according to my wife who has to suffer through listening to the Wolf at work because of a coworker with shitty taste in country music

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20 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

That "Heads Carolina" video is absolutely cringey.  I actually kinda liked the Jo Dee original.  It wasn't exactly ground-breaking but that was a good hook in the chorus.  This?  Oof.

I've actually had her song stuck in my head since I read Scraps post.

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