THE OFFICIAL: Favorite Country Songs Thread

[PhotoJones]

Excluding Johnny Cash, all country songs suck by default. It's in Webster's Dictionary. I mean it has to be.

the "country" music you hear on the radio, isn't country music. it's pop music for republicans.

 

[ScottyBBadd]

the "country" music you hear on the radio, isn't country music. it's pop music for republicans.

Good point.

 

[Kritish]

the "country" music you hear on the radio, isn't country music. it's pop music for republicans.

Hahahaha

 

[PhotoJones]

real country music:
johnny cash, merle haggard, waylon jennings, gillian welch, whiskeytown, ryan adams, uncle tupelo, loretta lynn, dolly parton, alejandro escoveda, neko case, kris kristofferson, willie nelson...the list goes on.

for people that don't understand the difference, a good rule of thumb is:

"if you think it's country, and it's played on the radio, it probably isn't."

 

[PWN3R]

Whatever the crap is they play on the radio/tv/etc is just wrong.

 

[ComicChick]

whiskey lullaby is a fantastic song by brad paisley and allison krauss

wonderful lyrics, and allison's voice sounds haunting over the second verse

good hearted woman- merle haggard and willie nelson

"he put that bottle head
and pulled the trigger
and finally drank her memory
life is short, but this time it was bigger
than the strength he had to get up off his knees"

 

[jimmy]

Albert Lee FTW.

 

[Addendum]

The only "country album" I own

 

[ComicChick]

you know, after the bodyguard came out, i told a friend of mine that I Will Always Love You was originally a country song and she wouldn't believe me for nothing.

i played the song for her one day and my friend was like "she stole it from Whitney" and i said "stole it? she wrote the frickin song"

needless to say my friend wasn't the brightest

 

[Manic]

Did you just create a poll asking what my favorite country song was, and list Rascal F***ing Flatts as a choice? Why don't you ask me about rock music and mention Avril Lavigne? How about you bring up hip-hop and 50 Cent? The blues and Eric Clapton? Jazz and Kenny G?

 

[ComicChick]

i think a regular country music thread would get more input

 

[Taiwarriorz21]

When the Stars Go Blue

 

[Sarge 2.0]

the "country" music you hear on the radio, isn't country music. it's pop music for republicans.

What's wrong with pop music, exactly?

 

[PhotoJones]

What's wrong with pop music, exactly?

did i say there was anything wrong with pop music?

i'm pretty sure i didn't.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

did i say there was anything wrong with pop music?

i'm pretty sure i didn't.

There were negative connotations there. And even still, "pop music for Republicans" is a ******ed euphemism for mainstream country music. Who's to say that Donald Rumsfeld and G.W. don't chill out to a little Talking Heads? Besides, anything on the mainstream radio can have pop music sensibilities, so it's kind of redundant to point it out as if you were making some sort of witty observation. When you weren't.

 

[PhotoJones]

There were negative connotations there. And even still, "pop music for Republicans" is a ******ed euphemism for mainstream country music. Who's to say that Donald Rumsfeld and G.W. don't chill out to a little Talking Heads? Besides, anything on the mainstream radio can have pop music sensibilities, so it's kind of redundant to point it out as if you were making some sort of witty observation. When you weren't.

uh...i'll bet my house bush doesn't know who david byrne is.

and the negative connotation was not towards pop music. it was towards republicans. and their "country" music.

 

[Addendum]

The last time I listened to music on the radio was about 12-13 years ago

 

[Warhammer]

Shania Twain, Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes.
I'm being dead serious.

I listened to country music in the 90's.
It's funny because listening to country started as a mistake.
There was a cool station that I tried to find to listen to, and I accidentally confused this one station (that plays country, pop, and alternative rock) to it. I listened to it for 2 years before finally finding the "cool" station.

That is why I like just about everything, with rap/hip-hop being #1 of course.

 

[Taiwarriorz21]

The last time I listened to music on the radio was about 12-13 years ago

you must have hundreds of cd's aaayyy?

 

[Badger]

David Allen Coe, Damnit!

 

[Taiwarriorz21]

OMG LoL Might as well kick it up a notch and go with good ole Johnny Rebel.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

you must have hundreds of cd's aaayyy?

Do you "talk" like that in real life?

 

[ComicChick]

When the Stars Go Blue

i believe the original version is sung by Bryan Adams, but Tyler Hilton and Bethany Joy Lenz did a cover about a year and a half before McGraw's version came out.

i gotta admit, i'm not too fond of Tim's rendition of the song

 

[PhotoJones]

this isn't a country song originally.

i believe the original version is sung by Bryan Adams, but Tyler Hilton and Bethany Joy Lenz did a cover about a year and a half before McGraw's version came out.

i gotta admit, i'm not too fond of Tim's rendition of the song

no. it IS a country song.

it was written and performed by RYAN adams, not bryan adams.

 

[X-Chick]

this thread should crawl in a hole and die


unless that song about the devil and guy, johnny i think, counts. that song is awesome.