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    burlivesleftnutNeetzan Zimmerman
    12/23/13 11:28am

    If it's released pre-Garth Brooks, I'm cool with it. Fat fuck ruined the industry.

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      CThruItburlivesleftnut
      12/23/13 11:33am

      But those first couple CDs and singles were so good

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      Babylegsburlivesleftnut
      12/23/13 11:34am

      A question: isn't he like a major dick about licensing? Like, you can't find "Friends in Old Places" anywhere and I heard it's because he just won't let anyone have it.

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    303GrumpyGuyNeetzan Zimmerman
    12/23/13 11:12am

    And water is wet.

    It doesn't matter the genre, if it's popular, it has pretty much the same lyrical content. We're either going partying, reminiscing about partying, turning the bass up, dancing all night, sticking it to our exes, roaring like a cliche, taking our girl down to the shore, telling men to shove it, being independent, making this place our home, talking about tonight, singing about bullying, singing about not bullying, fucking on the dance floor, getting drunk, body rocking or missing someone.

    You can also just throw these things in a hat, draw them out one by one and mash them together into a song.

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      303GrumpyGuy303GrumpyGuy
      12/23/13 11:13am

      Oh, and that Florida-Georgia Line is the worst duo of douches to emerge from the country music scene in a long time.

      I'm not even totally disparaging of bands like this but more devastated that people feed into this "party rock/country/rap" anthem horse shit.

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      Babylegs303GrumpyGuy
      12/23/13 11:24am

      Thank you. By my own admission, I'm a recent country convert. I love it. But I'm not going to assert that every song is a piece of unique, lyrical integrity. I listen to it because FUCKING EVERYTHING on top 40 now has this awful fucking tech riff to it. Listening to top 40 now, in my opinion, is like stepping back in time and playing billions of Jock Jams CDs on a loop. Country music is so, so much easier to tolerate. Not because it's smarter, but because it sounds fun and infinitely less obnoxious.

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    ratchedNeetzan Zimmerman
    12/23/13 1:00pm

    A NIN song, but Johnny Cash rocked my world with it.

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      Gob_Hobblinratched
      12/23/13 1:15pm

      He rocked Trent Reznor's world with it, too: Reznor acknowledged the song isn't really 'his' anymore after hearing the finished cut from Cash.

      And man, is he right: Cash owns this song. Damn, how he owns it!

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      ratchedGob_Hobblin
      12/23/13 1:35pm

      This came out when I was at the lowest part of my life and I think this song became part of my DNA. Powerful.

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    TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)Neetzan Zimmerman
    12/23/13 12:31pm

    The sad thing is, they wrote this song 20 years ago and it was a lot better.

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      LeighLeigh82TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)
      12/23/13 12:38pm

      This album was the first compact disc I ever owned. I was 11. I'm 31 now and I can't listen to country music anymore. It's all too awful. I've pretty much given up on mainstream music completely.

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      KarenDelaneyWalkerTRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)
      12/23/13 12:51pm

      I remember this song. God lord, Alan Jackson looks young.

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    dwaynemcgintyNeetzan Zimmerman
    12/23/13 11:12am

    Country was great before every song was about how "country" the singer is.

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      AnotherOne4dwaynemcginty
      12/23/13 11:18am

      Country has always been self-referential. What's different is that it used to be authentic (or at least sound like it).

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      CThruItAnotherOne4
      12/23/13 11:28am

      Country to me is Willie Nelson cracking wise about being arrested for drug possession in "Me and Paul" not HURRR I LOVE BUD LIGHT!

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    BabylegsNeetzan Zimmerman
    12/23/13 11:32am

    ... or you could have just played Toby Keith's "Made in America," which is so country it actually broke America. It broke everything, you guys.

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      mjskyeBabylegs
      12/23/13 11:53am

      Baby: Thank you for that. Tech riffs at the end, but hey. IMHO, not to detract from the beauty that you have shared today, is that this song is, at its essence, Socialist Rock. At its heart it's a song about interdependence.

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      Babylegsmjskye
      12/23/13 11:55am

      Yes! It's propaganda written by the Underground Government of Walmart.

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    99Telep☺dpr☹blemsNeetzan Zimmerman
    12/23/13 11:39am

    I think Johnny Cash said it best when asked about the modern country music industry.

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      bangishotyou99Telep☺dpr☹blems
      12/23/13 7:28pm

      You know, I have a friend who is a die hard country fan (among other types of music) and she'll randomly ask me to burn her a best of Top 40 country cd. I actually listened to some of it last week. My first thought was, "When the fuck did country start trying to be rock and pop at the same time? What happened to the country I grew up with like George Straight and Dwight Yoakam (for the more modern stuff I like) and the older stuff?" And I'm not even really into country and the difference between what I heard in the late '80s and early '90s is insane when compared to what's on the air now.

      I think that picture showed be shown to every country singer/band out there who plays the nonsense that makes it to the top 40 and has the nerve to say they're "just playing country". It's basically an attempt at the rock star life style with pop tunes and trying to play it "aww shucks".

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      99Telep☺dpr☹blemsbangishotyou
      12/23/13 8:27pm

      Dwight Yokam seemed to be one of the last authentic dudes in country. After that you are just left going back to roots or alt-country cuz whatever the shit Nashville is pumping out isn't anything but bubble gum with a twang,

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    CaryGrantLivesNeetzan Zimmerman
    12/23/13 11:14am

    I apologize for all the wallet chains in this video

    Seriously, what the fuck is up with that? I live in the South, and no one wears those things. Jeans, inane t-shirts, plaid button-ups, and when it gets cold out, these fucking jackets:

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      jonanacondaCaryGrantLives
      12/23/13 11:21am

      That jacket is warm and durable. Mine is black though. But if you have a problem with that jacket what do you suggest that performs the same function more stylishly?

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      PutinintheeffortCaryGrantLives
      12/23/13 11:23am

      I have the exact same jacket. What's wrong with functionality?

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    benjaminalloverNeetzan Zimmerman
    12/23/13 11:39am

    This so called new country is painful to listen to- the worst kind of vapid formula pop. It`s a shame that they`ve taken all the grit and twang out of the genre and replaced it with auto-tuning and airbrushing.

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      imgointoshhhhboomsbenjaminallover
      12/23/13 2:09pm

      And everyone's WAY too attractive too.

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      benjaminalloverimgointoshhhhbooms
      12/23/13 2:17pm

      That too. All these pretty people should make their dollars now, because i have a feeling nobody is going to be able to even listen to this shit in 5 years. It`s not exactly classic and timeless, or artistically redeeming in any way.

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    CSDENeetzan Zimmerman
    12/23/13 12:01pm

    Com on now, even classic country songs - very good ones - have similar themes. Remember what David Allan Coe sang - it isn't country if it doesn't include "Mama, trains, getting drunk, and going to prison."

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      BlatheringCSDE
      12/23/13 1:43pm

      Argument, from me at least, is that Coe lived that life. He was an outlaw biker and general badass. Most old time country singers—or at least the ones we remember fondly—came from the dirt roads, coal mines or prisons. Now it's just studio production and focus group style.

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      prismatismCSDE
      12/24/13 3:17am

      But with outlaws, trains, Mama, drunkenness, and prison it could be blues. SEPARATED AT BIRTH?

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