Unbelievable!

[Dave-n-Oksana 49]

The "That's the wrong taco" taco?

And Im not talking about the 80 one hit wonder. Who can name the song?

Must be a timing thing, as it is playing on my play list right now....Putting on the Ritz.

What do I win???

a new playlist

Amber, You must have been talking to my son. But his taste in music is suspect too as he considers Death Metal as the epitomy of musical styling.

No accounting for taste. Each to his/her own.

I admit I have a very eclectic taste in music, art too. I like the opera, I also like Ministry. My wife only wants to listen to Dire Straits and the Scorpions, I am trying to slowly introduce her to new stuff, like Poe, things she might like but she is not big into music. She likes stuff from the 80's but I cant figure out why she was 14 when they ended. I have no issue with people liking whatever they like just dont make me listen to country, you can I just dont want to hear it.

just say 'no' to country music! p.s. ministry was bada$$ back in my day. nothing like some good old-fashioned industrial metal. 69!69!69!

Country music is the sign of the devil. It is just wrong

Eclectic is good. And I agree Country music is an assault to the ears. And remember you can't spell ####### without rap

[Jonathan Matthies 1]

I love Ministry's early stuff. I stopped listening after Psalm 69; but I might pick up the later stuff just to see if I like it. With Sympathy (their very first album, Brit Synth Pop) was horrid. But Twitch, TLORAH, TMIATTTT, and Psalm 69 were all amazing. I'm still stuck in the 90s as far as music goes. Primus is also another group I love; but again I stopped listening after Pork Soda. Go figure.

[mox 298]

just say 'no' to country music! p.s. ministry was bada$$ back in my day. nothing like some good old-fashioned industrial metal. 69!69!69!

Country music is the sign of the devil. It is just wrong

You folks have obviously been exposed to the diarrhea that passes for country music these days. You need to pick yourself up some Johnny Cash, or some Dixie Chicks. You need to sit yourself down to some Hank Williams, Hank Williams Junior, Waylon Jennings, Ernest Tubb, Dolly Parton, and...yes...Elvis Presley.

[Jonathan Matthies 1]

You folks have obviously been exposed to the diarrhea that passes for country music these days. You need to pick yourself up some Johnny Cash, or some Dixie Chicks. You need to sit yourself down to some Hank Williams, Hank Williams Junior, Waylon Jennings, Ernest Tubb, Dolly Parton, and...yes...Elvis Presley.

My stepfather would blare some old country when we went road tripping in the summer. I could stomach most of it; it was reyy descent stuff. I am not generally a fan of country music; but I can be bothered to listen to some of the 'old' stuff every now and then.

[Thomas-n-Elena 0]

You folks have obviously been exposed to the diarrhea that passes for country music these days. You need to pick yourself up some Johnny Cash, or some Dixie Chicks. You need to sit yourself down to some Hank Williams, Hank Williams Junior, Waylon Jennings, Ernest Tubb, Dolly Parton, and...yes...Elvis Presley.

My stepfather would blare some old country when we went road tripping in the summer. I could stomach most of it; it was reyy descent stuff. I am not generally a fan of country music; but I can be bothered to listen to some of the 'old' stuff every now and then.

I will give credit to some of the older country, wont listen to it intentionally but I do see how you can like Johnny Cash(that and Wall of Voodoo's remake of ring of fire rocks), no dixie chicks, hank williams possible jr not really, Jennings, Tubb and Parton sure. I dont know if I would put Elvis into country but I can see the point.

I didnt mention it before but if you like Ministry that the other iterations are cool too Revolting Cocks (Beers,Steers, and Queers), Nitzer Ebb. I liked most of it just to hang out and get wierd too.

[mox 298]

I'm a huuuuuge Johnny Cash fan, but have to say I dig Wall of Voodoo's Ring of Fire remake. Huge Dixie Chicks fan too...they're what the modern sound of country music should be, not this Garth Brooks et al #######.

