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You mean like this.
John Prine did some good stuff.

Country "music" = Yuck!

Just my opinion, as I know quite a few people that like it. I would just rather have someone hit a note spot on the first time and not "hunt" around for it while the geetar (yup, just like it looks, not guitar) twangs away with slinding notes of pure nastiness.

To me, just about anyone can "sing" country. Some people are better than others at just singing and I wish that they would leave the country music to the people that like the twang.

I know, there are all of these "cross-over" singers, and the "new stuff isn't like the old stuff" arguments, but I'll never like it. So if you enjoy it, that is awesome! At least is isn't (not that I have heard) about beating and killing people, qwearing every 2 seconds, and so forth like some of the cRAP music out there.

Oh no, a lot of people share that opinion.

Only two types of music I’ve found that I absolutely can’t listen to. Rap which makes me want to kill the people singing and listening to it and Country which makes me want to kill myself because it’s so whinny and depressing. Some other genres aren’t favorites but nothing’s as evil as those two.

Though I must admit on my first trip to Okinawa I nearly fell on the ground laughing when I heard Japanese country western music.

The closest I can get to country music would be artists like James Taylor or similar, probably considered to be "folk music", although in some ways Johnny Cash is pretty cool. I have found artists like Garth Brooks to be somewhat of a bad joke...many country artists(today), imo, seem to be trying to immitate rock musicians from yesteryear but use a slide guitar or fiddle here or there to justify it as country music. If you ever listen to Shania's music alongside certain Def Leppard songs, you'll hear a lot of similarities fiddles/slide guitar aside.

Agree with all negative comments on rap "music", throw pop music in there too!

Considering Mutt Lange did some producing for Def Leppard, that's not surprising!

I'm with you Grunt, the only Rap I ever listened to was some old school Boogie Boys and Run DMC back in my college days since my roomate who was on the track team liked them.

My wife likes some country, not the twangy crap. Some of the old stuff is pretty good, and we've been to Branson, MO a few times. We have seen Clint Black a few times, one of my wifes favorites.

Hank is ok also, all my rowdy Axiom buddies are getting drunkkkk tonightttttt...

My sister and I were just remembering some old country music videos from when we were younger. Our parents were really into country back then. My dad is still into country, but now he seems to prefer the old cowboy music. I'm pretty much burned out on most country, like a lot of people, but there are always going to be exceptions. The major turn-off for me is when the songs are about how great being simple-minded is.

As for rap, I do like some. It's not all about killing and getting jiggy, though I have no problem with catchy songs that are about that. Most rap doesn't interest me, but I do like some.

There are other more exotic genres that aren't represented in my music library (Dean has certainly shared links to some), but it would be hard to sidestep genres as broad as country or rap.

You mean Beastie Boys, right?

You've gotta fight, for your right, to parrrrrrrrrty...

Jurassic 5 comes to mind. Too bad they disbanded.