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What is good country music?
- Thread starter vchimpanzee
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Yeah, well, as far as I'm concerned, "nobody wants to hear that stuff" is how I feel about today's junk. These are the songs listed that I would enjoy hearing.BlueHen said:
"Can't Stop My Heart From Loving You" The O'Kanes
"They Rage On" Dan Seals
"You're Out Doing What I'm Here Doing Without" Gene Watson (don't know it but it's a good title)
"A Little Good News" Anne Murray
"He's A Heartache" Janie Fricke
"One Promise Too Late" Reba (don't know it but if it's old and by Reba, it must be good)
"On The Other Hand" Randy Travis
and remember that novelty hit "My Toot Toot" by Rockin' Sidney?
Finally, I always waited for KT Oslin to come out with a sequel to "80s Ladies" for the '90s (I didn't like the first one)
We'd prefer to forget them.genius said:And today, I heard a song from a band I completely forgot about...Exile
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drpickle
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Kiss You All Over? I never knew it was country. Whatever, the song is absolutely ridiculous.
drpickle said:
We'd prefer to forget them.
LOL I guess I ran into some Exile haters! The song I heard from them was "I Don't Want to be A Memory", which I think is a pretty good tune. The thing about Exile I will admit is that many of their songs are stale, which Drpickle pointed one of their more infamous songs, which is the worst country pop song this side of Eddie Rabbit's "Suspicions". YUCK! Country rock can be a beautiful sound...IF DONE WELL, which is something Exile failed to do.
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drpickle
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Undercover Angle by Alan O Day. Country pop or country disco?
genius said:drpickle said:We'd prefer to forget them.
LOL I guess I ran into some Exile haters! The song I heard from them was "I Don't Want to be A Memory", which I think is a pretty good tune. The thing about Exile I will admit is that many of their songs are stale, which Drpickle pointed one of their more infamous songs, which is the worst country pop song this side of Eddie Rabbit's "Suspicions". YUCK! Country rock can be a beautiful sound...IF DONE WELL, which is something Exile failed to do.
Interesting. "Kiss You All Over" was a No. 1 pop hit for Exile in 1978, five years before their string of country hits. For that time, it was a completely different sound; that is, it was not a country hit and, conversely, they never had pop hits again once they crossed over to the country chart.
Two other acts which immediately come to mind starting out as pop, then finding bigger success later as country are the Bellamy Brothers and Kenny Rogers. And here's a noteworthy tidbit: The huge pop hits "Ode To Billie Joe" by Bobbie Gentry and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver were not really very big country hits.
But getting back to Exile, they changed their sound with their change from pop to country. Today, an artist's sound doesn't necessarily need to change to make this breakthrough, witness Sheryl Crow or Bon Jovi.
BlueHen said:
I didn't realize "Kiss You All Over" was from 1978 or was their last pop hit before they went country. I remember at one time I had Exile's Greatest Hits on cassette(I think I sold it at garage sale a loooooooooong time ago) and they included it on there with their other Country songs like "I Don't Want to be A Memory", which I think may cause some confusion.
File Exile in the category of acts that started out pop and then went country. "Kiss You All Over" was Exile's first hit, period, in any musical genre, and their success on the pop charts quickly faded afterward. They had one more minor Top 40 pop hit ("You Thrill Me," which topped out at #40) and charted only once more on the Hot 100 before disappearing from the pop chart completely.
You know, not long after I read this I thought of this song. I don't know why because I don't think I actually heard it on my country legends station. Maybe I heard something like this. And I realized ... oh, wait, THAT'S Exile. I've always thought of them as "Kiss You All Over" since I found out they did it, but at one time I knew them for this.genius said:
I actually like this song, as bad as it is. I don't know why. I'd better, because my Dial Global adult standards station plays it.genius said:
At one time, I could actually stand pop-sounding country. But I don't remember this song from when it was first popular.
I did hear that, finally, and I liked it.PTBoardOp94 said:
dustintv said:
Wariner's good too. I have his greatest hits album on cassette and it features some truly quintessential country songs like Small Town Girl. Though he faded away for a few years his comeback songs "Holes In The Floor Of Heaven" and "Two Teardrops" were great in my opinion. I was never a fan of I'm Already Taken though.
"She's A Miracle" too. And "Woke Up in Love".vchimpanzee said:
Your thread is a loaded question for sure, But I will say that what you like in country music is good. I was born in the East Tenn. mountains in 1955, I grew up on real country music. I play guitar and sing country music (mostly classic country) and have played with a few groups through the years and had my own group for 14 years. We have been to Nashville, TN and recorded music for my group as well as backed up some big names. We started a little LPFM station here in South Carolina 6 years ago due to the fact it was hard to find a country music station here that still played real country music at that time that didn't sound like a pop country mix. When is country music not very good? when it is mixed with so many other kinds of music it doesn't remind you of country music anymore as is the case in many many newer songs that have come out in the last few years. If you listen to a new country song but don't feel anything inside it's probly not real country just the current click in music.
I don't really intend to "feel" anything. I'm looking for feel-good music. Touchy-feely is a different matter. I can't stand Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying" and "Don't Take the Girl".Gatekeeper007 said:
On the other hand, on a classic country show, I heard Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris perform together. I sounded like bluegrass, but without the bluegrass instruments. Really good.
And Alison Krauss performed on the CMA awards. More good country! Also Josh Turner. I taped that so I could fast-forward through everything not worth hearing. Including awards actually given out, I probably spent less time watching than I did fast-forwarding.
I DID watch The Eagles ...
Last night I actually listened to Rascal Flatts on the AMA awards show. If I hadn't seen them win their award earlier and had never heard of them before that performance, nothing about it except maybe the harmony and the subject matter would identify them as country. But the subject matter was no different than Daughtry's. And harmony could be anything. After all, when I first heard Rascal Flatts, they sounded like The Backstreet Boys.
Now Sugarland was a different matter entirely. I've never heard them do "real" country, though I like the lyrics on "Baby Girl" and Jennifer Nettles has a great voice, if only they would stay away from the pop-rock style instrumentals. Adding Beyonce was not a good move. She needed the gong.
Yesterday in the car I heard "Eastbound and Down" by Jerry Reed. Now THAT'S a feel-good song.
Now Sugarland was a different matter entirely. I've never heard them do "real" country, though I like the lyrics on "Baby Girl" and Jennifer Nettles has a great voice, if only they would stay away from the pop-rock style instrumentals. Adding Beyonce was not a good move. She needed the gong.
Yesterday in the car I heard "Eastbound and Down" by Jerry Reed. Now THAT'S a feel-good song.
Go to our website wlreradio.com anytime except 8 to 11 pm that time slot is not our show the rest of the time is. Click on the listen live link, see what you think of it. Yes we play some songs I don't care for myself but then i am not the only one listening to the station. We try to stay with real country sound.
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