Make it stop. —Please

This article appears in Jun 16-22, 2011.

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  4. I’d rather listen to country than that rap garbage.
    Neither are my faves, however of the two, I’d take country any day.

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  7. “Gonna crack my knuckles and jump for joy.
    I got a clean bil of health from Dr. McCoy”

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  8. Reminds me of a joke:
    How many country singers does it take to change a lightbulb?
    Five. One to change the bulb and four to sing about how much they miss the old one!
    (Ba-dum-ching!) Thank you, thank you. I’m here all week. 😛

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  10. lol painy. You can’t see me but I’m bowing right now.
    Reminds me of another joke…not really country but western-esque:
    A 3-legged dog walked into a saloon. He stood in front of the room full of cowboys and said, “Ima lookin’ for the man that shot my paw!”

    😀

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  11. OP, what do you expect. Country music sounds like cats in heat half the time and twice as annoying.

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  13. Hey OP, go fuck yourself. It’s entertainment, like any style of music, and there’s going to be some great examples, and some shit.
    Turn.
    The.
    Fucking.
    Dial.

    WP

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  16. My dad told me he’s getting he’s getting himself a cat when I move out and naming him Bocephus.

    Google it.

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  19. why, is your poor little head fucked up from that other noisy shit, that some call music, drop fucking dead, asshole. there are still sane people, that like to know what the words are in a song, and like hearing more than one thing going thump, thump, ad nauseum.

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  20. 😉
    I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’. – Bob Newhart

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  22. Ivan- is that the one Spock played the tenor bike rim?
    Classic!

    If your wrist is too messed up to find one of the Dinorock stations, you need physio. These stations play the same twenty songs, make me sick of some great bands.

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  25. last time i looked, this was still a free country, with freedom of speech, assembly, and whatever else, t.j.

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  26. I hate most country music too but I don’t think any type of music should ever be “stopped”. Ridicule and critique it all you want but as soon as you ban or censor something as expressive and subjective as music you’re walking with fascists.

    But of course you weren’t talking about forcibly censoring music, how silly of me. So turn it off, wear some ear plugs, walk away…

    But hey, Johnny Cash kicks the collective asses of most artists of other genres. How can anyone hate an entire genre? Or even attribute one artist to only one genre? Listen to Johnny Cash and then tell me that he’s just a country singer. Good music transcends genres. And most artists can be listed under multiple genres anyway. Country music is just a blend of other genres: southern States and Canadian maritime music, go figure. Country in particular is usually mixed with rock,`blues, and folk. All of which are mixed with each other and the latter of which wears many other faces: R&B, jazz, blues rock. Which in turn have appendages like hip-hop, soul, funk, gospel… It’s all just a big vaguely organized and loosely defined mish-mash. Even bluegrass is a sub-genre of country which was born after Americans were inspired by European Celtic music… fuck yeah! Celtic music! All these genres I’ve listed aren’t even clearly defined. You can bet some of your favorite artists were influenced by country artists and incorporated that shit into their music. Some of my favorite rock songs have that country twang in them. To group something as fluid as musical style into separate inescapable containers and condemn one of them as bad is kind of stupid.

    Individual artists can be bad, but not genres. You might be more drawn to certain genres over others, I personally enjoy way more rock songs than orchestral songs but the few orchestral songs I do like are fucking awesome.

    And Jesus Christ, even rock and orchestral music has been mixed!

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  29. Och! Aye the’ new! Hod yer wisch! And what’s wrong wi’ a bit o’ pipes??
    I challenge you not to have tears well with pride at a Remembrance Day ceremony when a lone piper plays the lament. I challenge you not to have your very soul stirred at the sound of a mass pipe band as they march by in full regalia. How about feeling the electricity at a ceilidh when the piper in the corner fires up a blistering highland reel. I LOVE the pipes!

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  30. you know it clint. i love living near windsor park, such loverly sounds on a summer’s eve

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  32. That was funny, OP. I think some are taking this bitch way too seriously, though.

    Saw an ad for the Cavendish Music Festival in a magazine recently…the ad said you could buy a 3-day pass for 500$ or so. The very first thing that came to my mind was “Why would anyone pay 500$ to subject themselves to 3 days of country music?”.

    I generally dislike country (Neil Young is about as country-ish/folksy as I can go), but I hate it a whole lot less than the entire playlist of
    “Halifax’s #1 (s)hit music station”.

    But hey, to each his own.

    WheelieP: Totally agree about rock stations here. Hurray for jazz and its bottomless repertoire.

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  33. I meant to say:

    “Country in particular is usually mixed with rock,`folk, and blues. All of which are mixed with each other and the latter of which wears many other faces: R&B, jazz, blues rock.”

    Not that it matters.

    Frenchie, sometimes the only way to say something mildly interesting about such a short bitch is to take it way too seriously. Personally I don’t care much about the intent of the bitch, this is all about me when I’m surrounded by such anonymity. Every bitch could be fiction for all I know. All I want to do is write stuff, so I’ll just write whatever the bitch makes me think about and in this case it was people to hate on entire genres of music.

    Not that you were talking about me… it’s all about me remember? So naturally I’d just go right a head and assume you were saying I took this bitch way too seriously, which indeed I did.

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  34. No Snoop, my comment wasn’t about you. I simply didn’t think the situation called for GFYs to be exchanged. It’s music, not politics. 😉

    In other news, the brazilian bossa/jazz of Antonio Carlos Jobim is a great soundtrack for this lovely weather.

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  35. Thank goodness Frenchie, I’m getting so paranoid.

    I LOVE Jobim! Bossa nova is the chillest music out there. You can bet I’ll be haunting the Jazz fest like, every single day this summer. But none of you will know who I am! HahaHAHAHA… or will you? No, you won’t… right?

    O.O

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  36. Ha ha!

    I haven’t checked the program for this year’s Halifax jazz fest yet. I’m hitting up the Montreal Jazz fest in a couple days…scored tickets for Holly Cole and Jaga Jazzist shows (and I’m insufferably hyper, like a kid the day before Xmas eve).

    As for your growing paranoia: Don’t worry, I wouldn’t be able to identify you in a crowd as I have yet to receive a physical description of the Snoop from my agents. Although if I hear a girl giving a 20-min argumentative speech in reply to “Hey! How are you?”, I’ll probably assume it’s you.

    Enjoy the Jazz Fest!

    🙂

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  38. Merci, madame la boulangère!

    Someone would have to try real hard (and/or have serious issues) in order not to have fun in Montreal during the summer. And I do specify during the summer because the yearly snowpocalypse can certainly ruin it even for the most optimistic individuals.

    🙂

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  40. Holly Cole?! I’m so jealous! I’ve never seen her live even though she’s from here. I went to the Montreal Jazz Fest once and it was amazing! I can’t travel up there every summer though 🙁

    And it’s good that my paranoia is unfounded… I’ve embarrassed myself way too much on this forum already to ever let my secret identity be known.

    Because, you know… everyone cares.

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