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Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:12 pm**

dlp wrote:I've been a huge fan of bluegrass for 20 years but I'll be the first to say that as a genre it's getting pretty bad also. Currently, the quality of songwriting SUCKS in bluegrass.

I think Allison Krause and Patty Loveless are doing a decent job of holding the genre together, somewhat...but that's another thread...

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:14 pm**

Oh, and all sober Aerosmith.

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:20 pm**

really...

What about IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIayayaya will always love Youoooooooooooooo!!?

That stinks 10 times worse than all Celine Dion songs combined

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:35 pm**

A Gunslinger wrote: I find Mr. Keith's songs shallow and jingoistic, which is not meant as a political comment, but as a lyrical/stylistic one. Geez Malik...we are supposed to be having fun here! I like Country music as my above list indicates!

I thought I was having fun.

Some artists are inseparable from their political connotations. Which is the whole reason I didn't mention Dixie Chicks. (Dammit, I just mentioned them!)

Oh well, Matrixman was right. This kind of negative oriented thread is sure to bug someone the longer it goes on. Sorry if I hurt your feelings with the country comment. I'm sure there's plenty in my collection you wouldn't like, either.

Oh, speaking of bluegrass (I'm from Kentucky, in case you didnt' know

), I think Bela Fleck has been pushing the boundaries for decades.

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:43 pm**

Malik23 wrote:
A Gunslinger wrote: I find Mr. Keith's songs shallow and jingoistic, which is not meant as a political comment, but as a lyrical/stylistic one. Geez Malik...we are supposed to be having fun here! I like Country music as my above list indicates!
I thought I was having fun.

Some artists are inseparable from their political connotations. Which is the whole reason I didn't mention Dixie Chicks. (Dammit, I just mentioned them!)

Oh well, Matrixman was right. This kind of negative oriented thread is sure to bug someone the longer it goes on. Sorry if I hurt your feelings with the country comment. I'm sure there's plenty in my collection you wouldn't like, either.

Oh, speaking of bluegrass (I'm from Kentucky, in case you didnt' know ), I think Bela Fleck has been pushing the boundaries for decades.

No oofense taken here buddy.

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. great stuff. "Asleep at the Wheel" is a good band too.

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:05 pm**

How could we forget Mr. Roboto?!?

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:10 pm**

"High Enough" -Damn Yankees

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:10 pm**

true... Dewey (or Huey or Luey or whatever his name was) and Tommy had asexual voices--and usually that doesn't work, except for, maybe, Geddy Lee but that's a WHOLE 'nother debate, eh Luci?

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:12 pm**

Jack Blades. You're thinking of Jack Blades.

High Enough is a pretty rotten song.

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:13 pm**

Cail wrote:How could we forget Mr. Roboto?!?

(wipes barf from chin) I had tried to forget.

How 'bout "Break My Stride" Matthew Wilder.

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:14 pm**

Jack Blades sang for Styx?

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:15 pm**

Nah, Jack Blades played bass and sang for Night Ranger. Tommy Shaw still sings for Styx.

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:18 pm**

**makes the sign of the cross** No Night Ranger! No Night Ranger! (I'd rather listen to RATT, hey speaking of RATT...)

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:22 pm**

Anyone for Europe? Recall "The Final Countdown" and "Carrie"?

Help me.

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:26 pm**

dlbpharmd wrote: I've been a huge fan of bluegrass for 20 years but I'll be the first to say that as a genre it's getting pretty bad also. Currently, the quality of songwriting SUCKS in bluegrass.

Depends. If you are lucky enough to stumble into some stuff from a small recording studio in someone's attic in the backmost West Virginia hills...now that can be bliss.

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:29 pm**

duchess of malfi wrote:
dlbpharmd wrote:Anything by Celine Dion.
Now we're talking.

I do not like most of the current pop-country-diva stuff, if that is what Malik is talking about. But I love bluegrass, and I love a lot of older country from artists like Johnny Cash and others from his era. Some of those old time country artists just sound more authentic than a lot of the plastic stuff coming out today, like they'd been around the block a few times and have actually experienced life.

Agreed. Video killed the country star just like it did the radio (pop) star.

Danlo, I love all of the early Allison Krauss stuff but honestly, she hasn't been bluegrass for years. Patti Loveless' Mountain Soul CD was OUTSTANDING.

Malik, where in KY are you?

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:52 pm**

"Sussudio" by Phil Collins.... generally don't have issue until his more recent stuff, but this was WEAK.

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:59 pm**

Ohhhhh, I hate Phil Collins.

But not as much as emo.

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:24 pm**

Ohhhhh, I hate Phil Collins.

Almost universally, I agree. But on the Genesis album right after Peter Gabriel left, he wasn't so bad. Maybe it was because he was trying to sound like Peter Garbriel (and it was a pseudo-jazz fusion album, not pop).

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:00 pm**

qUEEAQUEG wrote:Chris De Burg - Lady in Red
Robbie Williams - pretty much everything

I would have to think, I tend not to think of bad songs because it... hurts my mind.

Good list.

Most rap music, dont care if you've been sho 65 times, your still crap.

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