Can a conservative love rock 'n roll? I am sorry, Freepers, I prefer Nirvana to Nudie, I like the Stones over Rascal Flatts, and the Who over Martina McBride. I wince at the deep voiced dudes with the cowboy hats covering their receding hairlines talking about honky tonks, the wife who done me wrong, and my hunting dog by the swamp. Most country music is actually pop music with a fiddle, anyway. It is not anything more than Britney Spears with a steel guitar hear and there.
I can't stand country music, yet I am a conservative through and through. Give me Nickelback, John Mellencamp, CCR, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Aerosmith, and ZZ Top over Randy Travis and the other country stars.
Can you be conservative and love rock 'n roll, I ask again?
“...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.
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.
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.
You are not alone. I’ve loved rock for 50 years. Hated C&W from the very first Hank Williams, Sr song my parents made me listen to. Even though I’m well into my fifties, I listen to Metallica, Korn, Linkin Park, and other rock groups every day.
When Cream reunited for a concert, I bought the DVD. No one can play guitar like Clapton!
As far as rock & roll goes, I thought that duet Sheryl Crow and that Kid Rock feller did a few years back was downright purdy.
But not Kenny G or Michael Bolton.
One has to draw a line somewhere.
BTW, the article takes a pretty simplistic view of things.
Henry Ford is LaChappelle's example of a "right-winger" but he ran for the Senate as a Democrat at the urging of Woodrow Wilson.
Plenty of old time populists could be characterized as right or left today and that goes for their opponents as well.
I kind of get what he's trying to say, but you could go blind and crazy applying current political labels to the movements and tendencies of past generations (and feel pretty dirty and opportunistic while you do it).
No. To be a conservative you must love country music, drive a unwashed pickup, drink Maxwell house coffee or beer and never admit to liking any sort of vegetable.
Rock 'n Roll, opera, volvos, wine, latte and eggplant are strictly forbidden.
Country is just too straightforward cheesy for my tastes. I prefer rock.
My oldest (24...how did he get that old when I am still 29?) is HUGE Tool fan. He also has two tats, and is as conservative as they come (he drove back home from school to vote for Rick Santorum—he didn’t get his absentee ballot in time—but it was that important to him).
Raises hand.
I dated a girl for 3 years whose family respirated country music.
I was permanently cured from ever liking it.
Feel same way about the Beatles tho. Had a roommate that obsessed on them and played bad beatles guitar for a couple of years. ‘Pod.
Yes, I do.
I’m a big band (Ellington, Basie, Shaw, Goodman, Mingus, etc.), classical (Bach, Stravinsky, & a little of the Ludwig Van), jazz (Satchmo, Monk, Peterson, Montgomery, etc.), traditional (Gershwin, Berlin, Mercer, etc.), country (H. Williams Sr., Cash, Haggard, W. Nelson, etc.), blues (Muddy, Lightnin’, Hooker, House, etc.), rock (Elvis, Dylan, Stones) sort of conservative.
Iris DeMent....ack, gag, hurl....
It’s all good.
How did I not find this thread before??
I’m a rocker, although I do occasionally like some country...mostly early 80s stuff like Alabama (the “classic” era - “Take Me Down” and “Love in the First Degree, etc.”) Eddie Rabbit, Kenny Rogers, etc...when I’m in the mood for it.
Yes. Country and rap are two categories of music that are basically the same in my book. I don’t listen to either.