[Thomas-n-Elena 0]

I'm a huuuuuge Johnny Cash fan, but have to say I dig Wall of Voodoo's Ring of Fire remake. Huge Dixie Chicks fan too...they're what the modern sound of country music should be, not this Garth Brooks et al #######.

True Garth Brooks is #######. I just never listened to country. My mother was into folk music, Arlo guthrie, Peter Paul and Mary, Kingston Trio, Simon and Garfunkel, I grew up listening to that, I also like Bob Dylan, and lots of other things. Genre was not my thing it was more about the artist. I have a wide array of Industrial, Punk, Folk, Classical, Rock, New Wave and various music that defies classification but that is what makes it good.

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

just say 'no' to country music! p.s. ministry was bada$$ back in my day. nothing like some good old-fashioned industrial metal. 69!69!69!

Country music is the sign of the devil. It is just wrong

You folks have obviously been exposed to the diarrhea that passes for country music these days. You need to pick yourself up some Johnny Cash, or some Dixie Chicks. You need to sit yourself down to some Hank Williams, Hank Williams Junior, Waylon Jennings, Ernest Tubb, Dolly Parton, and...yes...Elvis Presley.

agreed with pretty much the rest of your list.

[baron555 934]

I love Ministry's early stuff. I stopped listening after Psalm 69; but I might pick up the later stuff just to see if I like it. With Sympathy (their very first album, Brit Synth Pop) was horrid. But Twitch, TLORAH, TMIATTTT, and Psalm 69 were all amazing. I'm still stuck in the 90s as far as music goes. Primus is also another group I love; but again I stopped listening after Pork Soda. Go figure.

Ministry.....Wow, there's a name from my past. I was part of the scene and partied a bunch with Al Jourgensen. Haven't seen him in a long time. I used to live down the block from WaxTrax (just down the block from the Biograph). Used to DJ at Neo and the Artful Dodger. Good times. I still have all my old Punk and New Wave records. And I remember Le Mare.

Nowadays I listen mainly to classic Jazz and old time Swing and Big Band music.

[Thomas-n-Elena 0]

I love Ministry's early stuff. I stopped listening after Psalm 69; but I might pick up the later stuff just to see if I like it. With Sympathy (their very first album, Brit Synth Pop) was horrid. But Twitch, TLORAH, TMIATTTT, and Psalm 69 were all amazing. I'm still stuck in the 90s as far as music goes. Primus is also another group I love; but again I stopped listening after Pork Soda. Go figure.

Ministry.....Wow, there's a name from my past. I was part of the scene and partied a bunch with Al Jourgensen. Haven't seen him in a long time. I used to live down the block from WaxTrax (just down the block from the Biograph). Used to DJ at Neo and the Artful Dodger. Good times. I still have all my old Punk and New Wave records. And I remember Le Mare.

Nowadays I listen mainly to classic Jazz and old time Swing and Big Band music.

Wow you really had a bad trip. Actually I like some of the big band stuff, never got into jazz, I preferred the blues.

[baron555 934]

Wow you really had a bad trip. Actually I like some of the big band stuff, never got into jazz, I preferred the blues.

I still listen to the old stuff, just not as often. My radio almost always is tuned to WDCB, College of Dupage, public radio. They play Jazz most of the time, except specific genre in the evenings, Monday night is Celtic, Tuesday Bluegrass, Wednesday is a show called When Country Wasn't Cool. On Saturdays is the Swing Shift and then Those Were the Days (old time radio music and programs). Sat. evernings is Bues.

WDCB has Internet streaming so everyone can listen; I had brought my laptop and a pair of small speakers and Alla and I listened to this while we were in Kiev.

[mox 298]

agreed with pretty much the rest of your list.

Yeah, I know, some people just can't get over the fact that the Dixie Chicks committed the immoral sin of exercising their right to free speech, despite the fact that their music is some of the best in country music. Johnny Cash said pretty much the same things about our beloved idiot-child former President, but got a pass. Maybe it would have been different if he'd had a #######.

