Why is Country Music so Dispised In Ontario?
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and some canadian Country
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and some canadian Country
YouTube - Roughest Neck Around - Corb Lund
stevie ray vaughn even though he is not country gets the girls on the dance floor
I gotta say I love stevie ray vaughn's music. Its a real pity he died so young.
Malignant cells cause cancer. Having sex with a human infected with an STD will cause you to catch a venereal disease.
Country music and the blues will cause some folks to tap their toes, sing along and generally become happier people. Some folks, not all....
What genre of music do you prefer DB?
Country music and the blues will cause some folks to tap their toes, sing along and generally become happier people. Some folks, not all....
What genre of music do you prefer DB?
Some of the blues make me blue. Same with country & western. I listen to almost anything, but I like lively stuff from the Spanish/Latin, rock, folk, and classical genres mostly.
Ontarians are just weird.
I'm kidding.
I like many different kinds of music but the last few years I have developed a distaste for most commercial stuff which I've convinced myself I've already heard thirty years ago. Even the stuff I used to love like Black Sabbath fails to turn my crank these days. Maybe I'm getting too old to care anymore. I only hear original stuff very infrequently.
I know country music dosn't cause cancer or venereal disease I meant to say hemmeroids.:lol:
I know country music dosn't cause cancer or venereal disease I meant to say hemmeroids.:lol:
I'm pretty open minded when it comes to music as a whole. I like all sorts, Rock, Classic Rock, Rap, Blues, Hip Hop, R&B etc. I even like JPop, KPop, some French Pop, and yes, Country as well. I don't think Country music is despised in Ontario as a whole at all. Most likely you've met a whole bunch of people that seem to dislike that particular genre and haven't quite yet met someone who did. Of course, I'm just assuming, so please don't attack me for it
When I was doing my Ph.D. at University of Utah, we had a Turkish Ph.D. student in the laboratory. Due to some reason he was fond of country music, and he would have country music on (the station was KSOP) all day.
For a few years in those days I used to listen to country music practically every day. I did not exactly get to like it, but at least I got used to it. And some of the tunes were rather catchy.
So the result is that I still remember many tunes from the 70s, which I am sure most of the country music buffs have forgotten by now.
Johnnny, you are a country music fan. See if you recognize any of these tunes, they were very popular in those days.
Don’t cry, Joni (“Joni was a girl who lived next door")
Monster song (“Frankenstein was the first in line, the Wolf man came on next”)
Snake song (“Boys and girls take warning, if you go near the lake”)
Kitchen song (“singing in the kitchen, banging on the pots and pans”)
And of course no country music is complete without several trucking songs. (“Roll on, big mama”, “If you are rollin”)
After my Ph.D. I moved from Salt Lake City to Ann Arbor (he went back to Turkey) and I lost touch with country music. When I went to Britain for seven years, I picked up a taste of Gilbert and Sullivan and it has stayed with me to this day. I am a big fan of Gilbert and Sullivan.
For a few years in those days I used to listen to country music practically every day. I did not exactly get to like it, but at least I got used to it. And some of the tunes were rather catchy.
So the result is that I still remember many tunes from the 70s, which I am sure most of the country music buffs have forgotten by now.
Johnnny, you are a country music fan. See if you recognize any of these tunes, they were very popular in those days.
Don’t cry, Joni (“Joni was a girl who lived next door")
Monster song (“Frankenstein was the first in line, the Wolf man came on next”)
Snake song (“Boys and girls take warning, if you go near the lake”)
Kitchen song (“singing in the kitchen, banging on the pots and pans”)
And of course no country music is complete without several trucking songs. (“Roll on, big mama”, “If you are rollin”)
After my Ph.D. I moved from Salt Lake City to Ann Arbor (he went back to Turkey) and I lost touch with country music. When I went to Britain for seven years, I picked up a taste of Gilbert and Sullivan and it has stayed with me to this day. I am a big fan of Gilbert and Sullivan.
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Hmm.. not to age myslef too much but I know all of those songs. Adn as far as Genre..I listen to anything and everything! LOL
Because they don't like good music.
