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Posted by
bettie_x on Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 12:44 AM PST
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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Re: Confess your musical sins, Y'all
by Devin (devin-at-vibechild-dot-com)
on Jul 14, 2002 - 01:01 AM
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Tom Waits is not a musical sin. There's still Tom Waits songs in most of my mp3 playlists. Yep right in there with the other goth stuff that nobody under 16 has heard of. I mean come on, lyrics like "Never trust a man in a blue trenchcoat, never drive a car when you're dead". Good advice for any respectable goth.
As far as goth country bands, 16 horsepower takes the cake. Listen to Black Soul Choir if you haven't heard them. Then if you still think banjo's can't be goth, go get your ears checked.
Charlie Daniels wins for the gothest country song though. In Devil Went Down to Georgia, he kicks Mr. Pitchfork's ass in a fiddle playin' contest. Doesn't get much gother than that.
Forgive me mother for I have sinned. Men at Work and Oingo Boingo - nuff said.... Well, that and.... I still listen to them... A lot.
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Re: Confess your musical sins, Y'all
by Arthegarn on Jul 14, 2002 - 01:16 AM
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Well, the advantage of being an isolated Spanish is that I can confess my musical sins without any fear of those sins being known in the Spanish Scene (well, lately, with Noblod and Lord Goth around I don't know if it's really true). So, let's get to it.
I should start by saying that I am the least musical goth available in the market. To me, The Shroud is a term used in Wraith (RPG), Lacrimosa is Mozart's Requiem 6th movement and Bauhaus is and art school. So that's my biggest musical sin, I suppose, not being all the time trying to find the latest track of the group that nobody else has seard of (so cooooool).
Musical sins? Well, I think there is a music for each moment. I like most of the guys and girls of Operacion Triunfo (Pop Idol's original idea). Download "Ave Maria" by David Bisbal if you want to know what I am talking about. I like Boys to Men. And from time to time, depending on my mood, I like Backstreet Boys (except AJ, I'll never forgive hin that in their last concert in Spain he appeared wearing the same Alchemy cross I always wear under my tie, that was sacrilege) or Cher, or the Village People. I have been known even to dance to Tom Jones. I even can have a good time with Britney Spears (not that kind of good time, you pigs)
There is another musical sin, something as unforgivable in Spain Country is in USA... I like Salsa. I even can Salsa decently (including Merengue, Bachatta, etc) and it is quite a strange thing from time to time to see me, all clad in black (I dress exactly the same no matter where I go), surrounded by Caribbeans with flasy shirts, moving my hips to Mark Anthony with some girl who wouldn't believe Goths can salsa.
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Hail Marys ain't gonna work this time, son.
by Monolycus on Jul 14, 2002 - 03:48 AM
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Wow, Bettie. You've pinged on the single greatest impediment that could possibly keep me from being goth. Everyone who knows me complains about the music I love. My formative years were during the 1970's, and my musical tastes never caught up with the rest of me. To this day, if I hear Steely Dan or Gerry Rafferty in the distant background, I have to stop everything I am doing.
Quite apart from the 70's "classics" (Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, et al.), I have always had a weakness for older girly bubblegum pop like Blondie, Suzi Quatro and (this is a confessional, right?) ABBA. It's part of that weird dichotomy that makes me who I am... picture me in high school with sideburns down to my jaw, a worn out Black Sabbath concert t-shirt... singing "Dancing Queen" under my breath in a pubescent falsetto.
I am sure that I will contribute more to what promises to be a lively discussion, but I think I have embarrassed myself enough for now.
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Re: Confess your musical sins, Y'all
by Comedian (eccentrically_long@yahoo.com)
on Jul 14, 2002 - 06:14 AM
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Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Andrew's Sisters, Bob Wills, Leo Kottke.
And they are not sins.
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Re: Confess your musical sins, Y'all
by Anonymous-Coward on Jul 14, 2002 - 08:05 AM
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Ooooooo, well I DON'T like country but I DO like just about everything else. But what's the furthest from Goth I like?
Well when I was (alot) younger I used to like Hip-Hop: Public Enemy (forever), NWA, Onyx, Snoop Dogg, Me Phi Me, Cypress Hill, etc.
I love trip-hop (or is that dark enough?): Tricky, Morcheeba, Portishead, Mono...
Oh yeah, I love reggae: Bob Marely and the Wailers, Peter Tosh, Steel Pulse, Ziggy MArely and the MElody Makers, Inner Circle...
