Black Diamond's insanely random thoughts and questions

[High_Plains_Drifter]

I totally admit I don't know classic country from pop country. I suppose the song I posted is pop. Do you like it at all? Try the video; it's pretty funny.

I tend to listen to 70s music. Southern rock, pop, r&b.

For me, that would fall into my CCC, cookie cutter country, category... SORRY ABS!

THIS is what I call COUNTRY...



Or this...

[mundame]

How many kids named "Chance" are named that because their parents took one ?

Forever ago I knew a little black kid in Chicago whose mother named him "Boo-boo." Because. Really.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Forever ago I knew a little black kid in Chicago whose mother named him "Boo-boo." Because. Really.

I know a girl who's name is "Lucky." She's anything but...

[Gunny]

I like it. It's the closest he ever got to the Beatles. It has to be the McCartney version though. I don't like the wings over America version
I Think the stuff from McCartney was going to be on the next Beatles album had they not broken up. It would have been refined into something awesome.
I don't like anything by Paul after McCartney. I don't like wings and I hated his collaborations with Michael jackson and Stevie wonder.

Tsk tsk ... Wings Over America was DOUBLE album Double albums were very useful for cleaning ......

[Gunny]

(He's got a stainless steel ball chain on like mine.)

What they play on the radio nowadays and call it country is a farce, IMO. I don't listen to it, I just can't stand it. It sounds far more like pop than country, and it all sounds the same. I call it COOKIE CUTTER COUNTRY...

I'll tell ya, if it wasn't for Spotify I'd have a hard time finding music I like to listen to, but Spotify is WAAAAAY good at finding it. I've had my Spotify Premium for a couple years now so it's really dialed in to what I like, through the skips and likes and dislikes, every Monday Spot gives me a list of NEW music picked just for me, like 40 songs or so. Some weeks picks are better than others but on average, they find some GREAT stuff I would NEVER have heard if not for them. Just can't beat it for $10 a month. I've only stumped them a couple times looking for a song that they didn't have.

Just a technicality, but both George Jones and Patsy Cline were "pop" country of their day. They only became "old country" when they got older and the music changed. What we prefer in music is usually from our "heydays", respectively.

I consider most things after Garth and Shania went rock-pop to be pop music. Some of it is still good. Just have to pick and choose.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Just a technicality, but both George Jones and Patsy Cline were "pop" country of their day. They only became "old country" when they got older and the music changed. What we prefer in music is usually from our "heydays", respectively.

I consider most things after Garth and Shania went rock-pop to be pop music. Some of it is still good. Just have to pick and choose.

"Pop country?" I don't think that term was even around back in those days, Gunny, unless you just mean it was the "top of the charts."

Some Garth is good. I dig his song, "And The Thunder Rolls." Shania, she's a little Canadian harlot...

[Black Diamond]

Just a technicality, but both George Jones and Patsy Cline were "pop" country of their day. They only became "old country" when they got older and the music changed. What we prefer in music is usually from our "heydays", respectively.

I consider most things after Garth and Shania went rock-pop to be pop music. Some of it is still good. Just have to pick and choose.

Toby Keith does something good about once every five years. This new brand of country, whatever you call it, is absolute shit. I have words for it I will not use right now .

[Black Diamond]

Tsk tsk ... Wings Over America was DOUBLE album Double albums were very useful for cleaning ......

Double fluff. And I am being nice.

[Gunny]

"Pop country?" I don't think that terM was even around back in those days, Gunny, unless you just mean it was the "top of the charts."

Some Garth is good. I dig his song, "And The Thunder Rolls." Shania, she's a little Canadian harlot...

Sure it was. "Pop" = popular. And that is exactly what I mean. What was popular at the time - what was on the charts. I don't know when they came out with the term "pop" for anything. Country was just country (even though I grew up on bluegrass and Texas swing), and rock and pop were the same. Then there was soft rock and hard rock. Now there's like a genre for each person on Earth.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Toby Keith does something good about once every five years. This new brand of country, whatever you call it, is absolute shit. I have words for it I will not use right now .

I'm right with ya there, man. I remember the first time I heard a "country song" with RAP in it. I hadn't listened to much of it for quite awhile, but after that I was done completely. Just because they wear a cowboy hat and sing with a twang does NOT make country music. It makes POP music sang by some little generic, cookie cutter wannabe southerner. I think it sucks to high heaven. I'd rather listen to PINK.

[Black Diamond]

Sure it was. "Pop" = popular. And that is exactly what I mean. What was popular at the time - what was on the charts. I don't know when they came out with the term "pop" for anything. Country was just country (even though I grew up on bluegrass and Texas swing), and rock and pop were the same. Then there was soft rock and hard rock. Now there's like a genre for each person on Earth.

The term pop has changed its meaning methinks.

[Gunny]

Double fluff. And I am being nice.

I don't really even remember where I got it from. It's actually okay music to me. I'm more of a Beatles fan than any of their individual work. Paul McCartney stayed on the charts for awhile throughout the 70s and into the early 80s. I had friends or I should say acquaintances who would get stoned and go to blows over who broke up the Beatles and which one was best. Dorks

[Black Diamond]

I don't really even remember where I got it from. It's actually okay music to me. I'm more of a Beatles fan than any of their individual work. Paul McCartney stayed on the charts for awhile throughout the 70s and into the early 80s. I had friends or I should say acquaintances who would get stoned and go to blows over who broke up the Beatles and which one was best. Dorks

Everyone knows it's. Yoko. Lol.

Everyone except Yoko and Linda McCartney likes the Beatles better than their solo work.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Sure it was. "Pop" = popular. And that is exactly what I mean. What was popular at the time - what was on the charts. I don't know when they came out with the term "pop" for anything. Country was just country (even though I grew up on bluegrass and Texas swing), and rock and pop were the same. Then there was soft rock and hard rock. Now there's like a genre for each person on Earth.

I get ya there, I just never heard country called pop before.

Far as I ever knew "pop" was for the teenies, as in "pop culture."

You know, like American Bandstand stuff. Remember that crazy show?

"I GIVE IT A TEN, IT HAD A GOOD BEAT AND IT WAS EASY TO DANCE TO"...

[Black Diamond]

I like Lennon better than the cute one. Even though his politocs sucked and his second wife was crazy as fuck. I always thought showing Cynthia and Yoko in one of those "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs" would have been quite effective.