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  • That idiot who can't spell

    Jan. 4, 2011 8:05 p.m. That idiot who can't spell SuperDork

    Bringing this thread back from the dead because I got a bunch of iTunes cards over Christmas and so I downloaded some Split lip Rayfield, The E36 M3kickers, Blue Highway, Reckless Kelly and Trigger5.

  • ddavidv

    Jan. 5, 2011 5:49 a.m. ddavidv SuperDork

    Blue Highway is excellent. I got Candy Coburn's new CD (Texas flavored country) and Gloriana (sort of like Little Big Town and Lady Antebellum). Ashton Shepherd should have a new CD out this year (Alabama twang).

  • Duke

    Jan. 5, 2011 9:20 a.m. Duke SuperDork

    96DXCivic wrote:

    Can some one explain what happened to Country music? Modern mainstream country music is berkeleying Disney and it is sung by a bunch of Bob Costas. Is there any good country left?

    Wait, when exactly are you talking about? Music-Machine-generated country music has been that way for about 20 years, if not 30.

  • alex

    Jan. 5, 2011 9:26 a.m. alex SuperDork

    That idiot who can't spell wrote:

    Bringing this thread back from the dead because I got a bunch of iTunes cards over Christmas and so I downloaded some Trigger 5.

    Awesome. Thanks, man. We're on Amazon too, if anybody has gift cards to waste there...

    And we're mixing a 4 song EP right now (that may go on a split 10" with us acting as the backing band for another local multi-genre musician) of killer material. So, new stuff from T5 coming down the pike in the next few months.

  • Duke

    Jan. 5, 2011 9:37 a.m. Duke SuperDork

    Duke wrote:

    96DXCivic wrote:

    Can some one explain what happened to Country music? Modern mainstream country music is berkeleying Disney and it is sung by a bunch of Bob Costas. Is there any good country left?

    Wait, when exactly are you talking about? Music-Machine-generated country music has been that way for about 20 years, if not 30.

    D'oh! Way to not notice the date. What's with all the gravedigging recently?

  • fritzsch

    Feb. 13, 2012 8:59 p.m. fritzsch Reader

    bastard sons of johnny cash is also really good. I especially like their album 'walk alone' On pandora, their radio station also brings up quite a few of the bands listed here.

    bringing it back from the dead cause im listneing to them now

  • carguy123

    Feb. 13, 2012 10:48 p.m. carguy123 SuperDork

    I'm loving new country, it's taking the place of old rock 'n roll.

  • alex

    Feb. 13, 2012 11:23 p.m. alex SuperDork

    carguy123 wrote:

    I'm loving new country, it's taking the place of old rock 'n roll.

    Funny you should mention. I just came from a thread on sort of a good ol' boys Telecaster forum about Keith Urban's new guitars. Turns out, he's playing a couple custom Teles (one with a shattered mirror top and one covered with LEDs) that pay subtle homage to both Ace and Paul's guitars in the latter era of KISS. Coincidence? Likely not...

  • alex

    Feb. 13, 2012 11:32 p.m. alex SuperDork

    Oh, and since this thread has been brought back from the grave, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention, apropos of this thread, that the link to my band's (Trigger 5) live on-air performance from this past Saturday on our awesome local station KDHX can be easily and conveniently found at this very link for your listening pleasure right here!

  • alex

    Feb. 13, 2012 11:33 p.m. alex SuperDork

    (I'm not a Canoe, I just play one on the intertubas.)

  • JoeyM

    Feb. 14, 2012 6:08 a.m. JoeyM SuperDork

    You're too dorky to be a canoe

  • mtn

    Feb. 14, 2012 12:18 p.m. mtn SuperDork

    That idiot who can't spell wrote:

    Bringing this thread back from the dead because I got a bunch of iTunes cards over Christmas and so I downloaded some Split lip Rayfield, The E36 M3kickers, Blue Highway, Reckless Kelly and Trigger5.

    Which Reckless Kelly album did you get?

    alex wrote:

    carguy123 wrote:

    I'm loving new country, it's taking the place of old rock 'n roll.

    Funny you should mention. I just came from a thread on sort of a good ol' boys Telecaster forum about Keith Urban's new guitars. Turns out, he's playing a couple custom Teles (one with a shattered mirror top and one covered with LEDs) that pay subtle homage to both Ace and Paul's guitars in the latter era of KISS. Coincidence? Likely not...

    As much as I dislike the guys music, Keith Urban is a superb guitarist.

  • 93EXCivic

    Feb. 14, 2012 12:20 p.m. 93EXCivic SuperDork

    mtn wrote:

    That idiot who can't spell wrote:

    Bringing this thread back from the dead because I got a bunch of iTunes cards over Christmas and so I downloaded some Split lip Rayfield, The E36 M3kickers, Blue Highway, Reckless Kelly and Trigger5.

    Which Reckless Kelly album did you get?

    Bulletproof

  • 93EXCivic

    Feb. 14, 2012 12:26 p.m. 93EXCivic SuperDork

    The stuff I am listening to the most right now is rotating between old punk (the Clash, Sex Pistols, some old Oi! bands), alternative country and bluegrass and the Wu-Tang Clan. I think I might be a bit strange...

  • e_pie

    Feb. 14, 2012 12:38 p.m. e_pie Reader

    The same thing that has happened to every genre of music, it's all turning to E36 M3.

    Get off my lawn.

  • Feb. 14, 2012 12:48 p.m. TRoglodyte HalfDork

    punk.

  • mtn

    Feb. 14, 2012 12:53 p.m. mtn SuperDork

    93EXCivic wrote:

    mtn wrote:

    That idiot who can't spell wrote:

    Bringing this thread back from the dead because I got a bunch of iTunes cards over Christmas and so I downloaded some Split lip Rayfield, The E36 M3kickers, Blue Highway, Reckless Kelly and Trigger5.

    Which Reckless Kelly album did you get?

    Bulletproof

    That is one that I haven't listened to yet (although I've probably heard most of the songs). How is it?

  • Brett_Murphy

    Feb. 14, 2012 1:44 p.m. Brett_Murphy Dork

    Wait! Since when is bluegrass not considered country music?

    That is like saying punk isn't rock and roll.

  • 93EXCivic

    Feb. 14, 2012 3:08 p.m. 93EXCivic SuperDork

    mtn wrote:

    93EXCivic wrote:

    mtn wrote:

    That idiot who can't spell wrote:

    Bringing this thread back from the dead because I got a bunch of iTunes cards over Christmas and so I downloaded some Split lip Rayfield, The E36 M3kickers, Blue Highway, Reckless Kelly and Trigger5.

    Which Reckless Kelly album did you get?

    Bulletproof

    That is one that I haven't listened to yet (although I've probably heard most of the songs). How is it?

    I like it a lot. There are a number of really good songs on it.

  • nicksta43

    Feb. 14, 2012 6:02 p.m. nicksta43 Reader

    93EXCivic wrote:

    The stuff I am listening to the most right now is rotating between old punk (the Clash, Sex Pistols, some old Oi! bands), alternative country and bluegrass and the Wu-Tang Clan. I think I might be a bit strange...

    Wu-Tang thugs beez on the swarm

    You can't even touch my skillz

    For some reason these lyrics have been playing over and over again in my head for about fourteen years now.

  • DrBoost

    Feb. 14, 2012 6:14 p.m. DrBoost SuperDork

    I haven't read the thread, but in response to the question asked, it ran away with her high-school sweetheart, took the dog and keyed his truck.

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