Why isn't this at the top of the country charts? Well because they don't have a bunch of explosions and fireworks going off with a 20 person stage show and computers generating the sound and masking the vocals to make them sound good. Music is just about dead these days, the real musicians are **** out of luck if they don't look good on a CD cover. Doesn't matter if you have talent, they can fix that in the editing room and studio, just look good. The music industry has gone to hell, especially country. Tom Petty was right a few weeks ago when he said something that outraged everyone. He basically said that today's country music was really just "incredibly generic 80's rock music" and "bad rock music with a fiddle". And I have to agree with him.

 

At this moment, Rising, by the Yoshida Brothers.

 

No but in gonna watch in a bit

 

I absolutely love this song. Have the David gilmour concert on DVD and I'd play this particular song over and over while working. The whole section from 13:30 on, the whole drum build up and all before the vocals kick back in is my fav part.

 

Hey Scott, wasn't it this acoustic version that you liked so much?



They've got a free download of it on their website.....

http://www.blackberrysmoke.com/entry...eft-of-me.html

 

Awesome!

 

That's just your opinion. Ill agree that there's some really crappy stuff out there, but there's also some really great stuff as well. Its such a diverse genre that to call it all crap would be a huge misjudgement.

 

It's crap







just kidding Nate, don't get your panties in a bunch

 

When one of these talentless women can sound like an echo of an Emmylou Harris, then I'd consider listening to it. The "country" I have heard is nothing but commercialized pop with a steel guitar or fiddle added in. Packaged, shrink-wrapped, assembly-lined, made-up noise.

 

Thank you.


(waits for Nathan to get pissed off, chastise us and explain to us how stupid we are).

 

I'm really diggin these guys from Oklahoma right now

 

Sorry about the quality they don't really have official videos

This ones my favorite right now

 

That's the problem right there. You're comparing the old to the new when everything changes and will never be "like it used to". If it all stayed the same, it would get as boring as hell and those singers (like Emmylou Harris) wouldn't be as special as they are.

 

One of my top 5 favorite songs of all time


First heard it when I was about 19 and its still every bit as good

 

As for what I've been listening to lately, I absolutely love The Civil Wars' new album. Not exactly "country" but incredible music just the same.

 

This guy puts on a heck of a show


Saw him a couple of times down here at the local dance hall

 

The problem I have is how many of these "artists" write the songs and music they are famous for? As a general rule, someone you've never heard of writes these songs, and a record company gives them to these "artists", puts some make up on them, some skinny jeans, a big poofy hairdo on the metrosexual guys, blast off a bunch of fireworks on stage to distract everyone and suddenly its a number 1 song.

 

Good times


Seems like yesterday

 

 

Nice

To me this is the ultimate Tool song. But then again I guess it's the first one I ever remember hearing.

It's ****ing epic