Quote: (11-19-2017 06:57 PM)MOVSM Wrote:
This is why I only listen to old country.
...(Bo Burnham clip)
I do like that comedy bit, but either you're trolling and don't really like country music, or your idealistic nostalgia has run wild.
There's great music out there sprinkled here and there in pop country artists on the radio, with artists edging the genre like
Stapleton (a bit more blue-grass country) or
Sturgill Simpson (psychedelic classic rockish country), or if you listen to
Eric Church, a real deal country artist who writes hits. He has stood alone in the field for the last 10 years in my opinion. I mean, the guy writes a song about his "Three Year Old", the kind of shit I hate when artists do, and it's just a great song.
Just listen to the lyrics...great song-writer. Pulling these links, don't watch the dumb videos. I don't mean they're bad music videos, I just think music videos take away from the songs. There are few artists I've seen have consistency for this long (with the possible exception of The Outsiders). I think his most recent album is on par with his first three.
The need to be wild and crazy when you're young
This is actually from his worst record in my opinion, but a great song about how we all, as men, have a dark side, that is neither good nor bad, but dark, and there's a reason we rarely show it. Took me a while to realize how great this song is. Tell me there's not Red Pill in this one.
Over there in the shadows, hangin' out in the corner of my mind
Stringing up the gallows, waiting for me to cross that line
That man's dangerous as hell, a threat to himself,
If he got out there'd be hell to pay.
And that's why, my dark side, don't ever see the light of day.
I've slowed down on the whiskey, 'cause there always comes a point
When I've had too many, tear down every wall in that joint
I've got a wife, I've got a son, that don't know half the stuff I've done,
And I pray that's the way that it stays
And that's why, my dark side, don't ever see the light of day
You can blame it on the rebel raisin', you can blame it on the South
You can blame it on the words I try to keep here in my mouth
It takes a lot to start me up, but once that hammer drops
You don't wanna be the one that tries to make me stop
All you thugs and ugly mugs dealing drugs and making noise
You can kill each other all you want but if you touch my little boy
You'll be beggin' for this bullet will be the last thing that you see
Before I let my dark side... Come out to play.
The only grace I give for a real country music hater is - and I have plenty of friends who hate it - they hate the twang. I have a friend who will go to shows because they're fun, but he just hates that southern twang so much he can't enjoy just the music. I can respect that.
Not to get philosophical, but one thing I like about country music is that it takes a fairly pragmatic view of life. It celebrates and criticizes both the wild party on-the-road single-life of a singer and the down-to-earth settled family man.
Also...I've met some babes at country music concerts.
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