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MrMonroe
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Hang your head and cry
For you've killed poor Laurie Foster and you know you're bound to die
It's time I made a thread that lived up to my name.
This is about old timey music. I listen to a lot of it, and I play a great deal more.
For some people,
It's a Little Too Heavy
But that's because they are pussies.
Do you love real country the way I do? Are you as pissed off as I am that people associate the name "Toby Keith" with the phrase "Country Music?"
ITT we bitch about how our time has passed and how worthless young'uns have co-opted our beautiful musics.
ps I would post myself singing a song but I can't get my webcam working.
edit: even if Druhim is the only one that gets this it will be worth it.
For you've killed poor Laurie Foster and you know you're bound to die
It's time I made a thread that lived up to my name.
This is about old timey music. I listen to a lot of it, and I play a great deal more.
For some people,
It's a Little Too Heavy
But that's because they are pussies.
Do you love real country the way I do? Are you as pissed off as I am that people associate the name "Toby Keith" with the phrase "Country Music?"
ITT we bitch about how our time has passed and how worthless young'uns have co-opted our beautiful musics.
ps I would post myself singing a song but I can't get my webcam working.
edit: even if Druhim is the only one that gets this it will be worth it.
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I never really listened to punk music, but I still get angry anytime some douchebag fourteen year old emo faggot who lives in the suburbs and wears girl jeans and dyes his hair black claims bands like Green Day or Blink-182 are "punk" bands.
If you aren't young and homeless and starving and regularly dodging beatings from cops then odds are your music isn't punk music.
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I also like to think I like all styles of music
and after listening to some, I like this
is it just because folk is topical or something?
Country Death Song
Country has a twang.
Country actually grew from folk, which was originally a term for contemporary artists doing 'old timey' or traditional style music.
I feel like it's a difference involving guitar styles (country seems to frequently have steel guitars and banjos), song subjects, and that vocal twang might be part of it too
edit: whoops monoxide got there before me
His sons had a lot to live up to and they haven't quite done it.
yeah, it's totally a stylistic difference
there's country that's just a soft-spoken guy and a guitar, and there's folk with banjos and steels and electrics
though I think the modern definitions of "Country" generally refer to what is technically Country Rock, where modern Folk (or anti-folk or whatever subgenre) takes from the roots of both Folk and original Country
theys playin ol timey musics.
that i what I am talking about
They're more of folk-punk than anything
I heard there's a man down Tishamingle that'll pay you twenty dollars to sing into a can!
we probably should
I fucking love folk-punk
it is a great genre
it's pushing it, but
anti-folk is just a stupid name they came up with instead of calling it alternative folk or some other designation meaning slightly experimental folk music
it's like 'Trip-Hop' in that it isn't really a genre but an arbitrary designation of folk musicians that do things a little differently
and like trip-hop, it's a term frequently rejected by the artists that are supposed to define the genre
Still love Swagger a ton though
You don't have to be a broke ass deadend kid to be a punker these days, although I know a couple dudes who really are homeless and also punk as a motherfuck.
But in all seriousness, old Green Day stuff was close to punk (pop-punk), but man, have you heard the modern shit that people try to pass off as punk these days? Like those assbags who tried to cover Astro Zombies, My Chemical Romance. So much vocal correction and duplication work in the recording its like ramming a re-bar into my ear canal instead of a toothpick.
Or maybe its just that compared to the modern shit, Green Day actually seems comparatively punk.
Holy fuck is this what it feels like to get old.
thanks Kerrang for reminding me why no one cares about you
because he's totally rockin', and plays lots of awesome childrens' music, too.
also god I was drunk last night when I did this.
Did I mention I spoke with Pete Seeger over the phone once?
He said not to worry because shit doesn't look nearly as bad now as it did in the thirties. Take that for what it's worth, I suppose. This was before the housing market collapsed.
the Dixie Chicks are emblematic of the horrible state of modern country music
I love them so much.
Godspeed(Sweet Dreams) and Sin Wagon are on my most played playlist of like 60 songs.
Just what I do
starting here
Bruce Robison and Charlie Robison are the shit.
GET OUT
Most of their stuff is shit though
I mostly get my old-timey music from Johnny Cash
Like John Henry's Hammer and The Ballad Ira Hayes
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Man of Constant Sorrow
In the Jailhouse Now
Bluegrass and country is good stuff. I figured Mr. Monroe would be the one to post something like this eventually.
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