Here's another on my list: Merle Haggard. I think his politics suck аss, but I wouldn't boycott his music, burn his CD's, and make death threats against him because of them.

[johnj 0]

If the last ever recording of Garth Brooks caught fire; I wouldn't wizz on it to put the fire out. I might sell tickets to watch it burn

I do like some Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Dolly, Johnny Cash and very few others. Jazz is the work of the devil-five guys playing five different instruments to five completely different songs is not jazz, it is noise. I like classic rock, some 60's rock stuff, some recent rock stuff, no metal or acid (except maybe a bit of AC/DC), all types of comedy (ooops, that is not music), once a year some lite rock and sometimes classical. Many times, I like silence!

[visaveteran 1]

agreed with pretty much the rest of your list.

Yeah, I know, some people just can't get over the fact that the Dixie Chicks committed the immoral sin of exercising their right to free speech, despite the fact that their music is some of the best in country music. Johnny Cash said pretty much the same things about our beloved idiot-child former President, but got a pass. Maybe it would have been different if he'd had a #######.

Here's another on my list: Merle Haggard. I think his politics suck аss, but I wouldn't boycott his music, burn his CD's, and make death threats against him because of them.

One of the unintended consequences of the mighty first amendment is letting people speak out, and in doing so showing what silly, immature, inarticulate goofballs they are. And the "no standards" media sniffs them out gives them a level of credibility when they deserve none. Such, IMJ, is the case of the Ditzy Chicks. Really, must we lift up these silly young girls to the level of political spoke persons? Take them seriously? I mean, they just got their period a few weeks ago. The rabid anti Bush people will take anyone they can get to speak against him. But can there at least be some standards imposed?

They certainly don't carry the same standing as Merle Haggard who has paid his dues and lived life and knows hardship. And, frankly, he has real talent.

My father was a hardcore country music fan...only he called it Hoe Down music. Please spare me the Ho jokes here. Like Rock and Roll, country music ain't what it used to be and has spun off many subgroups and cross overs. Just give me some good old hoe down and Blue Grass music...and send the Ditzy Chicks back to school so they can get their high school diplomas.

[mox 298]

One of the unintended consequences of the mighty first amendment is letting people speak out, and in doing so showing what silly, immature, inarticulate goofballs they are. And the "no standards" media sniffs them out gives them a level of credibility when they deserve none. Such, IMJ, is the case of the Ditzy Chicks. Really, must we lift up these silly young girls to the level of political spoke persons? Take them seriously? I mean, they just got their period a few weeks ago. The rabid anti Bush people will take anyone they can get to speak against him. But can there at least be some standards imposed?

Well now hold on a second here. It wasn't the "rabid anti Bush people" who elevated the Dixie Chicks. They made the comment at a small club in London, and the right-wingers caught scent of it and made it a big deal. It was a one-liner, off-the-cuff, and the Chicks *never* intended to be political spokespeople. It was the extreme right who turned them into "political spokes persons," nobody else.

They certainly don't carry the same standing as Merle Haggard who has paid his dues and lived life and knows hardship. And, frankly, he has real talent.

So you need to live a hard life and "pay your dues" in this country to be entitled to free speech?

That they are talented is inarguable--see their Wikipedia entry for the long list of very prestigious awards they've won. I think Tupak Shakir was an incredibly talented artist, even though I didn't care for his music one whit.

My father was a hardcore country music fan...only he called it Hoe Down music. Please spare me the Ho jokes here. Like Rock and Roll, country music ain't what it used to be and has spun off many subgroups and cross overs. Just give me some good old hoe down and Blue Grass music...and send the Ditzy Chicks back to school so they can get their high school diplomas.

I'm a huge Blue Grass fan, which is one of the reasons I like the Chicks. Listen to their first couple albums. The blue grass influence is undeniable. In fact, the Dixie Chicks started out as a bluegrass band. Emily Robinson has been acknowledged as one of the best banjo players in the industry. And speaking of talent, she plays 5 instruments.