Confess your musical sins, Y'all
Date Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 07:05 AM PST
Topic Music


I saw this thread started on another messageboard, and I have to tell you that it got my gears grinding and inspired a dig into my record collection.
Perhaps this was also brought on by my impending move back to the small hick town I grew up in, which I'm extremely excited about, believe it or not.
I spent about 22 years of my life trying to devise ways to get OUT, and now I can't wait to go BACK.
Maybe I am losing my mind afterall :)

ANYHOO...please move forward into the little black confessional...it's a tight fit, but you'll have to make due, I'll be breif. One at a time. No shoving. Kicking, yes, but no shoving.

I'm talking country music, kids.

*ducks and waits for the bricks to stop flying*

Okay, before someone spits in my eye and drags me off to the currently most exclusive trendy club for purification, hear me out. I know I can't be the ONLY one out there who, somewhere deep in a collection undisturbed for years, likes a variety with their usual scene soundtrack.

Here I bare my musical soul...take a stab if you want, but I dare you to dig through your 8 tracks and 7"s before you try :)

I'm not talking any of that achy breaky bullshit, not talking mullets, el caminos, and late night rendevous in the barn with the livestock. I can't really name any NEW country that I do like...but once in a while I can't help but dig out the golden oldies. Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, you name it. I'm not a total nut for it, but I'm a sucker for Cash (can you name a man who's killed more lovers in song? I literally wore out my bright orange "ring of fire" 8 track when I was 5), and Patsy Cline makes me cry when I'm down. Even Dr. Hook. I'd go to a Dr. Hook show in the spirit of going to a def leopard show to see "the stump", but I also occasionally watch NASCAR hoping for a crash.. If you don't know about Dr. Hook, ask. Any "newish" countryish anything that I listen to nowadays is more psychobilly and rockabilly.
A few samples to save my soul:

southern culture on the skids, sheep on drugs, spahn ranch, afi, necromantix....and other dark countryish musicians like tom waits, nick cave, jeff buckley, etc.
Poke fun all you want, but I'll have you know I look positively devlish in a black cowboy hat....so there. And tell me, is there really anything more depressing than real country music?

C'mon.

I"ve confessed my sins, now it's your turn.
I'm not just talking country kids, country is just MY deepest darkest secret. I'm talking anything that you listen to that would have you drawn and quartered if admitted to in the wrong crowd.

I know you lip sync to brittany spears when you think nobody's watching...bwahahahhah

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