Saw Garth brooks at the Linn co fair in the summer of ‘93, I think? I believe that was the year he won entertainer of the year. So he was kind of unheard of, sort of. That’s been I got my first job at a grocery store, and that’s all that played. So I started listening. It was okay. [Reply]
I'm just thankful we're in a country renaissance where you can find red-dirt and outlaw and hillbilly type shit if you put in a little work.
Wife has the local pop country station on sometimes and it's fucking Kane Brown and dude's named Bailey. And Morgan Wallen sucks a fat pair of nuts. Fuck that guy too. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pablo:
I'm just thankful we're in a country renaissance where you can find red-dirt and outlaw and hillbilly type shit if you put in a little work.
Wife has the local pop country station on sometimes and it's ****ing Kane Brown and dude's named Bailey. And Morgan Wallen sucks a fat pair of nuts. **** that guy too.
Great call on the Red Dirt!! Great sound!! And if you don’t like RD, I’ll meet you at the George Brett statue!! [Reply]
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
I haven't ever looked into the history of it or a holistic view or anything, but I always blamed Shania Twain. Once she crossed over it all seemed to go to shit. Garth was at least country. Shania went all pop and then the copy cats did too. I can for sure see Garth influences in the sisterfuckers now that just puke out word salads with some combination of: truck, girl, beer. And those word salad songs definitely blow ass, but chasing pop audiences are the worst IMO.
That's obviously over simplified, and probably it's nobody's "fault". There are just a lot of people in the US that like and will pay for shit music.
This is the appropriate view that many choose to ignore. There is just a lot of Garth hate out there for some reason. And you’re probably correct about Shania though, I feel like the music was slowly evolving (devolving?) in that direction already but, she very likely was the one to fully throw the doors wide open. [Reply]
I used to like Garth, he had some great songs, worshipped KISS and was a standout on SNL... then his politics soured me on him, couldn't look at him the same way after that
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
Maybe I'm the asshole here. I just never thought her music was very good. And maybe it's Dad's fault. I spent ... *pokes buttons on calculator* 4,579,307,511 hours on a tractor those years and had nothing to listen to but the radio and the burnout was real man. I just can't stand her suff. Her and like Jo Dee Messina are automatic outs for me. That bullshit will make me want to turn on Conservative Talk Radio. And that's only an option if I don't have a gun to paint the inside of a cab with brainmatter.
tl;dr: Like every other 90s kid, I'll blame my parents :-)
61 Country?? It was really repetitive in the 80s and 90s.. ran those songs into the ground.. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Easy 6:
I used to like Garth, he had some great songs, worshipped KISS and was a standout on SNL... then his politics soured me on him, couldn't look at him the same way after that
