Worst songs on country radio

[vchimpanzee]

He pretty much described EVERY song in country music! 

Who did?

I was saying the banjo and steel guitar sounded like they were an afterthought.

[oldiesgirl]

That's about the way it is with most of the country coming out today.  It's just CHR with a little steel guitar thrown in there so they can call it country.  I mean no disrespect to people who like the new country, but that's just what I hear.  If they want to go rock or pop, that's fine, but I wish they'd leave the AutoTune off the country records.  I know you're not supposed to notice it and usually the people I listen to music with don't notice it, but I can hear it and it's painful to my ears.  I can't hear anything else.

[Kent T]

A note, Ragged Old Flag was on Columbia. The single was reserviced to radio on 45 in the early 1980's.  I own a copy of that single.

[Casey]

That's about the way it is with most of the country coming out today.  It's just CHR with a little steel guitar thrown in there so they can call it country.  I mean no disrespect to people who like the new country, but that's just what I hear.  If they want to go rock or pop, that's fine, but I wish they'd leave the AutoTune off the country records.  I know you're not supposed to notice it and usually the people I listen to music with don't notice it, but I can hear it and it's painful to my ears.  I can't hear anything else.

After digging deep into the on-demand service libraries, I have to say I disagree with this statement. Good country music is out there. It's just hard to find and will not be found on broadcast radio.

[TheBigA]

Good country music is out there. It's just hard to find and will not be found on broadcast radio.

Really?  So you're saying George Strait makes crap?

[Casey]

Good country music is out there. It's just hard to find and will not be found on broadcast radio.

Really?  So you're saying George Strait makes crap?

Did I say he makes crap? Did I say anyone made crap?

But for that matter, I don't care for anything George Strait has made in recent years. In my opinion he is past his prime and is being propped up by his record label and radio stations refusing to let him go. Of course record labels are notorious for milking every cent they can out of their artists. And radio stations... well this isn't the place to argue about how broken radio stations are when it comes to playing music.

[TheBigA]

In my opinion he is past his prime and is being propped up by his record label and radio stations refusing to let him go.

Same could have been said of Merle Haggard in the 1980s.  Or Johnny Cash in the 70s.  They should have known when to stop, and they didn't.

And radio stations... well this isn't the place to argue about how broken radio stations are when it comes to playing music.

Radio stations aren't in the music business.  But you don't like companies in the music business either.

But the fact is there's great country music, and it gets played every day on broadcast radio.  That's why so many people listen.

[oldiesgirl]

After digging deep into the on-demand service libraries, I have to say I disagree with this statement. Good country music is out there. It's just hard to find and will not be found on broadcast radio.

I know there's a lot of good stuff still being recorded.  I was just saying that most of the music usually played on the radio is too poppy for my tastes.  I do like some of the new country coming out, definitely more than I used to.  I guess I'm adapting to it, but I prefer the traditional-sounding country.  I do like the Nashville Sound type of country and I know that was poppy, but I'm in love with the pop/rock of the 50s, so I guess that's why I like that type of music.  I just can't get into the popular music of today with a few exceptions, so I can't get into pop country.  I guess it's just all in what you like.

[vchimpanzee]

Good country music is out there. It's just hard to find and will not be found on broadcast radio.

Really?  So you're saying George Strait makes crap?

Did I say he makes crap? Did I say anyone made crap?

But for that matter, I don't care for anything George Strait has made in recent years. In my opinion he is past his prime and is being propped up by his record label and radio stations refusing to let him go. Of course record labels are notorious for milking every cent they can out of their artists. And radio stations... well this isn't the place to argue about how broken radio stations are when it comes to playing music.

Nothing's wrong with George Strait.

I heard two songs with  "good girls" in the lyrics. They may have been the same song but sure didn't sound like it. One was rhythmic CHR with all that involves and I thought at first it was Carrie Underwood's atrocious "Cowboy Casanova". It wasn't.

I also heard a good song with "good girls" in the lyrics on last night's "GCB" on ABC. I think the words were "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad", which is the name of a Tammy Wynette song. Now you KNOW I'm going to like that one. I don't know whether there's a new version.

[crainbebo]

That's Good Girl by Carrie Underwood. It's more country rhythmic however.

-crainbebo