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Worst songs on country radio

Casey said:
I think is was about pride. Now it is more about the need to try to prove themselves.
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No I think it's still about pride. Listen to Where I Come From by Montgomery Gentry. They have nothing to prove, and they say so.
 
Red Solo Cup by Toby Keith. Enough said about that song as I don't know how this song has become so popular. Guess that Toby hasn't learned about what a good novelty song sounded like either.

Like My Dog Does by Billy Currington. Someone who has sung better with People Are Crazy and turns around and does a song that compares a woman to a dog and on top of this after Let Me Down Easy which favors a woman goes to #1.

Oh yeah, I miss Roger Miller. He was king of novelty songs and no one could sing them better than he did.
 
Braves2005 said:
Red Solo Cup by Toby Keith. Enough said about that song as I don't know how this song has become so popular. Guess that Toby hasn't learned about what a good novelty song sounded like either.

Like My Dog Does by Billy Currington. Someone who has sung better with People Are Crazy and turns around and does a song that compares a woman to a dog and on top of this after Let Me Down Easy which favors a woman goes to #1.

Oh yeah, I miss Roger Miller. He was king of novelty songs and no one could sing them better than he did.
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And Roger Miller was a "novelty" himself. He stared down Nashville's corporate establishment and survived, although he never achieved nor strived for the "OUTLAW" brand, i.e Willie, Waylon, Tompal, David Allen Coe, etc. Give him credit too for crossing over to pop charts without compromising his Country soul like Dolly P, Reba Mac, Vince Gill and Billy Ray C. did later. Other "crossover" artists staying loyal to the brand were Marty Robbins, Conway Twitty and Johnny Horton.
 
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TheBigA said:
Those songs seem to be more about pride than anything else. Alabama made a career with songs like that. From Tennessee River and My Home's In Alabama to Born Country. And they were one of the first pop country bands. But no one is more country than Randy Owen.
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I think is was about pride. Now it is more about the need to try to prove themselves.
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It's hard to prove yourself country if your "country" song is more rock, even rap, oriented, you look like you came from NYC and your truck has heated leather seats.
 
sdh483 said:
It's hard to prove yourself country if your "country" song is more rock, even rap, oriented, you look like you came from NYC and your truck has heated leather seats.
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I don't think it matters. You're forcing some definition on the audience. There has been rock and rap in country for 50 years. Some of the original country music, by Jimmie Rodgers himself, was closer to rap than anything else. The minute they allowed electric guitars and drums in country, it became rock music.
 
TheBigA said:
Casey said:
I think is was about pride. Now it is more about the need to try to prove themselves.
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No I think it's still about pride. Listen to Where I Come From by Montgomery Gentry. They have nothing to prove, and they say so.
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"Where I Come From," "Something to Be Proud Of," and "My Town" are all basically the same song. Eddie sings the verses, and Troy does the choruses. How many times do they need to tell us the same thing?
 
TheBigA said:
sdh483 said:
It's hard to prove yourself country if your "country" song is more rock, even rap, oriented, you look like you came from NYC and your truck has heated leather seats.
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I don't think it matters. You're forcing some definition on the audience. There has been rock and rap in country for 50 years. Some of the original country music, by Jimmie Rodgers himself, was closer to rap than anything else. The minute they allowed electric guitars and drums in country, it became rock music.
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SDH is only sharing his view, BigA; he's not "forcing" anything. But your opinion about rap's role in country was enlightening. You're right, at least some preemptive nature of rap can be heard on "I've Been Everywhere" (Hank Snow, Statler Bros and Johnny Cash). Others hay-slingers followed with even more brazen rap melodies. Toby Keith was one of them, I think.
 
jfrancispastirchak said:
But your opinion about rap's role in country was enlightening. You're right, at least some preemptive nature of rap can be heard on "I've Been Everywhere" (Hank Snow, Statler Bros and Johnny Cash).
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Jimmy Dean, C.W. McCall, Charlie Daniels, many more. The concept of rhythmic speaking is very country. Go to an auction, and you'll hear it.
 
Braves2005 said:
Like My Dog Does by Billy Currington. Someone who has sung better with People Are Crazy and turns around and does a song that compares a woman to a dog and on top of this after Let Me Down Easy which favors a woman goes to #1.
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This may be a song I heard that I liked. Sorry about that.
 
Anything by Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, or Rascal Flatts is crap.
 
Braves2005 said:
Red Solo Cup by Toby Keith. Enough said about that song as I don't know how this song has become so popular. Guess that Toby hasn't learned about what a good novelty song sounded like either.

Like My Dog Does by Billy Currington. Someone who has sung better with People Are Crazy and turns around and does a song that compares a woman to a dog and on top of this after Let Me Down Easy which favors a woman goes to #1.

Oh yeah, I miss Roger Miller. He was king of novelty songs and no one could sing them better than he did.
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While I like the tongue in cheek attitude of the Currington song, Red Solo Cup is just horrible. I pray it has a short chart life....
 
Anything and everything that Sugarland puts out...Jennifer Nettles fake accent is way over the top...and her song Stay has got to be the most godawful song ever played on the radio...
 
raccoonradio said:
I like Red Solo Cup. Segue it with Tom T Hall's I like Beer...
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yep, both songs suck! both sound more like they should never been singles. maybe, as album cuts that would be cool to hear a few times via a rogue disc jockey on the allnighter. then again, what terrestrial station actually has the ability to play classic tom t hall, and new toby keith?
 
mrh1960 said:
Anything and everything that Sugarland puts out...Jennifer Nettles fake accent is way over the top...and her song Stay has got to be the most godawful song ever played on the radio...
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Jennifer Nettles voice is very annoying. I can't stand it. Some of the songs Sugarland puts out are ruined by her voice. Stay is worse than Stuck Like Glue? I can't agree with that.


Brad Paisley's Camouflage is horrible. Then again, just about everything he has sang in the last ten years is. Some of the songs wouldn't be that bad if his arrogance hadn't shined through and ruined it.
 
Those "i'm so country" songs (like Justin Moore's Bait A Hook, etc) They're becoming worse than pop country.
 
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