As much as it hurts me, they were a gateway drug to today's garbage.
Alabama ruined country music.
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Last: 6 yr ago by SACR
I was about to say country music ruined country music but I think you're right.
old country music > new country music
old country music > new country music
I'd say the customers ruined country music. They wouldn't be making the **** music they make today if people weren't lined up around the block to buy it.
There's still plenty of good new country music. "Country music sucks now" has been a bad take going on like forty years now.
bobinator said:
There's still plenty of good new country music. "Country music sucks now" has been a bad take going on like forty years now.
That may be true if you search it out but it sure isn't being played on the radio in Houston.
What I mean is almost every generation of country music hates the next generation of country music. It's maybe country music's most lasting tradition.
The current big artists of the day have been 'ruining country music' since the outlaw country days.
The current big artists of the day have been 'ruining country music' since the outlaw country days.
I've been saying this about Alabama for awhile as well. People get mighty offended about it.
bobinator said:
There's still plenty of good new country music. "Country music sucks now" has been a bad take going on like forty years now.
Pfft. Next you ste going to simply that riger miller wasnt real country
Article 58-10 Offender said:
I've been saying this about Alabama for awhile as well.
I was a head banging teen in the 80s. I thought all country music sucked. Then I heard Alabama.
No no no.
These new bands choosing not to have a fiddle player ruined country music.
Heard that somewhere....
These new bands choosing not to have a fiddle player ruined country music.
Heard that somewhere....
I knew this in the 80s. How long ago were you so saying?
AgLaw said:Article 58-10 Offender said:
I've been saying this about Alabama for awhile as well.
I was a head banging teen in the 80s. I thought all country music sucked. Then I heard Alabama.
For the record, I don't think Alabama sucks. I rather like them. But I agree with the OP that they started all this mess.
Something I noticed when we were at the Country Music HOF in Nashville was a quote talking about George Strait, saying how they thought he was much too pop for most country music fans tastes when he first came on the scene.
Just goes to show that each generation thinks the new one is too pop
Just goes to show that each generation thinks the new one is too pop
I'd say Garth Brooks killed country music... or at least changed it into what it is today.
Once records saw how much money could be made they started mass producing it, causing the quantity to skyrocket and the quality to plummet.
Once records saw how much money could be made they started mass producing it, causing the quantity to skyrocket and the quality to plummet.
Pretty sure is was the Bakersfield Sound.
I think there's more to it than a generational hatred of new country music. What we're hearing now is a lot of country rap and crappy songs about trucks and drinking beer on dirt roads. It unoriginal, uninspiring, and just corny as hell. Outside of a handful of gems like Stapleton and Simpson, it should in no way be compared to the historical greats. It's mostly pop music with a twang, not true country music.
That makes sense. Country Music is very traditional and caters to a conservative type of taste, that longs for "the old days". Obviously anything that changes from what you grew up with is an affront to what you consider to be "true" country music.The Milkman said:
Something I noticed when we were at the Country Music HOF in Nashville was a quote talking about George Strait, saying how they thought he was much too pop for most country music fans tastes when he first came on the scene.
Just goes to show that each generation thinks the new one is too pop
One thing that really intrigues me is tejano music and the like. I see young hispanic men listening to that type of music that sounds exactly like the tejano music that existed years ago that their parents and grandparents listened to. It seems to be timeless. I wonder why it hasn't suffered the same type of generational change that country has.
7nine
Music styles in general are all melting together. A lot of songs could be played on a pop, rap, or country station and no one would notice.
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What is this "real country music"? Can anyone define what it sounds like?
I'm sure many of you remember in the '90s, older country artists talked a lot of trash about what was being played on the radio. Waylon Jennings may never have really used that extremely vulgar simile to describe Garth Brooks' music but he did say very critical things about Garth Brooks. Now, you go listen to the trash Luke Bryan puts out and tell me that doesn't make Garth Brooks sound like Buck Owens.
Well, that's not what a lot of fans of "real country" thought in the '90s when Garth Brooks "ruined country radio." Or, in the '80s, when Urban Cowboy "ruined country radio." Or, in the '70s when Olivia Newton-John won a CMA award for Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year and a bunch of traditional country acts, like Porter Wagoner and Conway Twitty, all got together at George Jones' and Tammy Wynette's house to form the Association of Country Entertainers to protest smooth pop "ruining country radio." But, in the '60s, the Nashville Sound had already "ruined country radio." And that started in the '50s because Elvis Presley "ruined country radio." When drums started showing up on more country records in the '40s, well, it flat out "ruined country radio." And that only happened because in the 1930s people like Bob Wills couldn't settle the hell down and play some nice, pure country music, like Jimmie Rodgers or The Carter Family.
I'm not sure there's ever been a time that country radio wasn't hated by the fans of the previous generations' country music. Ask a fan from any point in history to define the sound of country music and they're likely to say something along the lines of, "Well, it's sure not what they're playing on the radio these days!"
Tyler Mahan Coe - Cocaine and Rhinestones
If it's what I feel like listening to in a certain mood, then it's "country."
If I don't like it, then there's something wrong with the music, not me.
If I don't like it, then there's something wrong with the music, not me.
Maybe it isn't but it just sounds that way because you aren't more familiar with it?
If it's about pickup trucks and I like it, it's country music. If it's about pickup trucks and I don't like it, it's a commercial.
Living in Houston I'm confident enough to say I've heard enough tejano music that I would recognize a new version of it musically.
What they sing about may have changed, but the sound of it is the same. That is not the case with modern country and classic country.
What they sing about may have changed, but the sound of it is the same. That is not the case with modern country and classic country.
7nine
no heart and soul in it anymore. Remember when it was actual beer drinkin music and not just someone singing about drinkin beer.
On the other hand, because of Alabama, we got Ram Jam, so I'll say we are about even.
I don't smoke, but can I bum one?
When was country music not ruined? Examples?
There were people before Alabama that was putting the ball in motion away towards traditional country. The Byrds, John Denver, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers for example.
How does one ruin something that has always sucked?
First of all, anyone saying Garth ruined country is straight blasphemous.
Second, Alabama may have contributed, but their country Christmas album is straight fire
Second, Alabama may have contributed, but their country Christmas album is straight fire
The Milkman said:
Something I noticed when we were at the Country Music HOF in Nashville was a quote talking about George Strait, saying how they thought he was much too pop for most country music fans tastes when he first came on the scene.
Just goes to show that each generation thinks the new one is too pop
Hmm, I actually thought it was quite the opposite. That in the late 70s you had the whole urban cowboy thing and highly produced pop going on in country.
Then you had the new traditionalists that came in like George Strait and Dwight Yoakam. Sure they weren't a return to the honkytonks, but they were more traditional than what a lot of country was doing at the time outside of the outlaw movement..
That damn Carter Family commercialized country music too much.
I recall seeing a video some years ago that had a country music video with midgets and explosions.
At that point, I was pretty confident that country music was no longer what it once was.
At that point, I was pretty confident that country music was no longer what it once was.
Country music died in the mid 90s with songs like got me feeling so g-u-d where guys were singing country but not living country.
Country music died with the following two words:
"Hello Darlin"
Fight me
"Hello Darlin"
Fight me
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