• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Worst songs on country radio

TheBigA said:
The only one of the American Recordings that sold anything was number 4 with Hurt. That one video hit helped sell a million records. The rest of them barely made an impact. So just because he made records, and a new generation was alive at the time, doesn't mean they heard them. The fact is that the elite movers & shakers were right. He had to record a cover song written by a Gen Xer to get anyone to listen. He might not have been willing to do that ten years earlier.
Click to expand...
I still remember CMT and GAC absolutely playing the crap out of that "Hurt" video back in 2003! It was innovative at first, but after about a million airings of it, I was tired of it! They had finally begun to ease off of playing it so much when he died, but then they cranked it right up again! (Needless to say, it didn't "hurt" that the video featured much old footage of both Johnny and June in their younger (much healthier) days.)
 
scott salvatori said:
firepoint525 said:
The last song by Johnny Cash that I can recall from his "original" career (before he started going after those city "hipsters" in the mid '90s) was "Ragged Old Flag" from around 1990. But I seem to recall that even it was on an indie label.
Click to expand...
...unless "ragged old flag" was rereleased later, it was originally a single in springtime 74. the last single i believe j.cash released for the country market, was the prior mentioned "goin' by the book". this was released on 9-22-90, from the mercury CD "the mysteries of life". it only spent four weeks on the charts, and peaked at 69. what an amazing song this is, which was released about the time of the first gulf war. this song is all about biblical prophecy, and couldnt have been done sung better than by the man in black. i was, and still am a strong believer in this song, and what a way to cap off johnnys country recording career. it was the bastards at centralized country radio programming, that let this song stiff due to lack of airplay rotation in the elite major markets. twenty two years later, this song is more relevent, and important than ever. perhaps it can be found on you-tube, and someone could give us the download, so the board can hear it.
Click to expand...
If this is true, it represents a MAJOR missed opportunity on someone's part. I was working at my first station, a teeniny little AM with a country format, in September of 1990, but have NO recollection of that song. If we had had it, we WOULD have played it. I remember "Ragged Old Flag" from about that time. Seems like we played it a time or two. May have been reissued because of Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
lets also ponder this: if it werent for producer rick rubin, and American recordings in the mid 90's, johnny cash would most likely have never recorded again. yes, most of the production was not country, but a mix of sparse produced folk, and some rock. recording these albums were very important to johnny, as he faced his final years. some of it was even half way decent. this brought the "coolness" of the man in black, to an entire new audience, when the elite movers, and shakers of nashville had long abandon him as a non marketable hasbeen, relic from the past.
Click to expand...
Again, he became the human karaoke machine in the '90s, and all that "music" was indeed forgettable. That poster of him flipping the bird didn't do anything for his credibility, either. ::)
 
firepoint525 said:
TheBigA said:
firepoint525 said:
That poster of him flipping the bird didn't do anything for his credibility, either. ::)
Click to expand...
THat photo was taken at San Quentin in 1970.
Click to expand...
Does it really matter? Whether it was 1955, or a week before his death, it still hurt his credibility. Smashing out the lights at the Ryman didn't help his image, either. ::)
Click to expand...
Yeah, on-stage violence is something you'll never see at rock oncerts.
 
There was one really bad song that had the words "back roads" or "back woods" in it.

I can't remember the lyrics to another song I heard which included a banjo and maybe a steel guitar which were pretty much pointless.
 
vchimpanzee said:
There was one really bad song that had the words "back roads" or "back woods" in it.

I can't remember the lyrics to another song I heard which included a banjo and maybe a steel guitar which were pretty much pointless.
Click to expand...

First one is likely Backwoods Justin Moore.

Second one may be Rascal Flatts' Banjo but I'm not sure.

