Used to hang out with the Hells Angels
Smoked a joint on the roof of the White House
Lame country music artist

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Willie Nelson is the Man.

As far as country artists I'm partial to:
Johnny Cash
Willie Nelson
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Diamond Rio
Tim McGraw
Rascal Flatts
Big and Rich
Sawyer Brown (fucking amazing)
Charlie Daniels
The Wreckers
Taylor Swift

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i cant stand willie nelson.

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He doesn't care

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dead people cant care.

wait, hes not dead, is he? whoops.

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To be fair, I only like a couple of his songs.

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My theory is all pop music sucks (with very few exceptions). So if you don't listen to much of a certain genre, chances are what you hear is shit because what you hear is pop.

However, to totally throw country under the bus just because you hate Kenney Chesney or whofuckingever would make me not want to talk rock with you in particular irony, so music threads might turn out just like you tink the political threads are. No offense, but it sounds like your entrenched in your opinions too, just about other subjects.

And again I call bullshit irony because you like Neko Case. If you like Neko Case, there's no way you wouldn't like Patsy Cline or some of the other classic country singers.

if i had listened to a song or two by a guy, thats fine. but seriously, ive been forced to listen to alot of country over the years. honestly, im just fine without it in my life.

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Honestly I always thought 95% of rock songs were written by 7 year olds, the lyrics are so god awful bad, but it's probably what I listen to most now along with some poppy stuff. Country is in a downswing, otherwise those stations would dominate my radio.

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Who'd have guessed, between putting the politics forum back up and letting people speak freely about music, the music would be the contentious topic?

am I supposed to move this thread?

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People often tie the music they listen to to their personal identity. I used to do that when I was in high school. To me, the most important thing about a person was what music they listened to. People who like the faggy hair bands like Poison, Warrant, Skid Row or whatever were incredibly lame. You had to listen to the Butthole Surfers, or Sonic Youth, or somebody COOL if you wanted to hang with me. It's silly to say now, but that's the way I thought.

"Pop" music in general is crap in my opinion. That goes for the "Pop" country crap as well. I'm mostly a rock listener but I like a lot of folk, blue grass and the like as well. Saying "country" music and including all of it is like saying "rock" and including Quiet Riot and Blink 182 along with Zeppelin and Clutch. It's too all encompassing. Now Cash ranged from blues influenced rock to more stereotypical country music so to say that he was all country is misleading just like saying Elvis only did rock would be misleading when you look at his catalog ranging from Jail House Rock to Love Me Tender. Genre's are way too open to say "I hate country" or "I love country" when those genres can include bands you love as well as crap you never want to hear again. Just saying that when you talk about music it's hard because most bands have great songs and shitty ones and it get's even more complicated and diluted when you talk about hundreds of artists in the same "genre" when many of them are hardly comparable.

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Butthole surfers are that old?

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The music I listen to is so tied to my identity that I rarely let others know what specific artists I like, outside of a few main ones. I don't care, though, if others bash the music I listen to. To each his own. I also don't care what opinions others have of artists I basically hate, as long as they don't take it personally if they bring it up in conversation and I answer when they ask me, "Why?" if I state my dislike.

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‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

Figure a band is around 3 to 6 years before they make it big. Their first album was in 1984. Crazy thing is, they didn't hit it big until Electriclarryland...in 1996! (That's the album I discovered them with. I was 11 and it was my dad's copy).

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Yup, and so am I.

All their best albums were made between 85 and 89, and released on Touch and Go records IMO. By the time they got to Independent Worm Saloon, they were already well in decline IMO.

Not to be a dink, Stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, but just seeing Portland as your location tells me all I need to know about your musical proclivities

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oh really? Tell me more about what I like.

Not so much what you like, but your tendencies. To me, Portland is an entire indie city, full of cool and not-so-cool music lovers. An image is conjured up in my mind of bearded dudes in Chuck Taylors with a ridiculous mix of CD's and records in their libraries. You name drop a wicked array of artists, from Gangstarr to Butthole Surfers recently, and I respect that kind of musical diversity.

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