I like 50s "prom music" (I think that in and of itself might be dark from watching too many Stephen King movies as a little kid) but I couldn't name a song for the life of mee.
Hell, I'll listen to polka if it's got a good rhythm.
Otherwise everything else I like here is probably acceptable here.
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Re: Confess your musical sins, Y'all
by callei (plyn@plynlymon.com)
on Jul 14, 2002 - 09:50 AM
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bob fosse musical hits.... blue grass.... voice of the beehive... big audio dynamite... sir mix alot... and my darkest (lightest?) confession, Culture Club and more importantly the pro-krsna music of Boy George.
i guess im just not goth enough to listen to "dark" music all the time.
Besides bob fosse rocks.
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Re: Confess your musical sins, Y'all
by Shade (Shade@Gothcult.com)
on Jul 14, 2002 - 09:57 AM
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'They Might Be Giants', need I say more? OK, I still own a Vanilla Ice tape from way back when. I actually know most of the words to 'Rub me the right way' or whatever that Christina Aquillera tune is, I have this weird obsession with old clasics being redone techno (think everything from Phantom of the Opera to Mozart and beyond) and I still hold a special place in my heart for Def Leppard's "Mirror Mirror"
Forgive me mother for I have tuned.
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Re: Confess your musical sins, Y'all
by DarkMistress on Jul 14, 2002 - 07:37 PM
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I listen to everything from Mozart to Black Sabbath to George Strait..ok come on..George Strait's old stuff isn't that bad, and I listen to patsy cline whenever i'm in the mood. I wont, however, listen to Brittany (slut) spears or the nysnc guys or any of those boy bands, they make me want to hurt myself. Whiney bastards. I can listen to Eminem for a short period of time..otherwise I like Lords of Acid, Cradle of Filth, Inkubus Sykkubus, those people. That's about it.
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Re: Confess your musical sins, Y'all
by pAris (dparis@columbus.rr.com)
on Jul 14, 2002 - 09:35 PM
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well, I think I've confessed most of mine already in a forum post, but I think Tom Waits is not a confession! The man's a killer writer and performer. A confession for me is when I catch myself saying that Duran Duran was ahead of their time.....it still makes me laugh even if I think it's true. And I like Sade too - she's totally sexy, even if it's in a light jazz sort of way. As far as Steely Dan, most of their songs are dark as hell, so they don't really count do they?
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Re: Confess your musical sins, Y'all
by Dolorosa on Jul 14, 2002 - 10:33 PM
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Alright, heres mine...every time I hear "I'm a Barbie Girl." by Aqua...I completely loose all control of myself...
I love that song...*cries*
Other than that...Johnny Cash is the man, meaner than hell too...
Country only really bugs me when thats all there is...through the right song into a night, and hey, thats cool...but if it's all country all the time...sorry, I'm gonna' kill someone.
And I agree with the cowboy hat thing...I dressed up in blacks and a hat all but once, just on a whim...
Fricken' looked like Old scratch himself...
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Re: Confess your musical sins, Y'all
by Xaoswolf (Xaoswolf@hotmail.com)
on Jul 15, 2002 - 06:53 AM
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Hmmm.... my musical sins, well aside from the Spice Girls, there's well, I like Nikka Costa, but I think that it's more for the pants she wears, and that hair, yup, definately the pants and the red hair. I also liked Joydrop when they were around. I think that my biggest sin today would have to be Pink, but that's what I get for asking my genitals what they would like to listen to.
Aside from that, Willie Nelson is the man, no he isnn't just the man, he's the Damn Man, a title given to only one man a generation I think that he is actually satan in cowboy form, I mean, the man spent like three months in Japan completely drunk, simply because he couldn't find any pot. He is old enough to be my grandfather, but he still gets to sleep with the hot country girls, and his wife, heck probably a few of his ex wives also. The man even survived and attack from the IRS.
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Re: Confess your musical sins, Y'all
by AloneSoul (AloneSoul@hurting.com)
on Jul 17, 2002 - 12:23 AM
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The way I dress I guess you could say that this is a very big musical sin, but to me nothing is.
Dave Matthews Band.
I listen to what I like.
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Dont all come at with pitch-forks at once...
by MorteAscendo on Jul 17, 2002 - 04:14 AM
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My Deepest musical sin is: I still listen to Happy Hardcore when no one is around. I used to "Rave" in the years of 97-00. It will haunt me till i die probably. I have to let the ghosts out sometimes. But on the out side i'm a rocker through and through!!!! heh..i'm lame i know.
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