New country, old country or NO country music? poll of sorts

[KEXPMF]

There's three types of music that you'll never catch me listening too..

1. Rap
2. Opera
3. Country

There you have it.

1. Country
2. Opera
3. Smooth Jazz

[Resident Loser]

...Commander Cody and The Lost Planet Airmen...yaaa-hooo!!!

"...you know you're gonna' drive me to drinkin', if you don't stop drivin' that hot----rod----Lincoln..."

I dunno' aren't they more Texas swing than C&W...steel guitars nothwithstanding...

I was brought up on 78s from Hank Williams, Tex Ritter, Eddie Arnold and Tennessee Ernie Ford...and Patsy...Patsy Cline...even watched "Hee-Haw" later on...

As far as I'm concerned, country really went into the dumper with that ache-ey- breaky cr@pola...and now, well...the last folks I enjoyed were Randy Travis, Vern Gosdin, John Anderson, Mark Chesnutt...more of the singer/storyteller kinda' folks...earlier Lyle Lovett and the "Ropin The Wind" guy(whose name escapes me at present)...Vince Gill has a great voice IMO and George Strait and Alan Jackson...There are a couple of ladies I enjoy but dagnabbit, they must be in that same place as as that "Wind" guy...Allison Krauss and Union Station are really top-notch...

Anyone who doesn't appreciate country should look at it as a form of ethnic or roots music...after all, it can be traced back to Scots-Irish/Celtic music, to folk and Appalachian/Mountain and bluegrass...even the blues is just another dynamic of it's basic chord structure. In fact, the only real "melting pot" is in the music...many different paths evolving from a central point, co-existing and crossing over, re-inventing itself every so often.

And, to whom it may concern, what's wrong with opera? You only think you don't or won't like it...If you enjoy classical, try finding releases of opera without words...Instrumental versions of Wagner's "Ring Cycle" is a good place to start...Big, bold and a workout for your system...or at least some overtures...You can get "Carmen" which is really an easy one to "ease" into as you are probably familiar with many of the melodies...

I've listened to classical/opera for about forty years now and still have a problem with some of the female singers...male tenors or bassos, no problemo...some of those coloratura sopranos are a whole 'nother thing...except for "The Queen Of The Night" in Mozart's "Die Zauberflotte"...amazing!!!

Anywho, I dislike rap and dismiss it as bad poetry accompanied by samples...smooth jazz bites...give me early Coltrane and Davis any time...tech-no-pop get's a thumbs-down, but I did like Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" and M's "Pop Muzik"...and of course the latest stuff that sells as pop is right out...

jimHJJ(...other than that, anything from Native American flute music to Zydeco...)

[ForeverAutumn]

And, to whom it may concern, what's wrong with opera? You only think you don't or won't like it...If you enjoy classical, try finding releases of opera without words

You're right. When I refer to opera, I refer to opera singing. Take away the vocals and I quite enjoy the music...but then I don't think of it as opera. It's music.

[Resident Loser]

...Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana"?...music and singing(latin no less) but it ain't opera...Very dramatic...it could change your mind...Perhaps your local library has a copy in their Fine Arts dept...

jimHJJ(...and they're saying such naughty things...)

[nobody]

"O Mio Babbino Caro", or something to that effect, is Opera that just about anyone I've ever played it for has absolutely loved. Its Puccini, from Gianni Schicchi, and it is absolutely beautiful in both the music and the singing.

[KEXPMF]

...Commander Cody and The Lost Planet Airmen...yaaa-hooo!!!

"...you know you're gonna' drive me to drinkin', if you don't stop drivin' that hot----rod----Lincoln..."

I dunno' aren't they more Texas swing than C&W...steel guitars nothwithstanding...

I was brought up on 78s from Hank Williams, Tex Ritter, Eddie Arnold and Tennessee Ernie Ford...and Patsy...Patsy Cline...even watched "Hee-Haw" later on...

As far as I'm concerned, country really went into the dumper with that ache-ey- breaky cr@pola...and now, well...the last folks I enjoyed were Randy Travis, Vern Gosdin, John Anderson, Mark Chesnutt...more of the singer/storyteller kinda' folks...earlier Lyle Lovett and the "Ropin The Wind" guy(whose name escapes me at present)...Vince Gill has a great voice IMO and George Strait and Alan Jackson...There are a couple of ladies I enjoy but dagnabbit, they must be in that same place as as that "Wind" guy...Allison Krauss and Union Station are really top-notch...

Anyone who doesn't appreciate country should look at it as a form of ethnic or roots music...after all, it can be traced back to Scots-Irish/Celtic music, to folk and Appalachian/Mountain and bluegrass...even the blues is just another dynamic of it's basic chord structure. In fact, the only real "melting pot" is in the music...many different paths evolving from a central point, co-existing and crossing over, re-inventing itself every so often.

And, to whom it may concern, what's wrong with opera? You only think you don't or won't like it...If you enjoy classical, try finding releases of opera without words...Instrumental versions of Wagner's "Ring Cycle" is a good place to start...Big, bold and a workout for your system...or at least some overtures...You can get "Carmen" which is really an easy one to "ease" into as you are probably familiar with many of the melodies...

I've listened to classical/opera for about forty years now and still have a problem with some of the female singers...male tenors or bassos, no problemo...some of those coloratura sopranos are a whole 'nother thing...except for "The Queen Of The Night" in Mozart's "Die Zauberflotte"...amazing!!!

Anywho, I dislike rap and dismiss it as bad poetry accompanied by samples...smooth jazz bites...give me early Coltrane and Davis any time...tech-no-pop get's a thumbs-down, but I did like Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" and M's "Pop Muzik"...and of course the latest stuff that sells as pop is right out...

jimHJJ(...other than that, anything from Native American flute music to Zydeco...)

OK good points. I hadn't really meant folk,Appalachian Mountain and bluegrass music or roots music when I said I don't like country. (I was thinking of Travis Tritt and stuff like that). I LOVE bluegrass, folk, Appalachian/Mountain music, roots music. I just did a DJ night that where I played all blues (Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, etc) and bluegrass (Grisman, Fleck, etc).

Also, I like classical. I suppose Opera could be okay for me if I saw the right thing but I don't know. I feel like I've given it a try and it's not my thing.

And we seem to agree that there is no hope for smooth jazz

I would like to start a movement to take the word jazz out of smooth jazz. I propose that the name be changed to "homogenized elevator music". ( I wish I could take credit for creating that term. I don't remember where I read that but I wasn't the originator)

[KEXPMF]

...Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana"?...music and singing(latin no less) but it ain't opera...Very dramatic...it could change your mind...Perhaps your local library has a copy in their Fine Arts dept...

jimHJJ(...and they're saying such naughty things...)

Carmina Burana is great. One of my favorite classical cds in my small classical collection.