Worst songs on country radio

[TheBigA]

But the difference is I only like him when he does. 'When the Sun Goes Down" is an exception.

Unless you're a pretty girl, Kenny doesn't care if you like him or not. Neither do I.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I regard him as a pretty boy but at least some of his music is just too good to dislike.

 

[RI Radio Nut]

The song 5-1-5-0. It's not only a bad country song, it's just a bad song. And in my humble opinion, it's not even country. ( Thank God for satellite radio)

 

[vchimpanzee]

Now I can't remember which song it was. It was #3 on one of the radio countdowns.

Anyway, it was pretty bad.

I watched the movie "Ghost Rock" and someone had the nerve to put today's junk in the closing credits. A movie set in 1882 should not have any song that is more technology than substance. There was no soundtrack listing on imdb but there is a music video by Melanie Monroe. I wasn't where I could listen but I'll try it where I can.

This was followed (the credits were REALLY long, but there are some great photos of the cast and crew and they seemed to enjoy making that movie) by a REAL country song. Not one that would have been around in 1882, but certainly more fitting.

 

[crainbebo]

#3 this week on Lon Helton's Country Countdown USA is "Kissed You Goodnight" Gloriana. ACC/CT40 is "Come Over" Kenny Chesney. Which one was it?

-crainbebo

 

[vchimpanzee]

#3 this week on Lon Helton's Country Countdown USA is "Kissed You Goodnight" Gloriana. ACC/CT40 is "Come Over" Kenny Chesney. Which one was it?

-crainbebo

Thanks. I do remember the name of the group was Gloriana, now that I see it.

I don't like either song.

 

[TheBigA]

I don't like either song.

That's OK...country radio's target demo is women 35-45.

 

[scott salvatori]

That's OK...country radio's target demo is women 35-45.

weve noticed! that demo they target resides in major market urban cities. that demo they target has very little country listening history/education before 2000. hence, the instant appeal pop production, and dumbing down of the single releases, via the centralized programming power brokers. hence, the charts stacked with 50%+ crap, and mediocrity. let us talk about a mass watering down, and black balling of country production, to fit an uncountry, urban 35-45 female template. let us talk about the potential main stream death of America's proud country music and its culture. just because radio and industry calls it country music, doesnt mean its country! its like comparing a chevette, to a corvette. yep, i guess they are both chevrolets, but?

sorry boys, but that big country music oak tree is rotting in the center, and full of fast growing/short lived sucker shoots from the base. yet, if you have the balls and stamina to bypass centralized radios force fed countrymusicpolitan sucker shoots, you should venture to the top of that big oak tree. you may find some new green country music shoots full of dale watson, derailers, merle,hank III, dolly,james hand,jamie johnson, willie,marty stuart, kimberly murray and dozens of others. lets hope all them sucker shoots dont take over and kill off the whole damn trunk and tree top...

 

[TheBigA]

weve noticed! that demo they target resides in major market urban cities. that demo they target has very little country listening history/education before 2000.

So what? Why do you think country fans in the 80s loved Anne Murray and Olivia Newton-John? Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Milsap? You think those folks grew up on Tennessee Ernie Ford and Stonewall Jackson? No! Come on! Grow up. There's always been pop in country, going back to Jimmie Rodgers and Eddy Arnold. In his time, Hank Williams was a pop star. Same with Johnny Cash. That's what everyone aspires to be. And they do it in the way that works...by getting airplay on the radio.

 

[James Otto Sweet Heart]

To me the worst songs on the radio now are the following three.

1.) "Must Have Had A Good Time"-Parmalee
2.) "You're All That Matters To Me"-Miss Willie Brown
3.) "Something To Do With My Hands"-Thomas Rhett

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. To me, the way that them songs are done is what turns me off because they are either too rocked up or just too flat out in your face.

 

[Groove1670]

let us talk about the potential main stream death of America's proud country music and its culture. just because radio and industry calls it country music, doesnt mean its country!

That is what they said about Garth, Alan, Martina, and others in 1992. Nothing has changed. It is the new generation.

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

weve noticed! that demo they target resides in major market urban cities. that demo they target has very little country listening history/education before 2000.

So what? Why do you think country fans in the 80s loved Anne Murray and Olivia Newton-John? Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Milsap? You think those folks grew up on Tennessee Ernie Ford and Stonewall Jackson? No! Come on! Grow up. There's always been pop in country, going back to Jimmie Rodgers and Eddy Arnold. In his time, Hank Williams was a pop star. Same with Johnny Cash. That's what everyone aspires to be. And they do it in the way that works...by getting airplay on the radio.

One C/W song with a "pop" sound, Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette, Tex Williams, 1947. So pop sounding was this number that it was later copied by none other than Sammy Davis Jr, hardly considered an icon of country.

 

[crainbebo]

I had "Never Trust A Woman" and "What It Means to Be Blue" by Tex Williams on a Capitol Americana 78, now it's in storage. I think I also had a few other country artists from the time, Bob Wills, etc. Also had a Decca with some lovely polka music on it, forgot who it was.

-crainbebo

 

[vchimpanzee]

I heard "Love Me" by Collin Raye on a CLASSIC country station.

Not a good sign. I didn't care for the way it sounded before I knew what it was or who did it.

Of course, the station also plays Anne Murray and I've never had a problem with her.

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

I had "Never Trust A Woman" and "What It Means to Be Blue" by Tex Williams on a Capitol Americana 78, now it's in storage. I think I also had a few other country artists from the time, Bob Wills, etc. Also had a Decca with some lovely polka music on it, forgot who it was.

-crainbebo

And, in the context of this thread, I don't expect we would see mention of as many Worst Songs On Country Radio from TW's era as we would from today's charts.

 

[crainbebo]

Of course! There are some good songs today, but in the '60s, very few were bad. Most of country sounded like country. And Taylor Swift wasn't even born until 1989, but didn't start her career until 2006.

-crainbebo

 

[TheBigA]

Of course! There are some good songs today, but in the '60s, very few were bad. Most of country sounded like country.

Huh? Haven't you heard of CountryPolitan? It was country music's attempt to cash in on the pop boom of the 60s. Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley banned fiddles and steel, and replaced them with big string sections. At the same time, you had people like Buck Owens adding electric guitars to make their music sound more like rock music.

If you compare country from the 50s to the 60s, you hear a big difference, with the 60s being far more like pop and rock music. As an example, the Opry had once banned drums and electric guitars. That all was changed by the 60s.

 

[crainbebo]

Yes I do know that Chet Atkins and several others got string seconds for country. But it wasn't like today with all the country rock, country pop, teenage, twenty-something stuff that takes over the radio most of the time.

I do like some of it, like Kenny Chesney, and Zac Brown Band, but the young girls like Taylor Swift and Jana Kramer are not that great at all. "Why Ya Wanna" is an example of a not so great song, because the lyrics are annoying.

-crainbebo

 

[TheBigA]

Yes I do know that Chet Atkins and several others got string seconds for country. But it wasn't like today with all the country rock, country pop, teenage, twenty-something stuff that takes over the radio most of the time.

Brenda Lee was the Taylor Swift of her time. Same with Tanya Tucker.

 

[ChrisInMI]

Taylor Swift reminds me more of Debbie Gibson than Brenda Lee.

Brenda Lee and Tanya Tucker didn't write their own songs, as Taylor does, but they had impressive sets of pipes, whereas Taylor is a mediocre singer at best.