Posted on 02/09/2008 6:47:13 AM PST by FUMETTI
Lean more toward hard (NEVER light) jazz, rock (as long as the songs are under 5 minutes), and techno/disco.
Only if you all sing in the church choir. /sarcasm
AIR SUPPLY! What an appropriately named band.
I can remember seeing Soundgarden open for Guns and Roses in Miami, and they were booed off the stage.
(Sneeze) guido! (cough).
My dad grew up in Newark, NJ during the same period. Frankie Valli for him! He also liked alot of 60s/early 70s R&B, which redeemed his musical tastes in my eyes. Ma's a Beatles fan, and I followed her lead.
The Fillmore East was a rehab clinic by the time I was of age. Today, a Chipotle and very expensive condos are on the original site.
It can be the other way around, too.
All things are possible with “conservatives”. They are the real open-minded people, and don’t have to fit a stringent mold.
I myself love all kinds of music, including Rock and Country. All kinds of those, too. It mostly depends on if it moves me 1 way or other. That’s all.
I always like Ned Sublette. He lived in NYC for many years and wrote “Cowboys are Secretly, Frequently Fond of Eachother.”
“...for Ford, at least, became a way of counteracting what he believed to be the corrupting black and Jewish influences of jazz.”
That’s funny, because Ford LIKED blacks because they were real working men.
Jews he DID see as the old cliche of money-grubbing schemers.
Another Republican punk is Roger Miret from Agnostic Front. Fleeing Castro’s Cuba was a factor in his worldview I suppose.
There is a fate worse than country music.... It’s called “rap”.
“acknowledge the genre’s historical political diversity?”
OIC
It’s “diversity” when there is leftism involved.
But if you should happen to be rightist or acknowledge there is much rightism involved, it’s not “diverse”.
Country music NOW is the side which consistently put out songs about supporting the troops and war, and putting down terrorists (latter more “active” than the passive “support” part).
The fact a few stars have managed to put out their more leftist views, BELATEDLY, sort of seems to prove the exception to the rule.
“It was only in the 1990s that Republicans even held statewide office in the South”
You must understand that Southerners were VERY much biased by the Civil War, when “Democrat” meant “friend” and “Republican” meant “enemy”. They seemingly could not shake this loyalty until Klintoon (1 of “their own”, LOL) helped push them over the edge of finally letting it drop.
This silly attitude has killed MD, BTW. MD was South and largely South-sympathetic. Like other Southerners, MDers stuck to “Democrat” because of (non-)memories of the Civil War. Then, the “foreigners” who love government and the useless jobs it created started pouring into MD and changing its real conservative nature. Now, we are GENUINELY “Democrat” in the modern sense, and cannot possibly get rid of it because the “foreigners” are genuine Dems, and have outnumbered and displaced the real MDers who deep down, were actually conservative. Meanwhile, the rest of the South really didn’t have this problem of influx of genuine socialists, and so was able to finally show as really Republican.
Sorry for the slight diversion from topic. Off my soap box!
“FOX always features country, not rock, performers, and conservative rallies never feature rock or soul performers”
That’s because they’re nowhere to be found. They’re a bunch of liberal America-haters alot like most of Hollywood stardom is.
If Guthrie was standard communist, yes, that would’ve been true.
Man, those liberals just can’t let go of their hatred for Hitler/NAZIs/fascism. Not because of how horrible they were, but because Hitler didn’t continue making nice-nice with their hero.
It's just as well. I meant Filmore West.
Give a listen to The Searchers. The great MOST UNDERRATED band to come out of Liverpool - and England.
Because most of it is fake. Country is almost exclusively rock bands that couldn't make it or American Idol losers (and winners).
I hate country music. I’ve always been into rock oriented music and metal.
“Can a Conservative Love Rock ‘N Roll and Hate Country Music?”
Sure. But the truth is, half of what’s on country these days would have passed for decent rock 20 years ago. Miranda Lambert, Keith Urban (plays guitar every bit as good Georg Harrison), Big and Rich . . . rock out.
Hell, you’ve even got Jon Bon Jovi, Robert Plant and the Van Zant brothers, and Mindy Smith making hits on country.
Not to mention the fact that country music has hottest womem on the planet.
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