I’m 58 years old and grew up with what is now called “classic rock”. Bob Seger was a mainstay back then. Listening to some old Seger on the radio today, it seems like those old tunes would fit in with the current country music sound in many cases. Accurate or way off base?
For me, Seger is much better than any modern country music. I’m 58 as well (Feb 1960). Back in the 1970’s went to visit cousins in San Diego and went to a lot of concerts in southern California: Crosby, Stills, Nash, Three Dog Night, Guess Who, Led Zeppelin, etc. Met John Densmore, formerly of The Doors and I have an autographed Drum Head by him hanging on the wall. Cool dude.
A lot of people remember Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries from the movie A Pack O’Lies Now (that’s what Army aviators called it) when they think of Air Cav. When I was with the Night Stalkers early on, I carried a cassette player loaded with a tape of Zeppelin or Steppenwolf, and we’d hammer down with Magic Carpet Ride. I miss those days.
I think the delineation between music genres is a lot like gender nowadays, call yourself whatever you like. This so-called country shit where they’re rapping makes me sick. A lot of newer country music would’ve fit in well years ago in the rock music genre, to me anyways.
Bob Seger kicks ass. One of the greatest ever, and most underrated. How many other artists have a career spanning 6 decades?
Where Country Music went off the rails with performers who know nothing about living in the “country”, Bluegrass still has remained genuine and I enjoy listening to it. Out here in Cowboy Country, there’s a lot of Texas Swing type of music which is popular; yes we have Hoedowns and Square Dances.
A lot of modern country all sounds the same. You just have to fill in a few blank spots with: Drinkin’, Cheatin’, Whoring, Pickup trucks and a dirt road; toss in a cowboy hat for good measure. Come up with catchy name for the group (Little Big Town for example) and the performers look like a bunch prison tatooed punks or garage band Gen X flunkies who couldn’t cut it in rock, so they sell out, develop a twang in their singing, and find a less critical fan base in country. Most of the new ones don’t even use the old classic steel guitar.
Some of these “country” stars wear hats with about 15 coats of back lacquer paint covering the thing, for what reason I don’t know. Maybe it’s made out of kevlar to protect the head from disgruntled fans throwing objects? I’d like to have a day with some of these new country stars and let them really experience the country: shoveling horse shit, tossing bales of hay and some roping of calves on horseback. After an hour or so, they’d be begging to fly back to their “Little Big Town” via a Gulfstream Jet and manicured, doric columned mansions outside of Nashville.
country these days seems to be hollywood types acting a certain way to make money ? but I could be wrong just the way they act what they do etc…
I am 55 but was more into the whole punk rock scene from hard core to the main stream like Clash etc…
my brother who is 60 was more into the rock side of things he also was into souther rock quite a bit
Not sure why you’re hacking on “Little Big Town”… they’ve been around for 20 years and have performed with very little drama and a reasonable amount of talent. Very much more talented then many of the current crop of singers.
I’m also not sure when country music wasn’t full of drinkin’ and cheatin’… unless you want to go back further than Hank Williams Sr. I don’t think he ever shoveled shit either and his was a massive alcoholic and druggy. David Allan Coe was worse and never grew up in the country. The only two successful musicians that were working cowboys that I know of are George Strait and Chris LeDoux (I’m sure there are more). Guys that made great music like Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Charlie Pride, Alan Jackson, Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, and Willy Nelson didn’t grow up in the country either.
Back in the day we had the Southern rock sound with Lynrd Skynrd, Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot, .38 Special, etc.
Country Music is really a set formula with a few basic themes. There is not one single Country group/performer I totally enjoy, but a lot of the groups/performers may have one tune I really like, and that’s it. It’s different than my collection of Beatle, Zeppelin, Clapton and others from the Pop/Rock era where a single album could have several songs which made the purchase worthwhile.
But with Country, I may really like one or two Alan Jackson songs, one Randy Travis, one Toby Keith, one Dwight Yoakam and so on. If asked right now, I could not give you the name of a song by a group like Florida Georgia Line, or is it Georgia Florida Line? They start to all sound the same. Thank God for the internet where I can look up one individual song and add it to my play list. And yes, I am old fashioned because I’ll still burn a playlist to CD to play in my truck.
I guess it’s just a matter of personal preference and individual taste since in addition to my large vinyl/cd collection of Pop/Rock includes a vast array of music from the Baroque music and into the Rococo art period; a time of music sometimes called Barococo. I am sort of an audiophile, still using a Denon Rosewood turntable and McIntosh gear running thru Dahlquist speakers.
I don’t see the connection personally. Modern country is pop with cowboy hats now. I was not a big Seger fan, but he was leagues above what passes for country today. What modern country tune reminds you of Seger?
With Seger, I don’t think Country, but maybe a hint of Country Rock? However, Night Moves is one of my favorites. In January 1977 Saturday Night Live aired an unofficial music video with Night Moves as the music track. It was great but I have not seen it since.
Bob Seger is classic rock. Some (many?) country tunes that I’ve heard today would probably fit in that genre if played on the air in 1978.
Current pop is horrible, but current country is even worse.
I find that if pop music is playing on the radio in the background it’s mind numbingly bad, but country music makes my ears bleed.
I really hate 80’s hair band stuff, rap and metal too.
I’ve got no dog in this but damn… since when did the phrases “old fashioned” and “burning CDs” go together?! I feel old now and I was burning CDs in highschool!!! [emoji16]
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Damn… the 80’s produced Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax… it wasn’t that bad.
I’m 40 but I grew up listening mostly to classic rock or southern rock. I do like some bands from the 80’s and 90’s. My wife grew up in a foreign country but somehow she’s all into classic rock and country music- which is good because I can’t stand any newer stuff that’s out. She goes through these stages listening to different bands which is kind of fun because a lot of the stuff she’s listening to for the first time, her current favorite band is CCR for some odd reason.
In the late 1970’s (and OH58D may recall this) there was a certain animosity between the rock and disco crowds. That ended when disco officially died somewhere around 1980-1981.
You’d have to give an example as I can’t think of any modern country that reminds me of anything close to classic rock of Seger.
Keep in mind I graduated from High School in 1978, and I enjoyed the transition from 8 Track to Cassette tapes. Got my first CD player in 1985. Everything now is The Cloud or storing music on a Smart Phone. I still use a Kyrocera Durable type of flip phone because I need something that can take a beating. Smart phones are too fragile for my lifestyle.
I have been recently using a professional level blu-ray burner transferring a lot of Hi-8 and Minidv video to blu-ray. I also take all of my digital photos and store them on CD or Blu-ray. They take up space but I like the archive aspects of those formats.
But back to music, as soon as my wife and daughter (in high school) get in the truck when going to town, they either plug in a USB from their smartphone or connect via bluetooth. I only use bluetooth to connect my flip phone to the truck for handsfree operation. Once someone asked me if I had bluetooth. I told them that I once had blue lips and a blue tongue after enjoying a blueberry flavored snowcone. They had a stunned look on their face.
Y’all have listened to the wrong Country. Country music now comes from from Texas. That crap from Nashville is Pop.
disc rot 
discs are a fine thing but they are not perfect and the rot does happen
keeping digital data moving forward onto current media also is a good thing so new HDD
sadly nothing is perfect so not saying its a good step in saving just for sure have another method or two
not sure when discs will go away but I reckon they will with USB sticks being so popular and flash type memory being the more common method of storage and delivery
not saying to move music to that just saying many computers do not bother with discs anymore many home theaters do not bother with them anymore and distribution is not what it was so like the floppy and zip or jazz drives or other media we once used they will go away