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I dont get it, 5/6ths of the people i know here hate country. But it gets me more ****** then your rock in roll halloween music that sounds like...
RAAAWR!!!! MURDER SUICIDE!!!! YEAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
its on
seriously, people have alot of negativstuff to say about country music, but when i say negative stuff about there music they get all defensive.... At least we know what the men are listening too
Apparently the generalizations work both ways, ie: your own counter-complaints towards Rock. ;-)
When it comes to Rock/Roll, there's many different genres within Rock itself... Rock n Roll, Rock, Classic Rock, Alternative, Pop Rock, Heavy Metal, Industrial, Death Metal, Punk Rock, etc. etc.
Not all of it has to do with Murder and Suicide..... I imagine you know better then that.
But if not, then in reflection to your own comments, most Country music sounds much the same as the next.... twangy guitars, twangy voices, everybody wears cowboy hats when most of the artists only wear them just to fit in.... and yes.... most Country (up until recently with the Pop Country stuff) entails stories and lyrics that involve having a crappy life....
My wife left me, took the dog, stole my pickup, my cousin no longer loves me like she used to, my beer's flat, trailer home is leaking, got no money, got no decent shoes, my father died in a tractor accident, my mother got a sex change and now's my father and she just died in a tractor accident too..... and so on.
Sounds a lot like Murder/Suicide music too when you think about it.
But for me, it's not so much the lyrics, it's more to do with the sound of the instruments and the common twangy voices (ie: all the men have almost the exact same voices and tones) used in the songs that annoy my ears and a lack of variety.
If people want to like and enjoy Country, all the power to em.... I'll listen to my own stuff.
But whatever music genre has Shania Twain, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Kenny Rogers in it deserves ridicule lol
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For me, since around the age of 4 or 5, I couldn't stand Bluegrass..... it always made me feel like hopping in an old Ford F-150 and getting into a police chase with Boss Hog.... or perhaps have the locals chase me around in their pick ups shaking pitchforks and torches out the windows with anger.
I guess in about two weeks you figure I will be wasting my time when I hitch-up my 5th wheel and head south for a couple or three months to take in about four bluegrass festivals..... and maybe a Blues festival in Orangeville On. if I make it in time.
This friend of mine didn't care much for bluegrass until he came to a festival with me.....the next year he made the rounds with me.
The best is still the jammin' around the parks...
YouTube - Josh Williams jamming High Definition
Here is a kid with talent
YouTube - Gold Rush
Oh I know there's a load of talent in most Bluegrass, in fact there's plenty of talent and great skill in just about any music genre (except HipHop/Rap) and seeing something live is always a hell of a lot more impressive then just listening on a CD or on the radio.... but it's just not my thing.
Most of it's a little too fast pace and high in treble for my ears. The fast pace isn't so much an issue, but in combination with the treble, it kinda gets to me.... mainly the Banjo. It's a sound that doesn't quite appeal to me.
And my last two posts, while honest in opinion, wasn't meant to be taken too seriously of course
Most of it's a little too fast pace and high in treble for my ears. The fast pace isn't so much an issue, but in combination with the treble, it kinda gets to me.... mainly the Banjo. It's a sound that doesn't quite appeal to me.
And my last two posts, while honest in opinion, wasn't meant to be taken too seriously of course
Oh I didn't take offense to anything you said...On the contrary, I agree, with this last statement of yours (I don't take hip hop rap as music either) and I enjoy most music to varying degree also...Oh I know there's a load of talent in most Bluegrass, in fact there's plenty of talent and great skill in just about any music genre (except HipHop/Rap) and seeing something live is always a hell of a lot more impressive then just listening on a CD or on the radio.... but it's just not my thing.
Most of it's a little too fast pace and high in treble for my ears. The fast pace isn't so much an issue, but in combination with the treble, it kinda gets to me.... mainly the Banjo. It's a sound that doesn't quite appeal to me.
And my last two posts, while honest in opinion, wasn't meant to be taken too seriously of course
They just vary in the length of time I'm willing to listen :smile:
