Huh… works either way, really!
ivylass, you are skating on some SERIOUSLY THIN ICE there, young lady! Don’t make me turn this car around… :dubious:
You heard the lady, ivylass. Prepare for a good ol’ ass-stompin’. Yer kind ain’t welcome in these here parts.
Style of: CAT Me-OW! (That’s right, buff can knowz martial art!)
Smart Aleq, I certainly hope you have experienced the transcendental phenomenon that is Old Crow Medicine Show. Give me sunshine, a porter in my hand, and a good view of an Old Crow show and I’ll call it heaven. They are drunken bluegrass at its finest, best enjoyed live.
For your southern hard rock slide guitar fix, I heartily endorse The Moaners. Check 'em out. http://youtube.com/watch?v=bWpOFehkAso
They can be hit or miss though.
I feel the same way, including the parts about bluegrass and Johnny Cash.
Every once in awhile while we’re driving down the road, my wife will put it on the country station just to mess with me. To mess with her back, I’ll start guessing the word at the end of the next line. Even though I’ve never heard these songs I swear my success rate is up above 95%. I think these lyrics are written by the same manatees that write Family Guy.
I do that to the kids too, only it’s not a “new” country station, so it’s not the really awful stuff. They play some of the crossover hits of the eighties, Dolly Parton, some songs I think my grandma owns, Johnny Cash, and some things that’re so weird I just have to listen. Lots of times I listen to it just to kind of clear my palate before I go back to the same old thing on the classic rock station.
Gah my friend does this too!
We always fight over the CD player. She likes this ghetto crap.
I don’t mind rap and R&B. IF it’s original, but there’s only so many times I can hear about someone ‘busting caps’ to get ‘40’s’ while they ‘pimp’ ‘dar’ ‘hos’ like a ‘playa’ making plenty of ‘g’s’ for their ‘crib’ in their ‘hood’*. Most of the lingo makes me think of a violant baby. (player, g’s, crib, hood) Especially the g’s. Dr Suese must be a ghetto super star!
*can’t be assed to make proper quotes for the asinine
Regardless of the genre there are at least 5 gazillion and 16 songs out there that fit any requirement. Why do radio stations INSIST on playing just 37 of them over-and-over-and-over-and-over?
I work with a guy that plays 70’s rock music all day. I lived through the 70’s. I know that music. As Chris Rock says," you’re favorite music comes from the era when you first got laid". I should be nuts about this stuff.
He’s taught me to hate 70’s music! According to his 70’s station, there was only about 35 songs produced in the 70’s. If I hear that fucking Journey tune one more time I’m going to piss on his computer.
I feel your pain, bro. As an Iowan, I used to try to point this out, but even my fellow Iowans didn’t see the issue. Guess it depends on how alienated you feel from NYC.
“Tar paper shack,
Whiskey and Crack,
Three guns left,
in a five rifle rack.
Somebody 'round here is gonna get killed
and that’s for sure!”
My husband went through a country music period, God help me. This is the one that pushed me over the edge. I put down my foot and said, never, never, ever play that song again.
Near to made my ears bleed, and ricocheted around in my brain life a bullet. Aaaarg.
You realize you’re just spurring me on to continue to search for the most obnoxious country crap I can find, don’t you?
That reminds me - I’ve seen a number of videos of '70s & '80s TV “performances” where it couldn’t possibly be any more obvious that the singers are lip-syncing. Just how hard would it be, if they’re going to lip-sync, to provide the TV show with a recording that doesn’t end with a fadeout? :rolleyes:
Oh, and any idea on the ethnicity of the Oak Ridge Boys lead singer? Italian? Mexican? Light-skinned black man?
Now, if you want to hear some real country, you can’t go wrong with Hank Williams III 
bufftabby, Nunavut Boy, thanks for the tipoffs–some good stuff there.
Okay, ivylass, you do know that two can play that game, right? Well, do you? 'Cuz it can get reeeeeeal ugly up in heah, y’all! 
But seriously, it’s truly horrifying the state that mainstream radio is in these days. Something like 99% of the available stations are owned by like five companies (statistics rectally derived, sans apology) and it’s possible to drive across the entire country flipping from one identical station to the next and never be able to tell the individual stations apart. Where the hell are the cool independent radio stations of yore? I grew up listening to KZAP in Sacramento and I’d go down to the station at night to keep the DJ’s company–they’d let me pick songs to play from the massive collection of albums that lined the walls. You can bet your ass I never picked anything I’d ever heard on the radio before!
Playlists have shrunk to Lilliputian dimensions at the same time that the music scene as a whole has mushroomed due to the internet–how can these stations even stay in business? I grew up in the '60s and '70s and I can tell you right now that “classic rock” stations bear NO resemblance to what was actually on the radio back then–do these stations really think that all we want to listen to is JUST the songs that made it big? I collect discographies of my favorite artists and it amazes me how much music never got widely heard and probably never will–at least not on radio, that’s for sure.
Chris Rock missed out on me, though, 'cuz I am so not into '70s music in spite of having lost my virginity in '74–a decade earlier, fine. Two-three decades later, also fine. '70s, not so much, especially the godsawful cock rock–Journey should have stayed part of Santana far’s I’m concerned, and the less said about Bad Company, Boston, Loverboy and their ilk the better. Southern fried rock was good, though, and somewhat redeems the decade.
Well, I like country music – even the mainstream stuff, and even some of the songs mentioned on this thread.
I’m still sympathetic, though – tastes differ and it would suck to have to listen to stuff you hate all day long.
Can you ask your boss if you could take turns picking the radio station? He gets one day and you get the next or something?
Be careful how you ask, though. You probably don’t want to say: “This crap sucks. I’m going to go stark raving mad if I have to listen to that moron sing about his fucking tractor being sexy one more time. Can we please listen to some decent music for a change?”
Instead, try: “I know you love country music, but I’m more of an XXX fan, myself. Is there any chance I could choose the radio station sometimes? Maybe you could have your choice in the mornings and I could take the afternoon. Or we could do one day on, one day off.”
Honestly I think the only way I get decent music of the radio is to listen to non commercial stations. I commercial radio is always unchallenging and dull. Unfortunately I have to get all my radio broadcasts except NPR over the internet. My local public station is also pretty bad. Here is a rather large list of public, non commercial, or college stations.
I’ll second that. I am fortunate to be in the broadcast area of public station KUNC, which plays “diverse music”. This means rock and roll, bluegrass, all kinds of jazz, baroque, romantic, country, celtic, folk, world music, etc. If you don’t live in Northern Colorado you can get it at kunc.org . The country I hear on this station I usually like.
Why do people call up oldies stations and request a song that’s played half-a-dozen times a day, every day on that station?
The kinds of people that listen to these stations want to hear the same overplayed crapola over and over and over and over and over again because they are morons. And there are lots of them.
Oh yeah, and country music stinks. I had to complain when my favorite barbecue place got a new manager who decided to ditch the background blues music and start playing country. There’s a direct correlation between country music in barbecue joints and lousy food.
You almost have to give a pass to anyone named Hank Williams, really…
Now this guy needs a swift pointy toed boot in the testes!
Does anybody else remember a comedy sketch about the “All Stairway To Heaven Station, Stairway To Heaven All The Time Radio Station” with the guy who called up to request “Stairway To Heaven?” Lotta truth in that!
Also, I think they cherry pick the request calls, only record the stupid twatwaffles who go for the most generic crap that’s already due up on the playlist. Not that it excuses the twatwaffles, mind you, but it is possible the morons might be a lower percentage of the listening public than it might first appear.