-crainbebo
 
That's about the way it is with most of the country coming out today. It's just CHR with a little steel guitar thrown in there so they can call it country. I mean no disrespect to people who like the new country, but that's just what I hear. If they want to go rock or pop, that's fine, but I wish they'd leave the AutoTune off the country records. I know you're not supposed to notice it and usually the people I listen to music with don't notice it, but I can hear it and it's painful to my ears. I can't hear anything else.
 
A note, Ragged Old Flag was on Columbia. The single was reserviced to radio on 45 in the early 1980's. I own a copy of that single.
 
oldiesgirl said:
That's about the way it is with most of the country coming out today. It's just CHR with a little steel guitar thrown in there so they can call it country. I mean no disrespect to people who like the new country, but that's just what I hear. If they want to go rock or pop, that's fine, but I wish they'd leave the AutoTune off the country records. I know you're not supposed to notice it and usually the people I listen to music with don't notice it, but I can hear it and it's painful to my ears. I can't hear anything else.
Click to expand...

After digging deep into the on-demand service libraries, I have to say I disagree with this statement. Good country music is out there. It's just hard to find and will not be found on broadcast radio.
 
TheBigA said:
Casey said:
Good country music is out there. It's just hard to find and will not be found on broadcast radio.
Click to expand...

Really? So you're saying George Strait makes crap?
Click to expand...

Did I say he makes crap? Did I say anyone made crap?

But for that matter, I don't care for anything George Strait has made in recent years. In my opinion he is past his prime and is being propped up by his record label and radio stations refusing to let him go. Of course record labels are notorious for milking every cent they can out of their artists. And radio stations... well this isn't the place to argue about how broken radio stations are when it comes to playing music.
 
Casey said:
In my opinion he is past his prime and is being propped up by his record label and radio stations refusing to let him go.
Click to expand...

Same could have been said of Merle Haggard in the 1980s. Or Johnny Cash in the 70s. They should have known when to stop, and they didn't.

Casey said:
And radio stations... well this isn't the place to argue about how broken radio stations are when it comes to playing music.
Click to expand...

Radio stations aren't in the music business. But you don't like companies in the music business either.

But the fact is there's great country music, and it gets played every day on broadcast radio. That's why so many people listen.
 
Casey said:
After digging deep into the on-demand service libraries, I have to say I disagree with this statement. Good country music is out there. It's just hard to find and will not be found on broadcast radio.
Click to expand...

I know there's a lot of good stuff still being recorded. I was just saying that most of the music usually played on the radio is too poppy for my tastes. I do like some of the new country coming out, definitely more than I used to. I guess I'm adapting to it, but I prefer the traditional-sounding country. I do like the Nashville Sound type of country and I know that was poppy, but I'm in love with the pop/rock of the 50s, so I guess that's why I like that type of music. I just can't get into the popular music of today with a few exceptions, so I can't get into pop country. I guess it's just all in what you like.
 
Casey said:
TheBigA said:
Casey said:
Good country music is out there. It's just hard to find and will not be found on broadcast radio.
Click to expand...

Really? So you're saying George Strait makes crap?
Click to expand...

Did I say he makes crap? Did I say anyone made crap?

But for that matter, I don't care for anything George Strait has made in recent years. In my opinion he is past his prime and is being propped up by his record label and radio stations refusing to let him go. Of course record labels are notorious for milking every cent they can out of their artists. And radio stations... well this isn't the place to argue about how broken radio stations are when it comes to playing music.
Click to expand...
Nothing's wrong with George Strait.

I heard two songs with "good girls" in the lyrics. They may have been the same song but sure didn't sound like it. One was rhythmic CHR with all that involves and I thought at first it was Carrie Underwood's atrocious "Cowboy Casanova". It wasn't.

I also heard a good song with "good girls" in the lyrics on last night's "GCB" on ABC. I think the words were "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad", which is the name of a Tammy Wynette song. Now you KNOW I'm going to like that one. I don't know whether there's a new version.
 
That's Good Girl by Carrie Underwood. It's more country rhythmic however.

-crainbebo
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom